Religion & Law

Frank Gaffney: Coming to grips with sharia

Posted on August 10, 2010
Frank Gaffney writing at Townhall: "Americans across this country are struggling to understand the true nature of the threat we face from Shariah. They are entitled to straight talk about the extent to which it is being insinuated, promoted and legitimated not only in mosques but by financial institutions, banks, academic institutions and government agencies...

Pat Buchanan: The Solomon of San Francisco

Posted on August 10, 2010
Pat Buchanan writing at Townhall: "If the Walker decision is upheld by the Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court, homosexual marriage will be imposed on a nation where, in 31 out of 31 state referenda, the people have rejected it as an absurdity. This is not just judicial activism...

NJ: South Brunswick schools to close for two Muslim holy days

Posted on August 10, 2010
The Star-Ledger: "[T]he South Brunswick Board of Education has approved school closings in the 2010-11 school year for two Islamic holy days . . . About 10 of the nearly 600 school districts in New Jersey acknowledge Muslim holy days as official school holidays, according to the New Jersey School Board?s Association...

Erik Stanley on Yes FM Radio: Pulpit Freedom Sunday

Posted on August 10, 2010
ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on Yes FM Radio to discuss Pulpit Freedom Sunday. | MP3 8:38 mins

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Gallup poll analysis shows pro-life movement can expect election landslide

Posted on August 10, 2010
LifeNews: "A new analysis from the Gallup polling organization provides more good news for pro-life advocates heading into the 2010 elections. Its review of presidential approval ratings just before midterm congressional elections finds presidents like Barack Obama with lower ratings see their party lose seats...

College students in NC forced to pay for abortions in health plans

Posted on August 10, 2010
LifeNews: "Students for Life of America has discovered that the North Carolina Board of Governors will require all students enrolled in a University of North Carolina public institution, starting with the 2010-2011 school year, to have health insurance...

More wealthy migrate south to avoid tax hikes

Posted on August 10, 2010
Investment News: "For years, wealthy retirees from high-tax states in the Northeast and Midwest have been streaming to sunny, low-tax Florida. That stream is now turning into a flood . . . 'We have this impending tax increase, and people are trying to look for ways to hide from that, but they're not seeing many from the federal perspective...

Bill Murchison: The ?gay marriage? fantasy

Posted on August 10, 2010
Townhall: "I'm sorry, there's no such thing as gay 'marriage' -- as distinguished from gay 'relationships' -- because marriage as understood by the whole of humanity for the whole of human time, normally under religious auspices, exists for purposes no gay relationship can satisfy ...

In S.F., Ginsburg addresses standoff on judicial appointments

Posted on August 10, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented the partisan stalemate over judicial appointments Monday, telling a legal convention in San Francisco that the Senate should re-establish the cooperative spirit that attended her own confirmation 17 years ago...

FRC?s Tony Perkins to join news onference call today to discuss new survey on homosexuals in the military

Posted on August 10, 2010
Family Research Council: "Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will participate in a news conference call today at 11 AM ET to discuss the release of a new survey by the Center for Military Readiness gauging the opinions of likely voters on the Defense Authorization bill's amendments forcing open homosexuality on the military and turning military hospitals into abortion facilities...

New York MTA accepts controversial anti-mosque ad after lawsuit is filed

Posted on August 10, 2010
Religion Clause: "After a lawsuit was filed on Friday, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority agreed to permit a banner ad on its buses, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative opposing the proposed mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero...

Morocco to shut 1,000 mosques at risk of collapse

Posted on August 10, 2010
Zawya: "Morocco will shut more than 1,000 unsafe mosques in a bid to avoid a repeat of a minaret collapse in February that killed 41 people, the ministry of religious affairs said Tuesday."

CA: Teachers at Corona religious school dismissed for incompatible beliefs

Posted on August 10, 2010
The Press-Enterprise: "Differences in religious belief and biblical interpretation have led a Corona Christian school to dismiss four teachers and seven other employees . . . Most of the fired employees belong to the Catholic Church, which has key teachings that conflict with those of the conservative evangelical Crossroads Christian Schools and the adjacent Crossroads Christian Church, which with about 8,000 members is among the Inland area's largest churches...

2 Muslim Malaysians on trial deny torching church

Posted on August 10, 2010
Associated Press: "Two Malaysian Muslims testified in court Tuesday to deny charges that they torched a Christian church in an incident that set off a string of assaults on places of worship early this year."

Colo. senator waiting to hear if he?ll keep job

Posted on August 10, 2010
Associated Press: "Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet battled for his job Tuesday in a Colorado primary against Andrew Romanoff, a former state House speaker whose grass-roots campaign and embrace of the nation's anti-establishment mood has him within striking distance of an upset...

SC City Council affirms prayer policy after warning from anti-religion group

Posted on August 10, 2010
CNSNews: "'America?s founders opened public meetings with prayer, and public officials today should be able to do the same,' Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) senior legal counsel Brett Harvey said in a statement on Friday. 'We were happy to assist the city of Woodruff with a prayer policy that can be followed with confidence...

SC: Hundreds gather in support of City Council on prayer

Posted on August 10, 2010
Aiken Standard: "The Aiken City Municipal Building echoed with a united 'amen' from hundreds of residents Monday night during a prayer rally . . . Jay Thompson, an allied attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a national group that advocates religious freedom, said that he was not aware of any law passed by the U...

Attorney: A perfect and respectful response in Greece, NY

Posted on August 10, 2010
OneNewsNow: "The Rochester suburb has continued prayer -- legally. But Oster believes Greece is an example of how to handle a situation if atheist organizations threaten a lawsuit. 'This town did everything perfectly and they were respecting the Constitution,' he comments...

India: mother murdered for refusing to kill newborn baby girl

Posted on August 10, 2010
Catholic Culture: "In yet another shocking example of the deep-rooted cultural prejudice against female children in India, a young mother who gave birth to a second girl child was murdered by her husband."

After 12 years, EU license plate gets traction

Posted on August 10, 2010
Boston.com (AP): "This summer, Europe's vacationers are hitting the highways with more or less uniform plates, after 12 years of slow-as-syrup and at times impassioned debate over color schemes and the EU's role in everyday life. Belgium finally settled a political argument over the tags in June, clearing the last major hurdle to introducing the new plates in all 27 EU nations...

Robinson becomes American Bar Association president-elect

Posted on August 10, 2010
Business First: "William T. 'Bill' Robinson III, the member-in-charge in the Florence, Ky., office of Frost Brown Todd LLC law firm, has been elected president-elect of the American Bar Association."

House passes state aid bill; Obama signs into law

Posted on August 10, 2010
Reuters: "The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved, and President Barack Obama promptly signed into law, an election-year bill providing $26 billion to struggling states by closing tax loopholes for multinational companies and cutting food aid to the poor...

RI lawmakers won?t return on casino gambling issue

Posted on August 10, 2010
Boston.com (AP): "Rhode Island lawmakers don't expect to reconvene to override the governor's veto of a proposed ballot question authorizing full-scale casino gambling, a spokesman for the House of Representatives said Tuesday."

Law school planned for Shreveport, LA

Posted on August 10, 2010
KTBS: "Louisiana College plans to launch a Christian-oriented law school that would be located in downtown Shreveport. The Louisiana College School of Law would open at the old federal building and courthouse on Fannin Street. Louisiana College has not said when classes would begin, but the building has to be remodeled before that can happen...

BlackBerry caved to Saudi demands: rights group

Posted on August 10, 2010
Christian Science Monitor: "BlackBerry messenger services will continue in Saudi Arabia after the company reportedly satisfied the kingdom?s demands for data access. It is unclear exactly what Saudi Arabia requested or what BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) allowed...

ACLU appeals single-sex classroom decision in Louisiana

Posted on August 10, 2010
Direct Administration: "Roughly 540 public schools IN THE United States offer single-sex classrooms. Vermilion Parish (La.) Public School District wants to add to that number--but it won?t happen without a fight from the American Civil Liberties Union...

FRC: The kids are not all right . . .

Posted on August 10, 2010
Family Research Council: "When I debated the lead attorney for that case on CBS's 'Face the Nation' last Sunday, he insisted (like Hollywood) that the kids are all right in volatile same-sex households . . . As I said Sunday, he's just plain wrong. Not only is there research, but much of it has been confirmed by scientists in the pro-homosexual movement...

ACLJ Calls on State Department to Cancel Tax-Funded Middle East Trip by Controversial Imam

Posted on August 10, 2010
CNSNews: "The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) on Tuesday called on the U.S. State Department to remove Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf from a taxpayer-funded trip to Muslim countries, citing his controversial views about the terrorist attacks of Sept...

Feds send ground zero mosque imam to Mideast

Posted on August 10, 2010
AP: "The State Department says it's sending the imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East."

David Boies Urges ABA Members: ?Bring Rule of Law to Full Fruition? in US to Meet Founders? Goals

Posted on August 10, 2010
ABA: "David Boies challenged America?s lawyers to 'bring the rule of law to its full fruition here in this country ? to fulfill the goals and lofty rhetoric of our founding fathers,' as the keynote speaker at the Opening Assembly of the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco ...

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