Religion & Law

Sweden Tightens Legal Noose on Homeschooling

Posted on July 09, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Sweden?s parliament gave a crushing blow to parental rights two weeks ago, passing a law that makes homeschooling legal only in 'extraordinary circumstances,' reports the Home School Leal Defense Association (HSLDA). The law excludes religious or philosophical convictions as legitimate reasons for home education ...

Abortion doctor details threat: Claims new county law breaches his privacy

Posted on July 09, 2010
Journal-Gazette.net: "Fort Wayne?s only abortion doctor said he received a death threat on his unpublished home phone after he filed a lawsuit against the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health. Klopfer is being represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana and New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights who declined to comment on the documents filed this week...

House votes to block Net porn on government PCs

Posted on July 09, 2010
CNet News: "The measure, which arrived in the form of an 111-page amendment sponsored by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, says on the second-to-last page: 'None of the funds made available in this act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography...

Faith Under Fire: Chaplains, Service Members in Harm?s Way if Homosexuality Normalized in Military

Posted on July 09, 2010
Citizen Link:  The Obama administration and the congressional Democrat majority are closer than ever to repealing the 17-year-old ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell Policy? policy, which disqualifies gay-identified men and women from openly serving in the armed services ...

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David Hacker: After Tenure

Posted on July 09, 2010
ADF Attorney David Hacker writes at the Christian Post Advancing Religious Liberty Blog (cross posted at Speak Up Blog): ". . . the Chronicle reports that tenure may in fact be dead-or is at least dying. And while this news troubles those looking for job security, it has also raised questions about whether professors are free to say what they want inside and outside the classroom ...

?Ideological spectrum? backs rejected professor

Posted on July 09, 2010
One News Now: "A professor in North Carolina who claims he was denied a promotion because he wrote some religious and conservative-leaning opinion columns is receiving broad support from academic circles. After a judge ruled against Dr. Mike Adams in a lawsuit he filed against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the criminology professor decided to appeal the decision...

Illinois: Instructor of Catholicism at UI claims loss of job violates academic freedom

Posted on July 09, 2010
The News-Gazette: "Kenneth Howell was told after the spring semester ended that he would no longer be teaching in the UI's Department of Religion. The decision came after a student complained about a discussion of homosexuality in the class in which Howell taught that the Catholic Church believes homosexual acts are morally wrong ...

Activist: Islam on the rise, compliments of Obama

Posted on July 09, 2010
One News Now: "A conservative political activist says President Obama's pro-Islamic leanings are to blame for radical Islamic groups becoming so emboldened that they are openly holding conferences on U.S. soil calling for the establishment of a global Islamic empire...

The Massachusetts DOMA Rulings?A Summary

Posted on July 09, 2010
Ed Whelan writes at National Review Bench Memos: "Here?s a high-level summary of yesterday?s anti-DOMA rulings by federal district judge Joseph L. Tauro (of Massachusetts)."

ADF files brief in support of National Day of Prayer?s constitutionality

Posted on July 09, 2010
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday in support of the federal government?s appeal of a federal judge?s ruling declaring the observance of the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.

?Presbyterians continue to be divided over gays?

Posted on July 09, 2010
AP: "Delegates to the Presbyterian church's convention in Minneapolis voted Thursday for a more liberal policy on gay clergy but decided not to redefine marriage in their church constitution to include same-sex couples. Approval of both measures could have made the Presbyterian Church (U...

State files brief defending new Neb. abortion law

Posted on July 09, 2010
Nebraska.tv: "The state of Nebraska is defending its new law requiring mental health screenings for women seeking abortions."

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Woman Represented by Lambda Legal After She Was Fired By Georgia General Assembly

Posted on July 09, 2010
Lambda Legal:  "Late Friday, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that the Georgia General Assembly discriminated against Lambda Legal client Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman who was fired from her job as Legislative Editor after she told her supervisor that she planned to transition from male to female...

Pentagon at odds with homosexual groups

Posted on July 09, 2010
AP: "The Pentagon is at odds with gay rights groups after sending out a survey asking troops what they would do if gays were allowed to serve openly."

?White House silent on Mass. gay marriage ruling?

Posted on July 09, 2010
Breitbart (AP): "The administration was silent Friday on whether it would appeal rulings by U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro. Spokespeople for the White House and the Justice Department said officials are still reviewing the rulings."

?Berlin: push for gay marriage?

Posted on July 09, 2010
RBB-online.de: (Google translation) "The state of Berlin will allow gay couples treated as a marriage."

ADF vows to continue fight against attempts of judges to radically redefine marriage at state and federal level

Posted on July 09, 2010
A federal judge granted summary judgment Thursday to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a decision against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which declares the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

US Joins Britain, Netherlands, UN to Support ?Gay Pride? in Peru

Posted on July 09, 2010
LifeSiteNews: The embassies of the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands have joined the United Nations to issue a declaration in favor of "gay rights" in Peru. 'On the occasion of the celebrations of this year of Gay Pride in Peru, we express our support and solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in Peru,' the signatories declare...

Mexico?s Falling Birth Rate Threatens Future: Psychologist

Posted on July 09, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Mexico's falling birth rate is a threat to its future, according to María Alejandra Tallabs, an educational psychologist at Mexico's Panamerican University."

France: The homosexual adoption soon debated in the Constitutional Council

Posted on July 09, 2010
la.Croix.com (Google translation): "Whether to recognize same-sex couples the right to share parental authority: this is the very thorny issue that will have to decide the Constitutional Council."

?PCUSA delegates OK gay clergy, table marriage proposal?

Posted on July 09, 2010
Baptist Press: "Delegates to the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly in Minneapolis voted July 8 to allow the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals but shelved a proposal to redefine marriage in a way that would include same-sex couples . . . "

Liberty Institute Files Brief Supporting National Day of Prayer, Alliance of Top State and National Policy Leaders Demands Reversal of Revisionist Opinion

Posted on July 09, 2010
CentreDaily.com: Today, Liberty Institute filed an amicus brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the National Day of Prayer in Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Obama. Among those Liberty Institute represents in the brief include Dr...

American Psychiatric Association to Hawaii Legislature: Keep Trying for Civil Unions

Posted on July 09, 2010
"The American Psychiatric Association strongly supports legislation recently approved by the Hawaii legislature that would have made Hawaii the 11th state, along with the District of Columbia, to recognize same-sex civil marriage, civil unions or domestic partnerships...

Palm Center releases DADT survey

Posted on July 09, 2010
A Palm Center press release and the survey are available online.

?Adult store preparing to conquer Columbus: Cleveland chain wants to put three boutiques in area by end of 2011?

Posted on July 09, 2010
Columbus Dispatch: "A Cleveland-based company that sells lingerie and adult novelties plans to expand into Columbus. Ambiance, which describes itself as 'The Store for Lovers,' anticipates opening three stores in central Ohio within the next year and a half, with the first opening before the end of the year...

Buffett Billions Padding ?Charitable? Abortion Advocacy

Posted on July 09, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "For the last number of years American billionaire Warren Buffett, 79, has gradually been giving away his estimated $47 billion fortune ? and much of it is going to support the work of abortion activists worldwide . . . "

Radical Islam in Macedonia worries Western observers

Posted on July 08, 2010
WAZ / EU Observer: "Western diplomats and religious experts have voiced concerns about the spread of radical Islam among Muslim communities in the Balkans, after it transpired that alleged Wahabist radicals are operating and increasing their influence in Macedonia...

VA: Leesburg courthouse panel again urges holiday display prohibition

Posted on July 08, 2010
Leesburg Today: "This week, the courthouse committee urged supervisors to reinstate its prohibition on displays so that government leaders won't be in the position of determining which requests are for 'appropriate' use of the grounds and which are not...

Moldovan High Court throws out ?Orthodoxy? referendum

Posted on July 08, 2010
Radio Free Europe: "Moldova's Supreme Court has rejected a proposal by former Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat to hold a nationwide referendum on making the study of Orthodox Christianity compulsory in schools, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports."

MT: Helena schools? draft sex-ed document causing controversy

Posted on July 08, 2010
KRTV: "A new health curriculum under consideration in Helena Public Schools is causing quite a controversy. ... It lays out sex education topics for each grade, K through 12. In the first grade, children would be taught that human beings can love people of the same gender; in second grade, kids are taught not to make fun of people by calling them 'gay' or 'queer...

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