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Court rejects MN activist group?s attempt to ban free speech at public park

Posted on June 28, 2010
A federal court Friday rebuffed the attempt of an activist group to silence a Christian man who wanted to distribute Bibles in a public park where the group was holding a ?Pride Festival.?

Guidelines ? When is someone brain dead?

Posted on June 28, 2010
OneNewsNow: "The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has issued new guidelines -- an update of rules initially written 15 years ago. Dr. Nick Yates, a spokesman for the Christian Medical Association (CMA), practices medicine in New York, where an existing checklist compares to the new guidelines...

Clinic Stats: ?86% of all STD?s among 45+ found in swingers and gay men?

Posted on June 28, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "More than half (55%) of all diagnoses in the over 45s were made in swingers, compared with around a third (31%) in gay men. One in 10 older swingers had Chlamydia and around one in 20 (4%) had gonorrhoea."

10-year-old boy used as Grand Marshal of Arkansas homosexual fest

Posted on June 28, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A 10-year-old boy is being used as Grand Marshal of an Arkansas homosexual pride parade this weekend. The move has attracted opposition from pro-family leaders, who have decried the movement's exposure of the boy to the lewd festival of sexual deviancy as 'a form of child abuse...

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GOPers flag Kagan?s abortion, ?gay? advocacy in confirmation opening remarks

Posted on June 28, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Some Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee indicated their opposition to Supreme Court hopeful Elena Kagan's pro-abortion and homosexualist agenda, as well as her activist leanings, amid opening remarks at the first in a series of Senate confirmation hearings today...

New study denying fetal pain lacks scientific basis pro-life groups say

Posted on June 28, 2010
LifeNews: "Mary Spaulding Balch, a National Right to Life attorney who has overseen the development of legislation in the Unite States informing women of the pain unborn children experience in an abortion, told LifeNews.com that most scientific research says the pain exists...

Kagan called judicial activist in Supreme Court hearing, Democrats cite lack of record

Posted on June 28, 2010
LifeNews: "Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is drawing strong condemnation from Republicans on the Judiciary Committee in their opening statements on the first day of her nomination hearings. Even Democrats are pointing out she has little record on which to examine her judicial philosophy...

Chuck Norris: White House vs. Boy Scouts

Posted on June 25, 2010
Chuck Norris writing at TownHall: "Over the past few months, a widely circulated e-mail has reported that President Barack Obama is not signing Eagle Scout certificates, which only 4-5 percent of Boy Scouts attain. ... the Boy Scouts of America National Council confessed that Scout candidates who'd had board reviews before the spring of 2010 had received unsigned certificates...

The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce?

Posted on June 25, 2010
The Washington Post: "The marriage education movement has already spawned a cottage industry of trademarked seminars and self-help manuals. It has popped up, in varying forms, at community centers and churches across the nation. And it has successfully persuaded leaders of the federal government and the U...

?My morning sickness was so bad I had to have an abortion?

Posted on June 25, 2010
Daily Mail: "A mother has told how she suffered such extreme morning sickness that she chose to have an abortion. Cheryl Harrison made the heartbreaking decision after her condition left her unable to walk or care for her young daughter."

Appeals court reinstates case seeking to block administration?s embryonic stem cell policy

Posted on June 25, 2010
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit Friday that contends that the Obama administration?s embryonic stem cell research policy is in violation of federal law. The law, known as the ?Dickey/Wicker Amendment,? prohibits federal funds from being used to destroy human embryos for research purposes.

Police deem Oregon man?s defense of life ?offensive,? force him to stop displaying pro-life signs

Posted on June 25, 2010
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city of Stayton on behalf of a man who was approached by police officers and told he could not display his pro-life signs on a street corner.

Study: More women without children

Posted on June 25, 2010
"Nearly one-in-five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one-in-ten in the 1970s."

George F. Will: A few ?vapid? questions for Kagan

Posted on June 25, 2010
George F. Will writing in The Washington Post: "Given Elena Kagan's aversion to 'vapid and hollow' confirmation hearings devoid of 'legal analysis,' beginning Monday she might relish answering these questions: ... In Federalist 45, James Madison said: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined...

Marriage petition case was not a defeat for traditional marriage

Posted on June 25, 2010
Ken Klukowski writing at Townhall: "[The] Supreme Court dealt a setback to supporters of traditional marriage. But it?s not the defeat that gay-rights supporters (and many of their fans on the media) are hailing it as, and leaves open the possibility that traditional-marriage supporters may be the ones celebrating at the end...

New focus on Elena Kagan?s religious liberty and church-state views

Posted on June 25, 2010
Religion Clause: "As hearings on the nomination of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court approach, more focus is now being given to her views on religious liberty and church-state separation." (click for more analysis and links)

Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund sets endorsement record ? 123 candidates so far

Posted on June 25, 2010
GayPolitics.com: "The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced it has endorsed 123 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates for public office so far in 2010, already surpassing its 2008 total of 111 candidates, the previous record...

Washinton Times: The case against Kagan

Posted on June 25, 2010
Washington Times editorial: "Solicitor General Elena Kagan is too political, too leftist, too inexperienced and too disrespectful towards existing law to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court. ... We know she is remarkably lacking in courtroom experience...

Praise for an Israeli judge drives criticism of Kagan

Posted on June 25, 2010
New York Times: "Most Americans have never heard of Aharon Barak. If they tune in to Elena Kagan?s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, they will. Judge Barak, the retired president of the Supreme Court of Israel, has advocated an expansive role for the judiciary in his home country...

Hindu mantras opened Boulder City Council in Nevada

Posted on June 25, 2010
Central Chronicle: "City Council of Boulder City (Nevada, USA), known as 'Home of Hoover Dam', opened with Hindu prayers reportedly for the first time on June 22 evening."

?Openly gay? Pedro Segarra poised to become Hartford Mayor

Posted on June 25, 2010
Hartford Courant: "'I hope there is a transformation in the way politics are done in this city, so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past,' said Segarra, who would become the city's first openly gay mayor."

Same-sex ?marriage? and formal discrimination

Posted on June 25, 2010
"Those who advocate changing it to recognize same-sex unions are not proposing a formal change in the law that will leave the institution unaltered even as it grants more people access to it. Rather, they seek a substantive change to the institution based on a new understanding of human sexuality...

MA: Provincetown to revise school condom policy

Posted on June 25, 2010
WBZ: "Provincetown school officials are going to keep working on a new policy allowing local students -- even those in elementary school -- to receive free condoms without their parents' knowledge."

CA: Planned Stanton strip club wins court appeal

Posted on June 25, 2010
Orange County Register: "A proposed strip club has won in a state appellate court ? getting closer to gaining a required city permit to operate here. In a decision issued Wednesday, the Fourth Appellate Division agreed with owner Musa Madain's claim that the city had not fairly examined his permit application...

MN: ?Gay pride pulls in Democratic candidates and one Republican?

Posted on June 25, 2010
Minnesota Independent: "This weekend four of the five major party candidates for governor will be at Pride, and while one important Republican ? Tom Emmer ? will be missing, a fellow GOPer is taking the opportunity to show that not all Republicans share views with the religious right...

Gallup: In 2010, conservatives still outnumber moderates, liberals

Posted on June 25, 2010
Gallup: "Conservatives have maintained their leading position among U.S. ideological groups in the first half of 2010. Gallup finds 42% of Americans describing themselves as either very conservative or conservative. This is up slightly from the 40% seen for all of 2009 and contrasts with the 20% calling themselves liberal or very liberal...

NH church receives more than $1.1 million over unconstitutional zoning restrictions

Posted on June 25, 2010
ADF-allied attorney secures one of largest zoning settlements in U.S. history

Several thousand Egyptians protest police abuse

Posted on June 25, 2010
Associated Press: "Several thousand Egyptians, joined by top opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, protested on Friday what they call authorities' systematic use of torture in the largest demonstration yet sparked by the alleged beating death of a young man by police this month...

European Court rules ?gay marriage? not universal human right, says countries can make own rules

Posted on June 25, 2010
LA Times: "European nations do not have to allow same-sex marriage, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled, though gay rights groups claimed a partial victory Friday because the court acknowledged growing agreement that their relationships should be recognized in law...

Washinton Examiner: Democrats: Free speech for me, not for thee

Posted on June 25, 2010
Washinton Examiner: "The [DISCLOSE Act] is full of draconian restrictions on individual political speech expressed via corporations, but gives privileged status to the Democrats' union masters. A provision pushed by Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Bob Brady, for example, allows unions to transfer unlimited funds among affiliated groups to pay for political ads with no disclosure whatever...

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