Religion & Law

WA: No new sexually oriented business in Yakima County

Posted on June 25, 2010
KNDO: "The Yakima County Commissioners have imposed a 6-month moratorium on adult businesses on un-incorporated areas in the county."

Pedophiles find a home on Wikipedia

Posted on June 25, 2010
FOX News: "Wikipedia has become home base for a loose worldwide network of pedophiles who are campaigning to spin the popular online encyclopedia in their favor and are trying to lure more people into their world, an investigation by FoxNews.com confirms...

.xxx domain won?t clean up the web

Posted on June 25, 2010
". . . more respectable businesses will be forced to purchase the dot-XXX equivalent of their primary domain simply to ensure it isn't purchase by a purveyor of porn."

Spanish bishops insist crucifixes remain in schools

Posted on June 25, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "The executive committee of the Bishops? Conference of Spain has approved a statement on the public displaying of religious symbols in Europe, saying crucifixes should remain in schools in order to strengthen the identity and values of students...

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How Elena Kagan worked to limit military recruiting at Harvard

Posted on June 25, 2010
Christian Science Monitor: "When an appeals court issues an opinion, that doesn?t mean the opinion takes immediate effect. The government appealed the Third Circuit?s decision to the US Supreme Court. To facilitate the appeal, the Third Circuit stayed its ruling, and postponed its suggestion than an injunction be issued against enforcement of the Solomon Amendment...

Judge: Evangelist can hand out Bibles at Pride festival

Posted on June 25, 2010
Minneapolis Star Tribune: "A federal judge will allow an evangelical Christian to distribute Bibles in Loring Park during this weekend's Twin Cities Pride Festival. ... Johnson, aided by an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, persuaded the Park Board to grant him permission to distribute his materials...

The socialist behind the idea of government funding for news

Posted on June 25, 2010
InsiderOnline Blog: "[Michael Copps, a Federal Communications Commissioner] cites the ideas of Robert McChesney, a professor at the University of Illinois and founder of the group Free Press. Randolph May writes about McChesney at the Free State Foundation blog, noting some quotes that show McChesney clearly embraces the socialist label for himself...

Ariz. gov: Most illegal immigrants smuggling drugs

Posted on June 25, 2010
Associated Press: "Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are being used to transport drugs across the border. Brewer said the motivation of 'a lot' of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug 'mules...

Porn domain .xxx gets initial approval

Posted on June 25, 2010
"ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave its conditional blessing today at a conference in Brussels. Final approval is expected in October; the new domains will appear early next year."

How does Elena Kagan see America?s place in the world? Why the Senate needs to ask some hard questions

Posted on June 25, 2010
Jeremy Rabkin writing at the Heritage Foundation: "What are Elena Kagan?s views on foreign policy? What does she think about America?s role in the world? At one time, such questions would have seemed irrelevant, if not impudent, for a Supreme Court nominee...

Is judicial activism in the eye of the beholder?

Posted on June 25, 2010
Insider Online: "Liberals . . . are trying to talk about a 'conservative court' as an example of judicial activism. And, of course, we would suggest to you that, by any definition, the court is not necessarily conservative and, certainly in terms of activism, the conservative members of the court are those judges who are faithful to the Constitution--are not engaged in judicial activism...

N.J. Democrats set stage for battle with Gov. Christie about family planning funds in budget

Posted on June 25, 2010
NJ.com: "Democrats voted Thursday to restore $7.5 million for health and family planning services for uninsured women ? but not before the bill became a referendum on abortion and a senator read aloud from a Planned Parenthood brochure on teen sex. Both the Democrat-controlled Assembly and Senate budget committees also set the stage for a clash with Gov...

Iowa Planned Parenthood subject of criminal complaint over telemed abortions

Posted on June 25, 2010
LifeNews: "Operation Rescue has filed a formal complaint with the Iowa Attorney General's office asking for a criminal investigation of a remote-controlled push-button Internet abortion pill scheme."

Divorce courts are bankrupting families and putting men in debtor prisons

Posted on June 25, 2010
Matt Gurney writes at the National Post: "Jeff Dolan spent Father?s Day in jail, locked away for failure to pay child support. Deadbeat dads don?t garner a lot of sympathy. But you don?t need to study Jeff?s case for long before you realize that he?s anything but a deadbeat...

Bork?s revenge: Today?s partisan Supreme Court is an unintended consequence of Roe v. Wade

Posted on June 24, 2010
"Roe itself was not decided along party lines. ... But by intervening so heavy-handedly in a matter that over which there was not yet a political consensus, the Roe court prompted a powerful backlash, the rise of the antiabortion movement, which became a key part of the Republican constituency...

Iceland set to legalize same-sex ?marriage? this weekend

Posted on June 24, 2010
eTurboNews: "[Iceland] is set to legalize same-sex marriage this weekend, according to United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay. ... Iceland will become the ninth country to legalize same-sex marriage following legislation that passed the country?s parliament earlier this month...

Spain: 3412 same-sex ?marriages? in 2009

Posted on June 24, 2010
El Dia [modified Google Translation]: "[There were 3,412 same-sex marriages] last year [of which 64.8 percent were between men] according to the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB), which cites data from the National Statistics Institute (INE)...

ECHR rules that states are not obliged to allow same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on June 24, 2010
"The court found no violation of [Schalk and Kopf's, a homosexual couple in Austria who were denied the right to marry] human rights, although it was very divided on the issue of discrimination (four votes against three in holding that Austria did not discriminate)...

Obama?s New World Order manifesto

Posted on June 24, 2010
WorldNetDaily: "I invite you to read for yourself his misnamed 'National Security Strategy' ? misnamed because it is actually a blueprint for running the whole world like he's been running the United States since January 2009. Obama is hardly the first president to plead for America to join a New World Order...

Study: How divorce spreads

Posted on June 24, 2010
Rose McDermott, Nicholas A. Christakis, and James H. Fowler, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample Followed for 32 Years (October 18, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn...

Cohabitation and children outside marriage linked to higher probability of breakups: Aussie study

Posted on June 24, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Second marriages are more than 90% more likely to break up than first marriages, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The researchers also found that cohabiting, having children before marrying, and an imbalance between partners in the desire for children are all correlated with marital breakup...

It costs $222,360 to raise a child

Posted on June 24, 2010
NPR | Planet Money: "A middle-income, two-parent family will spend $222,360, on average, to raise a baby born in 2009, according to a government estimate released today."

USCCB Committee on Doctrine: The Distinction Between Direct Abortion and Legitimate Medical Procedures

Posted on June 24, 2010
USCCB: "Direct abortion is never morally permissible. One may never directly kill an innocent human being, no matter what the reason. By contrast, in some situations, it may be permissible to perform a medical procedure on a pregnant woman that directly treats a serious health problem but that also has a secondary effect that leads to the death of the developing child...

Now, dad feels as stressed as mom

Posted on June 24, 2010
New York Times: "Father?s Day brings this offering of a dubious milestone: Husbands are now just as stressed out as their harried wives. ... Just last week, Boston College released a study called 'The New Dad' suggesting that new fathers face a subtle bias in the workplace, which fails to recognize their stepped-up family responsibilities and presumes that they will be largely unaffected by children...

GOP lawmakers echo Beck?s claims against Soros

Posted on June 24, 2010
The Hill: "Reps. Dan Burton (R-Ind) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) questioned whether Soros, who backs a number of liberal causes and Democratic candidates for office, had invested in a Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, with the knowledge that President Barack Obama might temporarily ban deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico...

Jeremy Tedesco on the Drew Mariani Show: AZ school choice litigation at the U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on June 24, 2010
ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco appeared on the Drew Mariani Show (Relevant Radio) to discuss the Arizona school choice litigation pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. | MP3 10:16 mins | ADF Media information page

Jordan Lorence on Point of View Radio: The Proposition 8 Trial

Posted on June 24, 2010
ADF attorney Jordan Lorence on Point of View Radio to discuss the Proposition 8 Trial. | MP3 9:44 mins

Jeff Ventrella on the Michael Medved Show: The Blackstone Legal Fellowship

Posted on June 24, 2010
ADF attorney Jeff Ventrella appeared on the Michael Medved Show to discuss the Blackstone Legal Fellowship. | MP3 5:13 mins

Wisconsin Court: Former homosexual partner not a legal parent under state law

Posted on June 24, 2010
"After the couple broke up in 2008, the woman identified in court records only as Wendy wanted to be named a legal guardian of them. Her partner objected."

?Salazar?s ban is Soros? bonanza?

Posted on June 24, 2010
Investors.com: "Our interior secretary plans to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium struck down by a federal judge. But if deep-water drilling is so unsafe, why are we helping Brazil drill nearly three times as deep? ... Last August, the U.S. Export-Import Bank issued a 'preliminary commitment' letter to Brazil's state-run Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion, with the promise of more to follow...

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