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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Rasmussen: More Voters Still Think Federal Government Encourages Illegal Immigration

Posted on February 07, 2011
Rasmussen: "A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think the policies and practices of the federal government encourage illegal immigration . . . "

Atheists up in arms over effectiveness of the Center for Arizona Policy

Posted on February 07, 2011
The AZ Daily Star carries commentary by Dr. Gilbert Shapiro: Indeed, 84 bills (22 in the past two years) advanced by the Center for Arizona Policy have become law. No CAP-opposed bills were passed. It should come as no surprise this was due to overwhelming support from Gov...

KY: Money troubles close Mayfield mosque, ACLU says

Posted on February 07, 2011
Lexington Herald-Leader: "Somali immigrants who won a long zoning battle in their effort to open a mosque in western Kentucky have stopped worshipping at the location. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky said the Muslim congregation could no longer afford to rent the small commercial building in Mayfield...

Mitch Daniels: An ObamaCare Appeal From the States

Posted on February 07, 2011
Mitch Daniels writes at the Wall Street Journal: "Twenty-one governors representing more than 115 million Americans have written to Kathleen Sebelius asking for more flexibility on health-care reform."

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Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Support Grieving Parents

Posted on February 07, 2011
Family Policy Council of West Virginia: Eleven members of the West Virginia House of Delegates introduced the West Virginia Grieving Parents Act (HB3043), or ?Bobby?s Law,? on Monday, February 7, 2011. The proposed legislation would close a legal loophole that has prevented parents of the legal means they need in order to bury, and properly grieve for, their stillborn or miscarried child.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks about ?life?s calling? during impromptu visit to Ave Maria University

Posted on February 07, 2011
Naple News: "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visited Ave Maria University on Friday afternoon, and delivered one overarching message to several hundred students there: little separates him from them, and they have the capacity to do great things too if they look for their calling and follow it...

Akhil Reed Amar: ?Constitutional showdown: A Florida judge distorted the law in striking down healthcare reform.?

Posted on February 07, 2011
Akhil Reed Amar writes at the LA Times: "If Congress can tax me, and can use my tax dollars to buy a health insurance policy for me, why can't it tell me to get a policy myself (or pay extra taxes)? Vinson offers no cogent answer to this basic logical point...

HI: Nominee to Supreme Court easily wins Senate panel?s OK

Posted on February 07, 2011
Star Advertiser: "The state Senate could vote as early as next week on Family Court Judge Sabrina McKenna's appointment to the Hawaii Supreme Court following the unanimous approval of her nomination yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee."

Doing the Judicial Math on Health Care

Posted on February 07, 2011
"There have been four rulings on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law. All four considered the same legislative provisions, constitutional clauses and court precedents. Yet the two decisions from judges appointed by Democratic presidents upheld the law, while the two from judges appointed by Republicans, including a ruling on Monday, struck down part or all of it...

Questions surround judicial nomination of Arvo Mikkanen for Tulsa

Posted on February 07, 2011
Tulsa World: "The White House enlisted surrogates to validate its pick to fill a vacant judicial slot in Tulsa, but it remained unclear whether that would be enough to rescue one of the few American Indians selected for the federal bench in U.S. history...

GOP-led House is moving to restrict funding of abortions

Posted on February 07, 2011
McClatchy: The "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" would eliminate tax breaks for abortions. The "Protect Life Act" would restrict use of federal funds for abortions under the new health care law. While both may pass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, their prospects of passing a Democratic-held Senate or escaping President Barack Obama's veto pen are slim to none.

Des Moines Register editorial: ?Stand firm on civil rights, Iowa?

Posted on February 07, 2011
Des Moines Register: "No one ever said fighting for equal rights was easy. And no one ever said it was quick, either. In 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling that paved the way for gay marriage. It was a victory to be celebrated. But it wasn't the end of a quest to obtain equality for all Iowans...

MA: Patrick?s choices may change little on SJC

Posted on February 07, 2011
Boston Globe: "But Patrick, over the long run, is unlikely to transform the ideological imprint of a bench that, even when dominated by Republican appointees, became the first high court in the nation to legalize gay marriage."

WI: Badger Catholic case may go to U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on February 07, 2011
The Daily Cardinal: Seven higher education organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving UW-Madison and its refusal to fund activities for the Badger Catholic group on campus . . . The appeals court voted 2-1 in a September 2010, ruling the university could not refuse funding to the student organization...

Republicans out front of Obama on regulations

Posted on February 07, 2011
AP: A month before Obama reached out to businesses, the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent 171 letters to various businesses and their trade associations. He asked for help in "identifying existing and proposed regulations that have negatively impacted job growth...

Dutch lawmaker back in court for comparing Islam to facism

Posted on February 07, 2011
AP: "Wilders faces charges of inciting hatred against Muslims after he compared Islam to fascism and called for a ban on the Quran."

FL: School Board Changes Prayer Policy? Uses Disclaimer

Posted on February 07, 2011
Religion Clause Blog: "Today's Winter Haven (FL) News Chief reports that the school board, after consulting its attorney, has responded by moving the prayer to precede the official start of the meeting and adding this disclaimer to its agendas . . . "

Obama Names New Members of Faith Based Advisory Council

Posted on February 07, 2011
Religion Clause Blog: "Yesterday President Obama�announced his intent to appoint twelve individuals to President?s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Apparently this groups replaces 15 members whose one-year terms are expiring...

Adventists Protest Scheduled Saturday Elections In Nigeria

Posted on February 07, 2011
Religion Clause Blog: "However, according to today's�Nigerian Compass, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is threatening to sue if the date is not moved to a week day since the Saturday timing will disenfranchise its members"

Indonesian Mob Kills At Least 3 Ahmadiyas In Bid To Stop Their Worship

Posted on February 07, 2011
Religion Clause Blog: "In Indonesia yesterday, a thousand Muslims surrounded a house in West Java, attempting to prevent the Ahmadiya movement from holding worship services."

The States Can?t Afford ObamaCare: Their budgets will be crushed by the Medicaid expansions that the feds are forcing on them

Posted on February 07, 2011
George Melloan writes at the Wall Street Journal: "Behind this week's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson overturning ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, there is a deeper economic reality. The states can't afford it. That's a primary reason why 26 states joined in the Florida lawsuit to nullify the federal law...

Minnesota City Halts Church Expansion Plan

Posted on February 07, 2011
Charisma Online: "Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of Woodridge Church against the city of Medina for allegedly manufacturing a new zoning ordinance to prevent the church from building a new 42,000-square foot facility...

WI: Marshfield faces lawsuit over City Council prayer

Posted on February 07, 2011
WSAU.com: "The city of Marshfield is once again under fire from the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation?this time for including a prayer at the start of Common Council meetings. The foundation filed a suit this week, claiming the prayer violates the constitutional separation of church and state...

Video: British PM ?Multiculturalism Has Failed?

Posted on February 07, 2011
European News (includes video): "Prime Minister David Cameron has delivered a speech setting out his view on radicalisation and Islamic extremism . . . "

?Europe?s human rights court is out of control? we must pull out?: Call by top British judge after ruling that prisoners should get the vote

Posted on February 07, 2011
Daily Mail: "Lord Hoffmann, who served as a Law Lord for 14 years until last year, said the court had gone beyond its remit in a way that would have ?astonished? its founding fathers."

New German anti-Muslim party calls Islam ?totalitarian?

Posted on February 07, 2011
European News: "The leader of a newly created anti-Islamic party in Germany said he wants to stop the immigration of Muslims and described Islam as a "totalitarian system" bent on supplanting western liberal values."

David French on the Zeb Bell Show: Professor?s promotion denied due to religion

Posted on February 07, 2011
ADF attorney David French appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss this: Renowned professor challenges promotion denial over religion in appellate hearing. | MP3 audio 22:46 mins

British PM reignites multiculturalism debate

Posted on February 07, 2011
Europe News: "Prime Minister David Cameron has now reignited the debate by claiming in a speech on Saturday that the long-standing policy of multiculturalism is a failure and in part to blame for fostering Islamic extremism."

Christians Accused of ?Insulting Turkey? Appeal Ruling

Posted on February 07, 2011
CBN (includes video): "They are trying to stop Turks in this country, citizens in this country from having the freedom to choose Christ," he said. "Even though legally they have this freedom, they are trying to use my case as a precedent for others to say you don't have this personal choice...

?Five myths about the European court of human rights?

Posted on February 07, 2011
Guardian: "In the midst of the row over giving prisoners the right to vote, the thinktank Policy Exchange has called for the government to withdraw from the European convention on human rights if negotiations to limit and reform the European court fail...

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