Religion & Law

Baltimore to Appeal Decision Supporting Pregnancy Centers

Posted on February 01, 2011
LifeNews: Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund says Judge Garbis? ruling was a correct one. ?The judge ruled that the law?s attempt to burden speech unconstitutionally discriminated against noncommercial, unlicensed speech on the explicit basis that it came from a perspective disfavoring abortion,? he said, calling it a ?monumental decision protecting free speech and women?s health...

Politicians ?nullifying? act of the people

Posted on February 01, 2011
One News Now: The Ninth Circuit asked the high court this month whether California law allows Proposition 8 proponents the right to defend the measure when state officials refuse to . . . "Politicians should not be able to nullify a democratic act of the people by refusing their duty to defend it," contends Jim Campbell, litigation staff council for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF)...

17 year old Pakistani arrested for ?blasphemous? exam answer

Posted on February 01, 2011
AP: "Police have arrested a 17-year old Pakistani boy for writing an allegedly blasphemous remark in an examination paper, an officer said Tuesday."

Texas: Police watch for sex trafficking ahead of big game

Posted on February 01, 2011
AP: "As thousands of football fans descend on Texas for Sunday's Super Bowl, law enforcement agencies are keeping watch for a different kind of out-of-town visitor: pimps selling children for sex."

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Senate Dems reject call to cut Israel aid

Posted on February 01, 2011
AP: "Six Senate Democrats are rejecting a deficit-driven proposal by freshman Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to cut U.S. aid to Israel."

Federal judge strikes down Baltimore abortion-sign law

Posted on February 01, 2011
"A federal judge has struck down a Baltimore ordinance that requires pregnancy counseling centers to post a disclaimer if they don?t provide abortions or birth control."

MI: Sikh students can wear dagger in Plymouth-Canton schools, but with modifications

Posted on February 01, 2011
Detroit Free Press: "The Plymouth-Canton school district has opted to allow Sikh students to wear a small, religious dagger to school."

Planned Parenthood Caught on Video Covering up Sex Trafficking

Posted on February 01, 2011
LifeNews: "The nation?s largest abortion business has been caught in video in an undercover investigation covering up for and coaching a man and a woman posing as sex traffickers and inquiring about how to obtain abortions for the women they victimized...

Current, Former Big Law Partners Pushed for Judgeships

Posted on February 01, 2011
Blog of the Legal Times: "Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is recommending a Day Pitney partner and a former Cravath, Swaine & Moore partner for vacancies on the busy federal bench in Manhattan."

LA: Judge assigned to fill appeals court vacancy

Posted on February 01, 2011
WXVT.com: "The Louisiana Supreme Court has assigned a retired judge to temporarily fill a state appeals court vacancy."

Why a nervous China aims to shield citizens from Egypt news

Posted on February 01, 2011
Christian Science Monitor: "China has limited coverage of the Egypt protest to its Xinhua news service and warned last week that websites that did not censor comments about Egypt would be 'shut down by force."

MRFF and Air Force Academy Faculty Members Sue Over Planned Prayer Luncheon

Posted on February 01, 2011
Religion Clause Blog (links to the complaint): "The Military Religious Freedom Foundation and five US Air Force Academy faculty members yesterday filed suit in federal district court in Colorado seeking to enjoin a National Prayer Luncheon at the Academy scheduled for Feb...

Jordan?s King Fires Cabinet Amid Street Protests There

Posted on February 01, 2011
CNSNews: "Jordan's King Abdullah II fired his government Tuesday in the wake of street protests and asked an ex-prime minister to form a new Cabinet, ordering him to launch immediate political reforms."

1 out of 8 biology teachers reject evolution

Posted on February 01, 2011
Julie Duin writes at the Washington Post: "Can you maintain a traditional Judeo-Christian view of how the Earth was created and still remain a science teacher in public schools? About one in eight high school biology teachers do, according to a new article in the magazine Science...

?Lambda Legal Defends Transgender Woman Fired by Georgia General Assembly at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals?

Posted on February 01, 2011
Lambda Legal: “Late yesterday, Lambda Legal filed papers in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit defending a lower court ruling 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 [...

`Sexting? Bill Filed in SD Legislature

Posted on February 01, 2011
KDLT.com: "The Legislature will take up a bill that defines juvenile "sexting" and lists possible punishment for violators who electronically transmit sexually explicit or nude photos of themselves or others."

Family Group Denounces Ill. Civil Unions Law

Posted on February 01, 2011
Christian Post: "David E. Smith, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute said recognizing civil unions is merely a stepping stone to legalizing same-sex marriage."

Iowa: Scores debate ?marriage? at House hearing

Posted on February 01, 2011
"Iowans' deep and divided emotions over marriage rights spilled out onto the House floor Monday night, the eve of a House vote on a resolution to begin the process to amend the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriage."

Marriage Benefits Personal and National Economic Stability

Posted on February 01, 2011
National Marriage Week on EarnedMedia.org: As part of an international marriage week movement in 12 countries during the week leading up to Valentine's Day, National Marriage Week USA (www.nationalmarriageweekUSA.org) -- February 7 to 14 -- announces new national initiatives to show marriage benefits personal and national economic stability and for raising more well adjusted children...

Another brick in the wall of separation?

Posted on February 01, 2011
David Waters writes at the Washington Post: "Christians shouldn't be discriminated against and excluded from expressing their faith on public high school campuses when that door of communication is open to virtually everyone else," David Cortman, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is taking the case to court, said in a statement...

Florida Teen Charged in Pregnant Girlfriend Beating

Posted on February 01, 2011
CNSNews: "A Gulf Coast-area teenager is in jail accused of hiring someone to beat up his pregnant girlfriend in order to make her miscarry."

Iran says Egypt revolt is ?step towards Islamic Middle East?

Posted on February 01, 2011
AFP: "Iran said on Tuesday the uprising in Egypt will help create an Islamic Middle East but accused US officials of interfering in the "freedom seeking" movement which has rocked the Arab nation."

Canada: Parents of dying one-year-old fight hospital, courts to bring son home

Posted on February 01, 2011
LifeSiteNews: "The parents of one-year-old Joseph Maraachli are taking their case to the Ontario Superior Court in the hopes of bringing their dying son home for his last days, reports the Windsor Star."

Planned Parenthood Sex Trafficking Coverup May Prompt Christie Veto

Posted on February 01, 2011
LifeNews: "A new undercover video shows Planned Parenthood officials, in New Jersey, telling a pimp and his prostitute assistant how they can get abortions for young teenage girls who Planned Parenthood officials are informed are Asians in the country illegally and forced into the sex trade...

White House calls Obamacare ruling ?Judicial Activism?

Posted on February 01, 2011
"Senior Obama administration officials told reporters late Monday afternoon that a federal judge's ruling deeming the sweeping health care reform law unconstitutional is "well out of the mainstream of judicial opinion" and predicted it would be overturned on appeal...

Montana: Abortion bill divides crowd

Posted on January 31, 2011
Montana Standard: "Emotions ran high Friday at a hearing on a bill that would require all women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion. Besides making ultrasounds mandatory, House Bill 280, by Rep. Pat Ingraham, R-Thompson Falls, would require medical providers to read the ultrasound results to women seeking abortions, although women could legally avert their eyes from the images...

WV Family Group Calls on Lawmakers and Focus Affiliate to Support Marriage Protection Amendment

Posted on January 31, 2011
Christian Newswire: "A statewide family values group that authored the Marriage Protection Amendment introduced this month for the sixth straight year in the state Legislature says it will continue its push until voters are allowed the right to vote on the amendment...

Same Sex: Judge Says No Nebraska Marriage Means No Divorce In Nebraska

Posted on January 31, 2011
Nebraska State Paper: "A district judge in Otoe County says if you can?t get a same-sex marriage in Nebraska you can?t get a same-sex divorce, either."

Illinois Family Institute Objects to New Civil Unions Legislation

Posted on January 31, 2011
IFI: "Civil unions are merely a stepping stone to legalized same-sex marriage. Of the central defining criteria for marriage -- number of partners, blood kinship, minimum age and sexual complementarity -- sexual complementarity is the most enduring. Therefore, eliminating it constitutes the most radical redefinition of marriage imaginable...

Update on the Iowa Marriage Amendment (IMA)

Posted on January 31, 2011
IowaPolitics.com: There was action this week in both the Iowa House and Senate on the IMA. The House moved the bill ? HJR 6 - through both the subcommittee and full Judiciary Committee. The Democrats requested a public hearing, which will take place on Monday evening from 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM...

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