Religion & Law

Miami man shot dead after strip club fight

Posted on January 22, 2009
The Orlando-Sun Sentinel: “A 37-year-old man was shot dead during a fight that started at a strip club early this morning, Miami-Dade police said . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

?No Same Sex Marriage in Texas, but What about Divorce??

Posted on January 22, 2009
"Yesterday, a Dallas man filed what is believed to be the first same sex divorce petition in Texas. The couple was married in Massachusetts in 2006, but now lives in Texas . . . "

India: Delhi High Court orders probe into child trafficking

Posted on January 22, 2009
Concerned over the increasing number of child trafficking cases, the Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered senior police officials to investigate the case and present the results by Friday.

?Waking up to still being a faith-based nation?

Posted on January 22, 2009
The Bush administration has widely been assumed to have significantly favored evangelical Christian perspectives and organizations in its policies. A corollary of that assumption has been that regime change would return us to our natural secular condition...

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UK education researchers: ?Teach pleasures of Homosexual sex to 5 year olds?

Posted on January 22, 2009
Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project.

Notre Dame conference: The meanings of religious freedom in America

Posted on January 22, 2009
At America?s founding three different and sometimes competing visions of religion in American political life were planted in American soil: freedom of religion, for religion, and from religion. These three distinct conceptions converged at the time of the American founding in the form of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, as well as the many parallel provisions in the state constitutions...

Four Reasons You Might Be Aborted: An Open Letter to Fetal Humans

Posted on January 22, 2009
You have made it to the second stage of life. But you?re not out of the woods, as they say, until you?re out of the womb. In America there are roughly 250 abortions for every 1000 live births, which means that you have (all other things being equal) a 1 in 5 chance of still being aborted...

UK: Parents object to plans for home school probe

Posted on January 22, 2009
A parents? group says it is ?infuriated? by new Government plans to make sure families who educate their children at home are being monitored by local authorities.

?Proposition 8 foes hold gay marriage boot camps?

Posted on January 22, 2009
LA Times L.A. Now Blog: Determined to avoid the mistakes of their last, losing campaign for gay marriage, gay rights activists are launching the first of what they hope will be many ?marriage equality training camps? in Los Angeles this weekend. The idea is to train activists in ?the practical, hands-on skills to organize in their communities [...

Turkey attempts to stamp out 1,600 year old Christian monastery

Posted on January 22, 2009
Reuters: . . . In a remote village near the Turkish-Syrian border, a land dispute with neighboring villages is threatening the future of one of the world’s oldest functioning Christian monasteries . . . The row began when Turkish government land officials redrew the boundaries around Mor Gabriel and the surrounding villages in 2008 to update a [...

Why Roe v. Wade Needs to be Overturned

Posted on January 22, 2009
Ed Whelan writes on the National Review Bench Memos Blog: On this 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court?s dreadful decision in Roe v. Wade, permit me to quote from my Senate Judiciary Committee testimony in 2005: Roe v. Wade marks the second time in American history that the Supreme Court has invoked “substantive due process” to deny [...

Senate Democrats move toward seating Franken

Posted on January 22, 2009
AP: “It’s no joke: Senate Democrats are moving toward letting comedian Al Franken join the chamber while Republican Norm Coleman’s election lawsuit is pending . . . Not so fast, said Republicans.” Visit Site » Share This

NAACP?s Payton Says Now Is Time To Bolster Equal Rights Amendment

Posted on January 22, 2009
The ACS Blog: “Following a recent panel discussion, co-hosted by ACS, regarding the evolution of the Civil War or Reconstruction Amendments, Payton talked with ACS about the hope for reviving the 14th Amendment?s protection of equal rights for all Americans...

Ore. AG to investigate mayor?s homosexual relationship with teen

Posted on January 22, 2009
AP: “Four Portland newspapers and the city police union are calling on the mayor to resign, after he admitted he lied by denying he had a sexual relationship with a teenage boy . . . As newspapers called for him to step down, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger agreed to investigate whether a crime was [...

President Obama?s White House agenda

Posted on January 22, 2009
The Christian Institute carries this report from the UK: Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States, but some Christians have expressed concerns about his policies on ?gay rights?, abortion and embryo experiments. A new White House website, which went live minutes after the President was sworn in, lists his agenda ...

NY Appellate Court approves state recognition of out-of-state same sex ?marriages?

Posted on January 22, 2009
Lambda Legal: The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, Third Department today upheld a lower court’s ruling that the New York State Department of Civil Service (DCS), a state agency, acted in compliance with the law when it confirmed that it would recognize out?of?state marriages of same?sex couples...

Dutch court: prosecute anti-Islamic lawmaker

Posted on January 21, 2009
AP: “A right-wing lawmaker should be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred with anti-Islamic statements that include calling the Quran a ‘fascist book,’ a Dutch court ruled Wednesday . . . Wilders told Dutch media it was a ‘black day for myself and for freedom of speech...

Was Obama?s Oath Valid?

Posted on January 21, 2009
Lyle Denniston has this commentary on SCOTUS Blog discussing the issue and How Appealing links to several other reports on the same topic. Share This

Courting Common Sense: Will the White House and Congress find a better way to nominate and confirm judges?

Posted on January 21, 2009
The Washington Post: “Might a New administration and Congress bring a new approach to the handling of judicial nominations? Might pettiness give way to rationality and fair-mindedness? Don’t count on it. But in such a week, we can hope . ...

Supreme Court won?t revive Child Online Protection Act

Posted on January 21, 2009
AP: . . . The Supreme Court, in an order Wednesday, said it won’t consider reviving the Child Online Protection Act, which lower federal courts struck down as unconstitutional. The law has been embroiled in court challenges since it passed in 1998 and never took effect...

Some troops unhappy about Obama pledge on ?gays?

Posted on January 21, 2009
Reuters: Many U.S. troops in Iraq were overjoyed to see President Barack Obama take his oath, but some were unhappy about one thing the Democrat has promised to do: permit gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly . . . “Ah, I think that might cause a lot of problems,” he said...

WV: ADF attorneys ask court to place child with married couple

Posted on January 21, 2009
WV Department of Health and Human Resources had temporarily placed the child with a same-sex couple, but that couple now seeks to to adopt rather than place the child in a family with a mom and dad . . .

Abortion Opponents in 118 Cities Launch 40-day Campaign to Counter Roe v. Wade and New Administration

Posted on January 21, 2009
Christian Newswire carries this update on the 40 Days for Life Campaign.  “The campaign dates of February 25 through April 5 coincide with the Christian season of Lent.” Visit Site » Share This

Iowa Family Policy Council President to participate in radio marriage debate

Posted on January 21, 2009
The Iowa Family Policy Council reports: Tune in to Praise 940AM tomorrow afternoon (January 21st) at 2:00 to hear IFPC President Chuck Hurley debate local UCC Pastor and homosexual ?marriage? proponent Matt Mardis-Lecroy. As the Iowa Supreme Court deliberates over the definition of marriage, the debate over homosexual ?marriage? is certain to heat up...

White House Web Site Becomes Weapon in President Obama?s Political War

Posted on January 21, 2009
AOL News: “When President Barack Obama took the oath of office today, his communications team flipped the switch on the brand new, redesigned White House web site. The Obama Administrations boasts that it’s primary web presence will be the most technically advanced ever, with plenty of opportunities for ordinary citizens to engage in the day-to-day [...

From Coast to Coast, Women to Tell of Abortion?s Impact on Their Lives

Posted on January 21, 2009
Christian Newswire: “Members of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world’s largest network of men and women harmed by abortion, will give their personal abortion testimonies at Washington, DC’s March for Life on Thursday and San Francisco’s Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday ...

Maryland May Force Doctors to Provide Information on Suicide

Posted on January 21, 2009
Citizen Link: “Legislation sitting in the Maryland House would require doctors to provide terminally ill patients who wish to die with information from groups that advocate physician-assisted suicide . . . ” Wesley Smith writing at Second Hand Smoke: Maryland House Bill 30: De-professionalizing the Care of People With Terminal Illnesses LifeNews...

Obama Halts New or Pending Bush Regulations

Posted on January 21, 2009
The Washington Post: In a memo issued by new White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the president tells agency and department heads that : “…no proposed or final regulation should be sent to the Office of Federal Register for publication unless and until it has been reviewed and approved by a department or agency head appointed [...

Obama Picks Confirmed, But Clinton Is on Hold

Posted on January 21, 2009
Washington Post: The Senate approved seven of President Obama’s Cabinet-level appointees yesterday but delayed a planned vote on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s confirmation to be secretary of state because of objections from a Republican member ...

Kennedy Released From Hospital

Posted on January 21, 2009
The Wall Street Journal: “Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been released from the hospital after suffering a seizure during an inaugural luncheon . . . Doctors blamed fatigue for the seizure. Mr. Kennedy, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May 2008 and has been undergoing [...

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