Religion & Law

?Log Cabin facing money woes: Gay GOP group at least $100,000 in debt?

Posted on January 09, 2009
The Washington Blade reports: The Log Cabin Republicans, hampered by lackluster 2008 fundraising, is facing financial difficulties and ended the year at least $100,000 in debt, according to Patrick Sammon, the organization?s president, who spoke to the Blade Friday...

Contra Costa County policy library room usage for ?religious services? reviewed, again

Posted on January 08, 2009
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY January 8, 2009 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF attorney available to media after hearing in Calif. library access case Contra Costa County policy banning groups from using library meeting rooms for ?religious services? reviewed, again WHO: ADF Legal Counsel Tim Chandler WHAT: Available for media interviews after hearing in [...

San Jose City College fired professor for truthfully answering student question

Posted on January 08, 2009
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY January 8, 2009 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF attorney available to media after hearing in firing of Calif. professor San Jose City College fired professor for truthfully, accurately answering student question WHO: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel David J...

Washington Assisted Suicide Backers Outspent Opponents Nearly 3-1 on I-1000

Posted on January 08, 2009
LifeNews.com reports: “Washington became the second state in the nation to legalize assisted suicide when voters approved I-1000 on the November ballot. New figures from a governmental agency make it easy to understand why — as backers of the measure outspent opponents by a three to one margin ...

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Barack Obama May Pick Woman Who Introduced Abortion Drug for FDA Chief

Posted on January 08, 2009
LifeNews.com reports: “If anyone had any question about whether Barack Obama would promote the increase or reduction of abortions as president, the abortion advocates he’s named to top administration posts confirm his agenda. Now, Obama appears likely to select the FDA chief who oversaw the abortion drug for a second stint ...

Is Internet Porn Just a Harmless Pastime?

Posted on January 08, 2009
Mark Kastlemen has this post on Candeo: . . . Silent alarms are going off all around us as a result of the effects of pornography?on us, on our children, and on society as a whole. But few are responding to these alarms. Why? Because too many are allowing their attention to be diverted by the [...

?A Roundup of 2008?s Developments Relating to Harms Suffered By Children in Religious Settings?

Posted on January 08, 2009
Marci Hamilton has this commentary on the Findlaw that begins: “Children’s interests often intersect with adults’ religious beliefs, and too often, the children suffer. The events of 2008 confirmed this ugly truth, though they also evidenced some emerging signs that our society is capable of protecting children by invoking science and law...

Statutory rape cover-up harms the born and unborn

Posted on January 08, 2009
Jeremy G. Dys, President of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia has this commentary in the West Virginia Record that concludes: Here is revealed the ugly underbelly of the abortion industry. Dealing in shades of gray and whispers, Planned Parenthood treats innocent life — the pre-born and victims of rape — with abandon...

Editor of First Things, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus passes away

Posted on January 08, 2009
CNA reports: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, the famous convert to Catholicism and editor of the journal First Things passed away this morning in New York at 9:30 a.m. EST. First Things More reports and tributes Visit Site » Share This

Delays in Attorney Retirement Could Contribute to Firm Overcrowding

Posted on January 08, 2009
The National Law Journal reports: . . . By some estimates, about 250,000 baby boomer attorneys have begun entering retirement age. And with the recent plunge in the values of 401(k) plans and other nest-egg assets, DeRuyter and attorneys like him are seeing their dreams of a worry-free retirement vanish...

Specter Says Obama Did Not Consult Him on DOJ Nominees

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Legal Times: “Key members of the Senate Intelligence Committee complained this week that they had no advance notice of President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Obama was equally tight-lipped with him about nominees for the Department of Justice [...

UK: Christian Counsellor wins wrongful dismissal claim after termination for refusing sex therapy to homosexual couples

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Christian Legal Center at Christian Concern for Our Nation has issued this press release: _____________ For Immediate Release 8th January 2009 Court upholds Christian Counsellor’s Claim for wrongful dismissal but law in confusion. Gary McFarlane, a relationship counsellor, won a claim for wrongful dismissal against Relate Avon...

The Legal and Political Prognosis for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on January 08, 2009
Helen M. Alvare has this commentary at the Culture of Life Foundation that concludes: President Obama may decide to issue an executive order opening the funding floodgates for ESCR, early in his presidency.  It is a way of throwing red meat to his base supporters, and distracting observers from the difficult problems inherent in our economy [...

Canadian arrests trigger probable polygamy challenge

Posted on January 08, 2009
. . . Canadian authorities arrested two religious leaders in Bountiful, British Columbia on charges of polygamy . . . British Columbia's Attorneys General have feared that the laws will not survive a challenge under the religious freedom guarantee of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Title VII Claim Against Orthodox Jewish Organization Dismissed

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Wechsler v. Orthodox Union, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105780 (SD NY, Jan. 5, 2009), a New York federal district court dismissed a Title VII religious discrimination and retaliation complaint brought against the Orthodox Union ...

Ohio: Clermont library settles Bible lawsuit

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Cincinnai Enquirer reports: The Clermont County Public Library has settled a lawsuit with a couple barred from holding a free financial planning seminar because they intended to quote the Bible . . . The library will pay $10,000 to David R. Langdon and other attorneys for the Vandergriffs, who filed the suit in U...

Burris Unbanished: Democrats receive a lesson in Constitutional law.

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports: “Majority Leader Harry Reid reversed course yesterday and prepared to abide by the law and welcome Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. There’s no final deal yet, but it looks like the man appointed by disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will soon be seated...

NPR: ?Calif. Attorney General Pushes To Overturn Prop 8?

Posted on January 08, 2009
NPR carries this audio segment that runs just under 5 minutes. Visit Site » Share This

NPR: ?Gay Marriage: Is It The ?Right Fight???

Posted on January 08, 2009
NPR considers the question: “Political commentators Jasmyne Cannick and Andrew Sullivan debate the issue, along with journalist Michael Sean Winters and long time gay activist Alexander Robinson.” Visit Site » Share This

U.S. Supreme Court may consider Obama eligibility issue

Posted on January 08, 2009
WorldNetDaily reports: A legal challenge that alleges Barack Obama isn’t a “natural born” citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president of the United States will follow the Democrat into the Oval Office, with a U...

Abortion and Euthanasia: The Difference Between a ?Right? and a ?Liberty?

Posted on January 08, 2009
The legalization of voluntary euthanasia would surely further erode the bonds holding the human community together?bonds already seriously eroded by public policy granting women the abortion liberty and denying to the unborn the protection their lives deserve.

Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new global order

Posted on January 08, 2009
AP reports: “The head of Europe’s biggest economy said Thursday that world leaders should be looking at the massive U.S. deficit and other economic imbalances, not just problems caused by financial markets, as they debate a new global order ...

Bill to redefine marriage reintroduced in Vermont

Posted on January 08, 2009
WCAX.com reports: “Now Vermont could be on the cusp of becoming the next state to grant same-sex couples the right to marry. Senator John Campbell, D-Quechee, has introduced a bill that would do just that. It also grants religious institutions the right to deny performing the marriages ...

Laptops in law class may give students an edge

Posted on January 08, 2009
The National Law Journal reports: To the chagrin of some law professors, the clickety-click of laptops in the classroom may be here to stay. So suggests a national study released today by Indiana University that found that law school students who used their laptops in class were highly engaged in classroom activities...

Support For Death With Dignity Law Grows Among Medical Groups

Posted on January 08, 2009
The ACSBlog carries this post that reports:  “The American Public Health Association (APHA) has announced its new position that it ’supports allowing a mentally competent, terminally ill adult to obtain prescriptions for medication that the person could self-administer to control the time, place and manner of her or his impending death, whereas safeguards equivalent to [...

Pepsi responds to AFA inquiry about support of the homosexual agenda

Posted on January 08, 2009
The American Family Association has posted the exchange of letters between the two organizations in connection with Pepsi’s recent 1/2 million dollar donation to Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gay. Visit Site » Share This

Utah: Conservative trio to wait on abortion ban

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune: Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman . . . is working with Rep. Ken Sumsion, R-American Fork, and Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, on a bill that would bar abortions except in the case of rape, incest or permanent physical harm to the woman...

Walking in a demographic winter wonderland

Posted on January 08, 2009
Jennifer Roback Morse writes on Mercatornet: Why are people averting their eyes from the coming collapse of population growth? . . . Demographic Winter is an independently produced film describing the consequences of the population collapse of industrialized countries...

Colorado: ?Grand Junction strip club will be strip club, booze or no booze, owner says?

Posted on January 08, 2009
The Grand Junction Free Press: “If the city of Grand Junction prohibits a gentleman?s club in north Grand Junction from serving alcohol, the owner said he?ll follow state law and allow women to dance fully nude and invite patrons 18 and older to watch ...

Modern-day slavery

Posted on January 08, 2009
LA Times: “The business of buying and selling and indenturing human beings has, of course, been updated. Now it’s done with phony documents and computer records and false identities. But it’s still the slave trade. The Department of Justice estimates that 14,000 to 17,000 people are brought into the United States as slaves each year [...

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