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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 18:15:31

Russia?s trend for dipping children in frozen rivers

Posted on March 22, 2011
BBC: When an amateur video of a screaming, naked boy being plunged by a priest into an ice hole in Siberia appeared on the web, it caused a massive outcry in the Russian media and blogosphere.

Kansas Senate panel passes parental consent and fetal pain abortion bills

Posted on March 22, 2011
KTKA.com: The fetal pain bill is patterned after a Nebraska law. It says that after the 21st week of pregnancy, abortions would be allowed only to prevent the mother's death or substantial and permanent harm to her physical health.

Travis Barham: ?Standing at the Supreme Court: When Can Students Challenge Speech Codes??

Posted on March 22, 2011
ADF attorney Travis Barham at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: Standing. For most people, it is something they mastered when they were about one or two years old. For lawyers, it is a migraine-inducing set of legal doctrines that dictates whether someone has the right to bring a lawsuit in federal court ...

Erik Stanley: ?Illegally Taxed Arizona Church Sues to Prevent Foreclosure?

Posted on March 22, 2011
ADF attorney Erik Stanley at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog (includes video): The Church?s story in this case is truly remarkable. The County had no basis to assess the property taxes against the Church in the first place and the Church faces the very real prospect of losing everything because the County refuses to correct its own wrongdoing...

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Gary McCaleb: ?Military To Chaplains: Reconsider Your Calling?

Posted on March 22, 2011
ADF attorney Gary McCaleb at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: That is why ADF and its allied attorneys just filed a ?friend of the court? brief in the Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America case, to inform the court that changing the law will risk the religious freedom of chaplains and service members...

Exodus Responds to Apple Petition to Pull ?Gay Cure? App

Posted on March 22, 2011
Christian Post: The Christian group, under fire by gay rights activists for the so-called "gay cure" app, responded to the controversy Monday, saying its Apple app is being grossly misrepresented.

UK: Sex education materials should be licensed, says MP

Posted on March 22, 2011
The Christian Institute: Sex education resources should be licensed to ensure they are age-appropriate, an MP has said, following concern among parents about ?inappropriate? materials. Andrea Leadsom?s comments come in the same month that a report by The Christian Institute highlighted shocking resources being pushed by public bodies for use in schools.

China denies obstructing Google?s Gmail service

Posted on March 22, 2011
Guardian: "Chinese authorities have dismissed Google claims that they are to blame for technical problems with the country's Gmail service."

UK: Foreign students to be cut by 25 per cent

Posted on March 22, 2011
Independent: "The number of foreign students and their dependants coming to Britain could be cut by around 100,000 a year under plans."

Florida: Abortion ultrasound measure advances in House

Posted on March 22, 2011
NBC-2.com: Women seeking an abortion are already required in Florida to have an ultrasound in the second or third trimester but not in the first. The measure (HB 1127) would extend that requirement to the first trimester . . .

?Trans Rights Group: Montana Bill Banning LGBT Work Protections Unconstitutional?

Posted on March 22, 2011
Care2.com: "The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) is urging Montana lawmakers to vote down a bill that would not only repeal a Missoula LGBT-inclusive employment protections law but would forbid Montana cities from enacting similar ordinances in the future...

Cleveland: Planned Parenthood rallies to continue getting taxpayer money

Posted on March 22, 2011
PRWeb: The supporters will gather for a ?Stand with Planned Parenthood? rally to call on their elected officials to reject the extreme proposal that would bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding for preventive health care, including lifesaving cancer screenings, family planning, birth control, and testing for sexually transmitted infections, as well as Medicaid.

Planned Parenthood asks for Hoosier help this week

Posted on March 22, 2011
Kathleen Quilligan writes at NWITimes: "According to a statement from Planned Parenthood of Indiana, the organization is asking Indiana residents to ask their elected officials to reject state and federal legislation that would prevent it from receiving federal funding...

Planned Parenthood Wins Over Another Republican

Posted on March 22, 2011
Wall Street Journal: "Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown on Tuesday became the latest Republican to express support for continued federal funding of Planned Parenthood, which has become a target for socially conservative GOP budget cutters in the House."

Baby Joseph gets tracheotomy, will be able to go home

Posted on March 22, 2011
LifeSiteNews: "Joseph Maraachli, who had been set to have his ventilator removed against his parents? wishes at an Ontario hospital last month, received a tracheotomy Monday morning and is doing well, says his family."

SD governor signs 3-day wait for abortion into law

Posted on March 22, 2011
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (DOO'-gahrd) has signed into law a bill requiring women to wait 72 hours before having an abortion. It's the longest waiting period in the nation.

OR: Strip Clubs Laws In Question

Posted on March 22, 2011
KBND.com: "A proposal in the Oregon Legislature would send a question to voters: should communities be able to zone neighborhoods to block strip clubs and adult businesses?"

Phyllis Schlafly: Education Spending Has a Simple Solution

Posted on March 22, 2011
Phyllis Schlafly writes at Townhall: As the new Republican House majority wrestles with ways to cut our unsustainable budget deficit, Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet. On March 14, he said, "We cannot cut education." But why not? If we are going to cut programs that are proven to have failed to achieve their goals, federal spending on education should be at the top of the list.

Does the Minnesota Medical Association Support Human Cloning?

Posted on March 22, 2011
David Prentice writes at LifeNews: So, does the Minnesota Medical Association support the idea of gestating human clones to birth? That?s what their press release a few days ago suggested. But their 2010 policy book states that while MMA supports cloning human embryos for experiments, MMA opposes gestating cloned human embryos to birth (see item 560...

California Bans Christian Song in Talent Show, Then Changes Policy

Posted on March 22, 2011
Gather News: esus. How many times should the word Jesus be sung in a song to not be a violation? Once? Three times? Who knows? But the boy wanted to dance to his favorite song, so his mother apparently contacted the Alliance Defense Fund, who filed a lawsuit on their behalf...

Baptist Press: Abortion rights supporters find new target: crisis pregnancy centers

Posted on March 22, 2011
Michael Foust writes at Baptist Press: Matt Bowman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, told Baptist Press that pro-choicers want to "shut down the real help and hope that pregnancy centers offer women." ADF, a pro-life legal group, filed a suit against New York March 18...

Jeff Shaffer: ?We hate you. Now give us your kids so that we can turn them against you.?

Posted on March 22, 2011
ADF attorney Jeff Shaffer writes at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: The monopoly authority to centrally influence how young people understand the world is quite a prize. As we have explored in past posts (see, e.g., here and here), the idea of the religious neutrality of secularism is a myth...

?Majority of U.S. Catholics back gay rights in survey?

Posted on March 22, 2011
Reuters: ?The big finding here is that American Catholics are at least 5 points more supportive than the general population across a range of gay and lesbian issues,? said Robert Jones, chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute, which conducted telephone surveys of 3,000 Americans.

Cambodia bans foreign men over 50 marrying local women

Posted on March 22, 2011
Telegraph: "Cambodia has banned foreign men over the age of 50 marrying local women in an effort to combat sham marriages and human trafficking."

AB 32: California ?Cap And Trade? Program Suspended By Judge

Posted on March 22, 2011
Huffington Post: "San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith ruled Friday that state air quality regulators failed to properly consider alternatives to their so-called cap-and-trade program, a key piece of California's landmark global warming law, AB 32...

Child support: Deadbeat dad is asking Supreme Court for legal help for parents facing jail

Posted on March 22, 2011
Washington Post: A South Carolina father who was repeatedly jailed after insisting he couldn?t make child-support payments of about $50 a week is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to end five states? practice of locking up delinquent parents without providing them with a lawyer.

Texas lawmakers file ?loser pays? bills in House, Senate

Posted on March 22, 2011
LegalNewsLine: "Following the lead of Texas Gov. Rick Perry in support of a loser pays tort reform initiative, two state legislators have filed bills that could make the reforms a reality."

Virginia pushes anew for Supreme Court review of US health care law

Posted on March 22, 2011
Washington Post: The state?s challenge of the nation?s health care law should bypass an appellate court and go directly to the Supreme Court because of the ?crippling uncertainty? a delay imposes upon the states, Virginia?s attorney general argues in a filing to justices.

Dickinson College adding unisex restrooms

Posted on March 22, 2011
NECN.com: The private college is among the first in the midstate to make gender-neutral restrooms available for LGBT staff and students.

NPR: ?Abortion Foes Target Family Planning Program?

Posted on March 22, 2011
NPR: The Title X Family Planning program, established in 1970 with bipartisan support in Congress and signed into law by President Nixon, has been largely noncontroversial. It makes no funds available for abortion, and focuses on what Nixon characterized as the premise that "no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition...

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