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Oklahoma Judge, who decried homosexual agenda, reassigned

Posted on July 28, 2008
NewsOK.com reports: ore than 2,400 criminal cases in Oklahoma County are about to be reassigned, thanks to a controversial order by the county’s presiding judge . . . Robertson said she chose to reassign Graves, who made news recently for decrying the homosexual agenda in proposed rules governing judicial conduct, because he had the least seniority among the judges assigned to [...

WIC Program Blasted for Web Link to Planned Parenthood Abortion Business

Posted on July 28, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Poor women and children need food, health care and education, but the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is coming under fire for giving them abortions instead. The program’s web site features a link to Planned Parenthood, the business that does about 25 percent of U...

Nurse Suing Fort Worth Catholic Charities over Condom Prohibition

Posted on July 28, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: ”The Catholic Charities of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued by the former director of its HIV/AIDS program because the organisation refuses to make condom use a part of its prevention programs.” Visit Site » Share This

Grandmother pleads guilty in Texas child porn case

Posted on July 28, 2008
The AP reports: A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case. The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday that 51-year-old Denise Ward of Overland Park, Kan...

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N.J. lawmakers push for porn filters on computers

Posted on July 28, 2008
The AP reports: Legislative leaders sought to install filters to block inappropriate material from being viewed on state computers two days after a veteran assemblyman’s computer was seized for containing child pornography. The leaders released a statement Friday saying they want “the most aggressive Internet filtering software available on all computers in the Legislature...

Roberts Can Do Better Than Consensus

Posted on July 28, 2008
Law Professor Scott Gerber has this commentary in the Wall Street Journal that concludes: “In short, every ‘great’ chief justice is a player in the game that is constitutional law, not merely an umpire. It’s time for John Roberts to step up to the plate...

The Pope vs. the Pill

Posted on July 28, 2008
John L. Allen, Jr. has this commentary on the NY Times: FORTY years ago last week, Pope Paul VI provoked the greatest uproar against a papal edict in the long history of the Roman Catholic Church when he reiterated the church?s ban on artificial birth control by issuing the encyclical ?Humanae Vitae...

?Same-Sex Spouses Make Progress in New York Toward Securing Health Benefits?

Posted on July 28, 2008
Fox News reports: Opponents believe the New York Civil Liberties Union and others are using the health care fight as just another stepping stone to legalized gay marriage. “It’s evolved from [health care] to more of a demand for recognition,” said Brian Raum, senior legal council for the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative group opposed to gay [...

Knippenberg on CCU v. Weaver

Posted on July 28, 2008
The court found that the state unconstitutionally discriminated against students attending Colorado Christian University (CCU) and Naropa University, denying them aid because they were allegedly ?pervasively sectarian? institutions.

European court to hear Irish women?s challenge to abortion ban

Posted on July 28, 2008
The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear a challenge by three Irish women to the Government?s ban on abortion on the basis that their rights were denied by being forced to terminate their pregnancies outside the State.

The 10 Commandments for Classy Girls

Posted on July 28, 2008
Doug Giles has this article on Townhall. He writes: As you well know, our toady media has made being a whore all the rage for our young daughters. They?re pushing our kids?on multiple cultural fronts?to be ?empowered? sexual beastesses, and this is in spite of the plague-like spike in STDs which are saddling our kids ...

Voters worry education mandates may reinforce homosexual agenda

Posted on July 28, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: A pamphlet set to be distributed by the California secretary of state warns voters that if they do not pass Proposition 8 in November to constitutionally define marriage between one man and one woman, thay will face an unexpected consequence: children as young as kindergartent will be subject to mandatory teaching on the virtues [...

The Far Left?s War on Direct Democracy

Posted on July 28, 2008
John Fund writes on the Wall Street Journal: A total of 24 states allow voters to change laws on their own by collecting signatures and putting initiatives on the ballot. It’s healthy that the entrenched political class should face some real legislative competition from initiative-toting citizens...

?Same Sex Marriage Affects Everyone?

Posted on July 28, 2008
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse has produced a four part lecture series on the question of marriage redefinition. The Ruth Institute provides this summary: The 4 part training series, ?Same Sex Marriage Affects Everyone.? The complete series will be available as a 4 audio CD set or as a 2 video DVD set...

The Greatest Scandal - Obama, McCain and School Choice

Posted on July 28, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports: The profound failure of inner-city public schools to teach children may be the nation’s greatest scandal. The differences between the two Presidential candidates on this could hardly be more stark. John McCain is calling for alternatives to the system; Barack Obama wants the kids to stay within that system...

Scalia Takes to the Stage to Make Case for Better Advocacy

Posted on July 28, 2008
Tony Mauro reports on the Legal Times: Before a sizable crowd of lawyers and law students at Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and co-author Bryan Garner held forth on Friday in what had to be one of the most unusual continuing legal education courses of all time...

California: Ballot description for same-sex marriage measure changed

Posted on July 27, 2008
The AP reports: “The ballot title and summary now describe the initiative as a constitutional change to eliminate the right of same sex couples to marry.” Visit Site » Share This

Fla. Federal Court: Students? pro-homosexual speech must be allowed in schools

Posted on July 25, 2008
". . . the principal grilled her about being a lesbian, told her that being a lesbian is 'not right,' demanded her parents? phone number so he could call them to out her . . ."

The Anniversary of Humanae Vitae

Posted on July 25, 2008
Joseph Bottum has this commentary in First Things. He writes: . . . Paul VI issued four general prophecies in Humanae Vitae, and on about all four of them, he seems to have been right. He said, for instance, that universal acceptance of contraception would have the social consequence of creating men who had lost all respect [...

Jan LaRue: Courts Can?t Cope with COPA

Posted on July 25, 2008
Jan LaRue has this article on the Culture and Media Institute site. She writes: After nearly 10 years of litigation including three appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, two in the U.S. Supreme Court, and a full trial on the merits, judges have told Congress that the people?s elected representatives can?t [...

Priests still suffering from effects of Humanae Vitae dissenters, Vatican cardinal says

Posted on July 25, 2008
CNA reports: “Today marks the 40th anniversary of the often debated papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church?s teaching against contraception. Looking back at the events as he experienced them, Cardinal James Francis Stafford writes that the reaction by dissenters to the papal document involved a level of infidelity which [...

ADF attorney: Slidell shouldn?t have to pay ACLU anything

Posted on July 25, 2008
The St. Tammany News reports: [Mike] Johnson, who works for the Alliance Defense Fund, an organization that defends cases involving religious freedoms, said Lemelle?s ruling was a ?hollow victory? for the ACLU and didn?t think Slidell should have to pay anything...

Vatican spokesman condemns open letter to the Pope as ?paid propaganda?

Posted on July 25, 2008
CNA reports: It is ?paid propaganda to promote the use of contraceptives? said Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi today as he harshly criticized an “open letter to the Pope,” which was run as a paid advertisement in the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera”...

Muslims Adopt Megachurch Multi-Site Model for Mosques

Posted on July 25, 2008
The Christian Post reports: Mosques are multiplying across the country and their inspiration may come as a bit of a surprise ? Christian megachurches. Similar to many megachurches, new mosques are popping up as extension campuses to a main mosque with the stated goal of making it more convenient for Muslims in an area to worship...

Pope speaks to Iraqi leader on religious freedom

Posted on July 25, 2008
CWNews reports: “Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki met with Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) on July 25 at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.. Pope Benedict underscored his concern about the Christian minority in Iraq during the conversation...

San Francisco Chronicle: ?Prop. 8 backers take fight to kindergarten?

Posted on July 25, 2008
Bob Egelko reports on the San Francisco Chronicle: “If the gay marriage ruling is not overturned, teachers will be required to teach young children there is no difference between gay marriage and traditional marriage,” supporters of Proposition 8 said in ballot arguments that went on public display this week at the secretary of state’s office...

Depending on who wins the presidency, the Supreme Court could turn sharply to the right or see its first crusading liberal justice in many years.

Posted on July 25, 2008
Stuart Taylor has this article in the National Journal that begins: “Among the starkest contrasts between John McCain and Barack Obama is the dramatic difference in their promised approaches to judicial appointments, especially to the closely divided Supreme Court...

The United States Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearings on Polygamy Crimes: What Needs to Be Done at the Federal Level to Protect Children from Abuse and Neglect

Posted on July 25, 2008
Marci Hamilton has this article on Findlaw. She begins: The tide is turning in favor of protecting children in polygamous communities ? as several new developments evidence. First, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the crimes that occur in polygamous communities today...

Abortion and Mental Health: Does the American Psychological Association know the difference between science and ideology?

Posted on July 25, 2008
The good guys use good methods and the bad guys use the ?trappings of science? and are being sneaky by ?getting published in mainstream journals.?

Kansas: Will Kline survive media onslaught?

Posted on July 25, 2008
WorldNetDaily has this report that opens with this Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final part of a series looking at District Attorney Phill Kline’s battle with the powerful Kansas abortion lobby and Planned Parenthood. Read Part 1, “Kansas bleeds once more,” Part 2, “Targeting an ‘anti-choice extremist,’” Part 3, “Pro-life Kline refuses to [...

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