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21 arrested in NYC strip club prostitution bust

Posted on July 21, 2008
Newsday reports: A lawyer and 20 others associated with a Manhattan strip club have been arrested after authorities said the club featured high-priced prostitution. Manhattan prosecutors say the defendants worked for the Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street...

Oxford professor warns of increasing opposition to Christianity

Posted on July 21, 2008
Christian Today reports: “History has come full circle and Christianity is seen once more simply as one among a plethora of competing alternatives, all of which are regarded by an increasing number of influential intellectuals as dangerous,” stated Oxford professor Dr John Lennox at this year’s Keswick Convention...

Truth Truck ?Held Hostage? at St. Louis Planned Parenthood

Posted on July 21, 2008
Operationa Rescue has issued this press release on the Christian Newswire. It begins: “Operation Rescue’s Truth Truck, driven by Mark Gietzen, caused a stir the St. Louis Planned Parenthood abortion mill on Saturday, July 19, 2008, when he drove onto their parking lot and parked near the front door as abortion-bound women entered the facility...

N.Y. AG pushes Comcast to block child-porn access

Posted on July 21, 2008
The AP reports: “New York’s attorney general notified Comcast Corp. on Monday that the state will take legal action if the company — the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider — doesn’t agree to eliminate access to child pornography...

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McCain Takes Obama to Task on Abortion, Still Defends Embryo Destroying Research

Posted on July 21, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: In a conference call with journalists, Frank Donatelli, deputy chair of the Republican National Committee, was asked to explain McCain’s ignorance of these major scientific and medical advances of adult research and his continued support for embryonic research...

Ohio Judge Admits She?s Never Denied Teens? Abortion Bypass Request

Posted on July 21, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Several states have dealt with the problem of judges routinely approving requests for a judicial bypass so teens can get abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Now, an Ohio judge has admitted she’s never denied a single request from a teen to get around the parental involvement law...

Comatose Man Jesse Ramirez Almost Euthanasia Victim, Now Enjoys Life

Posted on July 21, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Jesse Ramirez was badly injured in an automobile accident in May 2007 and nearly became a victim of euthanasia when his wife made the decision to have [...]

San Francisco to vote on prosecuting prostitutes

Posted on July 21, 2008
The AP reports: “A measure that aims to keep prostitutes from facing criminal charges has qualified for the November ballot in San Francisco.” Visit Site » Share This

The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline

Posted on July 21, 2008
In truth, all the talk, from the eighteenth century on, of the United States as a religious nation was really just a make-nice way of saying it was a Christian nation?and even to call it a Christian nation was usually just a soft and ecumenical attempt to gloss over the obvious fact that the United States was, at its root, a Protestant nation.

Jordan Lorence on the Greg Knapp Experience: Counselor fired for referring case involving same-sex relationship

Posted on July 21, 2008
ADF attorney Jordan Lorence appeared on the Greg Knapp Experience to discuss the case of a mental health counselor, who was fired for refusing to counsel in a case involving a same sex relationship. The mp3 file is here and runs just over 9 minutes. Related: Ga...

Lowered Fertility Rates

Posted on July 21, 2008
The IdiotProgrammer Blog carries this post that includes this: “. . .� in 1960, 70 percent of American 25-year-old women were married with children; in 2000, only 25 percent of them were.” Visit Site » Share This

As Arizona goes, so goes the Nation: How medicaid ruined the states? fiscal health

Posted on July 21, 2008
NCPA reports: Arizona’s fiscal crisis is due chiefly to the state’s expansion of its Medicaid programs, says the AEI. Unsurprisingly, Medicaid expenditures constitute an ever-growing share of state expenditures: In 1987, that share amounted to slightly more than 10 percent...

N.H. school unconstitutionally rejects vacation Bible school flyers, permits others

Posted on July 21, 2008
After the Hudson School District refused to allow vacation Bible school flyers to be made available to students as part of the district?s public literature distribution program, Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Monday . . .

Friday Five: Army Capt. David French

Posted on July 21, 2008
Citizen Link has this question and answer interview with ADF attorney David French, who is currently serving in the Army in Iraq. Visit Site » Share This

LA Times: ?Making same-sex marriages count?

Posted on July 21, 2008
When same-sex couples wed in California and Massachusetts, they do so believing that their marriage licenses mean that their relationships finally count in the eyes of the state. Unfortunately, they won't count in the eyes of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Yale Law Journal: ?Home Schooling? in California

Posted on July 21, 2008
Parental and student choice should be encouraged, as they are with independent study or charter schools, to allow freedom from the limitations of the regular classroom.

Emerging trend toward swing culture?

Posted on July 21, 2008
"All that's changing is that society's willing to look at it less judgmentally. People are now willing to say that their own sex lives are not as clean as the driven snow; that this takes place among upper-middle-class people, and there doesn't seem to be any harmful consequences to society at all...

?Religion, politics shape black views on gay issues ?

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Pew Research Center found in July 2006 that 52 percent of black Protestants consider homosexuality ?just the way that some people prefer to live.? According to the survey, 22 percent of white mainline Protestants say the same.

?Czech minister calls for debate about gay adoption?

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Czech minister for human rights and ethnic minorities has called for a debate on whether the gay partner of a parent should be allowed to adopt his or her child.

Does having children make you happy?

Posted on July 21, 2008
It?s interesting that we?re more willing to do a cost-benefit analysis of having children than to do a cost-benefit analysis of eagerly participating in a culture of narcissism.

Searcy, AR: District for sexually-oriented businesses being proposed

Posted on July 21, 2008
Creating a district in which sexually-oriented businesses would be allowed with the city of Searcy was the subject of a meeting Wednesday afternoon at city hall

Wesley J. Smith: ?Jesse Ramirez: Working Out Instead of Dead?

Posted on July 21, 2008
I have heard from the Jesse Ramirez family--and the news is good.

Quinnipiac Poll: Marriage, abortion, and the death penalty for child rape

Posted on July 21, 2008
Jonathan Adler has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing the results of a recent Quinnipiac poll showing that Americans favor the death penalty for child rape contrary to statements in a recent opinion by Justice Kennedy. Apparently the poll includes questions on marriage and abortion...

GA: Zoning board revokes permit for black ?gay? program

Posted on July 21, 2008
The city of Atlanta?s Zoning Review Board voted unanimously July 10 to revoke the permit of a Grant Park facility that was licensed to provide transitional housing for people living with HIV/AIDS, but which has instead been operating as a drop-in community center for black gay youth.

3rd Circuit strikes fine against CBS for Janet Jackson Super Bowl nudity

Posted on July 21, 2008
"In finding CBS liable for a forfeiture penalty, the FCC arbitrarily and capriciously departed from its prior policy excepting fleeting broadcast material from the scope of actionable indecency."

Floridians to vote on fair funding - repeal of Blaine Amendment

Posted on July 21, 2008
Jeff Johnson reports on OneNewsNow.com: Gary McCaleb, senior counsel with the�Alliance Defense Fund, says the prohibition has a sordid past . . . In November, Florida voters will cast their vote on Ballot Initiative 7, deciding�whether�to repeal the prohibition on religious institutions receiving public funds for secular activities...

Court Upholds Prison Porn Law

Posted on July 21, 2008
Jeff Johnson reports on OneNewsNow: Under the 1996 Ensign Amendment, federal tax dollars cannot be used to pay a prison employee to deliver porn to inmates, even if the prisoner requested and paid for the material.� A federal district court in Denver recently denied a challenge to the law –�and Pat Trueman, special counsel for the�Alliance [...

New Orleans: 1,250 families apply for private school vouchers

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Times-Picayune reports: “About 1,250 families have applied for the state’s first school voucher program, seeking mainly to enroll children in kindergarten classes in Orleans and Jefferson parishes’ private and parochial schools, state education officials said Saturday...

Congress To Fund Forced Abortions Overseas

Posted on July 21, 2008
Concerned Women for America reports: This week Congress voted to allow funding of organizations that promote and perform abortions in other countries, and organizations involved in forced abortions. A Senate Committee and a House Subcommittee approved a bill that undermines two long-standing amendments that ensure U...

When Worlds Collide: The Seige of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Battle for the Center of the World

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Wall Street Journal carries John Julian Norwich’s review of Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley.� The review begins: “In all European history, there is no more stirring story than that of the long struggle between Christianity and Islam for mastery of the Mediterranean...

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