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China nixes international chaplains at the Olympics

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog links to this Canadian Press article reporting that China is not using international sports chaplains at the Olympics as has been the custom, but is selecting its own religious leaders to serve in that capacity. Visit Site » Share This

Texas: Judge awards round to elders in church spat

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Houston Chronicle reports: A long-running dispute between members of Houston’s oldest Korean-American church could be one step closer to resolution after a judge issued a partial ruling in favor of the church’s board of elders. A judge’s decision this month to ban two fired pastors from returning to the church and order them to pay nearly [...

Glen Lavy: Rejecting Marriage Amendment challenge was Cal. court?s only rational option

Posted on July 18, 2008
ADF attorney Glen Lavy has posted this comment in Google News. He begins: “The California Supreme Court?s denial of marriage opponents? request to keep the California marriage amendment off the November ballot was its only rational option.” Visit Site » Share This

Birth Control Extremists: Vascectomy fad among young men for ?liberation?

Posted on July 18, 2008
Men.style.com reports: “Young, single men terrified of unwanted pregnancies, and sick of condoms, are turning to vasectomies for liberation.” The article concludes: . . . there are rumblings of experiments in China with a simple surgical procedure in which tubes are added to and removed from the vas deferens, which would allow for fully reversible infertility...

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?Connecticut Court Orders Birth Certificate Listing Only Gay Dads in Gestational Surrogacy Case?

Posted on July 18, 2008
Leonard Link reports: Judge Lloyd Cutsumpas, of the Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, ordered that two gay men from New York who contracted with a Connecticut woman to be their ?gestational surrogate? are entitled to have only their names listed as parents on the final birth certificate to be issued upon the birth of their child...

Nebraska: Judy argues teen?s nudity protected by law

Posted on July 18, 2008
News-Press Online reports: “During court Thursday, no one denied that a 17-year-old got on stage at Shotgun Geniez and danced fully nude twice the night of July 21, 2007. The pivotal question was whether or not that was permissible under the Iowa law that exempts theaters, concert halls, art centers, museums, or similar establishments from [...

Court: Atheist organization can?t sue over treatment center for troubled children

Posted on July 18, 2008
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4613 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT July 18, 2008 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom Court: Atheist organization can?t sue over treatment center for troubled children Federal judge dismisses suit filed against N...

NC: ?Bullying bill dies over gay controversy?

Posted on July 18, 2008
" . . . the measure was sent back to committee, where it is likely to stay as the legislature works to finish this year's session."

Christians do not need to fear Islamic take-over in UK, says Interserve head

Posted on July 18, 2008
Quoting Steve Bell, the National Director of Interserve and “expert on Muslim issues”, Christian Today reports: “The West is now the crucible in which Islam is being openly debated and modified for the 21st century. I suggest the outcome of the debate in this country that is going on between Muslims could well affect the [...

Mike Johnson on Vicki McKenna: The Growing Threat to Religious Freedom

Posted on July 18, 2008
ADF attorney Mike Johnson appeared on the Vicki McKenna show to discuss the growing threats to Religious Freedom. The mp3 file is here and runs just under 20 minutes. Visit Site » Share This

Ga. Pro-Lifers Encouraged by County?s Support of ?Personhood Amendment?

Posted on July 18, 2008
The Christian Post reports: Georgia pro-lifers were encouraged Tuesday after residents of the state?s fastest growing county voted overwhelmingly in support of an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that would grant the paramount right to life to ?each human being from the moment of fertilization until a natural death...

Indiana: Judge accepts deal in sex shop dispute

Posted on July 18, 2008
The PlainfieldStar.com reports: Attorneys for Plainfield and the operator of the Hot Temptations lingerie modeling shop have agreed that the shop can stay open but without adult novelties and services. The shop opened in early June without a license but a judge ordered it closed after the town sought an injunction...

Texas: Bible Electives Pass State Board

Posted on July 18, 2008
The Free Market Foundation has issued this press release that begins: In response to the Texas State Board of Education?s (10-5) vote today to approve curriculum standards and TEKS (requirements) for Bible electives offered in Texas high schools, Free Market Foundation?s Director of Legislative Affairs, Jonathan Saenz states: ?Elective Bible courses now have the final green light [...

California: Judge Strikes City?s Combined Sexually Oriented Business Ordinance

Posted on July 18, 2008
A federal judge has again ruled that a Los Angeles city ordinance banning more than one sex-related business from operating under the same roof violates the First Amendment.

Oklahoma AG Supports Effort to Limit Child Pornography

Posted on July 18, 2008
The agreement will allow Internet service providers to access NCMEC?s database of web sites identified as containing child pornography. The providers can use this information to ensure that no such site is hosted on servers owned or controlled by any NCTA member company.

Concordia U Plans to Open New Law School in Boise, Idaho

Posted on July 18, 2008
The ABA Journal reports: “The capital city of Idaho will have at least one law school in the foreseeable future, as a private Oregon-based university makes formal plans to create one and a state university apparently may see its future there, too...

?Lesbian Appeals Firing From Publicly-Funded Baptist Group Home In Kentucky?

Posted on July 18, 2008
The ACLU has issued this press release that reports: “The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a brief today in a federal appeals court urging the court to allow a discrimination lawsuit to go forward on behalf of a lesbian who was fired from [...

Senate agrees to triple anti-AIDS funding

Posted on July 18, 2008
The AP reports: “The 80-16 vote committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched by the United States.” Visit Site » Share This

Ovulation control gene discovered

Posted on July 18, 2008
Healthzone.ca reports: “Montreal researchers have discovered the gene that controls ovulation, opening the door to potential new contraceptives and infertility treatments.” Visit Site » Share This

McCain hasn?t ignited the passions of evangelicals

Posted on July 18, 2008
The AP reports: In the ongoing AP-Yahoo News Poll, only 10 percent of white evangelical Christians say they are excited by this election, compared with 20 percent of Americans overall. A third of these evangelicals said they were interested in the election, but half said they were frustrated by it...

The Rapid Decline of the New York Times

Posted on July 18, 2008
Thomas Lifson has this report on the Real Clear Politics site reporting on the financial decline of the NY Times. Visit Site » Share This

United Nations Pressures Lithuania, Slovakia, Others to Promote Abortion

Posted on July 18, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “In the most recent session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) meetings in New York, committee members pressed countries on abortion [...]

The Physiology of Motherhood: Studies Show ?Natural High? in Brains of Mothers Looking at Their babies

Posted on July 18, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Recent brain imaging studies conducted in The Human Neuro-imaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas show that a mother is triggered physiologically by as little as a picture of her child.” The article also discusses the inference that abortion would have the opposite effect...

New Book Cites US and UN-Manufactured Scares over Population Growth

Posted on July 18, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: In the new book ” Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population,” Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly shows how the population control movement created “future projections as evidence” of overpopulation, then justified “casualties” in the war on population caused by coercive methods...

A Swiss ?Extremist? Against Islamic Law

Posted on July 18, 2008
Diana West has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: “Explain the minaret ban,” I asked . . . Discussing the “long progression” of Islam — now 4.3 percent of Switzerland’s mainly Christian population of 7.5 million — into Swiss life, he explains that what concerns him is “not the (Islamic) religion, but the law,” meaning Islamic law, [...

Eugene Volokh: Islamic agreements in civil courts, an Ohio ruling and more

Posted on July 18, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy. He discusses several recent cases involving the intersection of family law and religious freedom (eg. Islamic and Jewish divorces or dowries). He concludes: . . . . There are indeed reasons why civil courts may not enforce certain contracts, for instance when enforcing the contract requires interpretation [...

The Natural Right of Self Defense

Posted on July 18, 2008
Jim Lindgren has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy Blog discussing the recent 2nd Amendment ruling by the Supreme Court. The debate has now turned to the scope of the right even in the face of new D.C. gun registration laws. So, why is this in the Sanctity of Life category on ADF’s Alliance Alert? [...

Rethinking the Procreative Right

Posted on July 18, 2008
It posits that the procreative right, properly stated, includes at least the act of replacing oneself and at most procreation up to a point that optimizes the public good.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.: Authority Issues?Is There Sovereignty Beyond the State?

Posted on July 18, 2008
. . . one could, without doing violence to the overall theory, conclude that sovereignty (to the extent we wish to make use of this concept) in the final analysis resides in the family, the primordial unit of the Althusian apparatus.

Becket Fund: Presidential candidates should support law to protect Americans from foreign defamation judgements

Posted on July 18, 2008
The Becket Fund has issued this press release that begins: Angela C. Wu, international law director at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, today (July 17, 2008) challenged U.S. presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to support legislation currently before Congress that is designed to protect Americans from defamation judgments of foreign courts that [...

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