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Pittsburgh Mayor signs domestic partner registry

Posted on June 23, 2008
Thepittsburghchannel.com reports: “Mayor Luke Ravenstahl signed Legislation creating a new domestic partner registry in the city of Pittsburgh. The mayor signed the measure Saturday during the city’s Gay Pride Parade downtown.” Visit Site » Share This

4th Circuit: School messaging system not a public form

Posted on June 23, 2008
The opinion in Page v. Lexington County School District One, No. 06-1697 (4th Cir. June 23, 2008) begins: Lexington County School District One, a “body politic and corporate” under South Carolina law, used its website, e-mail, and other forms of communication to urge opposition to the Put Parents In Charge Act, a bill pending in the [...

Va. says groom and ?bride? deceived local officials

Posted on June 23, 2008
The AP reports: The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife. It was an unremarkable ceremony ? except that several weeks later, officials realized the shapely bride might not have been a woman...

Alito no fan of Kelo: A new vote for property rights?

Posted on June 23, 2008
SCOTUS Blog reports: The Supreme Court refused on Monday, amid a flurry of orders, to reopen the heated controversy over the power of government to seize private property for a new economic development project, but owners of property appeared to have picked up a potential new ally on the Court...

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Public Opinion and the Embryo Debates

Posted on June 23, 2008
Our political debates about stem cell research in recent years have stood in a peculiar relation to public opinion. Rather than seek to marshal public sentiment, or even quite build public support, all sides have wanted to claim a preexisting bedrock of widely shared attitudes backing their favored policy outcome.

City Journal: Why the ?Gloucester Girls? did it

Posted on June 23, 2008
The dominant narrative may have had some truth to it in the pre?Madonna/Paris Hilton era. But it ignores several key changes in contemporary teenaged life?changes that the Gloucester posse has graciously illustrated for us.

Accommodating Religion at Work: A Principled Approach to Title VII and Religious Freedom

Posted on June 23, 2008
This article examines the problem of balancing several core interests: (1) society's interest in eliminating unfair employment discrimination including discrimination on the basis of religion; (2) an employee's interest in seeking, obtaining, and holding employment free from unfair discrimination; and (3) an employer's interest in the employer's free exercise of religion

?Love for Sale??Sex and the Second American Revolution

Posted on June 23, 2008
The sexual revolution, like most revolutions, has left an array of issues that did not exist before. Some of these are among the most divisive and hotly debated of the day and not surprisingly have found their way into the legal system.

Mexico asks World Court to halt U.S. executions

Posted on June 23, 2008
Reuters reports: Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular assistance. One of the five, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas, which is poised to set execution dates for the others [...

The Role of Candidate Religious Beliefs in Supreme Court Selection Politics

Posted on June 23, 2008
Why might Presidents consider a candidate's religious affiliation or beliefs pertinent to the selection decision? Do Presidents consider religion in selecting a candidate for appointment to the United States Supreme Court?

Circuit Faults Immigration Judge for Homosexual Stereotypes

Posted on June 23, 2008
Mark Hamblett reports on the NY Law Journal: An immigration judge has been pulled from a case for showing apparent bias and making unfounded assumptions about homosexuals. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered that Immigration Judge Alan Vomacka be removed from the case of Peter Conrad Ali ...

?The Gay Goodfellas: Inside the Gill Action Fund, the most effective pro-gay political weapon you never heard of.?

Posted on June 23, 2008
Smith and Guerriero want to get that story out, yes, but they don?t want Gill Action to be a centerpiece of the article, nor do they want any of its internal or external machinations to be revealed . . .

The Moral Judge

Posted on June 23, 2008
This Article contains the preliminary criteria of the moral adjudicator. It outlines their importance first by critiquing the pervasive ?morals versus merits? dichotomy in judicial selection and second by explicating the virtue of open-mindedness in ethics generally and judges specifically.

The Response to California?s Gay Marriage Ruling: How the Losing Side?s Tactics Harken Back to the Fight Over Racial Equality

Posted on June 23, 2008
David Vikram Amar has this commentary on Findlaw in which he writes: . . . Although the analogy between racial minorities on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other, may not be perfect in the marriage context, a majority of California Justices embraced the comparison at least to some extent...

Charles W. Pickering: The Intersection of Personal Convictions and Federal Judicial Selection

Posted on June 23, 2008
My faith, personal beliefs, and convictions were brought under intense scrutiny, despite the fact that the Constitution specifically provides ?no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification? to hold any office.

?For the Sake of the Children: A New Approach to Securing Same-Sex Marriage Rights??

Posted on June 23, 2008
Like no other prior case, the New Jersey Supreme Court focused extensively on the burdens faced by the children of homosexual couples denied the right to marry.

The Unconstitutional Medical Futility Provision of the Texas Advance Directives Act

Posted on June 23, 2008
However, hospitals and doctors should be aware that the ?safe harbor? of legal immunity that Texas offers as an incentive to doctors who make use of the .046 procedure is not as safe as it might appear.

Europe?s anti-Muslim bias

Posted on June 23, 2008
Noah Feldman has a commentary in the New York Times titled: “The New Pariahs.” Feldman discusses European attitudes toward Islam immigration. He writes: “There is something discomfiting about a selective respect that extends to the Roman Catholic Church, with its rejection of homosexuality and women priests, but excludes Islam for its sexism and [...

Court Rejects Challenges To Permit Requirement For Homeless Shelter

Posted on June 23, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Family Life Church v. City of Elgin, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47210 (ND IL, June 18, 2008), an Illinois federal district court rejected a series of challenges by Family Life Church to Elgin, Illinois requirement that it obtain a conditional use permit in order to operate a homeless shelter [...

9th Circuit Again Rejects Challenge To Cal State?s Religious Studies Courses

Posted on June 23, 2008
Religion Clause Blog reports on this ruling: Lafreniere v. Board of Trustees of the California State University, (9th Cir., June 17, 2008). Visit Site » Share This

Odinists Win Right To Group Worship In Prison

Posted on June 23, 2008
Religion Clause Blog reports: “In an interesting prisoner free-exercise decision, an Indiana federal district court has ruled that the Indiana Department of Correction’s policy banning all group worship for Odinists violates RLUIPA. In Hummel v...

ADF: Equality California ?desperate to evade democracy?

Posted on June 20, 2008
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund will fight a new lawsuit filed by Equality California that seeks to prevent California voters from having any say on marriage.

UK: Enforce sex lessons from the age of five

Posted on June 20, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: Speculation is growing that the Government?s answer to record abortion numbers among schoolgirls is to start sex education with five-year-olds and scrap the parental opt-out. Yesterday?s figures showed a 21 per cent leap in abortions for under-14s between 2006 and 2007...

First prosecution under New York?s sex trafficking law

Posted on June 20, 2008
Newsday reports: “A reputed pimp from South Ozone Park has been indicted on a charge of sex trafficking, the first such prosecution under a new state law targeting forced labor, officials said yesterday.” Visit Site » Share This

Islamic school has notorious alumni

Posted on June 20, 2008
One News Now reports: Conservative activists, as well as the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, have called on the State Department to shut down the private school because of its use of textbooks that promote violence against Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims...

?Gay marriage 2008: election sideshow or main event??

Posted on June 20, 2008
Reuters has this report that begins: “This week’s start of gay marriages in California has pushed a hot-button social issue into the U.S. presidential campaign, but will it be a sideshow or a main event?” Visit Site » Share This

?Gay marriage could add $500M to NJ economy, panel told?

Posted on June 20, 2008
The NJ Star-Ledger reports: “New Jersey could boost its economy by more than half a billion dollars over the next three years by promptly legalizing same-sex marriage, a California law professor told a state commission today.” Visit Site » Share This

World population to hit 7 billion in 2012

Posted on June 20, 2008
The AP reports: “The world’s population will reach 7 billion in 2012, even as the global community struggles to satisfy its appetite for natural resources, according to a new government projection.” Visit Site » Share This

Northwestern U. to offer 2-year law program

Posted on June 20, 2008
The AP reports that NorthWest U. Law will become the first “top-tier” school to offer an accelerated 2-year law school program. Visit Site » Share This

Mexican State Legislators Reject Legalization of Abortion

Posted on June 20, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Legislators in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States, have rejected an attempt to decriminalize abortion, according to the news agency Infonorte. The state’s Congress refused to allow the proposed measure to even enter the agenda, according to the agency...

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