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Human-Trafficking Report Ignores Role of Pornography

Posted on June 10, 2008
Citizen Link reports: “The U.S. still produces a majority of the world’s pornography. By not enforcing our own laws against the sale and distribution of obscene pornography, we are complicit in fueling a global industry that sexually exploits and abuses women and children...

Washington Post: ?Faith Lets Some Kids Skip Shots?

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Washington Post reports: . . . Regardless of the reason, the ranks of parents exercising nonmedical exemptions to vaccination are growing, public health officials say. Although the number remains small and involves an estimated 2 to 3 percent of the approximately 3 million children who start kindergarten annually, the trend alarms some experts...

Eugene Volokh: What Next for Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?

Posted on June 10, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing yesterday’s 1st Circuit ruling on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the nature of the split with the 9th Circuit. Will the Supreme Court grant review? Volokh comments: ...

Stop All ?Disparaging Remarks About Gays and Homosexuals?

Posted on June 10, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post discussing the recent ruling by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission in Lund v. Boissoin. See Alliance Alert yesterday’s post: Alberta Pastor Fined $7000 and Ordered to Publicly Apologize for Statements Against Homosexuality Visit Site » Share This

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Advocates of marriage redefinition on post-Cal. strategy: ?Make Change, Not Lawsuits?

Posted on June 10, 2008
"We need to start with states where we have the best odds of winning. When we?ve won in a critical mass of states, we can turn to Congress and the federal courts."

McConnell not satisfied with today?s confirmations

Posted on June 10, 2008
Confirm Them reports: The Senate confirmed three district court nominees today: Mark Davis of Virginia and Stephen Limbaugh and David Kays of Missouri. Sen. McConnell took the opportunity to chastise the Democrats about their obstruction of circuit nominees and to again make good on his pledge to slow down the Senate until the obstruction is eased [...

Nantucket man sentenced to 25 years on child porn charges

Posted on June 10, 2008
The AP reports: A Nantucket man who admitted he filmed himself sexually assaulting at least 30 young girls during annual trips to Southeast Asia over more than a decade was sentenced Tuesday to a 25-year prison term. U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr...

Virginity pledges help some delay sex - US study

Posted on June 10, 2008
Reuters reports: Taking a pledge to remain a virgin until married may help some teens and young adults in delaying the start of sexual activity, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. A study by the Rand Corporation research institute found that 34 percent of youths who took such pledges as teens had had sexual intercourse within three years compared [...

Salvadoran lawmakers unanimous against abortion

Posted on June 10, 2008
CNSNews reports: “All 84 members of the Congress of El Salvador have signed a petition condemning abortion as an ‘abominable crime.’” Visit Site » Share This

Jordan annuls Christian convert?s marriage

Posted on June 10, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: “A Jordanian Islamic law court has annulled the marriage of a former Muslim because of his conversion to Christianity . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

NCPA: Problems with CDC statistics on sexually transmitted disease in girls

Posted on June 10, 2008
The NCPA Policy Digest reports: In March 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease.� This eye-popping statistic made headline news everywhere. Neil Munro of the National Journal investigates the study that led to this statistic and found several serious shortcomings that undermine its [...

NY Times: ?Gay Unions Shed Light on Gender in Marriage?

Posted on June 10, 2008
The NY Times reports: For insights into healthy marriages, social scientists are looking in an unexpected place. A growing body of evidence shows that same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships. Most studies show surprisingly few differences between committed gay couples and committed straight couples, but the differences that do [...

Canada: Strib Clubs seek immigration loopholes due to lack of foreign dancers

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Toronto Star reports: The group representing strip club owners in Ontario is ready to hire a consultant to find loopholes in the rules because their supply of foreign exotic dancers has been cut off for three years. “We’re looking for an above-board alternative pathway” to hire strippers and dancers, Tim Lambrinos, executive director of the Adult [...

ADF defends FCC indecency regulations at U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on June 10, 2008
ADF filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse an appellate court judgment that overturned the Federal Communications Commission?s censure of indecent language . . .

Okla. Gov. vetoes ?Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act?

Posted on June 10, 2008
Tulsa World reports: Henry vetoed House Bill 2633, called the “Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act,” by Sen. James A. Williamson, R-Tulsa, and Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City. The bill stated that “students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their [...

?Media Ignore Impending Collision: Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?

Posted on June 10, 2008
Brian Fitzpatrick reports on The Culture and Media Institute: The current journalistic cover-up of the homosexual activist movement?s assaults on freedom is not the same in degree as covering up the Gulag, but it?s the same in kind. It is an abdication of responsibility and a professional disgrace...

School Apologizes to Muslim Student Over Graduation Held in Church

Posted on June 10, 2008
CNSNews reports: A Muslim student who sued because his public high school graduation ceremony was held in a Baptist church has received an apology from Newark’s school district and assurances that it will not hold future events in houses of worship ...

?Might our religion be killing us?? Religions that encourage large families

Posted on June 10, 2008
Michael Medved interviewed a Southern Baptist minister, Oliver “Buzz” Thomas, who authored this article that appeared in USA Today on April 21, 2008 titled: ‘Might our religion be killing us?‘ Thomas asks: “Is what we preach ? and ultimately, what we believe ? hastening the destruction of our planet? The answer appears to be a resounding [...

Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: What?s Up With OT 2009?

Posted on June 10, 2008
Above the Law reports: At his talk last week before the Federalist Society here in Washington, Justice Antonin Scalia casually alluded to interviewing a clerkship applicant “just the other day.” One could sense the ears of hundreds of summer associates perking up at his passing mention of that coveted clerkship ...

Iowa: Abortion pill worries spark local protest

Posted on June 10, 2008
Spencer Daily Reporter reports: About 50 people gathered in the commons area of the Gateway North Center holding up signs like “Stop RU-486 - It’s a child not a choice,” “Abortion hurts women” and “Adoption the loving option...

NY AG: 3 net providers to block Web sites with child porn

Posted on June 10, 2008
The AP reports: Internet providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to child pornography and eliminate the material from their servers, New York’s attorney general said Tuesday. The companies also will pay $1.1 million to help fund efforts to remove the online child porn created and disseminated by users through their services, [...

Planned Parenthood Targets Native Americans with Abortion

Posted on June 10, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: The American abortion lobby claims to be an equal-opportunity abortion provider, looking out for the needs and wants of all women. Not so. Big Abortion devotes an inordinate amount of attention to Blacks, Hispanics, and Alaska Natives who, in proportion to their population, have the highest abortion rates in America...

Law School Deluge: One Loss, Two Wins in search for accreditation

Posted on June 10, 2008
Legal Blog Watch reports: Last week, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court turned down a petition from Husson College in Bangor to allow graduates of its proposed law school to take the Maine bar exam . . . Meanwhile, two law schools already operating in North Carolina won provisional ABA accreditation this week...

NY: ?The State Adopts New Rules for LGBT Youths in Juvenile Detention?

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Village Voice reports: . . . The new rules, adopted in March by the Office of Children and Family Services, now allow transgender youth to request special housing, wear their hair however they want, be called by their chosen name rather than their legal name, and shower privately...

New Philadelphia police commissioner pushes homosexual agenda

Posted on June 10, 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Philadelphia’s new police commissioner is pushing a more open attitude toward brotherly love in the city. Within his own ranks, Charles H. Ramsey wants to make it safe for gay and lesbian officers to be out of the closet amid a macho culture that, he acknowledges, keeps most of them in hiding ...

Roman Catholics for Obama ?08

Posted on June 10, 2008
There is a psychological-emotional attraction to Obama that goes beyond the traditional reasons explaining why people, Catholics included, support certain candidates.

Bar Association and Sen. Joseph Biden Enlist in War on Dads

Posted on June 10, 2008
Phyllis Schlafly has this article on Townhall. She writes: Dr. Stephen Baskerville’s landmark 2007 book, “Taken into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family” (Cumberland House), poignantly describes how attorneys advise divorced wives seeking child custody to accuse the father of abuse and obtain a restraining order barring him from the family home, knowing [...

Dennis Prager: When I Was a Boy, America Was a Better Place

Posted on June 10, 2008
Dennis Prager writes on Townhall: The day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced, I said to my then-teenage son, “David, please forgive me. I am handing over to you a worse America than my father handed over to me.” Unfortunately, I still feel this way...

What the Summer Associate Needs to Know: Professionalism Is Everything

Posted on June 10, 2008
Thomas J. Coyne reports on the National Law Journal: Professionalism must drive everything an attorney does in his or her legal career. Colleagues expect it, and clients demand it. It is critical that attorneys demonstrate a level of excellence that goes above and beyond commercial considerations and legal requirements...

?Attorneys: Lifting gay marriage ban was landmark decision?

Posted on June 10, 2008
MyDesert.com provides this Q & A with Shannon Minter of the legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights regarding the California marriage ruling. ADF is mentioned in the article. Share This

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