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Church of England: Government Favors Islam

Posted on June 10, 2008
The British government's "deep religious illiteracy" is failing society as it discriminates against Christian churches and favors other faiths, including Islam, the Church of England fires off in its strongest attack on the government in decades.

The Founding Fathers on Creation and Evolution

Posted on June 10, 2008
Wallbuilders has posted this article by David Barton. He writes: While uninformed laymen erroneously believe the theory of evolution to be a product of Charles Darwin in his first major work of 1859 (The Origin of Species), the historical records are exceedingly clear that the evolution-creation-intelligent design debate was largely formulated well before the birth [...

?Thick Instrumentalism and Comparative Constitutionalism: The Case of Gay Rights?

Posted on June 10, 2008
The paper intervenes in the burgeoning field of comparative constitutionalism. Adopting comparative constitutional research on gay rights as a case study, it addresses the scholarship that comparative constitutionalists are producing, including the methodology and underlying assumptions about constitutions.

Obama reaches out to Clinton?s homosexual supporters

Posted on June 10, 2008
In his remarks, Hildebrand emphasized Obama?s ?rock solid commitment to gay equality.?

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Conservatives and Science

Posted on June 10, 2008
Conservatism has often had a hard time with science. One obvious reason is that many scientific findings can create technological changes, which in turn can upend traditional social arrangements. Conservatives value these arrangements, and so resist the findings.

1st Circuit: ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? policy is constitutional

Posted on June 09, 2008
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4552 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE June 9, 2008 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom 1st Circuit: ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? policy is constitutional ADF, NLF filed friend-of-the-court brief arguing policy must not be struck down BOSTON ? The U...

Britain?s Cardinal O?Connor Will Defy Law Forcing Homosexual Adoption

Posted on June 09, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: The Westminster Catholic Children’s Society, founded in 1764 and whose current president is Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, will continue its policy of placing children only with married heterosexuals and single people, in defiance of the British government’s homosexual equality laws...

Harvard Doctors Failed to Disclose Fees, Senator Says

Posted on June 09, 2008
Bloomberg reports: “Harvard Medical School doctors who helped pioneer the use of psychiatric drugs in children violated U.S. government and school rules by failing to properly disclose at least $3.2 million from drugmakers led by Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly & Co...

?Churches Renamed to Escape Stigma Some Say ?Baptist? Carries?

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Washington Post reports: . . . Even the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant group in the country, whose 16 million membership has declined in recent years, has hosted church-naming seminars asking the question, “To Baptist or Not to Baptist?” The convention meets this week to consider a 10-year program designed to stem the membership loss [...

Parents Rally in Albany Against Forced Vaccination

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Vaccine Awakening Blog reports: “Parents will rally in Albany, NY on Tuesday, June 10, to protest a vaccine bill (AB10942) that would mandate the 69 doses of 16 vaccines the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends for all children through age 18 plus would automatically mandate all new vaccines federal officials recommend in the [...

Ireland: MP reported to police over ?gay? comments

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: An MP from Northern Ireland has been reported to the police for expressing her religious beliefs on homosexual practice. Iris Robinson, DUP MP for Strangford, was speaking on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show on Friday...

National Leader Takes on Barnes and Noble for exposing minors to ?gay porn?

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Christian Newswire reports: “On June 5th, my eleven year old son joined me in a visit to our local Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Collierville, TN. I was horrified at what my son saw. Open on a table was a very large, full-color, picture book displaying a man in full frontal nudity...

Study: 1 in 4 adults in NYC have herpes virus

Posted on June 09, 2008
The AP reports: A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes. The study, released Monday, says about 26 percent of New York City adults have genital herpes, compared to about 19 percent nationwide ...

Virginia: Prohibition of adult video store upheld

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Franklin News-Post reports: The Rocky Mount Board of Zoning Appeals has voted to uphold the denial of a permit for an adult video store in the Rocky Mount Plaza on Tanyard Road. After a public hearing Thursday night, the board supported Zoning Administrator Paul Stockwell’s decision to deny Michael Kennedy’s application for a permit for a [...

Leftist groups file in support of suit challenging Texas? ?moment of silence law?

Posted on June 09, 2008
The ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have issued this press release that begins: Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas submitted a friend-of-the-court brief today to a federal appeals court urging the court to rule against a [...

ACLU unveils big expansion plans for US conservative states, Soros helps fund

Posted on June 09, 2008
The campaign's goal is $335 million, with $258 million already raised through behind-the-scenes solicitations over the past year. . . Major donors include billionaire financier George Soros, who gave $12 million . . .

9th Cir. to Cal. Supremes: ?Is Los Angeles International Airport a public forum under the Liberty of Speech Clause of the California Constitution??

Posted on June 09, 2008
How Appealing reports that the 9th Circuit has certified the question to the California Supreme Court in International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. City of Los Angeles. Visit Site » Share This

1st Circuit rejects ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? challenge

Posted on June 09, 2008
. . . the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, thereby, creating a circuit split with the 9th Circuit over the scope and meaning of the Supreme Court's ruling in Lawrence v. Texas.

Today: Jordan Lorence on Hugh Hewitt to discuss marriage and the Blackstone Legal Fellowship

Posted on June 09, 2008
Today!� ADF attorney will appear on the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show to discuss the marriage battle and the Blackstone Legal Fellowship. Share This

World Health Organization: Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Independent reports: . . . In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa ...

Canada: Priest targeted for hate crimes violation after quoting Bible on marriage

Posted on June 09, 2008
A priest is being investigated as a potential criminal under a federal "hate crimes" law for quoting from the Bible . . .

Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera is criticizing the Democratic National Committee for a issuing a declaration of support for ?Gay Pride? month.

Posted on June 09, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: “Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera is criticizing the Democratic National Committee for a issuing a declaration of support for ‘Gay Pride’ month.” Visit Site » Share This

Alberta Pastor Fined $7000 and Ordered to Publicly Apologize for Statements Against Homosexuality

Posted on June 09, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: On Friday, the Alberta Human Rights Commission ordered Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin to pay damages equivalent to $7,000 as a result of the tribunal’s November decision to side with complainant and homosexual activist Dr...

Downtown K.C strip bar plan withdrawn after protests

Posted on June 09, 2008
The Catholic Key carries this report: Temptations opened in 1976, first as an adult theater, then as a strip club . . . Some months ago, Temptations’ owners filed a proposal with the Kansas City City Council to obtain a liquor license and expand into a recently vacated building next door ...

Bill to Legalize Abortion Advances to Argentine Chamber of Deputies

Posted on June 09, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: After receiving the approval of two congressional committees, a bill to legalize abortion in Argentina has advanced to the full Chamber of Deputies, the nation’s lower legislative body. If passed the legislation would decriminalize abortion and ensure its provision for all women without restrictions during the first trimester of pregnancy...

Sandinista priest to lead UN?s General Assembly

Posted on June 09, 2008
CWNews reports: “A Maryknoll priest who was a leading figure in Nicaragua’s leftist government during the 1980s has been elected president of the UN general assembly . . . He defied instructions from the Vatican when he became foreign minister for the leftist Sandinista regime, which clashed frequently with the country’s Catholic hierarchy...

Polish Catholic centre offers ?get well? therapy for those struggling with homosexuality

Posted on June 09, 2008
AFP reports: Often considered sick, deviant or sinners, gays and lesbians in deeply Catholic Poland are being nudged towards church-steered programmes designed to help them fight their homosexuality. In the southeastern city of Lublin, a hub of Roman Catholic teaching, a nondescript white building houses Odwaga, or Courage, an organisation which offers “therapy” for homosexuals — to [...

NH: Anglican Bishop enters into Civil Union

Posted on June 09, 2008
Reuters reports:� “The openly gay U.S. Episcopal bishop at the center of the Anglican church’s global battle over homosexuality, has entered into a civil union with his longtime partner at a private ceremony.” Visit Site » Share This

Marriage: Some county clerks resist marriage ruling

Posted on June 09, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: As same-sex couples prepare to wed later this month, at least one county clerk in California’s conservative Central Valley is preparing to sidestep the state high court’s legalization of gay marriage by shutting down marriage ceremonies...

Judicial Confirmations By the Numbers

Posted on June 09, 2008
Jonathan Adler reports on The Volokh Conspiracy: A commenter to an earlier post wondered whether the relatively low rate of Senate confirmation of Bush appellate nominations in the past two years can be explained, in part, because Bush nominees were confirmed more rapidly (in comparison to prior administrations) earlier in his term...

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