Religion & Law

Star Parker: No Compromis on Defunding Planned Parenthood

Posted on March 21, 2011
Star Parker writes at Townhall: There is nothing more repugnant and flagrantly misplaced in the federal budget than the $360 million taxpayers annually send to Planned Parenthood. If we can?t eliminate this, it means either that the nation is hopelessly lost or that Republicans are weak...

Iowa: Growing Evangelical clout shaping debate

Posted on March 21, 2011
AP: "Republican presidential candidates take note: the clout of social and religious conservatives is growing in politically crucial Iowa."

5 Turkish officers jailed in killing of Christians

Posted on March 21, 2011
AP: "A Turkish court ordered five military officers and two civilians jailed Monday in a probe into the 2007 killing of three Christians, including a German national, over allegations that the attack was part of an alleged plot to topple the government...

Google says China blocking its email services

Posted on March 21, 2011
AP: "Google said Monday the Chinese government is interfering with its email services in China, making it difficult for users to gain access to its Gmail program, amid an intensified Internet crackdown following widespread unrest in the Middle East."

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?Calif. county clerk defends gay marriage ban?

Posted on March 21, 2011
AP: "Less than two months in office, the low-key real estate agent became something else: a very public face against gay marriage in California."

Bosnian police seize 2 million child porn photos

Posted on March 21, 2011
AP: "Bosnian police say they have seized some 2 million child pornography pictures and 7,000 video clips in the arrest of an alleged member of an international online child pornography ring."

IN: Local legislators support marriage amendment

Posted on March 21, 2011
The Republic: ?Regarding whether it?s discriminatory or not, we discriminate all the time. We discriminate based upon gender or race, skin color, it?s inappropriate. But if we discriminate based on behavior, we do this regularly,? Walker said.?The definition of marriage, people say, ?You?re trying to get into my bedroom,? and I answered vehemently, ?No, I am not...

Australia: ?PM Julia Gillard: Gay marriage against my upbringing?

Posted on March 21, 2011
Daily Telegraph: PRIME Minister Julia Gillard revealed yesterday that her personal stance against gay marriage was due to her conservative upbringing.

Equality Maryland Board Chairs Explain Marriage Vote Decision

Posted on March 21, 2011
Metro Weekly: We spent the night in discussions among Equality Maryland board and staff, members of the Assembly?s LGBT Caucus, and our national partner organizations, trying to find a way to save the bill. Everyone realized that if the legislature passed the bill, opponents would likely gather sufficient signatures to place a repeal referendum on the next election ballot...

Florida Panel Strengthens Parental Notification on Abortion

Posted on March 21, 2011
LifeNews: "A Florida state legislative committee has approved a bill that would strengthen the parental notification law voters approved years ago to ensure abortion advocates are not abusing it. The bill, HB 1247 . . . "

The rise of Europe?s religious right

Posted on March 21, 2011
Sophie in 't Veld writes at the Guardian: Women's rights, gay rights and healthcare are all under threat ? the secular nature of the European project must be reaffirmed . . . This is abuse of freedom of religion, which was intended to protect the individual against oppression and coercion on the part of the regime...

Pavone to Reid: A government that funds massive child-killing has betrayed its very purpose anyway, shut it down

Posted on March 21, 2011
?If that?s the case then shut it down,? said pro-life leader Rev. Frank Pavone, of Priests for Life. ?When a government funds massive child-killing, it has betrayed its very purpose anyway. Maybe a shutdown will give our government officials a chance to reflect on what government should be doing in the first place ? serving life, not helping to destroy it...

Nudists tell lawmakers: Don?t restrict strip clubs

Posted on March 21, 2011
AP: "Oregon lawmakers are considering asking voters to roll back the state's free speech protections to allow regulation of strip clubs."

More than 1 Million Pro-Life Activists to Flood Congressional District Offices with Calls to Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted on March 21, 2011
From Monday, March 21 to Friday, March 25, SBA List and other members of the Expose Planned Parenthood coalition will mobilize pro-life activists to call and visit district offices and attend town hall meetings while their representatives are in their home districts, asking them to defund Planned Parenthood in the next CR ...

Wisconsin Dept. of Justice Appeals Sumi Decision

Posted on March 21, 2011
Breitbart Big Government: ?The publication of this Act will allow the State to save significant money?evidence of which the trial court did not allow presented and did not appear to consider are the cost savings identified by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau which require, of course, publication...

Federal Court Enjoins Enforcement of Notorious ACLU Consent Decree in Santa Rosa County, FL

Posted on March 21, 2011
Liberty Counsel: "The ACLU pressured the Santa Rosa County (Florida) School Board into a Consent Decree that unconstitutionally forbids all manner of religious expression at school, right down to the mere uttering of the words ?God Bless.? After vindicating the school officials charged with criminal contempt for prayer, Liberty Counsel filed suit to invalidate the unconstitutional Consent Decree...

Federal judge expected to rule soon in Ky. attorney?s free speech case

Posted on March 21, 2011
The Republic: A federal judge is expected to rule soon in the case of a central Kentucky attorney who challenged a warning he received after criticizing the state's Legislative Ethics Commission.

Kevin Theriot: When Should My Church Contact ADF?

Posted on March 21, 2011
Kevin Theriot writes at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: We?ve summarized the situations when ADF can assist your church in a new resource appropriately titled, ?When Should My Church Contact ADF?? The short answer is whenever your church?s attempts to further the Gospel are being restricted by a legal roadblock.

Applications Sought to Fill D.C. Superior Court Vacancy

Posted on March 21, 2011
Blog of the Legal Times: "The District of Columbia Judicial Nominating Commission announced today that it is seeking applications from members of the D.C. Bar interested in filling a judicial vacancy on the D.C. Superior Court."

Alliance Defense Fund Saves Lives of the Medically Vulnerable

Posted on March 21, 2011
Wesley J. Smith writes at First Things: I reported on Friday that Rachael Nyirahaabiyambere was back on a feeding tube by court order. I can now report that the ADF has?once again?leaped into the breach to help a family whose loved one was threatened with dehydration?just as it did in the Jesse Ramirez case.

UK: News Science Evolution Free schools will not teach creationism, says Department for Education

Posted on March 21, 2011
Guardian: "Government spokesman says the education secretary is 'crystal clear' that teaching creationism is at odds with scientific fact."

Law of Averages: Why the law-school bubble is bursting.

Posted on March 21, 2011
Slate: "But the biggest reason may be cultural, not economic. In the past year or two, scads of blogs have committed themselves to exposing law school as a "scam," and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have devoted thousands of words to telling readers why law school is a bad, bad idea if you do not actually want to be a lawyer...

California School District Changes Policy After Trying to Ban Christian Song From Talent Show

Posted on March 21, 2011
?Christian students shouldn?t be censored at public schools just because district officials consider religious speech to be offensive,? said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman in a press release. ?The school district is doing the right thing by changing its policy to protect students? constitutionally protected rights so that censorship of religious speech no longer occurs during student activities...

NYC facing second lawsuit over pregnancy center regulations

Posted on March 21, 2011
CNA: Matt Bowman, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said pregnancy centers were being ?punished by political allies of the abortion industry,? for their work on behalf of women and children. ?Attacks on pregnancy centers are an ideologically motivated attempt to distract from the growing national scandals in the abortion industry,? said Bowman...

U.S. House committee approves measure to cut aid to ?anti-gay? countries

Posted on March 21, 2011
LifeSiteNews: The House Financial Services Committee has approved a measure that recommends cuts in foreign aid to countries based on their opposition to homosexual activity, which opposition the measure calls a ?gross [violation] of human rights.? The amendment was offered by Rep...

Why I Provide Abortions ? The Abortion Industry Brag

Posted on March 21, 2011
The Engage Family Blog: As part of it?s ?celebration,? the abortion industry re-released this 13-page paper from 2005 with quotes from their leading lights titled, ?Why I Provide Abortions.?

New York Faces Lawsuit Over Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers

Posted on March 21, 2011
Life News: ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman commented on the law and the lawsuit in remarks to LifeNews.com. ?Pregnancy centers, which offer real help and hope to women, shouldn?t be punished by political allies of the abortion industry,? he said. ?Attacks on pregnancy centers are an ideologically motivated attempt to distract from the growing national scandals in the abortion industry...

Pro-Life Tim Pawlenty to Start Exploratory Cmte for President

Posted on March 21, 2011
LifeNews: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will announce this afternoon that he will create an exploratory committee to formally consider a bid for the Republican nomination to face pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

The First Amendment, Knowingly False Statements of Fact, and the Stolen Valor Act

Posted on March 21, 2011
Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "The Ninth Circuit has just refused to rehear en banc the panel decision striking down the Stolen Valor Act; the opinions are here. I look forward to reading them shortly, but in the meantime I thought I?d note them for our readers...

Louisiana: Student Suspended For Long Hair Grown For Religious Belief

Posted on March 18, 2011
WDSU.com: A Dehnam Springs student has been suspended from school for not cutting his hair, despite his claims that he keeps it long for reasons related to his heritage.

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