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FBI, Obama Admin join pro-abort groups to host training seminar against pro-life activity

Posted on October 04, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "The Obama administration has teamed up with leading pro-abortion lobbyist groups to host a training seminar aimed at combating pro-life 'violence' against the abortion industry, which is defined to include even free-speech activities such as pro-life picketing, boycotting, and signage ...

?Gay activists? will keep trying to hold rallies in Moscow

Posted on October 04, 2010
Interfax: "Representatives of the Russian gay community intend to continue demanding that the Moscow administration allow their rallies, Moscow gay pride parade organizer Nikolay Alexeyev told Interfax."

FRC: Indiana University releases more ?sexual health? propaganda

Posted on October 04, 2010
FRC: "This morning, Indiana University released the findings of a 'National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior' by its Center for Sexual Health Promotion. The fact that there's considerable overlap between this group and the Kinsey Institute (also at Indiana U...

Future of marriage could be at stake in 2010 election

Posted on October 04, 2010
"Statewide races in at least five states -- Minnesota, Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland and New York -- could decide whether marriage is redefined nationally to include homosexual couples."

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Media needs to start grilling Dems about weekend?s Communist hate rally in Washington

Posted on October 04, 2010
Big Journalism: "Now, we have actual proof of the Communist/Democrat/Socialist Party holding a rally on the steps of the Washington Monument. Complete with signs equating Green Jobs with socialism, Obama supporters promoting socialism, anti-Israel signs, and on and on...

Britain recognizes Druidry as religion

Posted on October 04, 2010
TIME News Feed: "Druidry, an ancient Celtic belief that worships deities who take their forms in nature, has been given the official status of a ?religion' in Britain. It is a form of neo-paganism, along with Wicca, Voodoo and Shamanism. Surprisingly enough the belief system is already provided with tax-exempt religious group status in the US...

IL: Civil unions, concealed carry could confront next governor

Posted on October 04, 2010
Peoria Journal Star: "Illinois? next governor could very well be called on to act on legislation dealing with two of the more controversial non-budget issues that have divided lawmakers in recent years ? concealed carry and same-sex unions."

Traverse City, MI could decide tonight on ?gay protections?

Posted on October 04, 2010
Interlochen Public Radio: "Traverse City officials will vote tonight on a controversial change to the city's non-discrimination policy. It would protect gays, lesbians and trans-gendered people from discrimination in housing and employment city-wide."

CO: Abortion measure draws some religious opposition

Posted on October 04, 2010
KKTV (AP): "On Monday a group of faith leaders is meeting with reporters to show that not all faith leaders support the so-called 'personhood' amendment, which is on Colorado ballots next month."

Miss. high school offers Bible class

Posted on October 04, 2010
First Amendment Center (AP): "The Bible, banned for religious use in the classroom by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963, is being taught this semester at J.Z. George High School as an English elective. The course emphasizes the literary value of Scripture...

Supreme Court ends Prop 8 videotape dispute

Posted on October 04, 2010
Courthouse News Service: "The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the 9th Circuit to dismiss as moot a dispute over the release of videotape from the trial overturning Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage . . . The Alliance Defense Fund has appealed Walker's ruling [in Perry] to the 9th Circuit...

Conservative Christians tackle divorce, the ?other? marriage crisis

Posted on October 04, 2010
David Gibson writing at Politics Daily: "[T]he reality of divorce within conservative Christian communities is the elephant in the room that can no longer be ignored . . . Indeed, the problem of Christian divorce is growing larger as the evangelical profile against gay marriage gets higher ...

Federal judge charged with buying drugs from stripper

Posted on October 04, 2010
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "A federal judge was granted a $50,000 bond Monday on charges that he purchased drugs on several occasions from an Atlanta club stripper with whom he was having a sexual relationship."

IL: Civil unions split Catholic candidates for 46th District representative

Posted on October 04, 2010
Daily Herald: "The two candidates for state representative in Illinois' 46th House District attend the same Elmhurst parish, but hold different views on the legalization of civil unions and gay marriages."

Canada: Married couples with kids in the minority for first time

Posted on October 04, 2010
"For the first time there are more single Canadian adults than married Canadians, a new report says. Canadians are also working longer hours, and spending less time with their families -- and the families they have are less likely to be the traditional nuclear family...

Disabled Babies in the Womb event supporting prenatal disability diagnosis ? October 5th, 2010

Posted on October 04, 2010
Family Research Council: "On Tuesday, October 5, Christians here in D.C. and across the country will be focusing on the issue of helping support pregnant women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of a disability."

UK woman fired for not wearing burqa wins case

Posted on October 04, 2010
Times of India: "The tribunal concluded: 'We find that the respondent treated the claimant less favourably by dismissing her and not his white women employees because she would not cover her hair.' Ghazala Khan, 30, was fired less than two weeks ago from her job at a company run by Muslim businessman Masood Ghafoor because she refused to wear a burqa...

DeMint: Sexually active unmarried women and ?gay? teachers should be barred from classrooms

Posted on October 04, 2010
"DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend ? she shouldn't be in the classroom."

LDS Apostle declares church will ?stay on course? in opposing redefinition of marriage

Posted on October 04, 2010
Fox 13: "Elder Boyd K. Packer of the church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles said the church will not change its stance that marriage is to be shared solely between a man and a woman. He said if the LDS faithful don't defend the family, liberties and civilization would perish...

?Schwarzenegger expands unemployment benefits for gay couples?

Posted on October 04, 2010
GLTNN: "Governor Schwarzenegger has signed the Unemployment Benefits Act (AB 2055), which ensures that same-sex couples in California have access to unemployment benefits. The bill was introduced by Assemblymember Hector De La Torre (D-South Gate) and sponsored by Equality California...

Mexican state moves to ban recognition of same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on October 04, 2010
Pink Paper: "The unicameral Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican state of Baja California, voted 18-1 to amend the state constitution to prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages."

NYT: The Roberts court has ?championed corporations? over ?individual rights?

Posted on October 04, 2010
New York Times editorial: "The kinds of petitioners favored say a lot about the court?s interests and biases . . . The Roberts court has championed corporations. The cases it has chosen for review this term suggest it will continue that trend. Of the 51 it has so far decided to hear, over 40 percent have a corporation on one side...

How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism

Posted on October 04, 2010
Orin Kerr responds at The Volokh Conspiracy.

Brennan?s biographer took his time

Posted on October 04, 2010
New York Times: "In 1986, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal made an unprecedented secret deal with Justice William J. Brennan Jr., who had by then served on the Supreme Court for 30 years and was its leading liberal voice . . . The idea behind their arrangement had been that Mr...

Vatican: Nobel to IVF pioneer raises questions

Posted on October 04, 2010
Associated Press: "The Vatican's top bioethics official says Robert Edwards, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for developing in vitro fertilization, opened 'a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction' but is also responsible for the destruction of embryos and the creation of a 'market' in donor eggs...

Ad criticizes NH gov for signing same-sex ?marriage? law

Posted on October 04, 2010
Boston.com (AP): "New Hampshire's Cornerstone Action and the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage are spending $450,000 on the ads that started Monday and run through Oct. 13. Lynch faces conservative Republican John Stephen on Nov. 2. Stephen opposes gay marriage...

Erik Stanley: State encroaches on church?s voice

Posted on October 04, 2010
ADF Attorney writing at Erik Stanley The Tennessean: "The ques�tion of whether tax-exempt churches should be able to espouse polit�i�cal views from the pul�pit is, in real�ity, the wrong ques�tion. The bet�ter ques�tion is whether the gov�ern�ment has the right to force churches not to espouse polit�i�cal views from the pul�pit in order to be rec�og�nized as tax-exempt...

Pope to European Bishops: Defend family, life

Posted on October 04, 2010
Zenit: "Benedict XVI is urging the bishops of Europe to work for the defense of the family and human life, and to fight against intolerance and discrimination of Christians."

Geert Wilders trial suspended after he attacks judge

Posted on October 04, 2010
"Mr Wilders is being prosecuted for describing the Koran as 'fascist' and for comparing it to Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf, a text that is banned in the Netherlands."

Congratulations to Judge Diarmuid O?Scannlain

Posted on October 04, 2010
Kenneth Anderson writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "Congratulations to Judge Diarmuid O?Scannlain of the 9th Circuit, who has been named chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on International Judicial Relations by Chief Justice Roberts."

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