Religion & Law

New poll finds Americans continue to oppose tax funding embryonic stem cell research

Posted on September 17, 2010
LifeNews: "The opinion poll shows a plurality of Americans (47 percent) oppose federal funding of stem cell research that involves destroying human embryos, while only thirty-eight percent (38 percent) support such funding."

Mike Huckabee has pro-life litmus test, takes on Republicans on social issues ?truce?

Posted on September 17, 2010
LifeNews: "Appearing at the Values Voters Summit on Friday, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said he had a pro-life litmus test for political candidates. Without naming them, he took on other potential 2010 Republican presidential candidates who either said social issues need to take a back seat or promoted government-run health care...

Breyer clarifies earlier remarks, suggests Koran-burning is constitutional

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Volokh Conspiracy: "CNN's Larry King: 'There?s no doubt that Pastor Jones, little church in Florida, had the right, he has the right to burn the Quran, doesn?t he?' Breyer: 'Yeah, I said it depends on what analogy you use, but the most one analogous case is that there was ? you have the right to burn an American flag as a symbol ...

Can DC police enforce property rights of Muslims who segregate women?

Posted on September 17, 2010
Ilya Somin writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "[I]n the DC Islamic Center case, the city has not in any required these Muslims to discriminate against women. It has merely protected their property rights, just as it would for any other resident who wanted to order a trespasser off their land ...

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Christine O?Donnell raises over $1 million in less than 3 days, media tries to portray her as crackpot

Posted on September 17, 2010
AFA / Rightly Concerned: "Christine O'Donnell started a fund-raising push after winning the GOP nomination on Tuesday. Her goal: $50,000. When I checked Wednesday morning, she already had 210% of that goal, according to a nifty graphic on her website...

Pat Buchanan: Rockefeller Republicans

Posted on September 17, 2010
Pat Buchanan writing at Townhall: "To the Republican establishment, tea party people are field hands. Their labors are to be recognized and rewarded, but they are to stay off the porch and not presume to sit at the master's table. And what O'Donnell did, with her amazing victory, is to imperil that establishment's return to power...

Mona Charen: DC voters betray their kids

Posted on September 17, 2010
Mona Charen writing at Townhall: "In a city where only one in four jobs is held by a district resident and 44 percent of the population lacks a high school diploma, education should have been the highest priority. Sure, there are many reasons beyond the schools themselves for the pupils' sad performance in D...

Appeals court: Once al-Qaida, always al-Qaida?

Posted on September 17, 2010
Associated Press: "Appeals court judges deciding whether to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee are asking: If once an al-Qaida member, always an al-Qaida member? . . . Salahi admitted he joined al-Qaida in the early 1990s to oppose communists in Afghanistan...

4th Circuit becomes new front in battle over judges

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Blog of LegalTimes: "Albert Diaz, a nominee for the 4th Circuit, has been waiting longer for Senate confirmation than any other pending appellate nominee. President Barack Obama nominated Diaz, a former military judge now on the North Carolina trial bench, in November 2009...

Pence urges activists to ?demand? social conservatism from GOP

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Hill: "House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) put the pressure on national leaders to not write off social conservatives' concerns, especially if they retake control of the House and/or Senate after this fall's elections."

Teacher?s unions working over time to hinder reform of DC public schools

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Washington Post / D.C. Schools Insider: "'Yesterday's election results were devastating, devastating,' Rhee said. 'Not for me, because I'll be fine, and not even for Fenty because he'll be fine, but devastating for the schoolchildren of Washington, D...

Perkins presses Cornyn on ?gay? GOP event

Posted on September 17, 2010
Politico: "The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins has written to National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn for his plan to stop by a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans next week."

?Maryland could see 7 gay, lesbian state legislators?

Posted on September 17, 2010
Gay Politics: "With four incumbents and three newcomers victorious in all-but-determinative Democratic primaries Tuesday night, Maryland is set to join just a handful of states to have been served by seven openly gay or lesbian state legislators in the same legislative session...

Nicaraguan legislation seeks to legalize abortion, protect ?sexual orientation?

Posted on September 17, 2010
Matthew Cullinan Hoffman writing at LifeSiteNews: [The bill permits] the 'interruption of pregnancy for any reason before 22 weeks of gestation, beginning from the first day of the last menstruation, and the product of conception has a weight less than 500 grams and a brain cavity height no more than 25 centimeters...

Fraud, corruption and Taliban threats dim outlook for Afghan poll

Posted on September 17, 2010
Yaroslav Trofimov, Maria Abi-Habib, and Matthew Rosenberg writing in the Wall Street Journal, "Taliban Threats Dim Outlook for Afghan Poll" [full text via Google News]: "More Afghans are expected to stay away from the polls in Saturday's parliamentary election than in any vote since the Taliban's downfall, after a campaign marred by Taliban assassinations of candidates, intimidation of voters and fears of widespread fraud...

Moscow ?gay pride? parade organizer Alexeyev found in Minsk

Posted on September 17, 2010
Interfax: "The organizer of Moscow gay pride parades, Nikolay Alexeyev, has said that he was expelled from Russia and that he is currently in Minsk."

Forbes will rank law schools based on job results, Northwestern reveals

Posted on September 17, 2010
ABA Journal: "TaxProf Blog alluded to new law school rankings by Forbes in an Aug. 19 post, saying the magazine reportedly will rank schools for their 'return on investment.' The Northwestern letter, published on the Law School Transparency website, confirms the Forbes survey and says the magazine is seeking information similar to that requested by the transparency group...

Justice Clarence Thomas to visit University of Tennesse

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Daily Beacon: "Renowned Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will join UT faculty and staff for a lecture and discussion Friday."

GA: ?Abandon age-old animosities? when Clarence Thomas appears for courthouse dedication

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Augusta Chronicle: "Those who oppose Thomas' appearance [at the dedication of Augusta's new Judicial Center and Judge John H. Ruffin Jr. Courthouse] cite his position on affirmative action, which he opposes. They say the man whom the new courthouse will be named after, the late Judge John H...

FL: Muslim candidate for state House tackles religion issue head-on

Posted on September 17, 2010
St. Petersburg Times: "For the record, Hafeez, 26, is a Muslim of Pakistani descent. He moved to Florida when he was 3 years old with his parents, both physicians, who were born in Pakistan . . . Hafeez, a Democrat, has downplayed his religion for most of his campaign...

KY: ACLU to represent man in Muslim worship center case

Posted on September 17, 2010
Lex 18: "The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky have agreed to represent Khadar Ahmed, a resident of Mayfield, Kentucky, who was denied a permit last month by the Mayfield Board of Zoning Adjustment to operate a Muslim worship center in the town?s central business district...

NH Supreme Court: sex offender can?t attend church even with chaperone

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Oklahoman (AP): "The New Hampshire Supreme Court has denied a sex offender's request that he be allowed to go to church with a chaperone." New Hampshire v. Perfetto, No. 2009-647 (N.H. Sept. 17, 2010)

TN: Lawsuit filed to stop Mosque as supporters speak up

Posted on September 17, 2010
The Murfreesboro Post: "Supporters of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro's right to build had their say at Thursday's meeting of the Rutherford County Commission as opponents filed a lawsuit to stop it."

Islamic affirmative action: Why America is rejecting the liberal left?s response to 9/11.

Posted on September 17, 2010
James Taranto writing in The Wall Street Journal: "The real problem here is that the liberal elite has responded to 9/11 in a totally inappropriate way. When the only tool you have is a hammer, the cliché goes, every problem looks like a nail. To American liberals, every problem looks like the civil rights struggle, the original one of which was their last real moral, cultural and governmental success...

Carson Holloway: The sources of liberal intolerance

Posted on September 17, 2010
"The liberal belief in Progress causes liberals to view any expression of what they regard as retrograde opinion to be a threat to the very foundations of their worldview. When such opinions begin to gain popular support, they raise the specter that History might be stopped in its benevolent course or even reversed...

Matt Bowman appeared on KFUO with Roland Lettner: Who is human? Who benefits from defining life down?

Posted on September 17, 2010
ADF attorney Matt Bowman appeared on KFUO Radio with Roland Lettner to discuss federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.  | MP3 audio 23:07 mins | Related ADF Media information

David French on the Janet Mefferd Show: Defending faith on campus

Posted on September 17, 2010
ADF attorney David French appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show to discuss defending faith on campus. | MP3 audio 18:50 mins | Speak Up Movement: Universities

Jeremy Tedesco on the Mary Reichard Show: Freedom on campus

Posted on September 17, 2010
ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco appeared on KWTO with Mary Reichard to discuss freedom on campus. | MP3 audio 17:54 mins

Bullying and discrimination against students on religious and other grounds banned by new NY law

Posted on September 17, 2010
Religion Clause: "On Monday, New York Governor David Patterson singed into law the Dignity for All Students Act. The new law prohibits bullying of students by other students or school employees, as well as discrimination against students, taking place on school property or at a school function when the bullying or discrimination is based on the victim's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex...

Planned Parenthood?s abortion total rises

Posted on September 17, 2010
Baptist Press: "Planned Parenthood recorded nearly 20,000 more abortions and not even half as many adoption referrals in 2008, according to a new report."

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