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Arkansas Supreme Court webcasts to start this week

Posted on September 14, 2010
Delaware Online (AP): "Arguments before the state Supreme Court will be webcast live starting this week, a first for a court that's admittedly slow to embrace change, Chief Justice Jim Hannah said Tuesday."

FL: Crist may drop same-sex adoption suit after his ?appropriate evolution?

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Palm Beach Post: "Gov. Charlie Crist said he has had an 'appropriate evolution' regarding gay rights and is considering dropping the state?s lawsuit challenging a gay couple?s adoption of two foster children . . . The Department of Children and Families, one of Crist?s agencies, is challenging a judge?s ruling that the law is unconstitutional...

New charges for 5 accused of harassing NY mosque

Posted on September 14, 2010
Associated Press: "Five teenagers accused of disrupting a religious service at a small-town mosque were hit with extra misdemeanor charges Monday, but a prosecutor said he was holding off classifying their acts as a hate crime."

7 states holding primaries as season wraps up

Posted on September 14, 2010
FindLaw (AP): "The competition is particularly strong in Delaware and New Hampshire, where GOP senatorial nominations are the prize, and New York, where Republicans pick a challenger for an uphill fall campaign for governor. Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Maryland also hold primaries Tuesday, along with the District of Columbia...

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The road to Wahhabism

Posted on September 14, 2010
Victoria Toensing writing at National Review Online: "[T]he little-known history of Washington, D.C.'s Islamic Center shows how the entity controlling the purse strings can transform even a moderate ecumenical institution into a mouthpiece for Wahhabism, an intolerant form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia...

Justice Stephen Breyer: Is burning Koran protected by First Amendment?

Posted on September 14, 2010
George Stephanopoulos writing at ABC: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told me on 'GMA' that he's not prepared to conclude that -- in the internet age -- the First Amendment condones Koran burning. 'Holmes said it doesn?t mean you can shout 'fire' in a crowded theater,' Breyer told me...

Senate defeats plan to strip filing requirement from health law

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Hill: "The Senate on Tuesday defeated an effort to strip a controversial tax-reporting provision from the sweeping healthcare law Congress passed earlier this year. In a 46-52 vote, lawmakers killed an amendment sponsored by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb...

Are rising imports a boon or bane to the economy?

Posted on September 14, 2010
Daniel Griswold writing in The Washington Times: "All the evidence points to the fact that rising imports and a growing trade gap, far from being drags on growth, are among the surest signs that the economy is expanding . . . In the long run, imports spur growth by forcing domestic producers to be more efficient and productive...

Agnostic-turned-Muslim pushes for Tennessee mosque

Posted on September 14, 2010
CNN: "Earlier this year, [Camie Ayash] and her husband of 15 years, a Kuwaiti Muslim, announced plans to build an Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a city of about 100,000 people 35 miles southeast of Nashville. The city has a burgeoning Middle East refugee community, many from Iraq...

?The Kids Are Alright?: Family life and family law on the big screen

Posted on September 14, 2010
"This movie beautifully depicts how law and science have combined to allow two women to create a social and legal family that once would have been reserved for an opposite-sex couple."

India: States given two weeks to act on illegal religious structures

Posted on September 14, 2010
SIFY News: "The Supreme Court Tuesday said the chief secretaries of state governments that have not furnished details of unauthorized religious structures in public places will have to appear in person to answer their failure to comply with the court's directions...

Canada: Street preacher files human rights complaint against Calgary

Posted on September 14, 2010
Calgary Herald: "Artur Pawlowski of Street Church Ministries accuses outgoing Mayor Dave Bronconnier and the city clerk's office of a religious bias in its refusal to allow the group to hold a ceremony and deny a bid to have Bronconnier declare the following December Jesus Month...

Scotland: Head teacher job in peril over call for school uniform modesty

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Robert Kelly, rector at Berwickshire High School in the Scottish town of Duns, said flouting uniform rules by wearing short skirts and half-buttoned blouses would encourage inappropriate thoughts among boys. But some parents thought he was blaming girls for unwanted male attention, and he is now under investigation by the Scottish Borders Council...

UK: Kids exposed to inappropriate TV, say overwhelming majority of parents

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Two thirds of parents in the UK believe children are exposed to unsuitable content on television before the watershed, a survey has shown . . . A further 80 per cent said they felt films and video games with violent or sexual themes can be accessed too easily by children...

UK: Council staff on adventure in ?Lesbianandgayland?

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Taxpayers are footing the bill for council officials to go on a 'diversity' course which encourages participants to go on an 'adventure in Lesbianandgayland'. The programme, which has been attended by Brighton and Hove City Council officials, involves imagining a world where it is normal to be homosexual...

Israel: High Court approves private school for Haredi girls involved in segregation row

Posted on September 14, 2010
Haaretz: "Ultra-Orthodox network that runs the Beit Yaakov girls school in Immanuel told last year t it must pay a fine of NIS 5,000 for every day they continued to violate court order requiring it to eliminate any vestige of ethnic discrimination . ...

Indonesia: Controversial permit system for houses of worship defended

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Jakarta Globe: "Islamic leaders on Tuesday defended a government regulation that requires local consent before a house of worship can be established, which pluralism advocates say has been used to discriminate against minority religious groups."

ADL starts interfaith coalition to help US Muslims building mosques

Posted on September 14, 2010
Jerusalem Post: "One month after taking a stand against construction of the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero in Manhattan, the Anti-Defamation League has started an interfaith coalition meant to help American Muslim communities who are facing opposition in building mosques...

Indonesia: Police had warned Ciketing Christian church to move

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Jakarta Globe: "Responding to harsh public criticism over an attack on two church leaders, authorities in Bekasi on Monday said they had warned the congregation not to hold services in Ciketing, where the crime took place."

Faith, polygamy and fears

Posted on September 14, 2010
Diane Noble, author of "The Sister Wife," the first book in her new historical polygamy fiction series "Brides of Gabriel," writing at CNN: "I'm also concerned that HBO's popular 'Big Love' and TLC's upcoming reality show 'Sister Wives,' for the sake of entertainment and palatability, can't give us the whole truth about life in polygamous families...

Australian TV bans pro-euthanasia advert

Posted on September 14, 2010
Telegraph: "The advert was knocked back by Free TV Australia, which regulates all advertising material for free-to-air commercial stations, saying it would probably breach television's code of conduct. The code 'states that material which promotes or encourages suicide will invariably be unsuitable for television,' it said in a statement...

Number of abortions dropping in India

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Times of India: "First the good news: the number of medical termination of pregnancies (induced abortions) has started to dip in India. The bad news , however, is that the country still records a large number of such abortions -- in 2008, India saw 6...

Judge rules against state in Shreveport abortion clinic license suspension

Posted on September 14, 2010
Shreveport Times: "Hope Medical Group for Women, a Shreveport abortion clinc, has reopened after a judge issued a temporary restraining order against state health officials." Related: Louisiana Health Department Closes Abortion Center for Health, Safety Problems

MI: Kent County Commissioners vote to remove abortion benefits

Posted on September 14, 2010
WZZM: "In a unanimous decision Kent County Commissioners voted Tuesday morning to remove abortions from employee benefit packages. Despite it being a controversial issue, the legislative and human resources committee vote was 9 to 0 to remove elective abortions as a covered benefit from one of the county's two medical insurance plans...

Iranian sex-trafficking gang in London admits to trying to sell underage girls? virginity for over $200K

Posted on September 14, 2010
NY Daily News: "An Iranian sex-trafficking gang in London has admitted attempting to sell underage girls? virginity for over $200,000."

Kevin Theriot: Examining religious freedom on Constitution Day

Posted on September 14, 2010
ADF Attorney Kevin Theriot writing at Baptist Press: "At the Alliance Defense Fund . . . we hear from churches just about every week who simply cannot afford a church building because of all the restrictions local municipalities are placing on use of land for religious purposes...

U.S. drilling ban ?unlikely? to be extended: official

Posted on September 14, 2010
Reuters: "The Obama administration is unlikely to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling because of the progress the industry has shown since the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April, an Interior Department official said on Tuesday."

Mass. doc gets 6 months in abortion patient death

Posted on September 14, 2010
Associated Press: "A Massachusetts doctor was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the case of a woman who died after he performed an abortion on her."

Erik Stanley on ?Grassroots America: We the People? ? No place for government in the pulpit

Posted on September 14, 2010
ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on "Grassroots America: We the People" with George Stevenson to discuss why there is no place for government in the pulpit. | MP3 audio 18:10 mins | Pulpit Freedom Sunday | ADF Pulpit Project

Delaware poll has pro-life O?Donnell leading pro-abortion Castle, strategy issues

Posted on September 13, 2010
LifeNews: "A new poll from Delaware shows pro-life Republican Senate primary candidate Christine O'Donnell has pulled into a virtual tie with pro-abortion GOP candidate Mike Castle. However, pro-life advocates continue to be concerned about strategy in the race because O' Donnell appeals unlikely to win in November...

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