Religion & Law

Arkansas: Jury clears sexually oriented business of charges

Posted on September 09, 2010
KATV: "The trial of two men and their corporation accused of promoting obscene material ended in a not guilty verdict late Friday night at the St. Francis County Courthouse . . . The brothers and J&W Investments, Inc., were charged in November of 2008 with two counts of selling or promoting obscene materials after confidential informants with the sheriff's department purchased movies from Adult World locations on Hwy...

Entrepreneurs under attack

Posted on September 09, 2010
John Stossel writing at Human Events: "Every day, federal, state and local governments stifle small businesses to privilege well-connected incumbent companies. It's a system of protectionism for influential insiders who don't want competition. Every locality has its share of business moguls who are cozy with politicians...

Piero Tozzi Italian interview on stem cell case

Posted on September 09, 2010
ilsussidiaro.net [modified Google translation]: "[He is a Catholic Italian-American lawyer who was an] architect of the defeat of Barack Obama on . . . funding to research on embryonic stem cells . . . [Piero Tozzi] and the Alliance Legal Defense Fund (ADF), an association that has dared to challenge legally the power of the American president ...

N.J. appellate judge to temporarily fill controversial Supreme Court seat

Posted on September 09, 2010
NJ.com: "The state?s top appellate judge will temporarily fill a seat on the state Supreme Court left vacant by a political spat between Gov. Chris Christie and the state?s top Democrat . . . The court has had only six members since May, when Gov. Chris Christie declined to renominate former Justice John Wallace...

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At Marquette University Law School, Scalia stresses teaching

Posted on September 09, 2010
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered frank advice Wednesday to the hundreds of faculty and students who turned out for the dedication of Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall, Marquette University Law School's new $85 million building ...

O?Connor: Iowa merit-selection process is fair

Posted on September 09, 2010
Des Moines Register: "Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor praised Iowa's merit-selection process for judges Wednesday as the best way to pick fair and impartial jurists. She said Iowa's current system shields judges from political pressure and money at a time when courts nationwide are under attack...

Canada: Polyamorists want court to declare group love legal

Posted on September 09, 2010
"Is polyamory the new gay? That's what John Ince and the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association would have us believe . . . It's an anything-goes kind of relationship, as long as everyone is a consenting adult, participating in a spirit of love and harmony ...

3rd Circuit blocks Pa. town?s immigration law

Posted on September 09, 2010
Associated Press: "A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hazleton, Pa., may not enforce its crackdown on illegal immigrants, dealing another blow to 4-year-old regulations that inspired similar measures around the country, including Arizona." | Lozano v...

O?Connor retired from court, not discourse

Posted on September 09, 2010
USA Today: "At age 80, O'Connor . . . balances multiple roles as she tries to influence public debate. She says she's making progress ? despite hurdles ? on her priorities of civics education and the selection of state judges through merit appointments rather than public elections ...

Islamic charity trial goes to Oregon jury

Posted on September 09, 2010
Associated Press: "A jury will have to determine whether a man's failure to disclose $150,000 on federal tax forms was an effort to smuggle money to Muslim fighters in Chechnya or just an oversight by an accountant."

Duke College Republicans lose annual funds, faces de-chartering

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Duke Chronicle: "In a meeting that lasted more than four hours, the Duke Student Government Senate defunded the Duke College Republicans and took the first step toward de-chartering the group on the basis that the club has demonstrated a 'culture of discrimination' ...

Economist?s views on Muslims spark controversy in Germany

Posted on September 09, 2010
Washington Post: "Sarrazin, a board member of the German Central Bank, has divided the nation by postulating the theory that Germany is being 'dumbed down' by Muslim immigrants and their children. Wielding statistics and scientific arguments both in his book and in public comments, he delves into territory largely taboo here since the Holocaust, suggesting that 'hereditary factors' are at least partly to blame...

S. Korean pastor indicted after trip to N. Korea

Posted on September 09, 2010
Christian Post: "A South Korean pastor was indicted Thursday on the charge of violating South Korea?s National Security Law after returning from an unauthorized trip to North Korea . . . South Korea forbids its citizens from making unauthorized trips to the north and supporting Pyongyang?s repressive regime...

Freedom from Religion Foundation co-signers object to prayers on U.S. Navy ships

Posted on September 09, 2010
Freedom From Religion Foundation: "On behalf of military members who strongly object to official prayers on board U.S. Navy ships, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has drafted and sent a letter, co-signed by several other groups, to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to stop the unconstitutional prayers...

Fla. imam: No deal to move NYC mosque

Posted on September 09, 2010
"Imam Muhammad Musri tells The Associated Press that what he offered was a meeting among the Rev. Terry Jones, the New York imam planning the Islamic center and himself to talk about the mosque location."

PA: Too loud too early for Manayunk church bell, neighbor complains

Posted on September 09, 2010
Philadelphia Inquirer: "For 104 years, the bell at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in hilly, blue-collar Manayunk has joyfully summoned the faithful to prayer, celebrated marriages, and marked the ends of wars . . . The Rev. James A. Lyons, pastor of St...

DADT, other bills, await Congressional action this fall

Posted on September 09, 2010
Tom Strode writing at Baptist Press: "When they resume business, the Senate or House, or both, will have the opportunity to advance not only the lifting of a ban on homosexuals in the armed services but other proposals opposed by pro-life and pro-family advocates...

China may relax its one-child rule

Posted on September 09, 2010
USA Today: "An aging population and the need for more workers have prompted China's Communist Party to consider relaxing the decades-long ban that restricts most couples to one child, a harsh policy marked by forced abortions, sterilizations and fines for those who have more than one...

Trump offers to buy out Ground Zero mosque investor, who rejects offer

Posted on September 09, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near Ground Zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center." | AP:  NY mosque investor declines Trump's buyout offer

Church in India marks ?girl-child day? to counter female infanticide

Posted on September 09, 2010
UCanNews.com: "A Catholic priest has urged Indian religious leaders to help protect girl children following news of a man leaving his newborn in a gutter. 'Religious leaders, be they Christian, Muslim, Hindu or others,' must provide their followers 'with the necessary attitude and courage to save and celebrate the girl child,' said Jesuit rights activist Father Cedric Prakash...

India: university orders reinstatement of professor fired for offending Muslims

Posted on September 09, 2010
CatholicCulture.org: "Mahatma Gandhi University ordered Newman College to reverse the firing of Professor T. J. Joseph, saying that the administration of Newman Collage 'failed to follow procedures.' Newman College, a Catholic school, is an affiliate of Mahatma Gandhi University...

Westboro Baptist Church to burn Korans if Dove doesn?t, Media refuses to cover

Posted on September 09, 2010
Ocala.com: "Westboro Baptist Church, the small Topeka, Kan., church that pickets funerals of American soldiers to spread its message that God is punishing the country for being tolerant of homosexuals, has vowed to hold a Quran burning if Gainesville's Dove World Outreach Center calls its off...

FRC?s Dr. Pat Fagan examines relationship between religious practice and education

Posted on September 09, 2010
Family Research Council: "According to Religious Practice and Educational Attainment, a synthesis paper produced by Family Research Council Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage & Religion Research Institute (MARRI) Dr. Pat Fagan, 'Education is widely recognized as the way to maintain the well-being of those born into the middle class...

Alaska sues to lift Arctic drilling suspension

Posted on September 09, 2010
Associated Press: "Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says the state is suing to overturn the federal suspension of offshore drilling in Arctic Ocean waters."

New report: more grandparents raising grandkids

Posted on September 09, 2010
Associated Press: "The number of U.S. children being raised by their grandparents rose sharply as the recession began, according to a new analysis of census data. The reasons, while somber, were not all economic."

Fla. minister cancels Koran burning, says Ground Zero Mosque agreed to move

Posted on September 09, 2010
"Pastor Terry Jones said Thursday that he decided to cancel his protest because the leader of a planned Islamic Center near ground zero has agreed to move its controversial location. The agreement couldn't be immediately confirmed."

Reading tea party leaves on marriage

Posted on September 09, 2010
"Being a 'conservative for same-sex marriage' is now the maximum meme. Which makes the political failure it obscures all the more emblematic. Political evidence past and present renders the advice of men like Mehlman and Schmidt not only suspect but downright foolhardy...

Haley Barbour tells pro-life Republicans to ditch social issues; Social Conservatives to the back of the bus again

Posted on September 09, 2010
LifeNews: "Haley Barbour is the latest potential Republican presidential candidate to suggest that social issues like abortion should be taken off the table while making the economy the main focus. Despite the fact that polls show Americans strongly oppose the pro-abortion health care law, Barbour says fiscal issues should take priority...

Vatican official urges Christians to have more children as Europe becomes ?Islamized?

Posted on September 09, 2010
Irish Central: "Father Piero Gheddo, a senior Vatican official said the low European birth rate of indigenous European's along with the influx of Muslim migrants with large families would mean that Europe would soon be dominated by Islam . . . He said 'If we consider ourselves a Christian country, we should return to the practice of Christian life, which would also solve the problem of empty cradles...

Will Islam become the religion of Europe?

Posted on September 09, 2010
Soeren Kern writing at Hudson New York: "During his recent two-day state visit to Italy, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi declared that 'Islam should become the religion of the whole of Europe.' He also said that Europe's conversion would become a fait accompli 'when Turkey becomes a member of the European Union...

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