Religion & Law

Merkel to honor Mohammed cartoonist at press award

Posted on September 09, 2010
Reuters: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel risked angering Muslims by speaking at an awards ceremony on Wednesday for a Dane [Kurt Westergaard] whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked sometimes violent protests by Muslims five years ago."

Breitbart: ?Sister of 9/11 victim destroys sanctimonious ground zero mosque proponent?

Posted on September 09, 2010
Via Breitbart.tv

Study: Why mothers and fathers play differently

Posted on September 09, 2010
New York Times / Motherlode: "Does [Oxytocin] stimulate bonding in new fathers as it does in new mothers? A new study in the journal Biological Psychiatry, the first to look at what its authors describe as 'the transition to fatherhood,' suggests that it does...

FRC: Court of Appeals removes stay on taxpayer funding of unethical, unsuccessful embryonic stem cell research

Posted on September 09, 2010
Family Research Council: "The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. today allowed the Obama administration to continue funding embryonic stem cell research while the Department of Justice appeals Judge Royce Lamberth's decision preventing it."

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ADF: Taxpayers should not foot bill for needless stem cell research while case is on appeal

Posted on September 09, 2010
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided Thursday to suspend a district court?s prohibition on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, allowing the Obama administration to continue with a policy that is in violation of federal law while the court considers additional arguments over suspending the policy...

Koran burning controversy reveals perilous plight of persecuted Christians overseas

Posted on September 09, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "Christian leaders in Muslim-majority nations, including Pakistan Christian Congress president Nazir Bhatti, have appealed to the small Florida congregation's leaders not to go ahead with the event. Bhatti said the Quran burning would provide radical Islamists with another excuse to attack already at-risk Christians in Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere...

Alabama: Librarian sues over porn in her workplace

Posted on September 09, 2010
ABC News: "Barbara Ann Wilson says she is surrounded by men surfing the Internet for porn who sometimes grope her and perform lewd acts in front of children, according to a federal lawsuit she has filed against her employer -? the Birmingham Public Library in Alabama...

Erik Stanley on Ramble and Rumble with Rabbi: No pastor should fear the IRS

Posted on September 09, 2010
ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on Ramble and Rumble with Rabbi to discuss pastors, pulpits, and politics. | MP3 audio 15:05 mins | ADF pulpit initiative

David French on the Mike Gallagher Show: Threats to Liberty on Campus

Posted on September 09, 2010
ADF attorney David French appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss threats to liberty on campus. | MP3 audio 12:58 mins

Pushing for Senate DADT repeal, HRC delivers thousands of constituent signatures

Posted on September 09, 2010
HRC Back Story: "This week, we shipped off thousands of postcards, petition signatures and handwritten letters that we have generated during our repeal DADT campaign."

MN: Winona County bans hotel porn for county employees

Posted on September 09, 2010
Winona Daily News: "Winona County employees can no longer stay in hotels that offer pay-per-view pornography, under a policy adopted Tuesday by county commissioners."

?Air Force Academy?s alumni group cancels event to honor gay soldiers?

Posted on September 09, 2010
Denver Post: "With the ban on gays serving openly in the military inching closer to repeal, gay soldiers and their advocates scheduled a dinner this November on the Air Force Academy campus, planning to invite the academy's superintendent and a member of Congress...

Corporation Sues Iowa For Violating First Amendment Right To Produce Political Ads, Make Contributions

Posted on September 08, 2010
"Iowa says that corporations cannot make political ads without a PAC, which requires burdensome registration, record-keeping, and reporting requirements. But the Supreme Court recently ruled in a case called Citizens United that corporations have a First Amendment right to make political ads, without having to create a PAC...

FLASHBACK: U.S. Military Burns Bibles in Afghanistan

Posted on September 08, 2010
CNN (May 22, 2009): "Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesda

VA: Congress kills light bulb factory; end of era for U.S. means more jobs for Chinese

Posted on September 08, 2010
Washington Post: "The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s ...

?Slovenia first ex-Communist country with gay marriage??

Posted on September 08, 2010
The Gay Marriage Blog: "Slovenia offered registered partnerships to same sex couples from 2006 and now the centre-left Slovenian Government has gotten a bill legalising same-sex ?marriage? and adoption through the first of three readings in Parliament...

Mexico: Priest warns of confusion between secularism and anti-clericalism

Posted on September 08, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "An article, signed by Father Maurilio Martinez Tamayo, offered a reflection on the vision of secularism that prevails in the country, amidst a barrage of attempts by government officials and political groups to silence religious leaders ...

U.S. loaned Mexico more than $1 billion to drill oil in Gulf of Mexico last year; $1 billion more planned for this year

Posted on September 08, 2010
CNSNews: "The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company?s oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The bank has another $1 billion in loans in the pipeline for 2010, unless Congress objects...

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque Organizer NYT Op-Ed: Building on faith

Posted on September 08, 2010
Feisal Abdul Rauf writing in The New York Times: "We are proceeding with the community center, Cordoba House. More important, we are doing so with the support of the downtown community, government at all levels and leaders from across the religious spectrum, who will be our partners...

Clinton slams Florida pastor for ?disgraceful? plans to burn the ?Holy? Quran

Posted on September 08, 2010
CNN: "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a foreign policy talk to weigh in on hot button political issues Wednesday, slamming a Florida pastor for his 'disgraceful' plan to burn the Quran and strongly criticizing George W. Bush's fiscal record."

Muslim youth violence is a problem in Germany, says Merkel

Posted on September 08, 2010
Deutsche Welle: "Speaking to German weekly Bild am Sonntag, Angela Merkel said it would be wrong to play down statistics that show religious Muslim youths in Germany to be more prone to violence than the rest of the population. 'This is a big problem and we can talk about it openly, without arousing suspicions of xenophobia,' Merkel said in the interview published on Sunday, September 5 ...

New college teaches young American Muslims

Posted on September 08, 2010
NPR: "Catholics have Notre Dame, Jews have Yeshiva University and Evangelicals have Wheaton College ? but until now, Muslim Americans didn't have their own liberal arts college. And then there's the appeal of the two founders, Imam Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf, who are celebrities by preaching an Islam that resonates with young Americans ...

MT: Big Sky Tea Party members call president?s ouster over apparent ?anti-gay? remarks unfair, hasty

Posted on September 08, 2010
Missoulian: "Members of the Big Sky Tea Party Association strongly defended former president Tim Ravndal at the group's meeting Tuesday night following what many called his unfair and hasty ejection from the group over a casual conversation on Facebook that appeared to treat violence against gays lightly...

CA legislation mandates forced school immunizations without parental notification

Posted on September 08, 2010
PipeLineNews.org: "This five page bill seems simple and straight forward, but it isn't. It is a lot of words designed to hide the fact that the state's legislators seek authority to mandate that schools be responsible for administering vaccinations to your child including HPV2 Cervarix for girls ages 10-25 or HPV 4 Gardasil for boys ages 9-26...

France: Stone mason sparks cathedral row with ?Muslim? gargoyle

Posted on September 08, 2010
Telegraph: "A Lyons stone mason has provoked a row after creating a gargoyle for the city's cathedral in the image of his Muslim foreman with a sign saying 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great) in both Arabic and French."

CA: Authorities investigate acts of vandalism at mosque as potential ?hate crime?

Posted on September 08, 2010
Los Angeles Times: "Vandalism at a mosque in Madera, Calif., is being investigated as a potential hate crime by the U.S. Department of Justice, officials confirmed Tuesday."

Alan E. Sears: The Same-Sex Agenda: Rage, Rage at the Rising of the Light

Posted on September 08, 2010
"It is the resentment of that divine moral authority that ultimately fuels much of the homosexual legal agenda, just as reverence and respect for that authority?not bigotry?drives many of those who openly oppose that agenda . . . "

Washington Board of Pharmacy to revisit conscience rights for pharmacists

Posted on September 08, 2010
"The Board is considering amending the anti-conscience regulations to allow providers to refer patients to nearby providers if they have a conscientious objection to dispensing a drug."

Vatican council calls planned Koran burning ceremony ?outrageous?

Posted on September 08, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "Although the charismatic Christian church planning a Koran burning on Sept. 11 only has around 50 members, the spectre of the impact on Muslim relations led the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue to issue a statement today expressing its 'great concern' over the plan and stating that 'deplorable acts of violence ? cannot be counteracted' by burning another religion's sacred book...

Bahrain bars religious candidates from pre-election sermons

Posted on September 08, 2010
AFP: "Religious candidates in Bahrain's October 23 general election will be barred from preaching in the kingdom's mosques ahead of the vote, the minister of justice and Islamic affairs announced on Tuesday."

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