Religion & Law

Shutting Down Abortion Clinics: Chicago Tribute to Father of Pro-Life Activism ? Joe Scheidler

Posted on March 28, 2011
n Saturday, April 2, hundreds of pro-lifers and more than two dozen leaders from all over the country will gather in Chicago to honor Pro-life Action League founder and president, Joseph Scheidler.

Muslims Attack Christian in Egypt, Cut Off His Ear

Posted on March 28, 2011
Persecution.com: A group of Muslims attacked Ayman Anwar Mitri, a Christian Coptic man in the Upper Egyptian town of Qena, cutting off his ear. According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih of the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), the Muslims claimed they were applying Sharia law because Mitri, 45, allegedly had an affair with a Muslim woman.

Christian in Bangladesh goes to prison for evangelism

Posted on March 28, 2011
Christian Today: Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that a Christian in Bangladesh has been sentenced to one year in prison for "creating chaos" by selling and distributing Christian books and other literature near a major Muslim gathering north of this capital city.

Closing arguments begin in B.C. polygamy case

Posted on March 28, 2011
The Province: "The closing arguments are being broadcast virtually live on webcam after B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman approved a media application by the CBC. The courtroom was packed as the submissions got under way Monday. The final arguments are expected to run two weeks...

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UK: Fury at equality watchdog after it calls for teachers to ask 11-year-olds if they are gay

Posted on March 28, 2011
Daily Mail: Children as young as 11 could soon be asked about their sexuality without their parents? consent, it has emerged. Teachers, nurses and youth workers are being urged to set up pilot studies aimed at monitoring adolescent sexual orientation for the first time...

Pro-life march in Spain draws over 150,000 participants

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeSitenews: "An estimated 150,000-plus pro-lifers gathered to celebrate life and protest a new abortion law in Madrid on Sunday. Hundreds of others marched in over 80 Spanish cities, including Barcelona, Oviedo, Zaragoza and Las Palmas, and internationally on March 25 as part of recognition for the International Day of the Unborn Child...

Video: Pro-Homosexuals at Brown University Get Violent with Traditional Marriage Group

Posted on March 28, 2011
Christian Newswire (links to video): Volunteers from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) visited Brown University during their state-wide tour for traditional marriage in Rhode Island. While peacefully demonstrating on the Ivy League campus, their pro-family banner was vandalized and a volunteer was spat upon in the face.

EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

Posted on March 28, 2011
Telegraph: Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.

Iranian Video Says Mahdi is ?Near?

Posted on March 28, 2011
CBN (includes video): New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi--or Islamic messiah--is about to appear.

Canada: ?More victims if polygamy decriminalized: lawyer?

Posted on March 28, 2011
CTVBC.ctv.ca (video): A lawyer for the B.C. government warns that making Canada the only western country to legalize polygamy would make more victims out of society's most vulnerable people.

?US Immigration Judge Suspends Deportation of Gay Spouse?

Posted on March 28, 2011
VOANews: For the first time, a U.S. judge has suspended the deportation of the foreign-born same-sex spouse of an American citizen.

School Districts Could Sue State of Texas

Posted on March 28, 2011
MyFoxDFW.com: With massive cuts to education appearing more likely, Texas school districts may take drastic action and sue the state.

Team Identifies Genetic Link to Attempted Suicide

Posted on March 28, 2011
Newswise.com: "Johns Hopkins scientists, reporting in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, have identified a small region on chromosome 2 that is associated with increased risk for attempted suicide."

House Democrats returning to Indiana

Posted on March 28, 2011
Chicago Tribune: The Democrats have been caucusing in Illinois for more than a month. Their absence has prevented a quorum in the House, which prohibits work on legislation. The Democrats originally left in protest of a bill that would have made Indiana a "Right to Work" state...

Judicial Nominees Disclose 7 Figure Net Worths

Posted on March 28, 2011
Blog of the Legal Times: Two nominees for the federal bench, both with ties to large law firms, each has a net worth in seven figures, according to financial disclosure reports they submitted to the U.S. Senate.

ACLU Demands That Schools Stop Filtering LGBT Web Content

Posted on March 28, 2011
ACLU: The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Michigan and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri sent letters to public high schools today demanding that the schools stop viewpoint-based censorship of web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities...

Brazilian pastor condemned to prison for spanking children, loses mind

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeSiteNews: "A Brazilian pastor from the nation?s Amazonas region has become mentally ill following his imprisonment for spanking his two daughters, according to local media reports."

Canadian election call killed pro-homosexual bills

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeSiteNews: The controversial ?transgender? bill died on the order paper after the Canadian Parliament was dissolved over the weekend with the election call for May 2nd. Bill C-389, which sought to add ?gender identity? and ?gender expression? to the Canada Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code?s hate crimes section, had moved to the Senate after it passed in the House of Commons February 9th in a vote of 143-135.

US Bishops: Drop non-discrimination protections for ?sexual orientation? and ?gender identity?

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeSiteNews: Recognizing ?sexual orientation? and ?gender identity? as grounds for non-discrimination in new federal housing regulations could require faith-based groups to violate their religious beliefs, warned the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) last week.

Abortion facility tries to stop pro-life video with real abortion footage

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeSiteNews: "Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek reports that the Northland Family Planning Centers in Michigan are none too pleased that footage of a late-term baby being actually dismembered has been spliced with shots from their advertizing video about how ?everyday good women? get abortions...

?Illinois gay civil unions threatens to force Catholic Charities out of adoptions?

Posted on March 28, 2011
Government officials in Illinois are reconsidering the Catholic Church?s involvement in adoptions after gay activists complained that the Church refuses to give up children to homosexual couples who have obtained a ?civil union? under the new civil union law.

Federal Court Refuses To Dismiss Challenge To Zoning Denial For Bible Camp

Posted on March 28, 2011
Religion Clause Blog: in Eagle Cove Camp and Conference Center, Inc. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, (WD WI, March 24, 2011), a Wisconsin federal district court rejected ripeness and jurisdictional defenses put forward by a Wisconsin town in a challenge to its denial of zoning approval for a year-round Bible camp.

Bills to remove sodomy ban faces uphill battle in the Texas legislature

Posted on March 28, 2011
American Statesman: "Homosexual conduct" is still on the books as a crime in Texas eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. But legislation to bring Texas law into line with the U.S. Constitution faces a rough ride through the Legislature ...

Washington Post: ?Nominee for Federal Circuit deserves a hearing?

Posted on March 28, 2011
Washington Post: "DuMont, an appellate specialist, to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit . . . There is no evidence that Mr. DuMont?s sexual orientation has played a role in the delays. We certainly hope it hasn?t."

Boston Globe says ?gay marriage no longer divisive political issue?: Article comments say otherwise

Posted on March 28, 2011
Mark Arsenault writes at Boston Globe: "Once guaranteed to whip up voter opposition, same-sex marriage is losing much of its bite as a political wedge issue, undercut by greater concerns about the economy and growing support for gay marriage among voters...

A Girl?s Nude Photo, and Altered Lives

Posted on March 28, 2011
In less than 24 hours, the effect was as if Margarite, 14, had sauntered naked down the hallways of the four middle schools in this racially and economically diverse suburb of the state capital, Olympia. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of students had received her photo and forwarded it.

States Struggle With Minors? Sexting

Posted on March 28, 2011
NY Times: In the last two years, legislators have been weighing graduated responses to sexting between minors. Some legal scholars refer to the images as ?self-produced child pornography.?

OH House Bill 125: Abortion limitation creating cold feet

Posted on March 28, 2011
Columbus Dispatch: "Ohio Right to Life, the state?s largest anti-abortion advocacy group, fears House Bill 125 ? to outlaw abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, generally six or seven weeks into a woman?s pregnancy ? could backfire."

Philippines: Reproductive Health-Abortion Bill Fails to Pass

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeNews: The controversial ?Reproductive Health (RH) Bill? opposed by pro-life groups because it advances a contraception-birth control agenda that could lead to the eventually promotion and advancement of abortion, has failed.

Virginia Gov. McDonnell Signs Bill, Cracks Down on Abortion Centers

Posted on March 28, 2011
LifeNews: Abortion centers in Virginia have not been subject to strict regulations for more than 20 years. The new bill the legislature approved will make sure abortion clinics are regulated as hospitals instead of physician?s offices, a move that will protect women?s health, reduce abortions, and could cause problematic abortion centers to close

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