Monthly Archives: August 2007

Yesterday afternoon a Polk County, Iowa, trial court granted summary judgment to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and their test plaintiffs, holding that Iowa’s Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and is stricken from the Iowa Code, ordering the …

In May 2007, pro family groups and citizens signed a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asking that he enforce the Military Honor and Decency Act, 10 U.S.C. § 2489. The Act bans the sale or rental of “sexually …

Diversity, diversity, diversity! This is oftentimes the war hymn and battle cry of organizations committed to the proliferation of homosexual and alternative lifestyles. Yet, when it comes to the actual practice of what they preach, homosexual activists are remarkably intolerant. …

Peter Gentala describes the situation and links to the court order over at the AZ Policy Blog.

Jackie Goldberg has an article in yesterday’s LA Times entitled, Going past domestic partnership: The same-sex unions law I wrote was never supposed to be an excuse not to legalize marriage for all. Goldberg’s article makes an illogical leap from …

ADF Attorney David French has this post over at the National Review Phi Beta Cons blog. Tamar Lewin has written a NY Times article on the same topic entitled: Universities Install Footbaths to Benefit Muslims, and Not Everyone Is Pleased. …

At How Appealing, Howard Bashman links to an en banc ruling today by the D.C. Circuit holding that a terminally ill patient does not have a right to access potentially life-saving drugs not yet fully approved by the government. Apparently, …

As we noted earlier, the 10th Circuit has issued a new decision striking down the Oklahoma law denying recognition to out-of-state same-sex adoptions, as violating the federal Full Faith & Credit Clause (“FFCC”). The decision highlights the difference in treatment …

The AP reports on Friday’s ruling in Finstuen v. Crutcher, No. 06-6213 (10th Cir. August 3, 2007). Oklahoma amended its statute to prohibit recognition of foreign same sex adoptions. The relevant statute provides: § 7502-1.4. Foreign adoptions A. The courts …

Any family that has more than two children risks being shunned and stared at in today’s society which promotes contraception, abortion, malthusianism, and rabid environmentalism. But, one Arkansas family just brought the conflict between the culture of life and the …