Daily Archives: February 25, 2008

The Christian Institute reports on the battle over spanking in New Zealand

Isaac Arnsdorf offers this description of the Yale Law school’s admission process in today’s Yale Daily News.

LifeNews.com reports (2.25.2008): The organization collecting signatures for a third try at passing a ballot proposal to provide for parental notification on abortion is halfway there. The initiative requires teens to wait 48 hours for an abortion so their parents …

The Religion Clause blog provides its most recent update on recently released federal prisoner free exercise rulings here.  This is a regular feature on the Religion Clause blog.

“Williams’s comments are a tragic sign of the Church’s weakness . . . ”

The bill bans public funding for human cloning.

“Republican delegates from all across California gathered for their biannual meeting and showed their strong opposition to Governor Schwarzenegger’s signing of the homosexual indoctrination law.”

“The production and distribution of obscene images of people under 18 is already illegal under a 1999 law, but there is no law banning individuals from possessing such material.”

ADF has been advised that tonight Hugh Hewitt is tentatively scheduled to discuss the investigation of a New Mexico photographer who refused to cover a same sex “marriage.”  More details are available in this ADF press release. See also this …

Michael Foust has more details on this report in the Baptist Press: "New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine Feb. 19 signaled he would sign a bill legalizing "gay marriage" -– just not before the November elections."

“Americans United for Separation of Church and State today urged federal agencies to block constitutionally suspect earmarks directing tax dollars to a string of religious organizations.”

” The commissioners met in a study session on Feb. 12 to tighten up restrictions in the city’s adult business ordinance, making the process of opening an adult business as arduous as legally possible . . . ”

AZ proposed marriage amendment makes progress in the legislature.

One makes it easier to get married – removes wait and eases blood testing requirements. The other makes it harder to get divorced – “covenant marriage.”

The West Virginia Values Coalition provides this summary of the proposed Religious Freedom Act introduced on February 7, 2008. The purpose of the Act: (1) to require that the compelling interest test be applied as a guarantee in all cases …

“According to a new poll, only 22 percent of U.S. military officers believe that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly as a fix for recent recruiting shortfalls.”

“Disapproval of gays is an entrenched part of island life, rooted, Jamaicans say, in the country’s Christian tradition.”

He held his wife’s hand and demanded: “You start fighting. Don’t you dare give up on me now. I’ve had enough, stop mucking around and start breathing. Come back to me.”

“So far of 100 mapped, 75 should be on a watchlist,” an official familiar with the project said . . .

“. . . survey evidence shows that conservative undergraduates are less interested in doing original academic research and developing a “philosophy of life” than liberal ones, while showing greater interest than liberals in making money and raising a family . . . ”

The move comes after a 66-page circular from the Bishop instructed Catholic schools to stop safe sex education and place crucifixes in every classroom.

“A Planned Parenthood clinic in suburban Kansas City will turn over a limited number of patient records to a grand jury investigating . . . ”

“The estate of Ric Weiland, a high school classmate of Microsoft Corp. founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen and one of the first five people to work at the software giant, has left $65 million . . . ”

“The U.S. religious marketplace is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds.”

“As the Mexico Supreme Court considers a legal challenge to a new law in Mexico City that allows abortions up to 12 weeks into pregnancy, new reports indicate a teenager has died from an abortion.”

“When they arrived on campus, members of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust quietly held signs, distributed literature and dialogued . . . because they refused to be confined to an area far away from most students, they were arrested . . . ”

“When people hear he was part of the Gang of 14, it leaves a bad taste in their mouths,” said Phil Burress, president of the Citizens for Community Values, based in Ohio.

Why do your colleagues ask so many questions? . . . When you figure out the answer, you let me know,” he said.

WorldNetDaily reports (2.20.2008): In a joint resolution from the Montana leaders, including Congressman Denny Rehberg, they caution that should the Supreme Court decide to change the U.S. interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and allow those rights to apply only collectively, …

The Record, "the independent newspaper at Harvard Law School", has this brief interview with the editor of the Harvard Law Review.

FRC hosts a lecture with David Blankenhorn on February 27th. . .

Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) put a hold on the nomination Feb. 5 . . .

Her suicide note read: “I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does.”

If they want to cooperate that’s good . . . If they don’t, they’ll be the first people since a fellow named Abramoff, and he’s in a jail cell.” . . . Gary McCaleb, senior counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund . . . criticized the tone of Grassley’s inquiry.

Are we born with a specific sexual orientation or does our environment determine that? . . . “Colleges and Universities have become so radical that when someone states uncontroversial and undisputed facts they get terminated for it,” said David Hacker of ADF

“The child could feel a crisis of identity trying to work out their relationship with relatives. The daughter’s husband may also feel an obligation to fertilise his mother-in-law’s eggs.”

U.S. News & World Report has this story indicating that John McCain opted to receive public funds for his election campaign when it was suffering financially in the Fall of 2007.  He now wants out of that system and Democrats …