Daily Archives: March 26, 2008

ADF attorney Mike Johnson’s most recent interview on the Zeb Bell Show is available on this mp3 file.  The interview is just over 19 minutes.  They discuss a variety of issues.

“We are unable to comply with your request for a name change based on the documentation you sent because of the Defense of Marriage Act,” the letter of refusal to Jason Hair-Wynn stated.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund representing the town of Greece have responded in federal court to a lawsuit over the town’s practice of allowing prayer at its council meetings.

Religion Clause blog reports on the ruling in Pierce v. County of Orange, No. 05-55829 (9th Cir., March 24, 2008)

The rate of marriages in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1862, provisional figures show.

Mombian, a blog that offers “sustenance for lesbian moms” reports: If you happen to own shares of Wells Fargo, make sure to open the proxy statement you should have received recently, and take the time to vote your proxy. Item …

More than 400 children were found working as prostitutes in Las Vegas during a single month last year, according to a national report that calls the city a hub for child sex trafficking.

An Ohio woman says the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is grounds for barring her ex-partner from sharing custody with her son.

365Gay.com reports: The Roman Catholic Church is escalating its opposition to a British Columbia government teacher guide that encourages diversity in the public school system. This week the Catholic Civil Rights League, a lay group, urged parents to protest against …

Does living together before marriage increase the chances for a successful marriage? The answer may surprise some.

On Tuesday, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed into law LB 606, which prohibits the state funding of human cloning for any purpose.

. . . this case presents such a closely analogous context that Van Orden controls, and the display at issue does not violate the Establishment Clauses.

The California Court of Appeal agreed Wednesday to a request by attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund to reconsider a Feb. 28 decision making most homeschooling a crime in the state.

The Baltimore City Council has passed a resolution supporting a separate state Senate bill that would give same-sex couples the right to a civil marriage. The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act [HB 351], introduced by Sen. Richard Madaleno Jr., a Montgomery County Democrat, distinguishes civil from religious marriage.

Jim Brown reports at OneNewsNow:

Transgender activists will descend on Capitol Hill next month to lobby members of Congress to include “gender identity and expression” in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

he American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal suit against the Okeechobee County School Board in November 2006 on behalf of the Gay-Straight Alliance and its then-current president Yasmin Gonzalez saying the school was illegally barring the club from meeting on school grounds . .

A new state law that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has Hoosier bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge.

Now any “adult” stores will not be permitted within 500 feet of a church or school.

One must wonder, then, whether taxpayers should continue to support an organization that is flush with money, has beenwilling to skirt or ignore laws intended to protect the people it claims to serve and may be targeting minorities with a practice many Americans believe immoral.

Czech ministers [are] plan[ning] controversial bills that would enable single women to undergo artificial fertilisation and homosexuals to adopt their partners’ children [in order to] positively effect the demographic development in the country, Martin Fendrych writes in weekly Tyden out Tuesday.

Archbishop Nicolas Cotugno of Montevideo voiced opposition this week to a proposed law put forth by the government of Uruguay that would allow homosexual couples to adopt children.

Five state health investigators are joining in to help stem the spread of syphilis is San Diego County, where there’s been a 1,100 percent rise in syphilis cases between 2000 and 2007.

“Something is very wrong when young people, doing what hundreds of thousands of other kids do, are condemned for life on sex registries next to rapists and real pedophiles. There’s no justice in that . . .”

Only two cities in Europe have refused to participate in a campaign by Europe’s leading homosexual lobby group to force the leaders of Europe’s cities to allow the homosexual “Gay Pride” demonstrations.

The Alaska House on Tuesday voted to approve a bill to ban partial-birth abortions in the state by updating the language in the state ban to conform with the language in the federal one.

The Ukrainian authorities are preparing to break up the Church in Ukraine, and this could take place as early as this year, Kremlin-connected political scientist Sergey Markov claimed.

All major religions have produced rules of civil governance and one now seeks to provide, more or less successfully, frameworks for constituting states through constitutional law.

Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part I): Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion Mark C. Modak-Truran, 27 Miss. C. L. Rev. 159 (2008) As part of a larger project challenging and moving beyond the pre-modern and modern paradigms, this …

They do NOT like the fact that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has become more serious about enforcing decency standards. And they are throwing corporate temper tantrums.

By comparison, it is rather debatable whether either these worldviews or interpretations can realistically be situated on a linear spectrum, with the “religionists” at one end and the “secularists” at the other. A better but decidedly more complex approach might be to envision them within a multi-axis framework. . .

I show that while the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence unquestionably protects a right not to be a gestational parent as a fundamental right, it does not compel recognizing a right not to be a genetic parent, when genetic parenthood is unbundled from the obligations of legal and gestational parenthood.

. . . the Supreme Court did something else entirely: It insulated American law from the international variety.

The Netherlands is bracing for a new round of violence at home and against its embassies in the Middle East. The storm would be caused by “Fitna,” a short film that is scheduled to be released this week . . .

Across the United States, Muslims who find that a public school education clashes with their religious or cultural traditions have turned to home schooling.

A new lawsuit in Iowa challenges the exclusion of religious charities from the list of organizations eligible to receive donations through a charitable giving program for state employees.

The board reprimanded Noesen and ordered him to attend ethics classes. He was allowed to keep his license as long as he informs all future employers in writing that he won’t dispense birth control pills and outlines steps he will take to make sure a patient has access to medication.

Their research discovered that 45% have pro-homosexual clubs. Many of these clubs share in the movement’s radical goal – to force social acceptance of unnatural vice on Christian America, and gag expressions of free speech that oppose the movement’s ideological agenda.

A legislative committee charged with hearing Vermonters’ views on same-sex marriage will release its long-awaited report next month, but members are tight-lipped as to what its final contents will be.