Daily Archives: April 7, 2008

NBC6.net reports: “Miami-Dade police have charged a man they said abducted a woman outside of a strip club.A police spokesman said Jason Wagner, 25, was seen approaching the woman around 4:15 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Crazy …

365Gay.com is reporting that the 7th Circuit case brought by the Alliance Defense Fund may impact the Day of Silence. ADF’s most recent press release on the 7th Circuit Case is here: ADF attorney available to media after hearing in …

Finally, a few other news organizations have picked up on the absurdity of the “mainstream” media response to this story.

http://www.alliancealert.org 1. DIRECT LINKS. Many ADF Alliance Alert posts have a single link that refers the reader to another web site. Some readers prefer a direct link to the source site in such circumstances. The Alert website now offers that …

A federal lawsuit has been filed against a California teacher for alleged anti-Christian remarks made during classroom lectures.

Of the 10,836 abortions done in Kansas in 2007, 5,162 (about 48 percent) were performed on women who lived outside of the state . . . more than 90 percent of the women getting late-term abortions were from outside Kansas.

The children in her new class did not say the Pledge of Allegiance every day, a contrast to the daily ritual at her former public school in Shelburne.

I commend Oregon on this count, as well, because whether I agree with it or not or think it’s a good idea or not, the fact that Oregon is breaking new ground and providing valuable information as to what does and doesn’t work when it comes to end-of-life questions, I think, is very beneficial.”

What we call divorce has become essentially a euphemism for government officials, courts primarily, and social service agencies to invade families . . .

The election showed that, given a clear choice, voters usually prefer a judicial conservative to one with an activist bent.

School choice is clearly making a difference for the better, which justifies expanding it, not abandoning it.

In a society where until quite recently premarital sex was often punished, the issue of single motherhood has been slow to enter the public arena. But now, a new awareness of the issue is raising questions about the status of women in China.

The measure would revise the parental consent bill the legislature approved in 1997 that the Alaska Supreme Court eventually declared unconstitutional on a 3-2 vote.

What shocks people, when we tell them, isn’t the thought of hauling three kids onto a place for a vacation, or even the idea of coming home every night to a houseful of runny noses and homework assignments. What gets them is the sheer financial audacity.

How exactly are American women empowered when abortion is deployed to prevent the existence of American girls?

“A service was held today at the church of st. Peter and St. Paul, in Baghdad’s central Karrada neighbourhood, for Fr. Youssed Adel, who was gunned down yesterday in front of his home as he was leaving his car. An Assyrian, Fr. Adel was 40 years old and belonged to the Assyrian Orthodox Church.”

The superintendent of a public school that sparked a federal lawsuit by teaching homosexuality to children as young as kindergarten has told another worried parent he can review course material, but he has no right to withdraw his child from class during lessons.

LifeNews.com reports: The head of a national group that has helped get Choose Life license plates in states across the country says the plate campaign continues moving ahead. Russ Amerling tells LifeNews.com that the plates are in 17 states and …

Most Christians don’t care whether the eye evolved by natural selection or whether Darwin’s theories can account for macroevolution or only microevolution. What they care about is that evolution is being used to deny God as the creator.

LifeNews.com reports: “A national OBGYN group appears to have relented somewhat in the face of pressure from pro-life doctors and the Bush administration. The board of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has been considering using the promotion of …

Using the Boy Scouts of America as a case study, this paper develops a third category of private associations, quasi-religious groups, and articulates why the category is necessary and how quasi-religious groups would fit within existing First Amendment jurisprudence.

This Article explores the proposition that the Free Exercise Clause was adopted a second time through its incorporation into the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that the scope of the new Free Exercise Clause was intended to include protections un-anticipated at the Founding.

Recent litigation and legislation regarding same-sex relationships in South Africa casts a spotlight on the interaction between sexuality and democracy, but the illumination is partial. It is necessary to explore sexuality in a broader context, including discomfiting sexual practices, as a matter of the democratic constitutional norms of equality and dignity.

The Daily Telegraph reports: A father and daughter couple who are parents to a baby girl had another child who died from a congenital heart disease just days after she was born, according to explosive court documents . . . …

Should the law recognize an individual’s right not to be a genetic parent when genetic parenthood does not carry with it legal or gestational parenthood? If so, should we allow individuals to waive that right in advance, either by contract or a less formal means?

This article urges greater judicial recognition of workplace religious expression rights as the only result both consistent with the Court’s Establishment Clause jurisprudence and consistent with the legislative intent of statutory religious accommodation provisions.

The Tennessee Attorney General has issued an opinion indicating that he believes a proposed tax on sexually oriented business would likely be held unconstitutional.  Op No. 08-78 indicates: QUESTION Is proposed legislation, House Bill 2676, which would impose a state …

Tennessee’s attorney general says the state’s public schools can offer classes on the Bible as long as the lessons don’t endorse a particular religion.

Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify in the upcoming trial of a woman accused of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.

Michael C. Dorf has this commentary on Findlaw. He begins: Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review a ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, granting a small religious organization the right to place monuments …

Lawrence’s scope remains debated because the Court justified its holding on the broad notion of liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and did not apply Glucksberg’s fundamental-rights analysis.

The AP reports on the Chicago Tribune: Nuxoll and one-time student Heidi Zamecnik, who wore a similar T-shirt to school in 2006, filed a lawsuit saying their civil rights had been violated. Indian Prairie Unit District 204 later said the …

ADF attorney Mike Johnson appeared on KFUO with Paul Clayton to discuss the Day of Truth.  The broadcast runs just under 9 minutes. Access the MP3 file here.

Cambridge University has been given £8 million by a Saudi Arabian prince to establish an Islamic studies centre . . . the biggest single shareholder in Citigroup . . . made two donations of £10 million Harvard University . . . Georgetown . . .

Thomas More Law Center has issued this press release discussing last week’s ruling in the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children case. LifeSite News also has this report: Judge Rules Christian Children’s Home which Fired Lesbian Can Still Retain Public Funding …

The AP reports: Police say the last section of the torch relay has been canceled following protests. Previously, security officials have extinguished the Olympic torch for the third time because of raucous protests at the relay in Paris. SkyNews also …

His lawyer told a Scottish court the Muslim restaurant owner has one wife in Motherwell and another in Glasgow – he is allowed up to four under his religion – and sleeps with them on alternate nights.

The dress-up day was not an attempt to promote cross-dressing, homosexuality or alternative gender roles, district administrator Tom Benson said.