Daily Archives: April 22, 2008

“Would the hundreds of men who paid to have sex with “Alicia” have cared if they knew she was being held captive by a trafficker who raped her and pimped her, and that she was infected with HIV?”

The Iowa House handed pro-life advocates a victory on Monday night when it voted to remove taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business from the state budget.

Supporters of a proposed state constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriages have revived the proposal.

“Today the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released a new guide to provide human resource and other employment professionals with best practices for advancing transgender workplace inclusion.”

“. . . The APA is getting, I believe, a lot of pressure from within their own ranks of people who feel that they are shutting out the religious dimension. I think they are beginning to heed that.”

. . . some governments are still reluctant to allow religious speakers to use public property. One such government is the New York City Board of Education, which has been defending its exclusion of the Bronx Household of Faith from meeting space for years . . .

Alliance Defense Fund sponsors fourth annual “Day of Truth” to allow students to express Christian viewpoint on homosexual behavior, reports ADF Media Relations.

“Shi Weihan, a Chinese bookstore owner in Beijing, has been rearrested for publishing Bibles and Christian literature during a time when a shortage of such materials has been reported in China.”

ut more troubling is the planned separation from their parents of all other children who had been living at the Yearning for Zion ranch, including infants still being nursed by their mothers, even though there doesn’t appear to be clearcut evidence that at least many of them were neglected or physically abused, according to the Dallas Morning News and other media reports.

“Muslims converting to Christianity is a thorny issue almost anywhere in the world, but recently U.K. media attention has focused in on the persecution of former Muslims not in foreign land but in its own backyard.”

“Operation Rescue is asking the Kansas Legislature to take action to compel the Executive and Judicial branches to stop engaging in lawless acts to cover-up for abortion wrongdoing.”

“The group’s Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute in March unveiled a nonpartisan project to attract LGBT individuals who want to work for the next president . . . ”

“And today, through newspapers, blogs, websites, radio talk and even television, we’re coming of age and shaping American politics every single day.”

Hundreds of villagers have flocked to a remote Indian village to see a baby girl who was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned in a mound of mud by her mother, officials said on Tuesday . . .

A newly released video of a 2007 appearance of Francis Cardinal Arinze shows the cardinal addressing the issue of Catholic politicians who support permissive abortion laws but also present themselves for Holy Communion.

With the Supreme Court’s increasing deference to the people, it falls to the American public to weigh such unsupported rhetoric in light of increasing evidence of abortion’s negative impact, and to decide issues of abortion policy wisely — just as the Founders trusted them to do.

This Friday, April 25, 2008, the pro-homosexual indoctrination of children in our public schools comes to a boil.

“The Wichita City Council held off granting licenses to three After Dark Video stores this morning because council member Jeff Longwell suspects at least one of the sexually oriented businesses has building code violations.”

The state needs more robust laws to quickly shut down strip clubs and bars where minors are found performing, Attorney General Greg Abbott said today.

“66 per cent of respondents think the Roe vs. Wade ruling should not be overturned.”

Concerned that the military is selling pornography in exchange stores in spite of a ban, one lawmaker has introduced a bill to clean up the matter.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation says a prayer breakfast with Supreme Court Justice-elect Michael Gableman is unconstitutional . . .

“This is the first case I know of that upholds a display of a picture of Jesus,” Douglas Laycock, professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School . . . “It is significant.” (photo: ADF attorney Mike Johnson)

“The fact that we will turn in 1.1 million signatures is unprecedented, coming from the grassroots and the churches of this state. . . ” said Ron Prentice of the California Family Council

Pro-lifers hope to muster the votes to override the Kansas governor’s veto of a bill aimed at strengthening late-term abortion laws.

. . . Opponents of abstinence education contend that these programs fail to influence teen sexual behav­ior. At this stage, the available evidence supports neither this assessment nor the wholesale dismissal of authentic abstinence education programs . . .

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth . . .

The Religion Clause blog reports that the EU won’t challenge Ireland’s religious organizations exemption from its equal opportunity laws at least for now.  “Apparently the EUs decision not to proceed with enforcement is an attempt to assuage Irish feelings before …

I am here to say that women have been poorly served by the way work and home balance has been framed. The trend of increasing educational attainment and labor force participation of married women began at the turn of the twentieth century, well before the modern feminist movement.

Religion Clause blog links to the 15 page report titled: Churches and Campaign Activity: Analysis Under Tax and Campaign Finance Laws, (April 14, 2008). See page two of the report for a summary.

A casual walk through any women’s clothing store readily demonstrates that modesty is not in fashion. This holds true for the young ladies as well. Fashion designers seem to believe every five year old girl ought to reveal her body …

“Now, polygamists are trying to ride on the liberal wave of nonjudgmentalism and of hostility to traditional marriage. Who are we to say what marriage is? As liberal democrats, we’ve said it before, and have to again.”

Mark O’Brien reports in Legal Technology News on the development of a new web based software service designed to help law firms manage their pro bono. ProBonoManager

. . . the ongoing persecution of the Ahmadiyya, a small Muslim sect founded in late 19th century India, underscores Indonesia’s – and the Muslim world’s – trouble guaranteeing a bedrock democratic value: freedom of conscience.

“Two new studies presented at the National Press Club provide encouraging findings about abstinence education.”

“We are satisfied that reasonable suspicion is not needed for customs officials to search a laptop or other personal electronic storage devices at the border,” Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain wrote.