Daily Archives: June 5, 2008

The Wichita Eagle reports that a 35 year old female employee of a north Wichita strip club was shot today. “Police said the woman, an employee of the club, was not seriously injured.”

The North Platte Bulletin reports: The North Platte City Council took the first step to license and regulate sexually oriented businesses in the city. On Tuesday, the passed an ordinance on the first reading requiring adult oriented businesses to be …

CWNews reports that a majority of Italians support legalized prostitution. The report further indicates: . . . Just 11% of respondents opposed legalized prostitution on the grounds that it would encourage the practice, and a mere 4% opposed the the …

ADF Attorney Byron Babione appears on Reality Check with Mike Monokian to discuss Yuma’s zoning discrimination against a church. The mp3 is here. It runs just over 18 minutes. ADF’s related press release: ADF & Center for AZ Policy sue …

One News Now has this post that links to a post on the Tradition, Family and Property website titled: Battling for America’s Soul: How Homosexual “Marriage” Threatens Our Nation and Faith—TFP Urges Lawful and Conscientious Resistance. OneNewsNow comments: “Published in …

ADF Attorney Glen Lavy appears on the Frank Pastore Show to discuss the California Supreme Court’s refusal to stay its marriage ruling. The mp3 file is here and it runs just over 12 minutes.

The Leonard Link Blog has this post, Oklahoma Judge Blasts “Gay Agenda” In Letter to State Bar. It discusses this report, Judge Blasts Proposed Code Change as Promoting ‘Homosexual Agenda,’ which appeared in yesterday’s ADF Alliance Alert. Leonard Link comments: …

Maggie Gallagher has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: . . . The Texas polygamy case prompted a wide variety of public reactions. As someone who is about as opposed to polygamy as it is possible to be, my first …

Ross Guberman writes on the Legal Times: With the legal market tightening, you’ll want to do more this summer than avoid spilling champagne all over a partner’s yacht. When you sail back from that social event to find a major …

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: In businesses and offices around Seattle, more and more signs are asking people to supervise their young children — or leave them at home. To some, it seems like reasonable boundary setting. To others, it smacks …

“. . . But, the truth is that Iraq is crawling with missionaries and evangelists, both civilian and military, who show little or no regard for laws or military regulations. Why? Because the “Great Commission” from Matthew 28:19 . . .”

Paul Weyrich has this commentary on Townhall that begins: “Today staff of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee will meet with the staff of the Center for Military Readiness. This is believed to be the opening salvo in an …

May’s Marriage Law Digest, edited by Bill Duncan, is now available at http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/MarriageLawDigest.May2008.pdf The digest includes short summaries of marriage-related cases and law review articles from the past month. It is published on the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy …

The Pacific Justice Institute has issued this press release. It reports: . . . But while national attention has focused on the bizarre events in Texas, attorneys across the nation insist that abuses of power by many states’ child protective …

The first thing I will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.”
– Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
July 17, 2007, Address to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund

The Irish Examiner reports: “This means Ireland’s constitutional position on abortion would not be affected by the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.” The commission also explained that, if the treaty were passed, Ireland would still retain total control over the …

LifeNews.com reports: “The Louisiana Senate, on Tuesday, voted unanimously to approve legislation that bans state taxpayer funding of human cloning. The bill prohibits using any state funds on either reproductive or research-based human cloning and the Senate vote follows a …

Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands – or worse, everyone’s hands, via the Internet – and leading to criminal charges.

LifeNews.com reports: “Yale University is in the news again after an art student generated national controversy with her project that supposedly included video footage of multiple self-abortions. Now, the president of the Ivy League school is accused of comparing pro-life …

The AP reports: “The top U.N. climate official says cutting fuel taxes in the face of rising oil prices would counteract efforts to fight global warming.”

The UN News Centre reports: Global and regional pacts must be put into action if the world is to tackle the scourge of human trafficking, a $32 billion annual industry, General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim said today in New York. …

Leigh Jones reports on the National Law Journal: Peking University School of Transnational Law wants to become the first foreign law school accredited by the American Bar Association . . . The ABA standards do not limit accreditation to U.S. …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In People v. Bautista, (CA Ct. App., June 3, 2008), a California appellate court held that a lay pastor could be convicted under a California Penal Code Sec. 289(d) that outlaws sexual penetration of a …

Religion Clause Blog reports: “Jordan’s Public Prosecutor has summoned Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the editors of ten Danish newspapers to appear in Jordan to answer charges of blasphemy and threatening the national peace because of an offensive cartoon of …

The Houston Chronicle reports: The Friendswood Junior High principal who outraged some parents by allowing an Islamic group to make a 40-minute presentation to students last month is now off the job. In a two-sentence statement sent late Wednesday, the …

The Washington Blade carries this article discussing the ramification of the Cal. marriage ruling and its impact on religious freedom.  It indicates: . . . Could churches in time risk their tax-exempt status by refusing to marry gays? That remains …

The AP reports: Police released chilling surveillance video of a hit-and-run accident in hopes of catching the unidientified driver who ran down a 78-year-old pedestrian, paralyzing him, and to show the callousness of bystanders who did nothing to help . …

How Appealing links to the ruling: U.S. v. Rowan, No. 05-30536 (5th Cir., June 5, 2008).

“Gay couples cheer California high court ruling” http://www.abc3340.com/news/stories/0608/525854.html Associated Press The California Supreme Court’s announcement Wednesday cleared the final hurdle for same-sex couples in the nation’s most populous state to wed beginning June 17, when state officials have said counties …

“Certain individuals have not yet caught up. Those people see a gay or lesbian couple and they stare or say something,” said Josh Friedes of Equal Rights Washington . . .

Michael Dorf has this commentary on Findlaw. He writes: Speaking over the past weekend at the annual dinner of an Orthodox Jewish group, Agudath Israel of America, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia claimed that the Establishment Clause of the …

If heterosexual people cannot take on the responsibilities implied by heterosexuality, how can they ask the homosexually inclined person to take on the burden of his struggle for chastity?

In a victory for parents’ rights, the Virginia Court of Appeals issued a 3-0 decision rejecting the so-called “de facto” or “psychological” parent doctrine. In Stadter v. Siperko the court refused to grant visitation to a former same-sex partner over the objections of the child’s biological mother.

Why does the Right side of the blogoshere have less traffic, a smaller audience, than the Left side of the blogosphere?

The town has only one strip club on University Drive near Interstate 595. The proposal would cut the required distance between sex clubs and residential neighborhoods, churches, schools and playgrounds from 1,000 feet to 450 feet.