Daily Archives: June 10, 2008

Citizen Link reports: “The U.S. still produces a majority of the world’s pornography. By not enforcing our own laws against the sale and distribution of obscene pornography, we are complicit in fueling a global industry that sexually exploits and abuses …

The Washington Post reports: . . . Regardless of the reason, the ranks of parents exercising nonmedical exemptions to vaccination are growing, public health officials say. Although the number remains small and involves an estimated 2 to 3 percent of …

Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing yesterday’s 1st Circuit ruling on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the nature of the split with the 9th Circuit. Will the Supreme Court grant review? Volokh comments: . . . …

Eugene Volokh has this post discussing the recent ruling by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission in Lund v. Boissoin. See Alliance Alert yesterday’s post: Alberta Pastor Fined $7000 and Ordered to Publicly Apologize for Statements Against Homosexuality

“We need to start with states where we have the best odds of winning. When we’ve won in a critical mass of states, we can turn to Congress and the federal courts.”

Confirm Them reports: The Senate confirmed three district court nominees today: Mark Davis of Virginia and Stephen Limbaugh and David Kays of Missouri. Sen. McConnell took the opportunity to chastise the Democrats about their obstruction of circuit nominees and to …

The AP reports: A Nantucket man who admitted he filmed himself sexually assaulting at least 30 young girls during annual trips to Southeast Asia over more than a decade was sentenced Tuesday to a 25-year prison term. U.S. District Court …

Reuters reports: Taking a pledge to remain a virgin until married may help some teens and young adults in delaying the start of sexual activity, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. A study by the Rand Corporation research institute found that 34 …

CNSNews reports: “All 84 members of the Congress of El Salvador have signed a petition condemning abortion as an ‘abominable crime.’”

OneNewsNow.com reports: “A Jordanian Islamic law court has annulled the marriage of a former Muslim because of his conversion to Christianity . . . “

The NCPA Policy Digest reports: In March 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease.  This eye-popping statistic made headline news everywhere. Neil Munro of the National …

The NY Times reports: For insights into healthy marriages, social scientists are looking in an unexpected place. A growing body of evidence shows that same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships. Most studies …

The Toronto Star reports: The group representing strip club owners in Ontario is ready to hire a consultant to find loopholes in the rules because their supply of foreign exotic dancers has been cut off for three years. “We’re looking …

ADF filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse an appellate court judgment that overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s censure of indecent language . . .

Tulsa World reports: Henry vetoed House Bill 2633, called the “Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act,” by Sen. James A. Williamson, R-Tulsa, and Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City. The bill stated that “students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork …

Brian Fitzpatrick reports on The Culture and Media Institute: The current journalistic cover-up of the homosexual activist movement’s assaults on freedom is not the same in degree as covering up the Gulag, but it’s the same in kind. It is …

CNSNews reports: A Muslim student who sued because his public high school graduation ceremony was held in a Baptist church has received an apology from Newark’s school district and assurances that it will not hold future events in houses of …

Michael Medved interviewed a Southern Baptist minister, Oliver “Buzz” Thomas, who authored this article that appeared in USA Today on April 21, 2008 titled: ‘Might our religion be killing us?‘ Thomas asks: “Is what we preach — and ultimately, what …

Above the Law reports: At his talk last week before the Federalist Society here in Washington, Justice Antonin Scalia casually alluded to interviewing a clerkship applicant “just the other day.” One could sense the ears of hundreds of summer associates …

Spencer Daily Reporter reports: About 50 people gathered in the commons area of the Gateway North Center holding up signs like “Stop RU-486 – It’s a child not a choice,” “Abortion hurts women” and “Adoption the loving option.” The former …

The AP reports: Internet providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to child pornography and eliminate the material from their servers, New York’s attorney general said Tuesday. The companies also will pay $1.1 million to …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: The American abortion lobby claims to be an equal-opportunity abortion provider, looking out for the needs and wants of all women. Not so. Big Abortion devotes an inordinate amount of attention to Blacks, Hispanics, and Alaska Natives who, …

Legal Blog Watch reports: Last week, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court turned down a petition from Husson College in Bangor to allow graduates of its proposed law school to take the Maine bar exam . . . Meanwhile, two law …

The Village Voice reports: . . . The new rules, adopted in March by the Office of Children and Family Services, now allow transgender youth to request special housing, wear their hair however they want, be called by their chosen …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Philadelphia’s new police commissioner is pushing a more open attitude toward brotherly love in the city. Within his own ranks, Charles H. Ramsey wants to make it safe for gay and lesbian officers to be out …

There is a psychological-emotional attraction to Obama that goes beyond the traditional reasons explaining why people, Catholics included, support certain candidates.

Phyllis Schlafly has this article on Townhall. She writes: Dr. Stephen Baskerville’s landmark 2007 book, “Taken into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family” (Cumberland House), poignantly describes how attorneys advise divorced wives seeking child custody to accuse …

Dennis Prager writes on Townhall: The day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced, I said to my then-teenage son, “David, please forgive me. I am handing over to you a worse America than my father handed over to me.” Unfortunately, …

Thomas J. Coyne reports on the National Law Journal: Professionalism must drive everything an attorney does in his or her legal career. Colleagues expect it, and clients demand it. It is critical that attorneys demonstrate a level of excellence that …

MyDesert.com provides this Q & A with Shannon Minter of the legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights regarding the California marriage ruling. ADF is mentioned in the article.

The British government’s “deep religious illiteracy” is failing society as it discriminates against Christian churches and favors other faiths, including Islam, the Church of England fires off in its strongest attack on the government in decades.

Wallbuilders has posted this article by David Barton. He writes: While uninformed laymen erroneously believe the theory of evolution to be a product of Charles Darwin in his first major work of 1859 (The Origin of Species), the historical records …

The paper intervenes in the burgeoning field of comparative constitutionalism. Adopting comparative constitutional research on gay rights as a case study, it addresses the scholarship that comparative constitutionalists are producing, including the methodology and underlying assumptions about constitutions.

In his remarks, Hildebrand emphasized Obama’s “rock solid commitment to gay equality.”

Conservatism has often had a hard time with science. One obvious reason is that many scientific findings can create technological changes, which in turn can upend traditional social arrangements. Conservatives value these arrangements, and so resist the findings.

Spiegel Online reports: Turkey’s highest court upheld a ban on wearing headscarves in universities on Thursday. The court is likely to rule on a far more explosive issue later this year: the legality of the ruling Islamist-rooted AKP party. In …

The Telegraph reports: Ron Prosor claims that while the UK was once admired for its liberal fairness and decency, in recent years extremists have “hijacked” its debate over Israel. He says his country has been turned into a “pantomime villain” …

Legalizing same-sex “marriage” is not a stand-alone policy. . . Once governments assert that same-sex unions are the equivalent of marriage, those governments must defend and enforce a whole host of other social changes.

Joan Biskupic reports on USA Today: When retired justice Sandra Day O’Connor visited Capitol Hill recently to speak publicly about her husband’s Alzheimer’s, she was greeted as a national hero. Senators lauded her historic place as the first woman on …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Troy Newman appears to be just about the happiest person who ever set foot in an abortion clinic. “We’re winning,” Newman says excitedly. “We’re winning the youth. We’re winning the hearts and minds of the people.” …

USA Today reports: For most of four decades, Southern Baptists could boast of rising membership even as more moderate and liberal Protestant denominations lost members in droves. But with membership slightly down last year, and flat for the past five, …