Daily Archives: June 20, 2008

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund will fight a new lawsuit filed by Equality California that seeks to prevent California voters from having any say on marriage.

The Christian Institute reports: Speculation is growing that the Government’s answer to record abortion numbers among schoolgirls is to start sex education with five-year-olds and scrap the parental opt-out. Yesterday’s figures showed a 21 per cent leap in abortions for …

Newsday reports: “A reputed pimp from South Ozone Park has been indicted on a charge of sex trafficking, the first such prosecution under a new state law targeting forced labor, officials said yesterday.”

One News Now reports: Conservative activists, as well as the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, have called on the State Department to shut down the private school because of its use of textbooks that promote violence against Jews, Christians, …

Reuters has this report that begins: “This week’s start of gay marriages in California has pushed a hot-button social issue into the U.S. presidential campaign, but will it be a sideshow or a main event?”

The NJ Star-Ledger reports: “New Jersey could boost its economy by more than half a billion dollars over the next three years by promptly legalizing same-sex marriage, a California law professor told a state commission today.”

The AP reports: “The world’s population will reach 7 billion in 2012, even as the global community struggles to satisfy its appetite for natural resources, according to a new government projection.”

The AP reports that NorthWest U. Law will become the first “top-tier” school to offer an accelerated 2-year law school program.

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Legislators in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States, have rejected an attempt to decriminalize abortion, according to the news agency Infonorte. The state’s Congress refused to allow the proposed measure to even enter the …

LifeNews.com reports: “Officials in India continue to work overtime to try to stop the practice of female infanticides and sex-selection abortions that have ravaged the nation’s male-female ratio. Yesterday, in a town near New Delhi, a team of officials caught …

LifeNews.com reports: “As it has done in past years, Planned Parenthood abortion businesses in California are willing to shell out some of their abortion profits to make sure they can leave parents in the dark about teen abortions. They are, …

“Churches have constitutional rights and special status by virtue of being churches. This isn’t about political speech, it is about religious speech. The Bible and scripture applies to every aspect of life, including who we elect.”

The AP reports: Transgender youth in New York’s juvenile detention centers are now allowed to wear whatever uniform they choose, be called by whatever name they want and ask for special housing under a new anti-discrimination policy drawing praise from …

At least 14 employees in the San Diego County Clerk’s Office raised religious objections to performing gay wedding ceremonies but were told by their boss they couldn’t pick and choose between marriage applicants.

CWNews reports: “Conservative Anglican prelates, meeting in Israel next week in an alternative to the Lambeth Conference, will announce that they can no longer remain in communion with the Church of England, the London Daily Telegraph reports.”

Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Pennsylvania last week, state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski introduced HB 2626 to extend coverage of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act to lay teachers and other lay employees in religious schools.”

Time.com reports: Several leading porn players are prepping for iPhone 2.0 . . . many porn consumers access adult materials on their iPhones while traveling, because they’re wary of using company-issued laptops or public computers to access adult entertainment.

After a negotiated settlement, Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys secured a court order Thursday barring the city of Grand Rapids from preventing a group of Christians from publicly expressing a religious message at a city park.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled in favor of Alliance Defense Fund attorneys in a free speech case in which a Christian man was barred from exercising his First Amendment rights on campus.

While advocates of homosexual behavior are doing all they can to suppress voter participation, ADF is working overtime to ensure that voters decide whether marriage counterfeits will be permitted in Oregon.

The latest edition of iMapp Marriage News references this paper by David Popenoe of the National Marriage Project. He writes: . . . In this brief analysis, drawing on the best and latest empirical data, I shall review the reasons …

AFP reports that a Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girls’ grounding imposed by her father. Reportedly: The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for …

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4567 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY June 20, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF attorney available to media following hearing in same-sex “marriage” recognition lawsuit Appellate hearing in ongoing lawsuit against Westchester …

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4566 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY June 20, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF attorneys available to media following hearing in crucial Calif. homeschooling case Court of Appeal’s decision made most homeschooling …

“This is what it looks like when courts decide to marginalize a religious belief. It leads to the gradual exile of religious belief from any part of life other than that which is within your head.”

The National Post discusses the Mark Steyn case and concludes: “Mounting a defence of hate charges before the B. C. Human Rights Tribunal is virtually impossible.”

The AP reports: . . . The nation’s largest Protestant denomination is at a crossroads. After five decades of growth, membership fell last year and baptisms are dropping at an even faster clip. A growing number of Baptists see the …

Liberty Counsel has issued this press release. It reports: Today, a couple who worked and lived at Thornwood Terrace Apartments in Lake City, Florida, a government-subsidized facility owned and operated by The Hallmark Companies and Hallmark Management, is filing suit …

The Christian Science Monitor reports: As gay marriage gains wider legal footing, scholars anticipate a flood of such conscientious objector cases. A key flash point will be religiously affiliated organizations that serve the public, such as hospitals, schools, and adoption …

365Gay.com reports: “LGBT rights activists are stepping up their pressure on New Jersey lawmakers to take up legislation that would convert the state’s civil unions law to provide for marriage . . . ”

The LA Times reports: In a defeat for the union movement, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a first-in-the-nation law adopted in California that would have barred companies from speaking out against unions if they received state funds. The …

Citizen Link reports that at a recent UN HIV/AIDS meeting most members of the U.N. referred to prostitutes as “commercial sex workers.”  Apparently, this is part of a larger UN campaign to legitimatize various forms of sexual behavior.

Citizen Link reports: “Conservative lawmakers and family advocates gathered in Washington, D.C., today in support of Judge Robert Conrad, who was nominated to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court in July 2007 and has been waiting for a vote ever since.”

The Jewish Daily Forward has this article discussing ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. It reports: The Alliance Defense Fund — a legal outfit launched by James Dobson and other prominent conservatives in the mid-1990s — has recruited 50 pastors to deliver sermons …

SCOTUS blog has released its latest edition of StatPack which provides some great information on the statuts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings this term. The blog post speculates that Justice Scalia is probably writing the opinion in the pending …