Daily Archives: July 14, 2008

OneNewsNow.com reports: “. . . The North Carolina House recently passed the School Violence Prevention Act (HB 1366), a bill that would require public schools in the state to adopt policies to address the problems of bullying. However, the bill …

GazetteXtra.com reports: After several years of quarreling, hard feelings, partially naked women and legal action, Screamin’ MeeMees is closed. City Clerk Jean Wulf received a letter Friday from Jim and Rebecca Halbach relinquishing their adult entertainment license . . . …

The Whitehouse has issued this notice on the Christian Newswire that begins: “On August 18th, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and California Volunteers will host a conference in Sacramento, California, designed to highlight and strengthen the …

Jeff Johnston has this article on Citizen Link. It addresses this question: Do genes really control behavior?  A look at what this study says — and doesn’t say — about homosexuality.

Jonathan Adler has this post in the Volokh Conspiracy.  Apparently, 101 professors at the University have signed a letter opposing the establishment of a Milton Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.  “In particular, they raised concerns that it would …

Arnold Steinberg, a Republican political strategist and analyst, offers this opinion in the LA Times. It includes this sub-caption: “Political mistakes have put the proposed same-sex marriage ban on the rocks.” The author appears to write as a friend of …

SCOTUS Blog has this post discussing cases that present “the author’s own compilation — in no particular order –  of the most interesting and important petitions the Justices declined to grant during the previous term.”  It includes this ADF case: …

Rev. Robert Sirico has this commentary in National Review. He writes: Surely there is a lesson here both for charities and politics. Charities need to stay away from politics if they want to maintain their institutional integrity and do their …

The Christian Post reports: ‘The Evangelical Covenant Church announced this week that it helped raise an astonishing $100,000 to fight the slavery of today – human trafficking, estimated to affect as many as 27 million people around the globe – …

Open Doors has this report on the Christian Newswire: “More than half of Christians in America believe religious freedom should be a high priority in crafting U.S. foreign policy, according to a recent Wilson Research Strategies survey commissioned by Open …

KCBS.com reports: “Same-sex couple won’t be counted as married in the 2010 census, despite what their California marriage license says because the Bureau is playing strictly by the federal rule book on this one.”

The AZ Republic carries this report on the Arizona Marriage Amendment.  The latter part of the report consists of interviews with Sen. Paula Aboud, a lesbian who opposes the amendment, and Sen. Linda Gray, a proponent of the amendment.

The AP reports: Now an effort is gaining momentum to repeal a 1913 state law that has banned most out of state gay couples from getting married. The law says couples cannot be married in Massachusetts if their unions would …

The Temple Daily Telegram reports on the efforts by Milam County to regulate sexually oriented businesses. It indicates: Regulating sexually oriented businesses was not at the top of the Milam County Commissioner’s Court list of pressing issues until the county …

The ABA Journal reports: “For applicants seeking scholarships to help cover law school tuition, the name of the game has been changing in recent years.”

ABC reports: “On Wednesday, July 16, Cynthia McFadden takes a rare look inside the dark and violent world of domestic sex trafficking, where American teens are being lured and sometimes kidnapped into sexual slavery by pimps.” Watch “Primetime: Crime” Wednesday …

Brent Bozell has this commentary on Townhall.  He writes: Religious concerns safely tossed aside, producers are free to explore how best to profit from pushing envelopes. They know that (most) men don’t enjoy watching gay men, but enough do like …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “After months of conflict, the leadership of the Portuguese Order of Physicians has capitulated to government pressure to allow abortions in their ethical code. At a meeting held earlier this week, the organization’s National Executive Council proposed new …

The Scotsman reports: “Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) conference in Edinburgh heard calls that doctors should have to tell patients if they had conscientious objections to abortion or in vitro fertilisation (IVF).”

LifeSiteNews.com reports: . . . In a column appearing in the Washington Post on June 30, one of Uganda’s leading AIDS prevention experts called on the Western “experts” to “Let my people go.” “We understand that casual sex is dear …

The Christian Science Monitor reports on our government’s financial valuation of human lives: “The Associated Press examined the Environmental Protection Agency’s cost-benefit analyses over the past 12 years and came to a startling conclusion: The statistical value of an American …

CWNews reports: “Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi of Douala, Cameroon, in an interview with LifeSiteNews at the Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City, on June 21 said that the West is afraid of population growth in Third World nations.”

Warning: Some images may be objectionable. The Daily Mail reports: Half the children of British-born mothers are being born outside marriage, it emerged yesterday. In fact, official figures indicate that only a minority of children of long-standing British parents will …

CNSNews reports: “Members and leaders from black churches gathered at Howard University School of Divinity this week to discuss sexuality, including how to make churches inclusive for homosexuals and what they say is the failure of federally funded abstinence-only education …

CNSNews reports: “Republicans held an “unofficial” hearing on a bill that would make it a crime for minors to be transported across state lines for an abortion without parental consent after the committee chairman blocked a hearing on the measure.”

The Washington Post reports: “A proposal to define a fertilized human egg as a person will land on Colorado’s ballot this November, marking the first time that the question of when life begins will go before voters anywhere in the …

“The rise of nasty political campaigns targeting elected state judges nationally, coupled with the cost of judicial elections and a potential backlash over the gay marriage decision, has prompted California’s chief justice to hold the first public forum on preserving impartial courts . . . ”

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, until every unborn child is protected in law and welcomed in life. We shall not weary, we shall not rest, until all the elderly who have run life’s course are protected against despair and abandonment, protected by the rule of law and the bonds of love.

Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald says Eccentric Studios, located in a strip mall, is a sexually-oriented business and is subject to zoning laws.

Roe v. Wade will be nullified where none of us have any voice, by a medical profession with an ever-diminishing memory of the past.

And though Harry’s Place did not refer to Mr. Sawalha as an anti-Semite for having reportedly used such language, they are now being sued for having done so.

I don’t agree that Christ’s liberation from sin and death has “nothing to do” with other connotations of liberty, such as slavery and political freedom. Christ’s life and teaching had many ramifications, including the gradual working out of freedom in political, economic, and social spheres.

Funds available . . . for the Federal Prison System may be used . . . except that no funds may be used to distribute or make available to a prisoner any commercially published information or material that is sexually explicit or features nudity.

The AP reports: “With five justices 70 or older by the time the court meets again in October, interest groups and commentators have been talking about the court’s role in the presidential election. One change on a court that divides …

English courts have become a popular destination for libel suits against American authors.

The NY Times carries this report:McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is. McCain is questioned on a variety of topics including this: Mr. McCain, who with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter, said flatly that he opposed allowing gay …

OneNewsNow.com reports: The growth of Celebration Community Church necessitated the ministry finding a new location. A former car dealership that had been closed for years seemed perfect, but the Muskegon city planning commission denied the church’s application to use the …

Nate Raymond reports in the American Lawyer: Is it possible that for once, pro bono will be safe from a recession? Nationally, 2007 was a banner year for pro bono work. The average Am Law 100 firm logged 25,893 hours, …

The Atlanta J. Constitution reports: . . . At age 17, while a high school sophomore, Whitaker had oral sex with a 15-year-old male classmate. In 1997, she pleaded guilty to sodomy and got five years’ probation. Whitaker, 28, has …

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette News reports on the ongoing case involving a NJ student who purportedly taped his teacher prosyletizing in a public school class room. Hat tip: Religion Clause Blog.

The Religion Clause Blog reports on a new Ohio Charter school that is sharing facilities and faculty with a Roman Catholic Church.  According to the report, the school will “maintain a secular character” in part by covering up Bible versese …

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The Religion Clause Blog cites the appropriate legal tests and reports: “Yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports on the growing number of citations in Wisconsin of members of the Amish sect for refusal to comply with various regulatory provisions.”

The Christian Action League reports: “It’s been two weeks since police arrested brothers Jesse and Matthew Boyd for sharing their faith on a public street during the Jaycees’ ‘Hickory Alive’ event. And as of July 11, the city had yet …

In the wake of the ordination of an openly gay bishop in 2003, local congregations have broken away from the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, leading to contentious property disputes over both the real and personal property of the churches.

This paper focuses on the concrete economic consequences of state regulation of religion.

Jeremiah G. Dys, President and General Counsel of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia, has this article in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. He writes: . . . “What other lifestyle that social science tells us is detrimental to the family …

It notes that fragile family structure and marital family instability are strongly associated with juvenile delinquency. It observes that most family law casebooks and juvenile justice casebooks entirely ignore (at least in their tables of contents and indices) the very powerful connection between juvenile delinquency and fragile family structure and marital disintegration.

The presence of the World Wide Web has caused a flurry of interest in revisiting the Miller standard for judging obscenity – particularly its “contemporary community standards” component.

With reproduction in the modern era trending toward the technological, one wonders whether the protections and respect accorded the traditional procreation of yesteryear apply en masse to today’s amalgam of conception methodology.