Daily Archives: July 18, 2008

ADF attorney Glen Lavy has posted this comment in Google News.  He begins: “The California Supreme Court’s denial of marriage opponents’ request to keep the California marriage amendment off the November ballot was its only rational option.”

Men.style.com reports: “Young, single men terrified of unwanted pregnancies, and sick of condoms, are turning to vasectomies for liberation.” The article concludes: . . . there are rumblings of experiments in China with a simple surgical procedure in which tubes …

Leonard Link reports: Judge Lloyd Cutsumpas, of the Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, ordered that two gay men from New York who contracted with a Connecticut woman to be their “gestational surrogate” are entitled to have only their names listed …

News-Press Online reports: “During court Thursday, no one denied that a 17-year-old got on stage at Shotgun Geniez and danced fully nude twice the night of July 21, 2007. The pivotal question was whether or not that was permissible under …

  http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4613 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT July 18, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom Court: Atheist organization can’t sue over treatment center for troubled children Federal judge dismisses suit filed against N.D. officials …

” . . . the measure was sent back to committee, where it is likely to stay as the legislature works to finish this year’s session.”

Quoting Steve Bell, the National Director of Interserve and “expert on Muslim issues”, Christian Today reports: “The West is now the crucible in which Islam is being openly debated and modified for the  21st century. I suggest the outcome of …

ADF attorney Mike Johnson appeared on the Vicki McKenna show to discuss the growing threats to Religious Freedom. The mp3 file is here and runs just under 20 minutes.

The Christian Post reports: Georgia pro-lifers were encouraged Tuesday after residents of the state’s fastest growing county voted overwhelmingly in support of an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that would grant the paramount right to life to “each human …

The PlainfieldStar.com reports: Attorneys for Plainfield and the operator of the Hot Temptations lingerie modeling shop have agreed that the shop can stay open but without adult novelties and services. The shop opened in early June without a license but …

The Free Market Foundation has issued this press release that begins: In response to the Texas State Board of Education’s (10-5) vote today to approve curriculum standards and TEKS (requirements) for Bible electives offered in Texas high schools, Free Market …

A federal judge has again ruled that a Los Angeles city ordinance banning more than one sex-related business from operating under the same roof violates the First Amendment.

The agreement will allow Internet service providers to access NCMEC’s database of web sites identified as containing child pornography. The providers can use this information to ensure that no such site is hosted on servers owned or controlled by any NCTA member company.

The ABA Journal reports: “The capital city of Idaho will have at least one law school in the foreseeable future, as a private Oregon-based university makes formal plans to create one and a state university apparently may see its future …

The ACLU has issued this press release that reports: “The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a brief today in a federal appeals court urging the court to allow a discrimination lawsuit …

The AP reports: “The 80-16 vote committed the United States to spending up to $48 billion over the next five years for the most ambitious foreign public health program ever launched by the United States.”

Healthzone.ca reports: “Montreal researchers have discovered the gene that controls ovulation, opening the door to potential new contraceptives and infertility treatments.”

The AP reports: In the ongoing AP-Yahoo News Poll, only 10 percent of white evangelical Christians say they are excited by this election, compared with 20 percent of Americans overall. A third of these evangelicals said they were interested in …

Thomas Lifson has this report on the Real Clear Politics site reporting on the financial decline of the NY Times.

LifeNews.com reports: “In the most recent session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) meetings in New York, committee members pressed countries on abortion in the guise of talking about maternal mortality, family planning and contraceptive …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Recent brain imaging studies conducted in The Human Neuro-imaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas show that a mother is triggered physiologically by as little as a picture of her child.”   The article also discusses the …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: In the new book ” Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population,” Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly shows how the population control movement created “future projections as evidence” of overpopulation, then justified “casualties” in the war on …

Diana West has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: “Explain the minaret ban,” I asked . . . Discussing the “long progression” of Islam — now 4.3 percent of Switzerland’s mainly Christian population of 7.5 million — into Swiss life, …

Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy. He discusses several recent cases involving the intersection of family law and religious freedom (eg. Islamic and Jewish divorces or dowries).  He concludes: . . . . There are indeed reasons …

Jim Lindgren has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy Blog discussing the recent 2nd Amendment ruling by the Supreme Court.  The debate has now turned to the scope of the right even in the face of new D.C. gun registration …

It posits that the procreative right, properly stated, includes at least the act of replacing oneself and at most procreation up to a point that optimizes the public good.

. . . one could, without doing violence to the overall theory, conclude that sovereignty (to the extent we wish to make use of this concept) in the final analysis resides in the family, the primordial unit of the Althusian apparatus.

The Becket Fund has issued this press release that begins: Angela C. Wu, international law director at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, today (July 17, 2008) challenged U.S. presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to support legislation …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “Hornback v. Archdiocese of Milwaukee, (WI Sup. Ct., July 16, 2008), was an appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of Madison for their negligent failure …

The Chicago Tribune reports: . . . What his neighbors didn’t know is that Michael had decided to convert his $3 million residence into the Armenian Church of Lake Bluff, qualifying him for a nearly $80,000 break on his annual …

The Between Two Worlds Blog has posted this video of an interview with J.I. Packer in which he discusses Scripture and the nature of the battle over homosexual relationships within the Anglican Communion.

The Orland Sun-Sentinel reports: “Riviera Beach police can start cracking down on people who don’t pull up their pants. The so-called ‘saggy pants’ law was put on the books in March after 72 percent of voters endorsed the ordinance in …

PFOX has issued this press release. It reports: “What the article failed to describe,” said PFOX Executive Director Regina Griggs, “is the danger of young sexually confused teens self-identifying as gays at an early age. Research has shown that the …

Citizen Link reports: “On the Senate floor today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed the issue of judicial nominees doesn’t matter to Americans.”

SCOTUS Blog has this updated report on the World Court’s ruling ordering Texas not to execute Mexican murderers. It begins: “Acting on a claim by Mexico’s government that the U.S. government has not done enough to assure the treaty rights …

Despite this robust reexamination in other disciplines, the secularization of law – that the law is or should be independent of any religious foundation or values – arguably constitutes the most widely-held but least-examined assumption of the modern paradigm of law and religion (secularism).

“The lack of regulation of the production of pornography in the United States leaves pornography performers exposed to substantial risks.”