Daily Archives: August 13, 2008

A group promoting anti-religious causes has dropped a legal bid to end baptisms in Italy after an Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney became involved on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church and a bishop.

Maricopa Unified School District officials have reversed course and will allow the distribution of fliers by a local church on campus. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed suit July 24 after a church and its pastor were told that they would not be permitted to distribute their fliers to students. District policy allows nonprofit organizations to distribute literature, but only if the fliers do not contain religious material.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled Thursday that an ordinance restricting the distribution of religious literature in Granite City is unconstitutional, upholding a previous district court ruling. The Alliance Defense Fund has provided funding for the case, being litigated by an ADF-allied attorney, for more than four years.

But Pat Trueman, special counsel to the Alliance Defense Fund and former chief obscenity prosecutor for the Justice Department, says that is not accurate.

Although polygamy is banned in the Netherlands, the marriages of Muslims who have several wives are recognised by Dutch authorities.

In this post, I want to focus on the important principle that arises out of the view (held by most sane people) that once a baby is born, regardless of whether it was wanted or not, it should receive the same care as any other baby.

The national platform approved at a Democratic Platform Committee meeting in Pittsburgh on Saturday includes language that calls for repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy implemented by Democratic President Bill Clinton and for allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military.

National Review’s Peter Robinson interviews Richard Brookhiser – author of What Would the Founders Do? and George Washington on Leadership – on his Uncommon Knowledge program.

We’ve done some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and in Italy every young couple would have to have four children in order to stop the population decline that’s currently underway.

Women who choose to abort an unwanted pregnancy may experience feelings of grief and loss, but there is no evidence that a single abortion causes significant mental health problems, a panel of the American Psychological Association reported after two years of study.

The CSU, moreover, established itself as the embodiment of a regional patriotism—stronger south than north of the Danube—that fuses Bavaria’s thousand-year history with (mainly Catholic) Christianity

The Catholic bishops’ conference of New Zealand has offered voters guidance on the expected election, saying that social and economic policies must be “in the service of human dignity and a humane society, in which every person matters.”

A Gatineau couple, already accused of pimping at least three teen girls as sex slaves, now face new charges of human trafficking.

A homosexual activist has appealed a decision of the Canadian Human Rights Commission which dismissed his legal complaint charging a Catholic magazine with making derogatory remarks about homosexuals for stating the Catholic teaching on sexual ethics.

Three evangelical churches in the capital of South Ossetia have been damaged by the conflict between Russia and Georgia, according to reports.

Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat who opposes abortion rights, will be a featured speaker at the party’s national convention, officials said Wednesday.

Support the Rev. Jim Wallis’s “abortion-reduction agenda,” with its economic support for pregnant women and greater access to adoption as part of the Democratic platform.

In spite of what might have been noble congressional intentions, the CDA was awful.

Entice Adult Superstore will drop plans to appeal a ruling upholding Floyd County’s sexually oriented business ordinance under a settlement agreement accepted Tuesday by the Floyd County Commission.

An adult video store’s window display has drawn complaints from passers-by but the town’s zoning enforcement officer said it does not violate the local ordinance.

Each year, through its Dan Bradley Award, the NLGLA recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.

Many adults in Canada believe politics and religion should not mix, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 66 per cent of respondents think it is inappropriate for political candidates to talk about their religious beliefs as part of their political campaigns.

There are signs of vandalism at the headquarters for Dubuque County Right to Life. There is silly string on the doors and windows, and flowers ripped from the ground.

The plan to build a new Planned Parenthood clinic in northeast Portland is almost a done deal but anti-abortion protesters believe they can still stop the development from happening.

Cherry said Asbury’s problems began when she went to Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia in February 2003 to have the contraceptive implant rods removed from her arm. The rods released hormones into her blood stream to prevent pregnancy.

Even within the “strong Christian family” context though, families’ motivations for taking their children out of mainstream education settings vary greatly.

It is the objective of this Article to move beyond ambivalence, both in order to focus on the extent to which Gonzales can be understood within its appropriate juris-political context and in an effort to glean guidance as to what lies ahead in the fight for reproductive freedom.

Are there ways to acknowledge bonds between parents and their children and children’s dependence upon adult care without “setting women back?”

This Note analyzes the threshold question of whether terminally ill patients have a fundamental right of access to stem cell treatments.

As for their effects on the GOP’s electoral future, education reforms are gaining ground among the demographic Republicans would most like to snatch away from Democrats—Hispanics and blacks—even as it helps to hold on to working class votes.

Although some issues surrounding the taxation of real property owned by registered domestic partners in California have been resolved, gay and lesbian couples continue to face a host of other tax complications.

The Fifth Circuit held that, because the record failed to make a correlation between the Does’ attendance at school board meetings and the allegedly unconstitutional practice, the plaintiffs had not proven personal injury traceable to the challenged action and, therefore, did not have standing to sue.