Daily Archives: August 15, 2008

The establishment of a radical multicultural ideology has fractured British society, given rise to moral and legal relativism, and thus – although not the only factor – has facilitated a sharp rise in antisocial behavior and violent crime, with criminals no longer afraid of the law.

Whatever his role was four years ago, Rove predicted in an interview that the issue would be less important in 2008. “It has a lower profile, but it will be an issue in people’s minds,” Rove said. “The bigger issues will be the economy, terrorism, healthcare, energy.”

Avon has adopted a measure that town officials say will give them more control if an adult business wants to set up shop.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have obtained a settlement from Deer Valley Unified School District officials that will end the district’s prohibition on a Christian student club’s fliers and PA announcements. The district has agreed to change policies that prohibited the meeting announcements and fliers but allowed them for other student clubs.

If California has been among the states that have tried the hardest to regulate home schooling, it’s fair to say Indiana has been among the most lax.

Pro-family advocates say the choice by a New York insurance carrier to grant “family” benefits to a homosexual couple “married” in Canada is further evidence of the decline of morality in corporate America.

Commenting on John McCain’s remark that Tom Ridge’s pro-choice position would not rule him out as a vice presidential running mate, conservative leader and strongly pro-lifer Phyllis Schlafly got straight to the point by bluntly telling Newsmax, “I think [McCain] would be making a mistake.”

The family of a gay teenager who was fatally shot in class blames the school district for allowing their son to wear makeup and feminine clothing to school – factors the family claims led to the death.

To the contrary, they are simply recognizing that all legislation is value-laden. Public policy is always the imposition of someone’s value-system on everyone.

A newly released report by the American Psychological Association is drawing fire from family groups and pro-life advocates who say abortion, even one time, can cause considerable psychological harm to a woman.

Like many of her contemporaries who left Christian homes to attend secular schools in the 1960s and 1970s, Foth-Regner soon came to believe that even if truth exists, no one can possibly know it – and then spent the next quarter century wavering between agnosticism and atheism.

Led by the president of the Congress, 71 Guatemalan lawmakers signed the “Book of Life,” a document in which they commit to defend life from conception to natural death despite pressure from abortion supporters who protested outside the Congressional building.

Last week, Chávez approved 26 laws curiously similar to those rejected by a majority of voters in a referendum on constitutional reform in December.

What the film does, however, is inform parents of the ruthlessly crude view of sex that pervades so much adolescent life.

There is nothing new in the Democratic position.

Congressman Steve Chabot will deliver a petition signed by about 1,000 community members to a Planned Parenthood clinic in the 6500 block of Glenway Avenue on Friday morning, protesting the clinic’s planned move to a new building in the 2000 block of Ferguson Avenue.

The Minister of Justice in Spain, Mario Fernandez Bermejo, received the members of the organization, Right to Die with Dignity, in a meeting and vowed to meet the demands of their group dedicated to promoting euthanasia and suicide.

Jurors in the obscenity trial of a Virginia adult video store were required to sit through nearly four hours of “adult entertainment” in a Staunton courtroom yesterday.

Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Anglican bishop, came to Scotland this week to debate homosexuality and religion.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus to convicted murder Khristian Oliver, who had argued that his Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights were violated when the jury took Bible passages into account when deliberating on his eventual death sentence.

Telling the truth about abortion is the most effective way to reduce its numbers.

A complaint has been filed against a Covington County judge charging he violated judicial ethics rules by ordering a group in his courtroom to hold hands and pray.

The ACLU said Oscar “Diana” Santander should be released while the government appeals an immigration judge’s ruling in May that granted Santander asylum because she would be at risk of torture if deported to Mexico.

“This woman was responsible for the crime,” he points out. “It took a lot of effort to develop a website, to write these stories, [and] to seek money for these stories.

However, he said, “Americans should be aware that such lawsuits may seem far-fetched, but they really are happening … and foreign legal decisions are increasingly cited in American courts.”

This article examines in the history of the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption and the potential impact on adoption of children by gay and lesbian couples and partners, and international recognition of such adoptions.

I argue that Canadian constitutional ideas about same sex marriage have not been migrating to the United States at least not in terms of explicit judicial borrowings.

This is the introduction to a book that explores the consequences of European integration for the application of public international law in the European Union and its Member States.

Conservatives have essentially abandoned the public debate on gays in the military, leaving an uncontested field to liberal activists who have seen national poll numbers rise in favor of letting professed homosexuals wear the uniform.

If relative continuity, and not dramatic change, is the more apt description, then reports of President Bush’s “most enduring” legacy are either way premature, greatly exaggerated, or simply mistaken.

The focus of the Church’s involvement is specifically same-sex marriage and its consequences.

This new book by the Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, though addressed primarily to his fellow Catholics, will also serve to foster a much-needed conversation both within and outside the Church.

A federal court ruled Thursday that an Ohio library violated the Constitution when it denied Citizens for Community Values access to its meeting room on the grounds that the proposed event contained “inherent elements of a religious service.”