Daily Archives: September 2, 2008

The Washington Post reports: “A former Marine was fatally shot late Thursday while working as a bouncer outside a Hyattsville strip club, Prince George’s County police said yesterday . . . Police initially said it appeared that Barron, who was …

Pacific Justice Institute has issued a press release that begins: “A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District for its denial of equal access to a Christian club on one of its high school campuses. …

UPI reports: “A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by a New York strip club trying to prevent being stripped of its liquor license.”

Newsday reports: “Waterbury police say a 21-year-old exotic dancer, who died a day after she was found unconscious in a strip club over the weekend, may have died from a drug overdose.”

The Americans United for Life Blog carries this post that indicates: “California AB 2747, a bill promoting suicide, passed the California Assembly this past Thursday by a 42-32 vote. If Gov. Schwarzenegger does not sign or veto the bill within …

Lambda Legal has issued this press release that begins: A gay couple not allowed to move back into family housing at the University of Hawai`i, Mânoa, has settled their lawsuit against the school. The University has revised its housing policy …

Liberty Counsel has issued this press release that begins: Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to spread its harmful propaganda. A new Planned Parenthood …

Abortion advocates are actually inserting religion into the abortion debate . . . Instead of using science, like pro-lifers do, they judge for themselves and for the rest of us which human beings can be killed . . . They play God.

Atlantic.com reports: “A CBS News / New York Times poll finds that 48% of Republican delegates support either gay marriage or civil unions for gay people.” The Nation carries this report: What Republican Delegates Believe. It indicates: ** 9 percent …

The Christian Newswire carries this report that begins: YouTube, the popular Internet-video website, blocked four videos from the pro-life student organization Live Action over the past two weeks, saying that the videos contained “inappropriate content”. YouTube gave neither advance warning …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: “Police used pepper spray and tear gas to quell breakaway demonstrators from an otherwise peaceful anti-war demonstration Monday outside the Republican National Convention, after the splinter groups smashed department store and police car windows.”

The TaxProf Blog has posted a listing of fellowships for aspiring law professors.

TIME magazine offers this report: The long-running battle between gay rights activists and the Vatican has moved into the realm of the dead. With 19th century Anglican convert Cardinal John Henry Newman, arguably the greatest Catholic thinker from the English-speaking …

Legal Blog Watch reports: Yale University Law School far outranks other law schools in the number of clinical opportunities it offers students, according to a ranking published in the September issue of National Jurist. . . . National Jurist ranked …

The Religion Clause Blog has this post that begins: “Yesterday I reported on information that was initially available about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs and views on church-state issues. In the last 36-hours, many additional pieces of information …

The Religion Clause Blog describes and links to the ruling: “Straights and Gays for Equality (SAGE) v. Osseo Area Schools, (8th Cir., Aug. 29, 2008). “Applying a definition of non-curriculum related groups developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a …

“A state Supreme Court judge ruled today that Gov. David Paterson’s directive in May to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries is legal in New York . . . ”

Johnny Rex Buckles, Does the Constitutional Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech?, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 84, (2009). The Internal Revenue Service is aggressively investigating …

Jennifer Roback Morse has grown weary of media efforts to silence opposition to the homosexual agenda.  She has started a new blog urging readers to copy their letters to her so that she can publish them when the so-called mainstream …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: Today’s Washington Times reports that the U.S., European governments and religious rights organizations are making a new push to prevent the United Nations General Assembly this fall from adopting a renewal of the “Combating Defamation …

ADF attorney Joe Martins appeared on Wallbuilders Live to discuss the right of pro-life students to express their views on college campuses. The mp3 file runs just under 12 minutes and is here. Related: Wayne State University denies funds, access …

ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on Wallbuilders Live to discuss ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. The mp3 file runs just over 12 minutes and is here.

The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education has issued a paper that is introduced with this abstract: 163. School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Recent Evidence, Remaining Questions. 2008. Author: Cecilia Elena Rouse and Lisa Barrow In this …

McClatchy News carries this report: Congress commemorated the slain California woman by passing the controversial Laci and Conner’s Law and creating a new federal crime of killing an unborn child . . . The rhetoric was emphatic on all sides. …

How Appealing links to an opinion by the United States for the District of Massachusetts that considers the question of whether the United States is at war. The opinion: United States v. Prosperi, No. 06-10116-RGS (D. Mass. Aug. 28, 2008)

Religious groups for years, as seen in the opening stories, have exercised their religion in public spaces.

Bob Unruh has this report on WorldNetDaily that begins: Officials in Mesa County, Colo., who have been warned by atheists and “freethinkers” that they are being watched, have been told they will get help if they are sued over a …

The Washington Post reports: A ballot initiative on abortion in South Dakota this November could lead to a series of court challenges and ultimately to the Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, antiabortion activists …

The constitutionality of the uniform policy is not at issue—it has been deemed constitutional. We find defendants’ attempts to meaningfully distinguish Tinker unconvincing. We hold that Tinker . . . is dispositive.

Elizabeth Landau has this report on CNN. She writes: It turns out sex addiction, also called compulsive sexual behavior, operates somewhat like a gambling compulsion or alcoholism: It’s about devoting your free time to a behavior that you cannot stop, …

Keith Fournier has this article on Catholic.org discussing efforts by “Catholic” Democrats to convince others that their stand on abortion is acceptable. He writes: People are sick and tired of the lie behind the claims of compassion and the expression …

Santorum added: “You don’t want to see [her] obviously, getting involved in sex outside of marriage. That’s not a good thing. … You take something that is not a good thing . . . and you turn it into the best thing possible . . .

365gay.com carries this article by John Corvino. He writes: Seriously: no matter how many times I hear this complaint – and it’s pretty often – it still surprises me. Of course I want people to think that homosexuality is morally …