Daily Archives: September 5, 2008

This piece examines Sager’s and Eisgruber’s theory — known as “Equal Liberty” or “Equal Regard” — and reflects on both its triumphs and its defects. It demonstrates that Equal Liberty suffers from one particular pernicious and intractable problem — namely, that it is globally indeterminate.

Marriage-absence is driving massive social spending deficits. The spending comes around to wreak further havoc on the marriage market.

The Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is offering dioceses and others print ads on stem cell research and abortion.

Stunning actress Olga Kurylenko yesterday told how her mother feared she was going to be kidnapped by sex traffickers.

Developers of Marigold Creek, a community for gay and lesbian retirees, had a purchase deal fall through on 32 acres northeast of Grand Avenue in Surprise and are looking for another plot in the city.

The windowless building that once housed the town’s only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final party.

Posters condemning homosexuals have appeared in Sarajevo ahead of this month’s first-ever gay festival in Bosnia, prompting an international organization to condemn what it called «attempts to incite violence.

Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, OR and Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, ND.

Florida’s Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out two statewide ballot initiatives aimed at ending a longstanding ban on public funding for religious institutions, drawing praise from church-state watchdogs.

Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect’s ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians.

The Allen County commissioners want to introduce a county ordinance today that will require doctors providing invasive outpatient procedures to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and have on-call, after-hours staff in case of postoperative emergencies.

Now that the California Supreme Court has legalized homosexual “marriage,” the state’s prisons are getting ready to perform the ceremonies.

The more profoundly a decision affects a girl’s future, the more vital it is that no one, even her parents, be authorized to veto it. And nothing short of death alters a person’s life more profoundly than bringing a child into the world.

The socialist government of the Spanish province of Andalucia is considering new legislation that could fine doctors up to one million euros for “unjustified and useless measures for prolonging life”, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Spain has created a panel of legal and health experts to consider liberalizing the country’s current abortion laws,

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys will be available for media interviews following a hearing Monday in Doe v. Montgomery County Board of Elections. Groups advocating the creation of special legal rights for the sexually confused appealed a July 24 court decision that gave more than 900,000 voters the right to be heard on a controversial “gender identity” bill.

On Monday, the Arkansas Secretary of State’s office announced that after a second batch of petition signatures was submitted by the Arkansas Family Council Action Committee, a measure to ban all unmarried cohabiting couples from adopting or fostering children will appear on the November 4 ballot.

The news that Sarah Palin’s unwed teenage daughter is pregnant highlights a surprising reality in today’s America: The ultra-conservative morality many associate with the red states is out of step with the reality of 21st century America. Today’s America rewards women who avoid teen pregnancy, study longer and marry later.

Archbishop Paciano B. Aniceto, a prominent bishop from the Philippines, on Thursday said he is confident the country’s lawmakers will not pass a “reproductive health” bill that recommends a “two-child policy” and funding sterilizations and contraceptive distribution.

The Knights of Columbus and the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Evangelization are co-sponsoring a national conference to focus on the effects of abortion on men whose children have been aborted in Chicago on Sept. 8 and 9.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by two men who argued that a “bubble zone” around abortion clinics violated their right to freedom of expression.

On Thursday, Planned Parenthood gave the media and supporters a peek inside its new clinic in Dubuque. The clinic on Central Avenue offers several forms of birth control and cancer screenings.

On Sept. 21, the Rev. Eric Williams, senior pastor of North Congregational United Church of Christ, is calling on pastors throughout the country to preach sermons on the importance of church-state separation. The action comes exactly one week ahead of “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” an Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) scheme to draw churches into illegal electioneering.

The bishops of Arizona on Thursday released a statement encouraging voters to support Proposition 102, an amendment on the November ballot that would establish a legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. “We believe Proposition 102 is in alignment with our deeply held moral beliefs regarding marriage,” they said.

Last month, in two televised interviews and a subsequent statement released through her office, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Catholic residing in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, made remarks that are in serious conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church about abortion.

Three young women who were arrested and strip-searched last month while rallying against abortion have filed a federal lawsuit against Harford County, Bel Air and state police, charging their First Amendment rights were violated.