Daily Archives: September 16, 2008

The Milford Daily News reports: Residents last night presented specific reasons for the Board of Selectmen to deny a strip club application, while the applicant’s attorney argued in front of the large crowd that his client meets the law and …

The Herald News reports: It’s official: a 1-mile stretch of Route 6 between the Holiday Lanes bowling alley and Westport Flooring is now an adult entertainment overlay district. The state Attorney General’s Office approved the zone as consistent with the …

Online Casino Advisory reports: When Online Casino Advisory talks, people listen, even if they don’t always acknowledge the source of new ideas. OCA has lately been pushing the idea of combining strip clubs and casinos, allowing entertainment pleasures to co-exist. …

The ABA Journal reports: About a dozen lawyers are asking the Virginia State Bar to conduct an ethics investigation of former Justice Department lawyer Monica Goodling, accused in a report this summer of illegally considering politics in hiring decisions.

“In a 62-page ruling issued Friday about the case, the court said that with a ‘wink-wink’ and a ‘nod-nod,’ Family Court Judge Eleanore Garber and lawyers for a lesbian couple ignored those laws.”

Common sense tells us that a mother and child are in a loving rather than adversarial relationship, that the child did not attack or invade anyone, and that, as mentioned, pregnancy is not a “risk” of sex but its natural goal.

To the state of California, however, she is either “Party A” or “Party B.” Those are the terms that have replaced “bride” and “groom” on the state’s new gender-neutral marriage licenses. And to Bird and Codding, that is unacceptable . . .

The AP reports: “The debate over a nativity display at Green Bay City Hall has moved to federal court.” According to the report, the city’s attorney and Liberty Counsel are seeking dismissal of the suit originally filed by the Freedom …

Warning: the reports contains vulgar language describing the name calling. PageOneQ.com reports: “. . . the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint with the city’s Human Relations Commission. City law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation …

The AP reports: “Two boys ages 15 and 11 were left at Nebraska hospitals over the weekend, the first youngsters surrendered under the state’s new safe-haven law that allows caregivers to abandon children and teens as well as infants, officials …

How Appealing reports and links to the ruling.

The Telegraph reports: “The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin’s ideas. It will call ‘anti-evolutionary fervour’ an ‘indictment’ on the Church.”

The LA Times has posted this editorial titled: Act on gay rights bill. It begins: In light of the illness of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Democratic leaders in the Senate have indicated that they will not bring up a …

Meanwhile, a new poll by Quinnipiac University released Sept. 8 found the measure coming up short of the 60 percent support required to pass constitutional amendments in Florida

The Daily Herald reports: Church members, mostly from California, have made individual donations close to $5 million in support of Proposition 8, counting only donations of more than $1,000, according to one Web site.

ABC reports that an American teacher has been charged with insulting Muhammad, because she displayed a picture to university students that depicts him in the classroom in “ragged clothing.”

LifeNews.com reports: “Justice Antonin Scalia is one of the most outspoken jurists on the Supreme Court when it comes to talking about abortion. Scalia repeated the mantra on Monday that he’s presented to college students and community forums about how …

The chapter discusses the various approaches to “internationalization” (focusing on issues of identity, transnationalism, human dignity, global stability, etc.) and concludes that international crimes lack a coherent unifying justification.

In this article, I argue that we must reassess the role and methodology of comparative law so that we can come up with a sound methodological framework to understand better the role of law in different countries as a way of promoting insight and knowledge and, hopefully, a measure of common understanding.

The fact is, the bill’s intention was to mandate that issues like contraception and the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases be included in sex-education classes for children before the sixth grade, and as early as kindergarten.

Government funding of abortion increases rather than decreases the abortion rate.

The rulings of a network of five Sharia courts are enforceable with the full authority of the judicial system as they are now classed as tribunal hearings under British law.

At a Sept. 9 press conference, Johnson announced he is opposed to Proposition 8, the iniative that would undo the May 15 California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriages in the state.

Still, on the basic point addressed by Cardinal George, Obama’s position is clear: Unborn children ought not to be protected by law, and the choice for abortion ought to be legally protected.

Eugene Volokh writes on the Volokh Conspiracy:  Let us begin our view of symbolic expression in Framing-era law by looking at speech restrictions. We’ll get to speech protections in coming posts, but the law of speech restrictions is relevant because …

Sherry F. Colb has this commentary on Findlaw that begins: Defenders of a right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy usually rely on one or both of two independent rationales. The first is that a zygote, embryo, or fetus (hereinafter “a fetus”) …

Religion Clause reports that the Florida Supreme Court has issued an opinion in support of its earlier injunction that “enjoined state officials from including on the November ballot two proposed state constitutional amendments– one that would have eliminated Florida’s Blaine Amendment …

Fox News reports: “A Texas teen claims she is forbidden from wearing a rosary around her neck in school because the Catholic prayer beads are a gang symbol, MyFOXDFW.com reported.”

Les Kinsolving has this commentary on WorldNetDaily that discusses ADF’s Pulpit Initiative.  . . . The Alliance Defense Fund wants to challenge an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code, dating back to 1954, which says non-profit, tax-exempt entities (including churches) …

The Christian Post reports:  Students returning back to school should not be afraid to express their Christian faith through their apparel, says the founder of a popular T-shirt brand. Vic Kennett, president of Kerusso, is encouraging students to exercise their …

  This link is to You Tube video.  Warning: You Tube may carry objectionable content. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uYDxZlRqx4

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:  In recent years, American judges have taken to “abstract moralizing” at the expense of their real job, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday.  As a result, judicial selection has become mired in a political …

The Palm Beach Post reports:  judge says Riviera Beach’s “saggy pants” law is unconstitutional in the case of a 17-year-old who spent a night in jail for having his underwear showing. And a public defender said her office wants to …

[Warning: vulgar language] Shannon P. Duffy reports on the Legal Intelligencer:  An eighth-grade student who was suspended for 10 days after she created a fake page on MySpace.com that depicted her principal as a pedophile and a sex addict has …

The AP reports:  . . . Muslim principles forbid men to take more than four wives. Around half of Nigeria‘s 140 million people are Muslim, and Niger was one of twelve majority-Muslim states that adopted the Islamic Sharia criminal code after Nigeria returned to …

The Hill reports:  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), spurred on by activists and TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, is planning round two against his nemesis: Tom Coburn, aka “Senator No.” Reid’s office has sent word to Senate Democrats …

The San Diego Union Tribune reports:  Supporters and opponents of Proposition 8 on the November ballot, which would amend the state Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, sat down recently with the editorial board of the Union-Tribune. Below is an edited …

The Sun reports:  FOUR teenagers were horrifically slain by Satanists — stabbed 666 times each and then EATEN. The gang of Devil worshippers butchered their victims and roasted them on a bonfire before devouring their flesh . . . Russia …

The Daily Mail reports:  Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project.  Heads of the project have set themselves a goal of ‘creating primary classrooms …

. . . ADF attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief defending the constitutionality of Arizona’s corporate tax credit tuition program being attacked by the American Civil Liberties Union.

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4678 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY September 16, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS:  (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom   ADF attorney available to media after hearing on firing of Christian psychologist Psychologist lost city contract because of …