Daily Archives: October 8, 2008

The North Platte City Council was poised to pass an ordinance that would regulate sexually oriented businesses, but postponed final action at the last minute, despite protests from some council members.

The Christian Post reports: The 21st Century Science Coalition has the wrong name,” says Dr. John G. West, Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. “It should be dubbed the …

The American Library Association reports: “Groups of students and parents staged rallies and presented some 85 books on homosexuality from a conservative Christian perspective for inclusion in the libraries at 11 schools in the Fairfax County (Va.) Public School District …

The Huffington Post reports that Planned Parenthood has “dumped” pro-abortion Republican Senator Susan Collins. “It’s the first time Planned Parenthood has backed the challenger to a senator it had previously endorsed. It also seems to be the first time Planned …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “A Catholic adoption agency in northwest England will face possible eviction from diocesan properties if its trustees do not reconsider a decision to comply with government demands to place children with homosexual partners. Bishop Patrick O’Donohue, head of …

CNA reports: “Father Joan Manuel Serra, a priest of the Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, has asked King Juan Carlos of Spain not to sign a royal decree that would modify mortuary policies and would make it legal to …

The Irish Times reports: “FORTY MEMBERS of the Alliance for Choice group from Northern Ireland are to travel to London tomorrow to lobby MPs and peers for the extension of the 1967 British Abortion Act to Northern Ireland . . …

[Content Warning: sexually suggestive content that seems to be standard now in British media] The Daily Mail reports: “The head of the Roman Catholic church in England was yesterday accused of betraying the religious character of a hospital by allowing …

One News Now reports: “A member of Congress wants sex-selection abortion stopped in its tracks in America. Leading pro-life Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) has introduced a bill, called the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, to ban sex-selection abortion — a practice that …

The Liverpool Daily Post reports: A new non-invasive test for pregnant women worried that their unborn child has Down’s syndrome has been developed by scientists. The technique involves looking for tell-tale chromosome fragments in a blood sample. It allowed scientists …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The U.S. Senate passed a bill Saturday that extends funding for Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) through September 2009, reports citizenlink.com.”

The Telegraph reports: “The wheelchair tracks from the Paralympic Games had scarcely faded from the streets of Beijing before the Chinese regime started coming down heavily against the performance of music with religious content . . . The Chinese rulers …

The Politico reports: “With the country at one of its most interesting — not to mention terrifying — moments in a generation, John McCain and Barack Obama met in Nashville for what was surely one of the dullest and least …

LifeNews.com reports: “Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter announced on Tuesday that he will oppose the measure that will appear on the November ballot defining unborn children as persons under law. The measure could set off a debate over abortion and lead …

LifeNews.com reports: “Analysis shows the town hall debate format allowed just 15 percent of the questions to focus on social issues, and Brokaw never allowed an abortion question.”

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports: “A California couple accused of violating the nation’s obscenity laws for running a company that made and distributed pornographic films depicting rape and murder will finally stand trial in Pittsburgh — more than five years …

The Middle Seat Terminal Blog on the Wall Street Journal reports: In a shift, American Airlines has said it is working with the provider of its in-flight internet service to develop a system to block pornographic content. In a statement …

Orin Kerr has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy. He writes: The announcement that both Harvard and Stanford Law Schools are dropping letter grades and moving to a H/P/LP/F system raises a really interesting question: How will the switch impact …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, (9th Cir., Oct. 7, 2008), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld FERC’s granting of a 40-year license renewal to Puget Sound Energy, Inc. to …

The Legal Intelligencer reports: “The sloppy pleading clearly angered Senior U.S. District Judge J. William Ditter Jr., who spent the first three pages of his opinion in McKenna v. City of Philadelphia just describing the errors, adding ‘[sic]‘ after each …

The NY Times reports: With four weeks to go before a statewide vote on same-sex marriage, a study has found that 3,800 gay couples are marrying each month in California. The study, released Monday by the Williams Institute at the …

The AP reports: “Ohio Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that an abortion clinic’s medical records on other patients are relevant to a lawsuit brought by parents of a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without their consent.”

The AP reports: A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law, but the person who left her could face prosecution in the girl’s home state, Nebraska health officials said . . . State lawmakers …

Liberty Counsel reports: “Yesterday afternoon, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) against the City of Green Bay. Liberty Counsel successfully represented the City of Green Bay in a controversy over last year’s Christmas …

The NY Times reports: The [advertising] campaign, created pro bono by the New York office of Arnold Worldwide, urges an end to using derogatory language, particularly labeling anything deemed negative or unpleasant as “so gay.” That is underlined by the …

Nathan A. Cherry has this post on the Blog of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia discussing the relationship between politics, morality, and the pulpit.

The Pacific Justice Institute reports: “Two students at publicly-funded College of Alameda filed a federal lawsuit Monday after school officials threatened to expel them for praying.”

The biological results of such experiments are human-nonhuman chimeras – that is, creatures that contain human and nonhuman cells.

The right to health under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, to which Canada is a signatory, entitles women to available, accessible, and acceptable abortion care.

This article develops four themes concerning where the Supreme Court is right now and where it is likely to be going.

The phrase — “a wall of separation between Church and State” — has become such a familiar refrain in recent decades that most Americans now accept it as a firm constitutional principle.