Daily Archives: October 24, 2008

LifeSiteNews.com reports:  According to Dr. Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, and neonatologist and Oxford graduate student Dominic Wilkinson, bold steps may have to be taken to increase the supply of organs for transplant.  This, …

LifeSiteNews.com reports:  With only days remaining before the November 4 U.S. election, a tally has shown that over a quarter of America’s bishops have published articles, issued statements or given interviews where they have declared that the most important issue …

The AP reports: “Leaders of the campaign to outlaw same-sex marriage in California are warning businesses that have given money to the state’s largest gay rights group they will be publicly identified as opponents of traditional unions unless they contribute …

CWA reports: “n their attempt to globalize their anti-life agenda, International Planned Parenthood, along with other international pro-abortion groups like the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has fixed its sights on the Philippines. The Filipino legislature is contemplating a comprehensive …

Baptist Press reports: “Having been out-fundraised by more than 6-to-1 this month in large donations, supporters of a California constitutional marriage amendment are warning they will lose on Election Day unless they receive a heavy influx of donations in the …

MacUser.com reports: “Not only is Apple opposing Prop 8, it’s also putting its money where its mouth is, donating $100,000 to the “No on 8” campaign, and citing its history as one of the first California companies to offer equal …

Baptist Press reports: “Today, BP is printing the transcript of Barack Obama’s speech to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, July 17, 2007. An accompanying story in today’s Baptist Press includes John McCain’s speech to National Right to Life.” 

Baptist Press reports:  Robb and Robin Wirthlin didn’t want to believe their son. In fact, they thought he might have just misunderstood the teacher’s lesson, as second-graders sometimes do. So when he came home in March 2006 and told his …

Albert Mohler has this post on his blog: “‘We’re talking about really refraining from using things like, husband-wife, boyfriend-girlfriend, those kind of things, and just say ‘partner,’ explains Robin Sinks.  She is the health education specialist for the Long Beach …

The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports:  Social service agencies across Sarasota County suffered $1.1 million in funding cuts by the County Commission on Thursday, but only one $12,500 cut generated controversy. Commissioners said the cut was not politically motivated. But Planned …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “With large images of the homosexualist books ‘King and King,’ and ‘Heather has Two Mommies’ in the background, Massachusetts’s parents Robb and Robin Wirthlin warned Floridians about the detrimental effects of same sex marriage on public education and …

LifeSiteNews.com reports:  The annual battle for Christmas has begun early this year, with the announcement that the internationally known fireworks company, Grucci, has pulled out of an annual Christmas event on Long Island. Grucci made the decision in protest against …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “In Geneva last week Nicaragua came under fire for its laws protecting the unborn. Members of the Human Rights Committee (HRC) – the treaty body that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) …

LifeNews.com reports: “Cornell University officials claim a student pro-life group’s allegations of it censoring pro-life signs it displayed on campus are false. The Cornell Coalition for Life says College of Engineering staff removed a display it erected to educate students …

Reuters: “The United States strongly condemned on Thursday the ‘brutal beating’ of two sons of a detained Beijing pastor and voiced concern over what it said was a pattern of intimidation of religious leaders in China.”

The Becket Fund reports:  The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty today (Oct. 24) filed an amicus brief on behalf of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, in the 10th Circuit case of American Atheists versus Col. Scott Duncan, head of the Utah …

The Catholic League has issued this press release that blasting Americans United for Separation of Church and State for filing an IRS complaint against New Jersey Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli for his letter to his constituents on the subject of abortion. …

. . . the NEA has directly (or via state affiliates) bankrolled Acorn, the Democratic Leadership Council, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and, naturally, the Human Rights Campaign, which lobbies for “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equal rights.” . . .

In this book, we argue that judging can be – and often is – both principled and flexible. In other words, we attempt to reconcile the democratic rule of law with the recognition that judges have discretion. We explain how judicial discretion can be exercised responsibly, describe the existing constraints that guide and cabin such discretion, and suggest improvements.

This paper makes a case for an integrated family, and more specifically for the formal, legally recognized statuses of husband/wife and parent/child.

“A Manhattan judge has ruled that a same-sex couple wed in Massachusetts can obtain a divorce in New York . . .”

Clint Williams has this commentary on the Fulcton County Daily report:  The U.S. Supreme Court justice least likely to speak up during oral arguments told lawyers gathered in Atlanta on Thursday that judges should spend more time listening and less …

AsiaNews.it reports: Asia is by a wide margin the continent with the most violations of religious freedom. Ten of the 13 countries with serious limitations to religious freedom are in Asia, this according to Religious Freedom Worldwide – Report 2008 published by Aid …

In U.S. v. Seljan 2008 WL 4661700 (9th Cir. Oct. 23, 2008), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of John W. Seljan “for multiple offenses primarily involving sexual misconduct with young children in the Philippines.”

The Washington Times reports:  From his sickbed, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has secretly been orchestrating meetings with lobbyists and lawmakers from both parties to craft legislation that would greet the new president with a plan to provide affordable medical coverage to all …

“In addition, the report by Russell Wheeler at Brookings, predicts that in four years of an Obama presidency, his appointments could shift Republican dominance on 10 of 11 circuits, to give Democratic appointees a majority in seven circuit courts.”

Michael J. New has this commentary on the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discource Site. During the past 35 years, the pro-life movement has made real progress. The number of abortions has fallen in 12 out of the past 14 years and …

One News Now reports: An ABC television station in Chicago is refusing to run a pro-life commercial. An organization called Caring Outreach bought time to run a commercial called “85 Days,” depicting a baby’s growth through the first few months …

NPR carries this report:  . . . For the past two weeks, supporters of Proposition 8 have been running an ad featuring a young girl who brings home a book called King & King. ”Mom, guess what I learned in school today,” she says …

ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman: “Federal law does not allow a city to put a desire for property tax revenue ahead of the right of a church to meet in a facility that it rightfully occupies.”

The Religion Clause reports: “According to Dominican Today, the court held that although under the Concordat (Art. XXII), the government agrees to teach the Catholic religion and moral education in elementary and secondary public schools, the Concordat does not ban teaching …

The Associated Baptist Press has posted this report discussing ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. It begins: The forbidden idea of churches and other tax-exempt organizations endorsing political parties or candidates has started to sound like a good one, in recent decades, to …

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The Fort Wayne News Sentinel reports: A Washington, D.C.-based legal advocacy group specializing in religious and pro-life causes has offered to represent Allen County – for free! – if it is sued for trying to protect women who have had …

Gary Palmer of the Alabama Policy Institute writes: For weeks I have grappled with the question: what is this election really about? My conclusion is that it is a choice between the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and the policies of …

The Las Cruces Sun reports: . . . Weinbaum, reached by phone, called the decision “interesting” and said he’ll have to confer with his attorney about whether to pursue the appeal further. The lawsuit against the city, first filed in …

The AP reports: Connecticut prison officials inserted a feeding tube Thursday through the nose of an inmate who has been on a yearlong hunger strike and insists he is innocent of rape, the American Civil Liberties Union said . . …

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city of Westminster on behalf of pro-life organization Defend Life.

This Handbook deals with the right to life, as guaranteed by Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and with the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) under that article.