Daily Archives: October 29, 2008

The AP reports: “The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a man it says was involved in a shooting early today outside a U.S. 19 strip club. The shooting happened at about 2 a.m. outside Calendar Girls, 16309 U.S. 19 …

Warning: offensive ads and/or photos OnlineCasinoAdvisory.com reports: The hope is that the lure of exposed female flesh will bring new gambling patrons to the casinos. Las Vegas has long prized its nickname, Sin City. But, even though gambling and sex …

The Huntsville Times reports: “Huntsville Fire & Rescue spokesman Tim Cartwright said investigators have determined that the fire at Fantasies Gentleman’s Club was intentionally set, but no arrests have been made in connection to the fire.”

Montanasnewsstation.com reports: The Billings City Council passed a new ordinance on Monday night that will regulate sexually oriented businesses in the Magic City. The decision comes just days after a downtown strip club closed its doors and the council voted …

The Daily Mail reports: A leading Muslim doctor called for gays to feel ‘the stick of the law’ to protect society from their ‘ravages’, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday. Dr Muhammad Siddiq wrote to a magazine for GPs accusing …

Assist News Service reports: Among at least 24 aid workers killed in Somalia this year was one who was beheaded last month specifically for converting from Islam to Christianity, among other charges, according to an eyewitness . . . According …

The Christian Newswire reports: “Three college-age members of the Survivors Campus Life Tour were unlawfully arrested yesterday at the College of Alameda, California, while handing out literature on the public campus. They have been in custody for over 12 hours.”

Ed Whelan has this commentary on National Review that begins: If America’s citizens care to wake up and pay attention before they elect as president a sweet-talking, moderate-posing left-wing ideologue with a history of alliances with anti-American radicals, one of …

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys filed suit Wednesday, asking a Colorado court to cancel $18 million in illegal state contracts awarded over the last year to a Planned Parenthood affiliate and a Boulder abortion provider.

In an earlier conversation it was suggested any extra foetuses could be “taken out” or aborted if I did get pregnant with twins or triplets . . .

“Although no state law requires justices of the peace to marry any particular couple, they may not refuse to perform a marriage for discriminatory reasons, in violation of the Connecticut Constitution . . . ”

The Times Herald-Record reports: A decision to limit military recruitment in Kingston schools is being lauded by a civil liberties group and accepted by military recruiters. Last week, the Kingston school board approved a policy allowing recruiters in the guidance …

The Washington Post reports: Three groups plan to sue the state to challenge a controversial State Board of Elections policy that bans the wearing of buttons, T-shirts and other clothes with political messages in polling places. The Thomas Jefferson Center …

The AP reports: On a recent Sunday, the Rev. Richard Mahan scrapped a sermon on forgiveness. He felt compelled instead to address the economic turmoil battering the nation. “Everybody’s facing hard times,” he told worshippers at St. Timothy Lutheran Church …

The AP reports: “Deciding he could wait no longer to address what has become a state embarrassment, Gov. Dave Heineman said Wednesday he will call a special legislative session to amend Nebraska’s loosely worded safe-haven law, which in just a …

Priests for Life has posted a large ad at the top of the Drudge Report that leads to this web page and open letter.

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Members of the San Diego City Council voted 6-2 to declare the city officially opposed to Proposition 8, the hotly contested ballot initiative designed to protect the true definition of marriage in California.”

LifeSiteNews.com reports: Lisa Miller, a woman who has repudiated the lesbian lifestyle, was held in contempt of court yesterday for refusing to allow child visitation for her former lesbian lover, Janet Jenkins . . . Although the judge deferred any …

KSAT.com reports: An atheist has filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the mayor of San Antonio from proclaiming the National Day of Prayer on the steps of City Hall. Patrick Greene, who filed the lawsuit in federal court Oct. 24, …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Matter of Brooklyn Assembly Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Inc. v Department of Envtl. Protection of the City of New York, (NY Ct. App., Oct. 28, 2008), New York’s high court in a 4-3 decision …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Hope in the City, Inc. v. City of Austin, Texas, (WD TX, Oct. 20, 2008), a Texas federal district court held a church that was prevented from paving over additional parts of its property …

GetReligion.org has this post: Margaret Talbot, writing in the latest New Yorker, has a fascinating piece about evangelical teenagers’ sexual attitudes and practices. It begins by noting that the news of and reaction to Bristol Palin’s pregnancy shocked liberals. They …

Sherry Colb has this commentary on Findlaw. She writes: . . . Yesterday, the relatively conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit confronted just such a question when it sat en banc (as a full court) to hear …

LifeNews.com reports: “An Oregon woman who was victimized by the state’s assisted suicide law is urging Washington voters to oppose I-1000, the ballot measure to make the state the second to legalize the grisly practice. Barbara Wagner found out Oregon …

The Wall Street Journal carries this article by Andrew P. Napalitano who writes: . . . The truth is that the Constitution grants Congress 17 specific (or “delegated”) powers. And it commands in the Ninth and 10th Amendments that the …

The Boston Globe reports: One of the most eye-catching elements of Boston School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson’s reorganization plan – the creation of two single-gender academies – seems to have just one problem: They appear to be illegal in Massachusetts …

LifeNews.com reports: “A new poll of Colorado voters finds Amendment 48, the measure to define unborn children as persons from the moment of conception under state law, trailing by a large margin. A new Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 survey finds the …

The Irish Times reports: THE GOVERNING body of University College Cork will today consider whether or not to allow the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes on its campus. If it gives the go-ahead to the proposal, which …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: Catholic Governor Jennifer Granholm urged Michigan Democrats on Sunday to support Proposal 2, a ballot measure that would allow embryonic stem cell (ESC) researchers to destroy human embryos, and asserted that such a measure is in accord with …

Tony Mauro has this post on the Blog of the Legal Times that begins: We already know, because Carter Phillips has said so, that the tender ears of the Supreme Court justices — and the audience at the Supreme Court …

CNA reports: “Local media in Panama reported last week that the country’s Ministry of Social Development is driving the creation of the so-called ‘Institute for Women,’ which will promote gender ideology, abortion and same-sex unions.”

OneNewsNow.com reports: An FBI child prostitution roundup has resulted in the arrests of more than 600 people. Forty-seven children, ranging in age from 13 to 17 and all but one female, were rescued in the process . . . While …

Deal Hudson reports on InsideCatholic.com: The list of U. S. bishops who have spoken out on the priority of the life issues in this election is now over 100.  The list now contains 70 individual bishops and three joint statements. …

The AP reports: “A 17-year-old boy left at a hospital in Lincoln, Neb., may be counted as the 23rd child abandoned under the state’s unique safe-haven law. Lincoln police say the boy’s parents took him to BryanLGH Medical Center West …

It is amazing that it should be forbidden (as . . . in the U.S.A.) to pose the question concerning teleology in nature in science classrooms in public schools, with the result being that it is permissible to teach materialism . . .

The LA Times reports: . . . For conservatives, Roe vs. Wade (1973) stands alone. The court, in a 7-2 decision, cited an unwritten “privacy” right in the Constitution as the basis for voiding the abortion laws then on the …

Jack M. Balkin, Framework Originalism and the Living Constitution (October 23, 2008). Northwestern University Law Review, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1290869 This article is the third in a series rethinking the relationship between originalism and living constitutionalism, and arguing that …

Based on this examination, I largely ally myself with those who take a supportive approach to expanding parental numbers, but I include some significant points and elaborations missing from others’ treatment of the topic.

This short essay reviews four books examining different approaches to gay rights, and in particular same-sex marriage, including cross-cultural comparisons and discussions of Jewish and Christian marriage doctrine.

The goal of this paper is to emphasize the reasons why homosexuals must be allowed to adopt in Florida.

This Article aims to open a discussion between those multiculturalist legal systems that are largely territorially premised, and those that are largely religiously premised.

Because the ethical issues surrounding human embryo procurement are similar to issues in organ or tissue procurement, statutory regulations of organ and tissue procurement provide a useful framework for the creation of embryo donation policies and regulations

The purpose of this Note is to identify and analyze the interrelated discourses at work in Gonzales, focusing on the woman-protective discourse, in order to reveal the discourse’s origins, expose its manipulations of Casey’s undue burden test, and identify its strengths and weaknesses.