Daily Archives: December 11, 2008

Weeks after voters approved amending Arizona’s Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman, gay-rights activists are looking toward 2010.

The Information Commissioner, a U.K. government body that promotes access to official information and protects personal information, has accused the Health Ministry of refusing to obey an order to release the numbers of eugenic “terminations” in the UK.

Starting next fall, students at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco (USF) who depend on the school-sponsored health insurance will be required to pay into a plan that includes coverage for abortion.

William Allen Pipes, 33, pleaded guilty on June 26 to possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors and was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Michael Schneider.

Wednesday, December 10 marked the 60th anniversary of the U.N.’s Declaration on Human Rights. To make evident the number of people around the world who support interpreting the declaration as protecting the lives of the unborn and the family, a coalition of European groups presented 5.4 million signatures at the U.N.

An abortion clinic’s attorney said Wednesday that he’s subpoenaed Phill Kline to prevent the Johnson County district attorney from taking copies of patients’ medical records and other materials with him when he leaves office.

The Human Rights Campaign is calling on President-elect Barack Obama to implement numerous non-legislative changes to improve the lives of gay and transgender Americans, according to a list of recommendations obtained by the Blade.

The need to find a means of accommodating religious diversity has therefore played a significant role in the shaping of modern Europe and the nature of the accommodations made have varied over time and each has left its own historical legacy which still have reverberations today.

I think Eugene’s key flaw is to treat the university environment and university student-organization system as essentially like any other government program, when they most assuredly are not.

The Land and Environment court has given a conditional go-ahead for an Islamic school to be built at Bass Hill, in Sydney’s south-west.

“We’ve worked closely with Sen. Daschle during his time in the U.S. Senate. Former Sen. Daschle has a strong record of standing up for women’s health and women’s rights and supporting commonsense policies that improve health outcomes for women.

Most people don’t think Silicon Valley billionaires need government subsidies, but Kevin Martin isn’t among them. Before he exits his post next month, the Federal Communication Commission Chairman is trying to put in place rules for a wireless spectrum auction that all but guarantee the licenses go to a company backed by venture capitalist John Doerr.

Branded as a racist for merely stating facts, Moynihan was drummed into silence. Forty-three years later, he’s a prophet. Seventy-five percent of black babies in the United States are born to unmarried mothers.

This paper is a preliminary investigation of what Christian theology might teach us about the nature of human creative activity and its relationship to judging and lawmaking.

This post seeks to explore Deism as it might have influenced the founding, showing that the unorthodox Christianity of early America could in some sense be called Christian Deism.

Connecticut police have arrested three men accused of running a swingers’ club inside a hotel bar.

A Nova Scotia man has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and will be sentenced in the new year.

A Sauk Rapids woman faces a charge of possessing child pornography after investigators accused her of sending images of child pornography through an online chat room.

A WATERLOO man has admitted hoarding nearly 400,000 obscene images of children.

St. Paul Police have arrested a substitute teacher from Community at Peace Academy, 471 Magnolia Avenue, for allegedly watching child porn and showing it to his students.

From June 2006 through February 2007 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified numerous Web sites that offered buyers access to child pornography. Buyers could pay for access by credit card.

A MAJOR investigation into an international child pornography network has resulted in the arrest of 19 Australian men including a retired Victorian QC and a NSW police officer.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation discriminated against a Sikh man from Folsom by insisting he shave off his beard before he could become a prison guard, the state Personnel Board has ruled.

Saying the freedom-of-speech case against the Hermitage School District in Western Pennsylvania would have an “incredibly far-reaching effect,” a federal appeals court judge yesterday questioned whether the district could discipline a student for comments made on the Internet.

In the wake of alleged hate crimes in Patchogue and Brooklyn, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said yesterday he would push for tough legislation in the next Congress targeting ethnic and racially motivated violence.

Successful prosecutions for hate crimes have increased over the last few years, according to a new report from the Crown Prosecution Service.

A Clackamas County, Ore., couple accused of letting their infant daughter die by relying on prayer, rather than medicine, today asked that the charges be dropped, arguing that they infringe on their freedom of religion and their right to raise their children in their own way.

An online poll has found that 20 percent of teens and 33 percent of young adults age 20 to 26 have sent or posted online nude or semi-nude photos or videos of themselves.

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) launched a comprehensive, community-based safe schools program today to address a growing epidemic of anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) animus in the nation’s schools.

Designed to be a protest against the Nov. 4 passage of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, the day’s events drew only scattered support in the Bay Area, the heart of the gay rights movement, and also criticism.

The new Libertas Party, which aims to run candidates in all 27 European Union states for the European Parliament elections in June 2009, says it wants to democratise the European institutions, with an elected commission and a president.

A proposed homosexual-friendly Chicago public high school is “necessary” for the well-being of students, a Chicago Public Schools administrator told CNSNews.com Wednesday.

Following the Huffington Post’s recent attack on the Population Research Institute (PRI) for opposing policies of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), PRI challenged its critics to examine its evidence linking the organization with coercive population control programs in China.

What few commentators have realized is that the next wave of Second Amendment litigation, involving challenges to state gun control laws, will raise an even more interesting question about how the provisions of the Bill of Rights are “incorporated” against the States, and provide an even greater test of conservative originalism.

Although the city ads policy allows for adult businesses, it prohibits ads for churches — even those churches that help underwrite transit service. The policy is at odds with the policies of other Valley transit agencies.

The American Civil Liberties Union says it will sue the Nassau County School Board within a couple of weeks if the district doesn’t grant a Yulee High student’s request to form a Gay-Straight Alliance on campus.

We can ascribe specific rights equally. We can say that every adult has a right to vote, or that every citizen has a right to trial by jury. But we can’t say that everyone has a right to be equal—unless we’re prepared to destroy the cultural forms that give people their diverse roles and identities.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a former Handley Elementary School fifth-grader who tried to sell candy canes with a religious message.

Judicial activism lives. Last Friday a state trial judge in Montana imposed assisted suicide on the entire state against the will of the people.

This article will first examine what is meant by autonomy and pain. It will then look to the current constitutional and statutory law to paint the modern picture of the right to die.

In my view, children who produce and distribute pornographic images of themselves ordinarily should not be regarded as proper objects of punishment. In this context, child protective services, backed up if necessary by the threat of criminal prosecution, is a much more appropriate way of reforming minors and protecting them against the serious dangers to which they expose themselves by creating and distributing pornographic images of themselves.