Daily Archives: May 26, 2011

LifeNews.com: The Louisiana health department, using a 2010 law that gives it more authority to close abortion centers that violate state health and safety standards, has closed the Gentilly Medical Group for Women abortion facility in New Orleans.

: President Hu Jintao of China praised North Korea and its ailing leader, Kim Jong-il, for giving “top priority to improving people’s lives,” according to a report on Thursday night by Xinhua, the state news agency

ProLifeBlogs: A first-in-the-nation law that restricts the abortion industry’s use of abortion-inducing RU-486 survived another round this week in a case that began 7 years ago. A federal district court in Ohio ruled that the law was “not vague” but …

Catholic Culture: Foster-care workers for Catholic agencies in Illinois have been informed that they will be laid off because of the new policy, which takes effect on June 1.

ADF attorney Kevin Theriot at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: We at ADF often are asked what legal issues should most concern churches. And we make it a practice to ask the many pastors around the country we represent …

ADF attorney Gary McCaleb at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: But from that horror emerged the remarkable story of four Army chaplains who acted with uncommon valor—steadying the panicked troops, guiding them to safety, urging calm amidst the chaos. As the ship pitched in its death throes, the four handed their own life jackets to troopers who had none, and with that final act of grace they surrendered their lives for the sake of others.

ADF attorney Greg Baylor at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: In Dante’s Inferno, the inscription over the gates of Hell reads, in part, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” The Plano (Texas) Independent School District apparently thinks that the gates of its elementary schools should be inscribed with a similar warning: “Abandon all rights, ye who enter here.”

Journal Star: A bill requiring parental consent for a minor’s abortion was given final approval Thursday by Nebraska lawmakers on a 41-6 vote. The bill (LB690) . . .

Jordan Lorence at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: John Piper, the influential and wise Christian preacher, recently wrote an insightful blog post about the opportunity Minnesota voters will have in 2012 to define marriage as one man and one …

Washington Post: China’s Communist Party has finally got its story straight. It took 16 years of editing and four extensive rewrites. Chinese leaders, otherwise preoccupied with running a rising superpower, kibitzed throughout.

Washington Post: Though rape is a problem of deep concern to the U.S. military, its health plan doesn’t cover abortions for victims who become pregnant — a policy that indignant critics are now pushing to change. The campaigners include members …

Washington Post: http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2011/05/26/senate_committee_oks_nominee_for_maine_judgeship/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Latest+news

Boston Globe: The Senate Judiciary Committee has given its approval to the first woman nominated for a federal judgeship in Maine.

Stars and Stripes: Conservatives also included language requiring new rules for finalizing the looming “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal and prohibiting same-sex marriages at military facilities. Neither provision is expected to be supported by the Senate, but both drew criticism …

Washington Times: The House is set to pass legislation that could limit or delay the repeal of the ban on openly gay men and women serving in the military.

USA Today: Marriage is losing ground to a grinding economic slowdown that has prompted more couples to live together without tying the knot.

LifeSiteNews.com: As of next September, the new official French science curriculum will require all 11th grade students preparing the Baccalaureate – a majority of French teenagers – to study a number of themes more closely related to gender ideology and …

LifeSiteNews.com: “The people of Malta have a choice to make Saturday that will affect the entire country forever,” says Human Life International Interim President Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula. “If Malta votes to legalize divorce, it will be a vote to divorce …

LifeSiteNews.com: The City of Toronto appears set to fund Toronto Pride with hundreds of thousands of dollars again this year after months of threats from city councilors and Mayor Rob Ford to pull funding.

LifeNews: As Beijing continues to vigorously pursue its infamous one-child policy, PRI has gathered evidence showing that Chinese villagers who cannot afford to pay these fines have their “illegal” children abducted and sold by Chinese population control officials.

Pink News: A lawsuit will be filed against a new Tennessee law which bans employment protections for LGBT employees.

Bancroft this Week: A letter stating that unless things changed at the beginning of Municipality of Hastings Highlands council meetings has resulted in the inclusion of a new prayer that is being used to start the meetings.

WWLTV.com: The ACLU and a couple of other organizations dedicated to the separation of church and state are asking for an apology after a student led a graduation ceremony crowd in the Lord’s Prayer despite warnings to refrain.

GoLocalProv: The Rhode Island ACLU has added to the continuing battle over Cranston West High School’s controversial prayer banner by asking a federal judge to preliminarily enjoin the City of Cranston from continuing to display the mural addressed to “Our …

WSMV: The ACLU filed suit against the system over religious displays.

(via Google News): Yet the tax bite on a typical, $300 domestic round-trip ticket has nearly tripled to $61 today from $22 in 1972 . . . Aviation levies have been on autopilot, rising steadily and without interruption for years. …

The decision is Saieg v. City of Dearborn, just handed down today . . .

Washington Times: Goodwin Liu, a polarizing Obama administration judicial candidate, has asked the president to withdraw his nomination from consideration for an appeals court judgeship after his bid was blocked last week in the Senate by a Republican filibuster.

AFP: AFP reported yesterday that all seven Protestant churches in Algeria’s Bejaia region have been ordered closed, apparently because they have not obtained permits as required by a law enacted in 2006.

: M&C reported yesterday that Belgium is about to become the second European country to ban the wearing of the burqa or other full face veils in public.

PC World: The “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011″ aims to amend Section 2703 of title 18 of the United States Code to make it compulsory for the provider of an electronic communication service keep IP address records for at least 18 months.

AP: A 25-year-old Malaysian transsexual wants a court to affirm she is a woman following sex-change surgery so she can change her name and gender on her identification documents, her lawyer said Thursday.

ADF Attorney Dale Schowengerdt appeared on the radio to discuss anti-bullying policies. | The Zeb Bell Show, MP3 14:39 mins | The Hugh Hewitt Show, MP3 audio 5:25 mins | Janet Mefford Show, MP3 audio 19:17 mins

ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on Point of View Radio to discuss | MP3 audio 35:23 mins | Daniel’s photo is on the Point of View home page.

Journal Sentinel: In a 33-page decision issued Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she would freeze the legislation because GOP lawmakers on a committee broke the state’s open meetings law in passing it March 9.

Journal Sentinel: In a 33-page decision issued Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she would freeze the legislation because GOP lawmakers on a committee broke the state’s open meetings law in passing it March 9.

Christian Institute: In March this year it was revealed that a schoolchild in America was banned from handing out invitations to classmates for a Christmas party held in a church . . . The case was taken up by religious liberty group, Alliance Defense Fund.

One News Now: The city claims that a school for the mentally and emotionally challenged would endanger other children — a charge that ADF senior legal counsel Erik Stanley says is baseless. “No disabled students would even be on campus at the same time as other students,” he points out. “And the church has the approval of planning officials because it has met all the zoning requirements to run such a facility.”

NY Times: The nation’s biggest law firms are creating a second tier of workers, stripping pay and prestige from one of the most coveted jobs in the business world.

: A group known to be opposed to abortion has joined a forum advising the Government on sexual health, it emerged today.

Persecution.org: In May 2010, an Afghan television network broadcast footage of baptisms involving Afghan Muslim converts to Christianity. When a member of parliament called for the execution of the apostates, President Hamid Karzai . . . called for an investigation into how aid organizations were promoting Christianity in the region.

Journal Sentinel: In a 33-page decision issued Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she would freeze the legislation because GOP lawmakers on a committee broke the state’s open meetings law in passing it March 9.

The Hill: The Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to reject a $3.7 trillion budget plan that President Obama sent to Capitol Hill in February.

NBC NY (includes video): After two young moms recently abandoned their newborn babies — one of whom did not survive — New York officials are proposing that high school curriculum include lessons on what mothers can do if they give birth to a baby they don’t want.

One News Now: Daniel Blomberg, litigation counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), says they want to preserve the constitutional status quo. “This issue is about making sure that no American, and especially those serving in our armed forces, are forced to deny or [are] marginalized for affirming their religious beliefs,” Blomberg explains. “And it’s certainly not right for those individuals to find themselves lacking the very liberties they’re protecting for the rest of us.”

: The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona’s law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally . . . | Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting