Tag Archives: State: Oregon

LifeNews.com reports: “A new study shows about one-fourth of the people killed in assisted suicides in Oregon were depressed, yet they received lethal cocktails anyway. Researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University conducted the study and skeptic say it …

“The Oregon Court of Appeals has ordered six frozen embryos destroyed after ruling they can be treated as personal property in a divorce.”

The AP reports: Republican U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith is airing a new TV ad touting his support for a law to protect gays from hate crimes. The campaign ad highlights Smith’s work with Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts on …

The AP reports: “Archbishop John Vlazny is criticizing Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Catholic, for playing host to an abortion rights fundraiser Friday night in Portland.”

Leonard Link reports: “An Oregon tax magistrate ruled on September 24 that unmarried different sex couples are not entitled to a benefit that the Oregon legislature has provided to same-sex couples . . . Haldeman v. Department of Revenue, 2008 …

Gaypolitics.com reports: The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today announced it has endorsed 100 openly LGBT political candidates in 2008, making this endorsement slate the group’s largest ever. “I think reaching this milestone is a testament to a new attitude in …

The Oregonian reports: Several hundred frustrated residents learned this week just how little the city or state can do to stop Tualatin’s second nude dancing club from opening its doors, probably in mid-November . . . An opinion from a …

Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, OR and Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, ND.

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is looking into a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation policy that disqualifies domestic partners from receiving coverage available to married couples.

“In America, every citizen’s vote should count. The court has tossed aside one of the most important rights we have as Americans,” Austin R. Nimocks, a senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Thursday upheld a district court decision denying Oregon citizens the right to vote on a referendum that concerns a new state law which many believe violates the state’s marriage amendment.

The plan to build a new Planned Parenthood clinic in northeast Portland is almost a done deal but anti-abortion protesters believe they can still stop the development from happening.

The Tigard Times reports: “Tigard Police Department sweep of Internet prostitution taking place inside, and in some cases, near the city netted 16 arrests since April, including one woman who was marketing a 15-year-old as part of a prostitution package.”

The ABA Journal reports: “The capital city of Idaho will have at least one law school in the foreseeable future, as a private Oregon-based university makes formal plans to create one and a state university apparently may see its future …

OneNewsNow.com reports: “Oregon voters are hoping the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will uphold their efforts to protect natural marriage . . . Meanwhile, Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys have filed suit on behalf of the disenfranchised voters.” Related: ADF …

The AP reports: Oregon’s domestic partnership law came under legal fire again Tuesday, as opponents tried to persuade three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that elections officials had wrongly disqualified the issue from the November ballot …

The AP reports: “. . . Oregon bans cities from discriminating against strip clubs in commercial zones, so the city is going after the club’s ability to serve liquor . . . “

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4597 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY July 7, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF attorney available to discuss disenfranchisement of Oregonians after 9th Circuit hearing Oral argument to determine whether Oregon voters …

The Oregonian reports: “A construction company set to help build a Planned Parenthood clinic in northeast Portland has dropped the project, citing pressure from anti-abortion activists. The developer, Beech Street Partners, has assembled a team of builders and will act …

The Oregon Supreme Court has issued opinions on the ballot titles of Petition Initiatives 144 (repeals domestic partnerships) and 145 (removes sexual orientation from discrimination laws).

WorldNetDaily reports on voter efforts to repeal Oregon domestic partnerships.  ADF attorney Austin R. Nimocks is quoted in the report. Related post: Oregon: Voters may still weigh in on marriage counterfeits

While advocates of homosexual behavior are doing all they can to suppress voter participation, ADF is working overtime to ensure that voters decide whether marriage counterfeits will be permitted in Oregon.

The AP reports: Authorities say a teenager from a faith-healing family died from an illness that could have been easily treated, just a few months after a toddler cousin of his died in a case that has led to criminal …

The Oregonian reports: “Social conservatives and church groups are admitting defeat in their efforts to collect signatures for initiatives to repeal two Oregon gay rights laws in this November’s election.”

KATU.com reports: The exclusion of the Pledge of Allegiance from a southwest Portland elementary school’s ceremony has proved upsetting for a local mom . . . The following is the full e-mail response that parent Briana Reese received from Principal …

The majority of parents strongly support the efforts of Congress to protect children from harmful and offensive entertainment speech. However, most efforts by Congress to regulate violent and indecent media programming are struck down by the courts as violating the First Amendment.

Christian News Northwest reports: If a green light is given by the state Supreme Court, there could be a sudden flurry of activity in hundreds of Oregon churches during three consecutive Sundays this month . . . The immediate goal …

OneNewsNow reports: . . . Measure 36, the amendment to Oregon’s constitution declaring that marriage may only be the union of one man and one woman, was ruled constitutional last week by the Court of Appeals for the State of …

The Mirror of Justice contains this article by Shawn F. Peters that begins: In recent months, prosecutors in both Oregon and Wisconsin have been confronted with a complex problem:  Should parents who choose to treat their children’s illnesses with prayer …

An Oregon appeals court ruled Wednesday that Measure 36, the state’s constitutional amendment affirming marriage as the union between one man and one woman, is constitutional.

The Oregonian reports: The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the ban on gay marriage that state voters approved by a wide margin in 2004. The court rejected two procedural arguments that attacked the scope of the initiative, Measure …

(1) Did Measure 36 embody a “revision” to the constitution that could not originate from a voter initiative? (2) Alternatively, is Measure 36 invalid because it effected multiple amendments to the Oregon Constitution that are not “closely related”? As did the trial court, we answer both of those questions in the negative.

365Gay.com reports: “Portland, Oregon City Commissioner Sam Adams had little difficulty winning Portland’s mayoral race Tuesday, becoming the first openly gay mayor ever elected to lead one of the 30 largest U.S. cities. Adams won 58 percent of the vote, …

This is the House of Yahweh: a different, even darker sect that the state has been investigating for years. Authorities in February charged the group’s 73-year-old leader with performing polygamous weddings and forcing about 40 children — some as young as 11 — to work jobs at his 44-acre compound.

For the few Assembly Republicans who ultimately supported the bill, the vote was potentially far more risky: a public break with their own party on an issue that at the time was still considered in some quarters to be radioactive, potentially even career-killing.

David Post has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy indicating that the state of Oregon is threatening some web vendors who have post the state statutes on their website.  Apparently, Oregon is trying to claim copyright. Post writes: What burns …

urors are being selected in the case of co-defendants, Linda O’Connor and Dean Sacco. Prosecutors say O’Connor sold a 12-year-old girl to Sacco for sex in exchange for back rent. Sacco rented an apartment to O’Connor. Prosecutors also say O’Connor sold the girl to two strangers for sex at a Johnson City hotel . . .

Oregon citizens who say their rejection of same-sex marriage was quashed by the state legislature scored a small legal victory in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The appeals court granted a motion by the Alliance Defense Fund to expedite the appeal of a federal court judge’s decision that invalidated a voter petition drive.

The AP reports on KTVZ.com: “The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has joined booksellers and librarians to challenge a state law restricting the sale of sex education material to children.” Yet, the statute in question is not specifically directed toward the sale of sex education material.

Both the LA Times and Reuters reported that abstinence-only education has received “$1.3 billion” in federal funds since the late 1990s, but they failed to put the number in context.

Can you imagine officials at a middle school, junior high or high school setting aside a day to promote “tolerance” for heavy smoking and drinking among children? How about a day where teachers encourage kids to “embrace who they are,” pick up that crack pipe and give it a stiff toke?

Citizens crowded into Carlton City Hall on Monday night to decry a local bar’s plans to start offering nude dancing or other forms of adult entertainment . . .

I commend Oregon on this count, as well, because whether I agree with it or not or think it’s a good idea or not, the fact that Oregon is breaking new ground and providing valuable information as to what does and doesn’t work when it comes to end-of-life questions, I think, is very beneficial.”

Lawrence’s scope remains debated because the Court justified its holding on the broad notion of liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and did not apply Glucksberg’s fundamental-rights analysis.

The dress-up day was not an attempt to promote cross-dressing, homosexuality or alternative gender roles, district administrator Tom Benson said.

ADF attorney Mike Johnson discusses the litigation that seeks to restore the right of Oregon voters to decide the domestic partnership issue and the California home schooling ruling on Victoria Traft show on KPAM 860 radio in this 19 minute …

Should parents who elect faith healing rather than traditional medical treatment for a child be criminally responsible if the child dies?

Oregon recorded more deaths by physician-assisted suicide in 2007 than in any year in the decade since the practice was legalized.

This story appears on BoingBoing and other locations around the Internet.  A female to male transsexual, who is “legally male” claims to be married to a woman.  The transsexual also claims to have reverted back to female and gotten pregnant. …

David W. Kirkpatrick reports on EdNews: In 2009 New York City may see a charter school that pays teachers $125,000 a year.  However, the school’s founder, Zeke M. Vanderhoek, says he will be the school’s principal for an annual salary …

The Senate voted 16-14 against the bill after the sponsor switched her vote to position herself to ask for a future re-vote.

Two Republican lawmakers are planning a statewide ballot initiative to repeal the law passed by the 2007 Legislature to prohibit discrimination in housing and employment based on sexual orientation.

From a USA Today article by Esmeralda Bermudez: But when Salazar, 14, and his 16-year-old friend Marco Castro were suspended recently for refusing to remove the religious beads because they were “gang-related,” it thrust the issue into the headlines and …

Alejandro Juarez, chairman of Basic Rights Eugene/Springfield has written this response to an earlier commentary in the Register-Guard by ADF attorney Joe Infranco: Let Oregon voters rule on domestic partnerships.  

The letter goes on to state that “[u]ntil such time that the state revises its definition of marital status, we will continue to apply the existing definition to our assignment policy for married housing.” . . .

“For too long the national pro-life movement has been dominated by a strategy of “wait,” too fearful of losing to risk winning.” . . .

What is the most important right we have as Americans?

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have appealed a decision by a federal judge against disenfranchised petition signers who sought to put Oregon’s “domestic partnership” law before the voters. The case will now be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

In the first seven days they could do so, 142 same-sex couples have registered in Lane County as domestic partners. Of those, 112 — nearly 79 percent — are female couples.

Beaverton attorney Herbert Grey leads two charges for conservative values in recent weeks

Austin R. Nimocks appears on the Bob Dutko Show to discuss the Oregon referendum ruling. The mp3 file is just over 7 minutes in length:   Austin Nimocks-020508-OR referendum decision_Bob Dutko show-WMUZ.mp3     A link to the earlier ADF …

Same-sex couples may begin as early as Monday to register as domestic partners in Oregon, obtaining some benefits comparable to marriage, as a result of a federal judge’s ruling Friday . . .

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund are considering whether to appeal Friday’s decision by a federal judge against disenfranchised signers of a petition to put Oregon’s “domestic partnership” law before the voters.

The group is represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., which supports social conservatives. They argue that officials should have gone to greater lengths to verify the disputed signatures.

Today’s FRC Washington Weekly Update reports on the status of the marriage battle in several states.  In addition to the states mentioned by FRC, battles over marriage or domestic partnerships are also brewing in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, …

P. Solomon Banda’s story is posted on the AP with this headline: Colo. Petition Revives Anti-Abortion Bid:   The measure spearheaded by Kristi Burton would give fertilized eggs state protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process, and she needs …

ADF Attorney Austin Nimocks appeared (5 mins – mp3) on the Lars Larson show to discuss ADF’s new suit challenging the state’s refusal to certify the citizens initiative that would overturn the legislature’s bill approving domestic partnerships. (see earlier ADF …

Diversity, diversity, diversity! This is oftentimes the war hymn and battle cry of organizations committed to the proliferation of homosexual and alternative lifestyles. Yet, when it comes to the actual practice of what they preach, homosexual activists are remarkably intolerant. …