Tag Archives: State: Oregon

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.” . . .

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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. …