Religion & Law

World Magazine: The Race Begins and Other News Briefs ? Faithful Givers

Posted on March 25, 2011
World Magazine: A common complaint leveled at evangelical Christians, according to David French, is that they're obsessed with gays and abortion. "The criticism is so common that it's often internalized and adopted by the church itself," he writes. So French, director of the Alliance Defense Fund ("a card-­carrying member of the professional religious right"), decided to crunch some numbers?and found there's no comparison between what Christians give to cause-oriented organizations like his and what they give to anti-poverty groups like World Vision...

Pro-life cause targeted in NYC

Posted on March 25, 2011
One News Now: This is an attack on pregnancy centers by the city council of New York City, who were working together with political allies of the abortion industry to actually regulate pro-life pregnancy centers and impose fines and penalties on them," says Bowman...

Secularism in Europe takes a blow as Vatican flexes its political muscle

Posted on March 25, 2011
National Secular Society: The ruling from the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights that the display of crucifixes in state school classrooms does not violate a student?s freedom of conscience is a severe blow to the concept of secularism in Europe...

Same-sex partner arms race

Posted on March 25, 2011
Milwaukee News Buzz: Meanwhile, Wisconsin Family Action is getting legal help from the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal organization based in Arizona. It?s fielding three staff attorneys and two in Wisconsin that it has described in press releases as ?ADF-allied,? Michael Dean of Waukesha and Taylor Samuel of Kenosha.

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Thieves Hijacking the Language of the Moral Tradition

Posted on March 25, 2011
OrthodoxyToday.org: What happens then when people leave Christianity and want to promote ideas about morality that violate the moral tradition? They have only one option: Hijack the language. They use the terms of traditional Christianity but mean very different things by them...

Internet to be Controlled Under Proposed Cyber Law

Posted on March 25, 2011
ConservativeActionAlerts.com: In every instance where any government in the world has triggered their Internet kill switch (which every government in the world possesses), whether affecting only their broadband users, or both broadband and dial-up users, and whether those shutdowns were complete or impacted only segments of the Internet market in that country, those shutdowns or denials of access to the Information Superhighway targeted the law-abiding population at large whom those governments felt they had cause to fear.

James Bopp, Jr.: Shut it down? Make my day

Posted on March 25, 2011
. . . Mr. Alinsky?s first rule is that ?revolutions do not go backwards.? Mr. Obama has presided over a massive increase in government spending - redistributing substantial wealth from the haves to the have-nots - and he is not going to go backwards.

Divorcing Hype From Reality in Facebook Stats

Posted on March 25, 2011
Carl Bialok at WSJ (3/11):  My print column this week examines a widely reported claim that one in five divorces is linked to Facebook . . .  Mark Keenan, managing director of Divorce-Online, which first released the stat, acknowledged in an interview that this may not be representative of all divorces ...

Christians question divorce rates of the faithful

Posted on March 25, 2011
Adelle M. Banks at USA Today (3/14) Wilcox's analysis of the National Survey of Families and Households has found that Americans who attend religious services several times a month were about 35% less likely to divorce than those with no religious affiliation...

Muslim immigration official in Sweden denies access to Christians from the middle east

Posted on March 24, 2011
Varldenidag.se (Google translation): Ebtisam Aldebe was a juror in Stockholm Administrative Law, appointed by the Centre Party in Solna. Here she has in the past four years have helped to determine at least 40 cases before the Immigration Court.

Canada: Homosexuals protest at home of Christian florist

Posted on March 24, 2011
Christian Institute: Homosexual activists have protested outside the home of a Christian florist in Canada because she will not provide flowers for a lesbian wedding.

MT: Helena health fair bars Planned Parenthood?s participation

Posted on March 24, 2011
Great Falls Tribune: About a dozen picketers demonstrated outside the Helena Civic Center on Thursday to protest the Helena Independent Record newspaper's decision to bar Planned Parenthood of Montana from participating in a health fair.

Iowa House panel OKs abortion ban after 20 weeks

Posted on March 24, 2011
NECN.com: "The panel voted 5-4 Wednesday evening in favor of the bill. Rep. Kim Pearson, a Pleasant Hill Republican, joined Democrats in opposing the bill. She favors a ban on all abortions."

African leaders urged to reject homosexuality -Rev. Broni

Posted on March 24, 2011
GhanaWeb: The Dean of Faculty of Psychology and Education of University of Education Winneba (UEW), Rev Fr Dr Anthony Afful Broni, has called on Africa leaders to reject homosexuality in the sub-region.

Alaska nominee says sex outside of marriage should be illegal

Posted on March 24, 2011
Miami Herald: The candidate, Don Haase of Valdez, also admitted under questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that his official resume failed to disclose his leadership role in Eagle Forum Alaska, which advocates for social conservative issues.

New York?s U.S. Senators Push for Same-Sex ?Marriage?

Posted on March 24, 2011
NY Times: New York?s two senators, Charles E. Schumer and Kristen E. Gillibrand, joined a growing list of celebrities and public officials on Thursday by appearing in a series of 30-second ads supporting same-sex marriage rights. The ad series is being coordinated by the Human Rights Campaign ...

Colo. Senate passes civil unions bill 23-12

Posted on March 24, 2011
Denver Post: Senate Bill 172 passed on a 23-12 vote and now heads to the House, where it is expected to face a tougher time.

What does dignity mean in a legal context?

Posted on March 24, 2011
Guardian: "The UK can learn from Europe by enshrining dignity as a fundamental part of ? rather than adjunct to ? our human rights."

Claims That Bibles Were Distributed to Alabama Elementary Students Are Inaccurate, School Superintendent Says

Posted on March 24, 2011
Fox News: An Alabama superintendent is denying allegations that a fifth-grade teacher and a librarian distributed Bibles during class at a public school, saying the claims are either "inaccurate or false."

Bachmann praises ouster of Iowa judges in gay marriage ruling

Posted on March 24, 2011
USA Today: Potential GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann saluted conservative Iowa voters yesterday, praising them for ousting three state Supreme Court judges involved in legalizing gay marriage.

Home schoolers looking to grow political power in Iowa

Posted on March 24, 2011
The link between the home-school movement and the tea party activists that have reenergized ? and at times hijacked ? the Republican party is not often made. But it was apparent here that home-schooling parents are a key constituency that is hoping to make a splash in Iowa, as three presidential hopefuls took turns courting the activists.

What went wrong with Gardasil sales?

Posted on March 24, 2011
LifeSiteNews: It turns out that Gardasil?s flat and declining sales are due to a design flaw. To be completely immunized, women and girls have to receive a series of three injections over six months. Many women and girls didn?t do so.

High-profile pastor: ?Ungodly? same-sex marriage against ?natural law?

Posted on March 24, 2011
Washington Independent: "He said at the time he hoped the Internal Revenue Service would come after him for violating his church?s tax exempt status. The church also participated in last year?s Pulpit Freedom Sunday, a national effort organized by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund aimed at convincing pastors to endorse political candidates from the pulpit in violation of tax code...

Seattle: Pro-lifers crash Planned Parenthood rally with photos of aborted babies

Posted on March 24, 2011
LifeSiteNews: Pro-lifers crashed a Planned Parenthood rally last week, bringing pictures of aborted babies to the Seattle stop of the abortion giant?s nationwide ?Truth Tour.?

US Bishop: How long will pro-abort politicians be able to receive Communion?

Posted on March 24, 2011
LifeSiteNews: One must honestly ask, how many times and years may a Catholic politician vote for the so called right to abortion, -  ?murder? in the words of John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae (58), and still be able to receive Holy Communion??

ADF: Stop parent?s second prison sentence for keeping children from German ?sex education? programs

Posted on March 24, 2011
ADF asks European Court of Human Rights to quickly review appeals filed 13 months ago, four parents punished for not paying fine for protecting children?s Christian beliefs

Obama Embraces ?Transnational? Law: The Senate never approved Protocol 1 of the Geneva Convention.

Posted on March 24, 2011
Douglas J. Feith writes at the Wall Street Journal (full text via Google): Mr. Obama has the constitutional authority to make his own detainee policy. And, if he wants to, he can issue a regulation or an executive order using principles from Article 75...

Decision Against Resuming Same-Sex Weddings Emboldens Prop. 8 Backers But Fails to Deter Foes

Posted on March 24, 2011
OC Weekly: Jordan Lorence, senior vice counsel and vice president of Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of Christian attorneys and organizations backing Prop. 8, reacts: "It is a significant development in favor of marriage."

?California gay marriage ban stands during appeal?

Posted on March 24, 2011
Reuters via Westlaw News & Insight: . . . For the government defendants: Deputy Attorneys General Tamar Pachter and Daniel Powell; Kenneth Mennemeier of Mennemeier, Glassman & Stroud; Jesse Panuccio, David Thompson, Charles Cooper, Nicole Jo Moss and Peter Patterson of Cooper & Kirk; Andrew Pugno of the Law Offices of Andrew P...

?Court: No Gay Marriages during Prop. 8 Appeal?

Posted on March 24, 2011
Christian Post: "It is a significant development in favor of marriage," Jordan Lorence, senior vice president and senior counsel of Alliance Defense Fund, said of the ruling.

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