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More than 60 pro-life organizations, including Focus on the Family, urged the Iowa Board of Medicine on Friday to put an end to Planned Parenthood’s “Telemed” abortions. Telemed involves an online consultation between an abortionist and a woman miles away. By remote control,a drawer is opened containing the pill RU-486. Planned Parenthood’s Iowa clinics are [...]

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty threatened to sue the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday, after learning that the agency was putting pressure on religiously affiliated hospitals to perform abortions. The lawsuit was triggered after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its membership pressured HHS to force Catholic hospitals nationwide [...]

My colleague, Bruce, blogged previously about Judge Walker’s wild assertions in his Prop. 8 decision, and the legal precedents he blithely ignored. Maggie Gallagher makes some insightful comments along this line, as well, highlighting Judge Walker’s decision to  ignore evidence with which he disagreed—even from experts who support same-sex marriage. Harvard professor, Nancy Cott, historian of marriage, favors gay [...]

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As we approach Labor Day, taxpayers across the country should be rejoicing – maybe. As of today, average Americans have earned enough gross income to pay their share of the spending and regulatory burden imposed by federal, state and local governments. In other words, it takes 231 days –or 63 percent of the national income [...]

American Atheists Inc. won another battle Wednesday in its ongoing “separation of church and state” legal crusade against Christianity. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concurred with the atheists that 14 memorial crosses – placed along public highways in memory of fallen Utah state troopers – could be construed as an endorsement of Christianity [...]

Marriage supporters in Wisconsin have filed suit to protect the state marriage amendment from being undercut by an everything-but-marriage domestic-partner law. Gov. Doyle signed into law in June 2009 a domestic partnership registry, as part of his 2010-11 budget – openly defying existing state law and the will of the people. Wisconsin’s strongly worded marriage [...]

Judge Walker’s Prop 8 opinion appealed to Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Lawrence v. Texas so many times that it ceased to be debatable that Walker was pandering to the “human jump ball” who might ultimately be the deciding vote in this case. Kennedy is a loose cannon, no doubt. But he’s not entirely unpredictable. There [...]

Las Vegas topped Forbes “most stressful cities” list this year, but are other cities and states paying attention? There are a number of reasons the gambling-dependent economy and lifestyle are unstable and stressful, but  here’s a brief overview. Why not duplicate the Vegas model? Las Vegas is Ranked America’s Most Stressful City in the U.S. Forbes.com found [...]

What if a candidate had to run on everything he wishes you didn’t know about him? In his Stoplight® commentary, Stuart Shepard applies that concept to the California marriage ruling.

Question: At what point can ignorance be classified as blatant irresponsibility? Answer: When fully informed people continue to pursue bad choices. Such is the case in the U.S. with several Members of Congress and their relentless pursuit of online gambling legalization (or “regulation”). So-called regulation isn’t working so well for France, as “…many online gambling sites, [...]

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The Alabama Community College System overreached its constitutional and statutory authority when it tried to prevent a private college from offering various religious degrees. System officials sent a letter to Bethany Divinity College and Seminary on June 2, and demanded that the school remove religious degrees from its catalog and website within 30 days and [...]

The debate over offering explicit sex education to students, as early as kindergarten, continues in Helena, Mont. At a recent meeting, parents prevailed in getting the Helena School District to invite renowned author and psychiatrist, Dr. Miriam Grossman to speak at the Sept. 1 meeting. A board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist, Grossman recently wrote, [...]

The Obama administration is, once again, entangled in controversy over sex education. Yet this time, it is not about what the administration is trying to implement, but about what it is withholding – and apparently for political reasons. A taxpayer-funded study that indicates parental and adolescent support of abstinence education is not being released by [...]

There are many, many issues being batted around the blogosphere surrounding the Prop 8 decision. One that I haven’t seen addressed anywhere is something that was raised in ProtectMarriage.com’s brief in support of its motion to the 9th Circuit for a stay of Walker’s Aug. 4 decision. Apparently, the 9th Circuit has already decided as [...]