Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
The marriage ruling “streak” and what it means, made simple
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Turkish aid group IHH to send new Gaza blockade-busting flotilla
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Court sets deadline for Utah appeal in gay marriage recognition case
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
Tuesday SCOTUS round-up
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Forgetting the Christians
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)
Yazidis tormented by fears for women and girls kidnapped by ISIS jihadis
(Martin Chulov, The Guardian)
A plea on behalf of the victims of barbarism in Iraq
(Robert P. George, First Things)
Evans v. Utah - Freedom to marry in Utah
(ACLU)
Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to condemn Christian persecution in Iraq
(John Hooper, The Guardian)
Explaining the Vatican’s surprising pro-US line on Iraq
(John L. Allen Jr., Boston Globe)
Little progress reported at Cairo truce talks
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
DC Circuit acts on case remanded after Hobby Lobby
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to condemn Islamic State violence
(James Mackenzie, Reuters)
5th Circuit rejects discrimination claim by Jehovah's Witness
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed
(James Pearson, Reuters)
New Kenya bill wants gays stoned in public
(Oliver Mathenge, The Star)
SA Anglicans appoint first woman to lead theological college
(Bellah Zulu, Anglican Communion News Service)
Attack on nuns said to be first ever in Bangladesh
(World Watch Monitor)
Mymensingh: Catholic missionaries open a new college for tribal youth
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews)
Bibles booted from U.S. Navy base guest rooms
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Homes of suspected kidnappers can be razed, Israel’s high court rules
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Ukraine: Russian aid can enter with Red Cross
(Peter Leonard and Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press - The Big Story)
UN: OK to use untested Ebola drugs in outbreak
(Maria Cheng and Ciaran Giles, Associated Press-The Big Story)
Irish Catholicism's two abuse crises: a calamity for both church and society
(David Carroll Cochran, Commonweal)
Israel extends Law of Return to non-Jewish same-sex spouses
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Why is China nationalizing Christianity?
(Zachary Keck, The Diplomat)
Ukrainian rebels continue attack on non-Orthodox
(Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian Orthodox leader complains about media bias
(Russia Religion News)
Peter and Caesar: Is Pope Francis shifting the Vatican’s worldview?
(Roland Flamini, World Affairs Journal)
Filming desire
(Claire Lewis, First Things)
Can the federal government bar First Amendment overbreadth defenses in criminal cases?
(Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy-Washington Post)
IRS strikes deal with atheists to monitor churches
(Your Houston News)
Bridal backlash: Fundamentalist shop owners refuse to serve same-sex couple
(Sarah Jones, Americans United)
Standing up for religious liberty in Burma
(Curtis Ramsey-Lucas, Associated Baptist Press)
Christian Institute threatens freedom of speech lawsuit
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
North Korean underground Christians omitted from historic north-south church summit
(Tim Dillmuth, Christian News Wire)
Satanist community registered in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Commentary: Has humanity entered a new depth of degradation?
(Tom Ehrich, Religion News Service)
Elephants unearthed: Ancient synagogue mosaic yields nonbiblical images
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Tennessee's gay marriage ban is constitutional, judge rules; breaks streak of ban losses
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Yazidis seen storming aid helicopters at Mount Sinjar in Iraq in dramatic videos
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post)
Israel is not committing war crimes in Gaza, int'l law group responds to Red Cross accusations
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
More than one-in-three report workplace religious discrimination in U.S.
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
World's most populous Muslim nation declares ISIS support illegal
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Sam Harris looks back on 'new Atheist' movement, insists not all religions are equally as bad
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
African American pastors do not necessarily have to plant black, multi-ethnic churches only, says Christian writer
(Jessica Martinez, The Christian Post)
Churches help Afghan interpreter, family stay in the United States
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
UK theatre rejects Jewish film festival over Israel-Palestine conflist
(Krista R. Burdine, World Religion News)
Gay marriage debate continues splitting United Methodist Church
(Kyle Glatz, World Religion News)
CAR President names country’s first ever Muslim Prime Minister
(World Watch Monitor)
The surrogacy debate is about to break the Christian right wide open
(Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
Israel OK's gay Jews to immigrate with spouses
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Jewish group asks French minister to rename Death to Jews hamlet
(Agence France-Presse)
Catholic schools force students to study religion despite court order
(Kate Hammer, The Globe and Mail)
Uganda president not keen on rushing anti-gay law
(Rodney Muhumuza, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Ebola: Spanish missionary dies of disease after being flown to Madrid
(Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian)
Raising a gay teen: When faith, family and sexuality collide
(Jessica Bliss, The Tennessean)
Formerly Orthodox, and struggling for parental rights
(Melanie Grayce West, The Wall Street Journal)
Judge extends temporary halt to Ohio executions
(Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Monday, 11 August 2014
‘Vicar of Baghdad’ Canon Andrew White refuses to leave Iraq, despite the vicious Christian persecution by Islamic State
(Dan Wooding, ASSIST News Service)
Aleppo's forgotten Christians
(Edward Dark, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Court overturns win by nursing home aide fired for failing to say rosary
(Patrick Dorrian, Bloomberg BNA)
Food company wins religious exemption from contraception benefit
(Andrew Zajac, Insurance Journal)
In Greece, Orthodox priest buys inmates their freedom in the midst of financial crisis
(Costas Kantouris, The Huffington Post via WWRN)
On religion, it’s public Kasich vs. private FitzGerald
(Darrel Rowland, The Columbus Dispatch)
Richard Dawkins keeps digging on ‘mild’ date rape and pedophilia
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Taking on the debate of religion imagery at Ground Zero
(Charles C. Haynes, Delaware Online)
Turkish politics: Erdogan wins
(A.Z., The Economist [Charlemagne: European politics])
Ukraine's Catholic leaders back military campaign 'to protect our homeland against Russia'
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Ukrainian Orthodox parish leaves Moscow Patriarchate over patriotism
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
US air support is not enough. We must save Islamic-Christian coexistence and Iraq
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)
Indonesia's tough stance on ISIS militancy
(Farish A. Noor (RSIS), The Straits Times)
String of same-sex marriage rulings broken
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
The Father of Jihad: ‘Abd Allah ‘Azzam’s Jihad Ideas and Implications to National Security
(Muhammad Haniff Hassan, S. Raharatnam School of International Studies)
Workplace religious discrimination encountered by 1-in-3 in US
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Texas court says there is no absolute right to home school free of state regulation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cert. petitions filed in Oklahoma and Virginia same-sex marriage cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Street preacher's challenge to permit requirements dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Iraq president asks Abadi to succeed PM Nouri Maliki
(BBC News Middle East)
Religion and law round up – 10th August
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Caste discrimination UK: base-line data
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Egypt: Human Rights Watch delegation refused entry
(Eurasia Review)
Filipinos joining jihadists in Iraq and Syria
(Raul Dancel, The Straits Times Asia Report)
China cracking down on Christian groups along North Korea border: sources
(Megha Rajagopalan and James Pearson, Reuters)
Iraq’s Yazidis are on the brink of genocide – who will save them?
(Ali Mamouri, MercatorNet)
Funeral held in Miami for murdered Rabbi Raksin
(JTA)
Children of imprisoned Pastor Saeed Abedini send plea to Iranian leaders, President Obama
(Kara Jones, Townhall.com)
Pope kicks off Asia missionary boost in S Korea
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press -The Big Story)
Azerbaijan: "They don't want a Sunni mosque in the Old City"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Kuwait: 5 critics stripped of citizenship
(Human Rights Watch)
Gaza: widespread impact of power plant attack
(Human Rights Watch)
Flyers in Rome call for boycotting Jewish-owned stores
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
In Boston, Riverway reaches young Jews outside the synagogue
(Anthony Weiss, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Western complicity in nurturing Islamic extremism - OpEd
(Nauman Sadiq, Eurasia Review)
Swedish paper pulls cartoon deemed anti-Semitic
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Is Ebola a curse from God? Some African Christian leaders think so
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
On Iraq, Pope Francis’ message of peace meets reality of war
(Josephine McKenna and David Gibson, Religion News Service)
‘Ugly intolerance’ of religious speech
(Matthew Whitaker and Jeremiah G. Dys, The Des Moines Register)
Obama: Between Iraq and a hard place
(Tony Perkins, The Patriot Post)
Valley Forge Christian Colleges sues health act on abortion provisions
(Evan Brandt, Daily Local News)
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