Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Archbishop Cordileone counters March for Marriage critics
(Catholic News Agency)
Alabama court overturns anti-sodomy law
(Reuters)
U.S. judge denies stay of execution in Georgia
(Richard Fausset, The New York Times)
Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation
(Stephanie Simon, Politico)
Illinois nuns take legal action against bordering strip club
(Catholic News Agency)
Baptized via Skype
(Paul Harp, The Christian Chronicle)
Hare Krishna gets Evangelical
(Rosalie Murphy, Faith Street)
Democracy and morality: ancient and modern
(Paul Eidelberg, MercatorNet)
ISIS invades Iraq: this is a war of religion
(Damian Thompson, Telegraph)
The failure of Western secular values in Iraq
(Laura Keynes, MercatorNet)
The coming Methodist split?
(Mark Tooley, Aleteia)
Modern cosmology versus God’s creation
(Gary Gutting, The New York Times)
Psychiatrist heaps fuel on fiery transgender debate
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Cleaning up the Vatican
(Paul Vallely, The New York Times)
The ethics of tracking Taliban detainees
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Assisted suicides in Washington state up by 43%
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Investigation finds half of Down syndrome abortions missing from register
(Xavier Symons, BioEdge)
US lawmakers protest against incinerating foetuses with medical waste
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
The First Amendment protects a right to engage in adultery?
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Monday, 16 June 2014
"Dangerous" Facebook: Detention and trouble for Narendra Modi's critics
(Asianews.it)
Marriage, Roman Catholic clergy and Article 8 ECHR: Fernández Martínez v Spain
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Egypt jails Christian teacher for insulting Islam
(Arutz Sheva)
Obama to move on gay rights
(Justin Sink, The Hill)
Man decapitated statue of Jesus at Charleston church for religious reasons, police say
(Andrew Knapp, The Post and Courier)
Got religion on campus? Leave it off your resume
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
SCOTUS review denied over interesting dissent in challenge to school graduations in churches
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
North Carolina county seeks lifting of injunction after Town of Greece decision
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
'Forgotten Girls' provides critical insight into recent Boko Haram kidnapping, other global abuses
(Matti Stevenson, Christian News Wire)
White House: Obama to sign order banning anti-gay discrimination
(Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times)
Christian university fights for law school in Canada
(Charlie Butts, One News Now)
Supreme Court denial of Certioari in Elmbrook (Scalia's dissent)
(Supreme Court)
Supreme Court says ‘no’ to public school graduations in church
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Georgia Right to Life announces new national, faith-based, pro-life organization
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
Thousands accept Jesus at Franklin Graham's Festival of Hope in Warsaw
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Supreme Court unanimously sides with pro-life group in 'Obamacare' abortion funding ads case
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Texas megachurch promises 100 percent refund in tithe challenge if 'God doesn't hold true to His promise of blessings'
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post)
Conservative Methodists respond to petition calling on individual churches to determine stance on homosexuality
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
California student speaks openly about his Christian faith in graduation speech defying school's order
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Oklahoma Senator quotes Genesis 1:29 to seek marijuana legalization
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
UK's Cameron signals tougher line on home-grown Islamist radicalism
(Andrew Osborn, Reuters)
Ukrainian militants shell the church not far from Slavyansk
(Interfax-Religion)
Biblical park to be set up in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church to open a center for studying Orthodox culture in Shanghai
(Interfax-Religion)
Obama Administration backs religious discrimination in employment
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)
This is not a test: Israeli harassment of Palestinian TV stations
(Patrick O. Strickland, Mint Press News)
Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury battle trafficking
(Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Competing halal standards leave food industry with indigestion
(Stuart Grudings and Trinna Leong, Reuters)
Sri Lanka Muslims killed in Aluthgama clashes with Buddhists
(BBC News)
Iraqi Christians flee homes amid militant push
(Diaa Hadid, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Public schools in Indonesia feel Islamic pressure
(Yenni Kwok, The New York Times)
US willing to work with Iran to halt advance of extremists in Iraq – Kerry
(Paul Lewis, The Guardian)
Gunmen singled out non-Muslims in Kenya attack
(Tom Odula and Jason Straziuso, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Mid-Atlantic United Church of Christ leaders vote to boycott Redskins games and gear
(Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post)
David Brat’s victory comes with a rise in the crossroads of religion and economics
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Methodist Church pension board links divestment to firm’s role in Israeli prisons
(Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
Losing streak lengthens for foes of gay marriage
(David Crary, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation
(Stephanie Simon, Politico)
The decline of evangelical politics
(Steven P. Miller, OUPblog Religion)
The future of ISIS and the sectarian Response: ISIS has picked a fight it cannot win
(Joshua Landis, Syria Comment)
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Illegal to be faithful: One-quarter of the world has blasphemy laws
(Elise Hilton, Acton Institute PowerBlog)
Religion and law round up – 15th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
European Court of Human Rights upholds church autonomy
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Martyrdom and terrorism: a Q&A
(Dominic Janes and Alex Houen, OUPblog Religion)
Facebook not liable for delay in removing page containing anti-Jewish threats
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Iraq, Syria and the Middle East – An essay by Tony Blair
(The Office of Tony Blair)
Bloodiest day in Ukraine conflict as rebel missiles bring down military jet
(Alec Luhn, The Guardian | Observer)
Ukrainian military plane shot down; all 49 aboard dead [VIDEO]
(Laura Smith-Spark and Ray Sanchez, CNN World)
Transgender resolution passes at Southern Baptist Convention with little protest
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Supreme Court likely to decide Trinity Western’s fate
(Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail)
Messianic Jewish groups critical of Presbyterian Church (USA) divestment proposal
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Life in a Christian 'fundamentalist' school
(Tim Johns and Emma Hallett, BBC News)
Religion makes an appearance on reality TV landscape
(Andrea Seikaly, Variety)
Colleges and evangelicals collide on bias policy
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
Bishops migrate to Washington
(Nicholas G. Hahn III, The American Spectator)
Catholics against capitalism
(Kevin D. Williamson, National Review)
U.S. deploys 80-man drone force to help find Nigerian girls
(Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Erin McClam, NBC News)
Jewish Republicans are not exotic
(David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Modi’s eerie silence over Pune murder
(Nilofar Suhrawardy, Arab News)
Oasis in Sarajevo: War and reconciliation between religions
(AsiaNews.it)
Illinois mosque faces an increasingly common zoning problem
(Yasmina Blackburn, Al Jazeera America)
EVENT, 14 June 2014: “The Manifestation of Religion or Belief in the Public Sphere”
(Cube Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford in partnership with the Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey)
Ukraine crisis: Video shows Russia sending tanks, rocket launchers into separatist conflict, US says
(ABC News Australia)
Tanks, of unknown origin, roll into Ukraine
(Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times)
UK judge orders 13-year-old girl to have abortion against her wish
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Friday, 13 June 2014
100 days of the prayer tent in Donetsk
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Arson attempt at Mosque in Simferopol
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
European court reaffirms the right to autonomy of religious organizations
(Grégor Puppinck, LifeSiteNews)
Judge ends gay marriage ban, but stops weddings for now
(Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Dana Ferguson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Judge rules Yakima diocese not at fault in assault case
(Dan Morris-Young, National Catholic Reporter)
Judge: Evict polygamous families not paying fees
(Brady McCombs, The Associated Press, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Muslim convert sues Tulsa church after being tortured for beliefs
(Nathan Altadonna, KTUL.com)
Muslim who converted to Christianity sues Tulsa church after torture in Syria
(Richard Clark, NewsOn6.com)
Sudanese woman appeals against death sentence for apostasy
(K. O. Peppeh, East Africa News)
Utah pushes for resolution to FLDS land battle
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)
The Commission, the Council and the Parliament debate the future of the European Union with religious leaders
(Press Release, Europa.EU)
The Commission, the Council and the Parliament debate the future of the European Union with religious leaders
(List of Participants, Europa.EU)
Iraq’s Sunni divide may be too great
(Harith Hasan, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Syria
(Fabrice Balanche, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Bowdoin College says gays must be allowed to join and vie for leadership in Christian groups on campus
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Gay Muslims come out in Toronto photo exhibit
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)
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