Category: Law & Justice

Senator Marco Rubio Introduces Bill to Overturn HHS Mandate
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Senator Marco Rubio Introduces Bill to Overturn HHS Mandate

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by on Jan 31, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty applauds Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for introducing a bill protecting the conscience of millions of individuals against the Obama Administration’s abortion-drug mandate. Unlike other pending bills that address conscience issues, Senator Rubio’s bill—The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012—is narrowly focused and establishes a firm religious exemption in the […]

Federal Court Upholds Texas Sonogram Law
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Federal Court Upholds Texas Sonogram Law

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by on Jan 28, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, Life Issues & Bioethics
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On January 10, 2012, the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services, et al. v. David Lakey, et al. vacated the preliminary injunction order of the federal district court in Austin, Texas that prohibited the enforcement of parts of the Texas Woman’s Right to Know Act (H.B. 15), […]

Sixth Circuit: Counseling Student Cannot Be Expelled for Religious Views
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Sixth Circuit: Counseling Student Cannot Be Expelled for Religious Views

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by on Jan 27, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Today, the Sixth Circuit issued a major victory for the constitutional rights of individuals with religious beliefs. The court held that Eastern Michigan University may have violated the Constitution by expelling a counseling student based on her religious beliefs about homosexual conduct. “No individual should be forced out of their profession solely because of her […]

What the EU's Culture War Against Hungary is Really About
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What the EU’s Culture War Against Hungary is Really About

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by on Jan 25, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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In recent days there have been a lot of media reports about Hungary. According to those reports, the country not only is in a very bad shape economically, but there is also a risk that the Government, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, was trying to overturn democracy and install a right-wing dictatorship that is […]

American Laws for American Courts
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American Laws for American Courts

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by on Jan 25, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Shortly before Newt Gingrich’s decisive victory in South Carolina last week, he was asked a critical question by a Palmetto State voter:  Would he support a Muslim candidate for president?  The former Speaker of the House answered in a way that was both characteristically insightful and profoundly helpful with respect to one of the most […]

Twin Decisions
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Twin Decisions

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by on Jan 23, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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I was a student at Saint Louis University School of Law when I learned of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v.Wade. It was in a class taught by the late Gerald T. Dunne. Dunne was a biographer of Supreme Court Justices Joseph Story and Hugo Black; he was a decorated Navy veteran of World War II (Silver […]

Literally Unconscionable
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Literally Unconscionable

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by on Jan 21, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Law & Justice
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Friday, January 20, 2012, the Obama administration announced that faith-based institutions must cover free contraception for employees. While mainstream media tries to pass this off as merely covering “the pill,” it also includes sterilization and abortifacients. (See the AP story here.) Regardless, Catholics (and other religious denominations) are being forced to accept insurance coverage for […]

HHS Contraception Decision: Craven Attempt to Avoid SCOTUS Humiliation
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HHS Contraception Decision: Craven Attempt to Avoid SCOTUS Humiliation

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by on Jan 21, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Yesterday, according to press reports, the Obama administration refused to change a controversial rule that would require religious institutions, in violation of their conscience, to pay for contraceptive drugs— including those that could cause an abortion. Instead, the administration merely delayed the effective date of the rule by one year. The rule is currently subject to […]

Obama's Contempt for Religious Liberty
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Obama’s Contempt for Religious Liberty

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by on Jan 20, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on today’s announcement from the Obama administration that it is going forward with its original “Obamacare” policy that mandates coverage of sterilization and contraceptive services in most healthcare plans: Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said today that aside from houses of worship, all other religious agencies […]

How Vulture Capitalism Endangers America's Elderly
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How Vulture Capitalism Endangers America’s Elderly

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by on Jan 20, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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GOP presidential hopefuls – most notably Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry – have been attempting to derail Golden Boy Mitt Romney’s campaign momentum by attacking his background as a venture capitalist, deriding as “vulture capitalism” the practice of acquiring businesses through leveraged buyouts and attempting to increase their value through cutting costs, laying off workers and […]

Gay Marriage Coming After the Church
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Gay Marriage Coming After the Church

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by on Jan 19, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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A Gay Marriage Equality bill (read SB 6239) has been introduced this month in Washington State. The measure is deceptive and exceedingly dangerous. It represents a radical shift in the definition of marriage, and it would pose a serious threat to religious freedom. … The bill’s introduction says it would not force clergy or churches to marry […]

Clash of Competing "Rights" Claims Raises Free Speech Concerns
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Clash of Competing “Rights” Claims Raises Free Speech Concerns

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by on Jan 18, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Tension between free speech advocacy and efforts to curb “hate speech” has arisen over the past year as the result of recent initiatives at the United Nations (UN) and by the Obama administration. Freedom of opinion and expression have long been recognized as fundamental, and a recent UN Human Rights Committee “General Comment” affirmed these […]

Supreme Court Sides with Church in Landmark First Amendment Ruling
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Supreme Court Sides with Church in Landmark First Amendment Ruling

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by on Jan 11, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Today the Supreme Court decided its most important religious liberty case in twenty years, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The government lost 9-nothing as the Court unanimously rejected its narrow view of religious liberty as “extreme,” “untenable” and “remarkable.” The unanimous decision adopted the Becket Fund’s arguments, saying that […]

Collecting the Debt to Society
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Collecting the Debt to Society

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, Those in Need
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Repeatedly, the US Catholic Bishops have issued their plaintive calls, asking us to fix our “broken and destructive” criminal justice system here in America.  Most of us paid this call no attention at all.  Perhaps this was to be expected; I’m afraid the USCCB’s recommendations have not always been free from a certain tincture of […]

Christian University Joins Monks in Fight Against Fed's Contraception Mandate
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Christian University Joins Monks in Fight Against Fed’s Contraception Mandate

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Last month, Colorado Christian University (CCU) became the first interdenominational Christian college to challenge in federal court a new “Affordable Care Act” (aka “Obamacare”) mandate for abortifacients (drugs which induce abortions). Colorado Christian joins the monks at Belmont Abbey College pushing back against government intrusion into personal religious convictions that is unprecedented in the health […]

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A Response to Keith Ablow

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by on Jan 03, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Celebrity therapist and “life coach” Dr. Keith Ablow just jumped on the “let’s get the government out of the marriage business” bandwagon. I have been writing against the “privatizing marriage” mantra, going all the way back to 2005. (See also here and here.) I do not wish to rehearse those arguments here. But Dr. Ablow’s […]

Male Nurse Claims He Was Fired for Treating Muslim Women
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Male Nurse Claims He Was Fired for Treating Muslim Women

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by on Dec 12, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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In one of the more intriguing cases to emerge recently, male nurse John Benitez Jr. filed suit against the city of Dearborn, Michigan, for sex discrimination last [month], charging that he had been terminated for tending to Muslim women at a government-run medical facility after receiving contradictory instructions about the need to adhere to gender […]

The "Wrong Side" of History
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The “Wrong Side” of History

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by on Dec 02, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Countless times I have been warned about how miserable I will be when I discover that civilization has passed me by, while I sit, frothing from the mouth, beating my cane against my rocker, clinging to archaic notions about sexuality and marriage. So, for those inclined to issue the same warning again, or for those […]

Same-sex "Marriage" v. Grandma
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Same-sex “Marriage” v. Grandma

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by on Nov 24, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Over the next several months, you will likely be asked how same-sex “marriage” will affect you. This question is asked because those trying to redefine marriage would like you to believe that it will have no impact on anyone whose names do not appear on the same-sex “marriage” license. They argue that this is a […]

Jewish Restaurants Don’t Serve Pork
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Jewish Restaurants Don’t Serve Pork

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by on Nov 22, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Step into a kosher restaurant and skim the menu looking for pork chops: you won’t find any. Practicing Jews don’t eat pork, they don’t sell pork, and no one expects them to pay for pork. Pork goes against their faith, and they don’t do pork. In much the same way, faithful Catholics don’t do contraception, […]

We Are Penn State: Complicity in the Wake of Abuse
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We Are Penn State: Complicity in the Wake of Abuse

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by on Nov 15, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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All three network morning news programs opened recently with the story of the phone call firing of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. Hardened newscasters expressed shock that men like Paterno, Penn State president Graham Spanier, and other university officials knew that children were being abused, yet turned their backs. “Who among us,” one […]

Onward, Christian Soldiers
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Onward, Christian Soldiers

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by on Nov 10, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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Liberals are nervous. They should be. As the 2012 election grows closer a soft rumble builds throughout thousands of Evangelical Christian churches across America. Pastors and churchgoers alike are waking up to the disturbing reality that we as a nation have strayed drastically from our historical Judeo-Christian moorings. Though many may try, none can honestly […]

Why Does the Crucifix "Provoke" Muslims?
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Why Does the Crucifix “Provoke” Muslims?

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by on Nov 09, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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For a religion that is perpetually “misunderstood,” the consistency of Islam is remarkable. Consider how ostensibly diverse issues—complaints of “human rights” abuses at an American university and murder in an Egyptian classroom—are interconnected. First, the American story. According to Fox News: The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that […]