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Law and Justice: Hitches on the Catholic Church Child Abuse Scandals
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The Catholic Church is in serious trouble and may have nowhere to run, depending on who you ask.
"I warned them about all of this," declared author Christopher Hitchens, appearing on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night. "Nothing good can come of a church that has as its' slogan, 'Leave no child's behind.' And then they went and chose as pope the man who was personally responsible, in his dioceses, and institutionally responsible for the cover-up. So now, there's no escape."
The child rape scandals that have savaged Catholic ranks for years starting in the United States, then flaring up in Ireland, Germany, Italy and other locations around the world, have finally come to implicate Pope Benedict XVI, according to recent reports.
At time of this writing, the most recent scandal flare-up involved a school for the deaf in Wisconsin, where up to 200 boys were molested by a man whom Hitchens said "was allowed to walk free and was buried with full honors as a priest."
-Article continues off site, courtesy Rawstory.
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Law and Justice: The fight over God's secular title.
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Pop quiz: Which of the following names represents a nonsectarian, universal deity? Allah, Dios, Gott, Dieu, Elohim, Gud, or Jesus?
If you answered "none of the above," you are right as a matter of fact but not law. If you answered "Allah," you are right as a matter of law but not fact. And if you answered "Jesus," you might have been trying to filibuster David Hamilton, Barack Obama's first judicial nominee.
Hamilton, nominated last March, has seen his confirmation stalled until last week in the U.S. Senate, in part because his opponents claim he's a judicial activist for an opinion he wrote about God's proper secular title. In a 2005 case, Hinrichs v. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana House of Representatives "should refrain from using Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal," and that such prayer must hereinafter be "nonsectarian."
-Article continues off site, courtesy Slate.
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Law and Justice: Texas Supremes uphold Special Rights for Religion
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The Texas state supreme court ruled unanimously on Friday that a town which had altered its zoning to ban two church-sponsored halfway houses in a residential neighborhood was in violation of the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
That act, which was passed in 1999 and endorsed by then-Governor George W. Bush, affords greater legal protection to religious operations than to equivalent secular operations.
Under its provisions, cities have to prove that zoning regulations — like the one passed by the town of Sinton to ban jails and rehabs within 1000 feet of a home, school, or church — further a “compelling” interest, such as protecting public safety, and do not place a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion.
Town officials asserted that the zoning regulations placed no restrictions on worship or the practice of religion and were merely intended to protect the safety of residents. This position was upheld at the local and appeals court levels.
-Article continued off site. courtesy Rawstory.
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Law and Justice: Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine
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WESTON, Wis. — Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor.
After an aunt from California called the sheriff’s department here, frantically pleading that the sick child be rescued, an ambulance arrived at the Neumann’s rural home on the outskirts of Wausau and rushed Kara to the hospital. She was pronounced dead on arrival.
The county coroner ruled that she had died from diabetic ketoacidosis resulting from undiagnosed and untreated juvenile diabetes. The condition occurs when the body fails to produce insulin, which leads to severe dehydration and impairment of muscle, lung and heart function.
“Basically everything stops,” said Dr. Louis Philipson, who directs the diabetes center at the University of Chicago Medical Center, explaining what occurs in patients who do not know or “are in denial that they have diabetes.”
-Article continued off site, courtesy The New York Times.
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Law and Justice: Federal judge orders school district to stop promoting religion
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A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction forcing Santa Rosa schools to discontinue policies and practices that "promote religion throughout district schools," a press release from the ACLU states.
U.S. District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers granted the preliminary injunction late Friday following the district's admission to the court that it has violated the constitutional rights of students.
"Overall, school officials should not be using their official positions to promote personal religious beliefs," said Benjamin James Stevenson, principal ACLU litigator. "We are pleased with the school district for admitting and accepting responsibility and we are pleased with the court's order."
The ACLU filed suit against the district on Aug. 27, 2008, on behalf of two Pace High School students and their parents.
The lawsuit claims that students at Pace "not only face overt compulsion to adopt the religious beliefs of school officials, but also must contend with subtle, coercive pressures to conform their religious beliefs to those favored by school officials."
-Article continued off site, courtesy DailyNews (Florida).
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| Friday, January 02 | | · | Atheists Sue to Get Prayer, God Out of Obama's Swearing-In |
| Tuesday, October 21 | | · | Afghan student gets 20 years instead of death for blasphemy |
| Tuesday, October 07 | | · | The Supreme Court’s New Term |
| Thursday, October 02 | | · | Atheist family challenges minute of silence law |
| Sunday, September 28 | | · | Evangelist arrested in child porn case |
| Thursday, September 25 | | · | Is English law related to Muslim law? |
| Wednesday, September 17 | | · | State faces “mark of the beast” lawsuit |
| Saturday, September 06 | | · | Fla. court tosses ballot attempts to allow public religion funding |
| Wednesday, August 13 | | · | Pastors Go Postal |
| Tuesday, August 05 | | · | Sen. Chambers Hopes Lawsuit Against God Carries Real Lesson |
| · | Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope |
| Sunday, June 29 | | · | A Troubling Legal Precedent in Texas |
| Friday, May 30 | | · | 'Potter' Event lead to Rights Violation, ACLU Says |
| Wednesday, May 28 | | · | Virginia Churches Fight Over Church Property |
| Thursday, May 22 | | · | Appeals Court Rules Against Texas in Polygamy Case |
| Wednesday, May 21 | | · | Phelps Family Loses in court |
| · | Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult' |
| Wednesday, May 14 | | · | Mormon Church attempts to gag Internet over handbook |
| Wednesday, April 23 | | · | FLDS case raises questions of religious and parental rights, and child protectio |
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