Judge: No Bible Reading to Your Child

Judge to Christian Mom: No Teaching
that Homosexuality is a Sin
A Colorado mother is appealing a child custody decision in which a court barred her from teaching homosexuality is wrong. Cheryl Clark, who says she is a Christian, has been ordered by Denver County Circuit Judge John W. Coughlin to "make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic." The directive arose from the decision to award joint parenting responsibilities for her daughter to a practicing homosexual.

When Civil Government Attacks the Church


Moore Lawyers Say He `Can Not Get A Fair Trial,'
Removal May Be `Inevitable'
Lawyers for suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore say they don't believe he can get a fair trial before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary on judicial ethics charges. The attorneys said in a statement Thursday that it may be "inevitable" that Moore will be removed from office for not obeying a federal court order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the Alabama Judicial Building. The written statement, attributed to Moore's attorneys - former Supreme Court Justice Terry Butts, Jim Wilson and Michael Jones - came in response to a ruling Wednesday by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary setting rules for public access to Moore's trial, set for Nov. 12. Moore's lawyers said the decision meant the chief justice cannot obtain a "fair, public trial." "Further, Moore's legal team advised him that in light of the rulings of the COJ denying him his basic legal rights, that an adverse ruling from the COJ is inevitable, which may well include his imminent removal from office," the attorneys said in the statement.

Judge Roy Moore
Latest on Ten Commandments Monument Battle

New fuel for Ten Commandments fray
Daniel Becker, a pastor at Little River Church in Cherokee County, is tired of seeing "liberals" and a "runaway court system" shove all references to God and Christianity out of the public square. He is shoving back. Becker and a group of county pastors and supporters will rally on the Cherokee County Courthouse steps to generate support for his effort to place two granite tablets with the Ten Commandments chiseled into them on display in the public building. "We were founded as a Christian nation," he said, adding that he wants the nation to stay true to its roots.

Minister Wants To Erect
'Entered Hell' Monument In Idaho
BOISE, Idaho – A minister known for his fiery rhetoric against homosexuals and who unsuccessfully fought to erect an anti-gay monument in Casper, Wyo., is now turning to the tiny town of Rupert, Idaho. The Rev. Fred Phelps asked Minidoka County Commissioners this week to buy a small section of the courthouse lawn for the same monument rejected by Casper's city leaders on Tuesday. He got the idea after learning that Rupert's local American Legion post was seeking to buy the land for a Ten Commandments monument. American Legion members hoped that by purchasing the land, they could display the biblical message without violating the separation of church and state. "I didn't think anybody would come up with buying a 2- by 3-foot spot of the land. That's a wonderful idea," Phelps said. "My message is infinitely more important than the Ten Commandments, because nobody is delivering it," Phelps said.

Commandment Monument Proposal Gets A New Twist
RUPERT - After an American Legion group announced it wanted to buy land on the courthouse lawn to place a monument of the Ten Commandments, the Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka., Kan. now says it also wants to buy land.

Police Get Preview of New Traffic Stop Requirements
ROCKFORD — State transportation officials did their best to sell a new racial profiling law to a decidedly skeptical contingent of northern Illinois’ finest Wednesday. State Sen. Barack Obama, D-Chicago, a chief supporter of the law that requires officers record the race of every mo-torist they pull over, spoke to 40-plus police representatives via a speaker phone in an effort to allay any concerns area police have. The law is a compromise to help pass the primary seat-belt law that took effect in July. That law allows police officers to pull over motorists for not wearing their seat belts.

Three More Protesters Arrested
at Army's Stryker Meeting
Three more people were arrested last night — Hawaiian sovereignty activist Kekuni Blaisdell among them — at a second raucous confrontation between opponents of the Army's planned Stryker brigade and security guards hired by the Army. "This is my crime: I'm kanaka," said Blaisdell, tracing his fingers over the words "kanaka maoli" (indigenous Hawaiian) on his T-shirt.

Posted by Editor at October 31, 2003 10:51 AM