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From the Beckett Fund:
- Smiling Sisters Shot Dead For Dancing In The Rain: Pakistani Girls, 15 And 16, Killed Along With Their Mother For Making Video Which 'stained The Family Honour'
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- With Tomorrow In Doubt
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- Supreme Court Approves Government's Ability To Take Over 20% Of The American Economy
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- British Court Saves 2 British Muslims - Girls Aged 9 & 11 - From Forced-marriage
From the Astute Bloggers: ONLY IN ISLAM: The court ruled there was a "real and substantial risk" they would be forced to marry. The girls, now aged 12 and 14, became wards of court in 2007 after their parents made plans to send them to Pakistan....
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10th Circuit to Little Sisters of the Poor: Comply with contraception mandate
From the Beckett Fund:
Moments ago, in a departure from the U.S. Supreme Court’s protection of the Little Sisters of the Poorlast year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the Little Sisters must comply with the government’s HHS mandate. This mandate forces religious ministries to violate their faith or pay massive IRS penalties …
The Tenth Circuit heard oral argument in this case December of last year, when for the first time since the case began, Sr. Loraine Marie Maguire, Mother Provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor, delivered a public statement on the case (see statement here).
Today the Tenth Circuit ruled that government can force the Little Sisters to either violate their faith or pay massive IRS penalties.
The court held that participating in the government’s contraception delivery scheme is “as easy as obtaining a parade permit, filing a simple tax for, or registering to vote” and that although the Sisters sincerely believe that participating in the scheme “make[s] them complicit in the overall delivery scheme,” the court “ultimately rejects the merits of this claim,” because the court believes the scheme relieves [the Little Sisters] from complicity.”
The Little Sisters and their attorneys are closely reviewing the court’s decision and will decide soon whether they must seek relief from the Supreme Court.
“We will keep on fighting for the Little Sisters, even if that means having to go all the way to the Supreme Court,” said Daniel Blomberg, Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
The Court’s order similarly harms Christian Brothers Services and Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust, the Catholic ministries through which the Little Sisters obtain their health coverage.
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From the Daily Mail: Two teenage sisters have been murdered in Pakistan after they were accused of tarnishing their family's name by making a video of themselves dancing in the rain. The girls, aged 15 and 16, are seen running around in...
- With Tomorrow In Doubt
Excerpt from "With Tomorrow In Doubt," an excellent essay by T.L. Davis: ...Is an Executive Order legal to alter an Amendment to the Constitution? No, but it will take months and months to work its way through the courts and by the time it gets to the...
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While we had our eye on the train wreck of Wall Street following the downgrade of the credit rating of the United States, THIS happened:'Tortured' US citizens allowed to sue Donald Rumsfeld Two former US security contractors may sue former...
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From the Astute Bloggers: ONLY IN ISLAM: The court ruled there was a "real and substantial risk" they would be forced to marry. The girls, now aged 12 and 14, became wards of court in 2007 after their parents made plans to send them to Pakistan....