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New Jersey Court Backs Full Rights for Gay Couples
New Jersey’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that gay couples are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples, but ordered the Legislature to decide whether their unions must be called marriage or could be known by another name.
Oct 26, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Legislation
Court: Groups Must Offer Contraceptives
New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that social service agencies run by the Roman Catholic Church and other faiths must provide birth-control coverage to their employees, even if they consider contraception a sin.
Oct 23, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Life, Citizenship, Legislation, Religious Liberty
Boy Scouts suffer a legal setback in Supreme Court over discrimination
Six years after the Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts could ban gay leaders, the group is fighting and losing legal battles with state and local governments over its discriminatory policies.
Oct 20, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Abuse, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Church and State, Community Service, Human Rights, Legislation, Religious Liberty
Reagan’s 1986 Election
Conservatives have bounced back from electoral setbacks before.
WSJ Opinion Journal
BY JEFFREY LORD
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
As Ronald Reagan was thanking me I was both depressed and embarrassed.
It was November, 1986. After a solid two years of effort, the Congressional elections in the sixth year of the Reagan presidency had gone badly.
The 1980 Reagan landslide over Jimmy Carter had produced twelve new Republican Senate seats, giving the GOP a Senate majority for the first time since 1954. It made the Senate a critical ally for Reagan as he set about rebuilding the nation’s military, getting forward-looking young conservatives onto the federal bench and passing the landmark tax cuts needed to revitalize an almost crippled economy. The House was more problematical. A bastion of liberal Democrats with a mindset still stuck somewhere between1935 and 1965 on economics. Its more outspoken members loved reliving their glory days opposing the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon.
Oct 17, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues, Issues
It’s a Faith Thing
By BRIAN S. WESBURY
October 17, 2006; Page A14
With equity markets steadily gaining ground and the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching record highs, it is getting harder for cynics and pessimists to argue that the U.S. economy is doing poorly. But this does not stop them from trying. Lately, the old class-warrior standby, that “Wall Street may be doing fine, but Main Street suffers,” is echoing down the alleyways…
Oct 17, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Finances, Citizenship, Legislation, Social Issues, Issues
In Final Weeks, G.O.P. Focuses on Best Bets
Senior Republican leaders have concluded that Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, a pivotal state in this year’s fierce midterm election battles, is likely to be heading for defeat and are moving to reduce financial support for his race and divert party money to other embattled Republican senators, party officials said.
Oct 16, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
‘Every Reason to Be Proud’
Wall Street Journal
By LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY
October 13, 2006; Page A12
The government has just closed the books on the 2006 fiscal year and released the figures for revenue collected. It has also been five years since the first of the Bush tax cuts began to help the economy and consumers’ wallets, so it is a natural time to look back and evaluate their economic and budgetary effectiveness…
Oct 13, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Finances, Citizenship, Legislation, Issues
Conservatives worry scandal will hit ‘value voter’ turnout
Republican campaign strategists and conservatives fear former Rep. Mark Foley’s sex scandal will depress turnout among the party’s “value voter” base in November, further complicating Republican efforts to keep control of Congress.
Oct 4, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
Online-Gambling Shares Plunge on Passage of U.S. Crackdown Law
By ERIC PFANNER, International Herald Tribune
Published: October 3, 2006
LONDON, Oct. 2 — On a Black Monday for the online-gambling industry, companies that operate Internet betting sites and payment systems lost billions of dollars in market value after the United States government moved to criminalize the processing of online wagers.
Oct 3, 2006
Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Legislation, National, Issues
Online-Gambling Shares Plunge on Passage of U.S. Crackdown Law
On a Black Monday for the online-gambling industry, companies that operate Internet betting sites and payment systems lost billions of dollars in market value after the United States government moved to criminalize the processing of online wagers.Oct 3, 2006
Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Legislation