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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
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
53% of Voters Say They Back Va. Same-Sex Marriage Ban
A majority of Virginians support a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions, although voters split on the measure when presented with interpretations of its potential impact, according to a new Washington Post poll.
Oct 17, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered
Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times.
Oct 17, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Pop Culture, Citizenship, 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
Evangelicals Blame Foley, Not Republican Party
As word of Representative Mark Foley’s sexually explicit e-mail messages to former pages spread last week, Republican strategists worried — and Democrats hoped — that the sordid nature of the scandal would discourage conservative Christians from going to the polls. But in dozens of interviews here in southeastern Virginia, a conservative Christian stronghold that is a battleground in races for the House and Senate, many said the episode only reinforced their reasons to vote for their two Republican incumbents in neck-and-neck re-election fights, Representative Thelma Drake and Senator George Allen.
Oct 9, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, 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
Online Gaming in Crisis Over U.S. Ban
Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
Oct 2, 2006
Topic: Family, Addictions, Gambling, Citizenship, Legislation, National
‘Fertility gap’ helps explain political divide
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
September 27, 2006
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic mother of five from San Francisco, has fewer children in her district than any other member of Congress: 87,727.
Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, a Mormon father of eight, represents the most children: 278,398.
These two extremes reflect a stark demographic divide between the congressional districts controlled by the major political parties.
Republican House members overwhelmingly come from districts that have high percentages of married people and lots of children, according to a USA TODAY analysis of 2005 Census Bureau data released last month.
Sep 28, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Parenting, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, National, Social Issues