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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Into purgatorial fire, the United States District Court of Connecticut must cast one of two souls, the state government or the Catholic Church. The Office of State Ethics accuses the Church of breaking Connecticut’s lobbying rules last spring when the Diocese of Bridgeport protested liberal legislation. Distraught, the diocese seeks clemency and asks the court to prohibit OSE from applying these rules to the Church. To quench this inferno, the state legislature should exempt churches from its lobbying rules—because churchgoers aren’t powerbrokers...
...charges against the Church, and the legislature should revise the rules immediately. We don’t need to register every person marching outside the pearly gates, just the guy trying to slip Saint Peter a few coins. Moreover, it would help both church and state if a court didn’t settle every dispute. Otherwise, we may see the day when the penitent Catholic, at the start of Confession, instead of saying “Bless me Father, for I have sinned,” demands, “Bless me Father...
...after his arrest, Copney was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on the same charges as the was ones he was indicted for last night, except without the counts of armed robbery and attempt to commit a crime. At that arraignment, he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail...
...Drew national attention, and many constituents' ire, by announcing he would reject about $700 million of the expected $2.8 billion in federal funding directed to South Carolina in the 2009 stimulus bill - which he opposed. He later backed down after losing his fight in court...
...there was any doubt as to the character of the state that threatens to emerge in Somalia should Islamist rebels overthrow the embattled government, it was dispelled on June 22, when a militia court sentenced four men accused of stealing three mobile phones and two AK-47s to the amputation of their right hands and left legs. The sentence, whose execution was postponed after the al-Shabaab court decided the hot weather might cause the four men to bleed to death, was condemned as "cruel, inhuman and degrading" by Amnesty International. The incident highlighted both the kind of neighbor Kenya...