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...would mean that UC is improperly deferring to another group’s guidelines when it is the UC, as a student government, that should set and adhere to its own rules. Second, it would allow the UC to fund groups that have clauses in their bylaws that explicitly prohibit some individuals from becoming officers of the group based on their religious views. For these reasons, we ask that the UC vote “no” on this bill or any similar proposal.The UC should not defer to the CCL’s more lenient standards, which recognize...
...nutritional standards for all food and beverages sold on school grounds. California banned the sale of junk food as snacks in schools starting next year. Kentucky requires students to engage in vigorous physical activity for 30 minutes a day or 150 minutes a week and next year will prohibit its schools from serving that staple of Southern cuisine, deep-fried foods. Maryland plans to put timing devices on school vending machines to limit access during school hours. Many states plan to make nutrition instruction part of their curriculums...
...from observing their religious tenets.” Furthermore, in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), no less a conservative than Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the Court that “an individual’s religious beliefs [do not] excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate”—let alone a law that does not prohibit such conduct, but merely refuses to grant it a special state subsidy. Based on these cases, then, it seems likely that revoking the state tax-exempt status of institutions...
...Catholic Charities saga currently unfolding in Boston. Licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, Catholic Charities has been providing vital adoption services for abandoned and endangered children with special needs. Recently, Massachusetts bishops have been confronted with the difficult decision of whether or not to prohibit same-sex couples from adopting, in accordance with Pope John Paul II’s decree that the adoption of children by homosexual couples is a “gravely immoral form of violence that places children in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development...
...culture obsessives?are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore: the government is trying to outlaw some of their favorite vintage video games. On April 1, Japan's Product Safety of Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (PSE), designed to prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop in Akihabara, Tokyo's nerd mecca. "Who do they think they are protecting...