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...added that the U.S. was not going to get involved in the case. "This is a case that is not under the competence of the United States," he said. "It is under the competence of the Afghan authorities. We hope that the Afghan constitution is going to be upheld, and in our view, if it is upheld, he will be found to be innocent...
...organizations incorporated under state law that discriminate based on sexual orientation. The federal tax code already provides for the revocation of favored tax treatment of otherwise tax-exempt private schools that practice racial discrimination, even for religious reasons. The Supreme Court, in Bob Jones University v. United States (1982), upheld the constitutionality of this provision against claims that it violates the First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom, noting that eradicating discrimination is a fundamental government interest and that mere revocation of special tax treatment “will not prevent those schools from observing their religious tenets...
...fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest in the fetus' welfare is equal to the mother's protected liberty...." Requiring a woman to notify her husband before an abortion, the Justices argued, "embodies a view of marriage...
...Western democracies’ support for freedom of thought and expression mean that radical theocratic attitudes like the one held by Hamas’ Jamila Al Shany—“no one can say a bad word about our prophet”— cannot be upheld. The media should continue to have the right to publish cartoons and images even if certain groups may find them offensive, as long as those images do not justify or demand violence. Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons did neither of these things. Furthermore, they were cartoons and clearly satirical...
...death, Mrs. King seemed to draw on his strength, and make it her own. "Coretta had every right to count the costs and step back from the struggle," President Bush said. "But she decided that her children needed more than a safe home; they needed an America that upheld their equality and wrote their rights into law." Because of the legacy she sustained, he said, "millions of children they would never meet are now living in a better, more welcoming country...