RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on October 15, 2024
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(SRN NEWS – America continues to battle over abortion a little over two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade. Last week two courts allowed state abortion restrictions to remain in place, and bigger changes could result from next month’s elections. One new ruling allows Texas to continue denying emergency abortions if they violate state law. Another lets Georgia resume enforcement of its abortion ban. Voters in nine states will have a say on abortion policy at the polls next month. Races for office, including the presidency, could also shape policies going forward.
According to research by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, around 15 percent of non-Jewish students on America’s college campuses express extreme hostility toward Israel. They deny its right to exist at all and are unwilling to be friends with anyone who thinks differently. Meanwhile, another group of students, also around 15 percent of the non-Jewish population, is willing to endorse explicitly anti-Jewish beliefs such as “Jews have too much power in America.” However, they do not seem to be deeply motivated by political criticism of Israel’s government.
Pro-abortion groups have out-raised pro-lifers by a nearly eight-to-one margin in campaigns for ballot measures across the U.S. this year. But the advantage doesn’t show in ad buys in Florida, which has the most expensive campaign of the nine states where voters are being asked whether they want to enshrine abortion In their state constitutions. The Florida numbers don’t reflect what the state GOP or Republican-controlled government agencies have spent either. Campaigns that raise more money have an edge reaching voters with ads on TV, radio and websites.
The Supreme Court is taking up the case of an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is heterosexual. The justices have agreed to review an appellate ruling that upheld the dismissal of the discrimination lawsuit filed by the woman, Marlean Ames, against the Ohio Department of Youth Services. Ames, who has worked for the department for 20 years, contends she was passed over for a promotion and then demoted because she is not gay. Both the job she sought and the one she had held were given to LGBT people. Arguments are due early next year.
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