It is appropriate that the Louisiana Legislature passed a resolution urging Congress to enact the Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 [http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s520is.txt.pdf] at the same time that a national survey was released indicating that Americans view religion as being under attack in America.  According to the poll American Attitudes Toward Religion In the Public Square, sponsored [...]

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It is now reported that Louisiana’s rate of syphilis cases ranked No. 1 in the nation last year, while its gonorrhea rate placed second and its Chlamydia rate was third, according to federal figures released on November 8th.  Louisiana’s syphilis rate is 7.4 cases per 100,000 people, compared with 2.7 cases per 100,000 nationally. The state’s [...]

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We may be reaching the “tipping point” with yesterday’s breathtaking sex-ed decision by the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Some have been claiming that it declared parenthood unconstitutional – (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200511/CUL20051103b.html).  Regardless of how you characterize the decision, it offers an extraordinarily good reason why the salutary language now found in Louisiana Children’s Code Preamble [...]

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