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Link Roundup for Tuesday September 29, 2009

Posted by matt (September 29, 2009 at 6:16 pm)

Judge in Case of Arrested Notre Dame Pro-Lifers is Married to Pro-Abortion ND Professor
LifeSiteNews
The attorney representing the pro-lifers arrested while protesting Obama at Notre Dame today repeated his request that the judge in the case, who is married to a pro-abortion Notre Dame professor, be removed from the case.

Judge in Case of Arrested Notre Dame Pro-Lifers is Married to Pro-Abortion ND Professor
Free Republic
“When one analyzes Edward Manier’s political contributions to pro abortion candidates and Political Action Committee, when one reads Edward Manier’s writings referencing members of the Christian right, calling them ‘fundamentalist mullahs’ and ‘jackleg preachers,’” Dixon writes, “it is hard to comprehend how Judge Manier could derive from her husband’s writings the notion that he has no interest in the outcome of these cases.”

Judge in Notre Dame Pro-Life Protest Case Married to Pro-Abortion ND Professor

LifeNews
“Neither Dixon nor anyone has alleged that Judge Manier is her husband but rather that her husband has been so outspoken in his pro-abortion stance that it creates actual and perceived bias,”

Will a biased judge “hang” the Notre Dame 88?
The Observant Catholic
Judge in Case of Arrested Notre Dame Pro-Lifers is Married to Pro-Abortion ND Professor

Backlash Continues Over Notre Dame Award to Obama
The New American
The controversy over the honorary degree the University of Notre Dame awarded President Barrack Obama last spring is not over. A total of 88 pro-life demonstrators who were arrested for entering the South Bend, Indiana, campus to protest the award given at the May 17 commencement still face trial on criminal trespass charges. A petition calling on the university to withdraw its complaints against them is circulating online

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