Around the Web This Week

Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama told political leaders that religious freedom is important to national security and a central tenet of U.S. diplomacy
Following a Supreme Court ruling which ordered funding halted to seminaries whose students are exempt from the draft, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have blocked highways across Israel in protest
An English court summoned the head of the Mormon church to answer charges that Mormon religious claims are fraud
More than 100,000 marched through Paris and Lyon to protest France’s legalization of same-sex marriage and to show their support for traditional family and educational values
The Vatican responded to a UN human rights committee’s report criticizing the Vatican for its response to the child sex abuse crisis and its attitudes toward homosexuality, contraception, and abortion.
MSPs in Scotland voted by 105 to…