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At the Beginning, Turn Left: University Summer Reading Lists Overwhelmingly Liberal
July 30th, 201001:23 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Joe MartinsMy colleague, Jordan Lorence recently commented on the pronounced leftist slant in the selection of university commencement speakers. To say this is unsurprising is an understatement. Over 80% of America’s university professors identify themselves as Democrats. And further studies have sh... -
University of Illinois Reinstates Dr. Kenneth Howell
July 29th, 201006:27 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel David J. Hacker Earlier today we received confirmation from the University of Illinois that it is reinstating Dr. Kenneth Howell as an adjunct professor this fall. The University terminated Dr. Howell’s employment earlier this summer after a student complained that he was “offended” by Dr. Howell’s... -
Churches Not Considered Desirable or Necessary
July 29th, 201005:33 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster Have you heard the joke, “if con is the opposite of pro, then congress is the opposite of progress?” While there might be several examples supporting the truth of this statement, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person’s Act (“RPUIPA”), passed by Congress, is not one of them. RLUIP... -
On Second Thought, Montgomery County Won’t Hold Christian Business Owner’s Beliefs Against Her
July 29th, 201004:11 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Casey Mattox Montgomery County, Maryland has a long and distinguished history of opposing its own citizens’ exercise of their First Amendment rights. Between the county’s long-running and unsuccessful fight to discriminate against an after-school Bible club, its school curriculum that disparaged denominations that con... -
Indonesian Police Tear Down House Church
July 29th, 201010:06 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley A story from Asia News relates that the Indonesian Police recently demolished a house for no other reason than that it contained a home church that met regularly. The Narogong Pentecostal Church in the village of Limusnunggal, Cileungsi sub-district, regularly met in the house for worship. The rep... -
FIRE and the June Sheldon Case
July 28th, 201010:05 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French The good folks over at FIRE have put out an excellent release about June Sheldon’s victory in her case against the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District. FIRE supported June from the beginning of her case, writing a letter to the school and calling public attention to her plight... -
A Disappointing Ruling in Michigan
July 27th, 201004:46 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French Late yesterday afternoon we received word that the federal district court granted the university’s motion for summary judgment dismissing Julea Ward’s case against officials from Eastern Michigan University. The opinion contains a cascading series of assumptions that made it virtually impo... -
Allowed in Washington State: Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharmacy
July 26th, 201011:46 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Steven H. Aden After more than three years of bouncing around in federal trial and appeals courts, Washington State pharmacists and patients both came out winners. The loser? The Washington State Department of Health. Ever since a law passed in 2007 that required all pharmacies to stock or distribute human life-des... -
Professor Receives $100,000, Exoneration in Settlement; Court Rejects Garcetti’s Application to Faculty Speech
July 23rd, 201004:28 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel David J. Hacker This week the ADF Center for Academic Freedom settled Professor June Sheldon’s lawsuit against the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, a college that has been fraught with corruption charges lately. Professor Sheldon sued the District two years ago after it terminated he... -
Poll: 48 Percent of Americans Have a Great Deal of Confidence in the Church
July 23rd, 201003:32 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley A new Gallup poll shows how much confidence Americans have in their institutions. The big news from the poll is the very low confidence rating Americans have in Congress – only a shocking 11% of those polled have great confidence in Congress as an institution. But among the major institutions ... -
Jennifer Keeton, in Her Own Words
July 22nd, 201001:18 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David FrenchToday, the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom filed a lawsuit against officials at Augusta State University on behalf of counseling student Jennifer Keeton. Jennifer's counseling professors have told her she must change her Christian beliefs to graduate, told her that she cannot share her f... -
Fantastic Victory for Church Schools
July 21st, 201006:19 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin TheriotEvery once in a while, a judge will write an opinion demonstrating the vital importance of religious freedom. The Honorable William C. Lee in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Indiana did just that in a July 15, 2010 ruling where he rejected a former employee's r... -
Adams, Academia, and Accountability
July 21st, 201005:23 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. Barham Over at The Clarion Call, Dr. Donald Downs highlights the importance of Dr. Mike Adams' lawsuit against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. We have frequently discussed how Dr. Adams was cruising for promotion until he became a conservative Christian and-worse yet-... -
And They Say College Students Are Apathetic . . .
July 21st, 201001:15 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David FrenchWe take a break from our regularly scheduled academic freedom programming to highlight an extremely public-spirited college student in my hometown. He's decided to serve his community by becoming a superhero. I kid you not. He prowls around downtown in a superhero costume (complete with ... -
Update on the University of Illinois and Professor Kenneth Howell
July 20th, 201007:48 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker As David French noted a few days ago, Professor Kenneth Howell, a well-respected academic with 2 master's degrees, 2 Ph.D.s and many years of ranking as one of the best professors on campus, was recently fired from his job as an adjunct professor at the University of Illino... -
A Report from FIRE’s Campus Freedom Network Conference
July 20th, 201007:43 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Gregory S. BaylorLast week, I had the great pleasure of attending a conference sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's Campus Freedom Network. Along with Greg Lukianoff (FIRE's President), Adam Kissel (the Director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program), and Profes... -
Church Criticized for Teaching Religious Heritage
July 20th, 201012:37 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin TheriotA recent AP article picked up by news outlets across the country describes how Gano Baptist Church in Georgetown, Kentucky is teaching young people about our country's religious heritage. Here's a description of the event in the Church's own words: At a Vacation Liber... -
Appeals Court Decision Shows Need for Churches to Update Their By-Laws
July 19th, 201001:47 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik StanleyThe Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision recently that demonstrates why churches should be updating their by-laws to protect against potential litigation that can threaten the constitutional right of the church to select its ministers free from government interference. Th... -
Crying for Argentina…
July 19th, 201011:23 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel, Global, Piero A. TozziIn a vote certain to have repercussions throughout Latin America, Argentina's Senate approved a bill approving same-sex "marriage" - a first for a Latin nation. Following intense debate that ended at 4 a.m. on July 15, bleary-eyed senators replaced the words "men and women" in the country's ci... -
Is the Pulpit Initiative a Bad Strategy?
July 15th, 201002:53 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Since ADF launched the Pulpit Initiative in 2008, critics have attempted to argue that ADF is asking pastors to "break the law." While there are many good reasons why the Pulpit Initiative is not an attempt to have pastors "break the law," I want to focus on one primary reason for the Pulpit Init... -
DADT Repeal: 2, Free Speech and Free Exercise: 0
July 15th, 201010:51 AM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Counsel Daniel BlombergIt appears that those who have religious liberty concerns with DADT repeal are being told to shut up or ship out. While homosexual advocacy groups are complaining that Service members who engage in homosexual behavior can't speak up in support of DADT repeal (as if they needed more advocates with ... -
In Defense of the Future Farmers of America
July 15th, 201010:34 AM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Casey MattoxI have a skeleton in my closet. Two decades ago I did something that could have threatened my college education and all that has followed. In a moment of youthful indiscretion, I associated with a group - even attaining a high ranking leadership position - that, although I did not appreciate it at the... -
Anti-Intellectualism, Defined
July 13th, 201011:38 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David FrenchWhat is worse than excluding Christian professors from campus? How about excluding even the mention of Christian ideas. When the University of Illinois fired Professor Kenneth Howell for teaching about Catholic ideas regarding sexual morality, it was doing something much worse than "merel... -
Firing a Professor for Teaching His Subject?
July 13th, 201011:33 AM ETAuthor: Speak Up UniversityHas our university culture become so sensitive, so easily offended, that it cannot even allow professors to teach their subjects without monitoring the campus for hurt feelings? Apparently so. The University of Illinois has summarily fired a professor after he described Catholic moral teaching on human sexuality in a clas... -
The Blogging Bishop of Bridgeport
July 12th, 201002:10 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik StanleyYou need to read this story over at the Volokh Conspiracy blog. The story is about Bridgeport, Connecticut Bishop William Lori, whom some have dubbed the "Blogging Bishop of Bridgeport." His story of how he motivated his congregation to action under a very real and ominous threat fr... -
The Indoctrinating Power of Exclusion
July 12th, 201012:25 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer 1.) Our contemporary educational protocols have their antecedents, and it is enlightening to survey contributing sources now gone from view. One such figure from America-past with a pivotal and influential contribution to education theory and practice is Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913). Never heard of h... -
Friday Fun: Ben Franklin—Founding Father and Founding Spy?
July 12th, 201012:00 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker Recent news regarding the ring of Russian spies broken up by the FBI and the subsequent "spy swap" between the U.S. and Russia sounds like it was ripped from the headlines during the Cold War era. But did you know that one of the Founding Fathers is also considered the "founder" ... -
The Unfortunate (Potential) Psychological Impact of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
July 09th, 201006:14 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Joe Martins Last week, the Supreme Court issued a disturbing opinion that will directly impact students' constitutional rights on public university campuses throughout the nation. In CLS v. Martinez, the Court affirmed the facial constitutionality of a University of California-Hastings policy that forces stu... -
After Tenure
July 08th, 201006:19 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel David J. Hacker I recently attended a faculty conference where any mention of the word "tenure" was met with a cynical chuckle and someone saying, "Tenure, ha! It barely exists anymore!" As one who sits off-campus looking in on the Academy the sentiment jolted me. After all, tenure and the Academy go toget... -
In Brooklyn, College Officials Give Conservative Students a Bronx Cheer
July 08th, 201001:36 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. BarhamIn his latest "Inside the Issues" column, ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears discusses the latest letter the ADF Center for Academic Freedom sent to officials at Kingsborough Community College: At Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, officials with a political agenda ... -
The Alliance Defense Fund Confirms the Veracity of Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Article on the Village of Hope Deportations in Morocco
July 08th, 201001:23 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Roger KiskaThe Wall Street Journal reported on July 6, following Congressional hearings on the subject of the mass deportation of Christian volunteers in Morocco, on the continuing and tragic situation of the Village of Hope orphanage deportees: http://www.online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870491170457532731064730... -
Adams Appeals &; Wins Some Friends
July 07th, 201012:56 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. BarhamBack in March, a federal district court in North Carolina ruled that Dr. Mike Adams' nationally syndicated columns were not protected by the First Amendment. Dr. Adams-an accomplished criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington-had simply mentioned his col... -
Victory Against Euthanasia Proponents in Connecticut
July 02nd, 201005:33 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Steven H. AdenA Connecticut trial court last week turned back an attempt by pro-euthanasia doctors to re-define the criminal law prohibiting assisted suicide to allow them to kill their patients.The case was brought by two doctors who desired to provide "aid in dying" by prescribing lethal medication to their t... -
WORLD Takes the Lead…
July 02nd, 201002:49 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Counsel Daniel BlombergA lot of ink has been spilled in the mainstream media about repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Some of it has even managed to cover how religious liberty could be threatened by such a repeal. But not a single outlet has provided the kind of in-depth, thoughtful analysis that was ju... -
Washington Times Op-Ed: Court Got Hastings Case Wrong
July 02nd, 201012:49 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Gregory S. BaylorDoes it make sense for a public university to force a student chapter of the NAACP to accept a white supremacist as a leader? Should a Jewish student group lose campus meeting space because it doesn't let an anti-Semite vote? The Hastings College of the Law thinks so. And a five-justice majorit... -
Pulpit Initiative Featured on Research on Religion Podcast
July 02nd, 201012:45 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik StanleyI recently recorded a podcast on the Pulpit Initiative with professor Anthony Gill who is professor of political science at the University of Washington and non-resident scholar at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religon. Professor Gill began a new series of podcasts on the w... -
Christian Legal Society Supreme Court Case Media Round Up
July 01st, 201005:37 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. BarhamThe Supreme Court's recent decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez has, of course, caused a lot of people to spill a lot of ink (or in this era, clatter a lot of keys) over the past few days. And in the spirit of one-stop shopping, here are links to many of the articles discussi... -
Court Rescues Mission from Religious Attack
July 01st, 201002:07 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin TheriotThe federal court in Idaho recently rejected an attempt to restrict the religious freedom of the Boise Rescue Mission. This Christian ministry provides free food, shelter, and other services to the homeless. Of course it encourages those who benefit from its charity to participate in Bible... -
Kagan and ACOG Were Wrong
July 01st, 201001:58 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Casey MattoxThe predictions of those, including Elena Kagan, who said banning partial-birth abortion would result in harm to women have not come true. Three years of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has resulted in more than 7,000 partial birth abortions that have NOT been performed and zero proof that this has har... -
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell…Don’t Preach
July 01st, 201009:57 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot My generation (I graduated high school in 1984) seems to get the biblical teaching about mercy and forgiveness. After all, we willingly forgave Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions in the Oval Office with very few questions asked. But we often miss the fact that Christ also taught observance of the ...
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