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Manhattan Declaration – An Opportunity to Stand or Fall
August 31st, 201001:48 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot In his weekly “Two-Minute Warning,” Chuck Colson presents a compelling case for signing the Manhattan Declaration. This document is an effort to unite all Christians in support of the three most important moral issues of our day – Life, Religious Freedom, and Marriage. Disturbing, but not... -
Ninth Circuit Protects Para-Church Ministries – Really!
August 31st, 201010:21 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot We often hear bad things about the cases handed down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in various places on the west coast – primarily San Francisco. All too often, this Court’s opinions are contrary to religious freedom, and protecting the family and life. But a panel led by Judge... -
Churches and Voter Drives
August 31st, 201010:16 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t provided good guidance for pastors who want to know if their sermons regarding biblical morality and candidates for office violate the rule against church intervention in political campaigns. But the IRS has been remarkably clear on the issue of Voter Drives. Churches h... -
Endowed with Inalienable Rights . . . By Whom?
August 27th, 201011:52 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor The State Department has submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the Universal Periodic Review. The report is the federal government’s assessment of how the country is doing on the human rights front. The very first li... -
Are You Sitting Down?
August 26th, 201006:28 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. BaylorYes, believe it or not, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a favorable religious freedom decision. On Monday, the court held that World Vision is in fact a religious organization and thus allowed to fire three employees who had repudiated the Christian beliefs they once h... -
The Manhattan Declaration...Romanian Style
August 26th, 201010:03 AM ETAuthor: ADF Executive Vice-President and Executive Director of ADF-Global Benjamin W. Bull The Alliance of Romania’s Families has launched the Timisoara Declaration. (Scroll down their page to see the English version.) Inspired by similar actions taken by U.S., U.K., and Australian Christians which have resulted in the Manhattan Declaration, Wes... -
Third Circuit Vindicates Free Speech (Again)
August 25th, 201003:05 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Joe Martins It’s official now. You can rejoice if you are a student attending a public college or university in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware or the Virgin Islands. (You are probably already rejoicing if you are a student in the Virgin Islands for other obvious reasons.) Give your friends a high f... -
How to Repeal the First Amendment . . .
August 24th, 201012:50 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French In five easy steps... Step 1: Launch a debate within key private professional organizations (such as the National Association of Social Workers or the American Counseling Association) about the need for “social justice” within the profession. Argue stridently that social workers and/or ... -
Update on CLS v. Hastings
August 23rd, 201001:01 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against CLS in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez in June, the case was not over. The Court sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for consideration of CLS’s claim that Hastings’ “all-comers” policy was selectively enforced... -
Crackdown on Homeschooling in the Near Future?
August 23rd, 201010:17 AM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska Think about it. Out of all the world regimes over the past century, which ones do you think would be most opposed to homeschooling? Nazi Germany, communist Russia, and nations enforcing Islamic Sharia Law first come to mind. And what is the common tie to all of these? Control. Unfortunately, with socialist age... -
North Korea: Is This Where Our Country Is Headed?
August 20th, 201004:58 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Thank God we’re not as far gone as North Korea, but we’re definitely headed in that direction. Christianity Today reports that government officials raided a Christian church service and either executed or jailed all 23 in attendance. The report observes: Being a Christian in North Korea is cons... -
Great Cartoons on the California Marriage Amendment Decision
August 16th, 201004:50 PM ETCheck out these cartoons on the federal court decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, in which Judge Vaughn Walker threw out the constitutional amendment on marriage approved by 7 million California voters as Proposition 8: Michael Ramirez Gary Varvel ... -
Two More Blog Posts on Federalist Papers
August 16th, 201004:18 PM ETADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb had a post last week regarding Federalist #76 on the Constituting America blog. Posts from ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden on Federalist #77 and ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot on Federalist #79 are now up as well. ... -
Should Churches Be “Real Cool” or Just Real?
August 16th, 201002:11 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot In his article published in the WSJ today, Brett McCracken says churches need to be real. He takes them to task for trying too hard to be culturally relevant to attract young people – who are leaving churches in alarming numbers. That often is accompanied by sacrificing truth for relative morality. W... -
Update: Christ-Centered Colleges in Canada
August 16th, 201002:04 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor In an earlier post, I reported that the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) had wrongly declared that Trinity Western University (TWU) violated academic freedom by drawing its faculty from among those who voluntary embrace its statement of faith. As noted in that blog post, CA... -
“No Christianity Please, We’re Academics”
August 13th, 201001:47 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor That’s the title of an essay Wheaton College Professor Timothy Larsen published recently on Insider Higher Ed. In the essay, Professor Larsen recounts the story of a public university student who repeatedly enc0untered professors hostile to Christianity. For example, an English pro... -
Will Lopez v. Candaele Forecast the Ninth Circuit’s View of Prop 8?
August 12th, 201005:54 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel David J. Hacker A case the Ninth Circuit heard five months ago and is now writing a decision in might heavily influence how the appellate court deals with last week’s Proposition 8 decision. Readers may recall that a professor at Los Angeles City College called Jonathan Lopez a “fascist bastard” after he g... -
Please, Deal with the Evidence
August 11th, 201005:53 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French Over at Inside Higher Ed, there’s been a bit of a back and forth debate over the plight of orthodox Christians (be they Catholic, Orthodox, evangelical protestant, or other) in the academy. Arguing that Christians face unusual challenges, Wheaton’s Timothy Larsen draws on his own story&n... -
ADF Attorneys Contribute to Blog on Federalist Papers
August 11th, 201001:54 PM ETADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb has this post today on the Constituting America blog. McCaleb comments on the meaning of Federalist #76. ADF Senior Counsel Steve Aden will have a post tomorrow on Federalist #77, and ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot will post on Monday regarding Federalist 79. ... -
Americans United for Separation of Church and State Exposed!
August 11th, 201012:05 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster A federal district court rejected a lawsuit filed by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and in so doing, exposed their true anti-Christian agenda. You see, Americans United likes to tout itself as being a watchdog group that seeks to keep religion and government strictly separate. B... -
Selected Quotes from the California Marriage Amendment Decision
August 11th, 201009:46 AM ETThe following excerpts are taken directly from the federal district court opinion issued in Perry v. Schwarzenegger on Wednesday, which declared the California constitutional amendment affirming marriage as the union of one man and one woman unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution: p. 101 (factual finding #77): “Religious beliefs ... -
What influenced Thomas Jefferson to change ‘subjects’ to ‘citizens’ in The Declaration of Independence?
August 10th, 201011:56 AM ETBy Scott HylandClick here to browse online your FREE Customer Review Copy!! On Friday July 2nd the Library of Congress announced the discovery of a word that was erased from an early draft of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson originally wrote the word “subj... -
Prop 8 Judge Attacks Churches
August 09th, 201003:47 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Litigation Counsel Kevin Theriot How does a federal judge striking down California’s voter-approved constitutional provision limiting marriage to one man and one woman affect your church? By essentially saying that if your church teaches what the Bible says about homosexual behavior, it is a group of irrational bigo... -
The Foolish Nation Builds its Concept of Marriage upon the Sand
August 09th, 201001:20 PM ETBy Scott HylandClick here to browse online your FREE Customer Review Copy!! One month ago, my wife and I escaped to Emerald Isle, NC with our family. The weather was perfect all week, but there was one particular night that I managed to fix in my mind with the hopes of never forgetting... -
Pelicans & Patriots
August 07th, 201011:50 AM ETBy Scott HylandClick here to browse online your FREE Customer Review Copy!! I am certain that it is not an easy task sinking a well 3 ½ miles beneath the surface of the ocean from a platform that rises 300 feet into the air. With a cost of over $350 million dollars to build, the... -
Missing the Point about Speech Codes
August 06th, 201002:53 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel David J. Hacker Susan Herbst posits in Inside Higher Education that colleges can do a better job of managing student incivility through education about civil discourse and the creation of new civility policies. Her premise is sound. Colleges can encourage civility in more effective and less constitutionall... -
Are Your Church’s Wireless Microphones Legal?
August 05th, 201010:48 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley This story from Baptist Press is a must-read for churches that have and use wireless microphones. When Television switched over to a digital format in 2009, the FCC changed the rules for what frequencies were permissible for wireless devices. Most older wireless microphones operate within the “... -
Losing Our Religion
August 05th, 201010:41 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Ann Rice, author of Interview with a Vampire and many other novels, is reported as saying she’s had it with Christians, but is still a follower of Christ. A Roman Catholic, apparently she doesn’t agree with the moral positions taken by the Church on issues such as homosexual behavior. In some way... -
Erasing the Gettysburg Address
August 05th, 201010:34 AM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. Barham My colleague, David Hacker, recently noted the absurdity of a publisher’s disclaimer for the Constitution. But apparently, the Constitution is getting off easy these days. After all, a disclaimer is nothing compared to the eraser that the Gettysburg Address recently received. At a ... -
Allied Attorney Suit Halts Controversial Philippines Sex Ed Program
August 03rd, 201012:58 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel, Global, Piero A. Tozzi A court action by Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney Jo Imbong, representing parents and backed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, has stopped implementation of a controversial pilot sex education program bankrolled by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The...
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