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TechnoratiPOST PUBLISHED INJanuary, 2011
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A Profile of This Year’s Freshmen: Causes for Concern
January 31st, 201109:17 AM ETAuthor ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor The UCLA Higher Education Research Institute has released “The American Freshman: National Norms for 2010.” The data have troubling implications for the future of religious liberty, both on campus and beyond. First, the #2 “current religious preference” (after Roman Catho... -
Does ADF Believe the Constitution Contains a 'Separation of Church and State?'
January 27th, 201103:07 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley I always find it amusing to read the blogs put out by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the radically secularist organization. The blog posts are so full of cliche and fantasy, that it strains credulity to try and believe them. The most recent “contribut... -
Reflections on the SFLA Conference
January 27th, 201112:36 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French Last week, I wrote a column called “Abortion in Retreat” where I made a simple point: the pro-life argument is winning. More people are pro-life than ever before, the abortion rate has sharply declined from its post-Roe highs, and even pop culture has come to appropriate the language of life... -
You Might Even Cry Like J-Lo
January 27th, 201112:32 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French If you ever doubt the pro-life message has transcendent power — watch this clip from American Idol and try not to be moved. This post originally appeared here. ... -
Court of Appeals Stands by World Vision Ruling
January 27th, 201109:20 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot This week, the Ninth Circuit affirmed its holding last August protecting World Vision’s religious freedom. Several employees of World Vision sued the ministry for firing them because of differences in theological beliefs. They claimed World Vision isn’t really a religious organi... -
Structural Inflexibility
January 27th, 201109:13 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer The design of an organizational system—like a university—matters a great deal. It both reflects and perpetuates the outlook motivating its configuration. Forms or structures are never neutral; they grow from and have embedded in them the concepts behind their design. Henr... -
The Passing of Sam Ericsson
January 27th, 201109:08 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Sam Ericsson passed away last Friday after an 11-year battle with cancer. Sam had served as Director of Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law & Religious Freedom from 1980 to 1985 and as CLS’s Executive Director from 1985 to 1991 before founding Advocates Internati... -
Churches Not Welcome – According to Port St. Lucie Zoning
January 25th, 201109:49 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot On November 6, 2010, Pastor Rich Parker of Palm Beach Gardens Baptist Church, signed a letter of intent to lease space in the Port St. Lucie’s Southport Shopping Center for the Church’s worship services. But he ran into a problem almost immediately. Although several diffe... -
The Tree Is Not for Me
January 21st, 201109:28 AM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel David J. Hacker I’ll admit it. I have mixed feelings about Stanford. Sure, it’s a great academic institution with cutting edge research facilities (hey, no other institution has the longest linear accelerator in the world on campus!). But I’ve never liked Stanford’s mascot, ... -
[VIDEO] Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Rally
January 20th, 201112:36 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch SAN DIEGO — Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco and ADF-allied attorney Charles S. LiMandri spoke on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at a rally in support of protecting the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial. Watch the video here. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit revers... -
Victory for “Potentially Evangelical” Professor
January 20th, 201109:13 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor The University of Kentucky has paid $125,000 to a professor who convincingly accused it of denying him a position because of his Christian religious beliefs. As my previous post indicated, one member of the committee reviewing Martin Gaskell’s application urged the Universi... -
Pinning Ceremony & First Amendment Retaliation at University of West Virginia- Parkersburg
January 20th, 201109:08 AM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation.Staff Counsel Travis C. Barham For years, students graduating from the West Virginia University, Parkersburg nursing program had regularly included prayers in their pinning (i.e., graduation) ceremonies. And in mid-November, University officials told students that they needed to vote on three issues regarding their cere... -
Just Another “Extremist”: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 19th, 201109:42 AM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker Our fearless leader, David French, ADF Senior Counsel, wrote a thought-provoking column yesterday at Patheos, reminding us that sometimes, standing up for what is right and speaking truth is not always “civil”, using Jesus as the example. This was a great rem... -
“A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Supreme Court Justice Walk into a Bar … But Seriously Folks” – Humor at the Supreme Court
January 19th, 201109:25 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior. Counsel Jordan Lorence The Washington Post is reporting on a recent study of humor at the Supreme Court. Yes, humor does happen at the Supreme Court! Even the most boring discourse on some obscure subparagraph of a federal statute can trigger humorous ... -
2010 Challenges Present 2011 Opportunities for Student Rights
January 17th, 201101:27 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker At the beginning of a new year, there is a valuable opportunity for reflection on the past year and what it means for the future. While 2010 was certainly not without its major victories for free speech, it also suffered some challenges. Here’s a quick look back ... -
NLRB: C.S. Lewis Was Right
January 17th, 201112:47 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot In C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, the senior devil Screwtape writes to the junior devil Wormwood, “Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels he is ‘finally finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him.” No, the National Labor Relations Boa... -
Senator Asks ECFA to Investigate Whether Churches Should Be Regulated
January 14th, 201111:39 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Some of you may remember a brou-ha-ha that arose back in 2007 when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote letters to six “media-based” church ministries about concerns he had related to financial accountability and policies. The ministries Grassley wrote to were Joyce Meyer Ministries, Wor... -
Sense or Sensitivity: Which Will Tip the Balance in Mt. Soledad Memorial Cross Case?
January 14th, 201108:58 AM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch In a much-publicized decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently decided that a memorial cross at the Mount Soledad veterans’ memorial violated the Federal Constitution. In particular, the Court looked at the First Amendment and examined the issue under the so-called “separation of chu... -
Palm Beach State Agrees to Allow Some Student Speech … For Now.
January 13th, 201103:28 PM ETAuthor: ADFSenior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox A small glimmer of sunlight has broken through the clouds at Palm Beach State College. Palm Beach State College has agreed to a Court order requiring it, at least temporarily, to allow 2 YAF members to “disseminate leaflets and/or converse with the general public.” If that seems pr... -
Vanderbilt Rescinds Supposedly Non-Existent Policy, Protects Conscience!
January 13th, 201108:55 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox In response to the complaints filed yesterday by ADF with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concerning Vanderbilt’s requirement that Women’s Health Track applicants in its Nurse Residency Program must sign an acknowledgement that they must assist in abortions, Vanderbilt ... -
Vermont Had No License to Censor Vanity Plates
January 12th, 201103:45 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Matthew Sharp The following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 1/11/11. It’s fascinating that in a world where it is easier than ever for an individual to publish a lengthy discourse about any topic imaginable, our communications seem to be getting shorter and shorter. We constrain ourselves to a 420... -
Church Can Work With County to Provide Affordable Housing
January 12th, 201110:46 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Just before Christmas, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim that Arlington County Virginia violated the Establishment Clause when it worked with a church to develop a building that contained both a church and affordable housing. A link to the court’s opinion in Glassman v. Arling... -
Oh Canada! The Homosexual Agenda Steamrolls Religious Freedom
January 11th, 201112:50 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley On January 10, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals in Canada released an opinion holding that marriage commissioners in Canada could not refuse to perform same-sex “marriage” ceremonies on the grounds that doing so would violate their religious beliefs. The case arose after some ma... -
Vanderbilt University: Pro-Lifers Need Not Apply. Will the Obama Administration Enforce Federal Law?
January 11th, 201111:46 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox It has come to this. Followers of this blog know all too well the trend toward suppression of Christian and pro-life speech on campus. Recently, this has culminated in cases like that of Julea Ward, dismissed just weeks before graduation from her Eastern Michigan University counselin... -
The Madness Continues: Catholics and Cults
January 11th, 201109:11 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Last June, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that the Constitution didn’t stop a government law school from pressuring a Christian student group to have atheist Bible study leaders. Defending his school’s silly policy, the dean said that white supremacists ought to ha... -
Isn’t Every Day “Religious Freedom Day?”
January 10th, 201104:12 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman You probably didn’t know that several of our Presidents, past and present, have declared January 16th of each year to be “Religious Freedom Day.” You will not likely see any fireworks displays, or even hear about it in the mainstream media. So exactly what is it? Well,... -
The First Amendment Says: “War Eagle!”
January 10th, 201112:20 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox It’s official. The First Amendment has triumphed this bowl season. With 34 games played and only the BCS National Championship Game left to go the school with the better (or less poor) treatment of the First Amendment rights of students and faculty is 19-15.&nb... -
Christian School Sues for Right to Use Its Own Building
January 10th, 201109:47 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley ADF filed a lawsuit on behalf of Tree of Life Christian Schools against the City of Upper Arlington, Ohio. The lawsuit is the result of the City’s denial of zoning approval for Tree of Life to operate its ministry at its building in Upper Arlington. Tree of Life Christian Schools serves a... -
Statement from ADF on Tragic Death of Chief Judge John Roll: Comments from ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears
January 10th, 201109:38 AM ETAuthor: Speak Up University Alliance Defense Fund President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears offered the following comments Sunday regarding the shooting death Chief Judge John McCarthy Roll of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona: “Chief Judge Roll was a great lawyer, sound jurist, and a long-time friend. Our hea... -
Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions for College Administrators
January 07th, 201105:13 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker Since this is still the first week of the new year, it’s not too late to make some New Year’s resolutions. Here are some suggestions for college administrators, based on what happened in 2010: 10. Surreptitiously confiscating an independent student newspaper’s b... -
Perry Trial Misconceptions and the Meaning of Procreation
January 07th, 201109:52 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco “When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master – that’s all.” &nb... -
Mom’s Homeschooling Views Work for Her Child but Not for NH Judge
January 06th, 201101:51 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco A homeschool case being argued in the New Hampshire Supreme Court Jan. 6 is a window into the kind of subtle bias against Christianity that permeates our modern institutions. Only, in this case it’s not even subtle. The reasoning of a lower court is a jolting revelation of how biblical... -
The Homosexual Agenda Marches Steadily Forward
January 06th, 201110:23 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Recent and potential developments in the law make it clear that claiming a legal right to engage in homosexual behavior comes at the cost of religious freedom. A California federal court ruled on August 4, 2010, that marriage as it has been understood for thousands of years violates the rights of those... -
First Amendment Bowl Picks IV — Orange, Sugar, et al.
January 04th, 201109:42 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox The First Amendment now stands at 15-13 going into the last set of games. But it did win the Grand Daddy of them all, vanquishing its arch-nemesis Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. A pick later this week will provide a fuller look at the speech policies and practices at the University... -
“Is Academic Freedom a License to Indoctrinate?”
January 04th, 201109:31 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Check out this insightful essay (“Is Academic Freedom a License to Indoctriate?“) by Peter Wood in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Wood discusses Penn State’s decision . . . . . to mutilate its academic freedom policy, HR64, to make clear that faculty members have no particular... -
Bowl Picks Part III (New Years Eve & New Years Day Games)
January 04th, 201109:24 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox The First Amendment is now 10-8 this bowl season. But if Tennessee could have kept 11 players on the field and the official would have kept the flag in his pocket on a controversial celebration penalty in the Pinstripe Bowl it might be 12-6. Still, I remind you that these pic... -
“War on Christmas” Goes Galactic, with Darth Vader and Obi Wan Joining the Pro-Christmas Side!
January 04th, 201109:14 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence I offer here irrefutable proof that the “War on Christmas” has now spread beyond Earth to the galaxies! The good news is that Darth Vader, Obi Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia and others from Star Wars have united against the forces of seculari...
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