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Making an Impact at Indiana University
February 28th, 201104:19 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel David J. Hacker In response to an ADF letter, Indiana University-Bloomington announced last week that it removed a ban on religious activities from its student activity fee system. In December 2010, ADF sent a letter to IU on behalf of student leaders of Impact Movement, a Christian student organiza... -
The Facade of Independence
February 28th, 201104:14 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch ADF Senior Counsel Brett Harvey writes: Gazing across the street at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, I was struck by the irony. It was an overcast January day as the city was digging out from a snow storm. To quickly glance at the clock tower of this landmark was to see the spire shining brightly against a pale... -
It’s Time to Fight – ADF Speaks Out on USDOJ Refusal to Protect Law
February 28th, 201109:22 AM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch ADF President, Alan Sears, released a letter on the implications of the Obama Administration and Justice Department’s refusal to defend existing Defense of Marriage Act (1996) legislation. Excerpt: "We wanted to update you on the litigation involving the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA – which essentially is the law ... -
ADF Statement in Response to DOJ Letter on Defense of Marriage Act
February 25th, 201104:19 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch In response to a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice informing the speaker of the House that the DOJ and President Obama will no longer defend a key component of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the Alliance Defense Fund is issuing the following statement from ADF Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks: ... -
Challenges to Christian Conscience: Presentation at LeTourneau University
February 24th, 201109:35 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Last week, I spoke in LeTourneau University’s chapel service about challenges to Christian conscience in the workplace and in the universities. Video of the presentation is available on LeTourneau’s website here, and my talk begins at the 8:40 mark. This post originally appeared here. ... -
Breaking News – President Obama’s Justice Department Lawyers Will No Longer Defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act
February 23rd, 201103:43 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Attorney General Eric Holder announced today in a statement that the U.S. Government will no longer defend Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court because the official position of the Department of Justice is that DOMA violates the U.S. Co... -
They’re Not Gonna Take It: Pro-Life Students Challenge Censorship in Canada
February 23rd, 201112:49 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French With all due respect to Twisted Sister (my sincere apologies for the hair band reference), 2010 International Pro-Life Activist of the year, Ruth Lobo, from Carleton College has decided that she’s not content with a memorable YouTube moment, she’s not going to tolerate further censorship of h... -
Tax Exemption Tied to Tidiness in One NH City
February 23rd, 201111:51 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster What does tidiness have to do with a church’s tax exemption? That is exactly the question that church leaders at the Liberty Assemblies of God church in Concord, New Hampshire are asking themselves after city tax officials rifled through their drawers during a recent inspection of the church... -
Pro-Life Students Shouted Down at FSU Amid One Man’s Testimony of Change
February 22nd, 201105:02 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel David J. Hacker My colleague David French wrote recently about the rise of the pro-life movement on college campuses. For those of you in that movement, take note of the following video taken on the campus of Florida State University. Click here to view the video. The power of the pro-l... -
“I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.” Dr. Bernard Nathanson, Abortionist Turned Prolife Advocate, Dies at 84
February 22nd, 201110:20 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician who dramatically converted from a leading abortionist to a high-impact advocate for the preborn, has died of cancer at age 84. His life parallels that of the Apostle Paul or John Newton, in that he turned from a dark... -
Tennessee College Charges Students for Free Speech
February 21st, 201101:12 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox No, you didn’t miss something. Pellissippi isn’t a state, just a state funded community college in Knoxville, Tennessee. But the student speech policies at Pellissippi State Community College are out of place in a marketplace of ideas. A letter from ADF allied attorney... -
The No Church Zone: Cities & Towns Discount the Value of Churches
February 21st, 201111:12 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot God has chosen to use the Body of Christ to bring not only His message of salvation to the world (Matthew 28:19-20), but also a message of truth and love through providing for the needs of people (Matthew 25:34-40). Our Founding Fathers recognized the importance of the Church's mission. George W... -
California Supreme Court Takes Prop 8 Marriage Case – What This Means for the Battle over the Definition of Marriage
February 17th, 201103:23 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take the Perry case from the Ninth Circuit and decide one major issue on standing. Perry is the lawsuit filed in federal court challenging Proposition 8, the state constitutional amen... -
UC Davis Quickly Eliminates Unconstitutional Definition of Discrimination
February 17th, 201112:32 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox The University of California-Davis will be correcting its unconstitutionally discriminatory definition of discrimination to ensure that all students are protected under its policies. The official word came last night in a letter from Assistant Vice-Chancellor Rahim Reed to ADF Al... -
Justin Bieber 4 Ever!
February 16th, 201104:31 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French I’m a belieber! Here’s my new favorite teenage pop star talking about abortion in Rolling Stone: He isn’t sure what political party he’d support if he was old enough to vote. “I’m not sure about the parties,” Bieber says. “But whatever they have in Korea, that’s bad.” H... -
UC Davis’s Discriminatory Non-Discrimination Policy
February 16th, 201111:19 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox The University of California-Davis has an interesting twist on its nondiscrimination rule. In its definition of “religious discrimination” UC Davis goes out of its way to make clear that the policy protects all students regardless of their religious beliefs … unless those beliefs are... -
David French Speaking at SFLA 2011 – 'Knowing Your Rights'
February 11th, 201105:07 PM ETAuthor: Speak Up University ADF Senior Counsel David French delivered a speech at the 2011 Students for Life of America conference entitled "Knowing Your Rights." Watch his presentation by clicking here. This post originally appeared here. ... -
UMass Revises “Speech Code of the Year” in Response to ADF Ally’s Letter
February 11th, 201104:59 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox What speech would be “controversial” on your campus? If you attend a public university, the odds are good that “controversial” and “Christian” or “pro-life” are likely synonymous. So if the University could impose greater restrictions on your speech just because they ... -
The Hon. Leroy R. Hassell of the Virginia Supreme Court, R.I.P.
February 10th, 201111:34 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence We have lost a hero of the faith and a champion of the law with the untimely passing of Justice Leroy R. Hassell of the Virginia Supreme Court. Justice Hassell was a good friend of the Alliance Defense Fund, a dear Christian man that I got to know over the yea... -
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
February 09th, 201101:13 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman writes: There used to be a television program called “Whose Line is it Anyway?” where performers would do improvisational comedy through skits, songs, etc. I always thought what amazing talent was required to be able to think of lines or create lyrics to a song on the spot while t... -
Standing Gives Me a Migraine
February 08th, 201101:25 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco Standing makes my brain hurt. I am not referring to the act of getting up out of my chair, but to the legal doctrine that controls whether a person can access the federal courts to have his case heard. Put simply, a person has “standing” if he can show he has su... -
“Could We Be Discriminating?”
February 08th, 201101:18 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. Barham That is the question that dominated the Society for Personality and Social Psychology at its annual conference, according to a fascinating article in today’s New York Times (also referenced by Inside Higher Ed). But rather than looking at the usual litany of victims and roun... -
What “Neutrality” Means
February 08th, 201101:12 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French Jeff, I enjoyed your neutrality post. In fact, it reminded me of the following brilliant analysis . . . from all the way back in 2002. In a discussion about the legal imbalance in our public schools, an exquisitely insightful bald lawyer said: For the evangelical Christian, the Establishm... -
Do We Have Enough Religion?
February 08th, 201111:03 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot A recent Gallup Poll concludes that most in America are satisfied with the current state of religion’s influence in society. This wouldn’t be a big deal if we were trending toward higher moral values as a country. But anyone who watches television or pays attention to the news knows that’s n... -
Neutrality, My Foot
February 07th, 201105:22 PM ETAuthor ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer It is a reigning deceit in our national consciousness, a lie on which innumerable social and institutional practices and expectations are founded, that religion can and should be merely an optional component of individual private life. This thesis further maintains that barricades can and mu... -
Five State Universities That Refuse to Fund Student Religious Groups
February 07th, 201109:23 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Calling all students: Does your state university refuse to give funding for student groups that are religious? We learned yesterday that at least five state universities do so by official policy: – Virginia Tech ... -
Inside Higher Education Reports on the Unverisities’ Request to the Supreme Court to Discriminate Against Student Religious Groups
February 07th, 201109:19 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Inside Higher Education reports today on the friend of the court brief filed two days ago by various associations of universities and university officials in ADF’s Badger Catholic case, requesting that state universities should be free from First Amendment restr... -
Church Wants to Grow, but City Says “No”
February 04th, 201104:13 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster One would think that in America we have the freedom to practice our faith, the freedom to speak, and the freedom to associate with those with whom we want to associate. Those freedoms are being challenged in Medina, Minnesota. Let me give you a little context. About 15 y... -
Universities to the U.S. Supreme Court: We Want to Discriminate Against Students’ Religious Expression
February 03rd, 201104:37 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Several national associations of universities yesterday told the Supreme Court that they agree with the University of Wisconsin that public universities should be free to single out student religious expression, and exclude it from university forums opened for al... -
Live Action Strikes Again
February 03rd, 201109:39 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French You had to know this was coming. Live Action has released a second video (this one from Richmond) demonstrating Planned Parenthood’s callous disregard for young girls. Could this be the extra momentum needed to defund Planned Parenthood? Click here to view the video.This post originally a... -
Discussing CLS v. Martinez at Columbia Law School
February 03rd, 201109:27 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at Columbia Law School in New York City regarding Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that Hastings College of the Law did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to recognize its CLS law student chapt... -
Depravity on Display
February 01st, 201104:59 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David French Planned Parenthood may be the most depraved organization in “mainstream” America, but it’s always shocking to actually see the depravity on display. Watch here as Lila Rose’s Live Action exposes a Planned Parenthood employee actually advising two young people on how to engage in sex ... -
[VIDEO] What Should Christians Involved In Government Avoid?
February 01st, 201104:52 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch The latest installment of the ADF video series by Wayne A. Grudem, Ph.D., Phoenix Seminary Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, is titled, "What should Christians involved in government avoid?" Watch the video here. This post originally appeared here. ...
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