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Something Missing from Our Fourth of July Celebrations
June 29th, 201101:46 PM ETThis opinion column originally appeared on townhall.com on 6/28/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears It was such a curious omission. Last September, in a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama was taking his audience on a quick tour of early U.S. history when he ... -
Hurt Feelings vs. Following God’s Law
June 29th, 201101:23 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Earlier this year, Inside Higher Ed published an essay by Joshua Wolff in which he described his experiences as a homosexual at Biola University, a Christ-centered institution of higher education. In his essay, Wolff declares that he chose to attend Biola in the hope that his time there ... -
If Ted Olson and David Boies are so right, why does the Justice Department disagree with them?
June 28th, 201112:14 PM ETThis opinion column originally appeared on humanevents.com on 6/28/11. Author: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks For the better part of a decade, the arguments made by proponents of same-sex “marriage” have relied on linguistic twists borrowed liberally from the terminology of the Civil Rights Movement. Usually, this is seen vi... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #4 Church Autonomy
June 27th, 201104:23 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot This fourth installment in our series on legal concerns affecting churches addresses governmental interference with church affairs. The church is the primary obstacle to attempts to erode the moral fiber of our country through things like same-sex “marriage.” Efforts to pena... -
Faced with Controversy, Desert Sands Unified Chose Censorship
June 24th, 201111:26 AM ETThis opinion column originally appeared on mydesert.com on 6/22/11. Author: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Matt Sharp It should be beyond dispute in America today that all citizens should be treated equally without regard to their race, color, gender or religion. Yet far too often, governments discriminate against people of faith because of the rel... -
Defunding Planned Parenthood One State at a Time
June 24th, 201111:21 AM ETThis opinion column originally appeared on townhall.com on 6/24/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden As the fight for life over death continues, the battlefield has shifted to the states, where legislatures realigned politically as a result of the November 2010 mid-term elections are doing yeoman’s work in the defense of innocents. Thi... -
Bumbling Criticism of Marriage Survey Embarrassing by Any Standard
June 23rd, 201104:30 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum A few days after ADF posted a memo on the Internet about the methodology behind our recent scientific marriage survey, I came across an article about it on a niche website that caters to a leftist point of view. Sometimes our critics are very clever about how they present their position, but th... -
The Left's View on Marriage Might Be Evolving, but America's View Is Not
June 23rd, 201104:21 PM ETThis opinion column first appeared on redcounty.com on 6/23/11. Author: Alliance Defense Fund Since the mid-1980s, activist groups have engaged in a concerted effort to impose acceptance of homosexual behavior on the American people. The goal has been to overwhelm the American psyche with a seemingly ubiquitous cultural conversation about the sub... -
Culture of death silences opposition in New York
June 21st, 201106:13 PM ETThis opinion column originally appeared on townhall.com on 6/20/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears The culture of death is relentless. And certain of its adherents—Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, for example—are not only committed to the promotion, provision, and performance of abortions, but to re... -
Top Legal Issues that Concern Churches – Issue #3 Other Taxes
June 20th, 201106:01 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Last week, I discussed attempts by local governments to make churches pay property taxes. But property isn’t the only thing they’re trying to tax. Cash strapped municipalities are also starting to assess churches with “fees” that are really just taxes in disguise. While t... -
62 Percent of Americans say it loud and clear: ‘Don’t disparage marriage’
June 20th, 201110:10 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum Something is rotten in the states of America… And it isn’t the state of marriage. Despite a relentless pop-culture, a Big Media and education establishment-led propaganda campaign, and flawed polls screaming that marriage as we know it is doomed in the U.S., support for this foundation of our society is a... -
The Discriminatory Application of Non-Discrimination Policies
June 17th, 201112:05 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on townhall.com on 6/17/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor After months of deliberation, the University of Texas at San Antonio Career Center has agreed to post job announcements for a pro-life, Christian residential home for needy pregnant women. UTSA originally declined to post the a... -
Bronx Household of Faith Case Appealed En Banc to All Second Circuit Judges
June 17th, 201110:03 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence The Alliance Defense Fund has petitioned the Second Circuit to rehear the Bronx Household of Faith case en banc, which means that all eleven judges will decide whether to rehear the case. The Bronx Household of Faith case involves a challenge by the local B... -
Married to marriage: 62 percent of Americans say it’s one man, one woman, nothing else
June 16th, 201106:07 PM ETThe following news release appeared on adfmedia.org on 6/16/11. Author: Alliance Defense Fund SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. —Results from what is likely the most extensive national research survey of its kind show that 62 percent of Americans believe that “marriage should be defined only as a union between one man and one woman.” Fifty-three perce... -
Politics Stand between a Church and the Disadvantaged in Virginia
June 15th, 201105:03 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on americanthinker.com on 6/13/11. Author: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley The Fredericksburg, VA city council has provided a clear reminder that you don't have to be a child to make life hard on a child. When Fredericksburg's Calvary Christian Church decided to expand its day-care operations so a... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #2 Property Taxes
June 13th, 201102:43 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot This is the second installment in a series of blogs about the legal issues we at ADF are most often asked to assist pastors and churches with. They are listed in order of importance, with number one being the area where churches are currently seeing the most restriction of their religious freedo... -
Cuomo, Bloomberg: Social Re-engineering Is Our Highest Priority
June 13th, 201111:04 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on dailycaller.com on 6/13/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum As the battle for marriage heats up again in New York, so does the tired rhetoric. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has stated that marriage redefinition is one of his top two priorities, and for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it’s priority number one. Whil... -
Talk Is Cheap — Unless You’re a Student at This Tennessee College
June 10th, 201104:10 PM ETAuthor: Senior Legal Counsel Casey Mattox As Amy Poehler (or at least her character) once said, “Freedom of Speech! Look it Up! It’s in the Thing!” Perhaps officials at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee should move Baby Mama up in their Netflix queue so that they can hear that message.&... -
Why Is Academic Freedom Important?
June 10th, 201104:02 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel David HackerPeter Wood has an interesting article today in the Chronicle of Higher Education discussing the AAUP’s efforts to encourage faculty advocacy in the classroom. He writes: In a series of recent reports beginning in 2007 with Freedom in the Classroom, the AAUP has staked out a position that aggress... -
A Call to Pastors- Part II
June 08th, 201102:18 PM ETSpeakUpChurch Guest Author: Pastor Robert Hall, Calvary Chapel of Rio Rancho in New Mexico Can we, as pastors and church members alike, remain silent while our nation goes to hell? No! We must speak “the truth in love” into the lives of those in our culture. We have believed Jesus’ injunction to us in the Sermon on the Mount, “You are ... -
SOS – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
June 07th, 201106:23 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch Blog by ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb Recently, retired Navy Captain John F. Gundlach, a “progressive” former chaplain, mocked those who oppose “repealing” the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy which will force the military to endorse open bisexual and homosexual behavior. The go... -
Court Decision Impacts More Than Just School Choice
June 07th, 201102:25 PM ETThe opinion column appeared in the June 2011 issue of Townhall Magazine. Author: ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman School choice victory at Supreme Court is no small win The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Alliance Defense Fund case Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn is no small victory. The decision is extremel... -
How Religious Is Religious Enough?
June 07th, 201110:52 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor A National Labor Relations Board regional director has ordered an adjunct professor union election at St. Xavier University, a Catholic educational institution in Chicago. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a case called NLRB v. Catholic Bishop, held that the First Ame... -
The Hidden Risk in Anti-Bullying Proposals
June 07th, 201110:45 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on firstthings.com on 6/6/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum Bullying is a universal human phenomenon. Throughout history and the world, the strong have taken advantage of the weak, the rich have abused the poor, and the more physically attractive have disparaged the less attractive. On the playground... -
Crossing the West
June 06th, 201110:57 AM ETAuthor SpeakUpChurch Blog by ADF Senior Vice Preseident and Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb When highway patrolmen wanted to honor thirteen troopers who died serving in the vast expanses of Utah, they decided to use roadside crosses. The private Utah Highway Patrol Association then used volunteer labor, donated materials, and a lot of heart t... -
Pressure on Messiah College to Abandon Biblical Sexual Ethics
June 06th, 201110:24 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Messiah College, a Christ-centered educational institution in Pennsylvania, is being pressured to abandon its commitment to biblical sexual ethics. A group of Messiah alumni created an online petition urging the College to abandon that part of its Community Covenant in which stude... -
Worship Services Are Like a Rodeo: NYC School Board May Bar Church Services From Meeting in Schools on Weekends
June 03rd, 201112:20 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday issued a stunningly wrong decision denying the First Amendment rights of churches and other religious groups to meet in government buildings on the same terms and conditions as other community groups. I... -
Amendment IX of the United States Constitution
June 02nd, 201104:39 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on constitutingamerica.org on 5/31/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” --Amendment IX Despite 220 years of constitutional interpretation, there really isn’t much ... -
On 'Enemies,' Foreign and Domestic
June 02nd, 201104:19 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on townhall.com on 6/1/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears The general air of celebration that erupted with the news of Osama bin Laden’s death has been mitigated in many quarters by the debate over exactly how much celebration is in order. It’s a rather profound question, espe... -
A Call to Pastors – Part I
June 01st, 201112:11 PM ETSpeakUpChurchGuest Author: Pastor Robert Hall, Calvary Chapel of Rio Rancho in New Mexico In this day and age when the Church is under attack, there are several steps pastors must take to guard our flocks: Know our Christian heritage and follow the great pastors from the past 2,000 years – from the Apostle Paul to Charles Spurgeon to Bi... -
Finally . . . Common Sense at UTSA
June 01st, 201110:16 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor After months of deliberation, the University of Texas at San Antonio Career Center has agreed to post job announcements for a pro-life, Christian residential home for needy pregnant women. UTSA originally declined to post the announcements on the ground that they were “discrimin...
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