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TechnoratiPOST PUBLISHED INAugust, 2011
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A Page of History is Worth a Volume of Logic: The History of Politics from the Pulpit
August 31st, 201110:45 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Over at Dakota Voice, Bob Ellis has an interesting post that details the history of politics from the pulpit in America. Bob does a good job of detailing many of the stories where pastors in American history spoke forcefully and with great conviction from their pulpits about political matte... -
No Kidding . . .
August 31st, 201110:41 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor In a blog post on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website, Jacques Berlinerblau, director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, writes: Readers of this blog know that I can be very critical of the Religious Right but let me be clear that in my experience att... -
700 Clergy Can Be Wrong
August 31st, 201110:34 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Breakpoint.org on 8/22/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears An enterprising chiropractor ought to be able to make a good living in New York these days, going church to church and offering his services. So many clergy in the Empire State have been vigorously patting themselves on t... -
August 31st Webinar: Meet the Most Courageous Pastor in America
August 29th, 201105:10 PM ETAuthor: Speak Up Church Guest Blog by Jim Garlow: Pastor, Skyline Wesleyan Church, San Diego_______________________________________________________________________ Dear Pastors & Christian Leaders, Who is the most courageous pastor in America? There are likely many candidates for this title, but I would nominate Pastor Ruben Diaz of New Yo... -
Kevin DeYoung Addresses Campus Decadence
August 29th, 201101:41 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. Barham As college students nationwide head back to campus, Kevin DeYoung has an excellent article about one of the biggest problems they will face. No, it is not the intellectual assault from atheist or agnostic professors on their Christian worldview, though that is unquestion... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #6 Pulpit Freedom
August 29th, 201110:22 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot It seems as though a new article comes out each year arguing that religious organizations should not be tax exempt if they oppose a particular politically popular cause, such as abortion or same-sex “marriage.” What many don’t realize is the IRS already conditions church tax... -
“Say You’re ‘Gay,’ Get a Scholarship”
August 26th, 201101:55 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor The effort to normalize homosexual behavior on America’s college campuses continues apace. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Elmhurst College in Illinois “has become the first institution to include a question about sexual orientation and gender identity on its und... -
How Many References to Jesus Are Too Many?
August 25th, 201102:46 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Brett Harvey In a remarkable 2-1 split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit – which presides over the four states of the Carolinas and the Virginias – invalidated the policy of Forsyth County, NC, that allowed prayers to be offered before meetings of the County Council. The court ack... -
Rock for Life Case Shows How University ‘Speech Codes’ Threaten Freedom of Speech
August 25th, 201101:49 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence ADF has just completedits appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving the prolife student club, Rock for Life, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The case demonstrates the problems with campus “speech codes.” Many univ... -
Marriage Does Not Consist of Straw Men
August 25th, 201112:09 PM ETThe following opinon column appeared on Scotusblog.com on 8/25/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum Some rights are so foundational to our system of government that we deem them “fundamental.” In his response to my earlier post in the SCOTUSblog marriage symposium, Robert Levy states that, under our current constitutional const... -
How Does a Culture of Life Take Root?
August 25th, 201111:24 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 8/25/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden Veterans of the summer lawn wars dream of a world where crab grass and spurge retreat before advancing Zoysia, and rose bushes choke ivy off the trellis. Does the Garden ever overtake the Wilderness? In law and culture, as in all spheres ... -
ADF Granted Right to Defend Four Crucial Cases
August 24th, 201104:10 PM ETAuthor: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan SearsIt’s an extraordinary breakthrough – a remarkable opportunity for the Alliance Defense Fund to stand in defense of religious freedom in the United Kingdom in cases that – if they are decided the wrong way – could have a negative impact on your religious liberty here in the United S... -
Patriot Pastors: Bold and Unafraid
August 24th, 201101:51 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley In his book, Original Intent, David Barton details the bravery of colonial pastors who spoke out against the tyranny of England and in many cases led the charge for independence. Barton tells the story of Rev. John Peter Muhlenberg who, on January 21, 1776, preached to his Virginia congrega... -
Homophobia and the Church
August 23rd, 201110:42 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Anyone opposed to the acceptance of homosexual behavior as a healthy, normal, moral equivalent to heterosexuality is often accused of homophobia – an irrational fear of those engaged in homosexual behavior. This same label is applied to any church that teaches biblical morality on the issue... -
American Atheists' 9/11 Memorial Lawsuit Crosses the Line of Decency
August 22nd, 201105:21 PM ETThe following opinion column apeared on Humanevents.com on 8/20/11. Author: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Douglas H. Napier Two days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, smoke was still rising from the twisted and burnt material that used to be the World Trade Center. Untold numbers of first responders from around the country were converging on ... -
The Left's Playing Games with Same-Sex 'Marriage' Polls in New Jersey
August 22nd, 201104:45 PM ETThe following opinion conlum appeared on Townhall.com on 8/20/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum On Aug. 2, the ripple effect from New York’s recently passed same-sex “marriage” law bumped up against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The Star-Ledger suggested Christie “should consider taking a page out of [New York Gov.] Cu... -
Outing the Wildflower Inn
August 19th, 201111:09 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 8/19/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears I haven’t been to the Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville, VT, but it sounds like a beautiful place. A glimpse at their website shows a near-definitive New England setting of clapboard buildings with panoramic views of rolling,... -
Three Years into the Pulpit Initiative – Has the IRS Responded?
August 19th, 201111:02 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Many of you are aware that in 2008, ADF launched the Pulpit Initiative. This initiative is intended to restore a pastor’s right to speak freely from the pulpit without fearing any government censorship or control. Pastors have the right to proclaim biblical truth from their pulpits w... -
If You Can’t Beat ‘em Join ‘em
August 18th, 201106:04 PM ETThe following blog appeared on SCOTUSblog.com on 8/18/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum Recently, ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero reportedly boasted about a “robust list of lawsuits” his organization has filed in federal courts across the nation seeking to strike down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines t... -
In Indiana, It’s Back-to-school Time at the School of Your Choice
August 18th, 201103:04 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel and Allied Attorney Coach Bryan Beauman Starting this school year, Indiana offers Hoosier families a sweeping variety of school choice options. Despite recent efforts by the state’s largest teachers’ union, those options remain in place pursuant to a ruling Monday. The Indiana Choice Scholarsh... -
Why Force Abortifacient Drugs on America?
August 18th, 201102:53 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 8/17/11. Author: ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently put forth their new health coverage mandates, people of faith – and particularly people of faith who operate and work for faith-based organizations – saw the pro-abortion admini... -
FFRF: Imagine No Religion
August 18th, 201102:43 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman So exactly who is it that we should be listening to when it comes to the so-called Separation of Church and State? Should it be a radical far-left group which prides itself in mocking the millions of Americans who believe in God? Because that is exactly what the Freedom From Religion Foundatio... -
Atheists Attack 9/11 Cross
August 16th, 201105:19 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on spectator.org on 8/16/11. Authors: ADF Senior Counsel Joseph P. Infranco and ADF Senior Counsel Byron Babione As the horror and a lingering disbelief over the events of Sept. 11, 2001 settled on the nation the day following the terrorist attack, a retired firefighter struggled through the wreckage at groun... -
North Carolina Latest State to Choose Life over Death
August 16th, 201102:32 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on townhall.com on 8/16/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden A June 24 column I wrote for Townhall.com highlighted the grassroots effort to defund Planned Parenthood one state at a time. At that time, I covered the fact that North Carolina’s legislation had overridden Gov. Beverly Perdue’s v... -
4th Circuit Wrong to Order Forsyth County to Censor Private Prayer
August 16th, 201102:26 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared in the Winston-Salem Journal on 8/8/11. Authors: ADF Senior Counsel Brett Harvey and ADF-allied attorney Mike Johnson The government has no business telling people how and to whom they should pray. The U.S. Constitution protects the right of individuals to pray consistent with their conscience and faith... -
Directions Back to the Public Square
August 16th, 201102:13 PM ETThe following book review was posted on kirkcenter.org on 8/14/11. Book review by ADF Senior Opinion Writer and Editor A.W.R. Hawkins Europe is in decline. Once the cradle of Western Civilization, it has turned away from that rich heritage to plod slowly toward the grave. The liberties, intellectual and otherwise, that once marked her universitie... -
Churches Still Beneficial, but How?
August 16th, 201112:45 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot In case you missed it, Barna published a study a couple of weeks ago that proves most Americans still think churches play an important role in their communities. The study “shows that three-quarters of U.S. adults believe the presence of a church is ‘very’ (53 percent) or ‘somewhat’ pos... -
Is the Pulpit Initiative a Bad Strategy?
August 16th, 201112:40 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... -
Oppose 9/11 Cross? You're out of Step with American Life
August 12th, 201102:55 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on nydailynews.com on 8/12/11. Authors: ADF Senior Counsel Joseph P. Infranco and ADF Senior Counsel Byron Babione The lawsuit by American Atheists seeking to remove the World Trade Center cross from the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum badly distorts the meaning of the First Amendment, but it... -
In Lieu of Well-Reasoned Arguments, the Left Relies on Intimidation
August 12th, 201111:20 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on townhall.com on 8/12/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears Because the radical demands of groups like the American Civil Liberties Union run counter to common sense and the tenets of Western Civilization, they and their leftist allies and colleagues use fear, intimidation, and disi... -
UK Riots and Church Attendance
August 12th, 201111:13 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Max Hastings, in an article for Mail Online, writes: “Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalized youngsters.” He goes on to observe that a lack of moral training has resulted in children that “are essentially ... -
The Subjective Wounded – Atheists against September 11 Memorial
August 09th, 201102:38 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Allied Attorney Support & Coordination Joseph P. Infranco The American Atheists lawsuit against the September 11 Memorial and Museum is truly a remarkable thing. The complaint contains allegations typically found in these suits, including a gratuitous cheap shot at faith-b... -
ADF-Allied Attorney Calls out Colorado Professor for Feeble “Apology” to Student
August 08th, 201106:25 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco The stereotype of the arrogant, leftist professor in the ivory tower occasionally shows up in real life in a manner that shows that the truth is stranger than fiction. Recent case in point: a biology professor at a Colorado college (let’s call him Dr. Jones) hotly ridiculed a student (let’... -
A Beacon of Truth in the Storm
August 08th, 201104:52 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Ask any committed Christian these days and they will tell you that they sense something is wrong in America. As a country, we seem to be losing our way and foundering on the rocks of moral relativism. The attack on the family, the church, and Christianity has intensified as real as a hurri... -
Prayer and the Fabric of America
August 08th, 201112:43 PM ETThe following opinion column was posted on townhall.com on 8/6/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears Ours is nation built on liberty, the ideals of Western Civilization, and prayer. It is also a nation under assault by people who wish to erase prayer from the list: this much was evident in the vitriol hurled at Texas Gov.... -
ACLU Tries to Block Vote on FL Religious Liberty Amendment
August 08th, 201112:33 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Florida’s voters will decide whether to improve the state constitution’s church-state provisions — unless the ACLU and its allies get their way. The Florida constitution includes a “Blaine Amendment.” Rooted in anti-Catholic bigotry and nativism, Blaine Amendments requir... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #5 Employment Nondiscrimination Act (“ENDA”)
August 08th, 201112:29 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot This bill is currently pending before Congress and could have a detrimental effect on the ability of churches to only hire individuals that agree with their religious beliefs and live their lives accordingly. If passed, ENDA would add “sexual orientation” to the list of characteristics... -
Because of Limitless Abortion, Women Everywhere Face a "Freedom Gap"
August 05th, 201111:53 AM ETThis opinion column appeared on townhall.com on 8/5/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears “Freedom” is a strange word in our day. It has been used in so many contexts at so many times that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it means now to most speakers and advocates. More than not, however, it is safe to assume tha... -
San Francisco Seeks to Censor the Internet
August 05th, 201111:48 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on washingtonexaminer.com on 8/4/11. Author: ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman Every September, my library—and probably yours—celebrates “Banned Books Week,” during which liberals croon about their dedication to free speech. But America’s most “liberal” cities have recently piled up their own bon... -
Are Churches Subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the Tax Code?
August 04th, 201105:40 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Every time I talk about Pulpit Freedom Sunday, I inevitably get a comment from an audience member that goes something like this, “You know, if churches just unincorporated, they wouldn’t be subject to the IRS,” or “Because churches aren’t required to apply for tax exemption, they a... -
Denver Post: Aborting Our Children Will Save the Planet
August 04th, 201105:01 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on americanthinker.com on 8/4/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Michael J. Norton For decades, the term "family planning" has been a euphemism for "abortion" to abortion proponents. Echoing Humpty-Dumpty, when the left "uses a word, it means just what [they] choose it to mean, neither more nor less." So, ... -
Ninth Circuit Rules against Student Christian Groups at San Diego State
August 04th, 201110:48 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence The Ninth Circuit issued a disappointing decision yesterday against a Christian fraternity and sorority at San Diego State. The University allows campus organizations that it officially recognizes to exclude students who disagree with the message advocated... -
Can Church Schools Hire Teachers Who Share Church Beliefs?
August 03rd, 201110:28 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Most would agree that a church should be able to open a school to ensure that its children get an education that conforms with its religious teachings. It follows that a church should be able to employ only those teachers who actually agree with its religious principles and apply them to their li... -
The Bully Market: How Homosexual Advocacy Sells Their Agenda
August 02nd, 201111:28 AM ETAuthor: ADF Marriage Communication Coordinator Joshua Tijerina I received a message from YouTube about a video produced, ostensibly, to discourage bullying. I watched the video and, at the end, found a link to StopBullying.gov. I followed the link to a rainbow banner on the home page of this government website entitled LGBT Bullying. Cur... -
Games the Left Plays with Polls about Same-Sex 'Marriage'
August 02nd, 201111:20 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 8/1/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum Recently, PR Newswire ran the latest Harris Interactive poll under the headline, “Over Half of all Americans Favor National Recognition for Same-Sex Marriages.” And like so much of the homosexual agenda, both the headline and the story benea...
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