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TechnoratiPOST PUBLISHED INSeptember, 2011
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ADF files protest of federal grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
September 30th, 201105:02 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Michael J. Norton On behalf of the Executive Council of the State of New Hampshire, the Alliance Defense Fund has formally protested a grant of $1.1 million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directly to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The New Hampshire Executive Council, which has auth... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #8 Security
September 28th, 201106:26 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Increased animosity toward churches because of their Biblically based moral teaching sometimes results in actual disruption of church services. The disruptors’ intent is to intimidate churches into foregoing their right to speak up on issues like homosexual behavior by terrorizing parishioners. AD... -
[VIDEO] See You At The Pole – Sept. 28th 2011
September 27th, 201101:27 PM ETAuthor: The Alliance Defense Fund This Wednesday, September 28th, students will be getting together across the nation at their various schools for a very special event called “See You at the Pole”. See You At The Pole is student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led prayer gathering that takes place at school flagpoles. Thousands o... -
Glenn Beck and Pastor Jim Garlow on Pulpit Freedom Sunday
September 27th, 201101:22 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Pastor Jim Garlow from Skyline Wesleyan Church who is also Chairman of Renewing American Leadership was on Glenn Beck TV last week. Click on the video for their inspiring discussion on Pulpit Freedom Sunday. There is still time to sign up for Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Ju... -
For Free Speech, Give Up Your Tax Exempt Status
September 27th, 201101:11 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/26/11. Author: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley When thinking of cruel and unusual punishment, we’ve grown accustomed to thinking of torture or similarly brutal treatment at the hands of police interrogators and/or agents of the State. But we would do ourselves a service by broaden... -
The Philosophical Tyranny of the Homosexual Agenda
September 22nd, 201101:58 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/22/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears In China, human rights are not recognized as fixed or unalienable. Rather, they are a benevolence to be given or taken away in response to the mindset and behavior of individual Chinese citizens. Those who are “loyal to t... -
ACLU Bullying Schools into Allowing Porn Access on Computers?
September 22nd, 201112:17 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Humanevents.com on 9/22/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman At different locales around the country, in places as diverse as Detroit, Mich., Lawrenceville, Ga., and Camdenton, Mo., the ACLU is sending letters and filing lawsuits seeking to disallow government school usage of certain Internet ... -
University of Wisconsin Pays Almost $500,000 for Violating Religious Liberties
September 21st, 201104:54 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Last week, the University of Wisconsin paid almost $500,000 to the Alliance Defense Fund for violating the First Amendment rights of Badger Catholic, the Catholic student organization on campus. ADF has litigated a number of cases against the University of Wisconsin... -
Was Forsyth County Punished for Being Too Christian?
September 21st, 201104:48 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior CounselBrett Harvey In a remarkable 2-1 split decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which presides over the four states of the Carolina’s and the Virginias) invalidated the policy of Forsyth County, NC, that allowed prayers to be offered before meetings of the County Council. The court acknowledged that the count... -
Is Religion Like Asbestos?
September 21st, 201110:09 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Is working where religious activities occur like working at a building with asbestos ceiling tiles? The federal government and a number of states help students pay for college through “work-study” programs. The government helps pay the wages of participating students at eligible employer... -
Voucher Program in Colorado Would Advance Liberty
September 20th, 201105:10 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/20/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor In March 2011, the school board in Douglas County, Colo., voted 7-0 to implement a school voucher program. It was designed to provide concerned parents with 75 percent of the education money provided by the state for their children if th... -
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Civil Rights Group Would Not Have Been Recognized at San Diego State
September 19th, 201104:05 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/19/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman On college and university campuses around the country, officials are increasingly using “nondiscrimination” policies to deny religious groups the right to choose prospective members and leaders based on whether they share the group’s r... -
[VIDEO] 86 Percent of Pastors Say Gov’t Shouldn’t Regulate Sermons
September 19th, 201101:57 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch Who decides what can be said from the pulpits of America’s churches? For more than 50 years now, the IRS has had a say in what a pastor can preach. View video here. The free exercise of religion depends on a free pulpit. Join a movement of courageous pastors by participating in Pulpit Freedom Sunday and reclaiming a ... -
Appeals Court Rules for Religious Freedom
September 19th, 201101:51 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot I’ve reported several times on a case in Maryland where a nurse at a Catholic nursing home sued her employer because it required her to dress in a way that conforms to Catholic teaching. Last September the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear this case, which is referr... -
The Stonewall and the Trapdoor
September 19th, 201101:44 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/19/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb For over a year, ADF and decorated, high-ranking veteran chaplains have warned that DADT repeal will harm military religious liberty. One of the most significant threats is that the lack of strong regulations protecting chaplains and service ... -
ACLU Trumpeting 'Non-sexual' Sexuality Sites for Schoolchildren
September 19th, 201110:19 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel David CortmanIn this recent UPI article, the ACLU provides its reason for why children must have access to the websites of homosexual activist groups at your local public school instead of at home: “Many LGBT students either don’t have access to the Internet at home or, if they do, they don’t feel safe accessing ... -
Planned Parenthood Capitulates, Life Wins in Arizona
September 16th, 201105:01 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Redcounty.com on 9/16/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden On Thursday, August 11, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled in Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Horne, finding Arizona’s Abortion Consent Act constitutional. This meant major changes were going to take place in the way abortion mills pro... -
The ACLU’s Newest Spin on Their Porn for Schoolkids Campaign
September 16th, 201101:43 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco The ACLU recently filed a lawsuit against Camdenton R-III School District in Missouri, seeking an injunction prohibiting the District from continuing to use a ”sexuality” internet filter. Alliance Defend Fund filed an amicus brief in the case and in support of ... -
Are Devout Adherents to Faith Ineligible to Deliver Public Prayers?
September 16th, 201110:40 AM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch In a remarkable 2-1 split decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which presides over the four states of the Carolina’s and the Virginias) invalidated the policy of Forsyth County, NC that allowed prayers to be offered before meetings of the County Council. The court acknowledged that the county policy was ... -
Let’s Pray for Our Public Schools, They Need It!
September 16th, 201110:36 AM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco See You At The Pole (SYATP) is an annual, global, student-organized and student-led event where public school students gather around the flagpole at their schools to pray for their schools, friends, teachers, government, and nation. SYATP will occur this year on September 28. The constitut... -
Breaking News – North Carolina Legislature Approves Marriage Amendment
September 14th, 201102:52 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence On Tuesday, the North Carolina Senate followed the lead of the state House and approved a proposed state constitutional amendment defining marriage only as one man and one woman. North Carolina voters will decide whether to add the proposed amendment to the state co... -
Debating CLS v Martinez at Rutgers: A Transcript
September 14th, 201102:48 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior CounselGregory S. Baylor Back in October 2010, I debated Ronald Chen, Vice Dean of Rutgers School of Law, about the correctness of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. The Federalist Society recently published a transcript of the debate in the online version of its En... -
Laws against Defaming Religion: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
September 14th, 201102:44 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot There’s an increasing willingness in the U.S. to categorize any speech critical of a particular religious belief as “hate speech” that is some how not worthy of First Amendment protection. But the U.S. Supreme Court held over 70 years ago in Cantwell v. Connecticut that pointing out th... -
What Is Pulpit Freedom Sunday All about?
September 14th, 201102:38 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/14/11. Author: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Many of you by now have heard about an event that has taken place each year since 2008 where pastors from across the country look at the positions held by candidates running for office, evaluate how those positions line up with Scriptur... -
Christians Face a 'Freedom Gap' in Our Culture
September 14th, 201111:27 AM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/14/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears It’s sad to say, but freedom has been relegated to “flavor of the month” status for years now. Not freedom as our Founding Fathers thought it, but freedom as same-sex couples, pro-abortion activists, and those disillu... -
School Choice Debate at U Colorado Law School
September 14th, 201110:35 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor I am scheduled to debate Professor Richard B. Collins at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder this Thursday, September 15, 2011, at 12:00 noon. We will be discussing the constitutionality of the Douglas County (CO) Choice Scholarship Program. Students, s... -
'Banned Books' or Exaggerated Hype?
September 14th, 201110:29 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence The American Library Association annually sponsors “Banned Books Week.” Jonah Goldberg wrote an excellent article exposing the exaggerations and distortions used to evoke ominous (but dubious) images of Nazi-like government officials censoring books: The probl... -
86 Percent of Pastors Do Not Want the IRS to Review Their Sermons
September 14th, 201110:24 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley Some time ago, I asked the question, “Do 84 percent of Pastors believe the Pulpit Initiative is a bad idea?” The question was in response to a survey conducted of 1,000 protestant pastors by Lifeway Research that asked the pastors whether they agreed with the statement, ... -
I Hear the Anti-Marriage Rallying Cry . . . I Just Don’t See the People
September 14th, 201110:19 AM ETAuthor: ADF Marriage Communication Coordinator Joshua Tijerina America has not shifted on its view that marriage, by definition, is the union of a man and a woman. Contrary to poorly investigated reports and commentary, society does not appear to have an evolving view for the future of marriage either. Now it’s important to note up front i... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #7 Equal Access
September 09th, 201105:57 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Some local governments still discriminate against churches that would like to use community facilities like public auditoriums and schools even though the U.S. Supreme Court determined back in 1993 in the Lamb’s Chapel case that such discrimination is unconstitutional. This... -
News Outlets Twist Numbers to Exaggerate Same-Sex Statistics
September 07th, 201106:18 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/7/11. Author: ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum Although ubiquitous on television and the big screen, homosexual behavior is not nearly as widespread as activists would have us believe. As a matter of fact, according to a poll released in March by theNational Center for Health Statistics and ... -
When Biblical Becomes Political
September 07th, 201101:43 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley The realm of the Church is being invaded by the realm of the political today. This might seem like a strange statement, but consider this example: Thirty years ago, a pastor could preach a sermon from Scripture that marriage was between one man and one woman and no one would have b... -
Keep Your Laws off My Conscience
September 06th, 201104:37 PM ETThe following opinion column appeared on Townhall.com on 9/6/11. Author: ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Alan Sears. In our time, a lot of attention is paid to outward symbols of religion. Around the world, various governments and workplaces have disallowed the wearing of crosses, for example, often in an effort to avoid giving “offense... -
Tar Heel Trouble? Christian Singing Group Faces Scrutiny at UNC
September 02nd, 201112:11 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor The Daily Tar Heel reports that University of North Carolina officials will investigate whether a Christian a capell singing group violated university policy banning "sexual orientation" discrimination. The group, Psalm 100, unanimously voted to remove from membership a student whose ... -
Have the Constitutional Protections for Public Prayer Changed?
September 01st, 201106:00 PM ETAuthor: SpeakUpChurch In a remarkable 2-1 split decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which presides over the four states of the Carolina’s and the Virginias) invalidated the policy of Forsyth County, NC that allowed prayers to be offered before meetings of the County Council. The court acknowledged that the county polic...
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