ADF achieving results internationally- 7.22.08
The Alliance Defense Fund has been actively involved in several recent international legal situations to protect families worldwide and protect America from the effects of poor international legal decisions.
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Same-sex “Marriage” the Same as Interracial Marriage? Hardly.
by Glen Lavy, posted on Townhall.com, July 17, 2008
In yet another attempt to excuse bypassing the democratic process, California Chief Justice Ronald George recently asserted that a 1948 court decision legalizing interracial marriage in California is analogous to the May 15 ruling granting same-sex couples the “right” to marry. He went on to predict, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, that same-sex “marriage” will be more quickly accepted by the public than racial equality. read more...
Pornography Pretensions
by Alan Sears, posted on Townhall.com, July 9, 2008
Always – beneath the reasons – are the reasons.
Americans have a kind of instinct for this: sensing the reality behind a facade. It was experience, not cynicism, that coined the old saw that “whenever someone tells you, ‘It’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing’…it’s the money.”
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The Wall Street Journal: Pastors May Defy IRS Gag Rule - WSJ.com- 5.9.08
A conservative legal-advocacy group is enlisting ministers to use their pulpits to preach about election candidates this September, defying a tax law that bars churches from engaging in politics.
Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale, Ariz., nonprofit, is hoping at least one sermon will prompt the Internal Revenue Service to investigate, sparking a court battle that could get the tax provision declared unconstitutional. Alliance lawyers represent churches in disputes with the IRS over alleged partisan activity.
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Let Oregon voters rule on domestic partnerships
by Joe Infranco, posted on The Register-Guard, March 7, 2008
What is the most important right we have as Americans? A poll would produce a number of answers. But one right that would rise to the top is the right to be heard in the political process — whether by vote or by citizens’ initiative.
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Denver archbishop warns legislation endangers Catholic Charities
Catholic News Agency, January 23, 2008
A proposed Colorado law restricting religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws could threaten the Catholic character of charitable organizations that receive government funds. The Colorado Catholic Conference has heard from numerous sources pointing to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as being connected to the legislation.
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Constitutional Blunder
Townhall, January 22, 2008
Though some may disagree, the 1973
Roe v. Wade decision has to be the greatest constitutional blunder of our time. It is
the quintessential example of judicial activism, and it has to be the greatest exercise of (to use Justice White’s phrase) “raw judicial power” ever seen, resulting in the death of close to 50 million lives.
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Poll: Evangelicals say abortion top problem
BP News, January 22, 2008
Abortion is the overwhelming choice of evangelicals as the nation's top moral problem, according to a new survey by The Barna Group.
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What do you know about Roe v. Wade?
WorldNetDaily, December 4, 2007
Chief Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that affirmed a "right" to abortion under the U.S. Constitution's right to privacy, recognized the potential pitfalls, and provided carefully crafted limits on the use of the procedure. Or did he? Just exactly what does that ruling, with its 35th anniversary now approaching, say
exactly.
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The Holocaust, Hollywood and the Ten Commandments
by David W. New, Esq., October 31, 2007
If you listed the parts of the Bible that most Americans are familiar with, it would be difficult to know which part of the Bible has influenced America more. The Sermon on the Mount is very popular. The Story of the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son are popular as well. Secularists who have no interest in religion like the Golden Rule a lot. They think the Golden Rule is a good standard for everyone to live by. Bible stories have inspired American art, literature and music for generations. Clearly, the Bible is very popular in America.
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Children Won, Strip Clubs Zero
by Mike Johnson, posted on Townhall.com, November 15, 2007
When lawmakers have to choose between protecting our children and protecting the profits of a sexually oriented business, the choice is obvious: Our children’s safety comes first.
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Hope for Christian Law Students
by Jeffery Ventrella, posted on Townhall.com, November 14, 2007
Imagine you are a young conservative and are enrolled in or admitted to an American law school. Now imagine that you are also a Christian and dare to support traditional values. What will law school be like? And what kind of legal education will you get? Your suspicions are probably right.
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Tenured bigots
World Magazine, August 18, 2007
David French has known for years that college campuses are bastions of anti-evangelical bias. He knew it when he served on the admissions committee at Cornell Law School and watched his colleagues ridicule evangelical applicants as "Bible thumpers" or members of the "God squad."
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Group fights lesbian 'divorce'
by Cheryl Wetzstein, posted on Washington Times, August 16, 2007
The Rhode Island Supreme Court should rule that a lesbian couple who "married" in Massachusetts can't get "divorced" in Rhode Island because such an act would legalize same-sex "marriage" in the state, say court papers filed by a conservative legal defense organization.
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Same-sex marriage could spread with 'divorce' ruling
WorldNetDaily, August 3, 2007
A lesbian couple who obtained a marriage license in Massachusetts is seeking a divorce in their home state of Rhode Island in a case that could result in the spread of same-sex marriage.
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Court hears appeal on gay issue in Boyd
Associated Press, July 26, 2007
A federal appeals court heard arguments yesterday from a religious liberty group that opposed required anti-harassment training at an Eastern Kentucky high school.
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Gay-Friendly "Diversity Training" to be Mandatory in Spanish Schools
LifeSiteNews.com, July 25, 2007
The socialist government of Spain, while facing increasing domestic skepticism for its social re-engineering policies, has declared that "diversity" education will become a compulsory part of the schools curriculum starting in the new academic year.
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Some say schools giving Muslims special treatment
USA Today, July 25, 2007
Some public schools and universities are granting Muslim requests for prayer times, prayer rooms and ritual foot baths, prompting a debate on whether Islam is being given preferential treatment over other religions.
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Amnesty International Unlikely to Drop Newfound Pro-Abortion Position
LifeNews.com, July 26, 2007
Amnesty International upset millions of pro-life supporters months ago when it decided to take a pro-abortion position after decades of neutrality. Any decision on abortion was supposed to come at an AI leadership conference in August in Mexico City -- but with the meeting on the horizon, a change of heart isn't expected.
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Planned Parenthood rape stats questioned
WorldNetDaily, July 26, 2007
A pro-life organization in Waco, Texas, is calling for an explanation of a huge discrepancy between statistics regarding statutory rape cases Planned Parenthood says it has reported, and the number of those cases documented by law enforcement or other authorities.
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‘Fairness Doctrine’ Is A Code Name For “Censorship”
by Alan Sears, posted on Townhall, June 26, 2007
Leftist censors aren’t just dropping hints about their determination to legislate conservative talk radio out of existence. They are screaming their intentions, loud and clear.
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The ACLU Never Forgets Its Pro-Communist Roots
by Alan Sears, posted on Townhall, June 16, 2007
Just as a leopard cannot change its spots, nor a zebra its stripes, an organization whose founder admired the “ideals” of the hammer and sickle can never really abandon those destructive beginnings.
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Faith group petitions the Supreme Court
Associated Press, June 9, 2007
A Sacramento Christian group said Friday that it had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to worship in meeting rooms in public libraries, an action a federal appeals court prohibited in a ruling last year.
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University Missions and Ideological Arguments
David French, National Review, June 8, 2007
IHE has an interesting story about the impact of the planned expanded border fence on the University of Texas at Brownsville. Apparently, the fence may actually run through the campus, leaving part of the university on the Mexican side of the fence — despite the fact that all of the university is on American soil.
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Louisiana Pro-Life Advocates Win Free Speech Victory at Appeals Court
by Steven Ertelt, Life News, June 10, 2007
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit remanded back to the lower court a case involving the police punishing the use of pro-life signs in the town of Columbia. The case involves a group of four pro-life people who were arrested after they held pro-life signs on public property. read more...
Bible Curriculum Dispute Heats Up in Texas Town
by Suzanne Sataline, Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2007
Lori White thinks high school students should study a variety of religions, including Christianity. But the Bible curriculum used in Odessa, Texas, and a growing number of other schools, she says, is aimed at instilling faith, not knowledge.
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Alito and Roberts don’t join Thomas on abortion decision, not problematic
by Jordan Lorence, posted on LifeNews, April 22, 2007
In one of the interesting omissions in today's Gonzalez decision, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito did not join Justice Thomas' concurring opinion (joined by Scalia) which states that the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence "has no basis in the Constitution."
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No Way, Poway: In Harper Case, High Court opts not to shirt the issue
by Tim Chandler, posted on Townhall, March 29, 2007
In a complex but welcome decision on one of the major student First Amendment cases of recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court this month effectively took a page from the old Saturday Night Live scripts featuring Gilda Radner’s addled news commentator, Emily Litella.
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The New .xxx Domain: Just a .bad/idea
by Alan Sears, posted on National Catholic Register, March 27, 2007
Family advocates and purveyors of pornography are definitely strange bedfellows. But when it comes to the proposed “.xxx” Internet domain for porn sites, recently resurrected for consideration by the Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN), both camps are largely against it, albeit for radically different reasons.
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Supreme Court vacates Ninth Circuit opinion in Harper
by Jordan Lorence, constitutionallycorrect.com, March 5, 2007
The Supreme Court in an order today gave the nation great news for student free speech rights by vacating the widely-criticized decision of the Ninth Circuit in
Harper v. Poway Unified School District. The Ninth Circuit had denied a preliminary injunction to a high school student, Chase Harper, whom the Poway School District punished for wearing a homemade T-shirt at school that read, "Homosexuality is shameful," because it was offensive to observers who practice or support homosexual conduct. Today's Supreme Court's order vacates one of the worst decisions ever against freedom of speech for students.
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Utah Case Exemplifies Judicial Contempt for Biological Parents
by Alan Sears, Townhall, March 4, 2007
Until the Utah Supreme Court stepped forward on Friday with its merciful breath of sanity, the best Cheryl Barlow had to hope for was a kind of "Sophie’s Choice."
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ACLU Plays Ring-Around-the-Rosie With Its Pro-Abortion 'Logic'
by Gary McCaleb, Christian Post, March 2, 2007
The American Civil Liberties Union is castigating the South Dakota House of Representatives for its vote last month to ban virtually all abortions within the state.
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Taking God Out Of School Leaves A Vacuum Something Will Replace
by Michael Johnson, Townhall.com, February 28, 2007
Here’s a little test of your sensitivity to the current culture:
Suppose your child’s school announces a Christmas celebration – and your child, while subscribing to your atheistic beliefs, decides to participate. So he goes, dressed as Santa Claus.
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Utah case exemplifies judicial contempt for biological parents
by Alan Sears, Ogden Standard-Examiner, February 27, 2007
Until the Utah Supreme Court stepped forward on Feb. 16 with its merciful breath of sanity, the best Cheryl Barlow had to hope for was a kind of "Sophie's Choice." According to incredible rulings of the state's lower courts, she could either let her 5-year-old daughter stay overnight alone with a woman who causes the child severe emotional distress and exposes her to attitudes and behavior that violate Barlow's core faith beliefs -- or go to jail.
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Get facts straight on same-sex issue
by Chris Stovall, The Indianapolis Star, February 15, 2007
The Indiana Marriage Amendment (SJ7) can't get a fair shake these days.
Take, for example, columnist and attorney Sheila Kennedy, who mischaracterizes both the Alliance Defense Fund and supporters of SJ7 as liars and hypocrites ("Sex, lies and politics," Feb. 13), while misleading readers to believe that SJ7 is "similar" to Michigan's marriage amendment and will have the same effect.
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A Secret Plan to Make Same-Sex "Marriage" Legal in America
by David W. New,