New York’s highest court did not address the central issue in a ruling Thursday on two lawsuits that challenged the state’s attempt to recognize out-of-state same-sex “marriages” by state and county officials, say attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund who brought the suits.

ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster will argue an appeal before a New York county court Wednesday on behalf of a group of Christians arrested and convicted for praying silently during a public event celebrating homosexual behavior. In 2008, Julian Raven and three others were found “guilty” of disorderly conduct after they lay prostrate on the ground for a few moments during a “Gay Pride” event at a public park.

The new “hate crimes” bill expected to be signed into law by President Obama Wednesday is another nail in the coffin for the First Amendment, according to attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund are ready to offer free legal help to students who participate in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity should the students’ First Amendment rights be violated. The event, being held Tuesday at schools across the U.S., offers pro-life students an opportunity to express their viewpoint on the subject of abortion.

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Alliance Defense Fund allied attorneys have reached a major milestone, having donated more than $100 million worth of pro bono litigation work toward the fight for religious liberty across the globe. Since its launch in 1994, more than half a million pro bono hours have been contributed by attorneys trained at the National Litigation Academy, a growing group now totaling more than 1,300.

Across America, a growing number of conscientious pastors are recognizing and exercising their right - indeed, their obligation - to apply biblical truth to contemporary public policy issues.

Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence will be available for media interviews following oral arguments Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case involving a cross-shaped veterans’ memorial currently covered up by a box in California’s Mojave Desert.

Eighty-three churches from 30 states and the District of Columbia participated in the Alliance Defense Fund’s second annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Sept. 27. Pastors at those churches preached biblically-based sermons about the positions of electoral candidates and current government officials. More than twice the number of pastors participating in last year’s inaugural event exercised their constitutional right to free religious expression this year, despite a controversial rule often used by the Internal Revenue Service and activist groups to silence churches.

Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence will be available for media interviews at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New Haven following a hearing Tuesday in Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York. Lorence will argue that the federal district court’s November 2007 permanent injunction allowing churches to rent public school buildings on the same terms and conditions as all other groups should stand.