Religion & Law

About Jeremy Tedesco

Posted on March 18, 2010
Jeremy Tedesco serves as legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, where he currently litigates cases to protect the rights of Christian students, faculty, and staff at public colleges and universities across the nation. In 1997, he earned his J.D. from the Regent University School of Law...

About Austin R. Nimocks

Posted on March 18, 2010
Austin R. Nimocks serves as senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund at its Washington, D.C., Regional Service Center, where he litigates as a member of the marriage litigation team. Before joining ADF in 2007, he served more than 10 years in private practice, most recently at Austin R...

About David French

Posted on March 18, 2010
David French serves as senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Regional Service Center in Columbia, Tennessee, where he heads efforts to restore the marketplace of ideas to university campuses, concentrating his litigation on religious freedom issues...

About David Cortman

Posted on March 18, 2010
David Cortman serves as senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Atlanta Regional Service Center in Georgia, where he heads litigation efforts to defend and reclaim the First Amendment rights of public school students across the nation...

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About Gary McCaleb

Posted on March 18, 2010
Gary McCaleb serves as senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund at its Team Resource Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he leads a litigation team comprised of attorneys and support staff at offices in District of Colombia, Arizona, Kansas, California, Louisiana, Georgia, and Tennessee...

About Mike Johnson

Posted on March 18, 2010
Mike Johnson serves as senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Louisiana Regional Service Center in Shreveport, where he has litigated and won numerous high-profile religious liberty cases nationwide and has been a principal drafter of pro-life and pro-family legislation for many states and municipalities...

About Joe Infranco

Posted on March 18, 2010
Joseph P. Infranco serves as senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he is also ADF Senior Vice President of Allied Attorney Support and Coordination, working with approximately 1,200 attorneys across the nation...

About Nate Kellum

Posted on March 18, 2010
Nate Kellum serves as senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Memphis Regional Service Center in Tennessee, where he focuses his litigation on defending religious free speech rights in the public square. Joining ADF in 2004, Kellum is admitted to the bar in Tennessee, Mississippi, and numerous federal appellate courts...

NE: Christensen expects court challenge to abortion bill

Posted on March 18, 2010
McCook Daily Gazette: "A controversial bill that would ban late-term abortions based on fetal pain rather than viability advanced out of the Nebraska Judiciary Committee. Sen. Mark Christensen, who serves on the Judiciary Committee, said this morning at the McCook Area Chamber of Conference that he expects the bill to be challenged in court...

?Gay marriage?s ?open secret??

Posted on March 18, 2010
Penna Dexter writes at the Baptist Press: ". . . When homosexuals argue for marriage, as in the current battle to overturn California's Proposition 8, they say they want what opposite-sex couples have. They simply want the right to participate in traditional marriage...

9th Circuit: Former AG Ashcroft can be held personally liable, 8 judges dissent

Posted on March 18, 2010
Washington Post: "A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute after the Sept. 11 attacks." Al-Kid v...

About Heather Gebelin Hacker

Posted on March 18, 2010
Heather Gebelin Hacker serves as litigation staff counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Sacramento Regional Service Center in California, where she litigates cases to protect the rights of Christian students, faculty, and staff at public colleges and universities across the nation...

KS: Late-Term Abortion Regulation Proposal Under Negotiation

Posted on March 18, 2010
Kansas Public Radio: "Anti-abortion legislators are pushing a proposal to allow lawsuits against doctors over legally questionable late-term abortions."

Personhood USA claims enough votes to restore Colorado ballot question

Posted on March 18, 2010
Greeley Tribune: "Abortion opponents in Colorado say they have enough signatures to restore a ballot question on banning abortion. Personhood USA says it has met the number of signatures due Thursday."

About Steven H. Aden

Posted on March 18, 2010
Steven H. Aden serves as senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund in its Washington, D.C., office, where he heads litigation efforts to defend the sanctity of human life. Joining ADF in 2008, Aden is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Hawaii (inactive)...

About Jim Campbell

Posted on March 18, 2010
Jim Campbell serves as litigation staff counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Team Resource Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he specializes in litigating cases pertaining to same-sex ?marriage? with the Marriage Litigation Center, as well as issues concerning religious liberty, and freedom of conscience...

About Dale Schowengerdt

Posted on March 18, 2010
Dale Schowengerdt serves as legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Kansas City Regional Service Center in Kansas, where he litigates cases involving religious freedom and the sanctity of life in state and federal courts around the country...

Iraqi Christian Shopkeeper Gunned Down

Posted on March 18, 2010
Christian Post: "A Christian shopkeeper in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was gunned down Wednesday as he was heading to work, according to a local official."

Human Rights Campaign Foundation Honors 305 Major U.S. Employers as 2010 ?Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality?

Posted on March 18, 2010
Human Rights Campaign: "The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation?s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, honored 305 employers as its 2010 "Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality" at the Sixth Annual LGBT Workplace Awards Seminar and Reception held last night...

U.S. Bishops Provide Resources Explaining Flaws In Senate Health Care Bill

Posted on March 18, 2010
USCCB: "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has made available several new resources explaining its calls for essential changes to the Senate health care reform bill. In a March 15 statement, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the USCCB, said that the U...

?Anti-gay mailer sparks controversy at Post Office?

Posted on March 18, 2010
KKTV: "The Family Research Institute wanted to express its concerns about gays in the military in a bulk newsletter to be mailed out. FRI says local postal officials refused to mail out the newsletter because they deemed the content 'obscene' and 'incited force-able resistance against the government...

About Brian Raum

Posted on March 18, 2010
Brian Raum serves as senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund at its Team Resource Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he heads its marriage litigation team. Having earned his J.D. from the Regent University School of Law, he is admitted to the bar in the states of Virginia and New York, along with the federal bars in all the districts of New York, as well as the Central District of Illinois and the U...

Canada ?not closing doors? on contraception in G8 plan, PM declares

Posted on March 18, 2010
The Globe and Mail: "Stephen Harper?s office is not calling it a flip-flop but today in Question Period the Prime Minister clearly opened the door to allowing contraception to be part of his G8 initiative on maternal health. Yesterday, it appeared to be excluded from his signature plan to help mothers and children in developing countries...

Letter From Catholic Nuns For Pro-Abortion Bill Doesn?t Represent 59K People

Posted on March 18, 2010
LifeNews: "A letter form a group of several dozen dissident Catholic nuns whose position in favor of the pro-abortion Senate health care bill is coming under further scrutiny. Now, the nation's Catholic bishops say the media wrongly represented the letter as speaking for 59,000 nuns...

Judge rules professor?s opinion columns not protected by First Amendment

Posted on March 17, 2010
"A federal judge ruled Monday that nationally syndicated opinion columns written by a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington are not protected by the First Amendment because he referred to them on a promotion application...

Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama ?birthers?

Posted on March 17, 2010
AP on MyWay: "As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama's birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won't give up."

House to Consider Bill Incentivizing Embryo Destruction

Posted on March 17, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives that would set in stone guidelines developed for the National Institute of Health's embryo-destructive stem cell research. Pro-life sources on Capitol Hill warn, however, that the bill's wording goes farther than the NIH guidelines ...

Newsweek: America in Decline

Posted on March 17, 2010
Andrew Nagorski writes at Newsweek: ". . . this time, the anxiety seems like more than a feeling. It is more deeply rooted in concerns about long-term trends, and warning lights are flashing in several places. It's harder now to shrug off the America-in-decline theories than ever before...

Pa. school district lifts ban on ?Abortion is not Healthcare? T-shirt after ADF lawsuit

Posted on March 17, 2010
"Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have secured a favorable settlement with the West Shore School District on behalf of a middle school student who was ordered to remove a T-shirt donning the message 'Abortion is not Healthcare.'"

Planned Parenthood 1952: Abortion ?Kills the Life of a Baby,? Danger to Mother

Posted on March 17, 2010
LifeSiteNews: ". . . Panned Parenthood said. 'An abortion requires an operation. It kills the life of a baby after it has begun . . . It is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when you want a child you cannot have it. Birth control merely postpones the beginning of life...

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