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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Vets angry at Obama over proposed insurance plan

Posted on March 18, 2009
OneNewsNow: "The nation's largest veterans group warns there will be negative moral and practical ramifications from President Obama's plan to charge 'wounded warriors' for the medical treatment they need for service-related disabilities or injuries ...

Obama?s porn king at Justice

Posted on March 18, 2009
Robert Knight writes at the Washington Times: "Under President Obama, it was expected that porn pushers might find a sympathetic ear, given the smut industry's generous support of liberal politicians and causes. But the fox is no longer circling the henhouse...

Specter Being Wooed By Democrats In 2010 Re-Election Bid

Posted on March 18, 2009
AHN: "Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking Republican in the Senate Judiciary Committee, is facing the loss of GOP support for his re-election bid next year but at the same time is being wooed by Democrats and labor unions for his recent votes for Democratic bills...

Alberta Considers Denying Physician Conscience Rights

Posted on March 18, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSA) is in the process of revising its Standards of Practice code and may be considering implementing a policy which would force physicians to refer patients for abortion, even if they believe this to be morally wrong...

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Law Students! Pew Scholarship Competition Deadline is April 15th

Posted on March 18, 2009
The deadline for the Alliance Defense Fund's 2008-2009 William Pew Religious Freedom Scholarship Competition is April 15th, 2009. Law students of any faith currently enrolled and in good standing in a J.D., LL.M., or S.J.D. program at an American law school or its international equivalent are eligible to participate...

God-less ?congregations? planned for humanists

Posted on March 18, 2009
AP: "Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard University, is building a God-free model of community that he hopes helps humanists increase in numbers and influence. Epstein sees potential in research showing that there are more people with no religion...

US births at all time high; 40 pct. are out-of-wedlock

Posted on March 18, 2009
AP: "The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or old . . . "

Religious dying patients more likely to get aggressive care

Posted on March 18, 2009
Boston Globe: "Patients who rely heavily on their religious faith to cope with terminal cancer are more likely to receive intensive life-prolonging measures in their last week of life, Boston researchers reported yesterday."

Kansas Lawmakers Approve Ultrasound-Before-Abortion Bill

Posted on March 18, 2009
CNSNews (AP): ". . . The bill now needs the approval of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who has repeatedly vetoed anti-abortion bills in the past. Anti-abortion groups are opposing her appointment by President Barack Obama to serve as U.S. secretary of health and human services, but the bill's backers are hopeful she'll sign it to ease her confirmation in the Senate...

Lawmaker, Sex-Ed Advocates Decline to Specify at What Age Public Schools Should Teach Children about Sex

Posted on March 18, 2009
CNSNews: "Advocates of legislation that would authorize federal funding for 'comprehensive and medically accurate' sex education in public schools declined to specify during a press conference Tuesday the age at which they believe public school should begin teaching students about sex...

Religious & Civil Rights Groups to Court: Quoting Scripture is not a Crime

Posted on March 18, 2009
Becket Fund: "Today (March 18, 2009) a coalition of a dozen religious and civil rights groups asked a Michigan appeals court to release a Christian minister put on house arrest because he claimed God would punish the judge who sentenced him."

Religious organizations, civil liberty groups oppose plan to limit prison chapel books

Posted on March 18, 2009
NYT: The Alliance Defense Fund, a group of Christian lawyers who litigate religious rights cases, joined its arch foe, the A.C.L.U., in opposing the new rule. The groups are usually on opposite sides of thorny issues like the role of religious expression in schools and same-sex marriage.

U.S. to Sign UN ?Gay Rights? Declaration

Posted on March 18, 2009
"The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned."

FRC Policy Lecture: ?Why isn?t anyone telling our kids about the other dangers of casual sex??

Posted on March 18, 2009
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New ethics rules for judges

Posted on March 18, 2009
SCOTUS Blog: Among the changes adopted by the Conference is a definition, for the first time, of judges? duty to avoid ?the appearance of impropriety."

Washington pro-life students challenge discriminatory speech policy

Posted on March 18, 2009
OneNewsNow: Pro-life students and the administration at some Washington state community colleges are at odds with one another . . . Heather Gebelin Hacker is an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). "The students wanted to have a pro-life event on January 22, which is the anniversary of Roe v...

Public school ?silence? ruled constitutional

Posted on March 18, 2009
WorldNetDaily: ADF ally Liberty Legal Institute also filed a brief and represented school children in the case . . . "A moment of silence is not a government endorsement of religion just because someone might use the time for prayer," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman...

NY Message of faith given go-ahead

Posted on March 18, 2009
WorldNetDaily: A message that challenges readers to consider where they will spend eternity ? with or without Jesus ? has been given permission to remain alongside a New York highway through a legal settlement obtained by the Alliance Defense Fund . ...

Help protect freedom of conscience for medical providers: www.Freedom2Care.org

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Alliance Defense Fund has joined with many other Allied Organizations to launch www.Freedom2Care.org, a movement to preserve the federal Conscience Protection Regulation

Win for Anti-Bias Rules

Posted on March 18, 2009
Inside Higher Ed: A federal appeals court on Tuesday gave a major win to public universities and advocates for gay rights who have wanted to preserve in full the institutional anti-bias policies that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation . . ...

West Virginia lesbian adoption case goes to Supreme Court

Posted on March 18, 2009
OneNewsNow reports: Byron Babione of the Alliance Defense Fund provided arguments in the case of Kutil v. Blake . . . "The judge in the circuit court ruled that it would be in the best interest of the child in the long run to be placed with an adoptive family consisting of a married mother and father...

Good News: Texas Appeals Court Upholds Moment-of-Silence Law

Posted on March 18, 2009
CitizenLink: David Cortman, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said no student is compelled to pray under the Texas law . . . "A moment of silence is not a government endorsement of religion just because someone might use the time for prayer," he said...

9th Circuit: Law school can discriminate against religious club that refuses to allow open voting membership

Posted on March 18, 2009
Both rulings allow public schools to "require religious organizations to include people in their groups who disagree with what the religious groups believe," said attorney Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal organization that is involved in both cases on behalf of the student groups...

Obama nominates judge, who struck Indiana legislative prayers, to 7th Circuit

Posted on March 18, 2009
Hamilton was the author of two related 2005 opinions holding that the Indiana House of Representatives, in opening its sessions with sectarian prayer, violated the Establishment Clause.

Houston: Police crack alleged prostitution ring

Posted on March 18, 2009
Houston Chronicle: "With two locations, several Web sites, dozens of apparently satisfied employees and perhaps thousands of loyal, well-heeled customers, the service business that Debbie and Charles Turbiville nurtured over the last few years was impressive for a pair of young and inexperienced entrepreneurs...

Moment of Silence Survives in Texas

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Scrooge Report: "After the ruling, David Cortman, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case last year, stated, ?A moment of silence is not a government endorsement of religion just because someone might use the time for prayer...

ADF settlement means Modesto man free to speak in public plaza

Posted on March 18, 2009
ADF Press Release: Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have reached a favorable settlement with the city of Modesto, freeing a Christian man to share his faith in a popular downtown public plaza . . . ?Christians shouldn?t be discriminated against for peacefully expressing their beliefs in a public area,? said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker.

Idaho: Pharmacist conscience bill passes House committee

Posted on March 18, 2009
KTVB.com: "A House Committee has approved a bill to give pharmacists the ability to refuse to dispense birth control and other medications. "

Poll: Americans Back Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on March 18, 2009
Angus Reid: "Most adults in the United States appear to support medical research that uses stem cells obtained from human embryos, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 52 per cent of respondents would either place no restrictions on federal funding for this type of research or ease current limits...

ADF: Proposed Serbian ?non-discrimination? law endangers religious freedom

Posted on March 18, 2009
If this law passes, Serbia will diminish the rights of Christians to express their moral beliefs in the name of defending special ?rights? for people engaged in homosexual behavior. That?s not a precedent we want U.S. courts to start citing . . .

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