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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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The Grinches of Secularism, the Grace of Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2008
Mark Earley writes on Crosswalk: It?s that time of year again?the time when the grinches of secularism tie themselves in knots trying to strip Christmas of its Christ-centered content . . . Thank heaven for religious freedom groups like the Alliance Defense Fund...

Conservatives win court case in Va. Episcopal church dispute

Posted on December 22, 2008
AP: #8220;Nearly a dozen conservative church congregations in Virginia have won a lawsuit in which they sought to split from the U.S. Episcopal Church in a dispute over theology and homosexuality. The final rulings came Friday from a Fairfax County judge who said the departing congregations are allowed under Virginia law to keep their church buildings [...

Pastor Rick Warren defends invite to inauguration

Posted on December 22, 2008
AP: #8220;The 54-year-old pastor and founder of Saddleback Church in Southern California told the crowd of 500 that it#8217;s unrealistic to expect everyone to agree on everything all the time. #8217;You don#8217;t have to see eye to eye to walk hand in hand,#8217; said Warren...

Missouri: ACLU challenges anti-affirmative action ballot initiative

Posted on December 22, 2008
The ACLU has issued this press release: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a lawsuit challenging the latest attempt by a political operative to rewrite Missouri#8217;s state Constitution and ban equal opportunity programs in the state...

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Attorney General asks Cal. Supreme Court to void Prop. 8

Posted on December 19, 2008
"The California attorney general has changed his position . . . and is now urging the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/alliancealert/~4/490261975" height="1" width="1"/

UK: Advantages to church and state split says Archbishop

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: . . . Dr Rowan Williams said he could see a case for breaking official ties between the state and the Church of England which has held its privileged position for centuries. Dr Williams said in an interview with New Statesman magazine: ?I can see that it?s by no means the end of [...

Ken Starr joins Prop. 8 Defense Team

Posted on December 19, 2008
Starr will argue the case before the California Supreme Court on behalf of Proposition 8's official proponents . . .img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/alliancealert/~4/490094587" height="1" width="1"/

There?s Nothing Democratic About Judges ? Not Society ? Upending Traditional Definition Of Marriage

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Blog of the Family Institute of Connecticut reports: . . . Only three states have had same-sex marriage, and in each case it was imposed by a 4-3 vote of the states? high courts. In California, the people reasserted their right to self-government and ? thanks especially to African American turnout ? voted on Nov...

?Companies Large and Small Targeted by Homosexual Activists?

Posted on December 19, 2008
CWA carries this report and audio by Matt Barber discussing HRC#8217;s activities to influence corporate culture. Visit Site #187; Share Thisimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/alliancealert/~4/490082381" height="1" width="1"/

Religious Organizational Freedom in the Benefits/Funding Context

Posted on December 19, 2008
The CLS Blog carries this post summarizing these law reviews by Tom Berg: Religious Organizational Freedom and Conditions on Government Benefits Thomas C. Berg Georgetown Journal of Law #38; Public Policy (2009) Religious Choice and Exclusions of Religion Thomas C...

Becket Fund: Religious Liberty takes Two Steps Backward and One Step Forward at UN

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Becket Fund reports: The ?defamation of religions? resolution passed the General Assembly today with a vote of 86 in favor, 53 against, and 42 abstentions . . . ?With the passage of this resolution, the United Nations has once again failed to live up to its promise...

Indiana: Grand Jury to investigate Planned Parenthood, video subpoenaed

Posted on December 19, 2008
A grand jury will investigate whether an undercover video shot at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinic shows any criminal violations, a prosecutor's spokesman said Thursday . . .img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/alliancealert/~4/490075204" height="1" width="1"/

?Military Does Not Have To Credit Retiree?s Religious Work, Federal Appeals Court Rules?

Posted on December 19, 2008
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has issued this press release that reports: The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 18 that the rights of Linden Bowman, a former sergeant in the Air Force, were not violated when military officials ruled his religious work was ineligible for the Department of Defense?s [...

NY: New Albany will tighten adult-club regulations

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Courier-Journal reports: #8220;With about 40 members of an anti-pornography group looking on last night, New Albany City Attorney Shane Gibson told the city council that he has enlisted a legal expert to help draft a new ordinance to help tighten regulation of adult-entertainment businesses ...

California Supreme Court?s Delicate Position in the Prop 8 Litigation: Part 3

Posted on December 19, 2008
Vikram David Amar concludes part 3 of his Findlaw Commentary series that discusses the Prop 8 litigation: . . . In short, the challengers to Proposition 8 are going to have to sell the court, first, on the notion that the theory behind their challenge derives directly from what the court has said and done in [...

Judgments Threaten To Bankrupt Vermont Catholic Diocese

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Rutland Herald reports: In a potentially bankrupting slam to the state#8217;s largest religious denomination, a jury ruled Wednesday that Vermont#8217;s Catholic Church should pay nearly $3.6 million for negligence in hiring and supervising a pedophile priest ...

Arizona State Bar proposes oath against sexual orientation discrimination

Posted on December 19, 2008
The State Bar of Arizona is weighing whether to require new lawyers to swear they won't let their views on someone's sexual orientation affect their duty, a move foes said could force attorneys to represent clients whose view they find personally offensive...

NJ Appellate court inherits debate about alienation-of-affection suits

Posted on December 19, 2008
The NJ Ledger-Star: Should parents be allowed to sue their former spouses for turning their children against them? A judge in Morris County said no in August. But last month, a Hudson County judge ruled the opposite way, saying state law does not bar a parent from making a parental alienation claim in civil court...

Minn. Supreme Court orders absentee ballot count and process for objection

Posted on December 19, 2008
How Appealing links to several reports and the ruling in Coleman v. Ritchie, No. A08-2169 (Minn. Dec. 18, 2008) Visit Site #187; Share Thisimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/alliancealert/~4/489843949" height="1" width="1"/

Perry endorses anti-abortion license plates

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Austin American-Statesman reports: Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday used his first public endorsement of a bill heading to the 2009 Legislature to support a proposed license plate with an anti-abortion message. Perry#8217;s backing of a #8220;choose life#8221; plate allows him to further endear himself to abortion opponents as he prepares for a possible 2010 Republican primary [...

Today?s Baal worshipers

Posted on December 19, 2008
Matt Barber writes on WorldNetDaily: . . . In fact, today#8217;s liberalism is largely a sanitized retread of an antiquated mythology ? one that significantly predates the only truly progressive movement: biblical Christianity . . . the fundamentals of Baal worship remain alive and well today...

?US balks at backing condemnation of anti-gay laws?

Posted on December 19, 2008
The AP reports: #8220;Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality . . . #8220; Visit Site #187; Share Thisimg src="http://feeds...

World Wild Web

Posted on December 19, 2008
Brent Bozell III writes on Townhall: . . . As more people find video entertainment outside the television set, the old struggles over indecency are going to look quaint. The worry that children are going to stumble into shocking and disturbing content they#8217;re not ready to see will only grow...

UK: Prison bans chapel crucifix to avoid offending Muslims

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Daily Mail: #8220;A prison?s new chapel will not contain a crucifix to avoid offending Muslim inmates, it emerged today. Bosses at HMP Lewes have been told the traditional Christian symbol, featuring Jesus nailed to a cross, must not be used in the Grade-II listed Victorian jail?s ?multi-faith space? ...

Sixth-Grader Penalized For Mentioning Jesus in His Christmas Paper at School

Posted on December 19, 2008
Liberty Counsel reports: #8220;Eleven-year-old Andrew White wrote a poem about Christmas but received a deduction for writing about Jesus. His teacher, Latasha Atkins, insisted that mentioning Jesus was not allowed and asked him to write a new poem . ...

Vaclav Havel: ?China?s Human-Rights Activists Need Support: The signatories of Charter 08 face the wrath of the state.?

Posted on December 19, 2008
Valclav Havel writes in the Wall Street Journal: In January 1977, a group of Czechoslovak citizens, of which I was privileged to be one, released Charter 77. That document was our call for the better protection of basic civil and political rights by the state...

Alabama: ACLU looking into Beverlye Middle School?s single-sex education program

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Dothan Eagle reports: The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Beverlye Middle School to provide documents about its single-sex education program as part of a probe into Alabama schools that teach boys and girls in separate classes. The ACLU has sent Alabama Open Records Act requests to eight Alabama school districts...

UK: Woman told to remove Christmas lights to avoid offending non-Christian neighbours

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Telegraph: Dorothy Glenn decorates her home in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, with hundreds of festive lights every year, including a giant tree and a 4ft Santa Claus. But this year she was astonished when an employee of South Tyneside Homes called at her house and informed her that the decorations she was displaying might be [...

Tis the Season for Porn

Posted on December 19, 2008
Internet pornography truly is, as one researcher put it, "a hidden public health hazard." . . . The Witherspoon Institute has done a valuable thing by starting a more public conversation about this cultural poison . . .img src="http://feeds.feedburner...

?Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Give Tens of Thousands of Dollars to Gay Agenda?

Posted on December 19, 2008
PFOX reports: As mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae hurtled toward financial ruin, their charitable foundations continued to pour money into the gay agenda. According to its records, the Freddie Mac Foundation has given more than $125,000 to gay-activist groups since 2005...

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