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Summum v. Pleasant Grove City: The Tenth Circuit ?Binds the Hands of Local Governments as They Shape the Permanent Character of Their Public Spaces.?

Posted on May 27, 2008
The precedent set in Summum v. Pleasant Grove City takes away the government's ability to control what monuments it allows in public parks. By ruling public parks are traditional public forums irrespective of the particular channel of communication sought, the Tenth Circuit leaves the government with an all-or-nothing choice when it comes to placing monuments in public parks.

Revisiting Roe: The Language of Privacy and Isolation in U.S. and Vermont Case Law

Posted on May 27, 2008
As the Court has shifted and reframed its logic in the last thirty-five years, a telling trend has emerged: the more willing justices are to invade and describe a pregnant woman's private experience, the more likely they are to restrict access to abortion.

Gallup: Moral Issues Divide Westerners From Muslims in the West

Posted on May 27, 2008
The coexistence debate, especially in Europe, has shifted to the Muslim-West gap in attitudes toward social and moral values.

6th Circuit upholds protections for Grand Rapids citizens against sex shops

Posted on May 27, 2008
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4532 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE May 27, 2008 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom 6th Circuit upholds protections for Grand Rapids citizens against sex shops GRAND RAPIDS, Mich...

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 26, 2008
The Alert is not being published on Memorial Day as we honor those who have served and do serve our nation. Share This

Court allows Catholic elementary school construction despite zoning officials? roadblock

Posted on May 23, 2008
A Georgia court granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the city of Suwanee Friday, allowing construction of a Catholic elementary school to begin.

San Diego: ?Sexting? Forum Held for Parents

Posted on May 23, 2008
"Parents are in an unprecedented time. They are in cyber parenting and no one before them ever had to do this," says the President and CEO of the San Diego Police Foundation Wenda Alvarez.

Sharing religious views on public sidewalk is not a crime

Posted on May 23, 2008
An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney has secured a settlement with city of Beaumont officials that will result in changes to an ordinance that violates the First Amendment rights of citizens wishing to publicly express their views.

Arizona vouchers ruling to be appealed

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Goldwater Institute has this report indicating that the Institute for Justice will appeal the recent Arizona Court of Appeals ruling hodling that Arizona Vouchers are unconstitutional.

Can America Still Bar Polygamy?

Posted on May 23, 2008
The harder legal question is whether criminalizing polygamy is still constitutional . . . In the 19th century, none of these rights claims was available. Now they are, and they protect every adult's rights to consensual sex, marriage, procreation, contraception, cohabitation, sodomy, and more.

Erik Stanley on the Frank Pastore Show: The ADF Pulpit Project

Posted on May 23, 2008
ADF attorney Erik Stanley discusses the ADF Pulpit Project on the Frank Pastore Show. The mp3 file runs just over 12 minutes. Share This

Look Who?s Really Paying for Foreign Students

Posted on May 23, 2008
Candace De Russy has this post on the National Review Phi Beta Cons Blog. She writes: Lobbying groups assert that foreign students benefit the U.S.’s balance of payments . . . David North of the Center for Immigration Studies evaluates these claims in a new study, “Who Pays? Foreign Students Do Not Help with Balance [...

Polls: Californians narrowly approve marriage amendment

Posted on May 23, 2008
Either way, the poll suggests the outcome of the proposed amendment is far from certain. Overall, it was leading 54% to 35% among registered voters . . . strategists typically want to start out well above the 50% support level.

May 29th: ADF attorney Glen Lavy to appear in FRC panel to discuss Cal. marriage

Posted on May 23, 2008
FRC is sponsoring a panel to discuss California marriage. “The invited panel of legal and policy experts will include Glen Lavy, Senior Counsel with Alliance Defense Fund; Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel; Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University; and Ken Blackwell, Family Research Council’s Senior Fellow for Family [...

Shipment of condoms beats aid relief into Myanmar

Posted on May 23, 2008
"We don't want regular use of contraception disrupted. An emergency usually damages the health system, so people don't have access to condoms and contraceptives," said UNFPA aid advisor Chaiyos Kunanusont.

9th Circuit: ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?? Or Don?t Read, Don?t Think?

Posted on May 23, 2008
"I have a lot of sympathy for anyone forced to try to make sense of Justice Kennedy?s majority opinion in Lawrence . . . But there?s strong evidence that the Ninth Circuit panel did not even carefully read the opinion . . ."

When deaths outnumber births - the parable of Pittsburgh

Posted on May 23, 2008
Demography is not destiny, but that claim is not, humanly speaking, far off the mark . . Thus, Americans should take a close look at the fact that in a handful of major metropolitan areas, deaths now outnumber births . . . "

Michigan: Ferndale contests ACLU legal fees, says $178K over anti-honking policy is excessive

Posted on May 23, 2008
he city is contesting the amount of money the American Civil Liberties Union wants Ferndale to pay after it lost a civil lawsuit over its anti-honking policy against protesters.

Kansas: Attorney General Backtracks, DA Kline Will Seek to Have Gag Order on Key Witness Against Planned Parenthood Overturned

Posted on May 23, 2008
Amid growing concerns of an abortion cover up, Attorney General Steve Six modified his demand with the Kansas Supreme Court yesterday and acknowledged that key evidence in a criminal prosecution against Planned Parenthood should remain in the possession of a District Court judge for now.

Virginia: The ACLU takes up Bible study in Craig

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Virginia branch of the American Civil Liberties Union wants to look at the curriculum Craig County has adopted for a high school religion course to be offered next fall. School officials should welcome the scrutiny.

Land of Anne of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island, Re-writes Laws To Recognize Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on May 23, 2008
"An omnibus bill titled The Domestic Relations Act will change the definition of "spouse" in the province's laws to recognize same-sex marriages in Prince Edward Island, the last province in Canada to make the changes."

?Climate of Fear? Growing in Britain for Christian Civil Marriage Registrars

Posted on May 23, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Elizabeth Thatcher, a Christian council registrar from Kent in south east England, told the London Employment Tribunal that since the introduction of civil ceremonies for registered same-sex partnerships in December 2005, a “climate of fear” has grown among Christians working as marriage registrars...

Kentucky: Ten Commandments lawsuit over, but ACLU threatens another

Posted on May 23, 2008
WKYT.com reports: “The case against the Garrard County Fiscal Court over a ten commandments display is over, at least for now. Back in January, the court unveiled a new display after a previous one landed them in court.”� It also reports that the ACLU is considering a new suit...

OneNewsNow: ?Chicago hosts ?Queer Prom? tonight?

Posted on May 23, 2008
The event at the National Museum of Mexican Art is being billed as a dance for "LGBTQ youth" (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning), but adults are also invited.

VA: Town denies permit for adult video store

Posted on May 23, 2008
Less than two weeks after Rocky Mount Town Council adopted an ordinance regulating sexually-oriented businesses, the town has already received an appeal of the denial of a permit for an adult video store.

Stuart Taylor Jr.: ?Gay Marriage by Judicial Decree?

Posted on May 23, 2008
The message to voters in other states may be: If you give the judges an inch on gay rights, they will take a mile.

Texas schizophrenia: ?married? children seized while condoms are promoted in schools - go figure

Posted on May 23, 2008
"Let us cut the hypocrisy. America, as a society, is dedicated to the sexual exploitation of women. The only 'crime' committed by the Fundamentalist Mormons is their commitment to marriage."

Jennifer Roback Morse: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village

Posted on May 23, 2008
It takes a family to raise a village. Without the family, the village itself can not function. If the family breaks down, or fails to form in the first place, the ?village? can not possibly provide adequate help to repair the damage.

Lazarus: ?The California Supreme Court?s Decision Equalizing Marriage for Gay and Straight Couples: Did the Court Overstep??

Posted on May 23, 2008
Edward Lazarus argues on Findlaw that the Cal. Supreme Court did not engage in judicial activism when it redefined marriage, because the Cal. Constitution is different.� He writes: To begin, the California Constitution contains an affirmative grant of personal rights that has no analogue in the U...

San Francisco Mayor outraged over San Diego efforts to protect conscience rights of marriage clerks

Posted on May 23, 2008
"San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose fight to allow same-sex weddings won California court approval last week, expressed outrage on Thursday that San Diego County may allow some clerks to decline to wed homosexuals . . . "

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