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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Lambda Legal Says ?Sign the Pledge? on Second Annual ?Clock In For Equality? Day on May 15th

Posted on May 12, 2008
Lambda Legal has issued this press release. It begins: Today, Lambda Legal announced its second annual “Clock In for Equality” day, a national day of action on May 15 to educate and mobilize people to promote workplace fairness for LGBT people...

Yet another Courant op-ed for marriage redefinition

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Family Institute of Connecticut critiques a Hartford Courant Op-Ed that argues in favor of marriage redefinition. Visit Site » Share This

?Academic Freedom? Legislation Advances in Four States

Posted on May 12, 2008
. . . If passed, the bills would guarantee the freedom of both teachers and students throughout public schools to share views contradicting or challenging the tenets of Darwinism in the classroom without fears of reprisal.

Colorado Human Life Amendment Press Conference, Signature Turn In, and Victory Rally

Posted on May 12, 2008
Colorado for Equal Rights will hold an event to submit gathered signatures to the Secretary of State's office after making an important announcement of the number of signatures gathered to place the personhood initiative on the ballot.

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Women in combat prohibitions being ignored?

Posted on May 12, 2008
Family Research Council’s Washington Update has this comment criticizing women in combat proposals and policies.� Apparently, it is written in response to this post by USA Today: USA Today: Policy on women in combat bears no relation to reality...

Settlement allows Christians in Miss. town to exercise free speech

Posted on May 12, 2008
The agreement allows the plaintiffs, Shannon Wallace and Wesley Sewell, to preach along public ways in Wiggins as long as no ordinances or laws are violated.

Coast Guard relents, allows officer to refuse vaccine from aborted baby

Posted on May 12, 2008
U.S. Coast Guard officials who initially refused to excuse an officer from being injected with a vaccine derived from an aborted child have relented in the wake of a lawsuit filed on behalf of the officer by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys.

Homosexual couple sues Sweden seeking marriage redefinition

Posted on May 12, 2008
"A gay couple married in Canada has filed suit against the Swedish government for refusing to recognize the marriage."

1st Circuit: Child porn conviction upheld, but concurrence wants to make it harder to convict

Posted on May 12, 2008
Technological advances in recent years have been such that an untrained eye simply cannot easily distinguish a photograph of a real person from a virtual image by merely eyeballing the photographs in question . . .

Arizona House approves marriage amendment

Posted on May 12, 2008
The House's 33-25 vote Monday sends the resolution to the Senate for a vote that would complete legislative action on the proposal. . .

What is the nature of law?

Posted on May 12, 2008
Solum lays out the traditional legal theory debate over "What is law?" as a contest between natural law theory and legal positivism.

ADF Launches Initiative to Retake Religious Freedom

Posted on May 12, 2008
I am greatly encouraged to finally see a major Christian organization launch an offensive initiative.

9th Circuit: School uniform policies are constitutional

Posted on May 12, 2008
Public school districts . . . . have increasingly turned to the adoption of mandatory dress policies . . . In a case of first impression . . . we . . . largely conclude that public school mandatory dress policies survive constitutional scrutiny.

TX: Mental health workers say CPS traumatized polygamists? kids

Posted on May 12, 2008
Mental health workers sent to emergency shelters in San Angelo last month to help care for the hundreds of women and children removed from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch have sharply criticized the Child Protective Services operation, telling their governing board it unnecessarily traumatized the kids.

Supreme Court Denies China Man?s Asylum Request in Forced Abortion Case

Posted on May 12, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an asylum request from the husband of a woman who had been the victim of a forced abortion in China. The man hoped to join his wife in the United States to flee persecution from the oppressive family planning policy that allows couples just one child.

Rowan Williams: The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

Posted on May 12, 2008
But it's quite important also to say that science in itself is never going to be able to tell us what the right thing is for us to do; it can only tell us what's possible. And, in spite of the way some people talk in this debate, there really is a difference between what's possible and what's right.

How the United States has Banned Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the Absence of a Direct Prohibition

Posted on May 12, 2008
Mary Doe is a human embryo preserved in liquid nitrogen, in an unnamed in vitro fertilization clinic. Mary Doe's name was given by an organization dedicated to advocating for equal humanity and personhood of pre-born children, including ?children in vitro...

The ?Mystery of Life? in the Lower Courts: The Influence of the Mystery Passage on American Jurisprudence

Posted on May 12, 2008
The ?mystery passage? has been the subject of substantial controversy in the more than fifteen years since it was first articulated by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey.

MN: 3 suspended for not standing for Pledge of Allegiance

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: “Three small-town eighth-graders in Minnesota were suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now says may soon be reworded to protect free speech rights...

AZ: Judge halts discriminatory actions at Deer Valley Unified School District

Posted on May 12, 2008
A federal judge Friday ordered Deer Valley Unified School District officials to end its prohibition on a Christian student club?s PA announcements.

KY: Daughter fails math test, so dad thrown in jail

Posted on May 12, 2008
A northern Kentucky man is in jail today ? serving a 180-day sentence ? because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn't get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required.

Maine: Homo-grown Heroes

Posted on May 12, 2008
What can be expected from a male mentoring organization pushing homophilia as a valid lifestyle to minors as young as 11? Is this good modeling for boys growing up to be men and fathers? . . .

KC Archbishop issues extraordinary rebuke to pro-abortion Governor, who claims to be Catholic

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Catholic archbishop of Kansas City has issued an extraordinary statement in the diocesan newspaper that rebukes the strongly pro-abortion governor, Kathleen Sebelius, who purports to be a Catholic.

Rhode Island: Judge puts off same-sex ?divorce? ruling

Posted on May 12, 2008
?Superior Court does not have jurisdiction over divorce proceedings, so the question is whether Superior Court has jurisdiction over proceedings that resolve marital rights without calling it a divorce proceeding. . . ?

The Rare Achievement of Disagreement

Posted on May 12, 2008
When people like Harman and Singer speak openly and follow their premises to their logical conclusions, the audience realizes what is at stake when a commitment to intrinsic human dignity and equality is rejected?and that realization is a very good thing.

In U.S. appeals courts, Reagan?s influence endures

Posted on May 12, 2008
Now, nearly 20 years after Reagan left office, many of them are at the height of their power . . .

Mass. prison head opposes sex-change surgery for inmate

Posted on May 12, 2008
Allowing a convicted killer to get a sex-change operation would pose insurmountable safety and security problems for the state prison system, the Massachusetts corrections chief said.

Mike Johnson on the Mike Corley Show: Public school cases

Posted on May 09, 2008
ADF Attorney Mike Johnson appears on the Mike Corley show (WQBC) to discuss student rights in public schools. The MP3 file is here and runs just over 10 minutes. Share This

Joel Oster on 1490 WWPR: discusses a student?s ordeal over mandatory ?tolerance? program

Posted on May 09, 2008
ADF attorney Joel Oster appears on AM 1490 WWPR with Mike Monokian to discuss a case involving a Kentucky public student threatened with punishment for speaking against homosexual behavior. The MP3 file is here and it runs just over 18 minutes. ADF press releases on the Morrison v...

Zogby poll: 2 of 3 likely Ohio voters believe public schools are failing; 6 of 10 want charter schools

Posted on May 09, 2008
Nearly two out of three likely voters in Ohio - 62% - believe traditional public schools in Ohio are failing their students, and nearly six in 10 likely voters - 59% - say it is important that public charter schools exist as an educational option for Ohio parents and children, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows.

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