Religion & Law

David Hacker: Strong support for ?The Liberty?s? appeal to the 9th Circuit

Posted on October 20, 2010
ADF Attorney David Hacker writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "On Tuesday, two national legal organizations filed amicus briefs in the Ninth Circuit supporting The Liberty?s case against Oregon State University. The Student Press Law Center and the National Legal Foundation both filed amicus briefs arguing that a federal district court should not have dismissed The Liberty?s case...

Student Press Law Center joins college journalists? appeal of OSU newsrack ban

Posted on October 20, 2010
Student Press Law Center: "The Student Press Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief October 19 urging a federal appeals court to reinstate the First Amendment challenge brought by the editors of an independent campus newspaper at Oregon State University whose newsracks were confiscated by the university ...

David French: The good, bad, and ugly of the Howell report

Posted on October 20, 2010
ADF Attorney David French writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Yesterday, Inside Higher Ed, reported that the University of Illinois has delivered its 'academic freedom verdict' on the Professor Kenneth Howell matter . . . you?ll note that the committee agreed with Professor Howell in virtually every material respect ...

Officers denied immunity for strip-searching protesters

Posted on October 20, 2010
WorldNetDaily: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has denied police officers immunity from a lawsuit alleging they violated the rights of two young women who were arrested, put in leg irons and strip-searched for conducting a pro-life demonstration ...

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Swedish court ignoring family

Posted on October 20, 2010
OneNewsNow: "A Swedish home-schooling family has been trying to get their son back from foster care since he was taken away by authorities more than a year ago, but an attorney for the family believes the courts have turned a deaf ear to their situation ...

Court sides with ?moment of silence?

Posted on October 20, 2010
OneNewsNow: "A federal appeals court has upheld an Illinois law that allows public school students to engage in voluntary prayer and reflection as part of a moment of silence during the school day . . . 'The plaintiff claimed that simply because another student would be able to pray silently, that somehow created a constitutional crisis and injured them in some way -- which we are certainly at a loss to figure out,' says [David Cortman] with the Alliance Defense Fund...

?Illinois law promotes prayer, and the court knows it?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Americans United for Separation of Church and State / Wall of Separation: "[L]ast week, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . . held the legislature had a secular purpose in passing the Illinois Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act and upheld the law as constitutional ...

David Hacker: Is history repeating itself at UW-Madison?

Posted on October 20, 2010
ADF Attorney David Hacker writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "On Columbus Day, UW-Madison launched its 'Stop the Silence' campaign, which is designed to curb harassment on campus . . . As a university that likes to think of itself as an epicenter of the 1960s student free speech movement, Madison needs a short history lesson before it tramples students? free speech ...

Appeals court rules for pro-life advocates shackled, strip-searched by police

Posted on October 20, 2010
LifeNews: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit issued a ruling on Monday upholding a district court decision that denied the request of several Maryland state police officers to be immune from a lawsuit filed by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys representing pro-life advocates ...

Matt Bowman on the Mike Gallagher Show: The baby killed at Ft. Hood deserves justice too

Posted on October 20, 2010
ADF attorney Matt Bowman appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss the issue. | MP3 audio 4:21 mins | Related LifeNews report: Fort Hood Shooter Faces More Charges, None for Killing Pregnant Soldier's Baby

ADF presents second annual Meese award to Judge Robert H. Bork

Posted on October 20, 2010
Judge honored for ?significant efforts in publicly promoting and defending religious liberty and?constitutional originalism?

Appeals court keeps military policy barring homosexual behavior for now

Posted on October 20, 2010
"A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily granted the U.S. government's request for a freeze on a judge's order requiring the military to allow openly gay troops."

Pentagon trying to change culture to normalize homosexual behavior

Posted on October 20, 2010
"It comes down to changing the culture, and top brass say they need more time. The military has been long resistant and, at times, hostile to gays, and it draws much of its 2.4 million members from socially conservative parts of the country."

Secretary Clinton: ?Message to LGBT youth?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "Just think of the progress made by women just during my lifetime by women, or ethnic, racial and religious minorities over the course of our history ?and by gays and lesbians, many of whom are now free to live their lives openly and proudly...

Poll: Voters more likely to see Democrats as extremist

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Hill: "Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP."

Insiders Report: War on illegal pornography

Posted on October 20, 2010
Message from Patrick A. Trueman of www.PornHarms.com: "We have a wonderful, new development in the War on Illegal Pornography. We are beginning a series of online interviews with key people discussing pornography from various perspectives. The first three interviews were with author Mark Kastleman who is also a director of Candeo, the online pornography addiction recovery site...

Obama drops ?Creator? from Declaration again

Posted on October 20, 2010
President Barack Obama stripped the word 'Creator' from the Declaration of Independence when giving a speech again.

Michael Savage: China on the verge of ?burying? the U.S.

Posted on October 20, 2010
Newsmax: "Outspoken talk-radio host Michael Savage warns that China is steadily wiping out the American industrial base and 'burying' the United States by keeping the value of its currency artificially low."

CWA and Students for Life of America to join the Northern Virginia IS Pro-Life rally

Posted on October 20, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America, Penny Young Nance, CEO and Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America have joined the Northern Virginia IS Pro-Life Rally."

TX: Prayer at city meeting becomes hot topic in Bulverde

Posted on October 20, 2010
Hill Country Times: "The issue of whether prayer should be a part of a meeting for a municipality or governmental entity has become a hot topic in the Hill Country community of Bulverde after the October 12 City Council meeting."

DADT policy puts chaplains in vise

Posted on October 20, 2010
Terry Mattingly writing at The Republic (Columbus, IN): "While these chaplains 'worry about being discriminated against, they openly discriminate against some of the very people they are pledged to serve and serve with. If the hate speech currently uttered by some conservative chaplains and their denominations is any indication of how they will respond in the future, we can expect this discrimination to continue...

Iowa: Same-sex ?marriage? foe: Ruling could lead to polygamy

Posted on October 20, 2010
Globe & Gazette: "A conservative businessman spearheading an effort to unseat three Iowa Supreme Court justices believes that by allowing gay marriage in the state, the high court opened the door for intrafamily marriage and polygamy."

Soros donates $1 million to Media Matters

Posted on October 20, 2010
New York Times / The Caucus: "Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros...

Will Islam divide or unite Iraq?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Christian Science Monitor: "Only by engaging fully with Iraq?s rival religious leaders can an authentic coalition government ? and the security that it can provide ? be achieved. I know, because I?ve spent years forging relationships among religious factions here in Iraq, and I?ve seen the problem, and the possibilities for peace...

Vancouver sex shop owner decries city ruling

Posted on October 20, 2010
Vancouver Sun: "Sex shop owner Tony Perry vows to challenge a recent Board of Variance decision denying his appeal of a city hall ruling aimed at shutting down his Fantasy Factory outlet at 701 Kingsway."

Assisted suicide is about the haves and have-nots; Dignitas is making a fortune

Posted on October 20, 2010
Cristina Odone writing at the Telegraph: "The person who packs their bags for Dignitas (no need for a toothbrush: the whole procedure takes only a couple of hours) is likely to belong to the well-educated, articulate elite who are addicted to choice and who view assisted suicide as the ultimate consumer choice...

?Social conservatives craft economic vision fit for the times?

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Daily Caller: "Social conservatives . . . are now on the defensive. Federal courts continue to march against their priorities . . . among the ranks of Republican elites in Washington, D.C., acceptance of gay rights is on the march . . . Faced with these obstacles, leaders of the social conservative movement are crafting a vision fit for the times with a heavy emphasis on economic issues and scaled back ambitions that might have been shocking in their modesty only a few years ago...

?Brazil?s ugly abortion reality lost in election noise?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Reuters: "The issue of abortion in the world's most populous Roman Catholic country has been thrust into the spotlight by a presidential election in which front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff has been punished by religious voters for her past support for decriminalizing the procedure...

CA appellate judges: Episcopal breakaway case ?confusing?

Posted on October 20, 2010
Fresno Bee: "Two of the three justices who will decide whether the U.S. Episcopal Church or the breakaway Diocese of San Joaquin owns the Valley churches' properties appeared this morning to be uncertain about how they will rule." | More news coverage, including a timeline, of the case can be found here...

PA polls claim pro-life Toomey lost lead to pro-abortion Sestak

Posted on October 20, 2010
LifeNews: "Two new polls of the Pennsylvania Senate race make the claim that pro-life candidate Pat Toomey lost his big lead to pro-abortion candidate Joe Sestak. Toomey had led in every poll from July through last week, but trails in two new surveys that come after Sestak launched his television advertising blitz...

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