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• Senator’s Amendment Would Protect Conscience Rights of Pro-Life Medical Staff

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  LifeNews : "The Coburn amendment would ensure that health care providers do not have to participate in the performance of abortions."
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• DC Circuit rejects Newdow effort to censor court’s opening reference to God

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Blog of the Legal Times : "Newdow and Ritter this week filed what they called an emergency motion to block the court clerk from making reference to God in the opening cry before the Dec. 15 oral argument. Today, a three-judge panel—Judges Douglas Ginsburg, Janice Rogers Brown and Brett Kavanaugh—rejected the ...
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• N.J. Senate to delay marriage vote

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  " . . . instead will likely be introduced in the Assembly Judiciary Committee in preparation for a vote by the lower house."
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• Bakersfield council prayers too Christian?

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Bakersfield.com : "Bakersfield is the second city in Kern County to have prayers at city council meetings challenged by the Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc., a Wisconsin nonprofit with a membership of mostly atheists and agnostics."
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• Maine: National Organization for Marriage Expands Legal Challenge

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Maine Public Broadcasting Network : "The National Organization for Marriage spent more than $1 million in Maine to repeal the states gay marriage law last month. The group also filed suit against the state, challenging the financial reporting requirements for political action committees. The group has now expanded its ...
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• The “European Street” on Minarets

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  "All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it."
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• When the sacred becomes toxic

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 551
  As Native Americans use religion to save their sacred places, they need to remember that conflicts framed around faith often have unhappy endings.
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• California Woman Pushing Initiative To Require Christmas Carols In Schools

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Religion Clause Blog : "Yesterdays Redding, California Record Searchlight reports on the progress of Merry Hyatt who is collecting signatures for a proposed ballot initiative ( full text ) that would require public schools to provide opportunities to its pupils for listening or performing Christmas music at an ...
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• Repealing Taxpayers’ Conscience Protections on Abortion

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Heritage Foundation Foundry Blog : "Conscience protections become yet another banner of liberty trampled by the health care reform stampede, even as its sponsors seek to assure Americans that the overhaul is an expansion of freedom . . ."
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• Russia’s Supreme Court: Jehovah’s Witness Publications Are “Extremist”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Religion Clause Blog : " Forum 18 reports that under the 2002 Extremism Law, the publications will now be added to the Justice Ministrys Federal List of Extremist Material and banned throughout the country."
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• Switzerland: Last bulwark against the judges

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Paul Belien writing at Hudson New York : On the eve of the referendum, the Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf had already warned that the ban on constructing minarets might constitute a violation of the freedom of religion as expressed in the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights. ...
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• Jordan Lorence on the Hugh Hewitt Show: CLS suit against Hastings Law School at the U.S. Supreme Court

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  ADF attorney Jordan Lorence appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss this: U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit against UC-Hastings. The MP3 runs just over 7 minutes.
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• Tangipahoa prayer policy has new wording

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  The Advocate : "The Tangipahoa Parish School Board unanimously agreed Tuesday night to change the word prayer to invocation in its policy on prayers before board meetings, a policy under challenge in a federal court lawsuit . . . The board’s attorney in the federal case, Mike Johnson of the Alliance Defense Fund, ...
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• Canada: “Hate speech” penalties tossed by appeals court

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  WorldNetDaily : "Gerald Chipeur, an ADF-allied attorney who argued the case before the Court of Queens Bench of Alberta this fall, said, There is no place for thought control in a free and democratic society. He continued, The tools of censorship should not be available to prohibit freedom of expression in Canada. ...
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• Christian man fired after gay rights group contacts his employer to complain

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 500
  Story from the magazine Down East . Excerpt: Larry Grard admits he had “a lapse in judgment.” But Grard – who’s been a reporter for thirty-five years, the last eighteen of them at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville – says the e-mail he sent from his personal account to a national gay rights group ...
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• Joe Fitzgerald’s token Christmas-loving Jew

  
  Something better to do — Authority: 416
  To: letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com To the editor: On Dec. 10, Joe Fitzgerald wrote about Irina Koltoniuc, his favorite Christmas-loving Jew, for the sixth time (”Jewish immigrant champions Christmas”).  Does he keep writing about the same woman because he’s too lazy to find someone else, or ...
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• Obama administration reps meet with many faiths at PWR

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 518
  Members of all faiths reached out to one another at the Parliament of World Religins. Photo by John David Miller, Parliament of World Religions. Showing openness to diversity in American religion, members of the Obama administration met at the Parliament of World Religions Dec. 6 with 50 members of multiple ...
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• Obama Nominee – Sexual Liberty Trumps Religious Liberty

  
  Free Christian Press — Authority: 136
  WASHINGTON /Christian News Wire/ — Does “sexual liberty” trump the Constitutional right to religious liberty? Chai Feldblum, President Obama’s choice for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, believes so. This week a senate committee will vote on her nomination to this important commission that rules on ...
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• Rutherford Institute asks U.S. Supreme Court to Protect student artistic expression, reverse ban on instrumental performance of “Ave Maria”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Rutherford Institute Press Release : "Voicing the concern that arts education in the public schools is in danger of being sanitized of any art with remotely religious themes or inspiration, The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S Supreme Court to weigh in on a case in which public school officials banned the ...
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• Free Speech & Election Law: Freedom of Speech vs. Anti-Discrimination Laws

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Free Speech & Election Law: Freedom of Speech vs. Anti-Discrimination Laws Prof. David Bernstein, Prof. Andrew Koppelman, Prof. Kenneth L. Marcus, Prof. Eugene Volokh, Moderator: Prof. Lillian R. BeVier, 31 N.C. Cent. L. Rev. 207 (2009)". . . But gay students aren’t allowed to exclude Christians who have ...
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