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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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• Mike Johnson on The Drew Mariani Show: The War on Christmas

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  ADF attorney Mike Johnson on the Drew Mariani Show with Wendy Wees to discuss the "War on Christmas." The MP3 runs 18 minutes.
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• Christian couple in court over comments about Islam

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 581
  Christian hotel owners Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang go on trial today for comments they made about Islam. The couple, who own the Bounty House Hotel in Liverpool, are being prosecuted for a religiously aggravated public disorder after a Muslim guest complained they had made offensive comments to her on March 20. ...
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• Christmas Trees and Santa Thrown out of Oregon School

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Liberty Counsel : "Principal Michelle Zundel of Bellview Elementary School in Ashland, Oregon, has banned Christmas trees and Santa Claus from her school."
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• America does religious freedom right: ne…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 536
  America does religious freedom right : new mosque to be built in shadow of 9-11 Ground Zero. Switzerland, are you paying attention? a
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• Maine reporter fired for personal e-mail rebutting criticisms of traditional marriage supporters

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  LifeSiteNews : "A Maine reporter is combating his termination after he says he was fired from his job for issuing a personal email rebutting a homosexualist groups defamation of true marriage advocates."
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• Eugene Volokh says “No Duty To Subsidize Student Groups,” David French responds

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy : "To begin with, I should say that I agree with the Court’s Boy Scouts v. Dale decision: Private groups often do have the First Amendment right to discriminate in choosing their leaders (and their members, though Dale didn’t focus on that), when barring such ...
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• Official Chinese newspaper publishes call to change religion policy

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Christianity Today : "A leading Chinese religious scholar called the country ready for an institutional guarantee for the legality and quality of all religions, according to a December article in China Daily, the official government English language newspaper. Religious freedom experts say they are cautiously ...
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• Greg Baylor on the Hugh Hewitt Show: UC-Hastings suit at the U.S. Supreme Court

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  ADF attorney Greg Baylor appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit against UC-Hastings . The MP3 runs just over 5 minutes.
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• Supreme Court to Review Rights of Student Religious Groups

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Mark Walsh writes at the School Law Blog on Ed Week : "The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to review whether a public college may deny recognition to a student religious group because the group requires its members to agree with its religious beliefs." The post describes the case and some of its background and ...
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• “How the religious right stole Christmas”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Sandhya Bathija, Communications Associate for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, writes at AlterNet : "The bombastic Fox News host declared that Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire had insulted Christians all over the world when she allowed a Winter Solstice display to stand next to a Christmas tree ...
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• ADF attorneys available to media after 9th Circuit arguments in Mt. Soledad cross case

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  ADF Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco and ADF Legal Counsel Timothy Chandler will be available for media interviews following oral arguments in a long-running lawsuit over the Mt. Soledad Veterans’ Memorial. In March, ADF attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of The American Legion Department of ...
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• In This Year’s Christmas Wars, More Cities Eliminate Religious Displays

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Religion Clause Blog : According to yesterdays Knoxville News , the city of Maryville ended its 22-year tradition of having a local radio personality read the Christmas story from the book of Luke as part of the annual "Illumination of the Greenbelt" festivities.
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• Court Dismisses Suit Over Firing, Invokes Ministerial Exception

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Religion Clause Blog : "In  Guerrier v. Southern New England Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists ,  2009 Conn. Super. LEXIS 2962 (CT Super., Nov. 12, 2009), a Connecticut trial court invoked the ministerial exception doctrine to dismiss a group of tort and contract claims filed by a minister who had ...
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• Kurowski and Voydatch Roundup

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Homeschooling Research Notes : "Since [Kurowski] is a custody-related case, it, like the In re Rachel L. case in California, was at first not on the radar screen of the leading homeschooling watchdog groups. It is now. For a little over a month the story was unknown in the homeschooling world. But on August 24 an ...
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• High court agrees to hear Christian student club’s case

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Christian Post : "Christian students have the right to gather as Christians for a common purpose and around shared beliefs, added ADF Senior Legal Counsel Gregory S. Baylor with the ADF Center for Academic Freedom. It’s completely unreasonable – and unconstitutional – for a public university to disrupt the ...
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• Newdow Asks DC Circuit To Eliminate Opening Cry Before His Case Is Heard

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Religion Clause Blog : "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 15 in Newdow v. Roberts , a case which challenged the use of so help me God in the oath administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in swearing in President Barack Obama."
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• High Court to hear case of Christian student group

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  CitizenLink : "The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the constitutionality of a non-discrimination policy at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco . . . The Alliance Defense Fund is representing the students in the case."
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