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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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ABA Journal: ?Mich. Attorney General Backs Student Who Refused to Counsel Gay Patients?

Posted on March 15, 2011
ABA Journal: ?The religious freedoms enshrined in our Constitution do not evaporate when you step on campus," said Schuette in an online statement announcing the filing of the brief (PDF posted by the Chronicle of Higher Education). Ward and her lawyers at the Alliance Defense Fund contend the school violated her right to the free exercise of religion when it ousted her in 2009...

11% Say Communism Better Than U.S. System of Politics and Economics

Posted on March 15, 2011
Rasmussen: "Still, 11% of Likely U.S. Voters think communism is morally superior to the U.S. system of politics and economics, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. But 77% disagree and say the U.S. system is morally superior...

Rasmussen: Public Employee Union Members More Hostile to Republicans than Private Sector Union Workers

Posted on March 15, 2011
Rasmussen: "Members of public employee unions prefer Democrats over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot by a 28-percentage-point margin. Among private sector union members, the gap is half that size."

Attorney General Bill Schuette: EMU?s student?s religious beliefs against homosexuality violated

Posted on March 15, 2011
Detroit Free Press: "Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has waded into a closely watched federal appeals case, siding with an Eastern Michigan University student who claims her dismissal from the university for refusing to counsel gay and lesbian patients violated her religious belief against homosexuality ...

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Kansas weighs idea for luring people back

Posted on March 15, 2011
AP: "Brownback has called for giving new residents to any county that lost more than 10 percent of its population a five-year exemption from state income taxes. The state would also help newcomers repay student loans they might owe."

9th Circuit Reinstates Case by Muslim over Scarf

Posted on March 15, 2011
CNSNews: "A federal appeals court unanimously reinstated a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a Muslim woman who accused Southern California jailers of violating her religious freedom when they ordered her to take off her head scarf in a courthouse holding cell...

Judicial Leaders Hear Concerns Over Funding

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Judicial Conference: "The Judicial Conference of the United States today received a report on the potentially dire consequences the federal Judiciary may face if a Fiscal Year 2011 funding measure is not soon adopted."

ADF Allied Attorney Success Stories: March 2011

Posted on March 15, 2011
Congratulations to allied attorneys Geoffrey Westmoreland, Kevin Snider, Mike Tierney, Rick Macias, Steve Sanders, Stephen Casey, Greg Terra, Steve Whiting, Steve Amjad, Steve Fitschen, Tim Swickard, as well as new Honor Corps members, Albertos Polizogopoulos and Lisa Biron, for their recent accomplishments and successes listed below...

Pakistani Christian appealing blasphemy sentence found dead in prison cell

Posted on March 15, 2011
Christian Today: "A Christian man serving a life sentence for blasphemy has been found dead in his prison cell."

U.S. Hispanic growth outstrips census estimates: study

Posted on March 15, 2011
Reuters: "Growth of the U.S. Hispanic population is so fast and dynamic that it has outstripped estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau, according to a study released on Tuesday."

LA: Rapides Parish tightens laws on sexually oriented businesses

Posted on March 15, 2011
KLFY.com: "The Rapides Parish Police Jury has enacted a stricter definition of what constitutes a sexually oriented business."

Lautenberg/Lee introduce bill to halt funding for abstinence education

Posted on March 15, 2011
PolitickerNJ.com: "The ?Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act? would strike Title V, Section 510 from the Social Security Act. That provision has been the funding mechanism for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs for nearly 15 years...

Is Planned Parenthood costing us more than we realize?

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Hill: "Does Planned Parenthood?s so-called family planning really save taxpayers money or does the nation?s largest abortion provider actually drive up the cost to taxpayers? Consider the connection between contraception and abortion."

TX Senate gives initial approval to Choose Life plate

Posted on March 15, 2011
Houston Chronicle (AP): The Texas Senate has given initial approval for a "Choose Life" license plate as a measure to discourage abortion and raise money to promote adoption.

Ohio House passes new requirements to be met by minors seeking abortions without parents? OK

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Republic: Under a bill passed on a 64-33 vote Tuesday, a judge considering whether to let a girl bypass the parental consent requirement would have to collect evidence that she understands the impacts of having an abortion.

Maryland churches, especially black clergy, commended for defense of marriage

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Washington Post credited the "last-minute push" from black clergy in Prince George's County, with personal lobbying visits to delegates' offices and calls from the pulpit for parishioners to "Fight for the Family," generating hundreds of visits and thousands of emails, phone calls, and faxes...

Sex Trafficking in America: from The Boulevard to Planned Parenthood

Posted on March 14, 2011
FRC Blog: On Tuesday, March 15, Family Research Council will Webcast a gripping presentation, hosted by FRC President Tony Perkins, titled ?Sex Trafficking in America: From the Boulevard to Planned Parenthood?.

Idaho bill to restrict abortion insurance coverage clears House committee

Posted on March 14, 2011
CanadianBusiness.com: "Legislation to ban state insurers from providing coverage for elective abortions is headed to its final hurdle in the Idaho Legislature."

The impact of sex selection and abortion in China, India and South Korea

Posted on March 14, 2011
Eureka Alert: "In the next 20 years in large parts of China and India, there will be a 10% to 20% excess of young men because of sex selection and this imbalance will have societal repercussions, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www...

Chaplain groups: Court went too far in striking down ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?

Posted on March 14, 2011
Several chaplaincy groups are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to reverse a district judge?s decision to strike down part of a federal military readiness law that prohibited openly practiced homosexual behavior.

?Oetken, Out Gay Nominee, ?Unanimously Qualified? for N.Y. Federal Judgeship, ABA Panel Says?

Posted on March 14, 2011
"On Wednesday afternoon, March 16, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on several judicial nominees, including Oetken's nomination . . . "

Civil union debate roils Peru election

Posted on March 14, 2011
AFP: Debate over civil unions for gays has divided Peru's socially conservative electorate ahead of next month's presidential vote, drawing particularly fierce opposition from the Catholic church.

Wisconsin Union Law Taking Effect March 25, Secretary of State delays

Posted on March 14, 2011
CNSNews: "Secretary of State Doug La Follette said Monday that he decided to publish the law on March 25 in order to give schools and other local governments time to pass contract extensions between now and then."

?Gay Marriage Bill Dies in Deep Blue Maryland?

Posted on March 14, 2011
Weekly Standard: This line is as bizarre as it is priceless: "A loose coalition of Democratic legislators failed to cobble together enough votes to overcome opposition from Republicans and religious groups." It makes it seem as though the fight was a partisan battle that simply pitted Democrats who favored gay marriage against Republicans who opposed it.

European Court of Human Rights to hear allegations of forced sterilization

Posted on March 14, 2011
LifeSiteNews: "On March 22 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hold a hearing to investigate the allegations of a Slovakian woman of Romani ethnic origin (also known as gypsy) who claims she was the victim of a forced sterilization during the delivery of her second child by caesarean section, in 2000 at the Pre?ov Public Hospital...

University of British Columbia drops restrictions on pro-life display

Posted on March 14, 2011
LifeSiteNews: Last year, a graphic display set up by pro-life students at the University of British Columbia was obstructed by protesters, who covered the pro-life posters with large cloths and impeded discussions as university security and police stood by...

Idaho Senate Approves Bill Making Assisted Suicide a Felony

Posted on March 14, 2011
LifeNews: "While surrounding states like Washington and Oregon pushed ahead to become the first in the nation to legalize assisted suicide and Montana could be right behind them, Idaho passed a bill to make the practice a felony."

Report unmasks extremely explicit sex education materials for children in UK

Posted on March 14, 2011
LifeSiteNews: report issued in the UK earlier this week, called ?Too Much, Too Young,? unmasks the extremely explicit nature of sex education material that public groups are pushing on school children as young as five-year-olds

Us vs. them unions: Wisconsin standoff brings attention to the Democrats? dirty bargain

Posted on March 14, 2011
The Washington Times: "The corrupt pay-for-play arrangement with Democrats has brought the nation to the brink of insolvency. The time has come to roll back the unfair advantages and benefits Democrats have created for their financial benefactors."

Lisa Murkowski OKs Funding Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

Posted on March 14, 2011
LifeNews: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has announced she will not stick with most of the rest of the Republican caucus in the Senate on any vote to revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

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