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Catholic Universities Sue Feds

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Health Care Coverage, Ave Maria University, Jim Towey, Women's Rights, Becket Fund, Belmont Abbey College, Conservatives, Religious Institutions, Health Care Reform, Catholic Colleges, Obama Administration, Contraception, Birth Control, Alliance Defense Fund, Colorado Christian University, Lawsuit, College News

Four colleges have filed lawsuits against the federal government over the new policy by the Obama administration mandating that employees of religious...

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Michigan Student Allegedly Expelled For Anti-LGBT Views To Argue Religious Discrimination

Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Julea Ward, Video, Alliance Defense Fund, Julea Ward Legal Battle, Eastern Michigan University, Counseling Program, Gay and Lesbian Discrimination, Gay Voices News

Julea Ward, an Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Student who was reportedly expelled from a counseling program because of her views on gay and lesbian...

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Tea Party Lawmakers Consider Shocking Women's Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: New Hampshire House of Representatives, New Hampshire Planned Parenthood, New Hampshire Tea Party, New Hampshire Politics, New-Hampshire-Legislature, Alliance Defense Fund, Planned Parenthood, Bill O'brien, Video, Susan B. Anthony List, Planned Parenthood Funding, Tea Party, Domestic Violence Laws, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

New Hampshire's 2012 legislative session has not been a good one for women so far. House Republicans passed an amendment on Wednesday that would defun...

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Diverse Coalition Urges Department of Education to Protect Freedom of Speech on Campus

Adam Kissel | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Department of Education, Davis Standard, Office for Civil Rights, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Alliance Defense Fund, Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, Greg Lukianoff, Heartland Institute, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Harassment, Campus Liberty, National Coalition Against Censorship, Accuracy in Academia, National Association of Scholars, Freedom of Expression, Washington Post, Feminists for Free Expression, Fire, College News

Colleges are all over the map when they try to come up with their own definitions of sexual harassment. Our research has found hundreds of distinct formulations and examples, a large number of which are unconstitutional.

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'War on Christmas' Soldiers Have No Foe

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Atheism, Humanism, Money, Merry Christmas, Liberty Counsel, Christmas, Religious Right, War on Christmas, Alliance Defense Fund, Bill O'Reilly, Agnosticism, Politics News

The main target of this effort by the religious right is not an enemy looking to eliminate Christmas, as a word or a holiday. The real target is their existing audience of supporters.

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Nurses Don't Have To Assist In Abortions, Hospital Agrees

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Nurses Lawsuit, Video, Nurses Abortion Assist, Abortion Debate, Abortion Rights, Teaching Hospital, UMDNJ Abortion, Nj Nurses Abortion, Pro-Life, Alliance Defense Fund, Umdnj, New Jersey Nurses Abortion, Abortion and Religion, Religion News

By David Giambusso Religion News Service A teaching hospital will hire additional staff to help perform abortions after a group of nurses claimed ...

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City Ban On After-School Worship Upheld

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, New York City Board of Education, Video, Education, Religion in Schools, Bronx Household of Faith, Ny News, Alliance Defense Fund, Church and State, New York News, Education News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a plea from a tiny evangelical church in the Bronx to overturn New York City's ban on religiou...

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Tiny Bronx Church Awaiting Supreme Court Decision

AP | By JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Bronx Household of Faith, Alliance Defense Fund, New York News, New York City Board of Education, Ny News, Church and State, New York News

NEW YORK -- A Christian congregation with just 48 members and not even a storefront is hoping the Supreme Court will overturn a ruling that says holdi...

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Religious Youth Group Sues School District Over Alleged Censorship

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Religion, Alliance Defense Fund, Video, Religious Youth Groups, Owasso Kids for Christ, Religion in Schools, Oklahoma Schools, Youth Bible Group, Owasso Public Schools, Owasso Oklahoma, Federal Suit, Education News

A religious student group has filed suit in federal court against Oklahoma's Owasso Public Schools, claiming that the district has violated the group'...

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Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and First Amendment Rights of College Faculty

David Moshman | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, First Amendment, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Faculty, Aaup, College News, Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Academic Freedom, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Free Expression, Alliance Defense Fund, Intellectual Freedom, College News

We should not be lulled into complacency about the state of academic freedom. At the academic core of teaching and research, intellectual freedom is no longer protected by the First Amendment.

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Judge: Teen Can Wear Anti-Gay Shirt To School

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Day of Silence, Gay Bullying, First Amendment, Lgbt Tolerance, Naperville, LGBT Rights, Be Happy Not Gay Shirt, First Amendment Rights, Heidi Zamecnik, Alliance Defense Fund, Aclu, Chicago News

In 2006, Naperville's Neuqua Valley High School allowed students to participate in a nationwide "Day of Silence," which promotes tolerance of the gay ...

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Cash-Strapped Cities Look To Tax Churches

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Church-State Separation, Alliance Defense Fund, Separation of Church and State, Kansas Transportation Utility Fee, Mission Kansas, Municipal Tax on Churches, Church Tax-Exempt Status, Driveway Tax, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) When a community needs to rebuild crumbling roads, should houses of worship pay fees for the number of...

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'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': Church Leaders To Defy IRS, Endorse Political Candidates

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge Sunday to what the government says can ...

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U Of I Reviewing Firing Of Lecturer Who Said Homosexuality Was 'Morally Wrong'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Catholic Church, University of Illinois, Kenneth Howell, Homophobia, Academic Freedom, Alliance Defense Fund, Catholocism, Kenneth Howell Firing, Catholic Church Gays, Homophobe, Chicago News

The University of Illinois is now reviewing their firing of a professor who was removed after telling his class why the Catholic church believes that ...

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Jane Norton Draws Fire From Right Wing For Not Answering Gay Rights Question (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Gay Rights, Tea Bagger, Colorado Senate Race, Ken Buck, Jane Norton, Michael Bennet, Alliance Defense Fund, Video, Denver News

Republican Senatorial hopeful Jane Norton continues to take shots from the right this week as a new Youtube video posted on a channel called ColoradoT...

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Girl Sues School For Ban On Anti-Abortion Protest

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mount Laurel, First Amendment, Bridgeton High School, Abortion Protest, Pro Life Day of Silent Solidarity, Religious Freedom, Stand True, Anti-Abortion, Alliance Defense Fund, Pro Life, New York News

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that school administrators violated her First Amendment free-s...

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Gay Marriage Hits Top Court: New York Court Of Appeals To Consider Same-Sex Marriage Benefits

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Gay Marriage, New York Court of Appeals, Alliance Defense Fund, Government Benefits, Court of Appeals, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — A Christian legal group seeking to stop New York agencies from recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside the state argued ...

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Court: New York Must Recognize Gay Marriage In Other States

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Marriage New York, Gay Marriage Recognized, Alliance Defense Fund, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's top court ruled Thursday that gay couples legally married elsewhere are entitled to some government benefits, boosting...

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'Pulpit Freedom Sunday': A Crusade to Turn Churches into Cogs in the Right-Wing's Political Machine

Rev. Barry Lynn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Alliance Defense Fund, Church Politicking, Archbishop John C. Favalora, Irs, Jonathan Falwell, Religious Right, Adf, Style News

This Sunday, as many as three dozen pastors may knowingly violate federal tax law by endorsing U.S. Sen. John McCain from the pulpit.

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Ministers To Defy IRS By Endorsing Candidates

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ministers to Defy Irs, Alliance Defense Fund, Pulpit Freedom Sunday, Politics News

Defying a federal tax law they consider unjust, 33 ministers across the country will take to their pulpits this Sunday and publicly endorse a candidat...

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Pastor Endorsements Sought By Conservative Group Lobbying IRS

Washington Post | Peter Slevin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Amendment, Irs, Alliance Defense Fund, Separation of Church and State, Politics News

CHICAGO -- Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance De...

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