Alliance Defense Fund

New York Must Recognize Gay Marriage In Other States: Court

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York


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

Bridgeton High School Student Sues School After Being Barred From Abortion Protest

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York


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

Alliance Defense Fund Takes Gay Marriage To Top Court: New York Court Of Appeals To Consider Same-Sex Marriage Benefits

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York


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

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

Barry W. Lynn | Posted 10.31.2008 | Style


Barry W. Lynn

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

Ministers To Defy IRS By Endorsing Candidates

New York Times | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics


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...

Pastor Endorsements Sought By Conservative Group Lobbying IRS

Washington Post | Peter Slevin | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics


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