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ADF to appeal ruling that allows Eastern Michigan U. to expel Christian students for holding to beliefs
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys will appeal a problematic federal court decision issued Monday in a lawsuit filed on behalf of student Julea Ward against Eastern Michigan University after it kicked out the Christian student for holding to her beliefs. EMU dismissed Ward from its graduate counseling program in March 2009 for not affirming homosexual behavior as morally acceptable. Ward would not agree to change her religious beliefs about homosexual behavior or express a message contrary to them during counseling sessions as a condition to receiving a degree.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5351 - 5k - 7/27/2010
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When Even Thinking Christian Thoughts Is “Wrong"...
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/issues/religiousfreedom/default.aspx?cid=5350 - 6k - 7/27/2010
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NJ Supreme Court rejects demand to redefine marriage…for now
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued an order Monday rejecting a recently filed motion in a long-ago-resolved lawsuit that attempted to force New Jersey legislature to redefine marriage. Lambda Legal attorneys represented a small group of activists who were dissatisfied with civil unions implemented by the Legislature in 2007, and recently argued that they were not content with anything short of forcing a redefinition of marriage on all New Jersey residents. However, this latest order won’t likely be the end of this legal attack on marriage in the Garden State.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5349 - 5k - 7/26/2010
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ADF urges four SC, Fla. governments to resist activist demands to drop prayer practices
The Alliance Defense Fund is urging government bodies in South Carolina and Florida to continue their constitutionally protected practice of praying before public meetings, despite recent threats from atheist organizations. Within the past week alone, ADF, in cooperation with area lawyers who are part of the nearly 1,800 attorneys in the ADF alliance, sent letters to four local governments offering to defend valid invocation policies free of charge.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5348 - 4k - 7/23/2010
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Fired Calif. professor exonerated in settlement of lawsuit against San Jose college district
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have reached a settlement with the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a biology professor. Professor June Sheldon was fired after objectively answering a student’s in-class question simply because a different student claimed to be “offended” by her answer, even though it comported with the official class curriculum and a district policy on academic freedom.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5347 - 5k - 7/22/2010
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Augusta State Univ. to counseling student: change your beliefs or get out
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit against Augusta State University Wednesday on behalf of a counseling student told that her Christian beliefs are unethical and incompatible with the prevailing views of the counseling profession. The student, Jennifer Keeton, has been told to stop sharing her beliefs with others and that she must change her beliefs in order to graduate from the counseling program.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5346 - 5k - 7/22/2010
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Professor Removed for Teaching Catholicism in a Class on … Catholicism
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/issues/religiousfreedom/default.aspx?cid=5345 - 3k - 7/20/2010
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DC Court of Appeals: OK to lock out voters on marriage
Alliance Defense Fund and Stand4MarriageDC attorneys are considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a narrow 5–4 ruling, upheld the decision of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to block residents from voting on the legal definition of marriage, despite a requirement by the D.C. Charter that they be allowed to do so. The charter, which serves as a constitution for the district, guarantees citizens the right to initiate and vote on any legislation except for “laws appropriating funds.”
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5343 - 5k - 7/15/2010
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Police say prayer illegal on U.S. Supreme Court grounds
The Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to U.S. Supreme Court officials Thursday that urges them to stop their police officers from prohibiting people from quietly praying outside the court building. Christian teacher Maureen Rigo, her students, and a few adults were told by a court police officer that they must stop praying there because it was against the law.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5342 - 3k - 7/15/2010
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Patients’ health, pharmacists’ conscience protected in Wash., court agrees to halt trial
Attorneys allied with the Alliance Defense Fund secured a stay order from a federal court Monday that halts legal proceedings against pharmacists on trial for their conscience. The court issued the stay after the state pharmacy board agreed to propose revisions to its rules to allow what the pharmacists have sought from the beginning: to be allowed to refer patients seeking drugs that risk taking human life to other pharmacies. For three years, the Washington State Department of Health has been attempting to force pharmacists to sell such drugs against their conscience.
http://www.faithandfreedomsunday.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=5341 - 4k - 7/15/2010
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