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UK: Second gov’t venue discriminates against marriage advocates


UK: Concern that draft medical guidelines undermine religious freedom


America’s 21st-Century Population Edge: Babies, Demographics, Power, & Influence


“Gay Marriage—Nothing New Under the Sun”


Female soldiers sue to end combat ban


Senate Committee votes to force taxpayers to fund abortions internationally


New Hampshire High Court Upholds Partial Tax Exemption For Church Property


British Board revokes UK Counselor’s accreditation for reparative therapy


Ethics complaint against Ore. psychiatrist for practicing reparative therapy is part of new campaign


ADF in the News

ADF Alliance Alert publication schedule: May 25th and 28th


Alan E. Sears: Indecision on Obama Mandate Is the Same As Deciding Not To Fight


TX: Family sues NISD over third grader’s invitations


UNCG a ‘great example’ for other universities


Pennsylvania works to cut Planned Parenthood funds; Louisiana nears passage of fetal pain bill


PA to defund Planned Parenthood! | Catholic.org


Bill to be Introduced in PA to Defund Planned Parenthood | Ms.


VA: Dumfries council to begin meetings with a moment of silent prayer


The World Congress of Families Defends the Rights of Children to Have a Mother and Father in Every Home


Religious Freedom

Catholics, Evangelicals May Coordinate on Religious Freedom Event This Summer


A Group is Questioning the Center for Arizona Policy Tax Exempt Status


Southern Baptists draw distance from harsh anti-gay rhetoric, yet hold to convictions


Ousted after demanding wine for Mass, jail chaplain claims rights were violated


Missouri to vote on ‘right to pray’ constitutional amendment


Liberty Institute Sets Epic Battle–Whether The Supreme Court Will Allow Religious Imagery On Veterans Memorials–To Acoustic Music


Jackson Co., Florida: Area Churches Fighting For Baccalaureate Tradition


Muslim leaders to meet with NJ attorney general


51% Oppose Forcing Religious Organizations To Provide Birth Control


Global: Religious Freedom

Expert: American Misunderstandings on Religious Liberty Affect Efforts Abroad


First Mosque for Shia Muslims Opens in Finland


Myanmar, ‘Arab awakening’ top US list of progress on human rights


UK: Storm of protest as prayers banned at Sevenoaks council meetings


Churches sealed shut in Indonesia


UK: Tolerance – but only for ‘appropriate’ groups


French Muslim group denounces mosque vandalism


US says human rights deteriorating in China, Vietnam


Pakistanis’ life terms for ‘blasphemy’ dropped


Sanctity of Life

SC: Abortion compromise could mean higher insurance premiums for state workers


Ohio: Abortion foes call out senators


Why Americans are becoming more pro-life


Congressional Black Caucus Upset By Pro-Life Black Americans


Ohio hospital settles lawsuit over fetuses in jars


Protesters to descend on Rep. Trent Franks’s office over late-term abortion ban


AWR Hawkins: Aborted Child Born Alive and Left to Die


NH Senate kills abortion-waiting period bill


Vermont ordinance could ban pro-lifers from protesting at Planned Parenthood clinic


Global: Sanctity of Life

WHO Ignores Link Between Growing Incidence of Preterm Birth and Abortion


Guttmacher Inflates Abortion Numbers In Latin America


Official vows China will correct gender imbalance


China’s Population Control Inspired By Ideas Of The Club Of Rome


Spanish doctor ordered to pay child monthly maintenance after botched abortion


Hungary Reopens Abortion Controversy with Pill Debate


Abortion debate jeopardizes 900-year-old Liechtenstein dynasty


Vatican backs European personhood initiative


India: Doctors feed aborted female babies to dogs to cover up sex selection abortions


Marriage & Family

Penna Dexter: “Gay divorce threatens marriage”


Southern Baptist leader condemns anti-gay diatribes


Obama DOJ forces Ark. University to allow biological male into female restrooms


“Target’s promise to ‘gay’ community”


Maggie Gallagher: N.C. Vote Proves Rush Is Right on Marriage


University Of Pennsylvania To Offer Tax Offsets To Employees In Same-Sex Relationships


“A Way Out of the Same-Sex Marriage Mess” | NY Times


Transgender Five-Year-Old? What decisions should small children be permitted to make?


“Air Force Academy Graduates First Openly Gay Cadets”


Global: Marriage and Family

Brazilian Senate Committee OKs Civil Unions


UK: “Ministers will get free vote on gay marriage plans”


Colombia’s Constitutional Court gives custody of two boys to American homosexual


Church of England to allow women bishops


Sixth World Congress of Families Conference takes place in Madrid May 25-27


India’s Parliament Allows Separate Registration of Sikh Marriages


Mariela Castro tops US visit with transgender talk


Italians oppose same-sex marriage, adoption


Scottish report: Same sex ‘marriage’ a selfish experiment at the expense of children


Bench & Bar

Pro-lifers angered by GOP support for pro-abortion 9th Circuit nominee


NJ: High court pick has ‘his work cut out for him’


Occupy the Docket: How the Supreme Court Selects the 1%


Is Justice Ginsburg Risking the Future of the Supreme Court?


The public trial of Justice Roberts


Duke: Launching the Master of Laws in Judicial Studies


Gov. Christie’s N.J. Supreme Court nominee will not clear Senate Judiciary Committee, sources say


Harvard Law succeeds in taking down anti-Holder Fast and Furious protest website


Watford confirmed to 9th Circuit: Senate Vote 61-34


Global: Bench and Bar

US cuts $33 million in aid to Pakistan over Osama bin Laden doctor sentence


House to hold hearing on international control of the Internet


Law of the Sea Treaty Is Found on Capitol Hill, Again


Pakistan: Doctor who helped US in search for Osama Bin Laden jailed for 33 years


Obama Admin pushes for sea treaty


Jeremy Waldron: What is Natural Law Like?


What’s wrong with the European human rights system?


India Debates Re-Banning Homosexual Acts


Is it now illegal to question same-sex marriage?


Miscellaneous

What If We Have Only Memories of Freedom?


Public-sector millionaires


David French: An Open Letter to Young, “Post-Partisan” Evangelicals


4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky primaries


Arizona verification of Obama’s birth


Arizona Flooded By Emails On Obama Eligibility


Barack Obama’s Arkansas primary problem: Only 7 pts ahead of challenger


Top Republican woman in Congress becomes a force


Lesbian Couple Charged With Staging Hate Crime


Global: Miscellaneous

Pope removes Canadian homosexual bishop caught with child porn


U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury debt


Chinese to buy US movie theater chain AMC


Putin election result cast into doubt; said to be statistically impossible


Castro daughter, an advocate of “gay rights”, granted U.S. Visa


Iranian Calls for ‘Islamic Awakening’ to Destroy Israel


Dutch lawmaker, Geert Wilders, will sue to stop ratification of European bailout fund


Defense Secretary Panetta favors United Nations oversight of world oceans


Enter the Dragon: Federal Reserve approves Chinese expansion in U.S. banking system