ADF announces new initiative to reclaim pastors’ First Amendment rights
The Alliance Defense Fund announced a new initiative Friday that will challenge the tactics of groups that use the Internal Revenue Service to intimidate churches and pastors into silence on important issues of the day.
Wall Street Journal: Pastors May Defy IRS Gag Rule
Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale, Ariz., nonprofit, is hoping at least one sermon will prompt the Internal Revenue Service to investigate, sparking a court battle that could get the tax provision declared unconstitutional.
ADF in The News
- Mike Johnson on the Mike Corley Show: Public school cases
- Joel Oster on 1490 WWPR: discusses a student’s ordeal over mandatory “tolerance” program
- ADF attorney available to media after hearing on abortion clinic standards
- NY: Greece sued over sectarian prayer
www.democratandchronicle.com - ‘Gay’ indoctrination starts in Minneapolis
worldnetdaily.com - ADF: Shippensburg University’s speech codes violate students’ free speech rights
www.alliancedefensefund.org - Christian Group Defends National Day of Prayer
www.christianpost.com - 9th Circuit thwarts Wash. state’s attempt to stall conscience rights
Religious Freedom
- ‘She’s right. Homosexuality isn’t like race’
- Romney: Religion is indispensable to freedom for everyone, including atheists
- Rutherford Institute Intervenes After School Officials Allegedly Order Students to Cease Wearing ‘Virginity Rocks’ Abstinence T-Shirts
- Reaffirmation, Reformation, and Repositioning at Heart of ‘An Evangelical Manifesto’
- Protecting Religious Liberty Through the Establishment Clause
International
- Ontario: Proposal to remove Legislature’s Lord’s Prayer raises firestorm
- Canadian pro-lifers join in largest-ever march on Parliament
- “It Feels as if the Soul of Britain is Dying”
- Supreme Court Reviewing Appeals Court Rulings on Forced Abortion Asylum
- New British Study on Premature Births Used to Justify Late-Term Abortions