Daily Archives: June 29, 2010

Business Week: “A record number of California schools are in financial distress and may not meet their commitments over the next two years due to the recession and state budget cuts, according to the California Department of Education. The number of school districts on a semi-annual ‘fiscal early warning’ list issued by the department has jumped 38 percent to 174 districts since January, or 16 percent of the state’s 1,077 local education agencies.”

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (AP): “Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Tuesday that charter schools can revolutionize education, but that the charter school movement also must hold itself accountable for low-performing schools.”

USA Today: “New York spent $17,173 per student for public education in 2007-08, more than any other state and 67% more than the U.S. average, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Monday.”

ACLU: “A three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled today that a trial court judge was wrong to impose a ‘paramour provision’ barring a mother’s lesbian partner of more than 10 years from being in the home during the mother’s overnight visits with her children.”

Christian Post: “‘Although private-sector funding of embryonic stem cell research has been practically unlimited, it has failed to produce results,’ said Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel [Steven H. Aden], in a statement. ADF is a co-counsel in the case along with Advocates International in the case of Sherley v. Sebelius. | ADF News Release

NJ.com: “The bill makes the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, which started in 2000 and has continued as a pilot program since expiring in 2005, permanent. It passed 38-0 and is set to be taken up by the Assembly this afternoon.”

SCOTUSblog has “linked to the prepared statements provided by several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee following today’s session of Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings. Additionally, Kagan’s prepared statement is available here.”

Dallas Morning News: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from Plano parents who sought to reverse a decision in a years-long lawsuit sparked by candy cane pens in the Plano school district. Some Plano ISD parents wanted the justices to overturn a lower court’s decision in December that upheld the school district’s policy regulating when students can pass out religious materials, such as the candy cane pens. The court, without comment, declined to hear their appeal. Kelly Shackelford, president of the Plano-based Liberty Institute, which represented the parents, said he was disappointed by the court’s decision not to hear the case.”

Blog of LegalTimes: “‘Senator Kyl, I think it’s law all the way down,’ she said. ‘The question is what the law requires. Now, there are cases where it is difficult to determine what the law requires. Judging is not a robotic or automatic enterprise, especially on cases that come before the Supreme Court…. But it’s law all the way down, regardless.’”

Family Research Council: “If you followed yesterday’s news, you undoubtedly heard about a gun rights case called McDonald v. City of Chicago. In headlines splashed across the major newspapers, reporters called it a sweeping victory for Second Amendment rights–but for pro-family conservatives, it could mean much more. Apart from striking down Chicago’s gun ban, the Supreme Court refused to reinforce the foundation of both the Roe v. Wade (legalized abortion) and Lawrence v. Texas (legalized sodomy) rulings.”

ADF Attorney Travis Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “Over at Patheos, Timothy Dalrymple has posted his interview with David French on the meaning and impact of the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. In this in-depth interview, David discusses free association precedent that the Supreme Court ignored in yesterday’s opinion. He also highlights just how narrow the ruling actually is, thus correcting many media reports. And since UC-Hastings’ policy is almost unique in the nation, he explains what impact the decision could have on Christian students at other schools, in both the short and long term.”

“So when or if you go to church this weekend, and if you stand up and recite the Apostle’s or Nicene creed, remember that your era is over and new ideas must take their place. Why? Because the Supreme Court says so.”

Christian Today: “Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has told the head of the World Council of Churches of his concerns over the position of some Protestant Churches towards homosexuality.”

Sunday Times: “Writing for wangle.com.au, Mr Abetz has defended his decision to promote changes to WA’s abortion laws, including a requirement that women view an ultrasound of their unborn child before going ahead with an abortion. ‘I thought that was hardly radical stuff. It still leaves women with the choice. But it will be a better informed choice. They will have seen with their own eyes, that it is disingenuous to refer to their unborn child as a ‘blob of tissue’.”

New York Times: “Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials. … ‘I think they’ve been trying to limit access,’ said Representative Edward J. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts who fought BP to release more video from the underwater rovers that have been filming the oil-spewing pipe.”

Reuters: “In a statement, the Vatican’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lena, said when the case returns to a U.S. district court it would show it cannot be held responsible for the actions of the priest as he was not a Vatican employee.”

ChristianNewsWire: “While serving as Dean of Harvard Law School, Kagan’s administration demanded and forced Blue-Cross, Blue-Shield to cover sex-change operations as an ‘equal right’ paid benefit, harming gender-confused students, as confirmed in 2006 and 2008 by Harvard Crimson newspaper articles.”

Christian Science Monitor: “Foreign firms are being cut out of business opportunities by official discrimination in favor of Chinese companies, and there is no sign of the playing field being leveled in the near future, a major European business group complained on Tuesday.”

Blog of LegalTimes: “Why, [Feinstein] asked Kagan, should the Supreme Court’s two recent rulings on gun rights be considered settled law if they were both decided 5-4? ‘Once the Court decides a case, it becomes binding precedent,’ Kagan replied. … Kagan said the Carhart ruling was specific to the abortion procedure in question at the time. ‘I think that the continuing holdings of the Court are that a woman’s life and a woman’s health must be protected’ in abortion statutes, she said.”

Europe News: “Morocco has expelled a Spanish teacher from the Western Sahara region for allegedly attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity, a Spanish newspaper said on Tuesday.” | For more information on religious freedom issues in Morocco see this ADF Alliance Alert compound tag: http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/country-morocco+global-religious-freedom/

Press TV: “The regional parliament in Catalonia is due to vote on a ban on the use of the face-covering veil and the burqa in public, fueling debates over the freedom of rights in the country.”

LifeNews: “The nation’s Catholic bishops have a message for members of Congress: don’t turn American taxpayer-funded military base hospitals into abortion centers. They are oppose language in a Senate bill that would overturn the ban on abortions at the approximately 250 military base hospitals.”

Associated Press: “A civil liberties group is suing the Rhode Island Department of Health over the creation of a centralized database of patient health records.”

The suit challenges “the constitutionality of a new state law that requires doctors to perform extensive screenings of women seeking abortions in Nebraska.”

CNSNews: “On Dec. 5, 1996, the government relations office of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) privately provided the Clinton White House with the unreleased draft of a policy statement ACOG was preparing to put out on intact dilatation and extraction (D&X) abortion — the procedure used in a partial-birth abortion. Having reviewed the draft of the ACOG statement, then-Associate White House Counsel Elena Kagan wrote an internal White House memo declaring that the statement would be a “disaster” for the Clinton administration if it were publicly released . . . ”

Leonard Link: “On June 24, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, ruling on the appeal in In re A.M.B., 2010 ME 54, 2010 WL 2521726, vacated and remanded to the Cumberland County Probate Court a petition by a transsexual man for a name change. Probate Judge Joseph R. Mazziotti had denied the name change petition without a written opinion or any communication of reasons, other than ‘judicial discretion.’ . . . ”

Lambda Legal: “Lambda Legal today presented oral arguments in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to block a law stripping domestic partner benefits from gay and lesbian state employees. Arizona lawmakers included a provision eliminating domestic partner health benefits for gay state employees as part of a last-minute budget deal signed by Governor Jan Brewer last September, while retaining spousal health benefits for heterosexual workers . . . ”

NY Daily News: “We have many constitutional rights. But we generally aren’t constitutionally entitled to get subsidies for those rights. … Constraints on religious discrimination stem from a judgment about conduct, not about speech: The judgment that treating people worse based on their religion is especially unfair and especially socially corrosive. A ban on religious discrimination but not other kinds of ideological discrimination is thus justified without reference to the content or viewpoint of any group’s speech. Under well-established First Amendment precedents, this makes such a ban content- and viewpoint-neutral.”

Boston Globe: “State senators passed an amendment to the casino bill this afternoon, on a 33-5 vote, that would set aside about $3 million to help needy senior citizens with their property taxes.”

Associated Press: “Kagan says that international law can be used as a guide, but it should not ordinarily be considered binding when deciding Supreme Court cases because the Constitution is a unique document.”

ChristianNewsWire: “Moments ago, responding to a line of questions from Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Kagan confirmed her belief that ‘Roe (v. Wade) and Doe (v. Bolton) require’ that any state ‘regulation’ of abortion protect the ‘health’ of women seeking abortion. Kagan isolated the Supreme Court’s holding in the 2007 case, Gonzales v. Carhart — which upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban of 2003 without a ‘health’ exception — by stating that the Gonzales decision only pertained to a particular abortion procedure.’”

Christian Post: “The Methodist Church of Great Britain’s annual Conference voted in favor of a new briefing to clarify its position on issues related to abortion. The vote comes one week after the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists published a review stating that fetuses in the womb could not feel pain before 24 weeks, therefore making it unnecessary to reduce the time limit for abortions.”

UPI: “Delegates at a Christian conference near the Iraqi city of Mosul called on the government to strengthen the rights of the minority religious community. The religious rights group Christian Solidarity International organized a conference for church and civil leaders in Iraq.”

Dallas Blog: “In a maneuver that could add to already boiling religious tensions in Bekasi, a new organization calling itself the Bekasi Islamic Presidium is planning a road show targeted at convincing every mosque in the city to prepare for the potential of ‘war’ against ‘Christianization.”

24 Masti: “City Council of Vacaville (California, USA), one of the fastest growing areas of the nation, will reverberate with Sanskrit mantras from ancient Hindu scriptures on July 27. Acclaimed Hindu leader Rajan Zed will deliver invocation from Shttp://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.phpanskrit scriptures before Vacaville City Council on this day. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English translation of the prayer.” | For more information on Hindu prayers at council meetings, see this ADF Alliance Alert compound tag: http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/topic-hinduism+topic-prayer/

24 Masti: “European Ombudsman has registered Hindus’ complaint about equality of religions in Malta and has assigned a registration number to it.”

Americans United for Separation of Church and State: “A friend-of-the-court brief filed with the 3rd U.S. Circuit of Appeals yesterday says a federal district judge got it wrong when he ruled in favor of sectarian invocations before meetings of the Indian River School District’s board.”

Buenos Aires Herald: “The General Legislation Committee in the Senate, led by Liliana Negre de Alonso, continues debating the same-sex marriage bill. Former Justice Ministry officials, lawyers and religious representatives are today’s main speakers at the debate.”

The Hill: “A pair of Republicans who contributed to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s (I) campaign for Senate have filed a lawsuit demanding that those donations be returned. The class action suit seeks refunds for all of Crist’s GOP donors, arguing that not reimbursing Republican donors now that the governor has left the party and is running against a Republican actually violates state law.”

The Christian Institute: “A retired GP who helped a cancer stricken man kill himself will not face trial, despite there being enough evidence to ‘provide a realistic’ prospect of conviction.”

The Christian Institute: “The House of Commons is set to receive its first female chaplain after John Bercow, the Commons speaker, snubbed the Church of England’s choice for the role. … The 49-year-old Jamaican born vicar, whose views have been described as ‘left of centre’, has been ministering in a deprived inner city parish, and supports the homosexual ‘rights’ movement within the church.”

The Christian Institute: “David Cameron continues to support lowering the abortion time limit from 24 weeks of pregnancy. The declaration follows a report last week by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) which concluded that unborn babies up to 24 weeks old can’t feel pain.”

MassResistance: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is committed to the radical campaign pushing acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism as ‘civil rights.’ Her unprecedented activism supporting that view as Dean of Harvard Law School (2003-2009) calls into question her ability to judge fairly and impartially on same-sex ‘marriage’ and other homosexuality- or transgender-related issues that may come before the nation’s highest court. … Working hand in hand with students to expel military recruiters in protest over the Armed Forces’ ban on homosexuals (a ‘moral injustice of the first order,’ she wrote) is only the most obvious example of Kagan’s passionate dedication to this controversial and immoral agenda.”

The Christian Institute: “Over 14,000 people have signed a petition against a Bill which would legalise assisted suicide in Scotland. The End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill, proposed by independent MSP Margo MacDonald, would allow the terminally ill and people who are “permanently physically incapacitated” to seek assistance in ending their lives.”

Shannen W. Coffin writing at National Review Online: “The documents involved date from the Clinton White House. They show Miss Kagan’s willingness to manipulate medical science to fit the Democratic party’s political agenda on the hot-button issue of abortion. As such, they reflect poorly on both the author and the president who nominated her to the Supreme Court. … There is no better example of this distortion of science than the language the United States Supreme Court cited in striking down Nebraska’s ban on partial-birth abortion in 2000.”

Christian Examiner: “‘The .com domain is a cash cow for pornographers and they are not leaving it,’ Trueman wrote in comments submitted to ICANN. ‘ICANN has no enforcement powers to make them leave and thus clean up .com. Pornographers would simply expand to .xxx and maintain their current .com sites, perhaps doubling the number of porn sites and doubling their menace to society.’”

Law.com: “The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee followed through today on plans to press Elena Kagan about her handling of military recruiting while dean of Harvard Law School. … Kagan repeatedly replied that the recruiters, even without the assistance, had full access to students and that recruiting actually increased after she issued the rule, which was based on a long-standing anti-discrimination policy.”

News & Advance: “‘I’m sure you are aware of a letter that was sent to state universities regarding discrimination policies based on sexual orientation,’ a student said to Cuccinelli. ‘How is that not a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment?’ the student asked. … ‘State universities are not free to create any specially protected classes other than those dictated by the General Assembly,’ Cuccinelli said. ‘Your question is, why is that not a violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Frankly, the category of sexual orientation would never have been contemplated by the people who wrote and voted for and passed the 14th Amendment,’ he said. ‘There are judges who think these things “evolve,” is the word they like to use,’ Cuccinelli said, but the correct approach to making such a change would be a constitutional amendment, he said.”

ChristianNewsWire: “Founding members of ‘Coptic Solidarity,’ coming from the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe, held their conference on June 19-20, at Virginia, USA., to launch the activities of the new organization. … A large number of presentations and discussions, focused on concrete future actions, took place during the first day of the conference. Besides founding members, invited guest speakers took part: Dr. Dwight Bashir, deputy director of USCIRF; Tina Ramirez, congressional fellow; Taniel Koushakjian, director of grassroots at the Armenian Assembly; and Pierro Tozzi, senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund.”

Irish Examiner: “Birth defects caused by in-vitro fertilisation are up to twice as common as previously thought, a large-scale study has found. … Scientists carried out a survey of 33 French centres collecting data on more than 15,000 births from 2003 to 2007.”

Time: “Much of the debate has focused on church groups’ opposition to two things. One is the Muslim courts that rule in matters of marriage, divorce and inheritance for believers. They are also enshrined in both the current constitution and the new draft, leading to opposition from Christian church groups playing on the fears of greater Muslim dominance in Kenya. The other hot issue is that the new version of the constitution explicitly states that abortion is legal in cases where the life of the mother is endangered, a proviso that currently exists only in the country’s legal code. Church groups fear the clause could open the door to wider abortions. They have been encouraged by some American Evangelical groups, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), an antiabortion group founded by Pat Robertson.”

From Time’s Wellness section: “New research from Belgium and the U.K. suggests that women may increasingly be considering freezing their eggs as a way to prolong fertility as they pursue a career — or find the right romantic partner. A survey of nearly 200 female students found that half of those pursuing degrees in sports or education would consider freezing their eggs to give them the option to delay starting a family, while more than 8 out of 10 women pursuing a medical degree said that they would do so. Meanwhile, a tiny study in Belgium (which included only 15 women in their late 30s) found that half of those interviewed said they’d consider freezing their eggs to take the pressure off the hunt to find the right partner.”

Nina Shea & Bonnie Alldredge writing at National Review Online: “Saudi textbooks teach, along with many other noxious lessons, that Jews and Christians are ‘enemies,’ and they dogmatically instruct that various groups of ‘unbelievers’ — apostates (which includes Muslim moderates who reject Saudi Wahhabi doctrine), polytheists (which includes Shiites), and Jews — should be killed. Under the Saudi Education Ministry’s method of rote learning, these teachings amount to indoctrination, starting in first grade and continuing through high school, where militant jihad on behalf of ‘truth’ is taught as a sacred duty. These textbooks are used not only in Saudi Arabia but in Saudi-funded schools around the world.”

Irish Examiner: “One-in-three parents believe they should have the right to smack their children, a state-funded study has revealed. While 42% of parents said smacking should be outlawed, a majority are unsure about imposing a total ban.”

Houston Chronicle: “A Travis County judge ruled today that Texas public schools are required to give students truthful grades on class assignments and on their report cards under a 2009 state law that 11 school districts were challenging in court.”

FOX News: “The earliest known icons of the Apostles Peter and Paul have been discovered in a catacomb under an eight-story modern office building in a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Vatican officials said Tuesday.”

FindLaw: “If incorporation were automatic, in the eyes of the majority, then most of the majority’s McDonald opinion would have been unnecessary. Rather than simply saying that the Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights and therefore incorporated, the Court extensively analyzed the historical record in an effort to ‘decide whether the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to’ the American ‘scheme of ordered liberty’ or, in what the Court took to be an alternative formulation of the same question, whether the right is ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.’ That test leaves open the possibility, at least in principle, that a provision of the Bill of Rights might not be fundamental or deeply rooted, and thus might not be incorporated against the states.”

Associated Press: “Pope Benedict XVI is creating a new Vatican office to fight secularization and ‘re-evangelize’ the West – a tacit acknowledgment that his attempts to reinvigorate Christianity in Europe haven’t succeeded and need a new boost.”

Associated Press: “Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is calling the Constitution a living document, saying it’s framers wrote it to last through ever-changing circumstances.”

Associated Press: “Quincy Councilor Daniel Raymondi has asked Mayor Thomas Koch to make public a list of people who have viewed pornography on library computers within the past year. The council unanimously approved a resolution on the idea last week.”

Associated Press: “Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says she considers recent high court decisions expanding gun rights to be ‘settled law.’”

Helen Alvaré writing at Public Discourse: “[C]onscience protection merits increased attention, particularly in the context of legislation such as PPACA [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] which contains an extraordinary array of new mandates affecting every player in American healthcare—governments, insurance exchanges and insurance plans, hospitals and clinics, doctors and employers, and every single healthcare consumer. … It is not too much to say that—unamended—PPACA threatens the continued existence of institutions deeply embedded in the American healthcare system, including nonprofit hospitals, clinics and social services.”

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada Press Release: “The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) has released a 20-page report entitled Zoned Out: Religious Freedom in the Municipality. It is an introductory guide that seeks to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the religious freedoms of faith groups and the process of engaging with local government when they encounter zoning challenges from municipal government.” | Full Report | Via Religion Clause

New York Times: “Four days after a series of police raids of Catholic institutions in Belgium that drew sharp criticism from the pope, the reason for the unusually aggressive operation has emerged: a formal accusation that the church was hiding information on sexual abuse lodged by the former president of an internal church commission handling such cases.”

All Headline News: “‘This decision doesn’t settle the core constitutional issue of whether nondiscrimination policies in general can force religious student groups to allow non-believers to lead their groups,’ Alliance Defense Fund lawyer [Gregory Baylor], one of several attorneys who represented CLS, said in a statement.” | ADF News Release

AlterNet: “[Gregory Baylor], senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, said the ruling ‘doesn’t settle the core constitutional issue of whether nondiscrimination policies in general can force religious student groups to allow non-believers to lead their groups. The conflict still exists.’ In the long run, Baylor said, the decision ‘puts other student groups across the country at risk.’” | ADF News Release

OneNewsNow: “[ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence] says the court’s ruling has not closed the door on the issue. ‘It’s not over with and there’s a lot more litigation,” he remarks. ‘This isn’t even a loss…in the sense that we’ve lost this issue. It’s that the Supreme Court has basically kicked it down the road for another day.’” | ADF Media Clips

Jason Bland writing at SEO Law Firm: ‘Pastors and churches have a right to speak about biblical truths from the pulpit without fear of punishment. They can encourage their congregations to take a stand for marriage and can directly support legislative issues like Question 1 without running afoul of IRS rules,’ said ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Erik Stanley].” | ADF Pulpit Initiative

OneNewsNow: “A U.S. district judge has heard arguments in a case involving a graduate student in Michigan who was dismissed from a counseling program for not affirming homosexual behavior. … ‘Our client explained very clearly to [university officials] that this is a matter of religious belief and conviction [said ADF Attorney Jeremy Tedesco] and they discarded that and said “We don’t care, we’re going to kick you out anyways. We have no interest in accommodating your religious beliefs. You just need to believe like we do or we’re going to kick you out of the program.”‘”

WorldNetDaily: “[A] dissent from Justice Samuel Alito said it was the court’s endorsement – no more or less – of viewpoint discrimination against a Christian group that required its leaders to be, well, Christian. … ‘The conflict still exists. This decision doesn’t settle the core constitutional issue of whether nondiscrimination policies in general can force religious student groups to allow non-believers to lead their groups,’ explained senior legal counsel [Gregory S. Baylor] of the Alliance Defense Fund.” | ADF News Release

California Catholic Daily: “‘The conflict still exists,’ said Alliance Defense Fund senior legal counsel [Gregory S. Baylor]. ‘This decision doesn’t settle the core constitutional issue of whether nondiscrimination policies in general can force religious student groups to allow non-believers to lead their groups. Long-term, the decision puts other student groups across the country at risk, and we will continue to fight for their constitutional rights. The Hastings policy actually requires CLS to allow atheists to lead its Bible studies and the College Democrats to accept the election of Republican officers in order for the groups to be recognized on campus. We agree with Justice Alito in his dissent that the court should have rejected this as absurd.’” | ADF News Release | ADF News Release

Inside Higher Ed: “Michael W. McConnell, lead counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which led the legal defense for the CLS, said that he was ‘very disappointed’ by the Supreme Court’s decision and predicted that it would cause great harm to Christian student groups.”

Winston Salem-Journal: “The American Civil Liberties Union filed legal papers yesterday urging that a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling that bans sectarian prayer before the start of county government meetings be upheld. … ‘We’re not surprised by any of the arguments that have been presented,’ said [Mike Johnson], a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund and the county’s lead attorney. ‘We remain very confident in our case.’”

The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Alliance Defense Fund, which helped represent the Christian Legal Society members seeking recognition on campus, similarly predicted that Monday’s decision would have limited impact because few other institutions have exactly the same policy. In a written statement, [Gregory S. Baylor], the group’s senior legal counsel, said the Hastings policy requires the Christian Legal Society to allow atheists to lead Bible studies or the College Democrats to allow the election of Republican officers. ‘We agree with Justice Alito in his dissent that the court should have rejected this as absurd,’ Mr. Baylor said.” | ADF News Release

CitizenLink: “[David French], senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, called the ruling ‘narrow and troubling.’ … ‘What makes this decision narrow,’ French said, ‘is that the “all-comers” policy is unique to Hastings.’ … ‘The university essentially (rode) roughshod over the free association rights of these students, holding that it was reasonable to require CLS to permit anyone, regardless of its views.’” | ADF News Release