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	<title>ADF Alliance Alert &#187; Religious Freedom</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 05:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;She&#8217;s right. Homosexuality isn&#8217;t like race&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/09/shes-right-homosexuality-isnt-like-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/09/shes-right-homosexuality-isnt-like-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WorldNetDaily reports:
An author who wrote two books about homosexuality told managers at the University of Toledo in an open letter they should praise an administrator who said being &#8220;gay&#8221; is not the same as black, not suspend her. The comments were addressed to University of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs by Robert A.J. Gagnon, the author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney:  Religion is indispensable to freedom for everyone, including atheists</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/09/romney-religion-is-indispensable-to-freedom-everyone-including-atheists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/09/romney-religion-is-indispensable-to-freedom-everyone-including-atheists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a coercive society "it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned. A coercive monopoly of belief threatens everyone, whether we are talking about those who search the philosophies of men or follow the words of God . . . "]]></description>
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		<title>Rutherford Institute Intervenes After School Officials Allegedly Order Students to Cease Wearing &#8216;Virginity Rocks&#8217; Abstinence T-Shirts</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/rutherford-institute-intervenes-after-school-officials-allegedly-order-students-to-cease-wearing-virginity-rocks-abstinence-t-shirts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/rutherford-institute-intervenes-after-school-officials-allegedly-order-students-to-cease-wearing-virginity-rocks-abstinence-t-shirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have come to the defense of high school students who were allegedly warned by school officials to cease wearing t-shirts to school that proclaim an abstinence message. ]]></description>
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		<title>Reaffirmation, Reformation, and Repositioning at Heart of &#8216;An Evangelical Manifesto&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/reaffirmation-reformation-and-repositioning-at-heart-of-an-evangelical-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/reaffirmation-reformation-and-repositioning-at-heart-of-an-evangelical-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["This is not a rebranding or a relabeling issue," said Dr. Os Guinness, author and member of the Manifesto's drafting committee. "'Evangelical' is not a bad brand; the trouble is, we have a bad reality." . . . ]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Religious Liberty Through the Establishment Clause</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/protecting-religious-liberty-through-the-establishment-clause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/protecting-religious-liberty-through-the-establishment-clause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reformation of the trust raises challenging issues under the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The reformation may pass muster under the Free Exercise Clause, but the court did trespass the bounds of the Establishment Clause, which constrains the state from intruding into the functioning of a religious community.]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Monuments Case Delays Army Memorial To Plane Crash Victims</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/religious-monuments-case-delays-army-memorial-to-plane-crash-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/religious-monuments-case-delays-army-memorial-to-plane-crash-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army is delaying acceptance of the monument in anticipation of a Supreme Court ruling in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum. Summum which may decide whether acceptance of such monuments creates a public forum.]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelical Manifesto warns of two tier global square</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/evangelical-manifesto-warns-of-two-tier-global-square/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/08/evangelical-manifesto-warns-of-two-tier-global-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[W]e are concerned that globalization and the emerging global public square have no matching vision of how to live with our deepest differences on the global stage.... [W]e warn of the danger of a two-tier global public square. This is a model of public life which reserves the top tier for cosmopolitan secular liberals, and the lower tier for local religious believers.]]></description>
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		<title>McCain Vows to Push Religious Freedom and Target Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/mccain-vows-to-push-religious-freedom-and-target-trafficking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/mccain-vows-to-push-religious-freedom-and-target-trafficking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 23:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He pledged to "make religious freedom a subject of great importance for the United States in our relations with foreign nations," and to establish a federal inter-agency task force on human trafficking in an attempt to reduce the number of women and children who are sold into bondage as sex slaves nationwide.]]></description>
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		<title>Americans fine with Christians in politics</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/americans-fine-with-christians-in-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/americans-fine-with-christians-in-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 23:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over half of all Americans surveyed (52 percent) disagreed with the statement, "I am concerned that at times Christians are too involved in politics," according to a survey conducted through a joint project of LifeWay Research and the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics &#038; Religious Liberty Commission.]]></description>
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		<title>Losing faith in modern America</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/losing-faith-in-modern-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/losing-faith-in-modern-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["There are still people in the US who take the Bible literally and they are an outright danger to this country - these (fundamentalists) want theocratic, biblical rule," Barker said.  "We need to ask them this: Do you want God or do you want America?" . . .
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		<title>University of Wisconsin Student Govt Leader Vandalizes Pro-Life Display</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/university-of-wisconsin-student-govt-leader-vandalizes-pro-life-display/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/university-of-wisconsin-student-govt-leader-vandalizes-pro-life-display/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A University of Wisconsin Stevens Point student government leader is coming under fire for allegedly trashing a pro-life display on campus]]></description>
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		<title>The Blessing or the Curse: Whose Values Will Guide Us? Where Will They Lead Us?</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/the-blessing-or-the-curse-whose-values-will-guide-us-where-will-they-lead-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/the-blessing-or-the-curse-whose-values-will-guide-us-where-will-they-lead-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age where laws and legal culture have taken a decidedly post-Christian turn and, indeed, have become hostile to values rooted in a once-shared Judeo-Christian heritage.]]></description>
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		<title>SCOTUS Petitions to Watch includes a RLUIPA case</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/scotus-petitions-to-watch-includes-a-rluipa-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/07/scotus-petitions-to-watch-includes-a-rluipa-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issue: Whether, under the First Amendment or the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, municipalities may exclude religious groups from particular zones while allowing some secular groups.]]></description>
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		<title>California: Moral scruples, civil rights and babies for lesbians</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/california-moral-scruples-civil-rights-and-babies-for-lesbians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/california-moral-scruples-civil-rights-and-babies-for-lesbians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 18:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Catholic Daily reports:
Can physicians be compelled by law to artificially inseminate lesbians so they can have children even if performing such a procedure violates the doctors’ religious convictions? The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on that issue beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 28, in San Francisco.
The article also discuss numerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Civil Rights Commission reviews religious discrimination in prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/us-civil-rights-commission-reviews-religious-discrimination-in-prisons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/us-civil-rights-commission-reviews-religious-discrimination-in-prisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion Clause Blog reports: &#8220;The U.S. Civil Rights Commission has recently posted online the full transcript of its Feb. 8 Briefing on Religious Discrimination In Prisons.&#8221;
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		<title>WV: Town Council votes to replace Lord’s Prayer with silence</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/wv-town-council-votes-to-replace-lord%e2%80%99s-prayer-with-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/wv-town-council-votes-to-replace-lord%e2%80%99s-prayer-with-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 7-1 majority vote Monday night the Charles Town City Council decided to institute a moment of silent prayer, thus abolishing the decades-long tradition of reciting the Christian-specific Lord’s prayer before the beginning of each meeting . . .]]></description>
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		<title>How did the Ten Commandments End on Both Sides of the Wall of Separation between Church and State?</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/how-did-the-ten-commandments-end-on-both-sides-of-the-wall-of-separation-between-church-and-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/how-did-the-ten-commandments-end-on-both-sides-of-the-wall-of-separation-between-church-and-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These conflicting judgments do little to clear up the debate concerning religious monuments on government property. Instead, Van Orden and McCreary seem to have opened the floodgates to further litigation and blurred the “wall of separation between church and state.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Commandments and the Rejection of Divine Law in American Jurisprudence</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/the-ten-commandments-and-the-rejection-of-divine-law-in-american-jurisprudence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/the-ten-commandments-and-the-rejection-of-divine-law-in-american-jurisprudence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State-enforced discrimination that exiles displays of the Ten Commandments from the public forum infringes more than the free exercise of religion: It symbolizes the death of natural law and the rule of law in American jurisprudence. Unless this is understood and rectified, all that will remain is hostility toward religion, rule by law, and the supremacy of the secular state.]]></description>
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		<title>The Privatization of Religion and Catholic Justices</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/the-privatization-of-religion-and-catholic-justices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/06/the-privatization-of-religion-and-catholic-justices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The privatization of religion has been a major theme in American law and culture over the last several decades.]]></description>
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		<title>Some Evangelicals Say Faith is Now too Political</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/some-evangelicals-say-faith-is-now-too-political/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/some-evangelicals-say-faith-is-now-too-political/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word "evangelical" has lost its religious meaning plan to release a starkly self-critical document saying the movement has become too political and has diminished the Gospel through its approach to the culture wars.]]></description>
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		<title>Secularism No Match for Islamic Fundamentalism</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/secularism-no-match-for-islamic-fundamentalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/secularism-no-match-for-islamic-fundamentalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps that is why Christianity has often been called the "seedbed of democracy". If the conflict between Islamic fundamentalism and European culture is any indication, it will be a long time before Islam is accorded that recognition.]]></description>
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		<title>Church, state at loggerheads in Wisconsin over teachers at Catholic schools</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/church-state-at-loggerheads-in-wisconsin-over-teachers-at-catholic-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/church-state-at-loggerheads-in-wisconsin-over-teachers-at-catholic-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Wisconsin courts have ruled that private schools operated by the Coulee Catholic diocese are not protected, under "ministerial exemption," against age discrimination claims by a former employee. But Attorney Mike Johnson with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) hopes the schools will appeal the ruling . . . ]]></description>
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		<title>ProLife Free Speech Case Still Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/prolife-free-speech-case-still-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/prolife-free-speech-case-still-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=3173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Green was threatened with arrest for violating the city's so-called "permit process" and was warned his sign would be confiscated if he didn't leave the area . . . In 2005, ADF filed suit on behalf of Green and then filed a federal appeal in the case in 2007. But a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled against Green on April 16, last month . . .
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		<title>West Virginia High Court Rejects Challenge To Prosecutor&#8217;s Biblical References</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/west-virginia-high-court-rejects-challenge-to-prosecutors-biblical-references/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/west-virginia-high-court-rejects-challenge-to-prosecutors-biblical-references/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["In State of West Virginia v. Keesecker, (WV Sup. Ct. App., April 25, 2008) West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals rejected a claim by a defendant who had been convicted on six counts of sexual assault that her convictions should be reversed because the trial judge permitted the prosecutor to refer to biblical theory and examples during closing argument . . . "]]></description>
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		<title>The Marketplace of Ideas and Hate Speech in Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/the-marketplace-of-ideas-and-hate-speech-in-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/the-marketplace-of-ideas-and-hate-speech-in-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Note, I argue that while Supreme Court precedent precludes the censorship of hate speech in public fora, the Harper decision is an attempt to prohibit hate speech in schools on the grounds that students are both captive and vulnerable in ways that adults subject to similar speech are not.]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky 10 Commandments Case Appealed To 6th Circuit</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/kentucky-10-commandments-case-appealed-to-6th-circuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/kentucky-10-commandments-case-appealed-to-6th-circuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["In the latter part of April a notice of appeal to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals was filed in ACLU of Kentucky v. Grayson County, Kentucky, a case in which a Kentucky federal district court permanently enjoined a display of the Ten Commandments as part of a Foundations of American Law and Government Display in the Grayson County (KY) Courthouse."]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax Exemption For Episcopal School Property</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/ohio-supreme-court-upholds-property-tax-exemption-for-episcopal-school-property/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/ohio-supreme-court-upholds-property-tax-exemption-for-episcopal-school-property/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["[T]he Ohio Supreme Court held that the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio was entitled to a property tax exemption for the year 2001 for property it acquired to use for a church-affiliated inner-city school so long as on Jan. 1 of that year it intended to use the property for tax exempt purposes."]]></description>
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		<title>From T-Shirts to Teaching: May Public Schools Constitutionally Regulate Antihomosexual Speech?</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/from-t-shirts-to-teaching-may-public-schools-constitutionally-regulate-antihomosexual-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/05/from-t-shirts-to-teaching-may-public-schools-constitutionally-regulate-antihomosexual-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Note focuses on the specific issue of public schools regulating antihomosexual speech.]]></description>
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		<title>Bans on &#8220;Marital Status&#8221; Discrimination: A Threat to Religious Freedom?</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/bans-on-marital-status-discrimination-a-threat-to-religious-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/bans-on-marital-status-discrimination-a-threat-to-religious-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 21:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=3121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most courts would agree that the Constitution forbids the state from punishing Wheaton through the application of a ban on "marital status" discrimination in employment. However, it is less clear that the relevant Illinois statute actually exempts religious employers from the ban on marital status discrimination in the first place -- as it should . . . ]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona bishops encourage ‘right of conscience’ in health care</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/arizona-bishops-encourage-%e2%80%98right-of-conscience%e2%80%99-in-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/arizona-bishops-encourage-%e2%80%98right-of-conscience%e2%80%99-in-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=3083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CNA reports:
In a Pastoral Statement released yesterday, the bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference encouraged a deeper respect for people’s freedom of conscience, especially in regards to health care and human life.  The bishops requested that state and national political leaders consider the implication of legislation that imposes requirements on people that are contrary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6th Circuit Rejects Amish Challenge to Septic Tank Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/6th-circuit-rejects-amish-challenge-to-septic-tank-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/6th-circuit-rejects-amish-challenge-to-septic-tank-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=3089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["In Beechy v. Central Michigan District Health Department, (6th Cir., April 23, 2008), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rather summarily affirmed a district court decision rejecting free exercise and RLUIPA claims by Amish defendants who objected to septic tank size requirements."]]></description>
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		<title>Cal. teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/cal-teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-sign-loyalty-oath/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/cal-teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-sign-loyalty-oath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 16:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Quaker from Pennsylvania and a lifelong pacifist, Gonaver objected to the California oath as an infringement of her rights of free speech and religious freedom]]></description>
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		<title>Intolerable Tolerance</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/intolerable-tolerance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/intolerable-tolerance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=3076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Family Voice, the Blog of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia, has this commentary on the recent Canadian ruling in the Christian Horizons case. It includes this description of the Christian Horizons case:
Christian Horizons is an evangelical ministry in Ontario that has cared for more than 1,400 people with developmental disabilities in 180 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate Webcast: A Christian Response to Homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/debate-webcast-a-christian-response-to-homosexuality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/02/debate-webcast-a-christian-response-to-homosexuality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February of 2007, Dr. Brown delivered a lecture series at the Blumenthal on “Homosexuality, the Church, and Society,” focusing on the work of the HRC on the final night. This drew a direct challenge from Joe Solmonese, president of the HRC, who publicly challenged Brown at the HRC’s fund-raising dinner in Charlotte. As a result of that public challenge, Dr. Brown suggested that both sides put the issues on the table in a mutually respectful way, leading to this year’s debate.]]></description>
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		<title>Florida: License plate with cross likely will not move forward</title>
		<link>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/01/florida-license-plate-with-cross-likely-will-not-move-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/05/01/florida-license-plate-with-cross-likely-will-not-move-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 20:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A license plate that would have become the first in the nation to prominently feature a religious symbol is unlikely to be on the road any time soon after state lawmakers did not include it in a bill Tuesday.]]></description>
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