http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Mon, 20 May 2013 22:06:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/italys-top-politicians-unite-against-homophobia/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/italys-top-politicians-unite-against-homophobia/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:06:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164047 Catholic Culture: Italian President Giorgio Napolitano called for a “firm and constant commitment” to battling prejudice against homosexuals, as Italy observed “Anti-Homopobia Day” on May 17. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/italys-top-politicians-unite-against-homophobia/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/croatian-activists-promote-referendum-to-define-marriage-as-male-female-union/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/croatian-activists-promote-referendum-to-define-marriage-as-male-female-union/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:04:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164044 Catholic Culture: Pro-family activists in Croatia have collected well over 200,000 signatures on a petition calling for a referendum to amend the country’s constitution and define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/croatian-activists-promote-referendum-to-define-marriage-as-male-female-union/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/supreme-court-to-hear-historic-religious-liberty-case-ken-klukowski-at-breitbart/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/supreme-court-to-hear-historic-religious-liberty-case-ken-klukowski-at-breitbart/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:01:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164041 Breitbart: ADF then asked Thomas Hungar of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, one of the most accomplished Supreme Court litigators in the nation—to become lead counsel on the case and join with ADF in asking the Supreme Court for review by filing a petition for certiorari. Today the Supreme Court granted that petition. ADF’s David Cortman says: Americans today should be as free as the Founders were to pray. The Founders prayed while drafting our Constitution’s Bill of Rights, and the Supreme Court has ruled that public prayer is part of the "history and tradition of this country." American continues this cherished practice. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/supreme-court-to-hear-historic-religious-liberty-case-ken-klukowski-at-breitbart/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/rowan-union-counties-continue-prayer-prior-to-meetings/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/rowan-union-counties-continue-prayer-prior-to-meetings/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 21:57:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164037 WSCOCTV.com: The American Civil Liberties Union filed suits against Rowan and Union counties for having a Christian prayer before board meetings. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/rowan-union-counties-continue-prayer-prior-to-meetings/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/cameron-will-rely-on-labour-to-help-redefine-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/cameron-will-rely-on-labour-to-help-redefine-marriage/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:48:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164034 Telegraph: David Cameron will rely on Ed Miliband's help to force gay marriage laws through Parliament and in return accept a Labour plan to consider civil partnerships for all. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/cameron-will-rely-on-labour-to-help-redefine-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/prayer-will-be-heard-on-high-alliance-defending-freedom/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/prayer-will-be-heard-on-high-alliance-defending-freedom/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:30:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163931 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/prayer-will-be-heard-on-high-alliance-defending-freedom/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/justices-take-case-on-prayer-at-town-board-meetings-nyt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/justices-take-case-on-prayer-at-town-board-meetings-nyt/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:21:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164025 NY Times: In 1983, in Marsh v. Chambers, the Supreme Court upheld the Nebraska Legislature’s practice of opening its legislative sessions with an invocation from a paid Presbyterian minister, saying that such ceremonies were “deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country.” David Cortman, a lawyer for the town, said its practices were consistent with that tradition. “Americans today should be as free as the founders were to pray,” he said in a statement. “The founders prayed while drafting our Constitution’s Bill of Rights.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/justices-take-case-on-prayer-at-town-board-meetings-nyt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/man-takes-12-year-old-to-planned-parenthood-for-abortion-to-hide-rape/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/man-takes-12-year-old-to-planned-parenthood-for-abortion-to-hide-rape/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164022 LifeNews: A man in Washington state took a 12-year-old girl to a Planned Parenthood clinic for an abortion to cover up his sexual assault on the teenage girl. The abortion business apparently did the abortion without hesitation. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/man-takes-12-year-old-to-planned-parenthood-for-abortion-to-hide-rape/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/justice-department-employees-must-affirm-homosexuality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/justice-department-employees-must-affirm-homosexuality/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164019 LifeSiteNews: Our sources have provided Liberty Counsel an internal DOJ document titled: “LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers.” It was emailed to DOJ managers in advance of the left’s so-called “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month.” The document is chilling. It’s riddled with directives that grossly violate – prima facie –employees’ First Amendment liberties. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/justice-department-employees-must-affirm-homosexuality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/carney-white-house-officials-knew-of-irs-targeting-but-didnt-tell-obama/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/carney-white-house-officials-knew-of-irs-targeting-but-didnt-tell-obama/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164016 The Hill: White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough and other senior officials knew of the general nature of the report but decided to keep the president in the dark about the report’s finding that the IRS had targeted conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/carney-white-house-officials-knew-of-irs-targeting-but-didnt-tell-obama/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/ny-man-murdered-14-year-old-girl-tried-to-set-her-on-fire-because-she-refused-abortion-police-say/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/ny-man-murdered-14-year-old-girl-tried-to-set-her-on-fire-because-she-refused-abortion-police-say/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164013 LifeSiteNews: A 20-year-old man has confessed to smothering a 14-year-old girl, keeping her body in a suitcase, and trying to set her remains on fire because she would not have an abortion, police say. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/ny-man-murdered-14-year-old-girl-tried-to-set-her-on-fire-because-she-refused-abortion-police-say/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/u-s-denounces-rise-in-anti-muslim-sentiment/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/u-s-denounces-rise-in-anti-muslim-sentiment/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:59:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164010 Breitbart: The United States on Monday denounced what it called a spike in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia, pointing to restrictions and violence against Muslims including the faith's minority sects. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/u-s-denounces-rise-in-anti-muslim-sentiment/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/poll-half-of-america-wants-obama-impeached/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/poll-half-of-america-wants-obama-impeached/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:49:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164007 World Net Daily: The faux stone columns from his Denver acceptance speech are crumbling, the fireworks have fizzled and the unadulterated adulation of Barack Obama is a sour feeling of disillusion, as a new poll reveals half of Americans wants him impeached, including a stunning one in four Democrats. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/poll-half-of-america-wants-obama-impeached/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/will-u-s-designate-egypt-pakistan-iraq-and-nigeria-as-religious-freedom-violators/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/will-u-s-designate-egypt-pakistan-iraq-and-nigeria-as-religious-freedom-violators/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164004 CNSNews: As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on international religious freedom Monday, a key issue for many Americans concerned about religious persecution is whether it will blacklist a handful of particularly egregious violators – or, as in previous years, ignore the recommendations of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/will-u-s-designate-egypt-pakistan-iraq-and-nigeria-as-religious-freedom-violators/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/kermit-gosnell-epiphany-for-birthers-john-b-londegran-at-public-discourse/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/kermit-gosnell-epiphany-for-birthers-john-b-londegran-at-public-discourse/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164001 Public Discourse: It is neither the impossibility of writing clear laws nor our inability to witness abortion that stops us from making it illegal. Instead it is the will to kill for convenience that drives some people to sustain the fiction that human life begins at birth. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/kermit-gosnell-epiphany-for-birthers-john-b-londegran-at-public-discourse/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:38:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163998 AP: Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/florist-counter-sues-washington-arguing-she-has-a-right-to-discriminate-the-advocate/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/florist-counter-sues-washington-arguing-she-has-a-right-to-discriminate-the-advocate/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:17:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163995 The Advocate: “In America, the government is supposed to protect freedom, not use its intolerance for certain viewpoints to intimidate citizens into acting contrary to their faith convictions. Family business owners are constitutionally guaranteed the freedom to live and work according to their beliefs,” said Dale Schowengerdt, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is defending Stutzman. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/florist-counter-sues-washington-arguing-she-has-a-right-to-discriminate-the-advocate/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/abortion-doc-who-kept-remains-of-35-aborted-babies-loses-license/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/abortion-doc-who-kept-remains-of-35-aborted-babies-loses-license/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:12:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163990 LifeNews: The Maryland Board of Physicians has permanently revoked the license of abortionist Nicola I. Riley in a scathing 24-page order issued May 6, 2013, that prohibits her from ever again applying for licensure or reinstatement of her license. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/abortion-doc-who-kept-remains-of-35-aborted-babies-loses-license/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/frc-commends-scotus-for-taking-town-of-greece-v-galloway-could-be-most-momentous-religious-liberty-victory-in-decades/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/frc-commends-scotus-for-taking-town-of-greece-v-galloway-could-be-most-momentous-religious-liberty-victory-in-decades/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163986 Wall Street Journal (PR Newsire): Family Research Council (FRC) commends the U.S. Supreme Court for its decision today granting review in Town of Greece v. Galloway. If the Court decides in favor of the town of Greece, the decision could become the most significant religious liberty victory in half a century. Director of FRC's Center for Religious Liberty, Ken Klukowski, J.D., submitted an amicus brief on behalf of 49 Members of Congress supporting the Alliance Defending Freedom's petition in this case addressing public prayer before town meetings. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/frc-commends-scotus-for-taking-town-of-greece-v-galloway-could-be-most-momentous-religious-liberty-victory-in-decades/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/us-owner-of-florist-sued-for-refusing-same-sex-wedding-files-lawsuit-against-state-pink-news/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/us-owner-of-florist-sued-for-refusing-same-sex-wedding-files-lawsuit-against-state-pink-news/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:03:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163984 Pink News: Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom legal ministry, filed the new lawsuit on behalf of Stutzman on Thursday, at Benton County Superior Court, reports the Associated Press. Senior Legal Counsel Dale Schowengerdt, released in a statement saying: ”Everyone knows that plenty of florists are willing to assist in same-sex ceremonies, so the state has no reason to force Barronelle to violate her deeply held beliefs.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/us-owner-of-florist-sued-for-refusing-same-sex-wedding-files-lawsuit-against-state-pink-news/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/workers-in-facilities-like-gosnells-and-karpens-are-starting-to-panic-pro-life-leader-video/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/workers-in-facilities-like-gosnells-and-karpens-are-starting-to-panic-pro-life-leader-video/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163981 LifeSiteNews (includes video): Operation Rescue recently sent a postcard to abortion facilities all over the country telling its workers and assistants, “Don't go to jail for something your employer is doing or told you to do!” In the Karpen case, Operation Rescue, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and Abby Johnson's And Then There Were None helped the women leave the abortion industry and tell their story. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/workers-in-facilities-like-gosnells-and-karpens-are-starting-to-panic-pro-life-leader-video/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/wash-florist-who-refused-to-make-same-sex-wedding-decorations-countersues-christian-post/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/wash-florist-who-refused-to-make-same-sex-wedding-decorations-countersues-christian-post/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163979 Christian Post: "Everyone knows that plenty of florists are willing to assist in same-sex ceremonies, so the state has no reason to force Barronelle to violate her deeply held beliefs," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Dale Schowengerdt in a statement. "In America, the government is supposed to protect freedom, not use its intolerance for certain viewpoints to intimidate citizens into acting contrary to their faith convictions. Family business owners are constitutionally guaranteed the freedom to live and work according to their beliefs. It is this very freedom that gives America its cherished diversity and protects citizens from state-mandated conformity." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/wash-florist-who-refused-to-make-same-sex-wedding-decorations-countersues-christian-post/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/high-court-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-prayers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/high-court-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-prayers/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163977 AP: Reacting to the court action Monday, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, said, "A town council meeting isn't a church service, and it shouldn't seem like one." The town is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, an Arizona-based group that presses faith-based cases in courts nationwide. ADF senior counsel David Cortman said the framers of the Constitution prayed while drafting the Bill of Rights. "Americans today should be as free as the Founders were to pray," Cortman said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/high-court-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-prayers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/uik-cameron-effort-to-redefine-marriage-strains-leadership-government/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/uik-cameron-effort-to-redefine-marriage-strains-leadership-government/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:37:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=164028 Reuters: Up to half of Cameron's 303 lawmakers in the lower house of parliament are expected to back an amendment that the government says would sabotage its efforts to legalize gay marriage. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/uik-cameron-effort-to-redefine-marriage-strains-leadership-government/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/czech-president-in-dispute-over-homosexual-activist/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/czech-president-in-dispute-over-homosexual-activist/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:25:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163975 AP: Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship - the nation's top academic title - to a critic of his, allegedly because the man is also a gay rights activist. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/czech-president-in-dispute-over-homosexual-activist/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/gay-marriage-marching-along-ahead-of-supreme-court-justices-ruling-washington-post/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/gay-marriage-marching-along-ahead-of-supreme-court-justices-ruling-washington-post/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:12:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163971 Washington Post: But real life doesn’t stop just because the justices have commenced their labors. And what has happened since raises the question of how events outside the Marble Palace affect the deliberations within. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/gay-marriage-marching-along-ahead-of-supreme-court-justices-ruling-washington-post/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/high-court-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-prayers-ap/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/high-court-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-prayers-ap/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163965 AP: The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/high-court-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-prayers-ap/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/afghan-parliament-tables-bill-protecting-women-after-objections-from-islamic-legislators/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/afghan-parliament-tables-bill-protecting-women-after-objections-from-islamic-legislators/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163962 Religion Clause Blog: Today's Deutsche Welle reports that in Afghanistan's Parliament, lawmakers have withdrawn a bill that would have instituted a number of protections for women.  The action came after  religious parties complained that the proposed law was un-Islamic. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/afghan-parliament-tables-bill-protecting-women-after-objections-from-islamic-legislators/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/is-college-worth-it/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/is-college-worth-it/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:31:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163959 Wall Street Journal: Despite the growing evidence that colleges and universities cost too much, deliver too little and push too many young people into a lifetime of debt, the idea of going to college remains a key part of the American Dream. Now William Bennett, a former secretary of education and the author of "The Book of Virtues" (1996)—along with his co-author, David Wilezol—takes on a question that parents and teens are starting to ask: Is college worth the ever-increasing price tag? The authors' answer is a hesitant "yes," but with plenty of provisos and warnings about bigger problems ahead. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/is-college-worth-it/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/big-government-loses-control/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/big-government-loses-control/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:25:54 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163956 Wall Street Journal: What to make of the political scandals that are dominating the headlines and forcing the Obama administration into Nixonian damage control? Technology is finally doing to big government what it has done to big business, big media and other institutions that once could operate with nearly full control over information. The government is losing the ability to manipulate information to avoid accountability. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/big-government-loses-control/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/supreme-court-grants-certiorari-in-city-council-invocation-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/supreme-court-grants-certiorari-in-city-council-invocation-case/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163952 Religion Clause Blog: The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to weigh in on the extensively litigated issue of opening city council meetings with prayer. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/supreme-court-grants-certiorari-in-city-council-invocation-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/congress-investigating-obama-admins-hostility-to-religion-in-the-military/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/congress-investigating-obama-admins-hostility-to-religion-in-the-military/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:20:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163949 Breitbart: Following 59 Members of Congress sending a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist, another group of 72 House Members has sent a second wide-ranging letter, exploring whether these infringements on religious liberty violate both federal law and the Constitution. (letter is embedded) ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/congress-investigating-obama-admins-hostility-to-religion-in-the-military/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/america-waiting-on-big-decisions-from-scotus/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/america-waiting-on-big-decisions-from-scotus/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:18:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163946 Breitbart: Several major cases will be decided by the Supreme Court over the next six weeks, including historic issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action. These cases make the remainder of the Court’s term—which ends in June—one of the most carefully watched terms by millions of Americans. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/america-waiting-on-big-decisions-from-scotus/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/abortion-doc-who-twists-off-babies-heads-killed-woman-in-failed-abortion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/abortion-doc-who-twists-off-babies-heads-killed-woman-in-failed-abortion/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:15:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163943 LifeNews: The similarities between convicted abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell and Houston-based abortion practitioner Douglas Karpen are striking. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/abortion-doc-who-twists-off-babies-heads-killed-woman-in-failed-abortion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/americans-united-for-sep-of-church-and-state-pr-on-scotus-prayer-grant/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/americans-united-for-sep-of-church-and-state-pr-on-scotus-prayer-grant/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=163940 Supreme Court Should Rule Against Sectarian Prayers Before Town Board Meetings, Says Americans United U Legal Director Ayesha N. Khan, who directed the litigation for Americans United and will argue the Town of Greece v. Galloway case before the Supreme Court, said the justices should uphold the lower court’s ruling. “Legislative bodies should focus on serving the community and stay out of the business of promoting religion,” Khan said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2013/05/20/americans-united-for-sep-of-church-and-state-pr-on-scotus-prayer-grant/feed/ 0