Tag Archives: ADF: Douglas Napier

Douglas Napier appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss the current status. | MP3 audio 5:28 mins

Doug Napier at Townhall: In 2010, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United for Separation of Church and State pressured the Bulverde, Texas’ City Council to change their policies regarding prayers to open public meetings. Subsequently, the city council changed its policies to more clearly welcome invocations from all faiths.

Doug Napier on Engaging the Issues with Jeremy Dys. | MP3 audio 14:51 mins

Doug Napier at the Christian Post: On June 12, North Dakotans will have the opportunity to freely decide the fate of that state’s Religious Liberty Freedom Amendment…unless, of course, Planned Parenthood dumps another half a million dollars into state coffers from places as distant as California and New York, to confuse voters in what will or won’t be the status of religious liberty in North Dakota.

Joe Infranco and Doug Napier appeared on KPXQ 1360 Koinonia with Tom Brown. | MP3 audio 40:41 mins

ADF President and General Counsel Alan E. Sears appeared with ADF Attorney Doug Napier, and Abbey Johnson on the Mike Gallagher Show. The show is available in three separate audio files. | First MP3 audio 53:20 | Second MP3 audio 53:20 | Third MP3 audio 53:20

ADF Attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Rob Schilling Show. | MP3 audio 7:53 mins

Christian Post: Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Doug Napier said, “It is still forcing people of faith to subsidize practices and treatments that violate their values, their morals, and their religious beliefs.” Innocent lives are a blessing, not a burden, he emphasized. “The Obama administration is hiding behind the argument that it is better to eliminate babies before we incur economic ‘cost,’ but it is just another extension of ObamaCare – only now, it’s a ‘death panel at birth.’”

WNYC: But some felt the modification was not a enough. Doug Napier, senior counsel for the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, described the change as a “sleight of hand.” “It is still forcing people of faith to subsidize practices and treatments that violate their values, their morals, and their religious beliefs,” he said in a statement.

WorldNetDaily: “The Obama administration’s rule change doesn’t change anything. Employees will still pay for this coverage,” said Senior Counsel Doug Napier of the Alliance Defense Fund.

Christian Post: Also dissatisfied with the new plan, Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Doug Napier said, “It is still forcing people of faith to subsidize practices and treatments that violate their values, their morals, and their religious beliefs.”
“Innocent lives are a blessing, not a burden,” Napier emphasized. “The Obama administration is hiding behind the argument that it is better to eliminate babies before we incur economic ‘cost,’ but it is just another extension of ObamaCare – only now, it’s a ‘death panel at birth.’ . . . [more]

The Obama administration’s rule change doesn’t change anything.

ADF Attorney Doug Napier at the Christian Post: The repeated warnings that repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” would open the door for religious discrimination were ignored, and we are already beginning to see the toxic fallout from this mistaken move. After DADT was stripped away last year, the military entered 2012 in a whole new world. It’s one in which the dismantling of DADT has actually provided homosexual activists the momentum they needed to step up and try to fashion not just the military in their own image, but other related agencies and associations as well.

ADF Attorney Doug Napier at Human Events: Two days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, smoke was still rising from the twisted and burnt material that used to be the World Trade Center. Untold numbers of first responders from around the country were converging on New York City to help look for survivors trapped in the rubble, and the nation as a whole was still somewhere between fear and unmitigated anger: somewhere between “woe is me” and “woe is thee.”

Learn more about: “The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis”

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on Life Today to discuss attacks on religious freedom and the work of the Alliance Defense Fund. | The Book: ACLU v. America

NBCPhiladelphia.com: Mark my words, there will be litigation over this,” said Douglas Napier, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization.

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show with J.D. Hawyorth to discuss the National Day of Prayer. | MP3 audio 24:48 mins | Decision Points: An Evening with George W. Bush | Thousands of children’s educations saved at U.S. Supreme Court | Victory for academic freedom: 4th Circuit says professor’s speeches, columns protected by First Amendment

ADF attorney Doug Napier on the Hugh Hewitt Show.| MP3 audio 5:39 mins | Decision Points: An Evening with George W. Bush | Thousands of children’s educations saved at U.S. Supreme Court | Victory for academic freedom: 4th Circuit says professor’s speeches, columns protected by First Amendment

Delaware Online: Douglas Napier, senior attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for traditional marriage, was among those who spoke against the Delaware bill in Dover. He does not see strong protections for employees who do not want to be part of civil unions. ”It is forcing clerks in the state to violate their religious liberties and conscience to perform civil-union ceremonies if they are asked,” Napier said. “Constitutionally protected freedoms should never be threatened by politicians who are doing the bidding of a very small group of activists — and this is exactly what happened when the Legislature imposed this counterfeit marriage bill on Delaware.”

South Florida Gay News: “Mark my words, there will be litigation over this,” said Douglas Napier, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization.

“Don’t be deceived. This bill is a precursor to same-sex marriage,” Napier said.

Newsworks.org: Douglas Napier, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization, told the chamber the bill is riddled with all sorts of unintended consequences and is a precursor to same-sex marriage. “For the first time in the history of this state you have created a new civil right,” he said. “But you have done it at the expense of the long-standing institution of marriage, I think you’ve done it at the expense of children who deserve a Mom and a Dad, and you’ve done it at the expense of the taxpayers who have no clue what they’re buying.”

DelmarvaNow.com (includes video): House Republicans called Doug Napier, senior attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a group that advocates for traditional marriage policy, to raise several legal questions. He had scathing remarks for the bill. You have created a new civil right, but you’ve done it at the expense of the institution of marriage, at the expense of children and at the expense of taxpayers who have no clue what they’re buying,” he said. “A vote for civil unions is a vote against marriage in Delaware. And that will be your voting record.” (Doug Napier is not in the video)

TheOnline.com (AP): Mark my words, there will be litigation over this,” said Douglas Napier, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization.

LifeSiteNews: Doug Napier, a senior attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, excoriated the chamber for approving SB 30. The News Journal reports Napier was called to testify and raise a number of legal objections to the bill by House Republicans. “You have created a new civil right, but you’ve done it at the expense of the institution of marriage, at the expense of children and at the expense of taxpayers who have no clue what they’re buying,” Napier said. “A vote for civil unions is a vote against marriage in Delaware. And that will be your voting record.”

ADF attorney Doug Napier on the radio to discuss this ADF sponsored event: Decision Points: An Evening with President George W. Bush. | The Michael Medved Show, MP3 audio 4:33 mins | Janet Mefferd Show with J.D. Hayworth, MP3 audio 17 mins.

ADF attorney Doug Napier on Coffee with Creamer. | MP3 audio 24:15 mins

ADF attorney Doug Napier on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss: Decision Points: An Evening with President George W. Bush. | MP3 audio 4:15 mins

Colorado Statesman: Not only would the civil unions bill defy the will of voters, but most of the legal rights it establishes already exist in the state’s Designated Beneficiaries law — legislation Ferrandino sponsored just two years ago — said Doug Napier, an attorney with the Focus on the Family-allied Alliance Defense Fund. By depositing virtually all the rights and responsibilities of marriage in civil unions, Napier warned during a lengthy exchange with committee Democrats, the bill’s sponsors were laying the legal groundwork to overturn the gay-marriage ban. “You heard the testimony that, ‘I don’t want to be treated like a second-class citizen,’ and all those other things. This doesn’t solve those issues, and it won’t,” Napier said. “That’s why you won’t hear anybody who testified in favor of this say, ‘If you give us this, we’ll be satisfied, we won’t come back next year and ask for same-sex marriage,’ or, ‘We won’t file a lawsuit.’” In fact, Napier argued, the civil unions bill was part of a clever attack on marriage via the courts. Borrowing language from the marriage statute, he said, “sets up the equal-protection issue that is the impetus for getting to court. That’s why this is important from a legal strategy for those who want to usher in same-sex marriage in Colorado.”

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ADF attorney Doug Napier on the Janet Mefferd Show. | MP3 audio 18:50 mins

God Discussion: Douglas Napier of the Alliance Defense Fund led the formal opposition against the bill and maintained that civil unions would likely lead to same-sex marriage, despite a 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The debate quickly disintegrated from there, as witnesses began quoting the Bible, regurgitating thoroughly debunked claims about ex-gay therapy and even predicting the end of times. The Family Research Institute’s Dr. Paul Cameron — whose so-called ‘research’ on homosexuality has been condemned and refuted by most major medical organizations in the United States and Canada — provided the most colorful testimony.

On Top Magazine: “Douglas Napier of the Alliance Defense Fund led the formal opposition against the bill and maintained that civil unions would likely lead to same-sex marriage, despite a 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman,” Volsky wrote. Napier told the committee that the legislation would create a loophole for heterosexual couples wishing to escape the responsibilities of marriage, including child rearing.

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the NC Family Policy Council’s Family Policy Matters to discuss the Proposition 8 California marriage litigation. | MP3 14:30 mins

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on radio to discuss this: Mich. woman accused of civil rights violation for seeking Christian roommate at church. | The Hugh Hewitt Show the MP3 audio runs 7:41 mins | The Janet Mefferd Show the MP3 audio runs 18:50 mins

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Paul Edwards Program to discuss this: Mich. woman accused of civil rights violation for seeking Christian roommate at church. | MP3 audio 10:55 mins

Lake County Record-Bee: “I am writing you to address Prop. 8 for same-sex marriage. I feel it’s important to ban Prop. 8 in California so that gays and lesbians may have equal rights, just like everyone else. America has built itself on freedom and the freedom of choice. That’s what I don’t get; why is it such a hard decision?
Jumping into the case now is "just irresponsible," Douglas Napier, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund said last Friday.”

ADF Doug Napier appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show to discuss ADF efforts to counter the ACLU fundraising machine. | MP3 audio 18:50 mins | Related: ACLU announces historic fundraising success | ADFonJanet.org

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss campus freedom, the ACLU’s $400 million fundraising campaign, and ADF’s University matching grant. | MP3 audio 7:43 mins | Related: ACLU announces historic fundraising success | ADFonMike.org

Christianity Today Political Advocacy Tracker: “Labor Day may be the symbolic start of the campaign season, but for some Christian political activists, the campaign begins with a 40-day prayer vigil that will culminate before the November elections . . . Pray & Act is endorsed by scores of pastors as well as leaders of advocacy groups, including Jim Daly (Focus on the Family), Mike Huckabee (former governor of Arkansas), Richard Land (ERLC), Penny Nance (Concerned Women for America), [Douglas Napier] and [Alan Sears] (Alliance Defense Fund) . . . Alliance Defense Fund won a victory for a Catholic student organization that was denied funds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”

Beaufort County Now: “As [Douglas Napier], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund who defended Proposition 8, commented: ‘The whole nation is watching, and the whole nation should be quaking to think that a single judge sitting in California can reverse the will of 7 million voters.’”

The New American: “With the timing of the ABA action thus closely coinciding with the action of Judge Walker, conservative attorneys, as well as other constitutionalists, are left with few alternatives but to continue the Proposition 8 fight all the way to the Supreme Court . . . ‘The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,’ remarked ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier].”

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show yesterday to provide an update on the 9th Circuit stay. | MP3 7:28 mins

The Desert Sun: “‘I think the basic notion that this case is not final until it’s gone through the complete appellate process really prevailed,’ said [Douglas Napier], a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal firm. ‘Rather than have this kind of ping-pong effect of having the decision overturned, appealed and then overturned again, it’s better to have this kind of decision,’ he said.”

Associated Press: “‘I think the basic notion that this case is not final until it’s gone through the complete appellate process really prevailed,’ said [Douglas Napier], a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal firm. ‘Rather than have this kind of pingpong effect of having the decision overturned, appealed and then overturned again, it’s better to have this kind of decision,’ he said.”

Daily Mail (UK): “‘I think the basic notion that this case is not final until it’s gone through the complete appellate process,’ said [Douglas Napier], a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal firm.”

San Francisco Chronicle: “‘This is the right thing to do, and it makes things less chaotic and uncertain,’ said [Douglas Napier], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund. ‘The status quo is going to be maintained until this issue is resolved.’”

Mercury News: “[Douglas Napier], a senior lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, one of the groups defending the law, said they have the right to press the appeal. ‘We have standing,’ he said. ‘The people of California shouldn’t lose by a forfeit because the governor refused to do his job.’”

The Christian Post: “Ahead of the resolution’s passage, the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund stressed that the ABA does not speak for all U.S. lawyers and noted how three-quarters of American lawyers do not belong to the ABA. ‘The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,’ remarked ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who resigned from the ABA because of its stance on controversial political issues.”

NY Daily News: “‘It’s ridiculous to think that the proponents of the ballot initiative would be prevented from continuing to represent the successful result of that initiative all the way,’ [Douglas Napier], the group’s lawyer told the San Francisco Chronicle.”

Edge: “‘The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,’ said ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who has resigned from the ABA.”

Edge Boston: “‘The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,’ said ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who has resigned from the ABA . . . It’s doubtful if many ADF supporters would have ventured to the ABA’s convention, being held as it was in the belly of the beast, San Francisco.”

San Francisco Chronicle: “Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker invalidated Proposition 8 last week, saying the ban was discriminatory and unconstitutional. At the time, he put a temporary stay on his ruling, meaning it could not be enforced . . . [Douglas Napier], an attorney who defended Prop. 8, said . . . he is confident his side will win on appeal. After Walker’s ruling, which was the result of a nonjury trial in January, he called the setback a legal ‘bump in the road.’”

CNSNews: “[Douglas Napier], senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, told CNSNews.com that Jacobs’ caution was well founded, adding that the ABA had gone “far afield” of its founding mission to address issues affecting the legal community. ‘They [the ABA] aren’t speaking for the majority of attorneys,’ Napier said. ‘They don’t represent the majority of attorneys in the United States, yet they put themselves out as the voice of the American legal profession.’”

NPR: “Melissa Block talks to NPR’s Richard Gonzales, who is in San Francisco . . . Mr. [DOUGLAS NAPIER] (Senior Legal Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund): ‘For him to say, well, I’m going to go ahead and let you run to the courthouse and get married, knowing that this – my decision may likely, or possibly, be reversed leaves a lot of uncertainty, and it’s not necessary to do that. Let’s settle the law first. Let’s settle this issue, and then once all the dust settles on everyone’s decisions and we know what the final result is, then we can act.’” | Audio at link.

Recent appearances by ADF attorney Doug Napier on radio to discuss the Cal. marriage ruling include the Hugh Hewitt Show, MP3 10:23 mins and the Janet Mefferd Show, MP3  18:17 mins.

LifeSiteNews: “The American Bar Association adopted a resolution supporting the legalization of same-sex ‘marriage’ across the United States at the conclusion of its annual national convention in San Francisco on Tuesday . . . ‘The ABA was not originally designed to endorse political agendas,’ said [Doug Napier], ADF Senior Legal Counsel.”

ADF Attorney Douglas Napier appeared on Point of View Radio with Penna Dexter to discuss the Proposition 8 ruling. | MP3 10:31

OneNewsNow: “Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney [Doug Napier] explains why his firm and the National Lawyers Association are asking the bar to get back to the basics as a legal organization, rather than a political one. ‘Well, once again the American Bar Association is purporting to represent American lawyers, when in fact they only represent about a quarter of American lawyers,’ Napier explains. ‘But they’re launching into the political arena with a proposal to push same-sex “marriage” in all of the states in which the American Bar Association has lawyers.’”

San Francisco Chronicle: “Schwarzenegger raised eyebrows with his strong support for allowing gay and lesbian marriages as soon as possible . . . ‘Jumping into the case now is ‘just irresponsible,’ [Douglas Napier], a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, which took part in Prop. 8′s defense, said Friday. ‘He should have just let the judicial process take its course without sticking his nose into it.’”

Austin R. Nimocks on the Vicki McKenna Show – MP3 16:39 mins | Austin with Kitty O’Neal on KFBK – MP3 5:21 mins | Austin on the Dave Ross Show – MP3 7:30 mins | Jim Campbell on the Janet Mefferd Show – MP3 18:15 mins | Doug Napier on AFR Focal Point with Bryan Fischer – MP3 21:55 mins | Jim Campbell with Chris Daniels on KMJ – MP3 14:54 | Austin with Pat Morrison on KPCC Southern Cal. Public Radio.  Austin responds to the question of why this is different than race.  MP3 4:35 mins.

The Christian Post: “‘The fact that ADF and other lawyers disagree with ABA on a number of controversial issues demonstrates the gross inaccuracy of ABA’s claim that it speaks for the U.S. legal profession,’ remarked ADF Senior Legal Counsel [Doug Napier], who resigned from the ABA because of its stance on controversial political issues.” | ADF News Release

Douglas Napier on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss the the case involving Dr. Kenneth Howell.  | MP3 7:21 mins | ADF resource page: Fired U of I professor vindicated, will again be allowed to teach Catholicism class

Jim Campbell on AFR Focal Point just before the ruling was handed down.  MP3  9:21 mins |  Jordan Lorence on the Janet Mefferd Show just before the ruling was handed down. Jordan indicated he was not on pins and needles before yesterday’s ruling, because the Judge had tipped his hand well in advance of yesterday’s ruling.  MP3 18:39 mins | Daniel Blomberg on KQED Northern California Public Radio after the ruling was handed down.  Daniel responds to several of the judge’s contentions in his ruling. MP3 6:27 mins |  Doug Napier with Tim Conway, Jr. on KFI 640 am. Its of the judge by the judge and for the judge. The ruling has no basis in law or history. MP3 6:18 mins | Austin R. Nimocks with Bret Burkhart & Chris Brecher-KGO 810AM SF.  Why is the ruling dangerous? According to the judge, we are all irrational bigots now.  MP3 3:47 min

San Francisco Chronicle: “The emotional plea was rejected by [Douglas Napier], an attorney who defended Prop. 8, as a distraction in a case that he said should have been about voters’ rights. He called the ruling, which was the result of a nonjury trial in January, a legal ‘bump in the road.’ ‘Those that want to uphold traditional family values are going to be outraged,’ said Napier, of the Alliance Defense Fund of Scottsdale, Ariz. ‘The whole nation is watching, and the whole nation should be quaking to think that a single judge sitting in California can reverse the will of 7 million voters.’”

The Arizona Republic: “‘The California constitution gives the people of California the right to establish its own social policy through constitutional amendments, and they did,’ said [Douglas Napier], senior legal counsel for the Scottsdale-based Alliance Defense Fund and part of the legal team defending Prop. 8 . . . ‘(Walker) basically disenfranchised 7 million California voters and said, ‘I’m smarter than 7 million Californians, and my will is going to be imposed here rather than yours.’”

“Attorneys associated with the Alliance Defense Fund and National Lawyers Association point out that about three-quarters of American lawyers don’t even belong to the ABA, and many actively work to protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show to discuss the situation involving Arizona students prohibited from praying outside SCOTUS. | MP3 18:21 mins

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Janet Mefferd Show to discuss this: Ill. prof. fired for teaching about Catholic beliefs in class on Catholicism. | MP3 18:10 mins

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss some of ADF’s latest initiatives. | MP3 7:40 mins| www.adfonhugh.org

ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss the case of the Catholic professor terminated for teaching Catholicism in Catholicism class. They also discuss this case: NY high school cancels Christian club, lets 60 others remain. | MP3 9:35 mins

SentinelSource.com: “‘Churches shouldn’t be singled out for discrimination and penalized by a city’s zoning restrictions because of their religious viewpoint,’ said [Doug Napier], senior legal counsel for the group. ‘It was right that Saint Benedict Center was compensated for years of unconstitutional restrictions that made it impossible to finish the construction of its church and school building.’”

The Keene Sentinel: “It’s being hailed as one of the largest settlements of its kind — Richmond town officials have agreed to pay $1.15 million to end a religious discrimination case. … The settlement was announced Friday afternoon by the Alliance Defense Fund … ‘Churches shouldn’t be singled out for discrimination and penalized by a city’s zoning restrictions because of their religious viewpoint,’ said [Doug Napier], senior legal counsel for the group.” | ADF News Release

ADF Doug Napier appeared on the Complete Storey with Dick Bott on the Bott Radio Network to discuss the attempted prohibition on prayer at a Senior Citizens Center in Georgia. | MP3 27:54 mins