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Travis C. Barham at Speak Up Movement: After over six years of litigation, Mike Adams has won the right to present his retaliation case to a jury of his peers. Back in 2006, he was denied promotion to full professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Travis Barham at Speak Up Movement: At Brooklyn College this week, it seems that everyone is talking about academic freedom.  A student group, Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine, organized an event highlighting the “BDS” movement, which advocates for a boycott of Israel . . .

Travis Barham appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss the Cowboys for Life case at Oklahoma State University. | MP3 audio 13:35 mins

Campus Reform: Travis Barham, the litigation staff counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, the organization that filed the lawsuit on behalf of Cowboys for Life, told Campus Reform he thinks the school broke the law by placing unreasonable restrictions on students’ First Amendment rights. “The university doesn’t require this of other groups, they made up special restrictions for this pro-life group…simply because of the content and the viewpoint of what the Cowboys for Life were trying to say,” Barham said.

One News Now: Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney Travis Barham says school officials claimed other students might be “offended” by the pro-life message. “OSU needs to learn that it does not have free reign to censor its students,” he insists. “It can’t exile displays to remote areas of campus, or restrict students from distributing literature just because the hyper-sensitive feelings of a university administrator got ruffled.”

Daily Caller: An attorney on the side of the plaintiffs, Travis Barham, describes the case as a “textbook violation” of the First Amendment.
. . . “The leaders decided they would pass a resolution for the students to be investigated and brought up on disciplinary charges,” Barham told The O’Collegian. “That constitutes retaliation.”

LifeNews: “Universities should promote, not quarantine, the free exchange of ideas,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Litigation Staff Counsel Travis Barham. “Oklahoma State University does not have free reign to censor students. The university can’t exile this club’s displays or restrict students from distributing literature simply because their materials challenge a narrow orthodoxy or offend the hyper-sensitive feelings of administrators.”

Cowboys for Life, a student organization represented by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, has filed a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma State University after school officials took numerous actions to impede and disrupt the group’s pro-life displays on campus.

Travis C. Barham at Speak Up Movement: Years ago, Abigail Thernstrom described universities as “islands of repression in a sea of freedom.” More recently, several columnists have highlighted how the effort to indoctrinate students pervades virtually every aspect of campus life.

Travis Barham at Speak Up Movement University Blog (video embedded): But our friends at FIRE recently unveiled a new way of illustrating the problems with speech codes—a video replete with whiteboard illustrations.

One News Now: “They put together a display that incorporated both the homecoming theme and their Christian message, put that up in the window, and they hadn’t even finished outlining the cross in their display before the student affairs staff was all upset and started chastising them right out there on the public sidewalk,” Barham reports.

Salt Lake Tribune: “By refusing to treat faith-based student organizations the same as other student groups and by excluding religious speech from homecoming events, Snow College officials have ignored this basic principle,” said Travis Barham, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the club. ” But we hope they will quickly do the right thing, respect our clients’ freedoms, and eliminate the need for continuing to pursue this lawsuit.”

Baptist Press: The University of Tennessee, in rejecting a request from the Freedom From Religion Foundation to eliminate the Volunteers’ traditional pregame prayer, has garnered praise from the Alliance Defending Freedom. South Carolina is the only other university in the SEC to offer a public invocation prior to football games.”We’re very pleased that the University of Tennessee has seen fit to disregard the Freedom From Religion Foundation,” said Travis Barham, litigation staff counsel for ADF. “We hope they continue to do that because the Freedom From Religion Foundation has been distorting the law, twisting the law, to support its jaundiced view of religion, its jaundiced view of the First Amendment.”

“Public universities should respect, not squelch, the religious traditions of students. We applaud the University of Tennessee for continuing prayers at events, including football games. Federal courts have repeatedly recognized that the Establishment Clause does not require universities to purge their events of all things religious. The chancellor was right to align with the 6th Circuit which recognized that ‘[t]he people of the United States did not adopt the Bill of Rights to strip the public square of every last shred of public piety.’”

Travis Barham at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reminded the nation that “[t]olerance is a two-way street.”  But a new study suggests that academics—particularly psychologists—have yet to get the message.  Not only do they overwhelmingly tilt towards the left end of the political spectrum, but they also admittedly discriminate against conservatives.

Travis Barham at Speak Up Movement University Blog: But the remarkable thing was who delivered the prayers. A Hindu student gave the Hindu prayer, a Jewish student gave the Jewish prayer, a Muslim student delivered the Muslim prayer, and Christian student likewise represented his faith . . . But this arrangement is also at odds with the new “all comers” policy that Vanderbilt imposes only on religious groups. To be consistent, Chancellor Zeppos should have mixed everything up.

One News Now: In a letter [PDF] to university officials, Travis Barham of Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) complains that officials and the teacher of Elaina Smith, the art student who vandalized the crosses, were aware that this was going to occur, yet they did nothing to stop it. He points out that it is the duty of university officials to protect students’ First Amendment rights, not “passively allow them to be violated.” [more]

Travis Barham at the Speak Up University Blog: Though universities frequently wax eloquent about the critical importance of free speech, they often fail to protect vigorously the basic freedoms of pro-life students. And Western Kentucky University is the latest example of this gap between rhetoric and reality on campus.

Travis Barham at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: Everything changed last week when the group learned that it would not be recognized unless it made one change to its constitution. How did Vanderbilt want the group to change? It must stop requiring leaders to have a “personal commitment to Jesus Christ.” The University dictated that this ministry can only select leaders based on “level and quality of past involvement, commitment to the organization, and demonstrated leadership ability.”

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund sent the president of Western Kentucky University a letter Thursday on behalf of a pro-life student club after an art student desecrated its display of crosses by draping them with condoms and calling it an act of art and free expression. The letter explains that university officials, including the student’s teacher, were either aware that the vandalism was going to occur, did nothing to stop it, or even condoned the student’s actions.

Life News: This morning, our friends at the Alliance Defense Fund faxed a letter to WKU President Ransdell requesting that they respond to our four requests. (View the ADF letter here.)

One News Now: “This is similar to some cases with students who have objected to assignments that force them to compromise and violate their religious beliefs — and many of the students have obtained relief by filing First Amendment claims in court,” says Travis Barh[a]m, ADF litigation staff counsel.

ADF Attorney Travis Barham on on The Bottom Line with Roger Marsh & Dave Householder to discuss this: UNC-Greensboro: Christian club isn’t religious. | MP3 audio 23:45 mins

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham at the Christian Post: Recently, Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos’ “message” on “nondiscrimination” announced the end of any meaningful religious freedom at Vanderbilt.

OneNewsNow.com: Attorney Travis Barham, legal counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “We were hoping that the court would step in and just establish the principle that students have the legal right to challenge speech codes that actually muzzle their speech,” he says.

The Daily Times | delmarvanow.com: The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based group of Christian attorneys, filed a certiorari petition with the U.S. Supreme Court in May on behalf of Rock for Life-UMBC, asking the court to determine whether the students had legal standing to challenge “speech codes” governing their behavior. “We were hoping that the Supreme Court would intervene and uphold the First Amendment freedoms and allow the students to challenge the speech codes,” said Travis Barham, Alliance Defense Fund litigation counsel.

OneNewsNow.com: “A branch of UNC Wilmington, a branch of the … North Carolina state government is setting up lists of churches that approve or mirror its views on sexual morality. That’s really outside the balance of what state institutions are supposed to be doing,” contends Travis Barham of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) . . . “Universities are so intolerant in their attitude and unconstitutional in the way they operate,” the attorney contends. “Instead of being the marketplaces of ideas that they’re supposed to be, they’ve become these islands of intolerance; they will not tolerate any views that differ from theirs.”

The New American: Travis Barham of the Alliance Defense Fund, which was involved in the Georgia case, said that whether the Wilmington college is “promoting denominations or whether they’re promoting individual churches … that’s not the business of a university.”

FoxNews.com: Travis Barham, who worked on the Georgia case as part of the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, which has defended Adams in a court battle with the university over a promotion he claims he was wrongly denied, said he’s not sure whether the University of North Carolina Wilmington is in danger of a similar violation. But Barham questioned whether it was appropriate for the university to put out such a guide. “Whether they’re promoting denominations or whether they’re promoting individual churches … that’s not the business of a university,” Barham said. | Daily Mail: North Carolina University Puts Out List of ‘Gay Friendly’ Churches

Travis Barham at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: A University of North Carolina–Wilmington professor’s speeches and columns are fully protected by the First Amendment, according to a published decision handed down Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys contended that criminology professor Mike Adams was denied a promotion unconstitutionally because university officials were hostile to the religious and political views he espoused in his columns and speeches . . .

ADF attorney Travis Barham at the Speak Up Movement University Blog: Standing.  For most people, it is something they mastered when they were about one or two years old.  For lawyers, it is a migraine-inducing set of legal doctrines that dictates whether someone has the right to bring a lawsuit in federal court . . . As David French explains at Phi Beta Cons, this standing question is critical for students because it determines whether courts will even review their schools’ speech codes.  Until recently, the unquestioned rule was that students could challenge policies that “chilled” their speech. | Related ADF Media Information

OneNewsNow: “‘The university is the entity that decided to let the students choose, and then once the students chose overwhelmingly to include prayers in the ceremony, the university decided that . . . it would not allow that to happen,’ reports Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney [Travis Barham].”

ADF President and CEO Alan Sears writing at Inside the Issues: “The fight goes on, to protect the vital freedom of health care professionals to honor their conscience and religious convictions, particularly with regard to abortion. Please pray that Christian medical professionals across the country will continue to stand for that freedom, and that ADF will continue to be blessed to successfully defend those stands.”

West Virginia Public Broadcasting: “‘The issue here now is no longer prayer, the issue is can students advance their perspective as to whether prayer should be included or not without being retaliated against and that is where the university has crossed a clear constitutional line,’ said [ADF attorney Travis Barham].”

Charisma Magazine: “Will West Virginia University-Parkersburg officials reverse their decision to eliminate all student speakers from its nursing program’s pinning ceremony on account of a prayer request? Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys have sent a second letter strongly urging the school to do just that . . . ‘Christian students shouldn’t be censored for expressing their beliefs. Retaliating against students who simply asked to exercise their freedoms at a public graduation ceremony by removing all student speakers is simply unacceptable,’ says ADF Litigation Counsel Travis Barham.”

ADF sends second letter to university after officials retaliate with ban of student speakers from nursing program’s pinning ceremony

ADF attorney Travis Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “For years, students graduating from the West Virginia University, Parkersburg nursing program had regularly included prayers in their pinning (i.e., graduation) ceremonies. And in mid-November, University officials told students that they needed to vote on three issues regarding their ceremony and that the majority vote would carry the day. One issue was whether to include an invocation and benediction, and the students voted overwhelmingly (40-to-4) to include them . . . But the University responded differently. Suddenly saying that a 100% vote was required, it banned all prayer from the ceremony.”

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “On Wednesday, [WVU-Parkersburg] issued a press release, which is notable primarily for its efforts to evade the actual decisions that caused the nursing students to contact ADF in the first place . . . the University claims to ‘respect[] its students’ right of religious choice.’ That is, it respects that choice unless those students choose—by a more than 90% margin—to express their religious beliefs publicly. As long as they make the choice the University likes (i.e., to keep their prayers silent, to keep their religion out of sight and out of mind), the University respects their choice.”

WTAP: [Travis Barham], Alliance Defense Fund Litigation Staff Counsel said ‘They don’t have to purge their ceremonies of all things religious and fundamentally they should let their students do what the Constitution allows them to do and that is to pray publicly at this event.’”

OneNewsNow: “The Alliance Defense Fund is urging a university in West Virginia to restore the traditional invocation and benediction to the nursing program’s pinning ceremony scheduled for tomorrow . . . “The federal courts addressed this very issue — the issue of graduation prayers at universities — and they have unanimously upheld these prayers [as consistent with the First Amendment],” [ADF Attorney Travis Barham] explains.”

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “While the general story line may be familiar, the facts here are unique. During class in November, the graduating students were told that they would need to vote on three issues related to their pinning ceremony (the nursing equivalent to graduation). One of these issues was whether to include prayers in the ceremony as prior classes had regularly done. But when the students approved the prayers by more than a 90% margin (40-4) and selected a student’s father to give the prayers, the University suddenly decided majority rule would no longer apply.”

School officials originally told graduating students that a majority vote would determine whether prayers would be allowed, but after 90 percent of students voted to include the prayers, the university said that only a unanimous vote would have secured their inclusion.

Christian Web News: “Barham explains, ‘It claimed that those who believe that the Bible teaches against homosexual conduct…have a — quote — ‘fifth-grade understanding of God’. The First Amendment is quite clear. Going back all the way to the Founding Fathers, the clearest command of the First Amendment is that government cannot prefer certain religious views over others and certain religious denominations over others. [But] that’s exactly what this film was doing — and we’re just very pleased that Lakeshore Tech has recognized that and agreed not to show that film anymore.’”

One News Now: “It claimed that those who believe that the Bible teaches against homosexual conduct…have a — quote — ‘fifth-grade understanding of God,’ Barham explains. ‘The First Amendment is quite clear. Going back all the way to the Founding Fathers, the clearest command of the First Amendment is that government cannot prefer certain religious views over others and certain religious denominations over others. [But] that’s exactly what this film was doing — and we’re just very pleased that Lakeshore Tech has recognized that and agreed not to show that film anymore.’”

CNA (Spanish Version): Administrators at the University of Illinois are asking a faculty committee to review the case of a professor who was fired after a student complained that his explanation of the Catholic teaching on homosexuality was “hate speech.” . . . he Alliance Defense Fund responded to the situation by sending a letter to the University of Illinois calling for Howell to be immediately reinstated. Travis Barham, litigation counsel for ADF, asserted that what is at stake is the freedom of speech. “According to decades of Supreme Court precedent, the University simply cannot relieve Dr. Howell of his teaching post based on how third parties respond to his speech,” Barham said. “For decades, the Supreme Court has consistently held that university campuses are ‘not enclaves immune from the sweep of the First Amendment.’” If the university does not respond to the letter by July 16, the legal fund said it will advise Howell to file a lawsuit.

CNA: “Travis Barham, litigation staff counsel for the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, wrote a letter on July 12 to several officials at the University of Illinois, including the president, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the head of the religion department. ‘In relieving Dr. Howell of his teaching responsibilities, the University is firing him for teaching Catholic doctrine in a class about Catholic doctrine,’ Barham said. He noted that ‘the University’s only reason for removing Dr. Howell is that other students, faculty, and staff disliked his speech.’ However, he continued, the First Amendment ‘exists precisely to protect controversial ideas from being silenced’ and ‘affords broad protection for a professor’s speech in the classroom.’”

One News Now: “A professor in North Carolina who claims he was denied a promotion because he wrote some religious and conservative-leaning opinion columns is receiving broad support from academic circles. After a judge ruled against Dr. Mike Adams in a lawsuit he filed against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the criminology professor decided to appeal the decision. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is representing him, and litigation counsel Travis Barham more deeply explains the reason for the suit . . . ”

ADF attorney Travis Barham appeared KFUO with Roland Lettner to discuss student rights at graduation ceremonies. This was recorded last week and includes some discussion of the CLS v. Martinez ruling. | MP3 22:04 mins

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “Back in March, a federal district court in North Carolina ruled that Dr. Mike Adams’ nationally syndicated columns were not protected by the First Amendment. … Well, the next chapter in Dr. Adams’ quest to end discrimination against Christian and conservative professors has now unfolded. Last week, ADF filed the opening brief in his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. And just days ago, the American Association of University Professors, FIRE, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression filed a friend of the court brief on his behalf.”

ADF Attorney David French writing at Phi Beta Cons: “While I fervently wish CLS v. Martinez had gone the right way, the decision has at least spawned a tremendous burst of impassioned commentary from those who value the freedom of association and understand the importance of the university as a marketplace of ideas. As always, FIRE is one-stop-shopping for those interested in penetrating and persuasive analysis. Minding the Campus has run important pieces by K. C. Johnson and John Leo. Over at the Alliance Defense Fund Academic Freedom File, [Travis Barham] has put together a comprehensive media roundup.”

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.”

OneNewsNow: “A college student in New York is once again getting the run-around from school officials for trying to express his religious views on campus. … Hayon, president of the student Republican Club, wanted to hold an on-campus forum entitled ‘The Economic, Political, Social, and Legal Outcome on Same-Gender Marriage’ to defend the definition of marriage as one man and one woman. … [ADF Attorney Travis Barham said] ‘[t]here’s a rule at Kingsborough that says the student group has to have a faculty advisor present at every event. The faculty advisor took advantage of that rule to insist that students give him a speaking role and give him the authority to shut down the event at anytime.’”

Evangelical Examiner: “Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have sent Kingsborough Community College (KCC) officials a letter Monday calling upon them to end an unconstitutional policy that allows a faculty adviser to cancel a student organization’s event and silence its message by simply not showing up for the event. … ‘The whims of government officials should not be allowed to trump the constitutionally protected rights of students whose views those officials don’t favor,’ said ADF Litigation Counsel Travis Barham.”

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys sent Kingsborough Community College officials a letter Monday calling upon them to end an unconstitutional policy that allows a faculty advisor to cancel a student organization’s event and silence its message by simply not showing up for the event.

OneNewsNow: “A Montana college is being supported by the Christian community regarding the constitutionality of the school’s graduation prayer tradition. . . . Travis Barham with Alliance Defense Fund is hopeful the letter will encourage the university to hold fast. ‘These prayers have been part of our nation’s traditions for centuries, and two federal courts have already upheld these kinds of prayers,’ the attorney points out.”

ADF attorney Travis Barham appeared on the Georgene Rice Show to discussion the controversy over a graduation prayer at Montana State University Northern. | MP3 8:55 mins | Related ADF Media

Evangelical Examiner: “The Alliance Defense Fund and the Montana Family Foundation sent Montana State University-Northern officials a letter Monday assuring them that they can continue the school’s graduation prayer tradition, despite a contrary letter they received from the American Civil Liberties Union. . . . [ADF attorney Travis Barham said] ‘Contrary to the ACLU’s latest unfounded intimidation attempt, the First Amendment does not require universities to purge public ceremonies of all things religious.’”

“‘Our Founding Fathers regularly opened official public ceremonies with prayer, and federal appellate courts have consistently ruled that universities can do the same at their graduation ceremonies. These prayers have been constitutional for centuries and are still constitutional today,’ said ADF Litigation Counsel Travis Barham.”

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “Both Inside Higher Ed and Minding the Campus highlight the latest example of academia serving as a network of leftist think tanks. The ‘Cry Wolf Project’—organized by ‘prominent liberal academics’—is trying to rally faculty and graduate students to do ‘battle with conservative ideas.’ That is, the organizers will pay $1,000 for essays supposedly showing how conservatives ‘cry wolf’ by exaggerating the consequences of leftist public policy proposals. K.C. Johnson at Minding the Campus notes the organizer’s almost comically inflated sense of self importance and skewed definition of ‘scholarship.’ But this project illustrates a more disturbing divide between faculty who can speak freely and those who cannot.”

One News Now: ‘We were very happy to hear that Mohave Community College had made the right decision and decided to celebrate the religious heritage of its students rather than squelch it,’ comments Travis Barham, litigation counsel for ADF.”

ADF Attorney David French writing at Phi Beta Cons: “After ADF sent an informational letter to [Mohave Community College] outlining the governing law, the college restored prayer to the program . . . If Inside Higher Ed had asked us for comment on the story (next time, please call us . . . we don’t issue releases without evidence), they would have discovered we have a paper trail. Internal university documents show the invocation and benediction lined out of the program, and an internal e-mail clearly states that the commencement committee thought ‘church and state should remain separate’ and ‘apparently there is a legal precedence.’”

ADF Attorney Travis Barham writing at speakupmovement.org/university: “Last week, the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom complimented Mohave Community College—both on this blog and in a press release—for continuing to allow prayers at the pinning ceremony for its nursing program. MCC had eliminated the prayers but then opted to allow them to continue after receiving a letter from ADF. Yet in Inside Higher Ed today, President Michael Kearns claims MCC never eliminated prayers from the ceremony and that ADF exaggerated the impact of its letter. While Inside Higher Ed has always been among the most reputable and professional sources for news on higher education issues, we wish that they would have contacted us before running their story on this case. But as Paul Harvey would say, it is now time for ‘the rest of the story,’ the part that President Kearns left out of his remarks.”

Arizona’s Mohave Community College agreed Tuesday–after receiving a letter from the Alliance Defense Fund–not to eliminate the opening and closing prayers from its nursing program’s pinning ceremony this year.

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at speakupmovement.org/university: “Within the past few weeks, the topic of prayer—particularly public prayer—has appeared regularly in the headlines. Last Thursday was the National Day of Prayer, which the majority of Americans support, despite Judge Crabb’s ruling that this tradition, which dates back to 1775, now violates the Constitution. And as graduation season returns, the issue of prayer in schools and at graduation ceremonies returns to people’s minds.”

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at speakupmovement.org/university: “Each year, the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association (NAGAAA) sponsors the ‘Gay Softball World Series.’ But three bisexual men—represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights—filed a discrimination suit in Seattle, Washington because their team was disqualified for having too many ‘heterosexual’ players. And what is the NAGAAA’s response? Well, it claims it is a private organization and ‘can determine its membership based on its goals.’ At one point, the players were told, ‘This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series.’ Does this sound vaguely familiar? All of a sudden, portions of the homosexual community recognize the importance of the freedom of association, which comes as a refreshing change.”

OneNewsNow: “A New York college has reversed course and will now allow a student to distribute a pro-life newsletter on campus . . . [Travis Barham] says the college, which did not have a policy on students distributing literature on campus, responded favorably to ADF. ‘We just commend Kingsborough Community College for respecting the dictates of the First Amendment once they received our letter, and [for] allowing Joseph to continue to distribute his pro-life literature on campus,’ he notes.”

LifeNews: “A student told he could not distribute a pro-life newsletter on the campus of Kingsborough Community College will be allowed to do so as a result of a letter sent to the school by the Alliance Defense Fund [ADF News Release] . . . [Travis Barham] added: ‘In this case, campus security officers and several administrators tried to stop a student from passing out pro-life fliers even though no campus policy prohibited him from doing so. We commend the college for quickly rectifying this situation and affirming our client’s rights protected by the First Amendment.’”

Community college officials agree to allow student to hand out fliers
after receiving letter from ADF attorneys

Travis Barham serves as litigation staff counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom at its Regional Service Center in Georgia, where he litigates to preserve religious freedom and freedom of speech on college and university campuses across the nation. Barham joined Alliance Defending Freedom in 2006 and is a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 4th, 7th and 11th Circuits, and the state of Arizona. He is also admitted to federal district courts in Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Barham has practiced law since 2006 and earned his J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Mike S. Adams writes at One News Now: When I got back to North Carolina I called one of my lawyers, Travis Barham, at the Alliance Defense Fund. I told him that far from wanting to quit I was ready to get back in the trenches and try to make things right in the UNC system. When he asked why I seemed so rejuvenated and full of fighting spirit I told him about my week at Summit. That’s when Travis told me he was a graduate of Summit Christian Ministries. “I should have known,” I told him. And I really should have known.

On many campuses in the past week, various groups gathered for a new celebration: Darwin Day.