Jon Scruggs at Speak Up Movement: In this respect, our proposed “worship paradigm” highlights the importance of the Bronx case and reveals conceptual flaws underlying the effort to exclude New York City churches from school buildings after hours. With the Bronx decision liable to come any day now, it will be interesting to see whether the Second Circuit continues to perpetuate the worship service/discussion distinction. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear (i.e. those who adopt our proposed worship paradigm), the continued perpetuation of this false distinction strikes right at the heart of our religious freedoms.
- Posted: 02/06/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: blog.speakupmovement.org
- Tags: ADF: Jonathan Scruggs, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Freedom, State: New York, Topic: Education, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZADF: 4013
David Hacker at the Speak Up Movement Blog: We have a lot to be thankful for this year at Alliance Defending Freedom as our clients prevailed time and again in cases across the country. Here’s a recap of the top university victories in 2012 . . .
- Posted: 12/31/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: blog.speakupmovement.org
- Tags: ADF: David Hacker, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Elections, State: Florida, State: New York, State: Texas, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZ: Florida Christian College v. Shanahan, ZZ: OSU Student Alliance v. Ray, ZZ: Texas Aggie Conservatives v. Loftin, ZZ: University of Cincinnati Chapter of Young Americans for Liberty v. Williams, ZZ: Ward v. Wilbanks, ZZADF: 18794, ZZADF: 28251, ZZADF: 34470, ZZADF: 37390, ZZADF: 4013
Reuters: They’re focusing on a type of worship that is Judeo-Christian, and that is the type of religion being excluded,” Jordan Lorence, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, the Christian nonprofit representing the Bronx church, told a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Posted: 11/20/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Freedom, State: New York, Topic: Education, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZADF: 4013
One News Now: “Well, we are facing the reality that we are before … the same three judges who ruled against us 2-1 in June of 2011,” he tells OneNewsNow. “But we [now] have some different arguments and new evidence, and we are hopeful that they will take a fresh look at this and vote in favor of religious liberty.”
- Posted: 11/19/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Freedom, State: New York, Topic: Education, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZADF: 4013
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence will be available for media interviews following his oral argument Monday in favor of a ruling that would allow churches and other faith groups to continue meeting for worship services in New York City public school buildings on weekends.
- Posted: 11/16/2012
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Bench and Bar, Category: Featured, Category: Religious Freedom, State: New York, Topic: Culture, Topic: Education, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZADF: 4013
Nathan Cherry at the Engage Family Blog: The silent battle taking place that you have probably not heard much about is in the area of zoning and equal access for public facilities. Churches are systematically being forced out of public spaces and told “no” by local zoning offices for permits to expand, or buy property . . . Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence has been working on the Bronx Household of Faith case in New York City for over 17 years. He spoke with FPCWV president Jeremy Dys in this issue of Engaging the Issues. Lorence explains that the fate of every church that meets in a public school hangs in the balance pending the outcome of this case. You can rest assured that if this case is not resolved in favor of the churches, and the school system is allowed to evict the churches, that and ripple will be felt from coast to coast as other school systems follow suit.
- Posted: 09/14/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: engagefamilyminute.com
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, State: New York, Topic: Education, Topic: RLUIPA, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZADF: 4013
Christian Newswire: Bill Keller, the world’s leading Internet Evangelist and the founder of LivePrayer.com, with over 2.4 million subscribers worldwide reading the Daily Devotional he has written every morning for 13 years on the issues of the day from a Biblcial worldview, is planning to file a $100 million defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center for labeling him and his ministry as a “hate group.”
- Posted: 08/17/2012
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.christiannewswire.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: Family Research Council, Group: LivePrayer, Group: Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Topic: Hate Speech, Topic: Media
Jordan Lorence at the NY Post: The New York City ban is emblematic of the much-too-widespread habit of public officials considering private religious expression to be dangerous and threatening, like asbestos that must be expunged from the ceiling tiles of the public square.
Simply put, the government does not treat churches “neutrally” when it treats them worse than everyone else.
- Posted: 08/13/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nypost.com
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, State: New York, Topic: Education, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZADF: 4013
Casey Mattox at The American Thinker: Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy recently incited the outrage of The Washington Post, actor Ed Helms, and at least five other celebrities by supporting marriage on the Ken Coleman radio program. In a discussion about ongoing attempts to redefine marriage in this country, Cathy said . . .
- Posted: 07/24/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.americanthinker.com
- Tags: ADF: Casey Mattox, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, Topic: Culture, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Media
Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review: “I think it’s a fairly pervasive attitude in our culture that people with religious convictions should really get along with the program, whatever the program is — in this case, the HHS mandate,” Ryken observes. He worries that the principle that “even if you disagree with a point of view it’s very important to defend the right of someone else to have that point of view” is “not as widely valued as it needs to be for us to have a flourishing democracy” in the United States today.
- Posted: 07/20/2012
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Becket Fund, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Culture, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
American Prospect: In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, just outside Nashville, the Muslim community won a hard-fought victory Wednesday. After a two-year legal battle that inflamed anti-Islamic sentiment across the state, a federal judge ruled that a new Islamic community center could get the permits necessary to open. Elsewhere in the state, however, Muslim residents got a cold reminder this week of just how much prejudice exists around them.
- Posted: 07/19/2012
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: prospect.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, State: Tennessee, Topic: Culture, Topic: Islam, Topic: Politics, Topic: RLUIPA
Religion Clause Blog reports on the ruling in Fouche v. NJ Transit, (3d Cir., July 16, 2012).
- Posted: 07/19/2012
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: religionclause.blogspot.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Freedom, Court: 3rd Circuit, State: New Jersey, Topic: Sabbath, Topic: Title VII, Topic: Unions, ZZ: Fouche v. NJ Transit
Kyle Duncan of the Becket Fund at National Review: Today’s decision by a federal district court in Nebraska to dismiss one of the many pending lawsuits against the HHS abortion-drug, contraception and sterilization mandate is unfortunate (and in one respect, seriously mistaken). But the decision turns on technicalities and doesn’t decide the merits of the dispute.
- Posted: 07/18/2012
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Becket Fund, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Nebraska v. HHS
Huffington Post: Wheaton College, a top evangelical school, is joining a raft of lawsuits challenging the Obama administration mandate that most employers offer health insurance that covers birth control.
- Posted: 07/18/2012
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Wheaton College v. Sebelius
LifeNews: A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by attorneys general of several states against the Obama HHS mandate that requires to religious employers to pay for or refer women for abortion-causing drugs and birth control in violation of their religious liberties | Nebraska v. HHS, Order
- Posted: 07/18/2012
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Nebraska, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Nebraska v. HHS
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