Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy: Jonathan posted earlier today about Romeike v. Holder (6th Cir. May 14, 2013), which reject German homeschoolers’ asylum claim. The opinion is quite readable and persuasive, and I recommend it to those interested in the subject. But here’s my general thinking (reprised from 2010 post on the original immigration judge decision in the case), and stressing that I’m not an expert on asylum law:
- Posted: 05/15/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.volokh.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Global, Country: Germany, Global: Religious Freedom, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Asylum, Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Romeike v. Holder
Jonathan Adler reports on the ruling at the Volokh Conspiracy: The relevant legislation applies only to those who have a “well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A). There is a difference between the persecution of a discrete group and the prosecution of those who violate a generally applicable law.
- Posted: 05/14/2013
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Global, Country: Germany, Global: Religious Freedom, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Asylum, Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Romeike v. Holder
Baptist Press: Alan Sears, president of Alliance Defending Freedom, noted that a key benefit of ADF’s involvement in helping defend religious freedom overseas is “the crucial perspective it gives us” for defending legal rights in America.”
- Posted: 05/08/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.bpnews.net
- Tags: ADF: Alan E. Sears, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
One News Now: Roger Kiska, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, explains the state’s point of view. “They’re absolutely oppressive with regard to parental rights. They believe that the only duty of the parents basically is to give birth and then the child belongs to the state,” he tells American Family News. “So we had known all along that this was going to be something that would have to be taken from Sweden and brought to the European level.” Kiska says the remaining option is to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which has jurisdiction over Sweden. [more]
- Posted: 05/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Court: European Court of Human Rights, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
LifeSiteNews: Roger Kiska, the Alliance Defending Freedom’s senior legal counsel in Europe, was outraged by the court’s action. “It is beyond belief that a modern civilized country could allow such injustice to continue,” he said. “There is no evidence in the record that justifies the continued separation of this family. We will continue to fight for this family and on behalf of the principle that the European Convention condemns such acts.”
- Posted: 05/06/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lifesitenews.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
One News Now: Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Roger Kiska contends that the state wants to be the parent of all students, indoctrinating them with the state’s ideology. “I’ve heard statements in Sweden and in France recently that the role of the parent is simply to give birth to a child, and then it’s the state’s duty to educate the child,” Kiska accounts. “That’s absolutely contrary to international law and morality.”
- Posted: 05/01/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
HSLDA: Roger Kiska, the Alliance Defending Freedom’s senior legal counsel in Europe, was outraged by the court’s action. “It is beyond belief that a modern civilized country could allow such injustice to continue,” he said. “There is no evidence in the record that justifies the continued separation of this family. We will continue to fight for this family and on behalf of the principle that the European Convention condemns such acts.”
- Posted: 05/01/2013
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.hslda.org
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
MercatorNet.com: But Gotland (province) Social Services persisted, and managed to get a mid-level appeal court to overturn the district court ruling. Now the couple, with the aid of the US-based Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and the Alliance Defending Freedom, have taken their case to the Supreme Court of Sweden. They are being represented by Ruby Harrold-Claesson of the Nordic Committee on Human Rights. . . . Alliance Defending Freedom and HSLDA are encouraging concerned people from all over the world to participate in an HSLDA-sponsored letter-writing campaign that asks the Supreme Court of Sweden to accept the case Johansson v. Gotland Social Services and return Domenic to his parents.
- Posted: 04/24/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.mercatornet.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
Huffington Post: Home-schooling families in Europe have become a cause celebre for some U.S. conservatives. The Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom is working with two Swedish home-schooling families, including Christer and Annie Johansson, who lost custody of 11-year-old Domenic when they refused to enroll him in public school.
- Posted: 04/23/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
CBN (includes video): Alliance Defending Freedom and the Home-School Legal Defense Association have asked the European court of Human Rights to hear the case of a Swedish family heavily fined for home-schooling.
- Posted: 04/23/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.cbn.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Multimedia, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
weden’s highest court is being asked to free an 11-year-old boy whom government officials have held in captivity for four years because his parents home-schooled him. Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom and the Home School Legal Defense Association are legal advisors to the parents, who are represented by Ruby Harrold-Claesson of the Nordic Committee on Human Rights.
- Posted: 04/22/2013
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defending Freedom, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Featured, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
WorldNetDaily: Swedish parents Annie and Christer Johansson have launched what may be their last hope to see their son again – with an appeal to the Supreme Court of Sweden to overturn a lower court’s decision to end their parental rights over homeschooling . . . he HSLDA has been working on Domenic’s case, along with officials from the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/homeschool-parents-have-1-shot-to-see-son-again/#vPLSHHFWFSdLzt1K.99
- Posted: 04/22/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Global, Category: Marriage and Family, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Homeschool, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
Carly Pildis at Policymic: The bill was inspired by the case of Julea Ward, who was expelled from Eastern Michigan University for refusing to counsel LGBT students. She sued the university with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, with EMU agreeing to a settlement of $75,000.
- Posted: 03/21/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.policymic.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Global: Religious Freedom, Group: Family Action of Tennessee, State: Georgia, State: Tennessee, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Legislation, ZZ: Ward v. Wilbanks, ZZADF: 18794
Steve Williams at Care2.com: However, neither Deberry or Hohenwald authored the bill. Conservative David Fowler, president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee, drafted both versions of the bill with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom, formally the Alliance Defense Fund, whose anti-gay agenda is well established. The ADF represented a Michigan student named Julea Ward who was expelled from a master’s degree program at Eastern Michigan University for refusing to counsel gay clients or clients who were sexually involved with someone but weren’t married. Ward received a $75,000 settlement last year. Another student, self-avowed devoted Christian Jennifer Keeton . . .
- Posted: 03/18/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.care2.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Global: Religious Freedom, Group: Family Action of Tennessee, State: Georgia, State: Tennessee, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Legislation, ZZ: Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley, ZZ: Ward v. Wilbanks, ZZADF: 18794
WorldNetDaily: An appeals court panel in Sweden has imposed the “death penalty” on a homeschooling family, granting the state full custody of their son, who famously was “state-napped” from a jetliner in 2009 as the family prepared to move to India. The appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling that granted Annie and Christer Johansson custody of their son, Domenic. But if the decision is not reversed again by the nation’ Supreme Court, the Johansson’s will lose their son, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association, which has been working on the case with the Alliance Defending Freedom . . .
- Posted: 12/21/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Featured, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Global: Religious Liberty, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services, ZZ: Johansson v. Sweden, ZZADF: 28118
Daniel Pipes at National Review: The Russian and Chinese actions point to these alliances shaping the foreign policies of outside powers, too. Whereas the European Union and the U.S. government are increasingly sympathetic to Islamism, in part as a way to tame their own Muslim populations, Moscow and Beijing have a history of open conflict with their Muslim populations and therefore adopt policies more hostile to Islamism in the Middle East.
- Posted: 07/03/2012
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- Category: Global: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: China, Country: European Union, Country: Iran, Country: Israel, Country: Russia, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Islam, Topic: White House
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