http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/obama-endorses-gay-marriage-one-news-now-ap/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/obama-endorses-gay-marriage-one-news-now-ap/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 13:43:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133424 One News Now (AP): Jim Campbell, litigation staff counsel with Alliance Defense Fund, sees obvious contradiction in the president's announcement today. "This shows that the Obama administration doesn't understand the public purpose of marriage. Marriage -- the lifelong, faithful union of one man and one woman -- is the building block of a thriving society. It's not something that politicians should attempt to redefine for political purposes. "The president has spoken eloquently about how fatherless homes often hurt children and society. Today's statement is a tragic contradiction that promotes the creation of even more fatherless and motherless homes. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/obama-endorses-gay-marriage-one-news-now-ap/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/black-pastors-join-pro-family-groups-to-condemn-southern-poverty-law-center-for-%e2%80%98bigotry%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/black-pastors-join-pro-family-groups-to-condemn-southern-poverty-law-center-for-%e2%80%98bigotry%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:53:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123438 LifeSiteNews.com: A coalition that includes black pastors and pro-family organizations held a protest outside the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center yesterday to protest the organization’s ongoing “slander” against pro-family organizations. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/black-pastors-join-pro-family-groups-to-condemn-southern-poverty-law-center-for-%e2%80%98bigotry%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/pastor-church-in-oklahoma-threatened-with-death-destruction-for-standing-against-homosexuality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/pastor-church-in-oklahoma-threatened-with-death-destruction-for-standing-against-homosexuality/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:50:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119499 Greeley Gazette: Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, told WND the move was alarming because "this would be the very first governmental and societal disapproval of a sincerely held religious belief, held by a majority of Americans, namely that homosexual behavior is immoral. "It's the first time the federal government is writing into law a disapproval of that belief," he said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/pastor-church-in-oklahoma-threatened-with-death-destruction-for-standing-against-homosexuality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/18/threats-target-church-after-stand-for-bible-worldnetdaily/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/18/threats-target-church-after-stand-for-bible-worldnetdaily/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:48:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118989 WorldNetDaily: For example, Blair participates in the annual Pulpit Freedom Day assembled by the Alliance Defense Fund that is intended to restore free speech to pastors who speak from their pulpits about the moral issues of the day. It is in opposition to an IRS rule that says pastors are not supposed to mention those issues in connection with political candidates. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/18/threats-target-church-after-stand-for-bible-worldnetdaily/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/fox-news-parent-company-investing-in-gay-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/fox-news-parent-company-investing-in-gay-marriage/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111694 OneNewsNow.com: News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, is preparing to publish a magazine devoted to planning "gay" and lesbian weddings with the debut issue of Wedding Pride next month. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) deems it sad that the news operation trusted by many Americans is supporting homosexual marriage. But he says it is an indication of the direction the network is headed. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/fox-news-parent-company-investing-in-gay-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/20/marriage-illinois-hopes-for-chance-to-weigh-in/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/20/marriage-illinois-hopes-for-chance-to-weigh-in/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 17:58:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=104240 One News Now: A pro-marriage rally is set to take place Friday, May 27, at the famous "Loop" in downtown Chicago, where the Illinois Defense of Marriage Initiative, the statewide pro-marriage campaign will be introduced. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/20/marriage-illinois-hopes-for-chance-to-weigh-in/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/26/civil-unions-its-all-about-affirmation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/26/civil-unions-its-all-about-affirmation/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:19:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101951 One News Now: "The reality is that civil unions, like all homosexual activist legislation, [are] incompatible with religious freedom," LaBarbera points out. "So in Illinois, it looks like they're going to be going after private business owners [and Christian] bed and breakfast owners...who don't want to have homosexual celebrations on their own property, and it looks like they're going to be going after religious-based adoption agencies." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/26/civil-unions-its-all-about-affirmation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/10/labarbera-schools-can-stop-bullying-without-promoting-homosexuality-or-gender-confusion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/10/labarbera-schools-can-stop-bullying-without-promoting-homosexuality-or-gender-confusion/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:44:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=97686 Christian Newswire: Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (www.aftah.org), warned that a White House "Bullying Prevention Summit" today may promote a pro-homosexuality agenda in schools in the guise of stopping cruelty between students. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/10/labarbera-schools-can-stop-bullying-without-promoting-homosexuality-or-gender-confusion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/why-glenn-beck-is-wrong-about-legalizing-homosexual-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/why-glenn-beck-is-wrong-about-legalizing-homosexual-marriage/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:30:47 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=69560 writes at Spero News: "1) . . . federalized homosexual 'marriage' would override the documented will of the people in the 31 states . . . 2) Legalized homosexual 'marriage' will force businessmen and -women to subsidize homosexual relationships even if they rightly believe that those relationships are immoral and deviant . . . 3) Legalized homosexual 'marriage' paves the way for even greater pro-homosexuality indoctrination in the nation’s schools . . . 4) . . . public school parents would be barred from preventing proudly partnered homosexuals from teaching their kids . . . 5) . . . school textbooks will be re-written to validate homosexual 'marriages' . . . 6) . . . it becomes a very effective and practical tool in the further demonization and denigration of traditional religion in the USA . . . 7) . . . adoption agencies that adhere to that time-test natural model of family will be forced by state bureaucracies to place childen in homes that are motherless or fatherless by design . . ." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/why-glenn-beck-is-wrong-about-legalizing-homosexual-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/andrew-sullivan-her-sexual-orientation-above-all/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/andrew-sullivan-her-sexual-orientation-above-all/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 18:06:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/andrew-sullivan-her-sexual-orientation-above-all/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/andrew-sullivan-her-sexual-orientation-above-all/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/if-elena-kagan-is-a-lesbian-she-should-say-so-because-public-has-a-right-to-know/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/if-elena-kagan-is-a-lesbian-she-should-say-so-because-public-has-a-right-to-know/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 15:21:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/if-elena-kagan-is-a-lesbian-she-should-say-so-because-public-has-a-right-to-know/ Americans for Truth About Homosexuality: "According to some reports it is an open secret that Kagan is a practicing lesbian — to which AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera responds: 'If Kagan is practicing immoral sexual behavior, it reflects on her character as a judicial nominee and her personal bias as potentially one of the most important public officials in America. The popular mantra — even among conservatives — is that Kagan’s sexuality is ‘irrelevant.’ But a Justice Kagan would help decide some critically important constitutional issues dealing with: homosexual ‘marriage’ as a supposed civil right; religious liberty and freedom of conscience; and the First Amendment as applied to citizens’ right to oppose homosexuality. So it certainly matters if she, as a lifetime judge, could emerge as a crusading (openly) ‘gay’ advocate on the court.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/10/if-elena-kagan-is-a-lesbian-she-should-say-so-because-public-has-a-right-to-know/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/01/media-jump-to-smear-right-with-extremist-label/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/01/media-jump-to-smear-right-with-extremist-label/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:54:09 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=57140 The New American: "The arrests on March 28 and 29 of nine people associated with the so-called Hutaree Militia in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio has provided media commentators and reporters with an opportunity to broadly smear all political conservatives, constitutionalists, Tea Party activists, and opponents of President Obama's health care as 'extremist' and 'anti-government' . . . Of course, the SPLC has been attacking the "Christian Right" for years, leveling the sandwich smear on such respected Christian and pro-family organizations as Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family, the late Rev. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries/Center for Reclaiming America, and Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women for America, as well as the Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, the Chalcedon Foundation, American Vision, the Christian Action Network, the Family Research Council, Summit Ministries, and the Traditional Values Coalition." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/01/media-jump-to-smear-right-with-extremist-label/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/03/illinois-traditional-values-group-sues-holiday-inn/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/03/illinois-traditional-values-group-sues-holiday-inn/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:48:13 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=35158 OneNewsNow: "A pro-family group is suing an Illinois hotel for discrimination. Americans for Truth About Homosexuality had scheduled an annual event two years ago at Holiday Inn in Naperville, Illinois. But when the hotel learned that demonstrators could be present, it cancelled the event." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/03/illinois-traditional-values-group-sues-holiday-inn/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/30/chicago-school-backpedaling-on-homosexual-parade-involvement/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/30/chicago-school-backpedaling-on-homosexual-parade-involvement/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:24:52 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=28704 OneNewsNow reports: "As OneNewsNow recently reported, students from Chicago's Nettlehorst Elementary School participated in Sunday's 'gay pride' parade. School officials claim the school did not endorse the event, but said that some parents were allowing their children to march in the parade. Those parents were not barred from using the school's name in the event, which Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute contends amounts to a backdoor endorsement." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/30/chicago-school-backpedaling-on-homosexual-parade-involvement/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/31/parents-urged-to-pull-children-from-school-on-homosexual-advocacy-day/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/31/parents-urged-to-pull-children-from-school-on-homosexual-advocacy-day/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:03 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=19875 The Christian Examiner reports: “Day of Truth students have the same constitutional right to express their viewpoint as any other student,” said ADF senior legal counsel Mike Johnson. “Unfortunately, despite using buzzwords like ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity,’ many schools have censored students who want to peacefully express a Christian viewpoint." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/31/parents-urged-to-pull-children-from-school-on-homosexual-advocacy-day/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/30/hutcherson-update-638-students-boycotted-day-of-silence-at-mt-si-high/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/30/hutcherson-update-638-students-boycotted-day-of-silence-at-mt-si-high/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:10:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/30/hutcherson-update-638-students-boycotted-day-of-silence-at-mt-si-high/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/04/30/hutcherson-update-638-students-boycotted-day-of-silence-at-mt-si-high/feed/ 0