LaTimes.com: The 5th District Court of Appeal ruled that the U.S. and Florida constitutions trump Florida law and give parenting rights to both women. State law, it added, has not kept up with the times. | D.M.H. v. D.M.T., No. 5D09-3559 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. (5th), Dec. 23, 2011)
- Posted: 01/04/2012
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Florida, Topic: Homosexal Agenda, Topic: IVF, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Surrogacy, ZZ: D.M.H. v. D.M.T.
Lambda Legal: “The single most important principle contained in the guidelines is that affirming the sexual orientation and gender identity and expression of LGBTQ youth in care protects young peoples’ emotional safety and ensures positive outcomes,” said Flor Bermudez, Lambda Legal’s Youth in Out-of-Home Care Staff Attorney. “We are pleased that the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) will make the Recommended Practice Guidelines available to every state child welfare agency in the country to help meet the needs of LGBTQ children.”
- Posted: 12/14/2011
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- Category: Marriage & Family
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Adoption, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: White House
The Associated Press: Keeton’s lawsuit was brought by the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian advocacy group that that presses faith-based cases in court nationwide. It argues that the First Amendment protects Keeton’s rights to share her beliefs about gays with others.
- Posted: 11/30/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.google.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: ACLU, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Georgia, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, ZZ: Facebook, ZZ: Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley
OneNewsNow.com: But as Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) points out, such incidences are happening in schools all across the country. “They’re just bypassing parents, especially on some of the most controversial stuff that students are exposed to — sex education, the battle regarding the homosexual agenda,” he laments. “The school districts are starting just to say, ‘Well, we know what’s better for your kids. We’re not even gonna tell you what we’re doing.’”
- Posted: 11/03/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: Jeremy Tedesco, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Sex Indoctrination, ZZADF: 35801
Idaho Statesman: The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based firm that presses faith-based cases in court, issued a statement Monday saying the district was “duped” by gay rights activists into ditching the proposed parental consent policy. “School districts do not need to give in to activist demands that parents be left ignorant about what their children are exposed to,” said Jeremy Tedesco, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, in a statement.
- Posted: 10/31/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.idahostatesman.com
- Tags: ADF: Jeremey Tedesco, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Sex Indoctrination
Lambda Legal: Last week, the school board issued a revised policy that now makes clear that student clubs are not prohibited from discussing “sexual orientation including such subjects as combating unfair treatment, prejudices, or stereotypes.” However, the policy retains the requirement for parental consent to join a club. Furthermore, it maintains a three-tier structure for student organizations (exempt, curriculum, and non-curriculum), relegating all non-curriculum clubs, including Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), to the third tier and significantly limiting their ability to access school resources.
- Posted: 09/13/2011
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- Category: Marriage & Family
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda
Milwaukee News Buzz: Meanwhile, Wisconsin Family Action is getting legal help from the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal organization based in Arizona. It’s fielding three staff attorneys and two in Wisconsin that it has described in press releases as “ADF-allied,” Michael Dean of Waukesha and Taylor Samuel of Kenosha.
- Posted: 03/25/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.milwaukeenewsbuzz.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Group: Wisconsin Family Action, State: Wisconsin, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage
Greg Scott, ADF National Media Relations Director, writes at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: “President Obama took 61% of the California vote to Sen. McCain’s 37%. Proposition 8, California’s state constitutional marriage protection amendment, cruised to a comfortable 52.24%-47.76% win. The math isn’t all that hard. The fact is, plenty of folks who voted for then-candidate Obama also voted to restore the definition of marriage in deep-Blue California.”
- Posted: 03/01/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: blog.speakupmovement.org
- Tags: ADF: Greg Scott, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: California, Topic: Elections, Topic: Homosexual Agenda
Lisa Keen writes at theWindy City Times: It is possible—just as happened in California—that some other entity might attempt to mount its own defense of DOMA in the pending cases. Last October, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, filed a motion in the two First Circuit cases, seeking to be named intervenor-defendant. Smith, aided by the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, said at the time that the Justice Department was providing “no defense at all” for DOMA. He withdrew his motion a few weeks later, without comment. [this report contains a lengthy list of responses from homosexual groups]
- Posted: 02/24/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.windycitymediagroup.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), Group: Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Group: Lambda Legal, Group: National Center for Lesbian Rights, Group: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Topic: Department of Justice (DOJ), Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, Topic: White House, ZZ: Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management, ZZ: Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
Lambda Legal: “The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California will hear oral arguments this Friday, December 17, in a Lambda Legal case that could result in the next major court decision regarding the federal so-called ‘Defense of Marriage Act,’ or DOMA.”
- Posted: 12/16/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
- Tags: Category: Bench and Bar, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: California, Topic: Federal DOMA, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management
Virginia Law Weekly: “On Monday, the Law School hosted Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund and Matt McGill of Gibson Dunn for a debate on Proposition 8, California’s recently passed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. A U.S. District Court recently held that Proposition 8 violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The 9th Circuit will hear the case on appeal on Dec. 6.”
- Posted: 11/12/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lawweekly.org
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: American Constitution Society, Group: Federalist Society, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Virginia, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
Lambda Legal: “Lambda Legal yesterday filed a brief in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in a lawsuit that could result in the next major court decision regarding the constitutionality of the so-called ‘Defense of Marriage Act,’ also known as DOMA.”
Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management, No. 3:10-cv-0257-JSW (N.D. Cal.)
- Posted: 11/09/2010
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Bench and Bar, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: California, Topic: Federal DOMA, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Golinski v. United States Office of Personnel Management
Lambda Legal: “Lambda Legal client Dr. Robert Franke, who was evicted from a Little Rock, Arkansas, assisted living facility because he has HIV, has been invited by the White House to participate this week in a conference on HIV and aging. Dr. Franke, a retired educator and former minister, will attend the meeting with his daughter, Sara Bowling, and Lambda Legal HIV Project Staff Attorney Scott Schoettes. Schoettes will speak on a panel addressing issues likely to affect seniors living with HIV.”
- Posted: 10/25/2010
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- Category: Miscellaneous
- Tags: Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: White House
Lambda Legal: “In a unanimous decision, the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District, upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by an antigay group that attempted to strip away the newly enacted domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples and their families.”
Cleveland Taxpayers for the Ohio Constitution v. City of Cleveland, No. 94327 (Ohio App. Sept. 30, 2010)
- Posted: 10/01/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Ohio, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Cleveland Taxpayers for the Ohio State Constitution v City of Cleveland
New York Times: “In addition to the military policy, two laws restricting gay rights — the federal Defense of Marriage Act and the California ban on same-sex marriage — have been declared unconstitutional by federal judges in recent months. The fact that these decisions have come from federal courts signals a shift for activists on gay legal issues. Until recently, the activists’ conventional wisdom held that gay rights cases should work their way through state courts, which were viewed as more accommodating than the federal judiciary.”
- Posted: 09/22/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: www.nytimes.com
- Tags: Category: Bench and Bar, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Family Research Council (FRC), Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Congress, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Military, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
WSJ: “The ruling earlier this month by San Francisco federal judge Vaughn Walker declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional might well be overturned by the Ninth Circuit . . . But for now, it seems it’s providing a bit of inspiration to gays and lesbians in Hawaii, who last month sued Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle after she vetoed legislation approved last year that would have allowed same-sex civil unions. According to this LAT story, backers of the suit hope Judge Walker’s Aug. 4 ruling will become the legal precedent that other courts in the country eventually will follow.”
- Posted: 08/30/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: blogs.wsj.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: California, State: Hawaii, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
American Constitution Society Convention panel: “On June 18, at the 2010 ACS National Convention, a panel of experts discussed ‘Marriage Equality: An Update and Preview.’ The panel featured: Christopher Hayes, Washington, D.C. Editor, The Nation, Moderator; Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders; Brian W. Raum, Senior Counsel, Marriage Litigation Center, Alliance Defense Fund; Therese M. Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, City of San Francisco; Camilla B. Taylor, Senior Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal.”
- Posted: 08/23/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.acslaw.org
- Tags: ADF: Brian Raum, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Multimedia, Alliance Defense Fund, Group: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), Group: Lambda Legal
Watertown Daily Times: “The Justice Department has filed motion in U.S. District Court to participate in the case as an ‘amicus curiae,’ or friend of the court, essentially volunteering to help the court decide whether federal discrimination claims by former student Charles P. Pratt should be upheld. Mr. Pratt, who filed suit in April 2009, alleged he was harassed, called names, physically assaulted and threatened . . . Mr. Pratt claims that district officials were aware of the problems but deliberately refused to help him. He also said any attempts by him to form a Gay-Straight Alliance at the high school were shot down by administrators.”
- Posted: 08/19/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: www.watertowndailytimes.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Gay-Straight Alliance, Group: Lambda Legal, State: New York, Topic: Department of Justice (DOJ), Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, ZZ: Pratt v. Indian River Central School District
Lambda Legal Press Release: “Today, Lambda Legal joined a coalition of over 30 organizations and leaders from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), immigrants’ rights, civil rights and faith communities to urge Congress to pass the Uniting American Families Act and end discrimination against LGBT binational families.” | United American Families Act on Wikipedia
- Posted: 07/19/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Congress, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Immigration, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Marriage
USA Today: “Lawsuits over gay marriage have escalated on the nation’s two coasts, energizing advocates on both sides and bringing the legal battle over same-sex marriage closer to the U.S. Supreme Court . . . Still, resolution of the cases now in lower U.S. courts and any Supreme Court determination on same-sex marriage is far from predictable. ‘I’m still optimistic about the Supreme Court,’ says Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, which wants to preserve marriage for heterosexuals . . . ‘Many people do not understand that Proposition 8 is not just about California,’ Gallagher says. ‘This is a national case with national implications.’”
- Posted: 07/14/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: www.usatoday.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Group: National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, ZZ: Massachusetts v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
Leonard Link: “The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterday that the state’s anti-marriage constitutional amendment . . . does not violate the ‘single subject’ rule. Although this was a private voter lawsuit rather than an action instigated by LGBT public interest groups, the case attracted organization amicus briefs on both sides of the issue. ACLU and Lambda Legal and the League of Women Voters supported McConkey’s appeal, while the Wisconsin Family Council (represented by Alliance Defense Fund), and an organization calling itself ‘Community Leaders Dedicated to Children Raised by Married Mothers and Fathers,’ filed briefs defending the amendment.”
- Posted: 07/01/2010
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: newyorklawschool.typepad.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Group: Wisconsin Family Council, State: Wisconsin, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: McConkey v Van Hollen
Washington Blade (“lgbtq community news source”): “In a statement, Jim Campbell, an attorney for Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal firm working on the case, said defendants would emphasize arguments they made throughout the trial. ‘The team of attorneys defending Proposition 8 will highlight all the reasons why Proposition 8 is constitutional,’ he said. ‘In doing so, they will emphasize the reasons why Proposition 8 is not only rational, but also why preserving marriage as one man and one woman is good social policy.’”
- Posted: 06/18/2010
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- Category: Uncategorized
- Tags: ADF: Jim Campbell, ADF: Media Clips, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: Perry v. Brown
365Gay.com: “Gay legal activists are applauding President Obama’s second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court: Solicitor General Elena Kagan. But it could hardly be described as a standing ovation . . . Kagan clerked for one of the Supreme Court’s staunchest liberals, Thurgood Marshall, and was a research assistant for one of the greatest legal defenders of gay civil rights, Laurence Tribe . . . Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights called Kagan “well-qualified” . . .”
- Posted: 05/10/2010
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- Category: Bench & Bar
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- Source: www.365gay.com
- Tags: Category: Bench and Bar, Category: Marriage and Family, Court: U.S. Supreme, Group: Center for Lesbian Rights, Group: Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Nominations
Times Record News (AP): “[T]he federal government doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage, nor do the vast majority of states, including Pennsylvania. Even with a valid out-of-state marriage license, gay and lesbian couples in those states face uncertainty, extra legal bills and inevitable rebuffs that straight couples avoid . . . ‘The government cannot issue a divorce for a marriage it doesn’t recognize,’ said ADF senior legal counsel [Austin Nimocks].”
- Posted: 05/05/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.timesrecordnews.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Lambda Legal, State: Massachusetts, State: Oklahoma, State: Pennsylvania, Topic: Divorce, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, ZZ: O’Darling v. O’Darling
Pew Forum (RNS): “The case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, pits a campus chapter of a Christian legal group against the Hastings College of the Law and its 20-year-old nondiscrimination policy. ‘Our main argument is that Christian student groups shouldn’t be forced to deny their faith in order to receive equal treatment on campus,’ said [Gregory Baylor], senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is helping represent the CLS chapter before the high court.”
- Posted: 04/15/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: pewforum.org
- Tags: ADF: Gregory S. Baylor, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Court: U.S. Supreme, Group: Association of Christian Schools International, Group: Christian Legal Society, Group: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), Group: Lambda Legal, Group: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Topic: Education, ZZ: Christian Legal Society v Martinez
Bay Windows (“GLBT Newspaper”): “In Christian Legal v. Martinez, a Christian law students’ group contests a decision by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law, headed currently by acting chancellor Leo Martinez. The case also includes a gay student group, Outlaw, at the same school as a party to the defense . . . ‘Like every other student group on Hastings’ campus, it too has a choice,’ say GLAD and Lambda. ‘It can adhere to Hastings’ general nondiscrimination policy or forego school funding.’ The federal district court in San Francisco and the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with that logic and ruled for the university and Outlaw. Christian Legal, with the aid of the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in agreeing to hear that appeal, at least four justices had to indicate a willingness to consider their arguments.”
- Posted: 04/06/2010
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- Category: Uncategorized
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: Boy Scouts, Group: Christian Legal Society, Group: Concerned Women for America (CWA), Group: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), Group: Lambda Legal, Topic: Education, ZZ: Christian Legal Society v Martinez
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