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/2012/05/24/liberty-institute-sets-epic-battle-whether-the-supreme-court-will-allow-religious-imagery-on-veterans-memorials-to-acoustic-music/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/liberty-institute-sets-epic-battle-whether-the-supreme-court-will-allow-religious-imagery-on-veterans-memorials-to-acoustic-music/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 17:22:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134600 Sacramento Bee: On Memorial Day – as Liberty Institute awaits a response from the U.S. Supreme Court over their appeal to save the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross from being torn down by atheist groups—the group will unveil a new music video, titled "Don't Tear Me Down." Beginning Monday, May 28, tune-in at www.DontTearMeDown.com. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/liberty-institute-sets-epic-battle-whether-the-supreme-court-will-allow-religious-imagery-on-veterans-memorials-to-acoustic-music/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/tx-aclu-taking-on-legally-magical-words/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/tx-aclu-taking-on-legally-magical-words/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 18:12:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133561 One News Now: To accommodate the ACLU, the Lewisville Independent School District has decided to label it "student remarks" instead. Hiram Sasser of the Liberty Institute says that is unnecessary. "They're concerned about using the words 'invocation' and 'benediction.' There's nothing legally magical about using those words," he asserts. "They want to be able to use those words to describe the opening remarks and closing remarks, where students are allowed to pray and [are] certainly free to do so." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/tx-aclu-taking-on-legally-magical-words/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/lewisville-tx-student-prayer-ok-benedictions-invocations-out-at-graduation-ceremonies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/lewisville-tx-student-prayer-ok-benedictions-invocations-out-at-graduation-ceremonies/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 20:16:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133211 Dallas Morning News: The Lewisville school district has always allowed students to say prayers at high school graduations . . . “I don’t think there’s any legal requirement not to use ‘invocation’ or ‘benediction,’” said Hiram Sasser, director of litigation for the Liberty Institute, a Plano-based non-profit legal firm focused on religious issues. “They can have corresponding secular meanings.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/lewisville-tx-student-prayer-ok-benedictions-invocations-out-at-graduation-ceremonies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/liberty-institute-files-appeal-to-defend-church-from-discrimination/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/liberty-institute-files-appeal-to-defend-church-from-discrimination/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:51:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131257 Liberty Institute: Opulent Life Church has enlisted the help of Liberty Institute to protect the church from discrimination by the city of Holly Springs, MS. The church wishes to expand their current space in downtown, but due to zoning restrictions the church must get the approval of 60 percent of nearby residents and the town’s Mayor before they can expand. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/liberty-institute-files-appeal-to-defend-church-from-discrimination/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/alan-e-sears-el-paso-city-leaders-declare-war-on-civil-liberties-of-christians/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/alan-e-sears-el-paso-city-leaders-declare-war-on-civil-liberties-of-christians/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:07:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130301 Alan E. Sears at the ADF Blog: The penalty for opposing the policies of El Paso mayor John Cook are getting stiffer – maybe as stiff as “sign a petition, go to jail.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/alan-e-sears-el-paso-city-leaders-declare-war-on-civil-liberties-of-christians/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/recall-draws-national-conservative-groups-into-legal-fight-el-paso-times/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/recall-draws-national-conservative-groups-into-legal-fight-el-paso-times/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:34:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128962 El Paso Times: Bopp, who also is mentioned in the article, said the purpose of the James Madison Center is not to help get Republicans elected, and McConnell "was not involved in (the center's) day-to-day operations." Instead, the James Madison Center became involved in the case at the behest of the Alliance Defense Fund, Bopp said. "This case has revealed that your Texas campaign-finance laws have some bad features," he said . . . The Liberty Legal Institute didn't respond last week to questions for this story. The Alliance Defense Fund, a national organization that had already joined the recall fight, also says in its mission statement that it fights for constitutional freedoms. "ADF is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through . . . " [more] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/recall-draws-national-conservative-groups-into-legal-fight-el-paso-times/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/group-wants-supreme-court-to-save-war-memorial/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/group-wants-supreme-court-to-save-war-memorial/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:41:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125137 News from The Associated Press: A nonprofit legal firm, Liberty Institute in Washington, D.C., planned to file its petition Thursday . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/group-wants-supreme-court-to-save-war-memorial/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/greg-baylor-on-wallbuilders-live-discrimination-against-christians-in-the-college-placement-office/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/greg-baylor-on-wallbuilders-live-discrimination-against-christians-in-the-college-placement-office/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:14:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122864 Greg Baylor appeared on Wallbuilders Live to discuss this. | MP3 audio 7:21 mins ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/greg-baylor-on-wallbuilders-live-discrimination-against-christians-in-the-college-placement-office/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/09/fifth-circuit-mulls-free-speech-rights-under-texas-sonogram-bill/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/09/fifth-circuit-mulls-free-speech-rights-under-texas-sonogram-bill/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:07:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122383 Findlaw: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in the Texas Sonogram Bill case, Texas Medical Providers, et al v. David Lakey. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/09/fifth-circuit-mulls-free-speech-rights-under-texas-sonogram-bill/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/03/battling-anew-over-the-place-of-religion-in-public-schools/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/03/battling-anew-over-the-place-of-religion-in-public-schools/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:32:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121871 NYTimes.com: “The free-speech rights of students and teachers are under an all-out assault,” said Kelly Shackelford, president of the Liberty Institute, a Christian legal group in Plano, Tex. He described one continuing legal case in which “children had pencils ripped out of their hands” because they carried a Christian message and students were “banned from writing Merry Christmas to the soldiers.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/03/battling-anew-over-the-place-of-religion-in-public-schools/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/09/tx-gotta-be-married-to-get-divorced/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/09/tx-gotta-be-married-to-get-divorced/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:38:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=120457 OneNewsNow.com: Hiram Sasser of Liberty Institute tells OneNewsNow the couples are trying to twist state law to suit their own agenda. "These are two men who claim they want to get a divorce, and the proper remedy in this state is just to declare the marriage void. It's the same result as if the marriage never happened," Sasser explains. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/09/tx-gotta-be-married-to-get-divorced/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/01/in-montana-jesus-statue-is-focus-of-legal-battle/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/01/in-montana-jesus-statue-is-focus-of-legal-battle/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:08:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119765 NYTimes.com: Hiram Sasser, a lawyer for the Liberty Institute, a conservative legal advocacy group, said that because the ski resort is already leasing much of the mountain from the Forest Service, the federal government has no right to ban the statue merely because some people might not like it. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/01/in-montana-jesus-statue-is-focus-of-legal-battle/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/aclu-pro-religious-symbols/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/aclu-pro-religious-symbols/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:47:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119584 OneNewsNow.com: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas is taking an unusual stance and defending students' rights to wear religious symbols at school. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/aclu-pro-religious-symbols/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/25/decades-long-battle-over-cross-nearing-finish-line/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/25/decades-long-battle-over-cross-nearing-finish-line/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:56:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116689 World Net Daily: "Although we are disappointed that the Ninth Circuit denied requests to have the full court rehear this case, we are encouraged that five of the judges agree with us and believe the cross should stay," said Kelly Shackelford, attorney for the memorial . . . Joseph Infranco, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, also praised the 23-page dissent."The political agenda of secularist groups should not be allowed to uproot memorials that honor the sacrifices of America's fallen heroes and their families," he said. [more] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/25/decades-long-battle-over-cross-nearing-finish-line/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/20/victory-god-welcome-again-at-va-national-cemeteries/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/20/victory-god-welcome-again-at-va-national-cemeteries/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:54:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116412 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/20/victory-god-welcome-again-at-va-national-cemeteries/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/tx-city-faces-legal-action-over-abortion-clinic-signage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/tx-city-faces-legal-action-over-abortion-clinic-signage/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:16:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115890 The Daily Texan: The Texas Center for Defense of Life, Law of Life Project, Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Institute are representing Austin area pro-life pregnancy resource centers who say the city is violating their First Amendment rights as well as attacking their moral position on abortion. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/tx-city-faces-legal-action-over-abortion-clinic-signage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/07/tx-limits-on-free-speech-for-pregnancy-centers-2/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/07/tx-limits-on-free-speech-for-pregnancy-centers-2/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:39:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115739 OneNewsNow.com: Liberty Institute is filing a lawsuit against the city of Austin, Texas, for its ordinance that limits the constitutional rights of free speech for pregnancy resource centers. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/07/tx-limits-on-free-speech-for-pregnancy-centers-2/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/23/proposed-settlement-filed-in-houston-veterans-cemetery-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/23/proposed-settlement-filed-in-houston-veterans-cemetery-case/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:12:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=114417 Religion Clause: Under the proposed consent decree (full text), reached after mediation by a former Texas Supreme Court justice, the government agreed to 50 stipulations that facilitate the VFW, the Memorial Ladies and the American Legion's providing honor guard ceremonies and condolence cards, including religious expressions, unless the family objects . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/23/proposed-settlement-filed-in-houston-veterans-cemetery-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/19/evangelical-pastors-heed-a-political-calling-for-2012-3/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/19/evangelical-pastors-heed-a-political-calling-for-2012-3/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:22:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113822 Pantagraph: But the religious leaders are bolstered by well-funded Christian legal organizations supporting their cause. The most prominent — the Alliance Defense Fund, a group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that spent $32 million in 2010 — is challenging a 1954 tax code amendment that prohibits pastors, as leaders of tax-exempt organizations, from supporting or opposing candidates from the pulpit. The fund sponsors Pulpit Freedom Sunday, in which it offers free legal representation to churches whose pastors preach about political candidates and are then audited by the Internal Revenue Service. (So far, no IRS investigations have been triggered.) Last fall, 100 churches participated — up from 33 in 2008. This year’s Pulpit Freedom Sunday scheduled for Oct. 2, is expected to draw more than 500 churches. [Kelly Shackelford of Liberty Institute quoted] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/19/evangelical-pastors-heed-a-political-calling-for-2012-3/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/12/evangelical-pastors-heed-a-political-calling-for-2012/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/12/evangelical-pastors-heed-a-political-calling-for-2012/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:16:55 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113218 Tribune Washington Bureau via Kansas City Star (also in Sacramento Bee): As pastors speak out on political matters, they've drawn admonitions from groups such as Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which warns that such activism could jeopardize their churches' nonprofit status. But the religious leaders are bolstered by well-funded Christian legal organizations supporting their cause. The most prominent - the Alliance Defense Fund, a group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that spent $32 million in 2010 - is challenging a 1954 tax code amendment that prohibits pastors, as leaders of tax-exempt organizations, from supporting or opposing candidates from the pulpit. The fund sponsors Pulpit Freedom Sunday, in which it offers free legal representation to churches whose pastors preach about political candidates and are then audited by the Internal Revenue Service. (So far, no IRS investigations have been triggered.) ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/12/evangelical-pastors-heed-a-political-calling-for-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/29/ms-football-prayers-district-caves-fans-pray-anyway/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/29/ms-football-prayers-district-caves-fans-pray-anyway/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:19:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=112007 OneNewsNow.com: District Attorney Keith Treadway believes the law prohibits prayers over the public address (PA) system at sporting events, but Kelly Shackelford of the Liberty Institute says the Freedom From Religion Foundation is misinforming people. "You have a right to speak a religious thought, even if it's on government property, even if it's on a PA system that's government -owned, even if it's on a public street, a public park, which are also government property," he contends. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/29/ms-football-prayers-district-caves-fans-pray-anyway/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/religious-freedom-under-attack-in-the-military/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/religious-freedom-under-attack-in-the-military/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:04:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111737 CitizenLink: “This emanates from some written policies that the people who aren’t religious shouldn’t have to hear religious things. But these policies are leading to people being robbed of the ceremonies they want for their husbands and fathers,” said Liberty Institute President Kelly Shackelford. “We’ve clearly got a director here who’s out of control and is anti-religious, but she thought she could get away with it because of the policy. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/religious-freedom-under-attack-in-the-military/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/29/protecting-religious-college-recruiters/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/29/protecting-religious-college-recruiters/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:22:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109459 One News Now: Gregory Baylor of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) says the problem surfaced when discriminatory policies against religious organizations were discovered at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). We resolved that situation with [UTSA], and we had a concern that other ... public colleges and universities in the state of Texas might have similar policies," Baylor explains. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/29/protecting-religious-college-recruiters/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/federal-court-denies-ffrf-petition-to-bar-texas-governor-from-prayer-rally/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/federal-court-denies-ffrf-petition-to-bar-texas-governor-from-prayer-rally/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:25:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109382 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/federal-court-denies-ffrf-petition-to-bar-texas-governor-from-prayer-rally/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/utsa-embroiled-in-ad-controversy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/utsa-embroiled-in-ad-controversy/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:46:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109309 San Antonio Express-News: The Alliance Defense Fund, a network of Christian attorneys opposed to abortion and gay marriage, has sent letters to 136 public colleges . . . Gregory Baylor, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said the federal Civil Rights Act and the Texas Employment Discrimination law exempt religious employers from the discrimination ban.“It is not permissible for an auto manufacturer to say, ‘We don't want any Hindus on the manufacturing line,' but it is permissible for the local synagogue to say, ‘We want our rabbi to be Jewish,'” Baylor said. Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School and expert on religious liberty laws, agreed . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/utsa-embroiled-in-ad-controversy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/26/shackelford-perry-has-long-favored-a-federal-marriage-amendment/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/26/shackelford-perry-has-long-favored-a-federal-marriage-amendment/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:45:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109114 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/26/shackelford-perry-has-long-favored-a-federal-marriage-amendment/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/25/136-texas-public-colleges-universities-asked-about-religious-discrimination-at-career-centers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/25/136-texas-public-colleges-universities-asked-about-religious-discrimination-at-career-centers/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:39:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109040 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/25/136-texas-public-colleges-universities-asked-about-religious-discrimination-at-career-centers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/texas-senator-calls-for-probe-into-censored-religious-speech-at-cemetery/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/texas-senator-calls-for-probe-into-censored-religious-speech-at-cemetery/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:23:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107755 Christian Post: Two other senators have already called for Ocasio to step down. Hutchison is asking the Veterans Affairs Secretary to investigate the circumstances surrounding Ocasio's actions, according to KHOU. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/texas-senator-calls-for-probe-into-censored-religious-speech-at-cemetery/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/05/hundreds-protest-veteran-cemetery-director/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/05/hundreds-protest-veteran-cemetery-director/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:24:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107522 Fox News: he people who packed onto the grounds were pastors and lawmakers, war vets, moms who lost children in battle, and just regular everyday Americans. Americans like Kimberly Walker who are not happy with the cemetery's director. "I'm just here out of righteous anger," Walker said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/05/hundreds-protest-veteran-cemetery-director/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/01/legion-supports-religious-charge-against-va/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/01/legion-supports-religious-charge-against-va/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:57:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107343 The American Legion: On June 28, Liberty Institute in Dallas filed court papers alleging that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, are engaging in "religious viewpoint discrimination" in violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The American Legion will support the case as an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") as soon as possible. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/01/legion-supports-religious-charge-against-va/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/20/kelly-shackelford-yes-prayer-a-protected-right-its-called-freedom-of-speech-and-student-taught-us-a-lesson/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/20/kelly-shackelford-yes-prayer-a-protected-right-its-called-freedom-of-speech-and-student-taught-us-a-lesson/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:27:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=106779 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/20/kelly-shackelford-yes-prayer-a-protected-right-its-called-freedom-of-speech-and-student-taught-us-a-lesson/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/06/first-amendment-protects-prayer-not-obscene-violence/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/06/first-amendment-protects-prayer-not-obscene-violence/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:53:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=105556 Washington Examiner: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the rest of the framers of the Constitution would be astounded to hear a federal judge order a valedictorian's prayer is not protected by the First Amendment, but marketing sickening video games to children is protected by the First Amendment. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/06/first-amendment-protects-prayer-not-obscene-violence/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/federal-court-lifts-ban-on-public-prayer-at-texas-high-school-graduation-after-uproar/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/federal-court-lifts-ban-on-public-prayer-at-texas-high-school-graduation-after-uproar/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:34:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=105526 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/federal-court-lifts-ban-on-public-prayer-at-texas-high-school-graduation-after-uproar/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/texas-gov-rick-perry-calls-graduation-prayer-ban-reprehensible/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/texas-gov-rick-perry-calls-graduation-prayer-ban-reprehensible/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:30:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=105529 Christian Post: Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday criticized a federal judge’s decision to ban prayer from a high school graduation ceremony, calling the ruling “reprehensible.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/texas-gov-rick-perry-calls-graduation-prayer-ban-reprehensible/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/christian-group-plans-prayerful-protest-at-medina-valley-graduation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/christian-group-plans-prayerful-protest-at-medina-valley-graduation/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:54:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=105499 San Antonio Express-News: s a federal appeals court weighs whether a judge was correct to keep public prayers out of the Medina Valley High School graduation ceremony, the furor over the issue is attracting more activists and political players who don't like the decision. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/03/christian-group-plans-prayerful-protest-at-medina-valley-graduation/feed/ 0