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/2012/04/03/jennifer-roback-morse-privatizing-marriage-will-expand-the-role-of-the-state/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/jennifer-roback-morse-privatizing-marriage-will-expand-the-role-of-the-state/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:10:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130303 Ruth Institute: Libertarians are being taken in by rhetoric that sounds libertarian but, in fact, will lead to a dramatic shift in the balance of power between the state and civil society, indeed between the state and the natural order itself. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/jennifer-roback-morse-privatizing-marriage-will-expand-the-role-of-the-state/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/14/john-w-whitehead-dawn-of-the-drones-the-realization-of-the-total-surveillance-state/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/14/john-w-whitehead-dawn-of-the-drones-the-realization-of-the-total-surveillance-state/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:58:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125693 The Rutherford Institute: Congress has just passed a bill, the FAA Reauthorization Act, mandating that the Federal Aviation Administration create a comprehensive program for the integration of drone technology into the national air space by 2015. The FAA predicts that there will be 30,000 drones crisscrossing the skies of America by 2020, all part of an industry that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/14/john-w-whitehead-dawn-of-the-drones-the-realization-of-the-total-surveillance-state/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/king-5-video-pastor-to-wa-legislature-on-marriage-you-are-saying-that-you-know-better-than-god/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/king-5-video-pastor-to-wa-legislature-on-marriage-you-are-saying-that-you-know-better-than-god/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:15:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124235 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/king-5-video-pastor-to-wa-legislature-on-marriage-you-are-saying-that-you-know-better-than-god/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/video-washington-senate-panel-hearing-on-sb-6239-what-is-marriage-012312/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/video-washington-senate-panel-hearing-on-sb-6239-what-is-marriage-012312/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:55:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124227 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/video-washington-senate-panel-hearing-on-sb-6239-what-is-marriage-012312/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/24/open-marriage-a-terrible-idea-for-kids/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/24/open-marriage-a-terrible-idea-for-kids/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:51:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123913 Ruth Institute Blog: Open marriage is also likely to be a terrible idea for children. A growing body of research suggests that children are harmed when they are exposed to a revolving cast of caregivers and partners. For example, a recent federal report found that children living with one parent and an unrelated romantic partner were about 10 times as likely to be sexually, physically or emotionally abused, compared with children living with their own married, biological parents. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/24/open-marriage-a-terrible-idea-for-kids/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/24/video-detaching-biology-from-marriage-and-parenthood-washington-state-house-judiciary/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/24/video-detaching-biology-from-marriage-and-parenthood-washington-state-house-judiciary/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:16:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123886 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/24/video-detaching-biology-from-marriage-and-parenthood-washington-state-house-judiciary/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/16/virginia-groups-may-sue-over-state-adoption-decision/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/16/virginia-groups-may-sue-over-state-adoption-decision/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:04:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121051 Reuters: Virginia groups opposed to discriminating against would-be adoptive and foster parents based on factors including sexuality and religion said on Thursday they may sue after a state board's decision. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/16/virginia-groups-may-sue-over-state-adoption-decision/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/supreme-court-declines-review-of-school-vaccine-religious-flier-cases/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/supreme-court-declines-review-of-school-vaccine-religious-flier-cases/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:01:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118485 Education Week: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear appeals concerning mandated vaccines in public schools and a school district's refusal to allow a religious group's fliers to be sent home with students. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/supreme-court-declines-review-of-school-vaccine-religious-flier-cases/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/25/jennifer-roback-morse-to-ri-house-judiciary-the-thin-disguise-of-marriage-equality-will-not-atone-for-the-wrong-done-to-future-generations/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/25/jennifer-roback-morse-to-ri-house-judiciary-the-thin-disguise-of-marriage-equality-will-not-atone-for-the-wrong-done-to-future-generations/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:05:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=99182 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/25/jennifer-roback-morse-to-ri-house-judiciary-the-thin-disguise-of-marriage-equality-will-not-atone-for-the-wrong-done-to-future-generations/feed/ 4 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/ruth-institute-launches-contest-to-promote-positive-views-of-lifelong-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/ruth-institute-launches-contest-to-promote-positive-views-of-lifelong-marriage/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:41:19 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=91852 Ruth Institute: "The Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund, announces its first annual Reel Love Challenge, a video contest for young adults, aged 18-30. The contest is open to all young adults, married or single, male or female, in college, out of college, or never been anywhere near a college. This contest is for everyone in the next generation to give their ideas about what sustains love over the course of a lifetime." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/ruth-institute-launches-contest-to-promote-positive-views-of-lifelong-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/22/jennifer-roback-morse-reclaiming-the-rainbow/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/22/jennifer-roback-morse-reclaiming-the-rainbow/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:32:52 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=88178 Ruth Institute Blog: "Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the San Diego-based Ruth Institute rightly argues that the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant with man, and she says proponents of Proposition 8 – California’s measure that passed in 2008 to define marriage as between a man and a woman — are the original 'rainbow coalition.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/22/jennifer-roback-morse-reclaiming-the-rainbow/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/26/book-review-of-when-gay-people-get-married/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/26/book-review-of-when-gay-people-get-married/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:38:06 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=78543 William C. Duncan, director of the Marriage Law Foundation and Ruth Institute Board Member, reviews "When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage" by M. V. Lee Badgett: "The economist seems to think that personal interviews with thirty-four homosexuals, representing nineteen couples, can provide a quantitative understanding of the social consequences of Netherlands’ experiment with same-sex marriage . . . Consequently, the book offers little generalizable information and no conclusions verified by data about the effects of same-sex marriage on matrimony and society in Holland." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/26/book-review-of-when-gay-people-get-married/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/23/despite-detrimental-redefinitions-economist-remains-optimistic-about-future-of-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/23/despite-detrimental-redefinitions-economist-remains-optimistic-about-future-of-marriage/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:09:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/23/despite-detrimental-redefinitions-economist-remains-optimistic-about-future-of-marriage/ U. of Dallas News: "In [Jennifer Roeback] Morse's opinion, the legalization of no-fault divorce is the most destructive redefinition of marriage. 'No-fault divorce takes away the permanence feature of marriage,' Morse said. 'Legally speaking, you do not have a binding contract.' People now approach marriage with a different mentality, knowing that it is not necessarily permanent. Through the spread of contraceptive technology, marriage has been redefined in a second way. 'We have removed the idea of childbearing being central to marriage,' said Morse. 'It has turned sexual activity into a sterile recreational activity.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/23/despite-detrimental-redefinitions-economist-remains-optimistic-about-future-of-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/30/%e2%80%9cwhat-if-joey-has-two-daddies%e2%80%9d/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/30/%e2%80%9cwhat-if-joey-has-two-daddies%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:34:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/2010/03/30/%e2%80%9cwhat-if-joey-has-two-daddies%e2%80%9d/ Ruth Institute Blog: "A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued an opinion ordering the State of Louisiana to issue an amended birth certificate for a child born in Louisiana but listing as the child’s parents two men . . . The implications of these errors are significant. The decision clearly dilutes the crucial constitutional concept of 'interstate pluralism, in Professor Jeffrey Rensberger’s phrase. It allows judges to substitute their judgments of law for the valid actions of legislators and administrative officials charged with making and enforcing a State’s law. It threatens to create a new national standard of parenting whereby a couple can force an unwilling State to participate in their project of acquiring a legally motherless or fatherless child." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/30/%e2%80%9cwhat-if-joey-has-two-daddies%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/12/academic-freedom-file-interview-with-dr-jennifer-roback-morse/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/12/academic-freedom-file-interview-with-dr-jennifer-roback-morse/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:12 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=55236 ADF Attorney David Hacker writing at the Academic Freedom File: "A few weeks ago, Heather Hacker and I sat down with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, President of the Ruth Institute, to talk about campus censorship. The podcast is now online and can be found here." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/12/academic-freedom-file-interview-with-dr-jennifer-roback-morse/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/13/jennifer-roback-morse-the-prop-8-trial-and-the-new-theory-of-politics/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/13/jennifer-roback-morse-the-prop-8-trial-and-the-new-theory-of-politics/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:02:21 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=48088 writing at the Ruth Institute Blog: "[T]he original (and real) Civil Rights movement succeeded because people were really persuaded that race is an irrelevant characteristic for full participation in the political, economic and civic life of the nation. By contrast, no one can seriously maintain that marriage is a necessary condition for participation in civic life, or that an unmarried person is a second class citizen in any meaningful sense. No one can believe that individuals with same sex attraction are unable to participate in the economic, political and civic life of this country, with or without the redefinition of marriage. The vast majority of Americans are persuaded that sex is in fact relevant to marriage and its purposes. They believe that marriage without gender or sex is an institution without purpose or meaning. This is why so many people are reluctant to strip sexual differentiation from the legal institution of marriage. The American public is persuaded that the demands of fairness and decency are satisfied by legal provisions that solve the practical problems same sex couple may face." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/13/jennifer-roback-morse-the-prop-8-trial-and-the-new-theory-of-politics/feed/ 0