Reality Check: It looks like we’ll have to update that list to 19, because Colorado mortgage banking company Cherry Creek Mortgage has just filed suit challenging the mandate as well. Cherry Creek Mortgage is owned by former U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong and does business in 27 states. The company has 730 employees and is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom in its lawsuit.
- Posted: 03/12/2013
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: rhrealitycheck.org
- Tags: Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Colorado, State: Idaho, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Armstrong v. Sebelius, ZZ: McCormack v. Hiedeman, ZZADF: 39817
David Crary at Bay News 9 (AP): “Anti-abortion groups divided over legal tactics”
Steve Aden, who helps oversee abortion issues for the Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, suggested that the 20-week bans had a better chance of reaching the high court than measures such as the heartbeat bill or the new Arkansas ban. However, he said the entire swath of bills conveyed a common message. “What they demonstrate,” he said, “is that there’s a tidal wave of sentiment at the grass-roots level that abortion is unconscionable and that states should do their utmost in restricting it.”
- Posted: 03/08/2013
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.baynews9.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Steven H. Aden, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: ACLU, Group: Americans United for Life, Group: Center for Reproductive Rights, Group: Ohio Right to Life, State: Arkansas, State: Idaho, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Legislation, ZZ: McCormack v. Hiedeman
Brian Walsh at National Review: Today, a bipartisan group of over 100 legislators in nine states is announcing the nation’s first state legislative caucuses focused solely on religious freedom. These working groups of legislative leaders are being established in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. This is the first installment in a national plan to form state religious-freedom caucuses in all 50 states by the end of 2013.
- Posted: 10/09/2012
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Group: Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), State: Arizona, State: Colorado, State: Florida, State: Idaho, State: Kansas, State: Missouri, State: New Hampshire, State: Oklahoma, State: Tennessee
LJWorld: Claiming religious freedom is under assault, 120 legislators in nine states, including Kansas, announced on Tuesday the formation of caucuses that they said would be dedicated to protecting religion from government intrusion.
- Posted: 10/09/2012
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www2.ljworld.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Group: Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), State: Arizona, State: Colorado, State: Florida, State: Idaho, State: Kansas, State: Missouri, State: New Hampshire, State: Oklahoma, State: Tennessee
Christian Post: “Public schools should encourage, not shut down, the free exchange of ideas. Removing the voice of faith from schools sends a message to all students that religion is something to be ashamed of,” said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Matt Sharp. “The school district is off to a good start in allowing this performance to occur, but it needs to revise its unconstitutional policy so that this doesn’t happen again.”
- Posted: 05/22/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Matt Sharp, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, ZZADF: 37811
One News Now: “With that in mind, the decision of the Supreme Court not to review this case is certainly regrettable, especially in light of the fact that the court’s already stated that the Bible may be constitutionally used in appropriate study of religion, history, ethics, and otherwise,” Cortman notes. [more]
- Posted: 03/28/2012
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Charter Schools, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling, ZZADF: 26975
Christian Post: “Every student deserves a quality education. Banning classical religious texts denies students the right to learn what they need to know about world history and the world in general,” stated Senior Counsel David Cortman. “For that reason, the decision of the Supreme Court not to review this case is regrettable, especially in light of the high court’s existing precedent stating that even ‘the Bible may constitutionally be used in an appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion, or the like.’
- Posted: 03/27/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Charter Schools, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling, ZZADF: 26975
MySanAntonio.com (AP): “When government officials ban the objective study of all religiously-themed texts — like the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey — it does nothing but dumb-down public education,” said senior counsel David Cortman.
- Posted: 03/27/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.mysanantonio.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Charter Schools, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling, ZZADF: 26975
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: Jeremy 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
Boise Weekly: The article mentions that Moffett is suing the board over the revocation of the charter. His lawyer is David Cortman of the Alliance Defense Fund, a group that defends so-called “Christian” causes “One of our claims in the case is, the closing down of the school, under the alleged guise of financial reasons, is a reaction to the teaching of religious books,” said Cortman.
- Posted: 09/21/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.boiseweekly.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, State: Idaho, Topic: Charter Schools, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling, ZZADF: 26975
LaTimes.com: The latest example is a battle between the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative public-interest law firm, and the Idaho Public Charter School Commission. The commission threatened to revoke the charter of a school if it used any “religious document or text” — including the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Koran and the Bible — or even made those works available in the classroom.
- Posted: 09/20/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: opinion.latimes.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling
Fox News: “I suspect the Supreme Court is going to eventually write the final book of this case,” David Cortman predicted as he too walked across the abandoned field that was once Nampa Classical. Cortman is from The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based group that defends Christian causes. “The Supreme Court of the United States has held for decades now,” he explained, “that it is Constitutionally permissible to objectively teach the Bible in public schools for history or comparative literature.”
- Posted: 09/16/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.foxnews.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling, ZZADF: 26975
Teresa Collett at theUniversity Faculty for Life: The woman challenging the Idaho abortion laws says she brought her lawsuit after a district attorney tried to prosecute her for a self-induce abortion. The charges were dismissed, but form the basis for her claim that she fears injury from the enforcement of the Idaho laws. I have blogged previously about her claims related to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act here and here, but did not discuss her claim that a law prohibiting self-induced abortion is unconstitutional. This second claim raises several interesting policy and legal issues.
- Posted: 09/15/2011
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: uffl.org
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Idaho, Topic: Abortion
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
ADF appeals 9th Circuit ruling that upheld Idaho ban on all religious,
classical Western Civ. texts from objective study in every public school, university
- Posted: 09/06/2011
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Category: Marriage and Family, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling, ZZADF: 26975
Christian Post:
David Cortman, the defense fund’s senior legal counsel told the Idaho Press-Tribune, “In our opinion, the court failed to perform any meaningful analysis of any issue in the case including the seminal one: whether there is any educational purpose to ban all religious documents from objective teaching.” Cortman also accused the circuit judges of ignoring the right of local school districts to choose their own curriculum and texts. “Censoring classical books, including religious books, does not improve a student’s education,” he said in a statement. “It harms it.” [more]
- Posted: 08/24/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: www.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Category: Marriage and Family, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling
The New American: David Cortman, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the legal advocacy group representing Moffett and the charter school, told the Idaho Press-Tribune in an e-mail that he is prepared to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. “In our opinion, the court failed to perform any meaningful analysis of any issue in the case,” Cortman wrote, “including the seminal one: whether there is any educational purpose to ban all religious documents from objective teaching….” In addition, he charged, the 9th Circuit panel ignored the right of local school districts to choose their own texts and curricula. “Censoring books, including religious books, is not the proper way to educate children,” Cortman said in an ADF statement, adding: The court’s opinion requiring the removal of religious books to comply with the so-called “separation of church and state” conflicts with established U.S. Supreme Court precedent stating that “the Bible may constitutionally be used in an appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion, or the like.”
- Posted: 08/23/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: www.thenewamerican.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Category: Religious Liberty, Court: 9th Circuit, State: Idaho, Topic: Education, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling
Idaho Press-Tribune: “In our opinion, the court failed to perform any meaningful analysis of any issue in the case, including the seminal one: whether there is any educational purpose to ban all religious documents from objective teaching …” Cortman said.
He said the court also ignored the right of local school districts to choose their own texts and curriculum.
- Posted: 08/22/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.idahopress.com
- Tags: ADF: David Cortman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Idaho, Topic: Charter Schools, Topic: Education, Topic: School Choice, ZZ: Nampa Classical Academy v Goesling
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