Fort Mill Times: “I told him to go ahead and keep preaching. Hang in there,” said Springfield attorney Dee Wampler. Wampler, who last year had similar charges dismissed against a trio of street preachers in Noel, said Brummitt’s speech is especially protected by the Constitution because that speech is religious. Wampler is providing his services for free in part to fulfill his membership obligations to the Alliance Defending Freedom, formerly known as the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates in the courtroom for religious liberty, the sanctity of life and marriage and family. “He’s trying to change people’s lives for the good,” Wampler said of Brummitt
- Posted: 04/19/2013
- |
- Category: ADF in the News
- |
- Source: www.fortmilltimes.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, State: Missouri, Topic: Street Preaching
AP: A federal judge has struck down a Missouri law exempting moral objectors from mandatory birth control coverage because it conflicts with an insurance requirement under President Barrack Obama’s health care law . . . “The point of the law was to tell health insurance companies that they’re supposed to honor the wishes – pro or con – of people who have religious or ethical objections to what’s in the policy,” said Timothy Belz, a St. Louis attorney who represented Our Lady’s Inn. | Missouri Insurance Coalition v. Huff (E.D. Mo. March 14, 2013)
- Posted: 03/18/2013
- |
- Category: Featured
- Tags: ADF: Allied Attorney, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Missouri Insurance Coalition v. Huff
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
- |
- Category: Featured
- |
- 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
Religion Clause Blog: In Sharpe Holdings, Inc. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, (ED MO, Dec. 31, 2012), a Missouri federal magistrate judge issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage mandate to require a for-profit dairy farming and cheese making business to cover abortifacient devices ( Plan B, Ella and copper IUDs) and related counseling.
- Posted: 01/02/2013
- |
- Category: Religious Liberty
- |
- Source: religionclause.blogspot.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, Topic: RFRA, ZZ: Sharpe Holdings v. HHS
Religion Clause Blog: However, in American Pulverizer Co. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (WD MO, Dec. 20, 2012), a Missouri federal district court granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the contraceptive coverage mandate in a challenge filed by a group of metal recycling businesses owned by Evangelical Christians Paul and Henry Griesediek . . .
- Posted: 12/21/2012
- |
- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Court: 10th Circuit, Group: ACLJ, Group: Becket Fund, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: American Pulverizer Co v. HHS, ZZ: Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius
eNews Park Forest: Kelly Glossip, who is challenging the discriminatory survivor benefits policy of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) and Highway Employees’ Retirement System, filed his brief with the Missouri Supreme on Monday. Glossip’s partner, Dennis Engelhard, was a Missouri state trooper killed in the line of duty while responding to an accident on Christmas Day 2009. In addition, elected officials; law school professors; and a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) law enforcement organization filed amici briefs on Glossip’s behalf.
- Posted: 11/09/2012
- |
- Category: Marriage & Family
- |
- Source: www.enewspf.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, State: Missouri, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, ZZ: Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System
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
- |
- Category: Religious Liberty
- |
- 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
- |
- Category: Religious Liberty
- |
- 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
Esbeck, Carl H., Religion During the American Revolution and the Early Republic (September 30, 2012). Silvio Ferrari, ed., LAW & RELIGION (Ashgate Publishing Co., U.K., 2013); University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-30. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2154443
- Posted: 10/09/2012
- |
- Category: Religious Liberty
- |
- Source: ssrn.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Docs: Legal Periodicals, State: Missouri, Topic: History
Religion Clause Blog: In O’Brien v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (ED MO, Sept. 28, 2012), Judge Carol E. Jackson (a President George H. W. Bush appointee) first held that she need not decide whether O’Brien Industrial Holdings (“OIH”), a secular limited liability company, is capable of exercising religion within the meaning of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act or the First Amendment because, even if it is, the contraception coverage mandate does not infringe religious exercise rights.
- Posted: 10/01/2012
- |
- Category: Featured
- |
- Source: religionclause.blogspot.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: O'Brien v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
LA Times: Top conservatives announced their support for Missouri Republican Todd Akin’s embattled campaign for Senate, some reversing course after having earlier called for him to step down following his “legitimate rape” remarks.Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint jointly gave their backing Wednesday after a final deadline passed for Akin to withdraw from the ballot. And Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, a party leader in the Senate, quietly dropped his previous opposition to Akin’s candidacy, and said he would support his fellow Missourian.
- Posted: 09/26/2012
- |
- Category: Featured
- |
- Source: www.latimes.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Politics
News-Leader: The suit was announced during a press conference in which College President Jerry Davis raised his voice on many occasions, saying the federal government health care act will require the school’s insurance to pay for abortions, abortion services and abortion counseling. “We believe it violates our religious rights as guaranteed by the Constitution,” Davis said.
- Posted: 09/17/2012
- |
- Category: Featured
- |
- Source: www.news-leader.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
STL Today: But just hours after lawmakers voted Wednesday, the new law was hit with its first legal hurdle. The Greater Kansas City Coalition of Labor Union Women and a female firefighter filed a lawsuit claiming that the legislation discriminates by sex and religion and that it goes against federal law.
- Posted: 09/13/2012
- |
- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Obamacare
Columbia Missourian: Missouri lawmakers enacted new religious exemptions from insurance coverage of birth control Wednesday, overriding a gubernatorial veto and delivering a political rebuke to an Obama administration policy requiring insurers to cover contraception.
- Posted: 09/12/2012
- |
- Category: Featured
- |
- Source: www.columbiamissourian.com
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Missouri, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Obamacare
|

Latest Posts
-
www.bpnews.net
05/17/2013
Baptist Press: A florist who was told by the state of Washington she must provide her services for a gay wedding is countersuing the state, saying she has served gay customers her entire career and is concerned the state’s position on gay weddings will harm religious freedom.
-
www.nationalreview.com
05/17/2013
National Review: IRS scandal notwithstanding, on Tuesday, the (Republican-dominated) Texas legislature passed S.B. 346, a bill to force non-profit organizations and trade associations to disclose the names of the people who support them financially. The law exempts unions, but covers groups that spend more than $25,000 or more in independent expenditures about political candidates. This applies even if those expenditures are a tiny fraction of the group’s overall spending . . .
-
www.nytimes.com
05/17/2013
NY Times: At the first Congressional hearing into the I.R.S. scandal, J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, told members of the House Ways and Means Committee that he informed the Treasury’s general counsel of his audit on June 4, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin “shortly thereafter.”

|