Tag Archives: State: Ohio

WorldNetDaily reports: A woman is suing the university where she worked for firing her over a privately written newspaper commentary expressing her Christian views on homosexuality. Crystal Dixon, the former associate vice president of human resources at the University of …

A man seeking to protect his disabled wife from having her nutrition and hydration removed by his sister-in-law succeeded in having the court name him as guardian Tuesday when the sister-in-law withdrew her application for guardianship.

How Appealing links to several reports and the 6th Circuit ruling.

The Chicago Tribune reports that “this year, however, Malabar Farm State Park in north-central Ohio also is including a secular holiday display” after being threatened by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

Wendy Long has this post on National Review Bench Memos that begins: “Anyone looking for a silver lining in this election cycle should consider the ringing endorsement for the principle of judicial restraint among the millions of voters who actually …

The Dayton Daily News carries this report discussing ADF’s Pulpit Initiative and the activities of a United Church of Christ Pastor who supports Obama and hosts a house party in his capacity as “friend.” The article concludes: “Asked last week …

MansfieldNewsJournal.com reports: . . . An activist group says an annual Nativity scene at Malabar Farm State Park violates separation of church and state and should be discontinued. The Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisc., has asked Ohio Attorney …

The expansion of merit selection is being pushed hard by the Brennan Center, Justice at Stake and other legal groups funded by wealthy liberals like George Soros . . . It’s no mystery that merit selection is the left’s method of choice . . .

. . . The Supreme Court said it was not expressing any opinion on whether the state official had violated any duty under federal law. But, it said, it was not persuaded that the federal law gives a private party . . . a right to go to court . . .

At least 200,000 newly registered voters have mismatched data, according to an initial review by Brunner’s office . . .

Americans United for Life has issued this press release that begins: “Americans United for Life (AUL) today filed an amicus brief on behalf of ten U.S. Representatives supporting Ohio’s regulation of the deadly abortion drug, RU-486.”  Links to the brief …

How Appealing reports on a 6th Circuit ruling requiring the Ohio Secretary of State to turn over suspect voter registration lists.

Whereas the court of the 1990s developed a reputation for aggressively intervening in controversial policy matters, the current court is far more restrained, consistently applying a presumption of constitutionality to legislative enactments.

The Religion Clause reports: “Yesterday, the ACLU of Ohio announced it has filed suit in an Ohio federal district court on behalf of a Muslim charity, KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc.”

The AP reports: “Police in Newark, Ohio, have arrested a 15-year-old girl on juvenile child pornography charges for allegedly sending nude cell phone photos of herself to classmates.”  The report indicates that charges are also being considered for the recipients …

The AP reports: “Ohio Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that an abortion clinic’s medical records on other patients are relevant to a lawsuit brought by parents of a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without their consent.”

Ohio.com reports: It wasn’t the worm in the tequila, but the gnats in the whiskey that earned a liquor violation for a Norton strip club on Friday. The citation for unsanitary conditions was just the beginning as Norton police, the …

The Cincinnati Inquirer reports: At Elmwood Place Elementary, the 37 fourth-graders attend school in single-sex classrooms. And, they couldn’t be happier . . . This school year, there are at least 442 public schools in the United States offering single-sex …

The ACLU has issued this press release that begins: The ACLU of Ohio filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court of Northern Ohio against Richland County Judge James DeWeese. In its lawsuit, the ACLU claims he has continued …

LifeNews.com reports: “The Ohio Supreme Court is holding a hearing today on a case involving a secret abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was a victim of rape. A Cincinnati couple is upset their daughter had an abortion at a …

Jonathan Adler has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy.  He writes:  The court has abandoned its effort to force the legislature to rebuild the state school funding system from the ground up, and has upheld legislative education reforms against constitutional …

OneNewsNow.com reports: “A coalition of pro-family groups in Ohio is being sued by an alternative newspaper for allegedly conspiring to violate their First Amendment rights.”  The pro-family groups asked the paper to stop running ads for sexually oriented businesses.  ADF …

“. . . Lightborne Publishing is suing to deny pro-family . . . citizens the same First Amendment rights that it is demanding for itself. Those who push sex-for-sale ads cannot silence people who exercise their constitutional right to object.”

Many of the ministers signing the complaint against the ADF are members of the liberal United Church of Christ. The IRS investigated the denomination earlier this year over allegations it violated IRS rules when it hosted . . . Barack Obama . . .

On Sept. 21, the Rev. Eric Williams, senior pastor of North Congregational United Church of Christ, is calling on pastors throughout the country to preach sermons on the importance of church-state separation. The action comes exactly one week ahead of “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” an Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) scheme to draw churches into illegal electioneering.

We hold that the Funeral Protest Provision is a reasonable, content-neutral regulation of the time, place, and manner of speech.

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Ohio’s private-school voucher program isn’t just great for the students who use it, a new study asserts, but it’s actually made public schools better. It was the first sizable study of the statewide voucher program, now …

Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio has started a campaign called the “A-Word” to tell people the organization stands for more than abortion.

Undercover officers raided an east side strip club this past weekend after a two-year investigation revealed activity relating to prostitution and drugs, police said.
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Congressman Steve Chabot will deliver a petition signed by about 1,000 community members to a Planned Parenthood clinic in the 6500 block of Glenway Avenue on Friday morning, protesting the clinic’s planned move to a new building in the 2000 block of Ferguson Avenue.

A federal court ruled Thursday that an Ohio library violated the Constitution when it denied Citizens for Community Values access to its meeting room on the grounds that the proposed event contained “inherent elements of a religious service.”

ACLJ reports: “The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is pleased to announce that a U.S. District Court sitting in Cleveland has formally dismissed a motion brought by the ACLU of Ohio to hold in contempt of court Richland …

The ACLU charged that Judge DeWeese’s display of the poster – which graphically compares and contrasts the Ten Commandments with Seven Humanist Principles – violated a 2002 injunction barring him from displaying a poster consisting solely of the Ten Commandments under the caption “Rule of Law.”

The AP reports: “A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama’s town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the audience to say the Pledge of …

Citizen Link reports: “In Colorado, men and women legally can use any public restroom they choose, based on their ‘perceived gender identity.’ The idea is spreading to at least two other states.”

Karen Deamons wants to use the women’s locker room, like a normal woman.

LifeNews.com reports: “Local pro-life advocates in this city near Akron successfully got local officials to evict an abortion business that set up shop near a legitimate medical center. Formerly known as Ohio Women’s Center, G&H Healthcare served as an abortion …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “This week’s Dayton (OH) Jewish Observer carries a story on Christian proselytizing in the military at Fairborn, Ohio’s Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says he has …

John Moss, a board member of his local ACLU chapter, has this article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer arguing against one public libraries efforts to prevent patrons from viewing obscenity on library computers.

The Religion Clause Blog reports on a new Ohio Charter school that is sharing facilities and faculty with a Roman Catholic Church.  According to the report, the school will “maintain a secular character” in part by covering up Bible versese …

The AP reports: “Demonstrations on the town square show how divided people are over the school board’s decision to fire a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students’ arms.”

Jeff Johnson reports on OneNewsNow: . . . Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values wanted to use the Union Township Civic Center to hold a “Politics and the Pulpit” seminar in advance of the Ohio primary. But officials with Civic Center …

The Cincinnati Inquirer reports: “A Northern Kentucky mother of two is suing Ohio’s attorney general, seeking to overturn part of a new Ohio requiring those convicted of selling obscene material to register as sex offenders.”

CentralOhio.com reports: Changes in a prayer practice at Greenfield council meetings that has drawn the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union may be in the works . . . The case has garnered national attention. The national Alliance Defense …

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against Union Township Tuesday on behalf of Citizens for Community Values for denying the Christian educational group access to a public meeting room.

The 6th Circuit has certified several statutory construction questions to the Ohio Supreme Court in connection with Planned Parenthood’s challenge to Ohio’s restrictions on RU 486 prescriptions.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled in favor of Alliance Defense Fund attorneys in a free speech case in which a Christian man was barred from exercising his First Amendment rights on campus.

The ACLU has issued this press release that begins: Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sent a letter to officials in Greenfield, in Highland County, warning them that the use of sectarian prayer at the beginning of city …

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: This Clermont County community will welcome groups that want to hold religious services in its park amphitheater, officials said Wednesday. Trustees had been concerned that some residents might be offended, but law director John Korfhagen advised …

The Religion Clause Blog reports: “On Friday, a federal lawsuit was filed against controversial Mt. Vernon, Ohio middle school science teacher John Freshwater. District superintendent Steve Short and middle school Principal William White were also named as defendants in the …

Lambda Legal has issued this press release that begins: “The Tenth District Ohio Appeals Court ruled, on June 10, 2008, that lesbian mother Denise Fairchild should never have been permitted to attack the enforceability of a shared custody agreement with …

LifeNews.com reports: he Ohio legislature sent Gov. Ted Strickland a biotech bill that doesn’t contain a ban on human cloning the way pro-life advocates wanted. The measure has only a more modest ban on forcing taxpayers to fund human cloning …

WorldNetDaily reports: Quoting from the Bible has been banned in a community room at the public library in Clermont County, Ohio, and now a couple who sought to use the facility for a financial planning seminar has brought a court …

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4548 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE June 6, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom Ohio public library policy banning Christian meetings challenged ADF attorneys file suit against library board over policy prohibiting quotation …

The ACLU of Ohio has issued this press release which includes a link to their Show Cause Motion. The Mansfield News Journal has this report: Richland County Judge says ACLU seeks to stifle free speech. It begins: Richland County Common …

The AP reports (Findlay, Ohio): “The American Civil Liberties Union is warning Findlay school leaders to stop a group from handing out Bibles to students during class time.” The ACLU of Ohio press release and demand letter are here.

The ACLU of Ohio has issued this press release. It begins: The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sent a letter to Findlay City Schools Superintendent Dean Witter requesting him to immediately stop school employees from escorting students to visit …

All of this belies a true American battle brewing that could shatter the idyllic setting of what has been called “Ohio’s most livable city.” The battle is centered on a mild-mannered, self-effacing middle school science teacher and his Bible . . .

LifeNews.com reports: A coalition of pro-life groups has filed a legal brief with the Ohio Supreme Court in support of the parents of a teenager who had a secret abortion without their knowledge, in violation of state law. The Ohio …

Brief filed with Ohio Supreme Court argues abortion clinic may not withhold records related to lawsuit asserting statutory rape cover-up.

“Next, week, an Ohio House committee will vote on a bill that will help stop women from being pressured or forced into a decision to have an abortion.”

Dixon was placed on paid administrative leave after a column she wrote that appeared on the newspaper’s Web site April 18 created controversy because of her views on homosexuality . . .

The Athens Messenger reports: The Athens Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday reaffirmed its opinion that a “gentleman’s club” is not appropriate for a proposed Stimson Avenue location. But the issue remains in play, with an appeal of the zoning …

“It is not a problem of illegal aliens, it is not a problem of immigration. It is an issue of domestic servitude, which is a sex trade.”

Nearly two out of three likely voters in Ohio – 62% – believe traditional public schools in Ohio are failing their students, and nearly six in 10 likely voters – 59% – say it is important that public charter schools exist as an educational option for Ohio parents and children, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows.

Much opponent focus is to change the bill to ban only so-called reproductive cloning but not so-called therapeutic cloning, plus their feared effect of this ban on research jobs and funding for Ohio.

“[T]he Ohio Supreme Court held that the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio was entitled to a property tax exemption for the year 2001 for property it acquired to use for a church-affiliated inner-city school so long as on Jan. 1 of that year it intended to use the property for tax exempt purposes.”

Lisa’s Cabaret strip club in Akron must close its doors and remove all of its signs on the East Market Street property within 30 days, according to an out-of-court settlement reached today in Summit County Common Pleas Court.

High school students in a Toledo suburb were threatened with having to skip prom and other senior graduation events if they didn’t remove their pro-life T-shirts. A group of students had planned to draw attention to the destruction of human life in abortion until school officials got upset.

The Columbus Dispatch reports: The Ohio attorney general’s office tried again yesterday to save a state law that restricts the use of a pill that induces abortion. The law was supposed to take effect in 2004, but it has been …

Mount Vernon News reports: Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher John Freshwater refused to move his Bible from his classroom desk after school officials requested that he do so. At a rally on Public Square on Wednesday, he defended his …

A Mount Vernon science teacher said yesterday that he will refuse to remove a Bible from his classroom desk despite his school district’s order.

Library officials counter that the group was not barred from using the library meeting space to discuss religion or any other topic. But library policy prohibits prayer and singing as “inherent elements of religious service.” . . .

whiotv.com reports: “A 34-year-old Springboro man was injured Friday evening after an altercation outside a strip club in Franklin, according to police.”

The Ohio Federation of Teachers has asked the Internal Revenue Service to examine the non-profit status of charter schools managed by White Hat Management, the company established by Akron entrepreneur David Brennan.