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/2010/12/20/warnings-issued-over-rushing-through-dadt-repeal/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/warnings-issued-over-rushing-through-dadt-repeal/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:53:05 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=87552 OneNewsNow: "[T]he conservative legal group, Alliance Defense Fund, issued a statement after the vote saying 'The Senate's cave-in to pressure from activists to impose homosexual behavior on our military will place our troops' religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/warnings-issued-over-rushing-through-dadt-repeal/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/dadt-repeal-raises-concerns-for-chaplains/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/dadt-repeal-raises-concerns-for-chaplains/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:52:44 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=87550 USA Today / Faith and Reason blog: "Sunday morning brings the conservative evangelical voices with dire predictions for its impact on military chaplains . . . The Alliance Defense Fund's [Daniel Blomberg] argues that by bowing to activists, the Senate is placing the religious liberty of troops and chaplains in 'unprecedented jeopardy.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/dadt-repeal-raises-concerns-for-chaplains/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/dadt-repeal-will-use-military-to-impose-radical-agenda-critics-say/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/dadt-repeal-will-use-military-to-impose-radical-agenda-critics-say/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:50:30 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=87546 Catholic News Agency: "Opponents of the repeal warned it will turn the military into a tool to impose “a radical social agenda” on the country . . . In a November interview, [Daniel Blomberg] of the Alliance Defense Fund said that under a repeal of the policy on homosexuals, one of those military goals will include support for 'incorporating and supporting homosexual behavior in the military.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/dadt-repeal-will-use-military-to-impose-radical-agenda-critics-say/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/an-end-to-religious-liberty-in-u-s-military/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/an-end-to-religious-liberty-in-u-s-military/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:49:43 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=87548 OneNewsNow: "The conservative legal group, Alliance Defense Fund, issued a statement after the vote saying 'The Senate's cave-in to pressure from activists to impose homosexual behavior on our military will place our troops' religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.' ADF Litigation Counsel, [Daniel Blomberg], went on to say 'no Americans, and especially not our troops, should be forced to abandon their religious beliefs.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/20/an-end-to-religious-liberty-in-u-s-military/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/17/dont-ask-repeal-hinges-on-senate-time-crunch/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/17/dont-ask-repeal-hinges-on-senate-time-crunch/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:37:00 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=87321 Catholic News Agency: "Its success or failure depends upon whether it is scheduled for a Senate vote as Congress comes to a close . . . [Daniel Blomberg] of the Alliance Defense Fund, a repeal opponent, told CNA in November that chaplains are concerned that religious faith 'will be discriminated against in favor of the new political correctness that will be imposed by the Obama administration.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/17/dont-ask-repeal-hinges-on-senate-time-crunch/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/10/republicans-block-dadt-repeal-from-floor-vote/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/10/republicans-block-dadt-repeal-from-floor-vote/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:39:10 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85880 Christian Post: "'Don’t ask, don’t tell' proponents were handed another victory Thursday as the 17-year old ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was narrowly spared in a Senate vote . . . [Daniel Blomberg], an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, told NPR that chaplains could be charged with discrimination based on sexual orientation if they expressed that homosexual behavior is not in accordance with God’s will. 'And that could be career-ending for a chaplain,' he told the radio program." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/10/republicans-block-dadt-repeal-from-floor-vote/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/27/should-the-filibuster-be-eliminated/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/27/should-the-filibuster-be-eliminated/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:07:14 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=66679 Balkinization: "I argued in my previous post that Joe Biden should declare that the Senate is not a continuing body and,therefore, that it can modify its rules by a majority vote, without facing a filibuster. Does this necessarily mean that the filibuster should be abolished lock, stock, and barrel? I think this is quite literally debatable, and I see two circumstances where we might want to retain the filibuster, even if, for example, we might want to drop the number of votes required to break a filibuster from, say, 60 to 55 . . . " | Via FedSoc Blog ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/27/should-the-filibuster-be-eliminated/feed/ 0