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/2011/10/12/state-sovereignty-reigns-in-gay-adoption-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/state-sovereignty-reigns-in-gay-adoption-case/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:35:55 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115905 OneNewsNow.com: Austin R. Nimocks, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, says the high court's decision not to hear the case "affirmed the rights of states as sovereign entities." "No state makes the law for another state" . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/state-sovereignty-reigns-in-gay-adoption-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/supreme-court-allows-louisianas-refusal-to-acknowledge-ny-same-sex-adoption-to-stand/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/supreme-court-allows-louisianas-refusal-to-acknowledge-ny-same-sex-adoption-to-stand/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:24:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115874 Reuters: The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to consider the rights of same-sex parents in a setback for two gay men who wanted both of their names listed on their adopted son's birth certificate. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/supreme-court-allows-louisianas-refusal-to-acknowledge-ny-same-sex-adoption-to-stand/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/robyn-hagan-cain-full-faith-and-credit-easiest-path-to-marriage-equality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/robyn-hagan-cain-full-faith-and-credit-easiest-path-to-marriage-equality/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:34:54 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113078 Findlaw: If the Supreme Court hears Adar and decides that state officials need not afford full faith and credit to other state's documents, then same-sex marriage proponents continue with the status quo, wait a few years, and bring a Perry-type case when the Court is staffed with more marriage-equality-minded judges. If the Court hears Perry v. Schwarzenegger, and finds that there is no constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it could be years before a same-sex marriage challenge has another chance. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/robyn-hagan-cain-full-faith-and-credit-easiest-path-to-marriage-equality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/18/under-the-u-s-supreme-court-pulling-the-rug-out-from-underneath-gay-adoption/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/18/under-the-u-s-supreme-court-pulling-the-rug-out-from-underneath-gay-adoption/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:05:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=108362 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/18/under-the-u-s-supreme-court-pulling-the-rug-out-from-underneath-gay-adoption/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/2-dads-case-goes-to-supreme-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/2-dads-case-goes-to-supreme-court/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:50:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107988 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/2-dads-case-goes-to-supreme-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/14/frc-praises-fifth-circuit-for-affirming-traditional-family/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/14/frc-praises-fifth-circuit-for-affirming-traditional-family/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:13:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101046 Centre Daily (PR Newswire): Family Research Council (FRC) praised the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for ruling in Adar v. Smith that a Louisiana registrar's insistence that only one father's name could go on a birth certificate for a child adopted by a homosexual couple did not violate the child's right to equal protection under law, while not denying legal recognition of the New York adoption by both men . . . FRC submitted an amicus brief in the case, along with the Louisiana Family Forum, in support of the defendant, registrar Darlene Smith. Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Austin Nimocks authored the brief for FRC . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/14/frc-praises-fifth-circuit-for-affirming-traditional-family/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/13/5th-circuit-constitution-does-not-require-states-to-pretend-two-men-can-create-a-child/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/13/5th-circuit-constitution-does-not-require-states-to-pretend-two-men-can-create-a-child/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:17:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=100937 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/13/5th-circuit-constitution-does-not-require-states-to-pretend-two-men-can-create-a-child/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/19/5th-circuit-hears-gay-dads-la-birth-certificate-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/19/5th-circuit-hears-gay-dads-la-birth-certificate-case/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:34:26 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=92212 Associated Press: "A federal appeals court will consider whether Louisiana must put both fathers' names on the birth certificate of a child adopted by a gay couple." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/19/5th-circuit-hears-gay-dads-la-birth-certificate-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/5th-circuit-to-re-hear-same-sex-couples-challenge-after-louisiana-refuses-to-respect-out-of-state-adoptions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/5th-circuit-to-re-hear-same-sex-couples-challenge-after-louisiana-refuses-to-respect-out-of-state-adoptions/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:45:04 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=91711 Lambda Legal: "The full 16-member U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, regarding the New York adoption of a Louisiana-born baby boy by a same-sex couple." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/5th-circuit-to-re-hear-same-sex-couples-challenge-after-louisiana-refuses-to-respect-out-of-state-adoptions/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/2010/03/04/louisiana-asks-full-5th-circuit-to-rehear-2-dads-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/04/louisiana-asks-full-5th-circuit-to-rehear-2-dads-case/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:18:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=54300 Times-Picayune: "Attorney General Buddy Caldwell this morning asked the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision requiring that Louisiana issue a birth certificate listing as fathers the two men who adopted a Shreveport-born infant in a New York court." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/04/louisiana-asks-full-5th-circuit-to-rehear-2-dads-case/feed/ 0