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/2012/05/03/feds-want-to-nix-geneva-college-lawsuit-beaver-county-times/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/feds-want-to-nix-geneva-college-lawsuit-beaver-county-times/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 15:35:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132788 Beaver County Times: The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian civil rights group, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh in February . . . Gregory Baylor, senior counsel for ADF in Washington, D.C., said during a February appearance on the Geneva campus that the compromise is not officially part of the legislation and doesn’t legally have to be honored. And if the compromise was honored, the organizations still would be paying for things they find objectionable through their health insurance premiums, he said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/feds-want-to-nix-geneva-college-lawsuit-beaver-county-times/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/feds-want-to-nix-geneva%e2%80%99s-birth-control-suit/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/feds-want-to-nix-geneva%e2%80%99s-birth-control-suit/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 17:11:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132693 WPXI.com: The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge in Pittsburgh to dismiss a Christian college's lawsuit challenging proposed regulations requiring employers to offer birth control coverage . . . The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian civil rights group, filed the lawsuit . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/feds-want-to-nix-geneva%e2%80%99s-birth-control-suit/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/geneva-colleges-health-law-suit-called-premature/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/geneva-colleges-health-law-suit-called-premature/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 17:00:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132688 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Gregory Baylor, an attorney for the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance Defense Fund, which is spearheading Geneva's legal challenge, said the college "can't rely upon promises" of future protection from enforcement. Federal attorneys "don't want courts to address this on the merits because I believe they are nervous about their prospects," Mr. Baylor said. "It's going to be difficult for them to convince the courts that this doesn't violate the right of conscience." [more . . . ] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/geneva-colleges-health-law-suit-called-premature/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/why-we-have-gone-to-court-against-the-obama-mandate-wall-street-journal/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/why-we-have-gone-to-court-against-the-obama-mandate-wall-street-journal/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:46:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131926 Wall Street Journal: So we, the presidents of Colorado Christian University, Geneva College, and Louisiana College, through our respective attorneys with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the Alliance Defense Fund, are taking a stand. When the state oversteps its First Amendment bounds by forcing religious institutions and believers to violate their religious convictions, we must call the state to account, or else we risk being responsible for facilitating evils such as abortion. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/why-we-have-gone-to-court-against-the-obama-mandate-wall-street-journal/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/23/religion-clause-christian-college-sues-over-health-care-mandate-to-cover-contraceptives-and-sterilization/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/23/religion-clause-christian-college-sues-over-health-care-mandate-to-cover-contraceptives-and-sterilization/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:58:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121696 Religion Clause: The Becket Fund announced this week the filing of a lawsuit by Colorado Christian University (CCU) challenging on free exercise, free expression and other grounds regulations issued under the Affordable Care Act that require health care plans to cover all FDA-approved contraceptive methods and sterilization procedures. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/23/religion-clause-christian-college-sues-over-health-care-mandate-to-cover-contraceptives-and-sterilization/feed/ 0