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/2010/07/09/philadelphia-cites-recent-u-s-supreme-court-case-in-bid-to-overturn-scouts-verdict/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/09/philadelphia-cites-recent-u-s-supreme-court-case-in-bid-to-overturn-scouts-verdict/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:44:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/09/philadelphia-cites-recent-u-s-supreme-court-case-in-bid-to-overturn-scouts-verdict/ Legal Intelligencer: ust five days after a federal jury handed up its verdict in favor of the local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America in its suit against the city of Philadelphia, a potentially game-changing twist came down from on high when the U.S. Supreme Court announced a decision that could ultimately cause the verdict to be overturned. In court papers filed this week, the city lawyers are arguing that the verdict cannot stand because the Boy Scouts' theory of the case was rejected by the Supreme Court in its June 28 decision in Christian Legal Society Chapter of University of California v. Martinez. But lawyers for the Scouts filed a response late on Wednesday that said the Martinez decision simply doesn't apply and that the city's reliance on it is misguided . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/09/philadelphia-cites-recent-u-s-supreme-court-case-in-bid-to-overturn-scouts-verdict/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/23/pa-jury-city-cant-evict-scouts-for-no-gays-rule/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/23/pa-jury-city-cant-evict-scouts-for-no-gays-rule/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:17:28 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=63899 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/23/pa-jury-city-cant-evict-scouts-for-no-gays-rule/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/22/scouts-phillys-priorities-off-in-gay-rights-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/22/scouts-phillys-priorities-off-in-gay-rights-case/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:15:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/22/scouts-phillys-priorities-off-in-gay-rights-case/ AP: "The city wants to evict the local scout council from a city-owned building or make them pay rent unless they renounce the national Boy Scout policy banning gays." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/22/scouts-phillys-priorities-off-in-gay-rights-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/philadelphia-scouts-should-confront-anti-gay-rule/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/philadelphia-scouts-should-confront-anti-gay-rule/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:47:55 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=63086 Associated Press: "City lawyers called on local Boy Scout officials to muster "the courage of their convictions" and challenge their national group's ban on gays as a trial over government funding opened Tuesday. . . . Chapter leaders also accuse the city of applying its lease rules selectively, since at least two other groups with limited membership rules — a Roman Catholic parish and a Colonial Dames of America chapter — also enjoy subsidized leases in city-owned buildings. Smith countered that those groups pledged to open the doors of those buildings to all." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/15/philadelphia-scouts-should-confront-anti-gay-rule/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/14/boy-scout-battle-over-gays-rent-goes-to-pa-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/14/boy-scout-battle-over-gays-rent-goes-to-pa-court/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:46:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/14/boy-scout-battle-over-gays-rent-goes-to-pa-court/ AP:  "At issue is whether the local scouting council can stay in its city-owned headquarters essentially rent-free." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/14/boy-scout-battle-over-gays-rent-goes-to-pa-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/24/lambda-legal-joins-philadelphia-in-suit-versus-boy-scouts/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/24/lambda-legal-joins-philadelphia-in-suit-versus-boy-scouts/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 22:53:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/24/lambda-legal-joins-philadelphia-in-suit-versus-boy-scouts/ Lambda Legal: "The Boy Scouts are entitled to their beliefs, but they have no right to make the city of Philadelphia's taxpayers foot the bill for their harmful discrimination against gay people." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/24/lambda-legal-joins-philadelphia-in-suit-versus-boy-scouts/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/25/lambda-legal-mazzoni-center-help-defend-philadelphias-nondiscrimination-policy-against-boy-scouts-lawsuit-2/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/25/lambda-legal-mazzoni-center-help-defend-philadelphias-nondiscrimination-policy-against-boy-scouts-lawsuit-2/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:44:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/2010/03/25/lambda-legal-mazzoni-center-help-defend-philadelphias-nondiscrimination-policy-against-boy-scouts-lawsuit-2/ Lambda Legal: "Late yesterday afternoon, Lambda Legal and Mazzoni Center sought permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief in a federal lawsuit brought by the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America challenging the City of Philadelphia's policy requiring nondiscrimination in the use of the City's subsidies." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/25/lambda-legal-mazzoni-center-help-defend-philadelphias-nondiscrimination-policy-against-boy-scouts-lawsuit-2/feed/ 0