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/2011/11/14/supreme-court-steers-clear-of-roadside-crosses-the-baptist-standard/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/supreme-court-steers-clear-of-roadside-crosses-the-baptist-standard/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:18:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118451 The Baptist Standard (Religion News Service): The conservative Alliance Defense Fund, which asked the Supreme Court to consider the case, was disappointed. "Justice is not well served when unhappy atheists can use the law to mow down memorial crosses and renew the suffering for the survivors," Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Byron Babione said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/supreme-court-steers-clear-of-roadside-crosses-the-baptist-standard/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/07/under-the-u-s-supreme-court-thomas-spanks-court-on-religious-displays/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/07/under-the-u-s-supreme-court-thomas-spanks-court-on-religious-displays/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:21:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117877 UPI.com: The U.S. Supreme Court turned its collective face from two linked cases last week, rejecting them without comment other than a blistering dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas, who caustically told the rest of the justices their guidance in religious display cases was a mess. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/07/under-the-u-s-supreme-court-thomas-spanks-court-on-religious-displays/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/03/linda-greenhouse-not-following-clarence-thomas-the-incoherent-landscape-of-the-courts-establishment-clause-jurisprudence/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/03/linda-greenhouse-not-following-clarence-thomas-the-incoherent-landscape-of-the-courts-establishment-clause-jurisprudence/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:09:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117669 NYTimes.com: The dissent was a vivid tour through the incoherent landscape of the court’s Establishment Clause jurisprudence. Here are a few choice morsels, omitting the numerous citations not only to Supreme Court decisions but also to decisions issued by lower courts as they have struggled to understand and apply the Supreme Court’s cases . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/03/linda-greenhouse-not-following-clarence-thomas-the-incoherent-landscape-of-the-courts-establishment-clause-jurisprudence/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/david-l-hudson-clarence-thomas-court-needs-to-%e2%80%98clean-up-our-mess%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/david-l-hudson-clarence-thomas-court-needs-to-%e2%80%98clean-up-our-mess%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:27:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117594 First Amendment Center: One may believe that Justice Thomas is an outlier with his establishment-clause position. But his latest dissent hits the mark when he identifies that the Court is inconsistent when fielding church-state separation questions. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/david-l-hudson-clarence-thomas-court-needs-to-%e2%80%98clean-up-our-mess%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/clarence-thomas-on-the-supreme-court-cross-decision-missed-opportunity-christianity-today/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/clarence-thomas-on-the-supreme-court-cross-decision-missed-opportunity-christianity-today/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:02:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117553 Christianity Today: The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Byron Babione said, “The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear this case is baffling in light of its comments just last year that individualized memorial crosses honoring fallen troopers do not amount to a government establishment of religion.” Babione and the ADF helped represent those who paid for and maintained the crosses . . . According to the ADF's brief, that the crosses were memorials and symbols of sacrifice; they did not represent Christianity. "The [Utah Highway Patrol Association] chose the cross shape because it is the only symbol, given its historical use, that could simultaneously communicate messages of roadside death, commemoration, and highway safety," the ADF brief said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/clarence-thomas-on-the-supreme-court-cross-decision-missed-opportunity-christianity-today/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/01/no-clarity-on-religious-displays-scotusblog/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/01/no-clarity-on-religious-displays-scotusblog/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:55:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117410 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/01/no-clarity-on-religious-displays-scotusblog/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/31/frc-blasts-supreme-court-for-allowing-decision-to-stand-that-removes-roadside-crosses-in-six-states/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/31/frc-blasts-supreme-court-for-allowing-decision-to-stand-that-removes-roadside-crosses-in-six-states/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:46:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117295 FRC: Family Research Council (FRC) strongly criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's decision today to let stand one of the worst religious assaults in all of American history. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/31/frc-blasts-supreme-court-for-allowing-decision-to-stand-that-removes-roadside-crosses-in-six-states/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/25/scotus-for-law-students-free-speech-and-religious-freedom-intersect-in-case-of-utah-crosses/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/25/scotus-for-law-students-free-speech-and-religious-freedom-intersect-in-case-of-utah-crosses/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:17:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116667 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/25/scotus-for-law-students-free-speech-and-religious-freedom-intersect-in-case-of-utah-crosses/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/scotus-petitions-to-watch-october-7-2011-two-key-establishment-clauses-relisted/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/scotus-petitions-to-watch-october-7-2011-two-key-establishment-clauses-relisted/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:17:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115783 SCOTUSblog list is here. It includes two key Establishment cases: Davenport v. American Atheists and Utah Highway patrol Association v. American Atheists ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/scotus-petitions-to-watch-october-7-2011-two-key-establishment-clauses-relisted/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/06/scotus-blog-petitions-of-the-day-do-highway-memorial-crosses-violate-the-establishment-clause/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/06/scotus-blog-petitions-of-the-day-do-highway-memorial-crosses-violate-the-establishment-clause/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:16:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107577 SCOTUSblog features the petitions for certiorari in Utah Highway Patrol Association v. American Atheists and Davenport v. American Atheists, Inc.. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/06/scotus-blog-petitions-of-the-day-do-highway-memorial-crosses-violate-the-establishment-clause/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/21/frc-to-mobilize-coalition-effort-in-u-s-supreme-court-religious-liberty-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/21/frc-to-mobilize-coalition-effort-in-u-s-supreme-court-religious-liberty-case/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:59:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101643 FRC: Family Research Council announced today that the organization is coordinating a nationwide support effort for the State of Utah in the case Davenport v. American Atheists, one of the most important religious liberty cases to be offered to the U.S. Supreme Court in decades . . . The Utah Highway Patrol Association is represented separately by the Alliance Defense Fund. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/21/frc-to-mobilize-coalition-effort-in-u-s-supreme-court-religious-liberty-case/feed/ 0