ALLIANCE ALERTS 03/30/2015

Featured - Monday, March 30, 2015

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• NYC churches hope mayor keeps promise, rescinds worship service ban March 30, 2015
  
• Mayor De Blasio, don’t make these churches homeless! March 30, 2015
  
• Clear eyes, full hearts: Why we need Easter March 30, 2015
  
• Family loses lawsuit to force nursing home to starve their mother to death March 30, 2015
  
• Woman who cut baby out of mother’s womb should be charged with murder March 30, 2015
  
  

ADF in the News

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• Pittsburgh’s censorship zones bans free speech, protects abortionists, says ADF March 30, 2015
  
• Is this Jesus ad too religious for the jumbotron? March 30, 2015
  
• $1.5 Billion of your taxes go to fund abortion March 30, 2015
  
• When civil rights turn into civil wrongs: NAACP sues to censor free speech March 30, 2015
  
• NAACP sues The Radiance Foundation to censor black citizen journalist’s free speech March 30, 2015
  
• Bill to allow birth certificate gender change wins initial OK in Colorado House committee March 30, 2015
  
• UGA lifts campus restrictions on student speech March 30, 2015
  
• Christian grandma-florist fined $1,001, ordered to work same-sex weddings but refuses, says she won’t betray Jesus March 30, 2015
  
• Barronelle Stutzman ordered to pay fine March 30, 2015
  
• Christian florist ordered to service same-sex weddings, pay $1,000 fine to State Attorney General March 30, 2015
  
• Wash. florist fined, ordered to serve same-sex weddings March 30, 2015
  
• Court hits florist with big fines, penalties in same-sex wedding case March 30, 2015
  
• City of Atlanta can’t defend the firing of Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran says ADF March 30, 2015
  
• Atlanta’s desperate defense of Christian discrimination falls short March 30, 2015
  
• Ex-Atlanta Fire Chief Cochran didn’t get written permission to write religious book, says city lawyers March 30, 2015
  
• New York City ban on worship services in schools left intact by Supreme Court March 30, 2015
  
• New York City to change rules to allow churches to rent schools March 30, 2015
  
• De Blasio will revamp rules against worship in school after U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal from Bronx church March 30, 2015
  
• Supreme Court lets ban on churches in NYC schools stand March 30, 2015
  
• Supreme Court won’t force NYC to allow after-hours worship in public schools March 30, 2015
  
• Supreme Court allows NY schools’ worship ban to stand; churches look to mayor March 30, 2015
  
• Bills aim to block D.C. laws opponents say violate religious liberty March 30, 2015
  
• Conservative professors fighting back against bias (video) March 30, 2015
  
• ADF hopes appeals court upholds right to write, permission to parody March 30, 2015
  
• NAACP continues battle to silence black pro-lifer who bashed its pro-abortion stance March 30, 2015
  
• Lobby doesn’t stop Indiana Governor from signing state RFRA March 30, 2015
  
• “No, Indiana did not just pass a law discriminating against gay people. Here’s why.” March 30, 2015
  
• Just what’s so ‘controversial’ about the Indiana religious freedom bill passed this week? March 30, 2015
  
• Justices reject N.Y. church’s bid to use public school space March 30, 2015
  
• Atlanta officials ask court to dismiss lawsuit filed by chief fired over Christian book March 30, 2015
  

Religious Liberty - USA

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• Questions for Indiana’s critics March 30, 2015
  
• Ensuring religious freedom in Indiana March 30, 2015
  
• Supreme Court rejects appeal by US flag-wearing students March 30, 2015
  
• The ACLU’s betrayal of civil liberties March 30, 2015
  
• Judge rules on penalties, fees for Richland florist in same-sex marriage case March 30, 2015
  
• Supreme Court ponders speech issue of specialty license plates March 30, 2015
  
• NYC churches set for Easter, future unclear March 30, 2015
  
• D.C. City Council violates Catholic schools’ right to free exercise of religion March 30, 2015
  

Sanctity of Life - USA

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• Government report shows hundreds of millions in tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood, other abortion advocates March 30, 2015
  
• Keeping the baby vs. abortion: Americans muddled morality about the unborn March 30, 2015
  
• Fetuses reacting to moms’ smoking March 30, 2015
  
• Colorado woman accused of cutting baby from womb will not face murder charge March 30, 2015
  
• Always care, never kill: How physician-assisted suicide endangers the weak, corrupts medicine, compromises the family, and violates human dignity and equality March 30, 2015
  
• Physician-assisted suicide sends message some people are better off dead. That’s a lie. March 30, 2015
  
• The lethal logic of assisted suicide March 30, 2015
  
• ERLC interview with Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., on physician-assisted suicide March 30, 2015
  
• Physician-assisted suicide is always wrong March 30, 2015
  

Marriage and Family - USA

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• Judicial tyranny unMoored March 30, 2015
  
• School district violates Christian college students’ rights, civil rights official says March 30, 2015
  
• Preach from the rooftops: Evangelium Vitae at Twenty March 30, 2015
  
• When my father told me he wanted to be a woman March 30, 2015
  

Bench and Bar - USA

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• A tip from the justices on writing: Keep it simple March 30, 2015
  
• A 12,500-word limit is too brief for some appellate lawyers March 30, 2015
  
• Study: Law faculties short on white Christians, republicans March 30, 2015
  

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