ALLIANCE ALERTS 03/04/2013

Featured - Monday, March 4, 2013 Marriage and Politics: Why the debate matters; why the conjugal view can prevail | Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson & Robert P. George at NRO March 4, 2013 “CA Lawmaker Seeks Rights For Transgender Students” March 4, 2013 Ark. Gov. Beebe Vetoes 12-week Abortion Ban March 4, 2013 Proposition 8 cases based on a phantom constitutional clause | David W. New at Washington Times March 4, 2013 Adultery: When law and morality (used to) agree | Albert Mohler March 4, 2013 Imprisoned Virginia Pastor: God’s Law Reigns In Same-sex Dispute March 4, 2013 Media Clips Religious Freedom Outscores Obamacare 12-4 in Court March 4, 2013 Wrestling ref’s penalty for prayer a 1st Amendment violation, says legal group | One News Now March 4, 2013 Rialto City Council defends public prayers before meetings | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin March 4, 2013 Pro-Life Groups Tell UN Treaty Bodies to Stop Pushing Abortion March 4, 2013 Religious Liberty - USA American Business Owners Allowed to Discriminate? March 4, 2013 TN: Hearing on Hamilton County prayer lawsuit scheduled April 24 March 4, 2013 TX: School Board Seeks Feedback on Faith Banner Ban March 4, 2013 Georgia Baseball Coach Resigns Following Complaint Over Bible Citation on Team Ball Caps March 4, 2013 College Says Christian Student Groups Must Accept Non-Christian Leaders March 4, 2013 Constitutional Issue Avoided In Preacher’s Guilty Plea For Possessing Poisonous Snakes March 4, 2013 Court Denies Injunction In Businesses’ Challenge To Contraceptive Coverage Mandate March 4, 2013 Who Governs the Family? Marriage as a New Test Case of Overlapping Jurisdictions | Witte, John and Nichols, Joel A. at Faulkner L. Rev. March 4, 2013 Religious Liberty - Global Empire strikes back: China assaults home churches March 4, 2013 N. Korea’s ‘hatred of Christians’ puts 70,000 believers in prison March 4, 2013 Tanzania: Time stops in Rome, but war on Christians continues March 4, 2013 A Questionable Victory for Free Speech March 4, 2013 Sanctity of Life - USA How can we defend the killing of an unborn child in the name of ‘choice’? | Maria Santo at Baltimore Sun March 4, 2013 Why pro-lifers keep fighting abortion | Helen M. Alvaré and Meg T. McDonnell at Washington Post March 4, 2013 Pa. Abortion Doctor Goes on Trial in 8 Deaths March 4, 2013 ‘Is she breathing normally?’ ‘No.’: Two medical emergencies in 10 days at Delaware abortion clinic March 4, 2013 Botched abortion at Albuquerque late-term abortion clinic lands 14th woman in hospital March 4, 2013 What Ever Happened to “Safe”? | Edward Mechmann at Archdiocese of NY March 4, 2013 Sanctity of Life - Global UK: Still meaning in life, says man with locked-in syndrome March 4, 2013 Marriage and Family - USA Texas Lawmakers Urge Boy Scouts to Maintain Traditional Values March 4, 2013 DOJ: Children Do Not Need—and Have No Right to–Mothers March 4, 2013 “Pepperdine University announces LGBT scholarship” March 4, 2013 “Poll: At least half of Delaware’s voters would support same-sex marriage” March 4, 2013 Denver: “Former mayor Webb says gay marriage next step after civil unions” March 4, 2013 “GOP Jews Back Same-Sex Marriage Efforts” March 4, 2013 Protest Planned Against Minn. Legislature’s Bill to Redefine Marriage March 4, 2013 Marriage: A Supreme Test of Rights | Harry R. Jackson at Townhall March 4, 2013 A Federalism-Based Equal Protection Argument Against DOMA | Dale Carpenter at Volokh Conspiracy March 4, 2013 “Public opinion could sway Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage” | LA Times March 4, 2013 A third possibility on Prop. 8 | Erwin Chemerinsky at LA Times March 4, 2013 Marriage and Family - Global “Spanish minister angers gays over same-sex marriage comments” March 4, 2013 Germany: Conservatives reconsider stance on marriage March 4, 2013 Quebec Government: Please Differentiate Between Transphobia and Homophobia March 4, 2013 Bench and Bar - USA Witherspoon Institute Law Seminar March 4, 2013 Virginia Swears in First Openly Homosexual Judge March 4, 2013 “Gay Marriage And The Supreme Court’s Empire” | Paul Mirengoff at Power Line March 4, 2013 Pro-Lifers Oppose Obama Pro-Abortion Judicial Pick Caitlin Halligan March 4, 2013 Iowa: Forum debates judicial selection process March 4, 2013 Vacancies, backlogs plague federal judiciary March 4, 2013 Justice Ginsburg Says She Won’t Step Down This Year: ‘After That, Who Knows?’ March 4, 2013 Natural Law Liberalism Beyond Romanticism March 4, 2013 Obama pushing to diversify federal judiciary amid GOP delays March 4, 2013 Bench and Bar - Global Canada: Supremacists Courts March 4, 2013 Czech Lawmakers To Charge President With Treason March 4, 2013 Miscellaneous - USA Appeals Court Rules Arizona Day Labor Solicitation Law Is Unconstitutional March 4, 2013 Health industry pushes GOP states toward Obamacare | Tim Carney at Washington Examiner March 4, 2013 Obama friend, fmr. leader of Soros-funded group, receives $340 million to run ObamaCare exchanges March 4, 2013 This publication is a resource of the Alliance Defending Freedom. 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