ALLIANCE ALERTS 03/19/2013

Featured - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Santa Fe’s city attorney: Same-sex marriage is legal in New Mexico March 19, 2013 Philippine Top Court Halts Contraceptives Law March 19, 2013 Attacks on Prop. 8 rebutted: Reply brief filed with U.S. Supreme Court | Alliance Defending Freedom March 19, 2013 Senator Portman’s Homosexual Descent March 19, 2013 Virginia: Dems blast comparison of slavery, abortion March 19, 2013 Media Clips Court allows student Christmas fliers in the Poconos | Matt Sharp on IQ 106.9 Philadelphia with Lionel and Michelle Murillo March 19, 2013 Leveraging of the Boy Scouts for immorality | David Cortman on the Zeb Bell Show March 19, 2013 Marriage Testimony in MN Senate Judiciary Committee | Ken Connelly of Alliance Defending Freedom March 19, 2013 Rowan Co. prayer: A fight few people want? Poll shows 82% support commissioners’ move March 19, 2013 NC: Commissioners respond to lawsuit with prayer, vote to seek legal defense | Salisbury Post (AP) March 19, 2013 Despite lawsuit, Rowan County Commissioners open meeting with prayer | Myfox8.com March 19, 2013 “2nd VIEW: Group urges prayer for gay marriage cases” | Baptist Press March 19, 2013 “Report exposes ‘religious liberty’ anti-gay campaign” March 19, 2013 National Rally Staged to Defend Marriage in Nation’s Capital | MO Family Policy Council March 19, 2013 Alliance Defense Fund: Illinois, Wisconsin school districts OK to use church-run camp WisPolitics March 19, 2013 Religious Liberty - USA Catholic Bishops to GOP House: Repeal Obamacare Reg in CR or Other ‘Must-Pass’ Bill March 19, 2013 The Religious-Liberty Rights of Profit-Making Businesses | Ed Whelan at NRO March 19, 2013 Sexual Orientation Therapy Ban: Where Is Tolerance? March 19, 2013 NC: Americans United sends school board another letter, records request March 19, 2013 ACLU to Drop Case Against City Over Boy Scouts Lease March 19, 2013 TX: Atheists Challenge Rowlett City Council Prayer Policy Before Meetings March 19, 2013 Kentucky can still credit ‘Almighty God’ for its security as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge March 19, 2013 Sioux Falls Bishop condemns Catholic insurance agency for complying with HHS mandate March 19, 2013 SC: EEOC employee sues over Obama “sexual orientation” discrimination investigation mandate March 19, 2013 Was Religious Accommodation Needed For SCOTUS Arguments In Same-Sex Marriage Cases? March 19, 2013 Indiana Civil Rights Commission Seeks Jurisdiction Over Small Informal Groups March 19, 2013 Religious Liberty - Global Muslims attack Christians in Egypt’s south March 19, 2013 Why has the State Department abandoned an American pastor held in an Iranian prison? March 19, 2013 Cuba declares Good Friday a holiday March 19, 2013 Pakistan: Christian girl rescued from forced conversion, marriage March 19, 2013 Boko Haram destroys 50 of 52 Catholic churches in one Nigerian state March 19, 2013 Scotland: Church hounded from hotel over its traditional beliefs March 19, 2013 Egypt forms first Council of Churches March 19, 2013 Ban On School Girls Wearing Hijabs In Russian Caucasus Region Stirs Controversy March 19, 2013 House Panel Holds Hearing On Plight of Religious Minorities In Iran March 19, 2013 Sanctity of Life - USA Connecticut to Hold Hearing on Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide March 19, 2013 Mass. pro-lifers endorse Sullivan for Senate March 19, 2013 Kansas House rejects abortion exception for rape March 19, 2013 Catholics lobby Albany as abortion fight brews March 19, 2013 Focus on the Family Ultrasound Program Saves 146,000 Babies From Abortion March 19, 2013 Worker Admits Cutting 10 Babies At Abortion Clinic March 19, 2013 Sanctity of Life - Global B.C. Court of Appeal hears assisted suicide case March 19, 2013 Marriage and Family - USA The Romeikes’ Fight for Individual Liberty | Jillian Kay Melchior at NRO March 19, 2013 The New Unmarried Moms | Kay Hymowitz, W. Bradford Wilcox And Kelleen Kaye at Wall Street Journal March 19, 2013 Hesperia, CA: “Local School Accused of Anti-Gay Discrimination” March 19, 2013 RI Senate Judiciary to consider bill to redefine marriage on Thursday March 19, 2013 The Decline of Marriage and the Rise of Unwed Mothers: An Economic Mystery March 19, 2013 Parents Rally To Defend Louisiana Scholarship Program Before Supreme Court Hearing March 19, 2013 Poll: “Why support for gay marriage has grown so quickly” | Washington Post March 19, 2013 San Francisco’s role in marriage litigation | NY Times March 19, 2013 $2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher ‘Risk for Hazardous Drinking’? March 19, 2013 “Folk Legend Incites Mass Walkout With Anti-Gay Speech… In San Francisco” March 19, 2013 Arizona Leads Nation in School Choice March 19, 2013 Marriage and Family - Global Finland: Parliament to take up bill to redefine marriage March 19, 2013 Puerto Rico Gov’t Signals Support for Homosexual Adoption March 19, 2013 Bench and Bar - USA Same-day audio for high court marriage cases March 19, 2013 California wants to charge citizens to see public court records March 19, 2013 Miscellaneous - USA 2nd Circuit: Judge’s views about Facebook result in new sentence in child porn case March 19, 2013 No more Stephanopoulos? RNC wants role in picking 2016 primary debate moderators March 19, 2013 Miscellaneous - Global For the first time since the Great Schism, ecumenical patriarch to attend pope’s inaugural Mass March 19, 2013 This publication is a resource of the Alliance Defending Freedom. It reports information relevant to Alliance Defending Freedom's mission. 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