ALLIANCE ALERTS 03/27/2014

Featured - Thursday, March 27, 2014

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• 5th Circuit upholds Texas law protecting women from cut-and-run abortionists March 27, 2014
  
• 5th Circuit upholds new Texas abortion rules March 27, 2014
  
• Are you ready to pay the Hobby Lobby poll tax? March 27, 2014
  
  

Media Clips

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• After not being promoted, UNC-W professor wins lawsuit | The Daily Tar Heel March 27, 2014
  
• Fired college employee gets help from ADF before Supreme Court review | OneNewsNow March 27, 2014
  

Religious Liberty - USA

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• Miss. religious-practices bill goes to negotiation March 27, 2014
  
• Maryland approves legislation to “protect transgender rights” March 27, 2014
  
• Maryland: Carroll commissioner “willing to go to jail” over right to pray March 27, 2014
  
• Ramesh Ponnuru: Abortion and the HHS mandate March 27, 2014
  
• Prof. Michael McConnell on the Hobby Lobby arguments March 27, 2014
  
• Ed Whelan: Hobby Lobby — straightforward statutory interpretation March 27, 2014
  
• Travis Weber: Not just for profit March 27, 2014
  
• Thomas Kidd: Yes, religious liberty is threatened in America March 27, 2014
  
• Free birth control and unfree photographers March 27, 2014
  
• Hobby Lobby for freedom | NRO interview with Lori Windham of the Becket Fund March 27, 2014
  
• Ecclesiastical abstention doctrine leads to dismissal of suit over church’s board March 27, 2014
  
• Eugene Volokh: UC Santa Barbara Vice Chancellor issues statement supporting free speech March 27, 2014
  
• Noah Feldman: Hobby Lobby verdict could be a surprise March 27, 2014
  
• NYC Transit Authority required to pay attorneys fees in religious discrimination suit March 27, 2014
  
• District court enjoins sectarian invocations at Maryland county council meetings March 27, 2014
  

Religious Liberty - Global

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• Pakistani gets death penalty for blasphemy March 27, 2014
  
• Bruce Frohnen: Making religion illegal in Denmark March 27, 2014
  
• Pope tells Obama of concern for “religious freedom” in United States March 27, 2014
  
• Al Qaeda-linked Islamists capture Syrian Christian village March 27, 2014
  

Sanctity of Life - USA

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• Florida: House committee moves abortion bill forward March 27, 2014
  
• Pro-life display allowed at Purdue after group protests March 27, 2014
  
• University of Michigan art show celebrates abortion March 27, 2014
  
• Jeremy Kee: The meaning of (pro) life March 27, 2014
  

Sanctity of Life - Global

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• UK: Doctor faces court on abortion drug March 27, 2014
  

Marriage and Family - USA

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• 9th Circuit could reconsider whether “anti-gay” laws get more closely scrutinized by courts March 27, 2014
  
• Florida may ban minors under 16 from getting married March 27, 2014
  

Marriage and Family - Global

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• Kenyan Christian leaders oppose polygamy bill March 27, 2014
  

Bench and Bar - USA

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• Texas Judge Costa moves to full Senate vote March 27, 2014
  

Miscellaneous - USA

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• Andrew Walker: World Vision and Biblical witness March 27, 2014
  
• Michael Brendan Dougherty: The religious roots of the elite liberal agenda March 27, 2014
  

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