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- SCOTTSDALE, AZ – The Alliance Defense Fund, America’s largest public interest religious liberty legal alliance, has announced the launch of its nationwide Christmas Project to combat senseless and reoccurring annual attempts to censor Christmas. "We expect the ACLU and its usual ‘freedom from religion’ allies, along with uninformed, misguided government officials in many communities to once again attempt to turn the joy of Christmas into a divisive ‘separation of church and state’ controversy," said Alan E. Sears, president of the Alliance Defense Fund. "Somebody will set up a Christmas crèche ...
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- HOUSTON – A University of Houston student group, the Pro-Life Cougars, announced a victorious settlement today in a free speech lawsuit against the university. The settlement is a big win for the student organization, but it could prove to be an even bigger victory for student groups seeking to regain free speech rights on other campuses. The case involved a graphic pro-life exhibit banned from display on Butler Plaza at the University of Houston. Benjamin Bull, chief counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund and the lead attorney in Pro-Life Cougars v. University of Houston, explained that the ...
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- Judge calls University of Houston a designated public forum for student speech
- HOUSTON – The Alliance Defense Fund Law Center, a national public interest law firm, last week filed for a second preliminary injunction to prevent the University of Houston from enforcing another unconstitutionally restrictive speech policy. The first injunction came on June 24, 2002, when U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein, Jr., ruled against the university in favor of a student group called the Pro-Life Cougars. In the fall of 2001, the University of Houston denied the Pro-Life Cougars permission to put up a display in a public space used by other organizations. But the group won the first ...
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- NEW YORK – The New York City school system has repeatedly slammed the door on church requests to rent meeting space. But the Bronx Household of Faith, a church armed with last summer’s precedent in Good News Club v. Milford, will be knocking on the door again next week in federal court. Most school systems don’t mind renting space to community groups. That is, unless you’re the New York City school system and the community group is a church. Even though churches across the country are able to rent space from public school systems, the Bronx Household of Faith must go to court to do that. In ...