Posts Tagged ‘ACLU’
by Matt Lacy – A local employer in Denver has dealt a blow to requirement’s by the administration that religious employers be forced to provide abortion inducing birth control drugs to employees regardless of the employer’s religious objections. The Colorado-based Hercules Industries which is in the heating and air-conditioning business is operated by [...]
Tags: ACLU, America, August, birth, choice, company, control, coverage, Denver, District Court Judge John Kane, government, Hercules Industries, lawsuit, mandate, Obama, Obamacare, press, right, Roman Catholics, The Colorado
by Jack Minor – School districts in America, including District 6 will be receiving a booklet advising them of the religious rights of students. Liberty Counsel, a group that defends the religious rights of individuals announced last Friday that they were sending 99,750 copies of the Patriot’s handbook of [...]
Tags: ACLU, Brandon Wegner, campus, class, District 6, First Amendment, Florida, graduation, High School, issue, Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver, meal, School, sex, student, surge, time, use, Wisconsin
Pastor Cripe by Peter Grady – A church in Maine has announced it will be taking a special offering for a Political Action Committee; and, in what may surprise people, the action does not run afoul of IRS rules. The Waterville congregation at Faith Evangelical Free church will send its Father’s Day offering to Protect [...]
Tags: ACLU, activity, ballot, Bible, campaign, candidate, church, election, Faith, Faith Evangelical Free, initiative, IRS, issue, Maine, Marriage, money, part, Pastor Cripeby Peter Grady, status, tax
by Jack Minor – While the American Civil Liberties Union is well known for attempts to prevent students from voluntarily praying at graduation ceremonies, it is now gone a step further in wants to ban the words ”invocation” and “benediction” from use in public school graduation ceremonies. The ACLU has told the Lewisville [...]
Tags: ACLU, American, american civil liberties union, Angela Hildenbrand, ban, ceremony, class, district, Fred Biery, graduation, graduation speech, Institute, label, Lewisville Independent, Liberty Institute, organization, right, speech, student, use
by Craig Masters On the last Sunday in January, Catholic priests around the country told their congregations the “news” about the latest assault on Christianity in America. In Pittsburgh, Bishop David Zubik wrote that President Obama had told Catholics, “To Hell with your religious beliefs.” Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria asked his flock to join [...]
Tags: ACLU, America, caption, Catholic, charter schools, government, Gulen Movement, Harmony Network, Islamic, Minnesota, movement, Muslim, network, news, Obama, President Obama, primary, public education system, support, Turkey
by Jack Minor – A bill that would repeal a Colorado libel law that was used to prosecute a Greeley blogger for criticizing a professor at UNC is one step closer to passage. The bill has been passed by the state senate and cleared a House committee Thursday afternoon. While the bill was originally passed [...]
Tags: ACLU, case, Colorado, Following Peake, Howling Pig, integrity, Judge Lewis Babcock, Junius Peake, Junius Puke, law, Mark Silverstein, search, search warrant, speech, state, Susan Knox, Thomas Mink, Thursday, UNC, Weld County
by Jack Minor – The American Civil Rights Union argues in an amicus brief submitted to the US Supreme Court for a new constitutional standard protecting religious freedom in a case involving a war memorial that has existed since the 1950’s. The ACRU argues for a “Coercion Test” to be used which says that public [...]
Tags: ACLU, American, American Civil Rights Union, case, church, Civil Rights, Court, cross, foot, government, issue, land, Ninth Circuit, organization, religion, Rights, state, Supreme, Supreme Court, time
by Jack Minor – A federal judge has ordered a Missouri school district to unblock its web filters and give students access to sexually explicit material by the middle of March. A US District Judge issued a preliminary junction against the Camdenton R – III School District banning them from using filtering software. The American [...]
Tags: ACLU, American, american civil liberties union, candidate, Dan Savage, district, Equal Access Act, First Amendment, Joe Ortwerth, judge, lawsuit, LGBT, Missouri, Missouri Family Policy Council, Rick, right, sex, show, speech, television
by Peter Grady – In asking the Supreme Court to intervene in a case over a war memorial, a legal group says if atheists prevail then no war memorial will be safe. The issue involves the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross in San Diego which was erected over 50 years ago to honor soldiers who [...]
Tags: ACLU, Arlington Memorial Cemetery, Court, cross, foot, government, issue, Kelly Shackelford, land, line, memorial, Mojave Desert, Ninth Circuit, organization, San, San Diego, Supreme, Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court, Veterans
Rules providing information does not violate defendant’s 5th Amendment rightsby Matt Lacy– Civil-rights advocates have said a ruling by a Denver judge ordering a woman to unlock her computer for authorities chips away at constitutional protections in the digital age. Civil Liberty groups have been watching the case carefully saying it pits the rights against [...]
Tags: ACLU, case, Court, decision, Denver, Fifth Amendment, George Washington University, government, information, judge, opinion, organization, search, search warrant, self, suspect, trafficking, use, WND, woman
Speaks out on Montana blogger, future plans by Jack Minor – While oftentimes it is easy to think individuals sue to obtain large cash payouts, Tom Mink said he never expected to get a large settlement from his lawsuit. Mink had sued Greeley and the county for confiscating his computer after he published an article [...]
Tags: ACLU, case, Colorado, drop, end, Howling Pig, idea, interview, judge, law, lawsuit, money, negotiations, something, state, story, suspect, time, Tom, Tom Mink
by Matt Lacy – After more than eight years of litigation, Weld County has settled a case against a blogger that used satire to show a picture of a college professor with a Hitler moustache. Tom Mink, publisher of the Howling Pig, had his computer confiscated by law enforcement after a University of Northern Colorado [...]
Tags: ACLU, caption, case, challenge, Colorado, Howling Pig, integrity, Judge Lewis Babcock, Junius Peake, law, lawsuit, Mark Silverstein, Matt Lacy, opinion, search, search warrant, show, Susan Knox, Tom Mink, Yesterday
Proposed amendment would have done what they said they opposed bill for by Peter Grady – The U.S. Senate passed a bill that the ACLU and Sen. Mark Udall said would allow the military to detain Americans on our own soil. S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization bill was opposed by President Obama, the American [...]
Tags: ACLU, amendment, American, Attorney General, authority, charge, Congress, Defense Secretary, hand, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Mark, Mark Udall, Obama, person, Posse Comitatus Act, report, Senate, status, United States
Attorney says unfavorable ruling would accomplish goal left has had for years by Jack Minor – A Christian attorney says the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case that could force religious institutions to hire LGBT people or face discrimination lawsuits by all employees except for those involving the pastor or similar positions. [...]
Tags: ACLU, Americans United, caption, case, Christian, church, Court, David, February, government, note, pastor, position, religion, return, right, Supreme, Supreme Court, teacher, work
by Craig Master – When Denver District Judge Michael Martinez ruled that the Douglas County school voucher program was not “constitutional,” he believed he was following the law. But which law was he following? From the text of his ruling, it is evident Martinez based his ruling on several 20th century interpretations of the Constitution by [...]
Tags: ACLU, board, case, century, church, Constitution, control, Court, district, Douglas County, government, Jefferson, Judge Michael Martinez, law, left, lot, money, religion, Supreme, Supreme Court
Requirements for affected counties would include active outreach to minority communities by Jack Minor – Weld County has learned that data indicating if it is one of 16 counties in Colorado that will be required to provide election materials in Spanish will not be available in time for the 2011 elections. Weld County [...]
Tags: ACLU, age, American, ballot, Colorado, Community, DOJ, election, Feds, help, information, language, mail, minority, money, program, use, vote, voting, Weld County
Only right leaning school board in Colorado hits wall with vouchers by Jack Minor – In a ruling that critics say will harm needy children, a Denver District Court judge has blocked Douglas County’s implementation of a scholarship program that would allow parents to send their children to the school of their choice. In the [...]
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Calls for supporters to pack courtroom By Jack Minor The American Civil Liberties Union has called on supporters to pack the courtroom in a lawsuit seeking to stop Douglas County’s Choice Scholarship Program, saying it violates the Colorado Constitution. Earlier this year, Douglas County approved a program providing 500 scholarships to parents, who could [...]
Tags: ACLU, case, choice, Choice Scholarship Program, Colorado, Court, day, Douglas County, e mail, IJ, lawsuit, mail, program, son, state, Supreme, Supreme Court, tax, use, year
Senator says huge disconnect between what public thinks law says and how authorities interpret it by Jack Minor In an example of how politics makes strange bedfellows, the ACLU stood side by side with Tea Party and gun rights groups in opposing an extension of the Patriot act that was signed into law by [...]
Tags: ACLU, amendment, American, Diana, government, gun, idea, investigation, law, left, Oregon Sen, Patriot Act, person, right, Ron Wyden, search, side, US, use, vote
Opponents say terrorism defined too broadly, includes those opposed to illegal immigration, belief in bible propheciesby Jack Minor Rep. Cory Gardner issued a statement today defending his vote in favor of extending provisions of the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act extension first came up for vote last week. At that time, the Republican leadership was stunned [...]
Tags: abortion, ACLU, authority, Center, conduct, Gardner, government, immigration, left, Missouri, month, report, right, Ron Paul, Secratary Janet Napolitano, state, support, time, use, vote
by Kurt Overturf, By Not Filibustering the Kagan nomination SENT TO REPUBS ON JUDICIAL COMMITTEE By NOT filibustering Kagan, Republicans are saying ‘YES!’ to likely 40 years of Obama corruption on the Supreme Court and bad law like Roe V Wade according even to radical leftist ACLU Justice Ginsberg. By NOT filibustering Kagan, Republicans are [...]
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I asked Colorado Attorney General Southers how Americans could counter vulgar attacks on states rights and personal rights, and his response was, ‘elections matter’. So, in response to non-ballot attacks on our civil liberties, state sovereignty and the Founder’s intent for these United States, we are all supposed to merely show up at the polls [...]
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