Posts Tagged ‘Liberty Counsel’
Public School District Refunds Illegal Charges
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel A school district has repaid hundreds of dollars to Child Evangelism Fellowship’s (CEF) Good News Club at the request of Liberty Counsel, because the fees violated the First Amendment. The Midlothian Independent School District agreed that CEF should receive a discounted rate. The policy allows youth-oriented, [...]
Tens of Thousands of People Petition Macy’s
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Tens of thousands of people have signed onto Liberty Counsel’s open letter asking Macy’s to change its policy that permits men dressing as women to use women’s fitting rooms. Liberty Counsel has delivered the letter to Macy’s. Just last week it came to light that a mother and her daughter were subjected [...]
Values Voter Summit to Restore Hope, Ignite Passion, and Promote Change in America
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel October 7-9 marks the sixth annual Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Confirmed speakers include Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Gov. Mitt Romney, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Rep. Ron Paul, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, House Speaker John [...]
Liberty Counsel Files Brief Urging the U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold FCC’s Decency Standards
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in FCC v. Fox. The case involves a challenge by broadcast networks to the FCC decency standards for primetime television. Broadcasters claim that the standards are too “vague” and violate their First Amendment rights. In the brief, [...]
Liberty Counsel Opens Doors for Pastor During School Career Day
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel applauds the Larose Lower Elementary School for reversing its unconstitutional ban and permitting Pastor Gary Hanberry to participate in the school’s Career Day activities. He intended to make a presentation on the volunteer work that he does at the Compel-Crosby Home, an orphanage [...]
Student Banned from Displaying U.S. Flag on Veterans’ Day Gets Help From LC
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Denair, CA – Today Liberty Counsel sent a letter to school officials demanding that a middle school student be allowed to return an American flag to the back of his bicycle. Cody Alicea, a 13-year-old, proudly flies the American flag on the back of his bike. He does this to honor veterans, namely his [...]
Supreme Court Weighs Tax Credits for Arizona School Choice
School Days, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Kathleen M. Winn. This case involves a challenge to an Arizona school choice law that provides dollar-for-dollar tax credits to taxpayers who make contributions to independent [...]
Liberty University to Appear in Court Challenging Healthcare
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Lynchburg, VA – Tomorrow Liberty Counsel will represent Liberty University and five additional clients against the new healthcare law opposing the federal government’s motion to dismiss in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit was filed on the same day the [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case of Funeral Protestors
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving individuals who protested a funeral more than 1,000 feet from the location. In Snyder v. Phelps, Albert Snyder, who did not actually see the protest prior to the funeral but was later told about it, filed suit [...]
Liberty Counsel Opens Public School Talent Show to Religious Content
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Chicago, IL – After Liberty Counsel warned the Itasca Public School District that it cannot censor two students, Christiana and Gloryanne Gatbunton, who wanted to sing portions of the song “Call on Jesus” in the talent show at the Elmer H. Franzen Intermediate School just outside of Chicago, the school [...]
LC Files Brief On Behalf of Santa Rosa County Teachers and Staff
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Santa Rosa County, FL – Liberty Counsel filed its Initial Brief at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Christian Educators Association International (“CEAI”). CEAI sought to intervene in a federal trial court to defend the rights of the faculty and staff of the Santa [...]
LC Opposes Antifamily Social Agenda in Defense Authorization Bill
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a key vote on the Defense Authorization Bill for tomorrow. Liberty Counsel is renewing its opposition to the bill, because it will repeal the law that prevents homosexuals from serving in the military and will allow abortions on military [...]
Florida School Tries to Ban Bibles on Religious Freedom Day
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Fort Myers, FL – Today Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit to overturn a recent ban on distributing Bibles on the public school campuses of Collier County, Florida. For years, the school board allowed World Changers to distribute free Bibles to interested students during off-school hours on Religious Freedom Day, [...]
LC Obtains Emergency Order for Food and Water to Elderly Patient
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Read this Liberty Alert online at www.LC.org Today, a judge in Brevard County, Florida issued an emergency injunction ordering a hospital to provide food and water to an eighty-three-year-old woman. Carrie Johnson recently suffered several strokes and was hospitalized. Against the [...]
Liberty Counsel Joins Campaign to Preserve Military Families
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Senators Eye "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Today Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman, Mathew Staver, sent a letter of support to Senators John McCain and Carl Levin regarding the continuation of the so-called "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" military policy and the underlying federal law. This [...]
Liberty Counsel Helps Restore Prayer to Senior Center in Georgia
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel’s legal advice led to yesterday’s change of the controversial ban on senior citizens praying over their meal at the Ed Young Senior Citizens Center in Port Wentworth, GA. This controversy began May 7, 2010, when residents of the Ed Young Senior Citizens Center in Port [...]
Senate Should Probe Elena Kagan’s Judicial Philosophy for Supreme Court Position
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel President Obama has nominated Elena Kagan to replace Justice Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. As the Dean of Harvard Law School, Kagan was able to effect major change in the curriculum to redirect its focus toward international law and policy. The case law method focused on cases and moved away [...]
LC Sues Santa Rosa School District for Hostility to Religious Expression
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Tomorrow, May 4, 2010, Liberty Counsel will be on the steps of the federal courthouse in Pensacola for a rally and press conference at 5:00pm Central Time, after filing a major, comprehensive lawsuit against the Santa Rosa County School District and its Superintendent, Timothy S. Wyrosdick, for [...]
May Day 2010: A Cry to God for a Nation in Distress
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Only a few days remain until a national prayer meeting assembles in our nation’s capital on May 1, from sunrise until 2:00 PM ET. Leaders of all houses of worship are joining together at the Lincoln Memorial to lead our country in a collective ‘mayday’ call for the soul of our nation. It will [...]
Supreme Court for “Christian Legal Society v. Martinez” Case
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel's Founder and President will both be present as the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez ("CLS") case is argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today. Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship and Lamb's Chapel, both of which won groundbreaking equal [...]
Supreme Court Nomination Panel Discussion Added For “The Awakening 2010”
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel In light of the announcement that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire from the High Court, a new track to discuss the upcoming nomination has been added to "The Awakening 2010" event, April 15-16, on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Awakening 2010 is sponsored [...]
Resignation of Justice Stevens Will Set Up Supreme Court Battle
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Today, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced his resignation from the United States Supreme Court. Justice Stevens will be 90 at the time of his retirement when the Court's term ends this summer. He was nominated in 1975 by President Gerald Ford, after Williams Douglas resigned. Stevens has [...]
VA Attorney Gen. Ken Cuccinelli to Speak at The Awakening on April 15
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is scheduled to speak at "The Awakening 2010" on Thursday evening, April 15 at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. We have posted a schedule of events and speakers online. Registration is FREE for the entire event, which will be held on April 15-16. Go [...]
Homeland Security Raid of Religious Tracts Violates Fourth Amendment
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Yesterday a federal district court in Dallas, Texas ruled that agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violated the Fourth Amendment rights of Darrel Rundus when they confiscated his "Million Dollar Bill" gospel tracts. The judge ruled that DHS violated the Fourth Amendment guarantee [...]
Patrick Henry and President Obama Share One Date in History For Opposite Reasons
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the largest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. Ignoring the will of the people, twisting arms, threatening fellow Democrats, and conducting closed door meetings, the President pushed ahead with a healthcare law that will fund abortion, [...]
Sign Statement of Support for Liberty Counsel’s Lawsuit Against ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Join other concerned Americans who support Liberty Counsel’s federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare bill. Sign our Statement of Support for Litigation to Stop "ObamaCare." The healthcare bill is unconstitutional for several reasons, including the fact that Congress lacks the [...]
Censorship of Kindergartner’s Jesus Picture Appealed to Supreme Court
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel WASHINGTON, DC – On March 11, Liberty Counsel filed a petition asking the United States Supreme Court to review a New York school district’s censorship of a picture of Jesus that then-kindergartner Antonio Peck included on his poster showing ways to save the world. Liberty Counsel has represented Antonio, [...]
Liberty Counsel Files Brief with High Court Supporting Privacy for Signers of Marriage Petition
Liberty Alert, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – Today, Liberty Counsel filed an Amicus Brief with the United States Supreme Court supporting the privacy of proponents who signed a petition in favor of Referendum 71, which placed on the ballot the question of repealing the recent law giving all the privileges of marriage to homosexual partners [...]
Personhood Mississippi Gains Time to Certify Signatures
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Pro-life Amendment Will Likely Appear on Ballot in 2011 Jackson, MS – The deadline for certifying signatures has been extended so that Personhood Mississippi will now likely have enough signatures to place an amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. The amendment will include the unborn in the [...]
Defending Personhood in Mississippi
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Jackson, MS – Liberty Counsel has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Mississippi seeking an emergency injunction on behalf of Personhood Mississippi, an organization working to prevent abortions by amending the state Constitution to include the unborn in the definition of a person. The organization has [...]
Defending Religious Liberty at Hastings Law School
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – Liberty Counsel has filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a law school student group of the Christian Legal Society (“CLS”). The CLS group naturally requires voting members and officers to uphold basic Christian principles and thus was denied the same student funds [...]
Choose Sexual Purity
Liberty Letters, Liberty Counsel Washington, D.C. – On February 12, youth around the world will celebrate the seventh annual Day of Purity. The Day of Purity, a project of Liberty Counsel, is a call for youth of all ages to remain sexually pure until marriage. The Day of Purity is designed to counter the cultural message that young people [...]
Report Documents Obama's Radical Staff
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – Liberty Counsel releases a 72-page report today detailing information on each of the nominations and appointments of President Barack Obama. This report documents the beliefs, words, and actions of the radical group Obama has hand-picked to “change” our nation. The document provides [...]
A Vote Heard Round the World
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – “The people of Massachusetts fired a shot heard ‘round the world,” said Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law. Staver continued, “We are witnessing a new revolution in America. It is a revolution of ideas and values. President Barack Obama [...]
Thousands Rally Against Prenatal Racial Genocide
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Houston, TX – Today, in honor of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., national spiritual and political leaders joined with thousands of African American, Latino and other minority voices to rally against prenatal racial genocide perpetrated by Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood began as a eugenics [...]
Ten Commandments Display Constitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Cincinnati, OH – Today in ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a display including the Ten Commandments in Leitchfield, KY, on the second floor of Grayson County’s courthouse. The display is entitled “Foundations of American Law and Government” and [...]
Rally Protests Planned Parenthood's Racial Genocide
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Houston, TX – Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, is joining with other national leaders on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest Planned Parenthood’s creation of the largest abortion clinic in America and the racist roots of the nation’s largest abortion [...]
Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – “Mr. President, tear down this wall,” said Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law. Staver’s reference draws from President Ronald Reagan’s famous speech to Mikhail Gorbachev, when asking the former leader of the Soviet Union to tear down the [...]
Abortion Healthcare Bill is Unconstitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Congress lacks the authority to force healthcare coverage on people and businesses Washington, DC – The current healthcare bills pending in the Senate and the House are unconstitutional, because Congress lacks the authority to mandate insurance coverage for individuals or private businesses. If a bill passes [...]
