By Daniel Noe
Matt Barber and Steve Crampton of Liberty Counsel say that Christians must rise up and resist any effort to legitimize gay marriage if the Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Lawsuit Threat Prompts School To Readmit Christian Speaker
Three weeks after being ejected from a high school campus over doubtful accusations from school administrators, popular speaker and musician Bradlee Dean gave his presentation to an enthusiastic high school club.
“This generation is subjected to everything, and protected from nothing,” Dean said. “You cannot complain about our posterity when they are guilty as taught. They simply reflect their teachers. I am tired of seeing the older generations divert responsibility. So I am doing my best to make up for their lack thereof.”
Spanish River High School administrators in Boca Raton told students they had no First Amendment rights in kicking Dean’s group off campus Feb. 13, but later changed their minds at the suggestion of federal court action to allow Dean to speak to The American Club, who had invited him with school approval. (See actual video footage of the ejection of Dean and his group “You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Intl.”)
Liberty prevailed for the students who came to Bradlee Dean’s presentation. Several dozen students showed up for the after-school discussion.
Citing the First Amendment of the Constitution, as well as “viewpoint discrimination” (a term used in numerous U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving protected speech), Richard Mast of Liberty Counsel said, “The District’s videotaped reaction to Bradlee clearly showed that administration officials were familiar with his position on various issues, and that his statements and reputation were the motivations behind his denial and ejection from the school,” Mast also stated that “The District later proffered the club’s alleged failure to follow protocol as the reason for its denial. ‘Paperwork errors’ were the only obstacles that the District could come up with to justify itself; once these were addressed, the District had no choice but to approve.”
Dean added, “The truth of the matter is, I know what it is like to be forgotten about, therefore it is easy to stand up and fight for what you love and I love this generation enough to fight for them. It stands true, God will give you what you are willing to fight for. No excuses. And today’s victory at the American club, Spanish River High School speaks for itself. God has not changed — the American people have.”
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Obamacare Can Still Be Overturned
By Emma Karlin
There IS a small ray of light shining up from the rubble of what is left of America. With Republican governors acting like – well, Republicans and crawling back to lick Barack Obama’s boots, it IS hard to accept; but the fight against Obamacare is still on. The feckless and traitorous John Roberts may not have destroyed us after all.
A lawsuit against the worst elements of Obamacare brought by Liberty Counsel, which has of course been ignored by the Democrat-controlled media, has been set for a rehearing by the U.S. Supreme Court. It will be reheard in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Court observers describe this move as extremely rare and believe this means the matter will almost certainly find its way back up to the Supreme Court itself.
Acting on a Supreme Court directive, Liberty Counsel, which is devoted to defending Christian civil rights, has filed a brief in defense of Liberty University. It has been green-lighted to argue not only against the contraceptive/abortifacient mandate, but the employer mandate, the abortion mandate on religious institutions, and the individual abortion mandate. Moreover, Liberty may argue against the entire Obamacare bill, which could collapse it completely based on the indisputable fact that Robert’s pronouncement of it as a tax stands in direct conflict to constitutional law demanding that all spending bills originate in the House and not the Senate, as what happened.
The Liberty case is the only one in the country challenging the entire employee mandate for all employers, not just “recognized” religious institutions. It will now be able to argue against the violation of an individual’s right to refuse to support abortion and its related actions based on a personal moral revulsion to the murder of innocent babies.
Obama may be able to buy off the plaintiffs in other cases, but not this one. Roberts will have to explain how what he called a tax could have originated in the Senate. There IS a small ray of hope of deliverance after all.
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Killing The Obamacare Zombie: Hope Lives!
By Matt Barber
“But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs,” you say. “And political eunuchs in the GOP establishment are bowing to Obama like he bows to foreign dictators. Any hope of repeal is long dead, and besides, Chief Justice John Roberts put the final nail in the judicial coffin last summer, didn’t he? Any chance of killing the Obamacare zombie is gone, right?”
Wrong.
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media paid it little attention; but back in November, the U.S. Supreme Court shocked many in the legal community by granting Liberty Counsel’s motion for a rehearing on its multi-pronged challenge to Obamacare. The high court ordered the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear arguments. This is extremely rare and means, almost certainly, that Chief Justice Roberts will get another bite at the rotten apple – this time, with a whole new quiver of legal arrows.
Following the Supreme Court’s directive, Liberty Counsel recently filed its brief in the case of Liberty University v. Geithner. The Christian civil rights firm represents Liberty University and two private individuals in this case. While there are other legal challenges to the employer contraceptive/abortifacient mandate, Liberty Counsel’s is the most comprehensive case pending in the country.
The lawsuit challenges 1) the employer mandate for all employers; 2) the abortion mandate for religious employers; 3) the abortion mandate for individuals; and 4) the entire law because tax bills must originate in the House (and Obamacare originated in the Senate.)
This case is the only one in the country that challenges the entire employer mandate for all employers. Like other pending cases, Liberty Counsel’s also challenges the so-called “Preventative coverage” mandate, which requires employers to provide free contraceptives, sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and IUDs, which also causes abortion.
Additionally, Obamacare compels individual citizens to violate their conscience by making them directly fund abortion homicide – both surgical and chemical – under penalty of law. It forces all employees who are part of a plan that offers abortion coverage to pay $1 per month directly to a “free” abortion fund. There is no opt-out provision, and information relative to which plans offer abortion is intentionally covered up. This too is part of the case, so don’t let anyone tell you that Obamacare doesn’t require you to fund abortion on demand. If they do, they’re simply lying through their triple-grande,-four-pump-hazelnut-mocha-stained teeth.
Finally, Liberty Counsel’s brief argues that Obamacare is invalid because, since it’s a tax – as the Supreme Court already ruled in June – it violates the Constitution’s Origination Clause. To pass constitutional muster, tax bills must originate in the House, not the Senate.
Before the Democrat-led Senate rammed it through in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 2009, Senate majority leader Harry Reid used a House bill unrelated to Obamacare, struck all the language and the title so that only the former HR number remained, and then inserted a new title and over 2,000 pages of job-killing, economy-crushing, health-care-rationing compost.
Sneaky? Yes. Typical? No doubt. Unconstitutional? Absolutely. It’s like dropping a Ford Pinto engine into …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism