1. AFA asks Internet supporters to help reduce cost of gasoline
- Tupelo, MS –American Family Association (AFA) has asked its more than three million Internet supporters to join their “3 Percent Solution” to help bring down the high cost of gas. Supporters are being asked to reduce their use of gas by 3 percent.
Created: 4/27/2006
2. Ninth Circuit strikes again: Christian message on student t-shirt impermissible
- Pasadena, CA –In a 2-1 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today upheld a lower court ruling denying relief to a high school student who had been told by his principal he could not wear a t-shirt bearing the words “Be Ashamed, Our School Embraced What God Has Condemned” handwritten on the front, and “Homosexuality Is Shameful” on the back. Judge Alex Kozinski dissented.
Created: 4/20/2006
3. State law school can discriminate against Christian club, says court
- San Francisco, CA –A federal judge has ruled that the University of California’s Hastings Law School can deny official recognition and funding to a Christian student club that requires its members and leadership to sign a statement of faith. The law school denied funding to the club because the statement of faith violated the school’s anti-discrimination policy.
Created: 4/19/2006
4. Ford stock and sales going down, support for homosexual marriage still strong
- TUPELO, MS – Despite the fact that Ford is sponsoring a homosexual "marriage" commitment service in June, the American Family Association says its boycott of Ford Motor Company is having an impact. AFA and over 20 other pro-family organizations are boycotting Ford because of the company’s support for homosexual marriage.
Created: 4/18/2006
5. Networks using schoolyard bully tactics
- Tupelo, MS- The American Family Association (AFA) believes the major television networks are resorting to methods used by schoolyard bullies, by challenging recent FCC fines and rulings over indecency on the public airwaves.
Created: 4/17/2006
6. Federal judge enjoins West Palm Beach abortion buffer zone
- West Palm Beach, FL –A federal judge has issued an order enjoining the City of West Palm Beach, Florida from enforcing a 20-foot “buffer zone” designed to keep pro-life demonstrators away from abortion clinic entrances. The buffer zone was adopted by the City Commission at the urging of Mayor Lois Frankel and a local abortion clinic owner, Mona Reis, after lengthy public hearings. The American Family Association Center for Law & Policy (“Center”) and Boca Raton attorney George Sigalos represent the plaintiffs, Katrina Halfpap, Jean Seelinger, and Marilyn Blackburn
Created: 4/17/2006
7. The SEC refuses Ford’s request to keep homosexual marriage issue off stockholders meeting agenda
- TUPELO, MS –The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied a request by Ford Motor Company to keep a shareholder resolution pertaining to homosexual marriage off the agenda at their upcoming shareholders meeting.
Created: 4/4/2006
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