Mathew Staver
Mathew Staver
Mathew D. "Mat" Staver, J.D., is an American lawyer and former Seventh-day Adventistpastor who became a Southern Baptist. He is the founding member and Chairman of the Liberty Counsel law firm since 1989...
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Instead of helping his cause, Mayor Newsom has set back the same-sex marriage agenda and laid the foundation for the pro-marriage movement to once and for all win this battle to preserve traditional marriage.
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This decision gives the green light to the rest of the nation to move forward with assisted suicide laws. This particular case was either going to close the door or to open it, and it opened it.
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Some of these schools have probably represented they're in compliance when they're not. If they were, we wouldn't be getting the kind of calls we're getting.
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This case has significant implications for a number of reasons, You have two state laws clashing for the very first time.
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Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.
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I don't see that the city would have any compelling reason to prohibit her from displaying small flags in her windows. It's a violation of her First Amendment rights,
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Linda is very happy. She's gone for 2 1/2 years without having hardly any say in her children's lives.
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The court acted like a legislature when it attempted to rewrite the statute.
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The Attorney General failed to carry out his duty to prepare a neutral, factual title and summary, which would have prevented a fair vote on this important issue. The people deserve the chance to vote to protect marriage rights.
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If you have a forum like this, that students are using to express themselves, this is the price of free speech.
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We could have kept Michael completely out of the children's lives, but it would have kept it in court for another year and a half and would have dragged the kids through another trial.
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Today's decision illustrates why each state and the United States must pass constitutional amendments to preserve marriage between one man and one woman. Marriage should not depend on the stroke of a single judge's pen.
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Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.
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Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.