Topic - Alliance Defense Fund

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  Inside the Beltway

  Now on sale through President Obama's re-election campaign, 18 designer garments which are part of the campaign's new "Runway to Win" collection from 23 top designers. The GOP has its own suggestion for an addition — super PAC flipflops.

• Cancer charity halts grants to Planned Parenthood

  The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates _ creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.

• Md. feeding-tube case pits wife against mother

  A judge in Maryland must decide if a man who suffered severe brain damage after a heart attack should continue getting sustenance through a feeding tube at his mother's and brother's behest, contrary to his wife's instructions.

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  REILLY: No choice for Catholic colleges

  Some pro-abortion advocates seem positively outraged that Catholic colleges would defend their constitutional liberty to teach and uphold Catholic values. In that, they reveal that God, reason and the rule of law are of little importance to their narrow agenda.

• STANLEY: IRS has no business telling pastors how to choose their words

  To even suggest that any governmental agency or official has the right to punish a pastor because of something he says from the pulpit is not only offensive, but unconstitutional. No pastor should ever have to dance around an issue or to self-censor his sermon when he preaches from the pulpit because of an IRS rule. In America, we value everyone’s constitutionally protected right to free speech and free exercise of religion.

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  KNIGHT: Snuffing out children's innocence

  If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions? It would be to corrupt innocent children.

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  ACLU battles schools over gay websites

  A fierce legal battle on free speech and family values is brewing about Internet filters used by school administrators to block students' access to gay educational and advocacy websites.

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  Catholic University faces test to same-sex dorm plan

  A local law professor and legal activist is challenging Catholic University's much-touted plans to begin converting to all-male and all-female dorms starting this fall, saying the plan violates city statutes forbidding sex discrimination.

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  Same-sex marriages give polygamy a legal boost

  The outlook for polygamy hasn't been this good since Abraham took Keturah as his third wife.

• Child placement law contested

  Children in foster care deserve the best parents possible and thus the state can pick and choose what type of families they should be raised in, attorneys told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday.

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  Obama gets out of way of gay marriage

  The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it had withdrawn its legal support for the federal Defense of Marriage Act, stating that the law is unconstitutional and therefore the administration is under no obligation to defend it.

• San Diego memorial cross ruled to be unconstitutional

  A cross perched atop San Diego's Mount Soledad for nearly a century is unconstitutional and must be removed, according to a federal court ruling Tuesday.

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  PARISI: Silence of the candidates

  Call it the political equivalent of unilateral disarmament. It's when Republicans - maddeningly, mystifyingly - take a perfectly good campaign weapon off the table (or perhaps never put it on the table to begin with).

• NIH to resume funding stem cell research for now

  The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research _ at least for now _ after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban.

• NIH to resume funding stem cell research for now

  The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research — at least for now — after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban.

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