Alan Sears, a former federal prosecutor who held various posts in the departments of Justice and Interior during the Reagan Administration, is president and CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. He is co-author with Craig Osten of the books The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values and The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:43:29 GMT Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:43:29 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Is Congress protecting the wrong victims, or pursuing the wrong enemy? Maybe both, with the so-called "hate crimes" bill passed th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/10/02/hate_crimes_legislation_a_license_to_kill_the_first_amendment 6c138092-f359-414b-98d7-9e7006a31e85 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:43:29 GMT Planned Parenthood and its cheerleaders have long claimed they want abortion to be "safe, legal, and rare." Let's examine the recent evidence. Do they promote things that make abortion "safe, legal, and rare" or do... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/09/08/planned_parenthood's_recent_hypocrisy addb5dcb-ef1e-4130-ba98-c01532462609 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT Walter Kehowski feels a lot more like celebrating the Fourth of July, now that Thanksgiving is finally behind him. As a math professor, Mr. Kehowski has a pretty keen instinct for things that don't add up -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/07/02/indivisible_no_celebration_of_liberty_can_ignore_america's_godly_heritage 0bb2c8ef-4594-47c7-be67-e3103286030a Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:57:16 GMT Leftist censors aren't just dropping hints about their determination to legislate conservative talk radio out of existence. They are screaming their intentions, loud and clear. In the wake of the pending final demise... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/06/26/'fairness_doctrine'_is_a_code_name_for_"censorship" c3e1544e-5b42-40fb-b587-e8d15389d45e Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:04:25 GMT Just as a leopard cannot change its spots, nor a zebra its stripes, an organization whose founder admired the "ideals" of the hammer and sickle can never really abandon those destructive beginnings. More than a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/06/16/the_aclu_never_forgets_its_pro-communist_roots 65db891c-e4d4-4ba6-ac0c-71c734d3e1e1 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Safe to say, the "National Day of Prayer" probably isn't the American Civil Liberties Union's favorite spot on the government calendar. While the organization likes to promote itself as the prime defender of First Am http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/05/03/national_day_of_prayer_is_an_event_even_the_aclu_should_love cabd62c6-2363-43fe-8f2a-7f9c51f560c3 Thu, 03 May 2007 13:33:50 GMT In a month thick with madness, on and off the basketball court, it was football, curiously enough, that breathed a little sanity into the national conversation. "Conversation" has been hard to come by, lately, in a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/04/13/nfl_gains_a_first_down_for_the_first_amendment c52ec5b0-6412-412d-8976-aaf241317b78 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:56:53 GMT Until the Utah Supreme Court stepped forward on February 16th with its merciful breath of sanity, the best Cheryl Barlow had to hope for was a kind of "Sophie's Choice." According to incredible rulings of the state's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2007/03/04/utah_case_exemplifies_judicial_contempt_for_biological_parents 2846a505-e705-4108-b062-ef4e6776534f Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:00:01 GMT This Christmas, while most Americans are looking for presents under the tree, the American Civil Liberties Union will be following their own hallowed holiday tradition: looking for scapegoats, under the guise of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/12/13/christmas_with_the_aclu_eliminating_freedom,_to_protect_liberty a88e259a-138c-412c-bbbf-33fd0645e55d Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:40:34 GMT One of the more potent (and predictable) side effects of forcibly removing religion from public life, public conversation, and yes, public schools, is that society gradually loses touch with the religious dimensions of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/10/11/madder_than_ever 3cf8541f-cd9d-4781-8ca6-960b109b77cc Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:39:42 GMT "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." - The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution These words have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/09/18/constitution_day_prompts_the_question_who_really_built_the_wall 3b539ab4-956d-4a09-b295-dd656593c319 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:56:59 GMT Joe Cook has long since apologized for what he said last summer. Although he is director of the Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and strenuously opposed to anything resembling prayer in public... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/09/11/five_years_after_911,_the_aclu_considers_christians_the_terrorists e505feb3-7a72-4fbb-a751-f4fa167c28b2 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:03:48 GMT It is, arguably, the most powerful union and lobbying group in the country. And you cannot envy what its members are up against. Day after day, the National Education Association (NEA) sees the same statistics we... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/08/25/the_curious_case_of_nea_priorities 2fed9cd1-7f7a-4691-bfd6-047362ffcbd3 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:04:34 GMT So, essentially, the argument in opposition to a federal marriage amendment comes down to this: sex trumps God.Sex trumps religious liberty. Sex trumps the well-being of children. Sex trumps personal conscience.Sex... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/06/06/ignoring_a_danger_to_liberty 37b86dd1-6cb7-45c9-844a-dd62f0fa85cb Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:05:00 GMT Which is easier for you to deal with... an unpleasant truth, or an intimidating silence? Which would you rather have your kids face at school? That’s not a choice a lot of our young people get to make on many high... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/04/27/day_of_truth_offers_students_a_chance_to_hear_what_theyre_missing 3e4c306b-107e-40cd-b955-c25f184ee2f7 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:06:00 GMT