Alan Sears, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan Administration, is president and CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance employing a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family. 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) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:04:39 GMT Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:04:39 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "Always let your conscience be your guide," Jiminy Cricket used to sing to Pinocchio. Sounds like good advice, but then.Jiminy had his ulterior motives. To his mind, he was the voice of that puppet boy's conscience -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2009/03/30/conscientious_objections e0d1ba7b-cfc4-4b1f-877e-9662a6f7c52e Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:04:39 GMT It's high time someone asked: where in the U.S. Constitution are so many angry people finding the legal right not to be offended? The assumption that this imaginary protection exists is everywhere - and is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2009/03/18/preying_on_prayer 45c0ad1b-d953-44a3-a187-fa5c634b8377 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:40:54 GMT "I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion," wrote one particularly ambitious contributor in his 1935 Harvard 30th anniversary classbook.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2009/02/20/welcome_to_"fantasy_island"_-_aclu_style d29bec25-1f25-47db-96f6-0666449eb698 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:02:02 GMT By almost any measurement, January wasn't a very good month for children. As much as activists and politicians love to repeat the mantra that "children are our future," the hard truth is that they seek to use... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2009/02/03/a_bad_month_for_children c27e6389-6edf-4e80-87aa-f7510364554f Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:38:14 GMT Well, that didn't take long. To many, it may seem premature to confront head-on the agenda of the new president, in the initial days dedicated to celebrating his political success and the peaceful transition... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2009/01/27/obama__building_a_monument_to_tolerance_on_the_rubble_of_religious_freedom 32377fac-e532-4107-939b-447a91c8acd6 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:10:27 GMT "It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to Him," wrote James Madison in his Memorial and Remonstrance. "This duty is precedent, both in order of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2009/01/16/call_of_duty_why_the_fight_for_religious_liberty_is_the_fight_for_life d47ddc20-fd69-4cda-9da2-109183da7efa Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:07:21 GMT With every lever they pull, hole they punch, or tiny circle they fill in, voters on Nov. 4 will be deciding much more than who is our next president. We'll be deciding what life is like in our community, in our state,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2008/10/31/judgment_calls_why_the_courts_matter_in_this_election 4a7937ee-068e-43c7-bf2c-eaef2563e07f Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:31:58 GMT They called it "the Boston Tea Party." Dozens of American colonists, disgruntled with the tea tax being imposed by the British government, expressed their displeasure by boarding merchant vessels and dumping tons of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2008/10/02/when_government_gets_a_hold_of_our_churches cffbd3ca-feda-43b4-b8d5-86e86d4cf973 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:37:13 GMT Always - beneath the reasons - are the reasons. Americans have a kind of instinct for this: sensing the reality behind a facade. It was experience, not cynicism, that coined the old saw that "whenever someone tells... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2008/07/09/pornography_pretensions 6ec21698-ca78-44b9-921f-2f44998e8133 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:07:44 GMT 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