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His hopes for a life with his family, lived in simplicity and fidelity to the Church, were short lived. The King, by now drunk on his own power, insisted that Thomas take the oath under the “Act of Succession”, thereby acknowledging the legitimacy of his “marriage” to Anne and his authority over the Church. Thomas would not do so because he refused to violate his truly formed conscience. So, the King had his former counselor imprisoned in the Tower of London. There he underwent intense tortures of both body and soul. These came not only from the henchmen of the...

The continuing contemporary interest in Thomas More (1478-1535) is hardly to be accounted for by popular fascination with sixteenth-century English politics or even by admiration for a martyr to a religious cause no longer universally popular. St. Thomas More (1477-1535) More lived, as we live today, in a time of rapid social and cultural unraveling. The meaning of his life, at least for us, is not so much his worldly success and religious piety, extraordinary as both of these were, but rather the courage and consistency with which he opposed the forces of disintegration. The culture war of the early...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced that yesterday evening it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Rightwing Extremism Policy,” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs.

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Rightwing Extremism Policy,” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of the political beliefs. General - PDF Links Click here to read the Law Center’s...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center announced today that is has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know the basis for their recent intelligence assessment targeting as “rightwing extremists” those who oppose abortion, gun control, lax immigration laws, and a myriad of other policies supported by President Obama’s administration. The Law Center filed its request after consultation with conservative talk show host Michael Savage.

THOMAS MORE AS STATESMAN: A BRIEF SKETCH Born in 1477 in the heart of London, More learned service to his country as part of a longestablished family tradition. On both his mother’s and father’s side, civic service was a way of life. His grandfather Thomas Granger, for example, was a lawyer actively involved in London, serving as an alderman and eventually as sheriff. More's father was a well-known and respected lawyer, then a judge. There in London, More learned the importance of citizens’ vigilant involvement in government, a lesson he would appreciate even more deeply after studying the Greek and...

Thomas More Law Center Answers Prosecutor's Appeal in LtCol Chessani Case ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national, public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, yesterday filed its answer brief in response to the prosecution's appeal of the Military Judge's ruling, dismissing the case against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, USMC based on unlawful command influence.  In its brief, the Law Center responded to the prosecution's arguments, noting, "Unlawful command influence is 'the mortal enemy of military justice.'  It is the acid that erodes an accused's right to receive a fair trial and the public's...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national non-profit, public-interest law based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today released the transcript of the recent Unlawful Command Influence ruling by the military judge — Colonel Steven A. Folsom — dismissing all charges against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, USMC. The Law Center represents LtCol Chessani. Last week, prosecutors suffered a huge setback when the military judge dismissed all charges against LtCol Chessani, the highest ranking Marine officer facing charges arising out of the Battle of Haditha. The government has indicated that it intends to pursue an appeal, which will continue the...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Military Judge Colonel Steven Folsom, USMC, this morning dismissed all charges against Lt Colonel Jeffrey Chessani on the grounds of unlawful command influence. He blistered the prosecution’s case in an opinion he read from the bench that lasted an hour. The ruling was without prejudice. Colonel Folsom gave prosecutors 72 hours in which to notify him whether they would appeal. The ruling was greeted with tears of joy from Chessani’s wife and several spectators in the courtroom.

ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center harshly condemned today’s 4-3 ruling of the California Supreme Court, holding that the California Constitution requires recognition of same-sex marriages, in an unprecedented overturning of a citizen initiative statute protecting traditional marriage. The three dissenters on the panel argued that the issue should have been left to the political process. Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented, “This outrageous ruling shows how our most cherished institutions are being destroyed by the tyrannical actions of an out-of-control judiciary. The California Supreme Court took judicial activism to...

College Official Fired for Column on Homosexuality By Pete Winn CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer May 12, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Cybercast News Service has learned that a University of Toledo administrator has lost her job because she wrote a newspaper commentary that questioned whether homosexuality is a civil rights issue. Crystal Dixon, the associate vice president of human resources at the state university, had earlier been put on paid administrative leave for the Apr. 18 column published in the Toledo Free Press, as detailed in a previous CNSNews.com story. "She has been fired," said Brian Rooney, spokesman for the Thomas More...

The court-martial of the highest ranking Marine Corps officer accused of crimes in the infamous incident at Haditha, Iraq will face further delays if the Military Court of Appeals grants motions filed there by his defense team today. The Thomas More Law Center that represents Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani announced today that it has filed a “Petition for Extraordinary Relief” with the United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals in Washington, D.C on his behalf. The petition asks the military appellate court to reverse the judge’s order denying the defense counsel’s request for evidence it deems essential to his...

A shadow legal body was set up by the Defense Department to manipulate the prosecutions of U.S. Marines accused of massacring Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005. That’s the bombshell disclosure from the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm that is representing one of the accused Marines, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani. And it could prove to be the most damning piece of evidence showing the political motivations behind the ongoing prosecutions of the Haditha Marines. “The hysteria and media firestorm over Abu Ghraib and the Pat Tillman investigations led to fear of a similar media reaction...

ANN ARBOR, MI – In oral arguments last week, the Thomas More Law Center asked Maryland state circuit court judge William Rowan III to overturn a Maryland Board of Education ruling that approves of public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, teaching 8th and 10th graders that homosexuality is innate—meaning they are born that way. The schools also show how to use condoms in anal and oral sex. Montgomery educators were forced to defend their new sex curriculum that promotes anal sex, homosexuality, bisexuality and transvestitism despite strong opposition from several pro-family groups. The controversial new curriculum was adopted as a...

Complaint Filed on Behalf of Firefighters Forced to Participate in San Diego "Gay Pride" SAN DIEGO, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that its West Coast Director, San Diego area attorney, Charles LiMandri, filed a sexual harassment and freedom of speech complaint in California state court on behalf of four respected San Diego firefighters. Charles LiMandri was also the Thomas More Law Center's lead counsel in the successful Mt. Soledad Cross case in San Diego. In July, four San Diego firefighters were ordered,...

Law firm will consider legal action against Rep. John Murtha Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com August 27, 2007 A Christian law firm hopes that once its client is cleared of charges in connection with the so-called Haditha massacre, it will consider legal action against one of the men responsible for the accusations: Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha. The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center is representing Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani (USMC), who has been charged with not fully investigating the events at Haditha, Iraq, and failing to report a Law of War violation, in the aftermath of the November 19, 2005, incident that led...

SAN DIEGO – Four San Diego city firefighters have filed a complaint with the state saying their superiors forced them to participate in last month's gay pride parade, where they became targets of obscene gestures and sexual comments. An attorney for the four sent a letter to the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing on Aug. 1, requesting the right to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Fire Chief Tracy Jarman issued a statement yesterday saying she apologized to the men and plans to have the city's Equal Employment Investigative Office look into their...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Four respected San Diego firefighters were ordered, against their wishes, to participate in uniform on their city fire truck in the city’s annual “Gay Pride” parade. During the course of the ensuing three hour long ordeal, the firefighters were subjected to vile sexual taunts from homosexuals lining the parade route. This included the following statements: “show me your hose,” “you can put out my fire,” “you’re making me hot,” “give me mouth-to-mouth,” “you look hungry, why don’t you have a twinkie (from a man wearing a “Girth and Mirth” t-shirt),” and “blow my hose.” These firemen...

 Tue, Aug 7, 2007 Impending Clash in Haditha Case; Thomas More Law Center Calls Re-Opened Article 32 Hearing a Sham ANN ARBOR, MI - The ordered reopening of Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Chessani’s Article 32 Hearing scheduled to begin this Wednesday, without making any of the requested defense witnesses available, has been called “a sham� by the Thomas More Law Center. The order for a new hearing limited the hearing to only three days, beginning on Wednesday, August 8, 2007, and ending no later than Friday August 10, 2007. The impending clash is connected to the refusal of Government prosecutors...

ANNAPOLIS, August 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A public school district's program promoting anal sex, homosexuality, bisexuality, and transvestitism as normal sexual variations was recently approved by the Maryland State Board of Education despite strenuous opposition from several pro-family groups. Montgomery County Public School's controversial sexuality curriculum for eighth and tenth grade students is the result of pressure by homosexual advocacy groups. In response, the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it will assist the pro-family groups in their appeal of the Education Board's decision to the Montgomery County...

A Brief History of the Cause of the English and Welsh MartyrsThe BeginningsThe first official movement for the canonization of the 'great cloud of witnesses' (cf. Hebrews 12:1) who gave their lives in defence of the Catholic religion, from the time of the schism under Henry VIII (1534) until the end of the seventeenth century, began during the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623-44). In 1643, at the request of the English Benedictines in exile, the Pope appointed the Archbishop of Cambrai in northern France (in default of the existence of Catholic Bishops in England and Wales) to set up an...

English Martyrs "I am come here to die for Christ's Catholic Church" Malcolm Brennan When Henry VIII began to dally with the idea of putting away his Queen Catherine and replacing her with Anne Boleyn, it was only natural that one of his earliest bids for support should go to John Fisher, one of the most eminent men of the day. He had been a model bishop of the Diocese of Rochester for twenty-three years, in an age when the lives of many bishops were less than edifying. For the same length of time he had been Chancellor of the...

National Right to Life accused of complicity with the other side   Pro-life groups divide over abortion ban   Right to Life Leader Helps Pro-Abortion Folks Defeat Bill to Criminalize Abortion (Our Sad Times)   NARAL Pro-Choice America: Santorum-Linked Group Succeeds in Pushing Total Abortion Ban in S.D.;   On Google   South Dakota Right To LifePO Box 1032314 South CentralPierre SD 57501Phone (605) 224-9181Fax - (605) 224-2141E-Mail:sdrtl@iw.netState Director: Brock GreenfieldNational Right to Life Committee512 10th St. NW  Washington, DC 20004(202) 626-8800NRLC@nrlc.org

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Sen. Rick Santorum has withdrawn his affiliation with the Christian-rights law center that defended a school district's policy mandating the teaching of "intelligent design." Mr. Santorum, the Senate's No. 3 Republican who is facing a tough re-election challenge next year, earlier praised the Dover Area School District for "attempting to teach the controversy of evolution." But the day after a federal judge ruled the district's policy on intelligent design unconstitutional, Mr. Santorum told the Philadelphia Inquirer he was troubled by testimony indicating religion motivated some board members to adopt the policy. Mr. Santorum, of Pennsylvania, was on...

On October 21, the American Enterprise Institute sponsored a forum titled "Science Wars" that focused on the intelligent design/evolution controversy. Among the participants in the forum were the Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, Richard Thompson, and Mark Ryland, Director of the Discovery Institute's Washington office. During the course of the discussion, Ryland claimed that the Discovery Institute had "never set out to have school boards" teach intelligent design. He was swiftly corrected by Thompson, who held up a copy of the Discovery Institute's "Intelligent Design in Public School Science Curriculum: A Guidebook" by Steven Meyer and David...

June 22, 2005Wednesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Wednesday 28 Reading IGn 15:1-12, 17-18 The word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram!I am your shield;I will make your reward very great." But Abram said,"O Lord GOD, what good will your gifts be,if I keep on being childlessand have as my heir the steward of my house, Eliezer?"Abram continued,"See, you have given me no offspring,and so one of my servants will be my heir."Then the word of the LORD came to him:"No, that one shall not be your heir;your own issue shall...

(CNSNews.com) - A junior at Fillmore Central High School near Buffalo, N.Y., has filed a federal lawsuit against his school district for ordering him to remove his pro-life T-shirt in violation of his free-speech rights. The Thomas More Law Center, a Michigan-based public interest law firm, and the American Catholic Lawyers Association are representing the student, Kevin Dibble, who was told by the school principal that the message on his T-shirt was offensive and therefore prohibited. The T-shirt read, "Abortion is Homicide. You will not silence my message. You will not mock my God. You will stop killing my generation....

To: National Desk, State Desk Contact: Dan Costanzo of the Thomas More Law Center, 734-827-2001 ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Former prosecutor of Jack Kevorkian, Richard Thompson, reaffirmed Thursday morning the authority of Florida Governor Jeb Bush to utilize state criminal laws to prevent the death of Terri Schiavo. Pointing to two legal memos prepared by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which were delivered to Governor Bush in October of 2003, Thompson again urged Bush to launch a formal criminal investigation into the facts surrounding the...

They are Christmas and Chanukah rites in their own cheerless ways, those annual December disputes over what to sing, what to say, and what religious symbols to display in public space.The Maplewood-South Orange school district had its own controversy this month, as its ban on religious songs -- even instrumental versions -- at Columbia High School drew national ridicule, and a federal lawsuit.And in Oklahoma, voters angry at a superintendent who removed a Nativity scene from a school show organized to defeat an $11 million school bond measure.The people objecting are those who feel religion is being driven out...

Anti-Christmas district hit with federal lawsuitSchool officials banned carols, even for instrumental groups December 20, 2004The New Jersey school district that banned Christmas music, even by instrumental groups, from its holiday concerts has been hit with a lawsuit claiming officials have demonstrated hostility toward religion. Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Friday on behalf of Michael Stratechuk and his two children, who are students in the South Orange/Maplewood School District. According to a statement from Thomas More, the suit claims the district's action is unconstitutional. As WorldNetDaily reported, this year the district expanded its no-Christmas music policy to...

If groups celebrating American Indian holy people, German culture and the Chinese New Year can march in the city's Parade of Lights, why can't a Christian group march to celebrate Christmas? That's just one of the questions bothering prominent Denver-area Pastor George Morrison. He said he was barred from participating in the parade because his multicultural church group wanted its Christian-themed float to feature traditional yuletide hymns and a "Merry Christmas" message. "It's a little confusing to me," said Morrison, pastor of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, one of the region's largest evangelical churches, with more than 4,000 worshippers. "Here...

LOS ANGELES, USA, Jul. 09, 2004 (CNA) - Mel Gibson is reportedly planning to spend more than $140,000 to keep a cross on a government seal in Los Angeles. According to sources close to Icon Films, the Hollywood actor-director will actively take part in a campaign, which was begun a religious group to protest against the removal of the cross on the official Los Angeles county seal. According to The Herald Sun, Gibson expressed his disappointment over the proposed scrapping of the cross because of legal threats from civil rights groups. On June 1, LA County supervisors caved in to...

Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees – Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit ANN ARBOR, MI — Ending a six month legal battle over Christmas displays, the Town of Palm Beach, Florida this week paid $50,000 in attorney fees to the Thomas More Law Center pursuant to a previously entered federal court Consent Judgment. The Town also acknowledged and publicly apologized for its failure to respond to multiple offers by two of its residents, Maureen Donnell and Fern Tailer deNarvaez, to donate Christian Nativity scenes for display alongside two Town-sponsored Jewish Menorahs during the Christmas holiday...

June 22, 2004 Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday 28 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading I2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent envoys to Hezekiah with this message: "Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all other countries: they doomed them! Will you, then, be saved?'" Hezekiah took the letter from the...

Two pro-life groups are clashing with each other over a South Dakota bill to criminalize abortion that was defeated by a single vote in the state Senate. The public-interest Thomas More Law Center accuses National Right to Life of "complicity" with pro-abortion groups over demise of the bill, designed to become the most restrictive abortion law in 30 years and help overturn the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. The Michigan-based law firm helped draft the bill, which would have banned virtually all abortions in that state and made abortion a felony punishable for up to 15 years. The bill...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Pro-life groups divideover abortion banNational Right to Life accused of complicity with the other side Posted: March 26, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Two pro-life groups are clashing with each other over a South Dakota bill to criminalize abortion that was defeated by a single vote in the state Senate. The public-interest Thomas More Law Center accuses National Right to Life of "complicity" with pro-abortion groups over demise of the bill, designed to become the most restrictive abortion law in 30 years and help overturn the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. The Michigan-based law firm...

ANN ARBOR, MI —Shock waves are still reverberating one week after South Dakota’s bill criminalizing abortion was defeated by a single vote over National Right To Life’s complicity with pro-abortion groups to kill the legislation that pro-abortion lobbyists called the most restrictive anti-abortion measure since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. The Bill was sponsored by Republican State Representative Matt McCaulley who had asked the Thomas More Law Center to help draft a bill that would directly confront the holding of the Roe decision. As a result, House Bill 1191 banned virtually all abortions in that state and made...

The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal from the Boy Scouts over what the organization says is discrimination because of its policy against hiring gays. The case revisited the gay rights fight surrounding the high court's ruling four years ago that the Boy Scouts have the right to ban openly homosexual leaders. This time, the question was whether states may treat the Scouts differently than other organizations because of that policy. The Scouts asked the justices to hear a case from Connecticut, where officials dropped the group from a list of charities that receive donations through a state...

ANN ARBOR, MI — A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that Washburn University did not violate the constitution by prominently displaying a sculpture that mocks the Catholic faith. The sculpture, entitled “Holier than Thou,” depicts a Roman Catholic bishop with a grotesque facial expression wearing a miter that resembles a phallus. The sculpture was selected for display by the Campus Beautification Committee , whose goal is to make the University “one of the most beautiful campuses in Kansas.” The lawsuit was brought by the Thomas More Law Center after the University refused to act on complaints by numerous Catholics...

NARAL Pro-Choice America: Santorum-Linked Group Succeeds in Pushing Total Abortion Ban in S.D.; Presents Most Direct Challenge to Roe 3/2/04 2:46:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Legal Reporter Contact: David Seldin of NARAL Pro-Choice America, 202-973-3032 WASHINGTON, March 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NARAL Pro-Choice America, the leading national advocate of personal privacy and a woman's right to choose, today criticized Pennsylvania's U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum for his close connection to an organization pushing a direct Supreme Court challenge to a woman's right to choose. Last week, South Dakota's state legislature passed a total ban on legal abortion - with...

South Dakota House Passes Bill Criminalizing Abortions; Challenge to Roe vs. Wade /11/04 11:31:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Legal and Congressional Reporters Contact: Brian Burch of the Thomas More Law Center, 734-827-2001 ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- After over two hours of emotional debate, the South Dakota House last night overwhelmingly passed House Bill 1191, 54 to 14. The Bill establishes that life begins at conception and would outlaw abortions in the state making the practice a five year felony. The Bill is designed to have the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider its 1973 decision in...

NEWS UPDATE - November 7, 2002 Abortion Facility Pays Damages to Pro-Life Advocate (MADISON, WI)--Judgment has been entered against the Madison Abortion Clinic and others in a civil case stemming from an incident in December 2001, in which Will Goodman, a pro-life advocate, was attacked by a staff member of the abortion facility. The Thomas More Law Center, a national pro-life, public-interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represented Goodman in his lawsuit against the abortion facility. Judgment was entered in favor of Goodman for his claims of assault and battery, false imprisonment, and negligent hiring, training and supervision....

NEWS RELEASE School Retreats From Pro-Homosexual Policy After Student Club Threatens Lawsuit (ANN ARBOR, MI) Threats of legal action ended a controversy that had been brewing over the past year at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, between gay rights activists and the Pioneers for Christ student club. Gay activists had demanded that the School Board take action against the Christian club because the club refused to adopt the school’s “non-discrimination” policy as part of its mission statement. According to the Thomas More Law Center, which represented the Christian Club, the policy would have unconstitutionally prohibited members from expressing...

Thomas More Law Center to appear TONIGHT on The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel! Thomas More Law Center attorney Robert Muise and Ann Arbor public school student Betsy Hansen will appear TONIGHT on The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel, the #1 primetime program on cable news. They will discuss the recent lawsuit brought by the TMLC on behalf of the Christian student, challenging the Ann Arbor high school's pro-homosexual "Diversity Week". School officials prevented Betsy from expressing her traditional Christian belief regarding homosexual activity claiming that this was a "negative" message and would "water down" the...

Michigan Public School Pushes Homosexual Agenda and Censors Christian Speech During "Diversity Week"Thomas More Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit (Ann Arbor)--A controversy over school-sponsored activities designed to promote the homosexual agenda and the school’s censorship of a Christian student’s speech critical of homosexual activity have resulted in a federal lawsuit. The Thomas More Law Center filed the civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the student, Betsy Hansen, and her mother against the Ann Arbor Public Schools and several of its administrators and faculty members who work at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Betsy and her mother are devout...

***BREAKING NEWS*** Religion in Public Schools: “under God” Pledge Out; Prayer to Allah In? In the same week that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, a federal lawsuit was filed in San Francisco Monday after Christian students across California were forced to pretend they were Muslims for three weeks, praying in the name of Allah the Compassionate the Merciful, chanting Praise to Allah, picking a Muslim name from a list to replace their own name and to stage their own Jihad via a dice game. The Thomas More Law...

Texas High School Student Defended for Wearing Pro-Life Sweatshirt to School John Denton, a junior at Canyon High School in Canyon, Texas, decided he would express his pro-life views at school by wearing a sweatshirt displaying the message “Abortion is Homicide.” However, even before the first period bell had rung, the principal confronted him in the school hall and ordered him to take off the sweatshirt and leave it in his office because the message may cause problems. Denton has not worn his pro-life sweatshirt since, but he did contact the Thomas More Law Center. As a result, the Thomas...

Twist of Irony: City Funds Used to Purchase Pro-Life Signs When Ann Norton refused to remove an anti-abortion sign containing a color photo of a bloody, aborted female child’s head being held by surgical equipment, a passerby tore the sign from its backing. A Kalamazoo police officer was dispatched to the scene. To Ann’s surprise, instead of taking action against the passerby, she was threatened with arrest for violating section 750.38 of the Michigan Penal Code, a criminal law that prohibits the public display of pictures of murder. Norton called the Thomas More Law Center, which promptly filed a federal...

***NEWS ALERT*** GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATES DEMAND SCHOOL TAKE ACTION AGAINST CHRISTIAN CLUB A controversy, which has been brewing over the past few months at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, between gay rights supporters and the Pioneers for Christ student club, came to a head this past Wednesday night during an emotion-filled meeting of the Ann Arbor School Board. At this meeting, gay rights activists demanded that the Board take action against the Christian club for not adopting a so-called “non-discrimination” policy as part of its mission statement. Robert Muise, associate counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, addressed...

***NEWS ALERT*** WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUED IN FEDERAL COURT FOR DISCRIMINATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS Claiming that the Washtenaw Community College (“WCC”) unfairly discriminated against Christian student John Luton, the Thomas More Law Center this week filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Detroit Federal District Court seeking a court ruling that Luton’s constitutional rights were violated and an order to end the discrimination. The lawsuit claims that college officials prevented Luton from preaching the Gospel on the WCC campus in Ann Arbor and denied official recognition to his student club “Mission Christ” because its members would be “telling others about Christianity.”...