First Amendment Rights

An AIDS support group announced legal action Tuesday against a US porn film company for allegedly failing to enforce a new Los Angeles law requiring actors to wear condoms while on set.

Barack Obama is a closet Marxist; liberty, freedom and the American way are under attack; and the federal government is waging a campaign to indoctrinate families.

A US judge has ordered the FBI to stop its "pervasive" use of National Security letters to snoop on phone and email records, ruling that the widespread tactic was unconstitutional.

A US judge has ordered the FBI to stop its "pervasive" use of National Security letters to secretly snoop on phone and email records, ruling Friday that the heavily used tactic was unconstitutional.

New York's alleged cannibal cop burst into tears at the end of a trial Thursday as his lawyer said he was guilty of no more than "ugly thoughts" and prosecutors dubbed him a dangerous sadist.

US porn filmmakers sued Los Angeles County on Friday over a new law requiring adult movie actors to wear condoms on set, arguing that it is unconstitutional.

US gun rights advocates have signed a White House petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported for allegedly attacking the Second Amendment rights of ordinary Americans.

US gun rights advocates have signed a White House petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported for allegedly attacking the Second Amendment rights of ordinary Americans.

HRC's Chad Griffin believes the Supreme Court will side with proponents of gay marriage. Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), believes the Supreme Court will side with proponents of gay marriage. In an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball, Griffin sounded confident that the case challenging California's marriage ban, which he helped bring to the high court in his former role as president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), would emerge victorious. The case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, challenges the state's 2008 voter-approved constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual union. The measure was put in place after the California Supreme Court legalized marriage for gay and lesbian couples. A federal district court judge declared the measure unconstitutional and an appeals court upheld that decision. ?We made the case in court, [lawyers] Ted Olson and David Boies made the case in court, that in this country we don't deny our citizens a fund

A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request to postpone the January 1 start of California's ban on 'ex-gay' therapy to minors. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday denied a request to postpone the January 1 start of California's ban on ?ex-gay? therapy to minors. Senate Bill 1172 outlaws therapies which promise to alter the sexual orientation of minors from gay to straight. Such practices are called ?reparative? or ?conversion? therapy. The measure was sponsored by state Senator Ted Lieu and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in October. U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly Mueller concluded that the law ?prohibits a therapeutic practice deemed unproven and potentially harmful to minors by ten professional associations of mental health experts.? The lawsuit was filed by the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), which strongly opposed passage of the law. The organization is represented by the Christian conservative Liberty Counsel, which has a l

An American university student is working to create the country's first white student union, triggering debate over the limits of free speech.

A federal judge on Monday granted an injunction blocking California from enforcing a law banning reparative therapies. A federal judge on Monday granted an injunction blocking California from enforcing a law banning therapies which promise to ?cure? gay minors. In his ruling handed down just hours after holding a hearing on the issue, U.S. District Court Judge William Shubb said the law violates the First Amendment rights of mental professionals who practice ?reparative? or ?conversion? therapy, the AP reported. ?Even if SB 1172 is characterized as primarily aimed at regulating conduct, it also extends to forms of [conversion therapy] that utilize speech and, at a minimum, regulates conduct that has an incidental effect on speech,? Shubb wrote. The measure, sponsored by state Senator Ted Lieu and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in October, is set to take effect on January 1. Shubb, however, limited his ruling to plaintiffs in the case: psychiatrist Anthony Duk, marriage and fam

The US Supreme Court ordered a lower court Monday to review a Christian university's challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark health care reforms on grounds they violate religious freedom.

San Francisco lawmakers voted Tuesday to outlaw most public nudity, despite protests in the famously free and easy California city.

San Francisco lawmakers were to vote Tuesday on a proposal to outlaw most public nudity, despite protests in the famously free and easy California city.

A US judge ruled Monday against Christians seeking to force municipal authorities to allow them to erect traditional Christmas Nativity displays in Santa Monica, California.

San Francisco lawmakers vote Tuesday on a proposal to outlaw most public nudity, despite protests in the famously free and easy West Coast city.

Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk appears in an ad in which he claims gay marriage would strip rights from Christians. In an ad for the group opposing Maryland's Question 6, Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk claims that allowing the gay marriage law to take effect would strip rights from Christians. In the 1-minute spot, Birk says the law's religious exemptions are too weak because they do not cover individuals and businesses or religious groups which accept government funding. ?If the referendum is not voted down, our religious freedoms are at risk,? Birk says. ?Churches, hospitals, religious charities, private businesses and individuals all will be subject to lawsuits and harassments for openly expressing their religious beliefs.? ?Under the new law, churches, religious organizations and charities that help the government care for those in need would not be exempt and would lose their First Amendment rights. And there are no provisions protecting businesses and individuals.? ?Marylan

Brad Brandon has accused gay marriage supporters in Minnesota of using Hitler techniques to suppress religious freedom. Pastor Brad Brandon has accused gay marriage supporters in Minnesota of using Adolf Hitler techniques to suppress the religious freedom of opponents. Brandon, the pastoral outreach director for Minnesota for Marriage, the group working to approve a constitutional amendment which seeks to exclude gay and lesbian couples from marriage, made the analogy at a forum last week. Hitler ?removed their voices in the public square and removed their control of their own businesses. So, he stopped Jewish people from speaking out in public and he silenced them,? Brandon said. According to Fox's local affiliate, several people attending Brandon's presentation confronted the pastor. ?... That you not belittle the death of 6 million Jews by putting Adolf Hitler's picture and saying he took people's civil rights,? said a woman whose grandparents survived the Holocaust. ?No ? he was an

As anti-American protests erupt in the Muslim world, the United States is powerless to act against those who incited the violence due to the freedoms enshrined in its cherished constitution.