2010: Year of victories and losses for conservatives

--Christian Legal Society tried to get funding/recognition from the UC's Hastings College of the Law. CLS claims Hastings' policy forces them to accept as voting members and potential leaders, classmates who do not share their core religious beliefs. 
Alliance Defense Fund attorney Jordan Lorence: "Groups that have nothing to do with religion -- environmentalist groups, homosexual groups, feminist groups, etc. -- they are allowed to kick out members who don't agree with their message," said Lorence. "But only the religious groups are the ones that are required to accept people who don't agree with their message."


--Arizona's scholarship tax credit program allows residents to claim a tax credit for donations to private organizations that provide scholarships to private schools.  ACLU argued it is unconstitutional because some of the money goes to religious schools.

Andrew Coulson, director of the Cato Institute Center for Educational Freedom: "Governments are not allowed to favor religion or to make choices that encourage religion, but individuals are certainly allowed to do so."
 --Human Rights Commission in Maine ruled that a middle school was wrong to assign a separate bathroom to a boy who wants to live as girl, saying they should have allowed him to use the girl's bathroom. The parents of the child, who no longer attends school in the district, had filed a complaint to the commission.
Janice Crouse with Concerned Women for America: "Have we given any thought to the fact that these parents are going to have to deal with issues and these students are going to have to deal with issues that they certainly aren't emotionally ready to handle?  Nor are they ready to deal with them in any kind of constructive way."


--Texas State Board of Education, new standards are the best since before World War II. The good, bad, and ugly are included in a fair and balanced way, regardless of loudmouths from the left. 

--National PTA turning left.  A pro-family organization claimed that the Parents Teachers Association rejected its request to exhibit at the national PTA convention. The group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) said the PTA allows homosexual-rights groups to exhibit, but not PFOX because they do not comply with the PTA's Diversity and Inclusion policy.

PFOX executive director Regina Griggs: "Who could be more diverse than a group [with] parents and friends who have homosexual children, who also have ex-gay children, ex-gay friends, [and] who merely want to let you know that change is possible -- that there is hope for people with unwanted same-sex attractions?"


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