The ACRU Blog

One Tuesday, August 5th, Horace Cooper is scheduled to appear on Burnie Thompson's show on Talk Radio 101 in Northwest Florida to discuss efforts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. (8:00-8:30 a.m. ET)

On Thursday, August 7 from 2:00-3:00 p.m., Horace Cooper is scheduled to appear on NCFR's "Point of View" show with Kerby Anderson. They will be discussing the Fairness Doctrine. Listen at http://www.pointofview.net/.

On Wednesday, August 6, John Armor will discuss ACLU Outrages on Eddie Burke's show on KBYR (8:00-9:00 p.m. EST). Listen live at www.kbyr.com.

On Wednesday, August 6, John Armor will conduct a 20-30-minute radio interview at 10 a.m. eastern with 700WLW's Mike McConnell. The topic will be ACLU Outrages. Listen live at www.700wlw.com.

Peter Ferrara will be on the Roger Hedgecock show Monday, August 18 at 8:05pm ET. He will be talking about the recent California insemination case. You can listen live in San Diego on 600AM KOGO or by going here.

On August 18th, the California Supreme Court ruled on Benitez v. North Coast. This case tests the Freedom of Religion Clause of the California Constitution on the issue of whether a physician has a constitutional right to refuse on religious grounds to perform a medical procedure for a patient because of the patient's sexual orientation.

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus brief supporting North Coast Women's Care Medical Group.

Unfortunately, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of Benitez, with Justice Joyce Kennard writing,

"A religious objector has no federal constitutional right to an exemption from a neutral and valid law of general applicability on the ground that compliance with that law is contrary to the objector's religious beliefs" (italics in the original).

The American Civil Right Union was mentioned in several articles, including the Los Angeles Times, World Net Daily, and The Med Guru.