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...counterbalance the ACLU in court, and it has since successfully defended the Boy Scout ban on gay scoutmasters, helped stop San Francisco from instituting gay marriage, and backed efforts to keep Terri Schiavo alive. Now it's on the same side as the ACLU, which makes local ADF counsel in the Turton case very uncomfortable. "I almost see it as a conflict," said Demetrios Stratis of the ACLU's role in the case. "They're just throwing a bone to Christians, if you will, so they can say they support everyone...
...said she will defy a ban on her human-rights organization that Tehran imposed last week. The government declared the Center for Defense of Human Rights illegal--on grounds that it was functioning without a proper permit--and threatened to prosecute members who continue to offer pro bono legal counsel to Iranian dissidents...
...spokeswoman for the Division of Continuing Education, Linda A. Cross, confirmed that after administrators conferred with a University attorney, the Office of the General Counsel authorized the Summer School to allow Johal to carry his kirpan...
...judicial winning streak. Washington State's Supreme Court last week upheld a law prohibiting same-sex marriage--the fifth state this month to rule in favor of a ban. (See map, below.) "Marriage is safe for another day," says Mathew Staver, chairman of the conservative group Liberty Counsel. But advocates of gay marriage remain hopeful. Judicial decisions on legal challenges in four states are expected shortly. New Jersey's Supreme Court may rule as soon as this week. "We have to put this in a much bigger context," says Joe Solmonese, president of Human Rights Campaign, a gay-advocacy lobby...
...Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections. Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue...