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Religious Liberty: Rallying Cry After SC Gay Marriage Ruling NEW YORK: Now That Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal Soon Be Before This Court,” Roberts Wrote INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015 Political oppn groups want to tear down ’16 hopefuls WASHINGTON: It was the perfect loop: The move, waiting for a gaffe, a policy flip-flop or from Democratic financiers such as billionaire Republican opposition research group anything embarrassing. Hungarian-born investor George Soros and oil America Rising finds footage of Democratic These trackers aren’t always welcomed as heiress Anne Earhart. Senate candidate Bruce Braley in agriculture- friends. As an American Bridge employee loving Iowa, seeming to put down the intelli- tried to livestream an appearance by GOP Watched with envy gence of farmers. That footage becomes part presidential candidate Rand Paul last month “Donors have responded to the efficiency of a 30-second TV ad, by the super PAC in New Hampshire, Paul’s state political direc- of the model,” Brock said. “They very much like American Crossroads, boosting the tor walked over and licked the lens of the the idea of avoiding duplicating research Republican candidate, Joni Ernst. Ernst wins. video camera. “This is a closed event,” David efforts.” American Bridge was still proving its So does America Rising, which used that Chesley said. The lick scored more than worth in August 2012 when a tracker episode in Iowa last year to show prospective 345,000 views on YouTube and showed up on assigned to monitor Missouri’s Republican clients and donors what it can do. Yahoo News and CNN. Senate candidate, Todd Akin, heard him talk Big political opposition operations, which about “legitimate rape” during a local morn- didn’t even exist five years ago, will be impor- Going to extremes ing show. The group blasted the clip out to tant players in the 2016 presidential election. Sometimes the tracking goes to an the media and to allies on the left. His cam- They started early, with America Rising track- extreme, as when that same American Bridge paign never recovered. ing Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham videographer, this time following Republican Republicans watched American Bridge Clinton since early 2013, and its liberal coun- New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, showed up with envy. Then they copied it. “Republicans terpart, American Bridge 21st Century, keep- at the funeral of a local politician. All of the had completely dropped the ball on tracking,” ing tabs on more than a dozen GOP con- field footage gets analyzed and archived at IOWA: In this Nov 4, 2014, file photo, then-Sen-elect Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks said Steven Law, president of American tenders for four years now. headquarters. For American Bridge, that’s an to supporters during an election night rally in West Des Moines. Ernst defeated Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, two of the “Oppo,” as it’s known, is flourishing thanks industrial-chic, second-floor space near Union Rep Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, in the race to replace retiring Sen Tom Harkin.— AP best-funded outside groups of the 2012 elec- to donors and political parties investing mil- Station in Washington. America Rising’s home tion. “And we were deeply disappointed with lions in the two groups. The bounty of materi- is an office in Rosslyn, Virginia, decorated with shipped out to political reporters and posted that made such work its specialty. His the quality of the opposition research avail- al means voters will see more of what they say great moments in oppo, like a snapshot of on social media. Outside groups and candi- American Bridge is part-super PAC, part-non- able to us.” Law and Crossroads co-founder they hate the most about elections: attack 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John dates pick up from there by packaging the profit, meaning that donors can write checks Carl Forti persuaded Joe Pounder, the ads. The work begins in Iowa barns and New Kerry windsurfing. material - or news coverage of it - into adver- of unlimited size and have the option of Republican National Committee’s lead Hampshire coffeehouses - anywhere politi- At these headquarters, earbuds-wearing tisements. All of this had typically been done remaining anonymous. Since its formation, researcher, and Matt Rhoades, manager of cians might appear. Twenty-somethings with researchers also scour old videos, public by volunteers or employees on a campaign or the super PAC side, which must report its Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s cam- smartphones, video equipment and micro- records and websites for fodder. Next comes in a political party until 2011, when liberal donors and can more directly participate in paign, to start America Rising in early 2013. phones track their targeted candidate’s every deployment. Opposition research gets activist David Brock decided to form a group elections, has raised more than $23 million Crossroads was its first client. — AP Religious liberty: Rallying cry after SC gay marriage ruling NEW YORK: Now that same-sex marriage is legal soon be before this court,” Roberts wrote. across the United States, religious conservatives are focusing on preserving their right to object. Religious exemptions Their concerns are for the thousands of faith- Conservative religious groups have for years based charities, colleges and hospitals that want been on watch for potential clashes over religious to hire, fire, serve and set policy according to their liberty and gay rights, and have been lobbying religious beliefs, notably that gay relationships for religious exemptions in statehouses and are morally wrong. Congress. But conservative anxieties intensified The Republican Party’s 2016 presidential can- over an exchange during April’s oral arguments in didates are already campaigning on the issue. the gay marriage case between Justice Samuel And Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker is urging Alito and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Alito President Barack Obama and the nation’s gover- noted the high court’s 1983 decision to revoke nors “to join me in reassuring millions of the tax-exemption of Bob Jones University in Americans that the government will not force South Carolina because it barred interracial dat- them to participate in activities that violate their ing. Alito asked if the government would take deeply held religious beliefs.” such action against religiously affiliated schools The religious liberty fight isn’t about what that oppose same-sex marriage. Verrilli said, “It is happens inside the sanctuary. First Amendment certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that.” protections for worship and clergy are clear. Earlier this month, more than 70 Catholic and Potential conflicts could arise, however, over reli- evangelical educators sent a letter to House gious organizations with some business in the Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority public arena. That category ranges from small reli- Leader Mitch McConnell urging them to take gious associations that rent reception halls to the action to protect conservative religious schools in public, to the nation’s massive network of faith- case of government action to revoke the schools’ based social service agencies that receive millions nonprofit status. And last week in Congress, Sen. of dollars in government grants. Some groups, Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, such as the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, both Republicans, introduced the First also want protections for individual business Amendment Defense Act, which would prohibit owners who consider it immoral to provide bene- the federal government from taking action fits for the same-sex spouse of an employee or against an institution that opposes same-sex MALONE: State Police officers enter a barn during a search on Sunday. The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the cater gay weddings. marriage by revoking a tax-exemption or barring three-week hunt for a second escaped murderer in the United States as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers con- US Supreme Court Justice Anthony them from receiving grants or contracts. verged on a wooded area 30 miles from Clinton Correctional Facility. — AP Kennedy raised the issue in the majority opin- ion Friday granting gays the right to marry. He New circumstances said First Amendment protections are in place Marc Stern, a religious liberty expert and US manhunt over after second for religious objectors, who “may continue to general counsel to the American Jewish advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, Committee, noted that in the three decades by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should since the Bob Jones decision, the IRS hasn’t escaped inmate shot, captured not be condoned.” But in his dissent, Chief sought to revoke the tax exemption of another Justice John Roberts predicted a clash ahead school over discrimination based on race or between religious freedom and same-sex mar- gender. The Supreme Court decided the Bob riage. He specifically noted the dilemma for Jones case based on a violation of fundamental ‘The nightmare is finally over’ religious colleges that provide married student public policy, not whether the school’s policy housing, and adoption agencies that won’t was unconstitutional, Stern said. There is no fed- NEW YORK: A convicted murderer who escaped from cial. “What I can tell you is that his condition is critical, details of their daring escape are likely to emerge place children with gay couples. “There is little eral law barring discrimination based on sexual a maximum-security New York prison three weeks and based on the preliminary evaluation of the when investigators are able to question Sweat. His doubt that these and similar questions will orientation.— AP ago was shot and captured Sunday, bringing an end patient, it’s obvious that he would need to be here for own mother expressed “relief” at his capture. to an intense manhunt that saw his fellow escapee a series of days for sure,” the center’s medical director “My son knows if he would have came here, I shot dead.
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