Word: staver
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...Christian legal groups funded by televangelists and direct-mail appeals are pursuing a broad range of cases, pioneering a savvy brand of First Amendment fundamentalism. "Christians from the 1960s on have taken a major beating in the legal arena and have lost a lot of their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf...
...protesters within a 300-ft. radius to approach patients and employees unless invited, and he drew an equally large circle around the houses of clinic staff. Madsen and others sued, claiming that the injunction infringed on free speech, was skewed against pro-life sentiment and was too overreaching. Mathew Staver, their lawyer, noting that 300 ft. is almost the length of a football field, maintained, "This injunction, instead of using a surgeon's scalpel, cuts with a butcher's knife." No one knew how the Justices would...
Later, even pro-choice Harvard scholar Laurence Tribe admitted that "some risk of chilling protected speech exists." And litigator Staver warned darkly that activists denied a peaceful outlet "will end up expressing themselves in other ways." Operation Rescue director Flip Benham's first reaction seemed to justify that fear: "We won't stop until they kill us," he said. "((The Justices)) have shaken their fists at almighty God, and they are now dust." Later, however, Benham was more subdued. "It will cost so much," he says. "We will spend months and years in jail. We're all trying to weigh...