Welcome to the ArchAngel Institute …  click here for background on what we are doing from this former abortion clinic.

The twenty year old  legal background on the Institute is too much to spell out in one place … here it is in a few posts.  (Just page backwards for the story).

Our most recent project is a filing with the United States Supreme Court alleging free exercise, establishment clause, due process and equal protection claims.  See this  post for a discussion of how that important case forms our core mission at the ArchAngel Institute.

Please pray that the High Court dockets that case.  Here is the docket at the SCOTUS.

If your or anyone that you know is concerned about conscience clause litigation, religious freedom, political correctness, the misuse of psychiatry aka Soviet style processing of religious dissidents, test oaths and more the ArchAngel Institute’s two cases should prove very interesting.   (Here is the beginning of the series of posts on the federal district court case that we filed on December 8, 2009.)

Our friends at the American Family Association are featuring our battle against the entrenched Left in their Journal this week.  We have been holding back on a transcript from a fateful June 1, 2009 hearing before the Indiana Board of Law Examiners for the AFA visitors to drop by, so if you are such a visitor please leave a comment.  That transcript reveals the though pattern of Charlotte Westerhaus, an Indiana Bar Examiner who recently made national news by refusing to allow Focus on the Family to place banner ads on the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s website — due to their beliefs. 

The transcript that will soon be posted reveals her interest in religious beliefs, as does all of my (Bryan Brown’s) processing before the Indiana Board of Law Examiners.

Beliefs are not supposed to matter — or at least so we have been told for the past 40 years.  But now all of the sudden they matter very much — if they are beliefs that those in power do not want to see advanced.   Beliefs like mine and beliefs like Focus’.   Christian beliefs.

The transcript that will soon be posted is part of the appendix of my Petition for Review that is now pending before the SCOTUS. 

Briefs filed at the SCOTUS are bound booklets. My brief is 147 pages including the appendix.  It was very expensive (as measured by the Institute’s resources) to produce.

 I am admittedly biased, but I also think it is a good read.  Especially if you are interested in discrimination based upon Christian beliefs.

Have you already sent your donation?  Thank you!  Today we are printing reproductions of the brief.  We need to offer some more to make up the donations to pay the almost $6,000 printer bill. If you want a bound, signed and serialized copy of the brief along with a DVD of Professor Charles Rice’s stellar presentation of the Natural Law at IPFW last fall (click here for details) …

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Anyone perplexed about the NCAA’s decision to not air Focus on the Family’s ad or the Law Examiner’s decision to not license this Kansas attorney of ten years (with no disciplinary actions ever found against him and no felonies ever and no misdemeanor convictions since 1992 — and that being for aiding a falsely arrested 83 year old Irish great grandmother) is at a loss due to their failure to grasp the pretzel logic of the political correctness movement.

Recognize this:  Political correctness is not about justice, or legal precedent, or due process.  It is about action — those in power acting to help the ostensibly powerless.  Or put in the more common negative terms: Slapping down those who are or say what the powerful does not want advanced.

Here is Charlotte’s explanation of the positive side of political correctness.  (For her work on the negative see the Focus ad and the transcript that will soon be posted on this website.)

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My former employer (The American Family Association) released a news story yesterday and email blitz calling on Christians to contact the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s
Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion  — in other words, the office of Ms. Charlotte Westerhaus.

For the record, I had no idea this was happening and did not call in for any such air support.  Blame on Focus on the Family and the Tebow controversy.   And on ongoing chapter in my ironic existence!  Really, it wasn’t me, Babe.

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Was my assignment to Charlotte Westerhause by chance?  Me  – an outspoken constitutionalist and  pro-life activist since 1979 — getting assigned to Ms. Westerhaus was a 1 in 10 chance, since there are 10 bar examiners.    Was it chance, or did someone decide it best to  assign my file to the leading  political correctness officer on the Board — perhaps in all the Midwest?   Ms. Westerhaus is a well-groomed and battle tested devotee of all things p.c.  with an impressive background in “diversity” celebration.  She ended up as my Grand Inquisitor with the Indiana Board of Law Examiners  – by luck, by fate or by an unseen hand.

Consider these two articles celebrating Ms. Westerhaus  and then her impressive legal credentials at the end of this report:

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In the last post I stated that I did not know who authored the Board of Law Examiner’s final order denying me certification as to good moral character and/or fitness (the order is unclear as to which one).  It is true that the order was unsigned.  Hand dated by someone, signed by none.  Three names do appear on the document, but evidently none of those three deemed it worthy of their John Hancock.  (The henchmen of the Inquisition do prefer black hoods, see picture.)

Of those three hooded henchmen, one did get the report notarized as coming from the Board.  Now the notarization does not state that the report is believed to be true, and in fact the report contains many, many errors — so many as to cause one to think that they were put in on purpose.  (It makes the record much messier when factual errors plague a report, making the burden even heavier on the one appealing the report  – as any experienced appellate advocate would realize.)

The Vice President of the Board, Jon B. Laramore, signed the “fig leaf” attempting to cover the nakedness of an unsigned report.   His was the middle unsigned line on the report.  The third unsigned line was for Board President and Walmart attorney Leslie C. Shively.  Attorney Shively was both the Board President and Hearing Panel Chair — yet did not see the need to sign the final report.  Must be how its done in Bentonville?

The first line, customarily the line reserved for the author of any report, was also unsigned.  That line was reserved for Charlotte Westerhaus, who offices just around the corner from the IBLE offices.  She is a Vice President for the National Collegiate Athletics Association.  (Stay tuned for more on that.) 

Thus no one signed that the report was true and not filed for any untoward purposes.  Interesting, no?   Read on more more … Read the rest of this story »

Yes, secularists have creeds, too.  Just ask Stalin or Mao or Castro. 

Or ask the Indiana Board of Bar Inquisitors … or, as they prefer to be called, the Indiana Board of Law Examiners.

Here is their creed … note that it trumps all conscience clauses, and thus trumps religion.

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Just above Monsignor Lester’s death notice (RIP)

Pro-life attorney wants review of case

“A Fort Wayne pro-life activist who claims he was denied the opportunity to practice law in Indiana because of his orthodox Christian faith has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case. Bryan Brown filed in U.S District Court in Fort Wayne in December, alleging that Indiana Board of Law Examiners and others barred him from taking the Indiana bar exam after questioning his character and fitness to serve as an attorney – questions Brown claims were based on his belief that Christians should put God’s laws above human laws.

Brown, founder of the Arch Angel Institute in Fort Wayne, has been arrested or fined several times for pro-life activities. The high court should intervene, Brown argued, to prevent would-be lawyers from being forced to profess a secularist creed that violates their First Amendment right to freedom of religion.”

Stay  tuned for more on the federal district court filing of Dec 8 (against JLAP, Harrell, Sudrovech, Ross and Bowman) before US District Court Judge Theresa Springmann and the Fat Tuesday filing (against the Board of Law Examiners)  before the United States Supreme Court.  Two distinct federal cases seeking far different recoveries.

As stated in the last post, Fate has afforded me only one path forward.  (Since The Institute has no reverse gear.)

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”   Winston Churchill

PRAY WITH US!!!  Hope springs eternal in one with the correct perspective.   LOOKING FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT POST ON THIS SITE?  MOST REVEALING?   CRUCIAL?  THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE INSTITUTE AND BRYAN J. BROWN.   ( Then click right here)