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Thomas More Law Center
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) is a Christian, conservative, nonprofit, public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and active throughout the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TEA Party Sues City of Coldwater, Michigan Over Free Speech Rights )〕 Its stated goals are to defend and promote America's Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values, including the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life while also supporting a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Thomas More Law Center - Thomas More Law Center )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former Army ranger raises awareness, funds at Law Center - Washtenaw County Legal News )〕
The Thomas More Law Center is active in social issues such as same-sex marriage,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Conservative Christian groups join legal fight to keep Michigan's gay marriage ban )〕 abortion,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anti-abortion protesters to push ahead with lawsuit, despite repeal of Portland buffer zone )〕 and provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas More Law Center v. Obama )〕 and the HHS Mandate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Organic Eden Foods’ quiet right-wing agenda )〕 The Law Center has been involved in high profile cases including the litigation of the Dover, Pennsylvania intelligent design case;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Federal Judge Strikes Down Intelligent Design in Pennsylvania Schools )〕 the defense of Lt Col Jeffrey Chessani against misconduct allegations stemming from the November 2005 Haditha incident;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Court upholds dismissal of charges in Haditha case )〕 and the Law Center's federal lawsuit against the US Government regarding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Individual Mandate.〔 The Law Center also litigates cases related to the defense of the free speech rights of Christians 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trial of Acts 17 Apologists Begins )〕 and pro-life activists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pro-Life Group Denied Recognition By Johns Hopkins University Student Government Turns To The Thomas More Law Center )〕
==Founding and history==
The Center was founded in 1999 by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Domino's Pizza Founder Thomas Monaghan Sues: Obamacare's Birth Control A 'Grave Sin' )〕 and the Center's current President and Chief Counsel Richard Thompson, a former Oakland County, Michigan prosecutor known for his role in the prosecution of Jack Kevorkian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prosecutor of Kevorkian Loses Re-election Bid )〕 Among those who have sat on the Center's advisory board are: Senator Rick Santorum,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Santorum Breaks With Christian-Rights Law Center )〕 former Senator and retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas More Law Center Fights for Mt. Soledad Cross )〕 former Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Law Center Fights Calif. AG Over Donor Lists )〕 Catholic academic Charles Rice,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Death Claims Two at Notre Dame: Fr. Hesburgh and Charles Rice )〕 Mary Cunningham Agee, and Ambassador Alan Keyes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Allen West Joins Far-Right Thomas More Law Center )〕 The Center's Citizens' Advisory Board also includes Representative Michele Bachmann, and Lieutenant Colonel Allen West.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michele Bachmann joins board of Ann Arbor-based Christian activists )〕〔http://www.thomasmore.org/about/citizens-advisory-board/citizens-advisory-board〕 The Center is primarily financed by contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations and is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas More Law Center Guidestar Report )〕
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