(USA Today) — A federal judge in Texas has declared that an all-male military draft is unconstitutional, ruling that “the time has passed” for a debate on whether women belong in the military. The decision deals the biggest legal blow to the Selective Service System since the Supreme Court upheld the draft registration process in […]
Continue reading …(The Gospel Coalition) — Seven years ago, my wife was five months pregnant. We were headed for an ultrasound to see the baby and have the doctors make sure everything was progressing nicely. We’d done ultrasounds three times with other children and were feeling excited. All of our children were born healthy, and we figured […]
Continue reading …BERLIN (NBC NEWS) — The Trump administration is launching a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it’s still illegal to [engage in homosexual acts or identify as homosexual], U.S. officials tell NBC News, a bid aimed in part at denouncing Iran over its human rights record. U.S. Ambassador […]
Continue reading …(BBC) — An unborn baby has had surgery on her spine while she was still in her mother’s womb. Bethan Simpson, 26, from Maldon, Essex, was told her unborn daughter Eloise had spina bifida at her 20-week scan. Mrs. Simpson has become one of the first mothers in the UK to undergo the pioneering “fetal […]
Continue reading …(Evangelical Focus) — More than 700 people have been victims of sexual abuse in churches of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the biggest evangelical denomination of the United States. An in-depth investigation of newspapers Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express News found that around 380 church leaders and volunteers of SBC churches “left behind hundreds […]
Continue reading …(BBC) — A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it’s wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. Mr. Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can’t be […]
Continue reading …ELDORA, Iowa (KRVR) — A 9-year-old boy clutched a stuffed animal as he told a judge that his father’s girlfriend often withheld food and helped lock him under a staircase in the basement at their Iowa home. “I couldn’t get out” of the basement enclosure, the boy testified Wednesday in an Eldora courtroom at the bench […]
Continue reading …LEXINGTON, Ky. — In a bizarre display, a self-identifying church in Kentucky turned their Sunday service in a Super Bowl celebration with its “pastors” pretending to be football players and competing in preaching, complete with referees, a pig roast, commercials, and its “band going wild at halftime.” “We’ve got jambalaya cooking out front, a pig roast, and […]
Continue reading …(The Christian Institute) — Medics from the University of London and Maastricht University are concerned that euthanasia in the Netherlands is approved too readily and puts vulnerable people at risk. Responding to a Guardian article, they agreed that the life-ending procedure is a “slippery slope” with ever-changing standards. This comes as the Royal College of […]
Continue reading …ALBANY, N.Y. — Liberal New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who has decried what he calls “extreme conservative” politicians who impose on the people by law “their view of what God says should be done,” has signed into law a bill that not only codifies, but also expands abortion access in the state, allowing babies to be […]
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