MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A Minnesota couple who operates a video production company have filed a pre-enforcement challenge over concerns that state law mandates them to create films in support of same-sex “marriage” if they also produce videos that reflect their Christian beliefs about marriage. Carl and Angel Larsen run the Telescope Media Group, which has […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A bed and breakfast owner in Illinois says that the unsuccessful appeal of his discrimination ruling and fine was “fixed” and “corrupt” as he has learned that two of the three commissioners appointed to the case are homosexual activists. “The fix was in from the get-go,” TimberCreek Bed and Breakfast owner Jim […]
IRVING, Tex. – Proponents of biblical marriage are sharply criticizing the nation’s largest jewelry store chain for creating a video advertisement that prominently features two lesbians on their “wedding” day. Zales is a popular jewelry company headquartered in Texas. According to a 2012 report from “National Jeweler,” Zales’s parent company Zale Corp is the largest […]
WASHINGTON — During a recent speech in Washington for the national lawyer’s convention of the Federalist Society, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opined that religious freedom might be “in greater danger” than the right to free speech. “I am reminded of a song by the latest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature: It’s […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Justices with the Washington State Supreme Court heard on Tuesday the appeal of a florist accused of discrimination by providing a referral for a regular customer’s request for the creation of floral arrangements for his same-sex ceremony rather than fulfilling the order herself. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson told the court that Baronelle Stutzman […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon official who ordered a couple to pay heavy emotional damages to two lesbians for declining to create a cake for a same-sex “wedding,” resulting in the eventual shutdown of their bakery, lost his election bid last Tuesday. Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) Commissioner Brad Avakian sought to serve as […]
AMMON, Idaho — An Idaho man who identifies as a woman has plead guilty to a charge of felony voyeurism after he recorded video footage of a teenager trying on a swimsuit in a Target fitting room. Sean Patrick Smith, 46, who goes by Shauna Patricia Smith, was to go before a jury within days, but […]
FLOWER MOUND, Texas — A public high school in Texas has reversed its decision to remove a sponsor’s business slogan that it’s “all about Jesus” from the bass fishing club jerseys after receiving a letter from a nationally-recognized religious liberties organization. According to reports, Texas Flower Mound High School had put out the call for sponsors […]
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The Christian owners of a bakery in Northern Ireland have lost their appeal of a ruling declaring them guilty of discrimination for declining to print the phrase “Support Gay Marriage” on a cake. “In the present case the appellants might elect not to provide a service that involves any religious or political […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A district attorney in California has filed a lawsuit against two former partners of the abortion giant Planned Parenthood for allegedly profiting from the bodily organs of aborted babies. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckus announced the suit on Wednesday, filed against DaVinci Biosciences and its sister company DV Biologics. “From 2009 to […]