MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — A Wisconsin student who was born a female but identifies as male has filed a federal lawsuit against her school district for being denied use of the boys’ restroom and for continuing to be referred to by her feminine name. Ashton Whitaker, 16, is suing the Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 and Superintendent […]
The Satanic Temple, a professing atheist group that masquerades as a Satanist organization, is seeking to bring an “After School Satan Club” to schools nationwide in order to make a point about Bible clubs in public schools. The organization recently released a promotional video outlining its plans, complete with eerie music, growling and Satanic imagery. […]
MALIBU, Calif. – A prominent faith-based university has quietly embraced the Obama Administration’s mandate on “transgender” students and will allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex, as it has now withdrawn its exemption from the government policy. Pepperdine University is a private California school affiliated with the Churches of Christ. […]
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — An appeals court in Nova Scotia has ruled that a legal society in the province did not have the authority to deny accreditation to a Christian law school over its biblical beliefs about the institution of marriage. As previously reported, Trinity Western University had filed suit in October 2014 after the Nova […]
MIDDLETON, Wisc. — Concerns are being raised over the possibility that a proposal to eliminate reservations for a pavilion in a public park in Wisconsin is actually a means of caving in to a prominent atheist activist group that has taken issue with a weekly “Jesus Lunch” gathering at a local high school. As previously […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Board of Education has voted unanimously to comply with a state law requiring homosexuality to be incorporated into history and social studies lessons from the second grade and up. In 2012, California lawmakers passed the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, which requires the inclusion of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Officials at SUNY Albany cancelled the university’s basketball game with Duke University this past week in light of the New York governor’s ban on non-essential government travel to North Carolina. As previously reported, in late March, following controversy over North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which requires those who identify as transgender […]
CHICAGO — A number of YMCA locations in the Chicago area have been instructed to follow new guidelines that permit boys who identify as girls to use the girls’ locker room, and vice versa. The Chicago Tribune reports that a mother at one of the locations recently approached staff after she saw a teenage boy using […]
RICHMOND, Va. — A school board in Virginia has filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after being ordered to allow a female student to use the boys’ restroom since she identifies as a male. “Depriving parents of any say over whether their children should be exposed to members of the opposite biological sex, […]
Ten more states have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its requirement that school districts allow male students who identify as female and vice versa to use the restroom that correlates with their “gender identity.” Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming now join the list […]