TEMPE, Ariz. — A Christian legal organization has asked health officials in Arizona to launch an investigation into a local Planned Parenthood facility after the location failed to report the rape of a young girl by an 18-year-old man who went on to rape four others. According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and police reports on […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Barack Obama made an video appearance at the international Gay Games on Saturday, the world’s largest homosexual sporting event, founded in 1982 in San Francisco. “Welcome to the 2014 Gay Games,” he opened. “And to the thousands of athletes, coaches, family and spectators from around the world, welcome to Ohio and the […]
KOUNTZE, Texas — Cheerleaders in Texas have appealed a ruling finding a lawsuit against their local school district moot after it changed its policies surrounding the display of Bible banners during school sporting events. As previously reported, in Kountze, Texas, a tiny east-central Texas town with 2,000 residents, middle school and high school cheerleaders have […]
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — A Christian-owned bridal shop in Pennsylvania is under fire for declining to schedule a gown fitting for two lesbian women. According to reports, an unidentified woman called W.W. Bridal Boutique in Bloomsburg recently to schedule a gown fitting for herself and her lesbian partner. When the owner, Victoria Miller, declined by stating […]
BLOOMFIELD, N.M. — A judge nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan has sided with two New Mexico Wiccans and has ordered that a Ten Commandments monument must be removed from city property because it endorses Christianity. U.S. District Judge James A. Parker issued his ruling on Thursday, stating that the 3,000-pound monument violated the First Amendment […]
MOBILE, Ala. — County commissioners in Alabama have rejected requests from atheists, pagans and Unitarian Universalists to post their own displays in the public arena after they took issue with a recent vote to display a “In God We Trust” plaque in the Government Plaza. In June, the Mobile County Commission voted 2-1 to display […]
WASHINGTON — Three states have filed appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of their constitutional amendment enshrining marriage as being between a man and a woman, in light of lower court rulings which have struck down such same-sex ‘marriage’ bans as violating the federal Constitution. The attorney generals in Utah and Virginia submitted […]
WASHOE COUNTY, Nev. — The parents of a mentally disabled woman have adopted their granddaughter after the child was spared from abortion during a court battle that could have ended in the termination of the baby’s life. Bill and Amy Bauer are officially the adoptive parents of Cierra Marie, who was born in May of […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A restaurant in North Carolina has discontinued issuing random discounts for patrons who pray over their meals after a prominent atheist organization threatened to file a lawsuit over the matter. Mary’s Gourmet Diner has been randomly issuing customers a 15 percent discount for “praying in public,” that is, praying over one’s meal, […]
ST. LOUIS – A prominent humanist organization sent a letter earlier this week to the Missouri National Guard, demanding that ‘immediate action’ be taken to remove a display of Bibles from a military base. The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a group committed to promoting the so-called “humanist worldview.” According to the organization’s website, AHA […]