AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Texas have decided to strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of nearly $600,000 that the group had been receiving for its HIV prevention and testing program. “We have the discretion to extend the contract and elected not to,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told reporters. “The […]
NEW YORK — The New York City Commission on Human Rights has announced new guidelines under the city’s Human Rights Law that may impose fines on employers who use masculine pronouns for male workers who wish to identify as women and vice versa. The Commission released its interpretive guide to the law on Monday, which includes a […]
HAWKINS, Texas — Officials in a Texas city have voted to sue a local church over land that it purchased to help protect a “Jesus” sign from being removed following a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. As previously reported, the situation centers around a sign in Hawkins, Texas that reads, “Jesus welcomes you […]
HOUSTON, Texas — Controversy is stirring over Bruce Jenner’s recent visit to a megachurch in Texas, where he prayed with a pastor who stood against an ordinance allowing men who identify as women to use womens’ restrooms and vice versa. According to reports, the former Olympian visited Ed Young, Sr.’s Second Baptist Church of Houston last week […]
ALPINE, Texas — A prominent professing atheist group is seeking to stop a Texas sheriff from placing cross decals on his deputy vehicles out of its assertion that doing so violates the U.S. Constitution. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) wrote to the Brewster County Sheriff’s Office on Monday after learning of Sheriff Ronny […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A federal judge in Utah has ruled that the state may strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of its funding while the organization proceeds with a lawsuit over being defunded. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups, nominated to the bench by then-President George W. Bush, reversed an earlier decision calling for […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its final guidance on allowing homosexual men to donate blood, stating that men should be allowed to do so if they have been abstinent for at least one year. As previously reported, the FDA first announced its intent to loosen its restrictions on blood donations from […]
LANSING, Mich. — The Satanic Temple held a ceremony on the steps of the Michigan capitol building on Saturday to decry what it called the “siren song of the religious right.” “Hail Comrades. Hail sisters and brothers. Hail Satan,” Director Jex Blackmore said as she opened the gathering, being met with the response of “Hail […]
PHOENIX — A Muslim man who was arrested in June after allegedly being involved in a plot to attack a “draw Muhammad” contest in Texas has now also been accused of planning to bomb a shopping mall in Arizona and the 2015 Super Bowl. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, of Arizona, had been charged this summer […]
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Abortion activists stood outside of a Tennessee courthouse on Monday with signs calling for “abortion on demand and without apology” and for charges to be dropped from Tennessee woman who attempted a coat hanger abortion to kill her unborn son. As previously reported, Anna Yocca, 31, an unmarried mother, reportedly filled her bathtub with water […]