MANASQUAN, N.J. — A national legal organization has filed suit against a New Jersey town for violating the constitutional rights of a local street preacher. The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Virginia is representing Ken Fleck in an effort to strike down the current noise ordinance of Manasquan, New Jersey. The ordinance prohibits “loud, unnecessary and […]
A nationally-known Catholic group recently presented a prestigious award to producers of a sitcom about homosexuality. Catholics in Media (CIM), who states that its purpose is to applaud “those projects and people in the entertainment industry, who, by their work, have made clearer the Word of God,” recently honored the television show “Modern Family” at […]
A British man has been arrested for attempting to smuggle roasted fetuses to Taiwan for a black magic ritual. Chow Hok Kuen, 28, was taken into custody by police after a tip led them to find a box of fetuses stashed in Kuen’s luggage in his hotel room in Thailand. The six fetuses, ranging in […]
A historic Christian university in Rome, Georgia has received record resignation letters from staffers after mandating that its employees sign a “personal lifestyle statement.” Reports indicate that nearly sixty out of the two hundred employees at Shorter University have decided to leave the educational institution rather than sign the statement, which outlines a moral code […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights. Read the article in its entirety […]
A federal judge in Virginia has ordered a local school district to remove the first four of the Ten Commandments, which it has posted in each of its public schools. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski issued the order after the Giles County School District was sued by the ACLU for purportedly violating the First Amendment […]
An internationally-known doctor recently sparked much controversy at a popular university for his views about evolution. John Hopkins’ neurosurgeon Ben Carson was invited to give the commencement speech at Emery University in Atlanta, Georgia this past Monday. When several biology teachers at Emery got wind of Carson’s invitation, they decided to draft a letter to […]
“The Quran is our constitution; the Prophet is our leader; jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal,” Mohamed Mursi, leader of the Freedom and Justice Party and Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, said in his election speech to students at Cairo University on Saturday. “Today, Egypt is as close […]
Two Kansas cities have passed legislation prohibiting businesses and landlords from firing or evicting individuals who are found to be involved in the homosexual lifestyle. The Hutchison City Council voted 3-2 today despite much opposition to pass a measure that protected homosexuals from being discriminated against due their lifestyle choices. City leaders explained to the […]
The New York State Senate passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the viewing of child pornography. The measure was quickly introduced to legislature in an effort to correct a loophole that was highlighted last week when the New York Court of Appeals ruled that viewing child porn was not illegal according to state laws. The […]