NORFOLK, Va. – The federal judge who struck down Virginia’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage’ as being unconstitutional wrongly attributed a quote from the Declaration of Independence to the U.S. Constitution. In her 41-page decision issued late Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen had ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the right to due process and equal protection afforded under […]
WASHINGTON — Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, but most in the West don’t identify with the persecuted Church, a Congressional hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee contended this week. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) opened the hearing by outlining various reports of Christian persecution in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Nigeria. He […]
NORFOLK, Va. – A federal judge struck down Virginia’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage’ late Thursday as being unconstitutional, stating that it deprived those engaging in the homosexual lifestyle the “fundamental freedom to choose to marry.” U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen in Norfolk, Virginia cited in her 41-page opinion that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A federal judge nominated by George H.W. Bush has ruled that same-sex ‘marriages’ performed in states or countries where legal must be recognized in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As previously reported, attorneys for Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon, both 55, filed the legal challenge last August, contending that Kentucky’s current statute violates […]
PHILADELPHIA –An unlicensed medical school graduate who worked at Kermit Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society abortion facility in West Philadelphia has been sentenced to serve six to 12 years in prison for his role in the killing of two babies born alive at the clinic. Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner told Steven Massof, 51, on […]
RICHMOND, Va. – North Carolina’s ‘Choose Life’ license plate is unconstitutional because the state doesn’t provide the same forum for motorists on the other side of the contentious issue, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a federal judge’s ruling that the “Choose Life” […]
BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber instructor in Iraq accidently set off his own explosives during a training on Monday, killing himself and his entire class of would-be terrorists. The Iraqi instructor was teaching a class at a camp in the Sunni region of the country, north of Baghdad, when the bomb was detonated. A total of 21 suicide bombers […]
SYDNEY — A couple in Australia is refusing their doctor’s recommendations to obtain an abortion after they discovered that their unborn baby has a rare condition that results in the development of two brains and two faces on the same skull. Renee Young and Simon Howie have seven children, and were excited about their new […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department is announcing its disappointment after North Korean officials again rescinded an invitation to discuss the release of an American missionary sentenced to fifteen years hard labor in the country. “We are deeply disappointed by the DPRK [North Korean] decision–for a second time–to rescind its invitation for ambassador [Robert] King […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Saturday that he planned to expand federal benefits to same-sex ‘couples,’ following last year’s Supreme Court ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). “In every courthouse, in every proceeding and in every place where a member of the Department of Justice stands on behalf of […]