MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — A medical researcher at the University of Wisconsin has filed a discrimination complaint for being denied coverage for a sex change operation. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the complaint on Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a cancer researcher at the University of Wisconsin Medical School who […]
PHILADELPHIA — The president of an abortion advocacy group unashamedly declared on Wednesday during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that she herself had an abortion, and asserted that killing unborn children gives women “power over [their] own destiny.” Ilyse Hogue is the leader of the National Abortion Rights Action League, also known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. […]
(The Christian Insitute) — The Supreme Court has vindicated a judicial review of the Scottish Government’s controversial Named Person scheme, ruling the plans unlawful. In a historic decision the five judges, including two from Scotland, unanimously struck down the central provisions of the scheme this morning. Under the proposals, from 31 August every child in […]
PHILADELPHIA — Democrats adopted on Monday a party platform that calls for forcing Americans to pay for the abortions of others by repealing the federal Hyde Amendment. As previously reported, the platform, which was released on July 1 and covers a variety of issues from social security to gun violence prevention to terrorism, also expresses […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky woman has filed a lawsuit against county clerk Kim Davis after she was denied a license to “marry” an animal. According to local television station WDRB-TV, Elizabeth Ording, 27, is additionally suing Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear over the matter. She asserted that a “marriage to an animal wouldn’t […]
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 […]
TOKYO (USA Today) — An apparently disturbed man arrested in a stabbing rampage at a care facility for mentally disabled people near Tokyo on Tuesday had earlier warned authorities that he might carry out the attack, according to police and local news media. At least 19 are dead and 26 injured after the man, a […]
HOUSTON, Texas — The Harris County District Attorney’s office in Texas has dismissed all of the charges against David Daleiden, the pro-life investigator who recorded undercover videos of the abortion giant Planned Parenthood. As previously reported, Daleiden, the director of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) was indicted in January on a felony charge of “tampering […]
WASHINGTON — In light of comments made by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy last week at the Republican National Convention, a professing atheist group is requesting that McCarthy sponsor a humanist invocation in Congress to prove that the Republican Party is not exclusively Christian. “Republicans believe that families who work hard should get ahead,” McCarthy […]
PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Convention is set to feature its first-ever “transgender” speaker this Thursday as a man who identifies as a woman is scheduled to take the stage in support of Hillary Clinton. Tim McBride, who goes by the name Sarah, serves as the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign and […]