EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — A school board in Ohio is being urged to reconsider removing the Lord’s Prayer from its upcoming graduation ceremony after it was scrapped following a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. According to reports, a parent of a student at East Liverpool High School contacted the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation […]
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — A Wisconsin political science professor has filed a legal challenge after he was suspended last year for criticizing a teaching assistant who forbade a student in her ethics class from speaking against same-sex “marriage” in the classroom. According to reports, the matter began in 2014 at Marquette University as students in an ethics class […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A county school board in Virginia recently sent a letter to the Virginia High School League (VHSL) to urge the organization to discontinue hosting state championships at Liberty University over President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s recent statements about “ending Muslims” with guns. “We are deeply disturbed by the comments of Liberty University Chancellor […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A top board member of Liberty University says he was forced out of his position for expressing objection to President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s endorsement of Donald Trump, as Falwell declared the presidential candidate a Christian despite showing no fruit of being converted. As previously reported, Mark DeMoss, the founder of the Atlanta-based public relations firm […]
MIDDLETON, Wisc. — Organizers of what has been dubbed the weekly “Jesus Lunch” at a park adjacent to a Wisconsin high school are optimistic after the school district announced that it decided to end its lease of the land to settle controversy over the matter. As previously reported, the “Jesus Lunch” began in 2014 as […]
CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice have been sued by over 50 families for forcing a school district to allow a male student who identifies as female to use the girls’ locker room at his local high school. “It’s a massive step backwards to force women to give […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A former student a Missouri State University (MSU) has filed a legal challenge against school officials after he was allegedly expelled from the university counseling program for advising that he could not counsel those involved in homosexuality on relationship matters. Andrew Cash began his master’s in counseling at MSU in 2007. To […]
MADISON, Wisc. — A professing atheist activist organization is expressing its objection to three public schools that either have already or plan to visit Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Kentucky. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently sent letters to officials with Brookville High School in Dayton, Ohio, Jackson Independent School District in Kentucky, and the […]
WASHINGTON — While it is not known if the move was done due to the request of homosexual and transgender advocacy groups, the U.S. Department of Education has released a list of Christian identifying colleges and universities who have requested exemptions from a federal law that has recently been interpreted to pertain to homosexuality and transgenderism. […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Officials at Rutgers University have removed a depiction of Jesus crucified on a dartboard following complaints from those who found the display to be blasphemous and disrespectful. The display at issue was called “Vitruvian Man” and was part of an exhibition at the three-story university art library on Voorhees Mall. It […]