Two women who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested after police determined they staged the incidents. In October of last year, Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, called police and reported the words “Kill the Gay” were scrawled in red spray paint on the garage door of their Parker, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed a packed football stadium today as he gave a commencement speech at the world’s largest Christian university. While he did not speak directly about the Mormon religion, he made ecumenical efforts to appeal to the crowd on the basis of “common ground.” Referencing Billy Graham, C.S. Lewis, Chuck Colson […]
Two street preachers have filed a federal lawsuit against a New Mexico municipality to stop its police department from shutting down the public proclamation of the Gospel. The ACLU is representing brothers Jeremy and Joshua De Los Santos, members of Old Paths Baptist Church, after collectively being arrested eight times in approximately a year and […]
In January of this year, the Pennsylvania legislature unanimously passed a resolution dubbing 2012 as “The Year of the Bible.” The resolution stated that not only has the Bible been an important part of America’s history, but that in difficult times such as the present, there is a “national need to study and apply the […]