AUSTIN, Texas — More than 70,000 petitions calling for the governor of Texas to make outlawing abortion an “emergency item” for the new legislative session were delivered to Gov. Greg Abbott’s on Monday. However, the governor did not mention the issue of abortion at all during his “State of the State” address on Tuesday, but […]
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A federal judge nominated to the bench by then-President George H.W. Bush has dismissed a lawsuit against a Christian retirement village that denied an application from two lesbian women due to its longstanding Bible-based cohabitation policy that only allows married men and women or siblings to share a dwelling. Attorneys for […]
TOPEKA, Kan. — With the backing of 20 state lawmakers, a Republican representative in Kansas has introduced a bill that, if approved, would place before voters a ballot initiative to amend the Kansas Constitution to specifically enshrine “inalienable rights, equal protection and due process of law [for] every human being from the beginning of the biological development […]
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CULPEPER, Va. — A Christian-owned crisis pregnancy center in Virginia was defaced on Thursday night with graffiti that included the messages “You hate women,” “fake” and “Jesus hates this [expletive].” “Everyone is shocked. The community embraces this place,” Culpeper Councilman Jon Russell told Fox 5 News. “We love babies, we love mommas. That’s what they […]
TRENTON, N.J. — Residents in the state of New Jersey may now more easily apply to amend their birth certificate to correspond with their “gender identity” rather than their birth sex after a new law took effect on Friday. The accommodation also allows residents to select a third option of “undesignated/nonbinary.” The New Jersey Department […]
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Lawmakers in Vermont have proposed a bill that would codify abortion in state law as being a “fundamental right,” while also stating that “[a] fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus shall not have independent rights under Vermont law.” Republican governor Phil Scott says that he is supportive on the concept of enshrining Roe v. Wade in […]
WASHINGTON — A restaurant in the nation’s capital has agreed to a settlement that includes the payment of $7,000 in penalties and legal costs after the attorney general of Washington, D.C. found the eatery guilty of discrimination against a man who identifies as a woman. According to a press release from the office of D.C. […]
BOISE, Idaho — Two state representatives in Idaho have drafted a bill that would remove an exemption for abortion from existing homicide statutes, and would consequently classify abortion as an act of murder. “Idaho code defines a fetus as a human and says killing a human is murder. Abortion is in contradiction to the inalienable […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump tweeted his support on Monday for recently-introduced state bills that would authorize the creation of elective Bible courses in public schools. “Numerous states introducing Bible literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!” he wrote. Trump’s remarks reportedly came after Fox & […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Video footage of a member of the Virginia House of Delegates admitting that an abortion bill she had proposed would allow an unborn baby to be killed up until birth should the pregnancy “impair the mental health of the woman” has generated outrage nationwide. Republicans in a state subcommittee stopped the bill […]