FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An investigator with the U.S. Army has recommended that a Southern Baptist Army chaplain be found “derelict in his duties” surrounding a matter in which he declined to lead a marriage retreat after learning that a lesbian had signed up to attend the event with her partner. The investigator argues that the […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University, which hails itself as the world’s largest Christian university, says that he is writing a book with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the specifics of which have not yet been announced. Carter, who has publicly expressed his support for “gay marriage” and says that […]
PARKLAND, Fla. — A newly-released transcript of the police interrogation of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz reveals that Cruz repeatedly asserted that he had been hearing a “voice” or a “demon” inside of himself instructing him to “kill [and] destroy” and to hurt other people and himself. Cruz, 19, told Broward County Sheriff’s Office Detective […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (USA Today) — A town clerk’s decision to reject a marriage license for a same-sex couple prompted New York’s governor to call for an investigation. Dylan Toften of Root, N.Y., wrote Monday on Facebook that Root Town Clerk Laurel “Sherrie” Eriksen would not issue a marriage license to him and his fiancé when they applied […]
CLEVELAND (Associated Press) — An attorney for the mothers of three transgender teens in Ohio said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that a county judge has shown a disturbing pattern and practice of not allowing transgender children to legally change their names, refusals that can prove harmful and violates their constitutional right to equal […]
DUBLIN — A barbershop in Ireland has been fined 5,000 Euro after an employee declined to cut the hair of a woman who identifies as a man, as he noted that the business has a lease agreement to only cut men’s hair. According to reports, the woman, who goes by the name Lee McLoughlin, arrived […]
VAN BUREN, Ark. — An Arkansas man who destroyed a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the state capitol building in June 2017 says that he heard something inside impress on him, “Destroy it tonight.” Local television station KARK recently sat down with Michael Tate Reed II after he was released from the state […]
HURST, Texas — A woman in Texas is facing an attempted capital murder charge for allegedly giving birth at her place of employment and then placing her newborn son in a garbage bag and leaving him in the dumpster. Alyssa Baker, 28, is accused of leaving her baby for dead on the morning of June […]
PARKERSBURG, W. Va. — One of the nation’s most conspicuous Church-State separation groups has filed a lawsuit against a city in West Virginia in an effort to stop city council members from opening public meetings with the Lord’s Prayer. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), along with two local atheist members of the organization, […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sexually-centered abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the State of South Carolina for ending Medicaid funding to entities that provide abortions. “The executive order has forced PPSAT (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic) to stop providing basic preventative health services to the Medicaid patients who rely on us […]