(The Christian Institute) — Legalizing assisted suicide in Guernsey would be dangerous for everyone on the island, church leaders say, and politicians should instead focus on caring for the vulnerable. Representatives from dozens of island churches took the “exceptional” step of writing an open letter to citizens, warning, “As a community we need to celebrate […]
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. — A woman in Florida is facing murder charges for allegedly killing her newborn twins and dumping one of them in a trash can. Rachel Thomas, 30, told investigators that she didn’t know she was pregnant, but rather thought she was feeling sick on Sunday when she went left work early. She […]
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A Southern Baptist Army chaplain is pushing back after a military investigator concluded that he discriminated against a lesbian woman by declining to conduct a marriage retreat after learning that she had signed up to attend the event with her partner. According to the First Liberty Institute, the unnamed Army equal opportunity […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — An Oklahoma House panel has advanced a bill that protects the religious convictions of faith-based foster and adoption agencies, in that they may decline to place children in certain households if the arrangement would violate the tenets of their faith. “To the extent allowed by federal law, no private child-placing agency receiving […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Republican governor of Tennessee has signed into law a bill that defunds the abortion and contraceptive giant Planned Parenthood, as well as any other organization that performs abortions. “It is the policy of this state to favor childbirth and family planning services that do not include elective abortions or the promotion of […]
(The Christian Institute) — A transsexual activist has been fined over an attack on a woman taking part in a public meeting in central London. Maria MacLachlan was punched and kicked in Hyde Park last September as she tried to meet with other women to discuss government plans to allow people to legally self-identify their […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a ruling that overturned a lower court decision granting a preliminary injunction to a Maine minister who asserted that he was being unlawfully targeted by police outside of a Planned Parenthood facility for his pro-life preaching. The high court declined certiorari in the […]
SEATTLE, Wash. — A federal judge has left in place the previous injunction on President Trump’s military service ban for those with gender dysphoria, putting on hold the newest presidential memo issued in alignment with recommendations from Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis, but allowing the government to prove that it was motivated by a […]
STUARTS DRAFT, Va. — A Mennonite minister who spent two years in prison for allegedly helping a woman flee the country with her daughter in defiance of a court order requiring that the child be allowed to have visitation with her mother’s previous lesbian partner is now free. Ken Miller, who reported to prison in March 2016 to […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The governor of Indiana has signed a bill into law that allows prosecutors to charge criminals with murder if an unborn child is intentionally killed in the commission of a crime. The law does not apply to babies who are murdered by abortion. S.B. 203 was introduced by Republican Senator Aaron Freeman, […]