TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s self-identifying pro-life governor recently agreed to end a legal fight to defend a new state law that would have defunded the abortion giant Planned Parenthood—at least for now. As previously reported, House Bill 1411 was meant to reallocate funds that abortion providers had been receiving as Medicaid reimbursement, and to prohibit the government from […]
LOS ANGELES — Under threat of a lawsuit, a pro-life pregnancy center in California has agreed to comply with a state law requiring that clients be provided with information about government programs that offer free or low-cost abortions. As previously reported, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Reproductive FACT Act into law in October, a measure that […]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration published a notice on Thursday declaring that federal buildings must allow men that identify as women and vice versa to use the restroom that correlates with their “gender identity.” “Federal agencies occupying space under the jurisdiction, custody, or control of GSA must allow individuals to use restroom facilities and related […]
CHEYENNE, Wy. — The Wyoming Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday surrounding a local judge who is under fire for making comment to the media two years ago that, as a Christian, she couldn’t officiate same-sex unions. As previously reported, Ruth Neely told a reporter for the Sublette Examiner in 2014 after a federal judge […]
DETROIT, Mich. — A federal judge has upheld a Michigan funeral home’s decision to fire a male funeral director for his desire to dress as a woman on the job. As previously reported, Anthony Stephens, who now goes by the name Aimee Stephens, was hired as the funeral director and embalmer for RG & GR Harris […]
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Police in Arkansas made a heartbreaking discovery on Friday after being called to a Hot Springs home where a four-year-old girl had been so verbally and physically abused that she thought her name was “Idiot.” Upon receiving a call from the Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center on an abuse tip, they found […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — A Maryland humanist who had filed a federal lawsuit in seeking the removal of a Ten Commandments monument outside of a county courthouse has now dropped his legal challenge. As previously reported, Jeffrey Davis, an emergency room physician, had filed the suit in March over his offense with the display, which he also deemed […]
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A prominent professing atheist group has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to have a cross removed from the seal of a Pennsylvania county. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) filed the legal challenge on Monday and is seeking a declaration that its inclusion on the county seal is unconstitutional. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, who is currently running for re-election in the Senate, told evangelicals on Friday that to love their homosexual neighbor, they “must abandon a spirit of judgment.” Rubio, a Roman Catholic, made his remarks on Friday during an event hosted by the Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project in Orlando. […]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A Kentucky man stabbed his father with a knife as they were visiting a Baptist church on Sunday. Ethan Buckley, 21, has been charged with first-degree assault and domestic violence after stabbing his father, David Buckley, 40, in the neck at Hillvue Heights Church in Bowling Green. The two had been visiting […]