KENAI, Alaska — Officials in an Alaskan borough recently allowed an atheist to open their public meeting with an invocation hailing Satan. According to reports, Iris Fontana, 27, and a member of the Satanic Temple, contacted the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in April to request that she be permitted to present an invocation. In June, the Borough […]
FRANKLIN, Ohio — Police in Ohio discovered a seven-year-old boy selling his teddy bear for food outside of a local drug store last week, and his parents are now facing child endangerment charges. According to reports, Officer Steve Dunham responded to a call about the boy, who was seen by himself outside of the Franklin CVS […]
Tim Kaine, the running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, told a gathering of self-identifying “progressive Baptists” on Thursday that he believes Clinton’s Methodist upbringing is the “root of everything she does.” Kaine was speaking at the Progressive National Baptist Convention in New Orleans when he made his remarks. “She was a Midwestern Methodist […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump jested to a gathering of evangelicals on Thursday that winning the election and being a good president might perhaps be his only way of getting to Heaven. “I want to just say that whatever you can do … This will be an election that will go down […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama attorney has filed an ethics complaint with the state’s bar association against the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over comments made about embattled Chief Justice Roy Moore. Trent Garmon, managing attorney of the Garmon Law Firm, filed the complaint on July 28 out of his belief that […]
TRENTON, N.J. — Four lesbians have filed a federal lawsuit to challenge a New Jersey law that they say inhibits them from obtaining insurance coverage for infertility treatments because it only pertains to male/female couples. Erin Krupa and her partner Marianne decided five years ago to have children through a donor, but soon found that […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California lawmaker has altered a controversial bill that once permitted homosexual and transgender students to sue their Christian college or university if they believe that they were discriminated against because of their personal lives. As previously reported, S.B. 1146 was introduced in February by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, to close what Lara […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The chief judge of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ) who also serves as an elder as his local church has joined in an order refusing to dismiss the ethics charges against Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, resulting in a trial. Attorneys for Moore had sought to have his charges […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Over 40 people were arrested last week in what is being called Tennessee’s “most significant human trafficking operation to date.” The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) announced the arrests on Friday, which were a part of “Operation Someone Like Me.” “This week I learned that we are only scratching the surface,” TBI Director […]
OVIEDO, Fla. — A prominent professing atheist group has taken issue with an awards ceremony for a Florida police department that was held at a theological seminary and included an invocation. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently sent a letter to Jeffrey Chudnow, the chief of police with the Oviedo Police Department, to […]