PALMDALE, Calif. – A seven-year-old first grader was recently reprimanded in front of his entire class and a police officer was dispatched to his family’s home because the child had brought notes with Bible verses on them to school. Christina and Jaime Zavala live in Palmdale, California. In January, they enrolled their son in the […]
PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic mayor of Philadelphia has banned city employees from non-essential government travel to cities and states that have passed laws that he deems as being discriminatory toward homosexuals and transsexual persons. In April, following controversy over North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act and Mississippi’s Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination […]
WASHINGTON — Thousands of professing atheists and agnostics from across the country descended on Washington, D.C. today for the “Reason Rally,” an event that is designed to discuss politics from a godless perspective. “That’s the reason we’re holding this in an election year,” executive director Lyz Liddell told CNN. “We want to see reason taking precedence over […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Three church-state separation groups are expressing objection to a proclamation issued by the governor of Iowa that urges residents to participate in a statewide Bible reading marathon. In April, Gov. Terry Branstad signed a proclamation at the state capitol urging participation in a 99 county Bible reading marathon scheduled for June […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The leader of an Islamic council in Pakistan has proposed a bill that would allow men to “lightly” beat their wives as a form of discipline. Mohammad Khan Sheerani of the Council of Islamic Ideology introduced the 163-page proposal on behalf of the 20-member council, a group that makes recommendations to the Pakistani […]
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The state of Ohio has agreed to pay the abortion giant Planned Parenthood over $45,000 in attorneys fees and costs in a settlement over discoveries that the bodies of aborted babies had been picked up by medical waste companies to be steam-treated or incinerated, and then dumped in landfills. As previously reported, Ohio […]
WASHINGTON — As the most vocal president in American history in regard to homosexuality and transgenderism, Barack Obama issued on Tuesday his eighth annual proclamation calling upon Americans to “celebrate diversity” in observing June as “LGBT Pride Month.” “Since our founding, America has advanced on an unending path toward becoming a more perfect Union,” he wrote […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following controversy over undercover videos filmed by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) into the practices of Planned Parenthood, a lawmaker in California has introduced a bill that would make secretly recording inside abortion facilities punishable by up to a year behind bars. “It is the intent of the legislature to enact legislation to prohibit any person from […]
OTTAWA — The Canadian House of Commons approved an assisted suicide bill on Tuesday, sending the legislation on to the Senate. MP’s voted 186-137 in favor of Bill C-14 mainly along party lines, with some urging that its constitutionality be sent to the Canadian Supreme Court for review. “Whereas the Parliament of Canada recognizes the […]
CHICAGO — A professing atheist activist organization is recommending that a Chicago-area principal be fired for promoting Christianity to students. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently sent a letter to the attorney for Rich Township Schools after becoming informed that Rich South High School Principal Michael McGrone announced that his goal is to “allow […]