NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Republican governor of Tennessee has vetoed a bill that would have designated the Bible as being the state book, asserting that the move is both disrespectful to the Scriptures and a violation of the U.S. Constitution. “[M]y personal feeling is that this bill trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a […]
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — A county circuit court judge has rejected the nation’s largest medical waste provider’s request to stop a pro-life group from distributing information about the company’s disposal of aborted babies for Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities nationwide. As part of its “Project Weak Link,” the Ohio-based group Created Equal had distributed leaflets last month in an […]
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NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate John Kasich condemned Mississippi’s religious freedom law this week, just a day after telling reporters that he would not have signed North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” requiring residents to use the restroom that correlates with their biological gender in government buildings. “I read about this thing they did in Mississippi, […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The governor of North Carolina issued an executive order on Tuesday to help clear up what he believes is confusion and misinformation about a recently passed state law that annulled a controversial “bathroom bill” in Charlotte and banned other cities from passing similar ordinances. “I have come to the conclusion that there […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A House committee in Missouri has approved a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would recognize the unborn as persons, sending it on to the full House for a vote. House Joint Resolution 98 was introduced by Rep. Mike Moon, R-Ash Grove, as a ballot initiative to be presented to the […]
DETROIT, Mich. — Attorneys for a funeral home in Michigan are seeking the dismissal of a federal lawsuit over the firing of a male funeral director for his desire to dress as a woman on the job. According to reports, Anthony Stephens, who now goes by the name Aimee Stephens, was hired as the funeral director and […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A federal appeals court has restored Utah’s ban on polygamous cohabitation in stating that the law posed no threat to polygamists since the state has outlined that it will not be enforced unless other crimes are involved. As previously reported, Kody Brown of the TLC reality show Sister Wives, along […]
BOISE, Idaho — The Republican governor of Idaho has vetoed a bill that would permit the Bible to be used a for reference purposes in public school classrooms out of concern that it could result in a lawsuit. “I have deep respect and appreciation for the Bible as religious doctrine as well as a piece of […]
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A petition has been launched in support of secular rocker Bruce Springsteen’s “right to refuse service” in states with which he disagrees, after he cancelled a concert in North Carolina last week out of his opposition to a recently passed state law that annulled a controversial “bathroom bill” in Charlotte and banned other […]
CONCORD, N.H. – A high school counselor who lost her job after helping a 15-year-old student secretly abort her unborn child without telling her parents should be reinstated at her job, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. In November 2012, a 15-year-old Farmington High School student—referred to as “Student A” in court documents—approached […]