In a statement posted to former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s social media pages, campaign director Bob Dees compared those who have expressed opposition to Carson’s endorsement of Donald Trump to those who turned on Jesus and called for His crucifixion. “[M]any of you sent strong messages of support for today’s endorsement, while many others […]
CHICAGO — Two Chicago-area university students are facing criminal charges after they allegedly spray-painted the campus chapel with offensive hate slurs and vulgar imagery on the walls, along with the word “Trump.” Freshmen Anthony Morales, 19, and Matthew Kafker, 18, are accused of entering Northwestern University’s Alice Millar Chapel on Thursday night and vandalizing the […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal appeals court has reversed its previous decision banning officials in North Carolina from issuing “Choose Life” license plates after the U.S. Supreme Court asked the court to revisit its ruling in light of a similar decision from the nation’s high court. As previously reported, in February 2014, a three-judge panel with […]
KENT, U.K. — A magistrate in the United Kingdom was removed from office on Thursday over comments he made last year expressing that it is best for adoptive children to be placed with a mother and father. Richard Page, who identifies as a Christian, had been a judge for 15 years and sat on the Family Panel […]
HOLLISTER, Mo. — Students in a Missouri school district are pushing back after a professing atheist organization recently sent a letter to district officials, demanding that an area youth pastor be prohibited from leading prayers during the lunch period. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had sent a letter last month to Hollister Superintendent Brian […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Lawmakers in Indiana have passed a bill banning the murder of unborn children based on a Down Syndrome diagnosis or any other disability, while stopping short of banning all abortion in the state. H.B. 1337 passed the House of Representatives in a 60-40 vote on Wednesday, just a week after the Indiana Senate […]
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, a Seventh-Day Adventist who Donald Trump once attacked as “pathological” and “low energy,” endorsed the Presbyterian-identifying billionaire business mogul on Friday morning. “I have found in talking with [Donald Trump] that … there is a lot more alignment philosophically and spiritually than I ever thought […]
JUPITER, Fla. — During a press conference on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump belittled a reporter who expressed concern about his use of profanity on the campaign trail, especially around children. NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Trump about a new television advertisement by the American Future Fund Political Action Committee that highlights the candidate’s repeated use […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Lawmakers in Florida have voted to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, as well as to place new requirements on abortion facilities that mirror those currently being challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court. House Bill 1411 reallocates funds that abortion providers had been receiving as Medicaid reimbursement, and prohibits the government from […]
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Republican, Southern Baptist-identifying governor of Georgia recently cited the Bible in denouncing a proposed bill to protect objectors to same-sex “marriage,” as he asserts that the move is not Christlike. In speaking to reporters following a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Atlanta on March 3, Gov. Nathan Deal said that he would reject […]