Frankfort, Kentucky — A Christian healthcare cost sharing company that was booted from the state of Kentucky last year after it was determined that it did not comport with Department of Insurance requirements may be making a comeback due to a bill approved Tuesday in the legislature. The bill, sponsored by Committee Chair Senator Tom Buford, […]
Washington, D.C. — Barack Obama recently nominated what could be the nation’s first openly homosexual federal circuit judge to the bench. Justice Department attorney Todd M. Hughes was announced as Obama’s pick on Thursday, along with Raymond T. Chen, a move that homosexual advocacy groups are applauding. The nomination marks the second of its kind, […]
Miami, Florida — A judge in Florida has ruled that a homosexual hairstylist who fathered a child via artificial insemination may be listed on the girl’s birth certificate, along with the two lesbian women that are raising her. The matter ends a two-year legal battle between the women and their friend, who they approached to […]
Farmington, Utah — A school district in Utah has agreed to settle with the American Civil Liberties Union and place a book promoting homosexuality back on the shelves of its elementary schools. The Davis School District was sued last year by the ACLU after a parent complained that the book In Our Mothers’ House had […]
Washington, D.C. — The executive director of Barack Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has decided to step down. Joshua DuBois, 30, had joined the office in February 2009 by the choosing of the president. He had previously served as Obama’s religious affairs director during his 2008 presidential campaign. DuBois is also a licensed […]
Trenton, New Jersey — An Assembly panel in New Jersey has approved a measure that would place the issue of assisted suicide on the state ballot. The 7-2 vote by the Health and Senior Services Committee means that the bill, entitled the Death With Dignity Act, will now pass on to the House and Senate. […]
New York, New York — An exclusive report by the New York Post finds that New York City area schools have been distributing thousands of morning after pills to students — a figure much under-reported by the City last year. As previously reported, last September, the New York City Department of Education announced that it had expanded […]
Gilbert, Arizona — A small church in Arizona has lost its federal appeal to strike down an ordinance that indirectly forces the church to display its signs announcing its Sunday services in the dark of night, while allowing other types of signs to remain displayed 24/7. Good News Community Church is pastored by Clyde Reed […]
Tulsa, Oklahoma — An Illinois man who plotted to bomb dozens of Oklahoma churches has now been charged in federal court. Reports state that 24-year-old Gregory Weiler II of Oak Village, Illinois was charged on Wednesday with one count of possessing an unregistered device of destruction. A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed during the […]
Washington, D.C. — The United States Army is being threatened with a lawsuit after a chaplain allegedly prayed to the Heavenly Father during an event at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, which offended an atheist soldier in attendance. The Huffington Post reports that Staff Sergeant Victoria Gettman is unpleased with the response that […]