A popular arts and crafts store filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration Wednesday, challenging the mandate under Obamacare that all employers provide insurance coverage for abortifacients such as the morning-after pill to their staff members. Hobby Lobby, which was founded in 1972 by evangelical Christians, is asking a court in Oklahoma to grant […]
A non-denominational church in Utah has filed a federal lawsuit challenging an ordinance in Brigham City that restricts speech to designated “free speech zones.” Main Street Church, which has been active in the community since the 1960’s, says that it sought to distribute Gospel literature specific to its concerns about Mormonism outside of a newly-constructed […]
A jury trial has been set for a former Eastern Michigan University student who was expelled after refusing to attend homosexual sensitivity training when she declined to counsel a fellow student that was a homosexual. According to reports, Julea Ward, a high school teacher, was enrolled in the university’s counseling program in 2009 and was […]
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed in an attack on the Benghazi consulate and a safe house refuge, stormed by Islamist gunmen blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Muhammad. Gunmen had attacked and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the eastern […]
Health care grabbed the spotlight Sunday with less than two months until Election Day in the deadlocked race. Mitt Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama focused attention in all-important Florida on the Republican ticket’s stand on Medicare, an […]
The Obama campaign swung back at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday in response to remarks from the contender that if he were elected, he would not remove the mention of God from American currency. “The president believes as much that God should be taken off a coin as he does that aliens will attack […]
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the state to foot the bill for the sex-change operation of an inmate convicted of murder. Robert Kosilek has been serving a life sentence since the early 1990’s after being convicted of murdering his wife Cheryl. While in incarceration in an all-male prison, Kosilek decided to become a […]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to woo voters in the state of Virginia yesterday by slamming the Democratic party for removing the mention of God from their platform and claiming that he would never make such an omission, while being careful not to use any language that referenced the god of Mormons. “I will […]
Now that the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are over, some are discussing the contrast of the conventions in regard to the ability to engage in free speech. At the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, demonstrators and others state that they were kept inside of a wire pen, which was classified as the approved […]
The Iranian man who made news headlines around the world for facing the death penalty on charges of apostasy against Islam has been acquitted and released. According to confirmed reports, Youcef Nadarkhani appeared before an Iranian court on Saturday, where the apostasy charges were officially dropped. However, he was found guilty of trying to convert […]