MOREHEAD, Ky. (Lexington Herald-Leader) — Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk made famous by her refusal to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, lost Tuesday in her reelection bid for the Rowan County clerkship. Davis, a Republican, lost to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr. by about 700 votes. Her loss marks at least a temporary end […]
DENVER, Co. — Voters in Colorado have elected the nation’s first openly homosexual governor, choosing Democrat Jared Polis 52 percent over Republican challenger Walker Stapleton, who obtained 45 percent of the vote. Jared Polis, who raises two children with his partner, Marlon Reis, has been serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009. He […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Voters in Alabama have approved an amendment that would explicitly enshrine in the state Constitution the right to display the Ten Commandments on government property, if desired. 71 percent of voters approved Amendment 1 on Tuesday, which also applies to public schools. “Amendment 1 does two things,” a summary of the amendment […]
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — An Ohio professor who was placed under investigation for declining to address a male student who identifies as female with feminine pronouns has filed suit, stating that he should not be forced to violate his Christian convictions. Dr. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, says that for many years, […]
As has been the custom for the past 50 years, Roman Catholics worldwide who pray at a cemetery between Nov. 1-8—and follow other requirements—are being offered a plenary indulgence to free their loved one from Purgatory and send their soul to Heaven. The practice has been said to be unbiblical for a number of reasons. […]
FORT DODGE, Iowa (Associated Press) — A Roman Catholic diocese acknowledged Wednesday that it concealed for decades a priest’s admission that he sexually abused dozens of Iowa boys—a silence that may have put other children in danger. Jerome Coyle, now 85, was stripped of his parish assignments in the 1980s, but never defrocked. And it […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida teen has been charged with murder after strangling his mother to death following an argument over a bad grade and then burying her under a fire pit at a local church. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced on Saturday that Gregory Ramos, 15, provided a full confession to authorities. “Gregory […]
(The Guardian) — The U.S. has warned its citizens in Tanzania to be cautious after the commercial capital Dar es Salaam announced a crackdown on homosexuality, a criminal offense in the country. In an alert on its website late on Saturday, the U.S. embassy in Tanzania advised Americans to review their social media profiles and […]
(The Christian Institute) — A mother who was advised by doctors to have an abortion has spoken of how glad she is that she did not go through with it. When Demi Goodman found out she was expecting a baby in late 2016, she was thrilled, but at a 20-week scan she was told that […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Christian women’s shelter in Alaska has filed suit as the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission has not dismissed its investigation into the facility after a man who identifies as a woman filed a complaint because he was not accepted for admittance to the shelter. According to the lawsuit, the Hope Center is […]