(ABC News) — Howard Burack always knew he was adopted. “I grew up in a nice, upper-middle-class family in a nice, suburban area north of New York City, in Rockland County, and normal childhood, normal whatever, great parents,” said Burack, who was born in 1963. He told ABC News’ “20/20” that his parents adopted him […]
LONDON — The parents of an infant boy in the U.K. are mourning the loss of their son after he died at the end of a harrowing legal battle on Wednesday. Isaiah Haastrup’s life support was removed Wednesday afternoon after an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights was denied. The 12-month-old breathed on […]
A Chinese boy who was featured in a documentary last year about children in China who live in medical orphanages has now been adopted and lives with his forever family in Singapore. As previously reported, Wu Keyuan, now 8, was born without external ears and ear canals and had been abandoned outside an orphanage just a few days […]
WILMINGTON, Ohio — An Ohio high school wrestling coach is under investigation after he allegedly informed his boys’ wrestling team that one of its members who identifies as a boy is really a girl, and for requiring that she use the girls’ locker room. The mother of Aubry Pogue-Krabacher, who now goes by the name […]
DETROIT, Mich. — Wayne State University has reversed its decision to derecognize InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as a student group because of its requirement that its leaders be Christian. The reversal comes just two days after InterVarsity sued the school over the revocation of its status, even though the discussion about the matter has been ongoing […]
In a recent interview with the website Vulture, actor and singer Ricky Martin said that he wants to “normalize” same-sex and open relationships, remarking that he believes that it is “good for the world.” Martin was talking about his role in the sensual and sin-saturated FX television series “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni […]
HIBBING, Minn. — Officials at a Minnesota courthouse have removed a plaque featuring the Ten Commandments as the result of a letter submitted by one of the most conspicuous atheist activist organizations, which claimed that the display violated the U.S. Constitution. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently submitted a complaint to the administrator of […]
(Newsweek) — A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 “actively gay” priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples. The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ “hypocrisy” any longer. “The aim is […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — During his “The Time for Justice” rallies over the weekend, a pastor who is running for the governor’s office in Oklahoma declared that he is the only gubernatorial candidate who will abolish abortion in the state. “All of the men running for Republican governor—you name them, Mick Cornett, the mayor of this city; […]
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The board overseeing a condominium building in Florida has adopted a resolution that prohibits religious gatherings from being held in the commons areas. A sign has now also been placed on a piano prohibiting residents from playing Christian music. According to reports, the board of Cambridge House, managed by Gateway Group, recently passed […]