BATON ROUGE, La. — Residents in Louisiana will vote next month on a ballot initiative that asks whether or not the state Constitution should be amended to include a sentence declaring that there is no “right to abortion” in the state. Amendment 1, also known as the No Right to Abortion in Constitution amendment, would […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU-TV) — A private Christian school in Umatilla County has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Kate Brown and other state and county officials challenging the governor’s order restricting in-person instruction in private, religious schools during the coronavirus pandemic. Attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom filed the lawsuit on behalf of Hermiston Christian School, a […]
NEW YORK — The National Football League (NFL) has been observing “LGBT History Month” throughout October, airing homosexual advocacy content on its NFL television network, publishing an op-ed on its Pride website and releasing a video PSA for “National Coming Out Day” in support of players who announce their inclination toward the sin of homosexuality. […]
Stevie Nicks of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, which became popular in the 1970s, says that she had an abortion in 1979 after becoming pregnant by her boyfriend, because if not, her career and the band would have ended. At 72, she seems to express no regrets for conversely ending the life of her […]
NEW YORK — The financial services corporation Mastercard has rolled out a so-called “True Name” feature that allows those who identify as transgender or “non-binary” to use their chosen name on their debit and credit cards in order to avoid being detected as such when making a purchase. “For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, the […]
(The Christian Institute) — The Dutch government will move ahead with plans to decriminalize euthanasia for children under the age of twelve. The scheme will allow doctors to euthanize children deemed to be in “unbearable and hopeless suffering.” Euthanasia was legalized in the Netherlands in 2002 and the law currently permits euthanasia for children over […]
(Yahoo News) — A history teacher who showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class was beheaded near his school in a Paris suburb on Friday by a suspected Islamist terrorist who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” police said. Alerted by local residents, police confronted and shot dead a man armed with a kitchen knife […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says that, if elected, he will make the “enactment of the Equality Act during his first 100 days as president a top legislative priority.” The controversial bill has been of concern to Christians as it is believed that it would preclude entities — including faith-based organizations and others who do […]
(Fox News) — Merriam-Webster dictionary changed its definition of “sexual preference” to include the word “offensive” as Democrats slammed Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett for using the term during Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearings. Prior to Tuesday, the fifth definition listed for “preference” referred to orientation, as in sexual preference. But as of Wednesday, […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal filed by attorneys for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which sought for the court to overturn an injunction against Gov. Henry McMaster’s order stripping abortion giant Planned Parenthood of state Medicaid funding. “Petition denied,” the court simply said […]