CARSON CITY, Nev. — Voters in the state of Nevada will decide this November whether or not to retain language in the state Constitution that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. The ballot question will read: “Shall the Nevada Constitution be amended to: (1) remove an existing provision recognizing marriage as […]
PARIS — France’s highest court has ruled that a man who identifies as a woman cannot be listed as “mother” on his six-year-old daughter’s birth certificate. According to reports, the man, who began identifying as a woman in 2011 and changed his name to Claire, conceived with his wife in 2014. Following the birth of […]
WASHINGTON — Five U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would prohibit biological males who identify as female from competing in girls’ school sports. Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, Mike Lee of Utah, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Tom Cotton of Arkansas presented the “Protection of Women and Girls in […]
MOSCOW, Idaho — A religious gathering at City Hall in Moscow, Idaho resulted in several arrests after some of those gathered were taken into custody for not complying with police directives after defying COVID-related restrictions, including not wearing masks — a mandate that was extended to Jan. 5 by city council. According to the Moscow-Pullman […]
(Palm Springs Desert Sun) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday that calls for a ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and other passenger vehicles in the state by 2035. The move was among a number of actions the Democratic governor announced to slash the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and […]
ALAMO, Tenn. — A school district in Tennessee has deleted a post encouraging residents to park at schools, administration buildings and bus lots and pray for officials and students alike after receiving a letter from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The atheist-led self-described Church-State separation group wrote to the Alamo City School District […]
(Fox News) — The official website of Black Lives Matter (BLM) has dropped a page that included its controversial belief in “disrupt[ing]” the “nuclear family structure.” RedState reported on Monday that the organization “quietly deleted” its “What We Believe” page, which laid out a list of its objectives. One of those objectives, which many critics of BLM highlighted, […]
(Evangelical Focus) — Over 3,000 people participated in the German “March for Life” that took place in Berlin this Saturday, Sept. 19. … The organizers presented several demands for “more protection of life.” They called for “an end to euthanasia and assisted suicide”; the end of surrogacy, because “women are not birthing machines and children […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Mennonite community in Greene County, Indiana is grieving after a mother of four was killed by robbers on Thursday as her husband was fixing issues with their work trailer. Jonathan and Wilma Hochstetler ran J&W Commercial Roofing in Bloomfield. While Jonathan was on a job site on Wednesday evening, a tire […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has released updated guidelines reinforcing religious liberty protections for those who serve in the nation’s Armed Forces. “Pursuant to the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, service members have the right to observe the tenets of their religion or to observe no religion […]