KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A prominent newspaper for Roman Catholics led by independent laymen has named two of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court’s “gay marriage” case that was ruled upon in 2015 as being among their “persons of the year.” “For their historic roles as plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges and for their […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon who paid over $135,000 in state-ordered “emotional damages” for two lesbian women who filed a complaint after being told that the couple could not provide a cake for their “wedding” ceremony say that the state emptied all three of their personal banking accounts earlier this month—including money […]
GRANDVILLE, Mich. — A professing atheist in Michigan delivered a secular invocation during his city’s public meeting this week. Steven Belstra presented what read more like a speech or exhortation to the Grandville City Council on Monday. “I request from the council and our community that we don’t turn towards faith or religion to guide government […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon have paid over $135,000 in state-ordered “emotional damages” for two lesbian women who filed a complaint after being told that the couple could not provide a cake for their “wedding” ceremony due to their convictions not to be a partaker in other’s sins. (1 […]
WASHINGTON – A newly-released report by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America shows that the organization performed nearly 324,000 abortions in 2014—the latest figures on record, with business dropping by almost a million women from the year before. The abortion giant releases the report each year to tout its achievements, which include services largely centering around […]
BLADENSBURG, Md. — A humanist group in Washington, D.C. has filed an appeal of a recent ruling declaring a veterans memorial in the shape of a cross to be constitutional. As previously reported, the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial, also known as the “peace cross,” was erected in 1925 by the American Legion to […]
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas mother says that she intends to continue to fight to have a state law repealed that allows hospitals to stop providing life-sustaining treatment to patients after her son passed away last week just days before doctors planned to pull the plug. As previously reported, Christopher Dunn, 46, had been in Houston […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Officials in Texas have decided to strip the abortion giant Planned Parenthood of nearly $600,000 that the group had been receiving for its HIV prevention and testing program. “We have the discretion to extend the contract and elected not to,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen told reporters. “The […]
NEW YORK — The New York City Commission on Human Rights has announced new guidelines under the city’s Human Rights Law that may impose fines on employers who use masculine pronouns for male workers who wish to identify as women and vice versa. The Commission released its interpretive guide to the law on Monday, which includes a […]
HAWKINS, Texas — Officials in a Texas city have voted to sue a local church over land that it purchased to help protect a “Jesus” sign from being removed following a complaint from a prominent professing atheist organization. As previously reported, the situation centers around a sign in Hawkins, Texas that reads, “Jesus welcomes you […]