HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — A parent of a student at a middle school in California is expressing concern after a Seventh Grade teacher recently had the class sing about Islam. The unnamed teacher at Springview Middle School in Huntington Beach changed the lyrics to the popular secular tune “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten and made the […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A judge in California has ruled that the frozen embryos of a divorced couple must be “thawed and discarded,” after the wife said she wanted them but the husband did not. Dr. Mimi Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her marriage to Stephen Findley in 2010, and so the couple […]
PORT NECHES, Texas — Residents in a Texas city are pushing back after a prominent professing atheist group recently sent a letter demanding the removal of a cross monument from a public park. The cross at issue, a 10-foot cement monument, sits in Riverfront Park in Port Neches, and has done so for the past […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Arizon’s Grand Canyon University has announced that it has decided to grant employee benefits to homosexual staff while reiterating its belief that marriage can only be defined as the union of one man man and one woman. The university says that it made the change as federal and state governments “have recently changed […]
JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – A Swedish court has ruled against a woman who was denied employment by three medical facilities over her convictions not to assist with abortion procedures, declaring that facilities have a right to require midwives to perform abortions. In November 2013, Höglandssjukhuset women’s clinic rescinded a job offer to new midwifery graduate Ellinor Grimmark […]
CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Ohio House of Representatives has voted to advance a bill that defunds the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, reallocating over $1.3 million in funding to other health-related groups in the state that do not perform abortions. House Bill 294 was passed along party lines 62-30. The legislation was introduced by Representatives Bill Patmon and […]
(CNN) — Donald Trump on Monday suggested he would “strongly consider” shutting down mosques in the U.S. as part of the response to the terror attacks in Paris. “Well, I would hate to do it but it’s something you’re going to have to strongly consider,” Trump said during an interview on MSNBC. “Some of the absolute […]
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana pastor’s wife who died last week after being declared brain dead when she was shot in the head during a home invasion was pregnant with a girl, the church revealed this weekend. “During a home invasion on November 10, 2015, Amanda suffered a gunshot wound and was left critically injured,” […]
PARIS — The California-based band Eagles of Death Metal was playing their song “Kiss the Devil” at the moment that three terrorists stormed a Paris theater Friday and began opening fire, reports state. “Who’ll love the devil? Who’ll sing his song?” the song’s lyrics ask. “Who will kiss the devil on his tongue?” Photos of […]
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — A Kansas school district has decided to give representatives of Gideon International the boot after receiving a complaint from a prominent humanist organization. An attorney for Geary County Schools USD 475 in Junction City sent a letter to the American Humanist Association (AHA) on Friday to provide “assurance” that the district would no […]