WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Christian institutions have filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to challenge a requirement surrounding what has been dubbed as the Obamacare abortion pill mandate. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented the popular craft chain Hobby Lobby before the high court last year, filed the […]
WASHINGTON — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) told reporters on Thursday that the department thwarted a number of ISIS-inspired terror plots likely scheduled for July 4 from “coast to coast.” “I do believe our work disrupted efforts to kill people, likely in connection with July 4,” James Comey stated as he […]
GRESHAM, Ore. — The owners of a Christian bakery in Oregon who were ordered to pay $135,000 in damages to two lesbians who claimed that they suffered emotionally after they were told that the bakery could not make a cake for their ceremony will be seeking a stay of the order as they plan to […]
TOLEDO, Ohio — An Ohio judge who also serves as an elder in his local congregation has refused to marry two lesbians this week based on his “personal and Christian beliefs” about marriage. Toledo Municipal Judge C. Allen McConnell, an elder at First Church of God in Columbus, declined to officiate for Carolyn Wilson and […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — The governor of Oklahoma is standing her ground and refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument following a ruling by the state Supreme Court declaring that the display must go because it infringed the state Constitution. Gov. Mary Fallin announced on Tuesday that the monument will stay in place while the state […]
Former President Jimmy Carter, a professing Christian who teaches Sunday School at a Baptist Church in Georgia, asserted this week that Jesus would approve of same-sex “marriage,” and really, “any love affair.” “I believe Jesus would. I don’t have any verse in Scripture,” he told the Huffington Post on Tuesday. “I believe Jesus would approve […]
GLENCOE, Ala. — A Christian flag has been removed from its position outside of an Alabama police department after a prominent atheist activist organization sent a letter to the city, demanding that it come down. Glencoe officials have confirmed that the Christian flag—a white and blue flag with a red cross first created in 1897 […]
WASHINGTON — A prominent church-state separation group led by an ordained United Church of Christ minister has launched a national effort to fight religious freedom laws that seek to provide conscience protections for people of faith. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) announced its “Protect Thy Neighbor” campaign on Tuesday to combat […]
HOUSTON, Texas — A “church” in liberal Houston, Texas hosted a mass “gay wedding” on Sunday following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling declaring that all 50 states must legalize same-sex “marriage.” The event took place at Resurrection Community Church and was officiated by three ministers, including leader Troy Treash. “I’m happy to be a pastor […]
PASADENA, Md. — A Maryland mother is behind bars after a local pastor found an abandoned baby on the side of the road on Independence Day. Raymond Showell of Gethsemane Church of God told the Capital Gazette on Sunday that he and his wife were traveling home from church late Saturday night, not long before […]