AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to void a same-sex “marriage” license that was issued to two lesbian women last week as the state does not recognize the union of two women as a marriage. On Thursday, District Judge David Wahlberg ordered that Travis County clerk to issue a […]
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that it hear its case surrounding an admitting privileges law that could close the state’s last abortion facility. As previously reported, in 2012, Mississippi legislators enacted a law requiring abortionists to have board certification and obtain hospital admitting […]
WARREN, Mich. — City officials in Warren, Michigan have agreed to allow an atheist display near an existing “prayer station” in city hall, settling a lawsuit filed by several church-state separation groups over the matter. As previously reported, Warren resident and member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) Douglas Marshall submitted a request last year […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A recent sermon delivered by the pastor of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley reveals that Bentley’s recent decision to follow a federal court ruling striking down the state’s Sanctity of Marriage Act as being unconstitutional is at odds with his church’s teachings on obeying God rather than men. “Here’s what I said to our governor yesterday,” […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Lawmakers in Virginia have passed a bill named after football great Tim Tebow that may allow some homeschoolers to play sports with public school teams. HB 1626, also known as the Tim Tebow Act, was introduced by Del. Rob Bell (R-Albemarle County) would provide school districts the freedom to decide whether or not they not […]
(The Christian Institute) — A Scripture Union book designed to help with the move to secondary school has been banned at a Scottish school after humanists complained it could “distress” pupils. Robert Douglas Memorial School in Scone, Perthshire, decided to stop handing out the book to primary school leavers after a complaint from one humanist […]
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Officials with the Mall of America are taking extra security precautions after a video released by an Islamist terror group considered to be an affiliate of al Qaeda released a video calling for attacks on malls in the Western world. Al-Shabaab released the video online on Saturday, citing three specific malls in […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The governor of Alabama, who formerly served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher at the Baptist church where he remains a member, says that he will obey the recent federal court ruling striking down the state’s Sanctity of Marriage Act as being unconstitutional. Gov. Robert Bentley told Politico on Friday while […]
RAVENSWOOD, W.V. — The family of a late school teacher has removed several crosses from a memorial erected in her honor at a local middle school after a prominent atheist activist organization asserted that their presence was unconstitutional. Joanne Christy worked as a teacher at Ravenswood Middle School for two decades until she died in a car accident […]
SEATTLE — The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against a hospital in Washington in an effort to force the facility to perform abortions on-site. The suit claims that Skagit Regional Health is not following state’s Reproductive Privacy Act, which requires medical facilities that provide maternity care to likewise offer abortion services. […]