WASHINGTON — A prominent Christian legal organization has requested that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hand over documents surrounding its recent settlement with an atheist activist organization surrounding the investigation of churches that engage in “electioneering.” As previously reported, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, sued the IRS in 2012, asserting that […]
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s constitutional court has nullified a recently enacted law banning homosexual acts due to a technicality. A panel of five judges ruled that the parliament had passed the bill without the necessary number of lawmakers present, rendering it null and void. “The speaker violated the parliamentary rules of procedure by allowing the bill to […]
JERUSALEM — A wedding site inside a kibbutz for Messianic Jews remains closed after an Israeli appeals court upheld a lower court’s order that the Christian owners at the facility must host same-sex ceremonies despite their biblical beliefs. The owners of Yad Hashmona, a kibbutz or moshav near Jerusalem, believe that their wedding hall was forced into […]
EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University, a public institution in Illinois, has announced that it will offer ‘gender open’ restrooms to its students beginning this fall in order to be more accommodating to ‘transgender’ students. An announcement on the university’s website notes that the restrooms will be in the Norris University Center near the student organization offices […]
BOSTON — The governor of Massachusetts has signed a new abortion buffer zone bill into law in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling that declared such free speech-free zones as being unconstitutional. As previously reported, last month, the high court unanimously ruled against a Massachusetts law that restricted free speech in areas within 35 […]
RALEIGH, NC — The attorney general of North Carolina has announced that he has ended his fight to defend the state’s constitutional marriage amendment, which enshrines marriage as being solely between a man and a woman. As previously reported, in April, the Cleveland, Ohio-based United Church of Christ (UCC), which is outside of biblical orthodoxy […]
NEW YORK — A prominent Satanist organization is using the recent Supreme Court decision in favor of the popular craft chain Hobby Lobby to ‘bolster’ an initiative that it has concocted to seek an exemption from pro-life laws that they say violate their religious beliefs. As previously reported, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a […]
LONDON — A Dutch professor who once expressed his support for legalized euthanasia is now warning others that it can lead to a ‘slippery slope’ of a surge in deaths for practically any reason. “I used to be a supporter of the Dutch law,” stated Professor Theo Boer of the University of Utrecht in a […]
MIAMI — A recent rally in Florida that was meant to show solidarity in urging an end to the war in Gaza became filled with Islamic chants in support of Hamas, Allah and Muslim jihad, reports state. “Stop the bombing—Stop the killing—Free Palestine,” read a flyer announcing the demonstration, which was held on July 20th […]
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court has struck down a Mississippi law that would have closed the last remaining abortion facility in the state. As previously reported, in 2012, Mississippi legislators enacted a law requiring abortionists to have board certification and obtain hospital admitting privileges. The latter requirement, which allows abortionists to send injured women […]
