OWASSO, Okla. — Following receipt of a demand letter from a prominent atheist activist organization, an Oklahoma school district has advised that it has barred its baseball coaches—and any other district employee—from leading student prayers at school events. As previously reported, the Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to Owasso Public […]
LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. — A Christian legal group is demanding an apology after a fifth grade teacher in Florida recently banned a Christian student from reading his Bible during the class free reading period. Giovanni Rubeo, who attends Park Lakes Elementary School in Lauderdale Lakes, says that he was recently reading his Bible during the […]
WASHINGTON — In a divided 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld prayers at government meetings that are presented predominantly in Jesus’ name, while simultaneously warning against patterns of invocations that “denigrate nonbelievers or religious minorities, threaten damnation or preach conversion.’ As previously reported, the court accepted the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway in […]
MASSACHUSETTS – Three women in Massachusetts claim they are the world’s first lesbian ‘throuple,’ after they all exchanged wedding vows and ‘married’ each other last year. Brynn, Doll, and Kitten are three women who range in age from 27 to 34. Last August, they organized a wedding-style ceremony, in which they entered into a threesome […]
STOCKTON, Calif. — A hospital in California is standing by its refusal to allow the use of the phrase ‘God bless America’ in email signatures, issuing a new policy that requires all employees to utilize a standardized signature block without exception. As previously reported, Dameron Hospital employee Boots Hawks was called into his supervisor’s office last […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A New York-based Satanist group has released photographs of its sculpted ‘homage to Satan,’ which it seeks to place next to a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol building. As previously reported, the Satanic Temple issued a news release about its intentions last December, outlining that the […]
RAQQA — Islamic militants in the Syrian city of Raqqa carried out two mock crucifixions in the public square this past week, hanging two men accused of fighting Muslims, reports state. A group called the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) is said to be behind the crucifixions, which occurred on Tuesday. In total, […]
CHICAGO — An Illinois teenager is facing first-degree murder charges after she allegedly suffocated her newborn son out of fear that her boyfriend would leave her because the child resembled her ex. Ana Rosa Mora, 18, of Chicago is accused of placing her baby in a plastic Walmart bag following birth on April 19th and […]
WASHINGTON — Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and Family Talk Radio, expressed his defiance of the Obamacare abortion pill mandate on Thursday, stating that the president would have to “come and get [him]” as he would not “yield to [Obama’s] wicked regulations.” Dobson, 78, made his remarks during his speech […]
(CNN) — A new law that went into effect in Kenya this week makes it legal for a man to marry as many women as he wants. And a leading women’s group is applauding it. President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the polygamy measure into law Tuesday, formally recognizing what has long been a cultural practice in […]