SALT LAKE CITY — A lawmaker in Utah has proposed a constitutional amendment that would protect churches in the state from being forced to perform same-sex ‘weddings.’ Republican Representative Jacob Anderegg told reporters this past week that he constructed the amendment in light of increasing court rulings that interpret the equal protection clause of 14th […]
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The president of a South Carolina-based atheist organization is auctioning off the chance for her to attend church with her daughter. Eve Brannon, the president of Upstate Atheists, posted the offer on Ebay this week in an auction entitled “Take an Atheist Leader to Church.” “We will listen to the sermon, and […]
CINCINNATI – Well-known apologist Ken Ham and outspoken evolutionist Bill Nye have agreed to a public creation-versus-evolution debate in early February. Nye was the popular host of the children’s TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, which was produced by Disney during the 1990s. An outspoken evolutionist, Nye was also featured in a YouTube video […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. — State lawmakers in South Carolina are renewing their push for a bill that would introduce a moment of silent prayer in public schools. H.B. 3526 was introduced last February in the House of Representatives, but stalled in the House Committee on Judiciary. It was sponsored by ten Representatives—mostly Democratic—including Wendell Gilliard, Robert […]
NEDERLAND, Co. — Mennonite Church USA has ordained its first openly homosexual pastor, reports state. According to Mennonite World Review, the Mountain States Conference, a division of the Mennonite Church USA, has approved the ministerial license of a Colorado woman who identifies as a lesbian. Theda Good, who is in a relationship with another woman, […]
FLOWER MOUND, Texas — The mayor of a small Texas town has declared 2014 ‘The Year of the Bible.’ Mayor Tom Hayden of Flower Mound made the announcement last month at a city council meeting, explaining that he wants to encourage residents to read the entire Bible through in a year. “There’s so much benevolence […]
HOUSTON – Several Houston bus drivers were recently reprimanded for using their school district’s radio system to pray. According to reports, several Houston Independent School District (HISD) bus drivers utilized a dormant channel on the district’s radio system to offer morning prayers during late December. Deborah McDonald, one of the praying bus drivers, said they […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — The mother of a teenage girl who was declared brain dead following a tonsillectomy and other throat and nasal procedures is claiming that hospital officials are starving her daughter and are being insensitive in referring to her only as “the body.” “I hate it that they refer to her as just ‘the body’ […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s attorney general has filed an emergency request with the United States Supreme Court, asking that it halt a lower court ruling legalizing same-sex ‘marriage’ in the state. The court’s decision is “an affront … to the interests of the state and its citizens in being able to define marriage through […]
JANESVILLE, Wisc. — Two churches in Wisconsin have sponsored a billboard that serves as a counter to an atheist message that was posted at the site last month. As previously reported, Wayne Hensler, who is in his mid-eighties, purchased ad space on a highway in Janesville in November, presenting a message that bears the declaration, […]