BARTOW, Fl. — Residents in a small city in Florida are outraged after municipal officials asked them to remove ‘God bless America’ signs from their yard due to a city ordinance governing temporary signs. The signs, approximately 300 in all, were distributed this past Fourth of July by First Baptist Church of Bartow, and many […]
VERO BEACH, Fl. — A lesbian teenager has plead guilty to five criminal counts pertaining to sexual relations with a minor and will spend the next four months behind bars as part of a plea deal between her attorney and prosecutors, reports state. As previously reported, Kaitlyn Hunt, 19, was arrested on criminal charges in […]
HALTOM CITY, Tex. — A Democratic senator in Texas that made headlines earlier this year for her attempts to block a pro-life bill from being passed by state lawmakers has announced her candidacy for governor. Senator Wendy Davis of Fort Worth made the announcement on Thursday at Wiley G. Thomas Coliseum in Haltom City where she […]
NEW YORK — Two lesbians who live in an apartment in New York City have filed a lawsuit against their landlord for refusing to recognize their relationship as a marriage. Dava Weinstein, 68, and Doroty Calvani, 64, have lived together for 36 years. In 2011, the two traveled to Iowa to “wed,” just months before […]
CHICAGO — A restaurant is Chicago is at the center of controversy surrounding its burger special for the month of October, which features a communion-themed hamburger as a “tribute to the supreme blasphemous activities” of a Swedish heavy metal band. Kuma’s Corner in Chicago’s north side regularly names its monthly specials after heavy metal bands. […]
PHOENIX — A federal judge in Arizona has tossed out a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on race and gender-based abortions, which was filed due to an assertion that the law encourages racial profiling and stereotyping. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona had filed the legal challenge earlier this year on behalf of […]
BELGIUM — A Belgian woman died by lethal injection this week after she requested to be euthanized following a sex-change operation. Nancy Verhelst, 44, known in recent years as Nathan, cited “unbearable psychological suffering” as the reason for her death wish. She had received hormone therapy in 2009, as well as a mastectomy and other surgeries, […]
BIRMINGHAM, England — The chief executive of Britain’s largest abortion organisation is asserting that women in the country are legally free to abort a baby based on gender. Anne Furedi, head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), states that women the law allows women to terminate their pregnancies if they are unhappy with the […]
In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, megachurch speaker and author Joel Osteen advised that he believes God accepts homosexuals, and that he doesn’t want to “tell everybody what they’re doing wrong.” Osteen sat down this week with host Josh Zepps to promote his new book Break Out: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers […]
BUFFALO — A magistrate judge has recommended that a lawsuit filed by a Christian legal organization against SUNY Buffalo officials be permitted to proceed, and that the university’s motion to dismiss the suit be denied. The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) had filed a federal legal challenge against the university following an incident in April […]