The Navy is launching a “comprehensive visual inspection,” of its properties with a goal of eliminating pornographic materials, including lewd pin-up calendars or other salacious photos found in work spaces and public areas. According to a June 13 memo, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has ordered the Under Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations […]
BEIJING (AP) — China has announced that individuals and groups are banned from privately adopting abandoned infants, in a country where tens of thousands are abandoned each year and where baby trafficking has been a perennial problem. The Ministry of Civil Affairs announced Tuesday that people who find an abandoned child must immediately tell local […]
CAIRO (AP) — A hard-line Muslim cleric received an 11-year suspended sentence Sunday for tearing up and burning a Bible, Egypt’s official news agency said. Cairo’s Nasr City court sentenced Ahmed Abdullah and his son was given a suspended sentence of eight years over the same incident, the Middle East News Agency reported. The two […]
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the United States Justice Department to respond to a rehearing request filed by attorneys for a Christian homeschooling family that is seeking asylum in the states. As previously reported, the Sixth Circuit ruled against Uwe and Hannelore Romeike last month, opining that the requirement that their children […]
PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia says that it plans to cremate and bury the remains of the 47 babies that were seized by investigators during a raid on convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” in 2011. As previously reported, last month, Gosnell was convicted of over 200 criminal counts, including three counts of […]
Fresh findings in the field of genetics have directly challenged yet another key evolutionary hypothesis by showing that the differences between humans and apes cannot be easily accounted for under the theory of evolution. A recent 12-page journal article, written by three scientists in Spain and published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, details the results […]
ST. PETERSBURG – A mother has filed a petition against her 14-year-old son’s middle school after he was not allowed to wear makeup on his last day of classes. Chris Martin, an 8th grader at St. Petersburg’s Meadowlawn Middle School, decided to wear mascara, eye liner, eye shadow, and black lipstick to his school on […]
JOSHUA, Tex. — A valedictorian in Texas says that officials at his local school district violated the United States Constitution when they turned off his microphone because he deviated from his approved speech to talk about Jesus and the Constitution. Remington Reimer of Joshua High School told reporters that staff members reviewed and edited his […]
PHOENIX — An appeals court has rejected a lawsuit filed by a prominent atheist activist organization which sought to challenge the statewide Day of Prayer proclamations issued each year by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) of Madison, Wisconsin was unable to prove […]
BANGOR – On Wednesday, the Maine Supreme Court heard arguments for a case involving a student’s access to restrooms of the opposite sex. The case centers around Wyatt Maines, a 15-year-old identical twin boy who identifies himself as a girl. According to an interview with his parents conducted by the Bangor Daily News, Wyatt has […]