Geneva, Switzerland — An atheist organization is petitioning the United Nations to reject proposals from Muslim nations to enact international blasphemy laws. The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), which represents atheists in 45 countries around the world, recently sent a letter to the UN headquarters in an effort to draw attention to what they […]
Burlington, Vermont — A Mennonite pastor that was convicted of providing assistance to an ex-lesbian who fled the country with her daughter is set to be sentenced tomorrow in federal court. Ken Miller of Stuarts Draft, Virginia will appear before Burlington Judge William Sessions at 2:30 p.m. Monday as he faces up to three years in […]
San Francisco, California — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a federal district court in California must hear the case of two Wiccan women who contend that California’s lack of Wiccan chaplains in the prison system is unconstitutional. Caren Hill and Shawna Hartmann (the latter of which is no longer incarcerated) had […]
Richmond, Virginia — The Commonwealth of Virginia has sworn in its first openly homosexual judge, according to reports. A crowd of approximately 200 onlookers attended the ceremony for Tracy Thorne-Begland on Friday, including his two twin sons and his homosexual partner, Michael. Begland had faced opposition in the legislature the year prior when lawmakers struck […]
San Juan, Puerto Rico — Battles regarding the homosexual lifestyle continue to rage in Puerto Rico following an enormous march in San Juan where hundreds of thousands marched against a proposition to legalize homosexual marriage. “Traffic was snarled for miles leading toward the San Juan islet as buses packed with marchers headed toward the north […]
Kansas City, Missouri — As the popular craft chain Hobby Lobby continues to argue its case in the courts, a Missouri-based plumbing company was recently granted an injunction against Obamcare’s abortion pill mandate, marking another win for religious businesses in the nation. According to the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), twelve businesses have been […]
Riverside, California — A prominent Christian university in California has been sued by a former student who was expelled for concealing their birth gender. In 2011, Domaine Javier, 25, checked “Catholic” and “female” on California Baptist University’s enrollment application, and was later accepted as a nursing student. However, when Javier appeared later that year on […]
Chicago, Illinois — The Chicago Board of Education has approved a proposed policy that requires that sexual education begin in kindergarten. ABC News reports that the sex ed overhaul passed Wednesday night in what is known as the third largest public school system in the country. “It is important that we provide students of all […]
Manhattan, New York — A video that went viral on the web this week captures a number of college students in New York City playing a game in which they pretend to kill each other’s unborn baby. The video shows male students in the Hunter College cafeteria jousting at each other with plastic forks as […]
Effingham County, Georgia — A middle school baseball coach in Georgia recently resigned after a parent complained to the principal that he had a Bible verse citation embroidered on the team ball caps. Kyle Houston serves as the physical education teacher at Ebenezer Middle School in Rincon. He also was the coach for the school’s […]