ALBANY, N.Y. (USA Today) — A town clerk’s decision to reject a marriage license for a same-sex couple prompted New York’s governor to call for an investigation. Dylan Toften of Root, N.Y., wrote Monday on Facebook that Root Town Clerk Laurel “Sherrie” Eriksen would not issue a marriage license to him and his fiancé when they applied […]
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The pro-homosexual Greater Purpose Community Church in California says that it has sold its former building and plans to open a public brewery in the now-closed Logos Bookstore in Santa Cruz. The brewery, which will also be used as meeting space for Sunday services, will donate part of the proceeds to Planned Parenthood, […]
CLEVELAND (Associated Press) — An attorney for the mothers of three transgender teens in Ohio said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that a county judge has shown a disturbing pattern and practice of not allowing transgender children to legally change their names, refusals that can prove harmful and violates their constitutional right to equal […]
DUBLIN — A barbershop in Ireland has been fined 5,000 Euro after an employee declined to cut the hair of a woman who identifies as a man, as he noted that the business has a lease agreement to only cut men’s hair. According to reports, the woman, who goes by the name Lee McLoughlin, arrived […]
TOOWOOMBA, Queensland — A physician in Australia is reportedly under investigation by the Medical Board of Australia for retweeting two posts by a political candidate opposed to “radical gender indoctrination” and “gender fluidity.” David van Gend, a general practitioner in Toowoomba, had shared a post from Conservative Party candidate Lyle Shelton, as Shelton tweeted a […]
VAN BUREN, Ark. — An Arkansas man who destroyed a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the state capitol building in June 2017 says that he heard something inside impress on him, “Destroy it tonight.” Local television station KARK recently sat down with Michael Tate Reed II after he was released from the state […]
HURST, Texas — A woman in Texas is facing an attempted capital murder charge for allegedly giving birth at her place of employment and then placing her newborn son in a garbage bag and leaving him in the dumpster. Alyssa Baker, 28, is accused of leaving her baby for dead on the morning of June […]
PARKERSBURG, W. Va. — One of the nation’s most conspicuous Church-State separation groups has filed a lawsuit against a city in West Virginia in an effort to stop city council members from opening public meetings with the Lord’s Prayer. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), along with two local atheist members of the organization, […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sexually-centered abortion and contraception giant Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the State of South Carolina for ending Medicaid funding to entities that provide abortions. “The executive order has forced PPSAT (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic) to stop providing basic preventative health services to the Medicaid patients who rely on us […]
DETROIT, Mich. — After the case was remanded by the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Midland-area woman has a valid Consumer Protection Act claim against Planet Fitness in that representatives failed to inform her before she signed up for membership that the company has an “unwritten policy” allowing […]