OLYMPIA, Wash. — Lawmakers in Washington State have passed a bill that requires insurance companies to cover abortion and contraception. The Senate passed S.B. 6219, also known as the Reproductive Parity Act, on Saturday 27-22 after approving changes made by the House. It now moves to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, who is expected to sign […]
In a video posted to YouTube on the day of Billy Graham’s death, talk show host Glenn Beck emotionally recollected to Ruth Graham, the daughter of Billy Graham, a time that he said Graham defended him—knowing that he was a Mormon—as being a Christian. The video was of a 2014 interview in which the two […]
BLADENSBURG, Md. — A ruling declaring a veterans cross memorial in Maryland to be unconstitutional will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear the case en banc on Thursday. The vote to deny the request was 8-6. “Our holding that the State’s ongoing ownership and maintenance of […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii — Two Hawaii House committees have advanced a controversial bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state. The Health and Human Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee approved H.B. 2739, also known as the “Our Care, Our Choice” bill, on Wednesday. The votes were 4-1 and 7-1 respectively. The measure allows for […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Senate has advanced a bill that would place on the November ballot an initiative that would amend the state Constitution to expressly allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public buildings and schools. S.B. 181 was approved by an overwhelming vote of 23-3 on Tuesday, and now moves to […]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Satanic Temple of Arizona has filed a lawsuit against the City of Scottsdale for ultimately turning down its request to present an invocation at a city council meeting in 2016. The group, which is non-theistic and doesn’t actually believe in a literal Satan, but only views the fallen angel as a […]
STARKVILLE, Miss. — A homosexual advocacy group that wanted to hold a “gay pride” parade in the streets of Starkville, Mississippi has filed a lawsuit against the City for voting to deny the event application. “[T]he only objections raised against Plaintiffs’ parade were anti-LGBT religious comments directed to the parade’s LGBT content and the pro-LGBT viewpoint that […]
CHARLOTTE, NC — Former president Bill Clinton paid his respects to Billy Graham on Tuesday, traveling to North Carolina for the public viewing of Graham’s casket at his Charlotte library. Graham, who had served as a counselor to a number of U.S. presidents, considered Clinton to be a Christian, and once characterized him—despite disagreement with his stances—as being […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — The president of the Universal Society of Hinduism opened the Iowa House and Senate with prayer to a false god on Monday. “We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky, and inside the soul of the heaven. May He stimulate and […]
EL PASO, Texas — A Texas teenager has been arrested and charged with capital murder after her newborn baby was found in a storage shed with multiple stab wounds. Erica Gomez, 17, of El Paso was taken into custody on Friday following an investigation into the death of her newborn daughter. According to reports, Gomez gave […]