RALEIGH, N.C. — Over 30 judges in North Carolina have opted out of officiating “gay weddings” following the passage of a bill that allows magistrates to decline because of their religious convictions. According to reports, the state court system has received 32 notices from judges since the law took affect in June. The figure amounts […]
TROY, Ohio – A non-profit legal organization is urging an Ohio school district to reverse its recent decision to allow “transgender” students to use restrooms for the opposite sex. Late last month, a female student at Troy Junior High School, asked if she could use the school’s male restroom, claiming that she identified as a […]
MESA, Ariz. — A prominent church-state separation group is demanding that officials at an Arizona high school cease referencing Christianity in its government class under threat of a lawsuit. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), led by Barry Lynn, an attorney who is also ordained in the United Church of Christ, recently sent […]
AMHERST, N.Y. — Police in New York are investigating after a firebomb was thrown inside of a door at a non-denominational church on Saturday. The incident occurred early Saturday morning at approximately 5:30 a.m. as a yet unidentified suspect threw a Molotov cocktail threw a glass door at the Chapel at Crosspoint in Getzville. The […]
SALEM, Ore. — A county judge in Oregon who refuses to officiate same-sex “weddings” because of his religious identity—and who has now discontinued officiating nuptials of any kind—is under investigation by the State Ethics Board. Marion County Judge Vance Day is being investigated by the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness to determine whether or not he […]
NEWTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania professor says that he was fired for citing God in a farewell letter he wrote to students who had completed his class. Dwight Anderson recently lost his job as an adjunct professor of astronomy at Bucks County Community College, just outside of Philadelphia. He told reporters this week that the situation centered […]
MOREHEAD, Ky. — One of the deputy clerks under Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis issued “marriage” licences to homosexuals on Friday despite questions over whether the documents are even legal since Davis has refused to authorize any clerks to issue the licenses under her authority. Brian Mason handed out four licenses today, surrounded by reporters and […]
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee called upon Christians to stand with a Kentucky county clerk who has been jailed for refusing to be forced to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals in violation of God’s law against homosexuality. “Today, judicial lawlessness crossed into judicial tyranny. Today, for the first time ever, the […]
ASHLAND, Ky. — Following yesterday’s jailing of a county clerk for stating that it is not possible for her to obey an order to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals against God’s law, it is now being noted that the same federal judge also once ordered Kentucky students to be re-educated about homosexuality despite their objections. In 2003, […]
ASHLAND, Ky. — The Kentucky county clerk who was ordered to serve time behind bars until she agrees to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals has rejected a proposal to allow her deputy clerks perform the duty instead. Hours after she was taken into custody and transported to Carter County Jail, attorneys for Rowan County clerk […]