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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Washington, D.C. — The Obama administration has filed two Supreme Court briefs in support of homosexual marriage, one challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and another seeking to overturn California’s Proposition 8. The first, which was filed one week ago today, asserted that DOMA violates the United States Constitution by denying federal benefits […]
Columbus, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday both for and against a former science teacher who was fired in 2011 for encouraging his students to challenge evolutionary theory. As previously reported, John Freshwater, a science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School, had approached school officials in 2003 to request that he be […]
Little Rock, Arkansas — Legislators in Arkansas have voted to override the governor’s veto of a late-term abortion ban that was recently passed by both houses. As previously reported, the bill, which was introduced by Republican Senator Andy Mayberry, sought to ban abortions at 20 weeks of gestation. It passed the House 80-10 last Friday […]