Bismarck, North Dakota — Senators in North Dakota passed three pro-life measures today in an effort to ban abortion in the state. Among the bills being considered was an initiative to place the personhood of the unborn on the 2014 ballot. Senate Bill 4009 declares that “the inalienable right to life of every human being […]
Summerville, South Carolina — Under threat of a lawsuit, a humanist group is demanding that a local chapter of the YMCA provide booth space during their upcoming spring festival, despite its assertions that it is a Christian organization. Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry recently decided to apply to participate in the YMCA Flowerton Festival in Summerville, […]
Newtown, Connecticut — A Lutheran minister that appeared at an interfaith prayer vigil last December in memory of those who lost their lives during the Newtown massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School has issued an apology for his participation. Pastor Rob Morris of Christ the King Lutheran Church recently issued a letter explaining his regrets […]
Dallas, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America, which was to announce today whether or not it would lift the organization’s ban on openly homosexual members and leaders, has decided to postpone making a decision until May. The headquarters of the Boy Scouts stated that one of the reasons for the postponement was the great […]
A number of Hollywood celebrities have been making headlines recently about their professed Christian faith, which some say is antithetical to the lives that they lead before the public. In the February issue of Esquire Magazine, actress Megan Fox, known for her role in the film Tranformers and her seductive and sexualized photo shoots, talked about […]
A recent article published by New York Magazine discussed the insurgency of feminism in Christian culture, most notably the term “Jesus feminism.” Writer Alissa Quart interviewed self-proclaimed feminist Sarah Bessey for her article, a 34-year-old mother of three who is set to release her book Jesus Feminist: Life on the Other Side of Our Church’s […]
Hartford, Connecticut — A national homeschooling organization is sounding the alarm against a bill proposed in the Connecticut legislature which would require both public school and homeschooled children to undergo a behavioral health assessment at various stages of child development. Bill 374, proposed in the General Assembly by sponsors Senator Toni Harp and Representative Toni […]
Washington, D.C. — Reports indicate that the United States Supreme Court has received over two dozen briefs from legal organizations nationwide expressing their support for Biblical marriage. As the court is gearing up to hear oral argument next month in the monumental cases regarding California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), attorneys […]
Denver, Colorado — A mother in Colorado whose unborn nine-month-old son died in utero when a drunk driver slammed into her car is seeking to place an initiative on the 2014 state ballot that would recognize unborn children as persons under the law. Currently, the state of Colorado, like 22 other states in the nation, […]
In an interview with CBS, which aired last night during the Super Bowl, Barack Obama expressed his support for the removal of the ban on homosexuals serving in the Boy Scouts of America. When anchor Scott Pelley asked Obama if the Scouts should allow open homosexuals, he simply replied, “Yes.” “My attitude is … that […]