The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a federal lawsuit last Wednesday against a Grand Prairie, Texas Burger King franchise for allegedly firing a Christian teenager who showed up for work in a skirt. Seventeen-year-old Ashanti McShan says that she had been looking for summer employment, and applied to work at Burger King as a […]
Thousands of women in cities across America and around the world will be going topless on the public streets today in observance of “Go Topless Day,” an offshoot of “Women’s Equality Day.” The event is organized by the organization Go Topless, which seeks the constitutional “right” for women to go bare-chested as part of a […]
A federal appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, which challenged officials in Dixie County, Florida for displaying a privately-owned monument of the Ten Commandments on the county courthouse steps. The commandments were said to have discouraged a man from buying land in the county due to his offense at their […]
ROME — Christians nationwide are expressing concerns following Wednesday’s Catholic observance of the Feast of the Queenship of Mary—one of a number of holidays on the liturgical calendar—and are emphasizing the need for evangelism. On the Roman Catholic holiday, Pope Benedict addressed a crowd of international followers at the courtyard of the Castel Gandalfo in […]
A Republican candidate for county sheriff in the state of New Hampshire is vowing to arrest anyone in his jurisdiction that is involved in abortion. Frank Szabo, who is seeking to unseat the current Hillsborough County sheriff, says that if he were elected to the position, he feels that he would have a duty to […]
A pro-life group is calling upon Republican nominee Mitt Romney to withdraw from the presidential race over his investment in a medical waste company that reportedly burns aborted babies, and for his recent remarks in support of aborting rape babies. Campaign to Stop Stericycle (CSS), a project of the Philadelphia-based evangelistic organization Repent America, issued […]
Talk radio has been abuzz in recent days with discussion about the legality of toplessness in cities across America, as well as the possibility that the issue may become the next emerging “civil rights” movement in the nation. Some are pointing to an incident that occurred earlier this month in Philadelphia as being one of […]
Cult leader Sun Myung Moon is fighting for his life, according to reports. Moon, 92, recently came down with a cold and pneumonia, which worsened. He now lies unconscious in the intensive care unit of a hospital in North Korea. As of Friday, his breathing had become more stable. Doctors have given him a 50-50 […]
The Kentucky Supreme Court has let stand a ruling from the state Court of Appeals upholding the state’s right to acknowledge God in Kentucky’s homeland security law. The organization American Atheists filed a lawsuit in 2008, claiming that the ordinance, written in part by Representative Tom Riner, a Baptist pastor in Louisville, violated the Constitution’s […]
CHICAGO — Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed a new tax into law that would collect money from strip clubs in the state in order to help raise funds for rape crisis centers. In signing the new “skin tax” bill, Quinn officially created the Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Fund. Beginning January 1, 2013, every […]