Cult leader Sun Myung Moon has died, according to confirmed reports. Moon, 92, recently came down with a cold and pneumonia, which worsened. He had been lying unconscious for over two weeks. Last week, Moon was transported to a rural hospital that he owned in Gapyeong County, an hour outside of the South Korean capital […]
The family of a 24-year-old Chicago woman who died in July along with her second trimester baby during an abortion procedure at Planned Parenthood has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the abortion giant. Dorsey Jones says that Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center, located at 18 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, was careless in properly […]
A group of nine men that attended the Southern Decadence Festival in New Orleans yesterday were arrested and jailed for violating a new city ordinance that prohibits religious and other free speech after sundown on the city’s famed Bourbon Street. The ordinance, which was passed in October 2011, is called “Aggressive Solicitation.” While it aims […]
An atheist delivered the invocation at Thursday night’s city council meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Instead of praying to God, Dan Nerren, a founder of the Humanist Association of Tulsa, “prayed” to those gathered. Some heads were bowed and some eyes were closed as Nerren offered a contemplative moment from his secular, humanist perpective. “I’ll be invoking […]
Nils Pickert’s 5-year-old son likes wearing dresses. If anyone thinks that’s odd, they can take it up with Nils. He’s the guy in the skirt. The German dad has become a role model not only for his son, but for parents around the world, after a photograph of the pair holding hands in red skirts […]
A Muslim organization is hosting events in Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend to coincide with the upcoming Democratic National Convention. The Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA) began by hosting a Jumah prayer service in Marshall Park yesterday afternoon. Jumah is another word for the high Islamic prayers that are regularly offered up on Fridays. While the […]
The National Atheist Party has announced that it has canceled its upcoming convention due to a lack of sufficient funds. The political organization states that it had planned to host its second annual rally in October of this year in Boston, Massachusetts, but the lack of ample donations threatened the financial stability of the party. […]
While many have been up in arms about Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage mandate, some are now just beginning to realize that the free coverage extends to sterilization for women — including female children. Sterilization is a procedure where any woman of childbearing age, usually as young as 12, can have surgery to permanently alter their reproductive […]
Despite the arrival of Hurricane Isaac, which has been pounding much of the Southeast this week, revelers at this year’s Southern Decadence Festival are moving forward with their public celebration of homosexuality. The festival, also known as the “Gay Mardi Gras,” officially began on Wednesday, and is expected to continue through Labor Day. Over 100,000 […]
Reports have been confirmed that tonight’s acceptance speech from Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a former Mormon bishop and stake president, will be preceded by prayer from a prominent Mormon leader. Deseret News, a Mormon-owned newspaper in Salt Lake City Utah, spoke with 71-year-old Kenneth Hutchins, former stake president in Massachusetts, who advised that he […]