A renowned Christian apologist is responding to a recent article in the Washington Post that promotes the concept of gender neutrality, that is, identifying neither as male or female. The article, entitled “When No Gender Fits: A Quest to Be Seen as Just a Person,” tells the story of a 18-year-old woman named Kelsey from […]
DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — A prominent atheist activist organization and a nationally-recognized humanist group are demanding that a Georgia school district remove two Scripture verses from a sculpture that sits outside of the field house of a local high school. The Madison,Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) and the Washington, D.C.-based American Humanist Association (AHA) recently […]
Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said that they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. “Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult […]
CONCORD, N.H. — A Republican Senatorial candidate from New Hampshire has rejected his party’s recent adoption of a pro-life platform that expressed the personhood and subsequent right to life of unborn children, and is instead declaring his support for “a woman’s right to choose.” Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who now resides in New Hampshire, […]
LAKE, Ohio — A Mennonite congregation in Ohio has voted to leave the Mennonite Church USA in part due to concerns over what it believes is a lack of discipline against those who engage in homosexual behavior. “We felt that Mennonite Church USA and [our church] were going in different directions concerning scriptural authority and holiness,” Ross […]
MOORE, Okla. — An Oklahoma man who recently converted to Islam beheaded his former co-worker and stabbed another Thursday night before being shot by a company executive. According to a spokesman for the Moore, Oklahoma Police Department, Alton Nolen, 30, “recently started trying to convert some of his co-workers to the Muslim religion” when he was […]
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Barack Obama asserted that the United States is not fighting the religion of Islam in its efforts to stop the insurgency of the group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), because Islam, he said, is peaceful. “[W]e have reaffirmed that the United […]
HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania senator that is pushing for the passage of a controversial homosexual hate crimes bill of concern to Christians came out of the closet this week in announcing himself as being “gay” and “lov[ing] it.” “Hundreds of people know I’m gay. I just never made an official declaration,” declared Sen. Jim Ferlo (D-Pittsburgh) on […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — A high school football coach in Arizona has been suspended for two weeks for joining his team in prayer. Tom Brittain is the head varsity coach for Tempe Preparatory Academy, a state funded charter school. According to reports, Brittain recently asked one of the players on his team to lead the group in prayer, […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Christian legal organization is calling for the recusal of two United States Supreme Court justices from a possible upcoming case involving the right of states to ban same-sex “marriage” since the women have officiated over homosexual ceremonies themselves. The announcement comes after liberal Justice Elena Kagan, nominated to the bench by Barack […]