Several police officers in Durham, N.C., reportedly got into homes and searched them by telling residents police had received 911 hang-up calls from their addresses, according to news reports. The tactic, a way around the requirement to get a warrant to search a home, was described in court by a Durham officer identified as A.B. […]
A number of scientists in recent years have stated that atheists might not actually exist, and that a belief in God is naturally ingrained into all people, prompting a recent article that is stirring discussion around the world. Last week, Nury Vittachi published a story entitled Scientists Discover That Atheists Might Not Exist, And That’s Not […]
WASHINGTON — A prominent Christian legal organization has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to affirm the right of North Carolina officials to issue ‘Choose Life’ license plates to residents who wish to purchase them. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed an appeal with the court on Friday on behalf of Thom Tillis, speaker of the North Carolina […]
AURORA, Ill. — A Hobby Lobby store in Illinois is facing a discrimination complaint after a ‘transgender’ employee was told that he may not use the women’s restroom until he has reconstructive surgery to switch from male to female reproductive organs. The employee, who goes by the name Meggan Sommerville, also professes to be a […]
SYDNEY, Australia – A judge in southeastern Australia has been partially suspended after he declared that the culture’s acceptance of homosexuality will lead to a normalization of incest. According to a report last week from The Sydney Morning Herald, Garry Neilson is a district court judge in Sydney, Australia. In a recent sexual assault case, […]
NEW YORK — A Muslim man from New York City, whose defense included Islamic and cultural teachings on spousal discipline, was sentenced to 18 years to life behind bars this week after he was found guilty of murder for beating his wife to death with a stick for making him lentils for dinner instead of goat meat. Noor […]
JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the district court of Jönköping County Council in Sweden on behalf of a midwife whom three different medical clinics denied employment because she will not assist with abortions. “No one deserves to be denied a job simply because she is pro-life,” said ADF […]
SINGAPORE — Registration for primary school started on July 3, and parents of six-year-olds across the country will be watching the number of spots available at their school of choice very closely over the next few weeks. Families who have decided on homeschooling, however, have chosen to forego this uniquely Singaporean exercise. On average, about […]
WASHINGTON – Two Democratic senators introduced a bill yesterday that would reverse last week’s historic Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision and force all corporations to provide abortion-inducing drugs to their employees. As previously reported, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision last week that the federal government cannot force closely-held companies to obey […]
GILBERT, Ariz. — The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a municipal law in Arizona that indirectly forces churches to display their signs at night, while allowing other types of signs to be displayed 24/7. As previously reported, in 2008, Good News Community Church of Gilbert filed a lawsuit in […]