TRENTON — The governor of New Jersey has decided to end his fight to defend marriage between one man and one woman, directing his attorneys to drop their appeal of a lawsuit that sought to force state officials to permit homosexual “marriages.” As previously reported, the Supreme Court of New Jersey unanimously ruled on Friday […]
NEW YORK — Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City are expressing their support for adding two Islamic holidays to the academic calendar. Republican Joe Lhota and Democrat Bill de Blasio state that schools should close on both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two major Muslim holy days. The first […]
STERLING, Co. — A city in Colorado has agreed to allow the name of Jesus to be engraved on a tombstone for a local pastor’s wife after the cemetery director refused the inscription and stated that it could be offensive. Linda Baker, wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid, Colorado, […]
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A non-denominational church in Arizona was targeted by vandals this past week in what is being considered a hate crime, leaving an estimated $20,000 in damage. Desert Springs Community Church in Goodyear discovered on Thursday that someone had broken into the building the previous night and vandalized the premises. Glass jars were […]
ST. PETERSBURG — A orphaned boy who has been in foster care all of his life recently made a desperate plea before a local church for anyone in the congregation to adopt him as their son. 15-year-old Davion Navar Henry Only was born while his mother, La-Dwina Ilene ‘Big Dust’ McCloud, was in prison on theft […]
TRENTON — The Supreme Court of New Jersey unanimously ruled on Friday to uphold a lower court order that mandated officials to allow same-sex ‘marriages’ to be performed and recognized in the state. As previously reported, Judge Mary Jacobson of the Mercer County Superior Court released the order last month, citing the recent ruling by the United […]
NEW YORK — A security guard at Victoria’s Secret in New York found a dead baby inside of a shopping bag carried by a teenager that he had stopped for suspicion of shoplifting. The incident occurred on Thursday as 17-year-old Tiona Rodriguez and her friend Francis Estevez, also 17, were shopping at the Manhattan store […]
ALDAN, Penn. — A non-denominational church in Pennsylvania has voted to boot the Boy Scouts of America from their premises over the organization’s amended policy permitting openly homosexual boys to serve as members. Aldan Union Church is located just outside of Philadelphia, and has had an amicable working relationship with the Boy Scouts for 93 […]
MEMPHIS — An elementary school in the heart of the Bible Belt has changed its mind after initially banning a 10-year-old girl from writing about God for a class assignment. Erin Shead asked her teacher at Lucy Elementary School in Memphis if she could write about God when her class was given the assignment to […]
Several abortion facilities in Ohio have closed and others may soon follow over their failure to comply with new state regulations that mandate private hospital transfer agreements and ban late-term abortions. The Lebanon Road Surgery Center in Sharonville is the latest closing as the state Department of Health refused to grant the facility a variance […]