SIOUX FALLS — A businessman in South Dakota is using Scripture to counter atheist billboards that have been erected in the city of Sioux Falls. The South Dakota Coalition of Reason had purchased billboard space in seven locations throughout the state, including in Rapid City, Brookings and Sioux Falls. The simple billboards read, “Don’t believe […]
SEATTLE — Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson and Deputy Solicitor Alan Copsey recently released an opinion outlining that state law requires publicly-funded hospitals to provide abortion services if they also offer maternity care. “I fully expect all public hospital districts to comply with this opinion,” Ferguson stated at a recent news conference. The opinion was […]
COOS BAY — Police in Coos Bay, Oregon are investigating an explosion that was set off late last week near a Vietnam veterans war memorial cross that has been at the center of controversy since February. As previously reported, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to Coos Bay officials this past spring, […]
TEHRAN — An appeals court in Iran has rejected an appeal on behalf of an American pastor incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in the country, and has refused to reduce his sentence despite growing international pressure. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been fighting for the release of […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A federal judge has refused to dismiss an international lawsuit filed by a Ugandan homosexual activist group, which accuses an American pastor of committing ‘crimes against humanity’ for speaking out against homosexual behavior in the country. As previously reported, Massachusetts Pastor Scott Lively, the author of “The Pink Swastika,” had visited the […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — A Baptist minister is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that seeks to have a Ten Commandments monument removed from the premises of the state Capitol building in Oklahoma. The monument at issue was proposed and paid for in 2009 by Republican Representative Mike Ritze, […]
WASHINGTON — Nearly twenty members of Congress are being represented in a federal Amicus brief in an effort to help save a historic war memorial cross. The Mount Soledad war memorial cross was erected near San Diego, California in 1954 and has been at the center of controversy for two decades surrounding whether or not […]
WICHITA — An elementary school in Kansas has removed a controversial bulletin board following online outrage from conservative blog sites. Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary School in Wichita had planned to teach students about various world religions during the new school year, and created a generic display on “The Five Pillars of Islam” as part […]
INDIANAPOLIS — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Indiana over a new regulation that requires abortion facilities in the state that solely provide medical (pill-based) abortions to be bound to the same standards as surgical abortion facilities. The suit was filed on Thursday on behalf of Planned […]
TORONTO – A Canadian judge has ruled that an international Christian ministry must stop distributing Bibles in an Ontario public school district. Since 1936, Gideons International has been passing out free copies of the Bible to students in Canadian public schools. As stated on their website, the Gideons distribute Scriptures because they “believe that the […]