Senior Pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church and Vice Chancellor for Spiritual Affairs at Liberty University delivered the opening prayer on Wednesday for the U.S. House of Representatives, an opportunity he called “an incredible honor.” Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-VA, invited Falwell to fill the guest chaplain role. The invitation was issued through the House of [...]
The California Supreme Court ordered the State Bar on Monday to allow a quadriplegic law school grad to take the bar examination today. Sara Granda, 29, was paralyzed from the neck down after an automobile accident in July 1997, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. She graduated from the law school at the [...]
Liberty University School of Law in conjunction with a summer externship program of Liberty Council, traveled to Washington D.C. visiting the U.S. Supreme Court on their last day in session during this Term. The 18 students had the privilege to watch the nine justices release the final opinions of this Term, including the highly watched [...]
A South Florida jury found Monday that a local hospital did not act unreasonably when it chartered a plane and sent a illegal immigrant patient back to Guatemala. In 2000, a drunk driver smashed into a van killing two people and leaving Luis Jimenez, 37, a paraplegic with a cognitive ability of a fourth grader, [...]
The Idaho Public Charter School Commission is currently reviewing whether the state should approve whether the Bible should be used in the classroom. Commission Chairman Bill Goesling says “The question is, because it is a text, does it have to go through the state Department of Education for approval,” according to the Fort Mill Times. [...]
The Senate passed the 2010 defense authorization bill late Thursday, setting the stage to expand the definition of federal hate crimes to include sexual orientation. The bill, which authorizes $680 billion in defense spending for 2010, carries two hard-fought victories for the Obama administration: It stops production for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 fighter jets and strips [...]
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, has agreed to hear a challenge by three women who sought an abortion in Ireland but were refused because of the countries laws protecting the pre-born children. The three women, in a hearing that will be before the Grand Chamber of 17 judges, contend that the [...]
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Ten billboards aimed at telling the truth of what Thomas Jefferson meant by “his wall of separation between church and statement.” Retired businessman Gregg Smith, 73, came up with the idea and fronted the $50,000 costs to get the message out where they will be seen up to a million times a day for the [...]
A South Carolina mother is charged for criminal neglect for allowing her 14-year-old son to reach 555 pounds: Does allowing a child to become dangerously overweight amount to criminal neglect? Jerri Gray, 49, of Travelers Res, S.C., was charged in June for putting her son “at an unreasonable risk of harm” her son, Alexander Draper, [...]
On May 11, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated court of appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. In support of this nomination, the President assured the American people that Judge Sotomayor was a deserving and worthy nominee. Not only would she be an able justice, the President intoned, she [...]