The Obama administration announced Thursday it will pay out $1.25 billion settlement in order to resolve a decade long dispute by black farmers who say the Department of Agriculture discriminated against them in loan programs.
“This is a very historic, emotional day for black farmers,” said John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by a Christian student organization that says a San Fransisco public law school violated its rights by denying it recognition because it holds on to Christian principles.
The justices today said they will decide next year to whether University of California’s Hastings College of Law is infringing the [...]
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be sitting in for two days on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. One of the cases she will be hearing involves an Arizona State University right-to-life group.
O’Connor will be part of a that will the case, ASU Students for Life v. Crow, which will be held [...]
According to a new poll, more Americans are supporting the idea of homosexuals obtaining the same rights as straight couples, but only 39 percent support legalization of gay marriage.
The Pew Research Center notes that support for civil unions for homosexuals has risen to 57 percent, up from 45 percent in 2003, while [...]
After eight years battling in court for their refusing to inseminate a lesbian woman on religious grounds, two Christian fertility doctors have privately settled the case.
Dr. Douglas Fenton and Dr. Christine Brody of the North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group in Oceanside, Calif., were sued in 2001 by Guadalupe Benitez, 37, for discrimination, saying her [...]
An Alliance Defense Fund attorney spoke on a Radio program about the facts in the case regarding a New Hampshirew courts decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into a government-run school.
Back in July, at the recommendation from Marital Master Michael Garner, Judge Lucinda V. Sadler approved an order to force a mother to abandon [...]
A South Carolina man is asking federal judge to prevent the city of Greenville from using the law governing ‘molesting or disturbing persons’ as a tool to silence his religious expression and free speech.
The issue stems from a late 2007 incident in which Joshua Glidewell, a street preacher, along with another colleague were arrested after complaints [...]
A British Christian couple and owners of a hotel are facing criminal charges for allegedly offending Muslim guests during a discussion about religion.
Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang were arrested after a Muslim woman complained to police that she had been offended by their comments regarding her religious beliefs, according to the Daily Mail.
The couple was arrested [...]
Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman, the two school administrators charged with criminal contempt that arose out of a simple blessing of a meal, were cleared of all charges today.
The federal courtroom in Pensacola, Florida was packed with people supporting both Lay and Freeman. The Pace High School students made [...]
As America celebrates the 222nd Anniversary Two Florida school administrators who are facing jail terms for asking God to bless their meal, will arrive in court Thursday morning knowing that they have the support of more than 60 members of Congress.
Some members took to the House floor Tuesday to denounce the “criminalization of prayer” that [...]
