A lesbian teenager filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Mississippi school district over a policy that allegedly bans female students from wearing tuxedos in portraits for the yearbook. In the case, Sturgis v. Copiah County School District, the ACLU filed the complaint on behalf of a former student, Ceara Sturgis, who contends that the district [...]
Just moments after the federal judge’s Wednesday ruling that declared California’s voter-approved constitutional amendment that banned gay marriage unconstitutional, attorneys announced that they will appeal the “dangerous” decision. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund are litigating the lawsuit, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, along with lead counsel Charles J. Cooper and attorney Andrew Pugno, who represent the [...]
Public university’s have been stepping up their push for students to accept homosexuality, regardless of religious beliefs, and in some cases failure to do so will result in forced dismissal or to complete a mandated sensitivity training program. On Monday, a federal judge ruled in favor of a university that removed a Christian graduate student [...]
Detroit attorney, Majed Moughni, led a small rally on the steps of Dearborn City Hall in support of four Christian evangelists who were arrested last month at the Arab International Festival. Moughni, who is running for Michigan’s 15th Congressional District in a race pitting him against three other Republicans, said that the Christians arrested were [...]
A Christian school in New Zealand has been ordered to compensate and apologize to a former coach after he was fired because he was gay. The school’s principal, Richard Vanderpyl, Thursday said board members for Middleton Grange School are also required to attend courses on human rights awareness, reports the New Zealand Herald. “We’re thinking [...]
The NAACP on Tuesday passed a resolution that condemned the Tea Party movement’s “racist slogans” and “violent attacks on property and human beings.” The resolution, titled “True Tenet of Democracy” was adopted without discussion during the organization’s annual conference in Kansas City. The adopted resolution reads: WHEREAS. The NAACP has a long history of political [...]
In two separate cases, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday that a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as a union between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, DOMA, says “marriage” and “spouse” is [...]
A North Carolina pastor was fired from his position as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer in the name of Jesus. “I got fired,” said Dr. Ron L. Baity, the Pastor of the Berean Baptist Church located in Winston-Salem, N.C, during an interview with Fox News Radio. [...]
A federal appeals court sided late Tuesday with the city of Orlando in their fight against a church and an activist group who want to use a public park to share their message and break bread. In First Vagabonds Church of God vs. City of Orlando, by a 2-1 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district [...]
Two evangelists were arrested Fourth of July weekend for sharing the gospel on a public sidewalk outside an Islamic mosque in Philadelphia. On July 3, Michael Marcavage, president of Repent America, Mike Stockwell of Cross Country Evangelism, and Ken Fleck, were singing hymns and sharing the gospel with Muslims who walked out of the “Masjid Al [...]
