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 [...]
The ACLU has conceded defeat in their quest to remove a Ten Commandments display by letting time expire in filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for review of the matter. In the case, ACLU v. Grayson County, the ACLU allowed the time to expire without filing the petition, closing the final chapter [...]
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 [...]
A university professor who was fired over a complaint that he engaged in hate speech in his explanation of Catholic church doctrine on homosexuality, will now be reinstated to his position. Kenneth Howell, an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign who taught, “Introduction to Catholicism”, was dismissed earlier this month after teaching his [...]
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 [...]
A group of Christian students was told to cease their prayers while they stood on the public steps leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court building, because a court police officer said it was against the law. On May 5, a teacher, Maureen Rigo, along with students from her American History class at Wickenburg Christian Academy in [...]
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 [...]
World Changers of Florida has filed a lawsuit to overturn a school district’s new ban against distributing free Bibles to interested students during off-school hours. For years, the Collier County School District allowed World Changers to place free Bibles on tables where interested students can take them at their leisure. But last year, during the celebration [...]
