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-City in Kansas May Force Churches to Host Gay Weddings?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

       Photo credit: Wikipedia) From The Inquisitr: Hutchinson City, KN. – Hutchinson City Kansas is about to jump head first into the marriage equality debate.  The Hutchinson City Council will consider adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the protected classes in the city’s human relations code. This would effectively force churches and other houses [...]

-Scary Sharia Ruling by Judge in Pennsylvania

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

            (Image via Wikipedia) This is something that could have never have happened in this country 10 years or so ago.  First of all, an atheist group last year participated in a Halloween parade in the city of Mechanicsburg wearing costumes representing ‘zombie gods’ and religious leaders including a “Zombie Pope” and a “Zombie Mohammed.” [...]

-UPDATE: 2nd Circuit Rules that the Stay only Applies to One NYC Church

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

                                         (Image via Wikipedia) We reported on Friday that the 60 churches meeting in NY City public schools had received a stay from U.S. District Court and could temporarily continue where they were. later in the day, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the stay issued by the District court would only apply [...]

-Divided 9th Circuit Rules California’s Prop 8 Gay-Marriage Ban ‘Unconstitutional’

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

                      (Image via Wikipedia) A 3 judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling (2/7/12) declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. Proposition 8 in effect banned gay marriage in the state by defining marriage as between one man and one woman. 2 out of the 3 judges on the [...]

-Pentagon Backs Down on Hospital Ban on Bibles

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

              (Image by MilitaryHealth via Flickr) Pentagon Bureaucrats banned Bibles and religious literature from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in September but backed away from that policy this week after a Congressional complaint. Chief of Staff C.W. Callahan at Walter Reed instituted the ban in a September 14th memo covering guidelines for “wounded, ill, [...]

-Is the First Amendment In Danger of Being Overridden For the ‘Greater Good’?

Friday, August 5th, 2011

In liberal circles, one of the current issues under discussion involves conflicting ‘civil rights’ and the idea that for the ‘greater good’ lessor rights may have to be overridden. In the view of some progressive proponents, freedom of religion and conservative free speech certainly qualify as ‘lessor rights’ in the face of the ‘greater good’ [...]

-Obama Will No Longer Defend Federal Marriage Law (DOMA)

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

                                         (Image via Wikipedia) President Barack Obama has instructed the Justice Department to no longer defend DOMA -the federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.   When He ran for President, He said that he supported traditional marriage and his administration has done just that for the first two years of [...]