The Democratic party in the New York state legislature was trying to ram through a bill on Same-Sex marriage. On Monday 2 Democrat State Senators defected from their party and voted with the Republicans to replace the Democrat leadership thus stopping plans to institute gay marriage in New York.
This is a huge victory [...]

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The battle between the State of Connecticut and the Roman Catholic Church started in March with the surprise introduction of a bill in the state Senate that would have reorganized the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in the state. 
Bill #1098 would have mandated a change in the internal structure of [...]

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UPDATE: San Diego County is already backing down and will allow the Bible study in question to continue. However, the county administrator is still framing it as a “land use” issue rather than a regulation of religious expression. We will continue to follow and monitor this situation.
Meanwhile here are some quotes [...]

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Yesterday I posted on the news that San Diego Country code enforcement bureaucrats were demanding that a home Bible study stop meeting unless they get a permit—which the county office obviously has no intention of issuing in the first place. As I noted, this is harassment [...]

 
Pastor David Jones and his wife, Mary, host a weekly Bible study in their home, usually attended by 15 or so folks. A San Diego County code enforcement officer Visited and served the couple with a citation notifying them that they were in violation of county regulations. Stipulating that they must immediately stop "religious assembly" [...]

Christians all across India, but particularly in Orissa, are feeling a bit more secure since a radical Hindu nationalist party was defeated in the recent elections. A local centrist party took charge this week in the state of Orissa, taking over the reigns of government from the radical Hindu group which actually encouraged the [...]