(The) ruling arrived less than three months before the results of a Pentagon study evaluating the possible detrimental effects of repealing the policy is due to be presented to Congress. A federal judge in California has ordered the United States military immediately to discontinue all enforcement of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids... Continue Reading

“Christians shouldn’t be censored from expressing their beliefs while others are freely allowed to express theirs,” said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman. A federal appeals court ruled Friday that faith-based lettering on vehicle license plates is allowed under the First Amendment, but emphasized that its ruling is limited to Vermont’s ban on religious messages. In... Continue Reading

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a South Carolina resident who was told by county officials that he must remove signs with religious messages from his property because he did not first obtain county permission to put up the signs. The action, titled Oscar Moultrie v. Berkeley County, South... Continue Reading

A woman wielding a crowbar smashed a display case (last) Wednesday at the Loveland, Colorado Museum, ripped out a piece of artwork that has been the center of growing controversy and shredded it into small pieces, witnesses said. Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested shortly after the 4 p.m. incident and charged with... Continue Reading

Pro-life bioethicists have applauded the announcement of a new advance in stem cell research that is a safer and more efficient method than previously discovered methods and avoids experiments that destroy human embryos. Scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston, Mass., published studies showing they had reprogrammed adult skin cells into induced pluripotent... Continue Reading

(However,) a number of media organizations, including The New York Times and The Associated Press, filed a brief supporting (the church’s) First Amendment claims. The U. S. Supreme Court, showing deference to a bereaved father, considered Wednesday whether free speech rights allowed Westboro Baptist Church to protest at a funeral for Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder,... Continue Reading

The jury considered his Satanism to be a factor that could lead future violent activity. They gave him the death sentence. Does religion have a place in the courtroom? For example, if a convicted murderer is a Satanist, is that relevant? Last week, a Texas court ruled yes. An appellate court in El Paso upheld... Continue Reading

“Forcing students to strip all religious content from music is like asking them to study art history while excluding paintings from the Renaissance because they contain religious subjects.” The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a man who sued his children’s school district over its ban on celebratory religious music. The case against... Continue Reading

Horning sharply criticized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for supporting the right of Muslims to build an Islamic community center near Ground Zero, while denying a proper burial for 9/11 victims. Relatives of 9/11 victims who believe debris from Ground Zero contains human remains and should be given a suitable burial said they are “shocked”... Continue Reading

Young people only sought a religious perspective on “rare occasions” and that when they did, they often “made do” with a “very faded, inherited cultural memory of Christianity in the absence of anything else.” Most young people consider Christianity irrelevant to their lives but they are not as hostile towards religion as their parents’ generation,... Continue Reading