By Christy Barritt Mississippi Town Sued Over Gay Bar The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing the town of Shannon, Mississippi, for its refusal to approve a license to open a gay bar. Businesswoman and lesbian Pat Newton requested the business license and was denied by the city’s Board of Aldermen. The SPLC lawsuit, […]
By Christy Barritt Parent Thrown Out of Common Core Meeting A man in Ellicott City, Maryland was arrested after asking a question during a pubic forum meeting of the Maryland State Department of Education in Baltimore County. The meeting was about the Common Core curriculum—a new set of federal standards that will be applied […]
By Christy Barritt Prayer, The Bible, and Mental Illness Lifeway Research posed the question: Can prayer and the Bible alone help someone overcome a serious mental illness? Their findings showed that nearly half of evangelicals, born-again Christians, and fundamentalists believe that the Bible and prayer alone can help people overcome these issues. Forty-seven percent […]
By Christy Barritt Americans’ View on Same-Sex Marriage Shifts In 2006, sociologists at Rice University polled 1,300 adults randomly, asking them, “The only legal marriage should be between one man and one woman. Do you agree, neither agree nor disagree, or disagree?” Six years later, researchers conducted the same poll among a similar group […]
By Christy Barritt Permits for Baptisms? This summer, the National Park Service began enforcing a policy in Missouri that required churches to obtain special use permits in order to baptize in public waters. They also mandated that churches give the NPS 48 hours advance notice of pending baptisms. The NPS informed churches in the […]
