Pro-Abortionists are celebrating a judge’s ruling striking down a law in Wisconsin that would have helped protect the health and welfare of women.
U.S. District Judge William Conley, struck down Senate Bill 206, which calls for increased health standards at abortion facilities. The bill also requires anyone who wants an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital to help women who suffer injury or complications from the process.
The lawsuit was brought by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU.
“While the court agrees with the State that sometimes it is necessary to reduce access to ensure safety, this is decidedly not one of those instances,” Conley wrote. “In particular, the state has failed to meet its burden of demonstrating through credible evidence a link between the admitting privileges requirement and a legitimate health interest.”
“The only reasonable conclusion is that the legislation was motivated by an improper purpose, namely to restrict the availability of abortion services in Wisconsin,” Conley said.
A spokeswoman for Governor Scott Walker said the state will appeal the decision.
The school district in Cranston, Rhode Island says that Good Friday is not a religious holiday and therefore teachers who are Christians cannot use one of their two designated personal days for religious events.
The teachers are saying that’s violating their rights.
The close to 200 teachers are suing the school district, saying that they should have the right to take the day and attend services at their local churches. The school’s superintendent, Judith Lundsten, said that the contracts of the teachers specify they may take the holiday only if they are required to attend services and that Good Friday “has no required services.”
The teachers say the actions of the Superintendent violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
This year marks the first time in decades that Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah and Good Friday are not holidays in the school calendar. The school committee voted to eliminate those holidays in June.
It has been a long, difficult winter for our parents, students and staff. We have already accumulated six additional days to our school year,” said Janice Ruggierei, chairperson of the Cranston School Committee.
“We should be focusing on finishing the school year by meeting our students’ academic calendar requirements.”
Family Christian Stores, the largest Christian bookstore in the U.S., announced they are withdrawing their bankruptcy plans and will keep stores open.
The move was done to save the jobs of their 4,000 employees.
“The stewards of the ministry have done this out of love for the mission of Family Christian,” Chuck Bengochea, president and CEO of FCS, said in a press release. “We believe that this will help to satisfy certain objections of the Creditors Committee and the U.S. Trustees. This action will lead more quickly to a successful outcome in which we can continue to serve our customers and glorify God. Day-to-day operations at Family Christian Stores will continue as usual.”
The company had filed for bankruptcy in February because of $97 million owed to banks.
Rick Jackson, owner of FCS, says that it was previous owners who brought in the debt. Jackson bought the stores in 2012 and turned them into a non-profit.
“The previous owners had so much debt that when the stores went down, they had enough to take care of themselves, but they couldn’t pay for the debt,” Jackson told The Christian Post last month while on the set of Giving Films’ first project, “90 Minutes in Heaven.”
“So we took it on; we were too positive thinking, and tectonic trends — people going online not going to brick and mortar stores — brought sales down 10 to 20 percent, just like Borders,” he added.
A new report says that long dormant Oklahoma fault lines are being reactivated and could lead to a massive earthquake.
The study, which includes researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, says Oklahoma now must be considered possible for “a high degree of potential earthquake hazards.”
‘The majority of the recent earthquakes in central Oklahoma define reactivated ancient faults at shallow depths in the crust’ of less than 3.7 miles (6 km), said the report for the American Geophysical Union.
The study did not involve any research regarding fracking and if it had any impact on the reawakening of the fault lines.
‘Any one of these fault zones that are producing magnitude 3 or 4 earthquakes could rupture into a larger earthquake. There are as many as 12 different fault zones that are capable of producing a large, 5 to 6 magnitude earthquake,’ Daniel McNamara of the USGS stated.
Building codes in Oklahoma are not strong enough for a high earthquake. A major quake would result in mass destruction.
A town councilman in Leesburg, Virginia is being attacked for saying that God “touched the hearts of men” to defeat slavery in America.
Leesburg Town Councilman Thomas Dunn had been participating via phone to an hours-long public hearing on the creation of a town Diversity Commission. During the hearing, the president of the local NAACP brought up racism and said that “without government, I’m still in the fields picking cotton.”
Dunn, who was agreeing with a previous speaker the government was not the solution, said that government didn’t end slavery but the hand of God working in the hearts of men.
“That was an evil that this country had. It was the hand of God touching the hearts of man that freed those slaves,” Dunn stated. “And it’s the same hand of God touching the hearts of man that will bring unity within diversity. It’s not government.”
“If you think the people in this room are going to be able to make a change in any shortfalls that we have and how we handle different cultures and races, number one, that’s holding yourself up too high. That has to come from God. That healing comes from God,” he continued. “Jesus said ‘I give you one commandment, and that is to love one another.’ He could have said, ‘Go out and create a diversity commission,’ but He didn’t. He said you go out and love one another, not rely on government to do that. If government was the best answer, He could have said that.”
Thompson attacked Dunn for his references to God, saying the 13th Amendment is pretty clear and that God had nothing to do with it.
ISIS has released a statement that they plan to “Blow up the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower.”
ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani outlined the group’s plot to take over Portugal, Spain, Paris and Rome in a 30 minute broadcast. The message, aimed at the West, is called “So They Kill And Are Killed”. The title is a reference to a verse in the Koran.
“We won the day Europe and U.S. dreamt of reclaiming Tal Hamis, Mosul, Sinjar, Tikrit, Qaim, Derna, Tell Abyad, and more,” stated the ISIS mouthpiece, as transcribed by Ynet News.
“We — with Allah’s help — want Paris, before Rome and Islamic Iberia and after we blow up the White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower before Paris, and Rome,” al-Adnani warned. “The Muslims will return to power, to be the vanguard and lead in every place.”
Intelligence experts say the message is really an attempt to boost the morale among the members of ISIS after a series of big losses to Iraqi troops and U.S. airstrikes.
A group of anti-Semitic vandals attacked the car of a Dallas area rabbi.
Rabbi Yaakov Rich leads a group worshiping at his home in Dallas. The neighborhood’s Homeowners Association (HOA) tried to stop the group from having their times of worship and tried to sue the Rabbi to make him stop. A court threw out the case last month.
Last week, the city of Dallas sued him to make improvements to the home if he wants to continue to hold services.
Then he came outside Thursday to find s swastika painted on his car.
“As a Jew, the swastika is the most offensive symbol that there is. They didn’t just attack me, they attacked every Jew in the City of Dallas. I am very grateful, however, that the members of Congregation Toras Chaim are banding together to ensure that there is no disruption in our activities,” Rabbi Rich told CBS Dallas.
Justin Butterfield of the Liberty Institute told CBS Dallas that this is not the first time the group has faced vandalism.
“In orthodox Jewish homes, there is a little box on the doorway with a scroll on it with a scripture on it, and in the past, somebody had ripped that off of the doorway. They’ve also had people drive in front of the home screaming obscenities at them,” said Butterfield.
Officials in Panama City Beach, Florida have revoked the local tax-exempt status of a “church” that has been running a sexually-themed nightclub during Spring Break.
“It’s very disturbing, especially inside our city limits here in Bay County,” Panama City Beach Police Chief Drew Whitman told reporters this week. “I think we’re better than that.”
The group calling itself “Life Center Church” has been hosting an event called “Spring Break Amnesia” since February that featured items local officials called “shocking” for a place of worship.
“A bottle club, charging $20 at the door and selling obscene T-shirts is not being used as a church,” Property Appraiser Dan Sowell told the Panama City News Herald. “A God-fearing, God-honoring church in January does not sponsor this type of debauchery in March.”
The “church” had been advertising events on their website that were anything but Christian.
“‘Slumber’ is a pajama and lingerie party hosted by the sexiest ladies on the beach,” the site’s event description read just three days ago. “‘Anything But Clothes’ showcases your artistic side, featuring your mind and body. How creative can you be? Bare as you dare to attend in anything but clothes (toga, body paint, etc.).”
The church’s “pastor” once had another church in the area called Faith Christian Family Church. He was arrested and placed on probation for giving pot to teens.
Members of the Senate are blocking a bill to help victims of human trafficking because of language related to abortion funding.
The Justice for Trafficking Victims Act, introduced by Senator John Cornyn of Texas, would increase penalties on people involved in human trafficking.
“The bill imposes an additional penalty of $5,000 on any non-indigent person or entity convicted of a crime involving: (1) peonage, slavery, or trafficking in persons; (2) sexual abuse; (3) sexual exploitation and other abuse of children; (4) transportation for illegal sexual activity; or (5) human smuggling in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act,” read S. 178’s summary.
“The bill expands the definition of ‘child abuse’ under the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 to include human trafficking and the production of child pornography and expands criminal sanctions to include persons who patronize or solicit children for commercial sex acts (buyers).”
Some Democratic members of the Senate are holding up the bill because of language that would prohibit funding going to pay for abortions by those rescued from human trafficking.
Senator Dick Durban of Illinois has filed an amendment to allow abortion funding to be part of the package.
Officials in Ottawa County, Michigan are returning a sign to a public park that contains Psalm 13:1.
The catch is that it will have a disclaimer to satisfy a resident who complaint of its presence.
The sign had been in Hager Park over 40 years stating “the heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” Last year, a resident who chose to hide their identity complained about the sign saying they were illegally promoting Christianity.
The sign was removed by Ottawa County Parks and Recreation director John Scholtz who said he removed the sign to “reduce potential conflicts.”
The County Board of Commissioners voted 9-2 to return the sign but also to include a sign that would talk about the history of the sign’s placement. The sign was part of an agreement with the landowner who deeded the land to them.
The anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter to the county demanding they do not return the sign.