The Student Government Association at Johns Hopkins University refuses to recognize a pro-life group as an official club on campus.
SGA members denied "Voice for Life" official status because they believe being pro-life is a violation of the school's harrassment policy.
Some of those members even compared pro-life students to white supremacists, according to Fox News.
One member said she felt "violated" and "targeted" by pro-life displays at the university.
Another said, "We have a...
Cheerleaders at an east Texas high school are once again defending the right to display Bible verses at football games. Their bold stand has earned national attention and placed them right in the middle of a heated free speech battle.
In this small town of Kountze, Texas, there is overwhelming support for the hometown cheerleaders who simply believe if God is for them, no one can be against them.
Just one look at the banners the Kountze football players run through just before a big game tells you that the Kountze highschool cheerleaders are not typical...
Christians are the most widely persecuted religious group in the world. This week, three of the top experts in the field released a new book detailing Christian persecution worldwide.
Authors Lela Gilbert, Paul Marshall, and Nina Shea of Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom have written Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians. The book chronicles this persecution and analyzes patterns of repression, abuse, and violence against believers.
Few are surprised that one of the worst areas for Christians is the Muslim...
WASHINGTON -- While public support for gay marriage has shifted over the last several years, the laws on the books tell a different story.
Thirty states have laws banning same-sex marriage. Only nine states and the District of Columbia allow it.
The Supreme Court's second look at the issue focused on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. The 1996 statute says the federal government only recognizes marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."
On...
Retired Col. Ron Crews warns a ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act could put military chaplains at greater risk for discrimination.
Crews, who heads the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, said DOMA limited the impact when the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy was lifted and gays were allowed to serve openly in the armed forces.
Since DOMA is a federal law it governs the military. But Crews believes if it's overturned, chaplains who oppose homosexuality for religious reasons will be silenced and their careers damaged....
Insurance companies will pay 32 percent more for medical claims under Obamacare, and that could increase the amount consumers pay for their policies.
The new study by the Society of Actuaries found that rates could be higher for the uninsured seeking to buy insurance straight from a company, the same people Obamacare was supposed to help.
Americans with employer-provided health care probably won't have to pay more.
The Obama administration said the study does not take into account subsidies and other cost-...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has asked the chancellor of the state's university system to look into a controversial lesson at Florida Atlantic University.
He wants more information about a classroom assignment involving stomping on a paper with the name of Jesus on it.
The move comes after the school apologized for the assignment and promised it would not be used again.
The lesson was supposed to deal with the power of certain words. But one student, Ryan Rotella, refused to particpate.
He's a strong...
WASHINGTON -- People have been camping out for days in their ponchos and raincoats, hoping to get a front row seat to history.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court begins two full days of examining same-sex marriage, looking at it from both the state and federal levels.
The first case is a challenge to California's 2008 ballot measure, known as Proposition 8. Voters approved the law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman and effectively bans gay marriage.
The second looks at the Defense of...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- The biblical holiday of Passover begins on Monday evening.
Israelis and Jews around the world will gather for a festive meal this evening where they retell the story of their miraculous escape from Egypt thousands of years ago.
In Jerusalem Monday, many Orthodox Jews, like Eli Dershowitz, symbolically burned the last bit of hametz (kha-metz), or leaven, in fires throughout the city. They'll eat unleavened bread throughout the seven-day holiday.
"It says in the Bible, it says in the Torah [first five books,...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is best known for its work fighting racial discrimination. But Commissioner Pete Kirsanow has become so worried about religious discrimination that he called for a special hearing of the commission.
"There, I think, is a perception among many people -- not just people in the faith-based community -- that government has been encroaching on expression of religious beliefs," Kirsanow said.
Others like the Americans United for Separation of Church and State say this is much ado about...
WASHINGTON - An exhausted Senate gave pre-dawn approval Saturday to a Democratic $3.7 trillion budget for next year that embraces nearly $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade but shelters domestic programs targeted for cuts by House Republicans.
While their victory was by a razor-thin 50-49, the vote let Democrats tout their priorities. Yet it doesn't resolve the deep differences the two parties have over deficits and the size of government.
Joining all Republicans voting no were four Democrats who face re-election next year in potentially...
The American imprisoned in Iran, in a vivid letter to his wife, described how he was beaten to the point where parts of his face were "swollen three times what they should have been" and was denied medical treatment because he was seen as an "unclean" Christian.
The letter was received by Saeed Abedini's family this week, though it may have been written weeks ago. The new details come as his family, the attorneys representing them, and several Capitol Hill lawmakers urge the Obama administration to exert more pressure on Iran to release the Christian pastor.
In a sign of movement, the U.S....
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Arab reaction to President Barack Obama's three-day visit to Israel seems, for the most part, less than positive.
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Obama's visit didn't change anything, the P.A.'s official Ma'an News Agency reported.
"We believe American policies perpetuate the Israeli occupation and settlements in Palestine under the slogan of peace," his statement read.
Jerusalem Post Palestinian Affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh said Palestinians were disappointed with the president's visit,...
The House has passed a huge stopgap spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September, sidestepping any threat of a government shutdown.
The bipartisan 318-109 vote sends the measure President Obama to be signed into law.
The measure would fund the day-to-day operating budgets of every Cabinet agency through Sept. 30, provide another $87 billion to fund overseas military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and maintain a pay freeze for federal workers.
The measure leaves in place automatic spending cuts of 5 percent to domestic programs and 8 percent to the Pentagon that will mean...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Day two of President Obama's visit started at the Israel Museum, where he viewed the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. So far as Israel is concerned, things seem to be going well.
One commentator remarked, "If this is the way we greet Obama, what's left for the Messiah?" Any previous animosity between Obama and Netanyahu appears to be gone.
"I think the Israeli people are very happy with President Obama getting off to a new second start with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and I think that's very important, and I think that's a...
The Senate pressed ahead Wednesday on a huge, bipartisan spending bill aimed at keeping the government running through September and ruling out the chance of a government shutdown later this month.
Chamber leaders were increasingly confident that a logjam that has stalled the bill since Tuesday would be broken and that the measure would pass by late afternoon and return to the House, where a vote on Thursday would send it to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said he's been promised a vote on an amendment -- eagerly sought by the meatpacking and poultry industries --...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- President Obama is in Israel Wednesday on his first visit to the country since first taking the oath of office four years ago. Air Force One touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport at about 6:20 a.m.
The visit is dubbed "Unbreakable Alliance." Some have called it a charm offensive. According to polls, many Israelis don't trust Obama. But Obama said it's his chance to connect with the Israeli people.
"It could just be for the better to come and feel how Israel really is and to be friends with us," one Israeli named...
House Democrats have put together a budget for the government that raises $1.2 trillion in new taxes over the next 10 years, according to The Hill.
The plan would bring in the money by getting rid of tax breaks for businesses and individuals.
Democrats say their budget focuses on strengthening the economy and growing jobs.
But House Republicans say the plan isn't serious. The GOP says their plan would get rid of the federal deficit within a decade.
President Obama leaves Tuesday for Israel. It's his first time visiting America's closest ally in the Middle East -- and Israelis have noticed.
According to one Israeli newspaper poll, nearly 70 percent of Israelis have an unfavorable or even hostile attitude toward the president.
Meanwhile, a Gallup poll shows American sympathy for Israel is at its highest level in more than two decades.
"If you're Benjamin Netanyahu, what do you want to talk to President Obama about," CBN News's Jennifer Wishon asked the...
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill that allows prayers led by students over school intercoms, at graduations, or at sporting events.
The new law says all Mississippi school districts must adopt a policy that lets students express their religious beliefs at various school events.
"We believe that we're on firm ground here with our opportunity for religious expression in a limited forum within public schools," Bryant said Thursday. "That does not mean that they won't file a lawsuit, and we'll see how that comes out for us...
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