Georgia Baptist Convention leaders came to the defense of Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran by urging the Christian community to take a stand after he was suspended for 30-days without pay and ordered to undergo sensitivity training -- for expressing his belief that marriage is between one man and ...
An offer of free Bibles to students at Cloverleaf Elementary School in Cartersville, Georgia, has caused one mom to threaten a lawsuit. Jessica Greene\'s son, a fifth grade student, went with classmates and picked up a copy from a Gideon volunteer in the library, causing her shock \"that the school ...
Residents of Fayetteville, Arkansas, voted by special election on Tuesday, Dec. 9 to repeal a Civil Rights Ordinance passed by their City Council in August. The law, which included protections for homosexual, bisexual and transgender people, was overturned by a vote of 52 percent for the repeal and ...
The residents of Fayettville, Arkansas, voted in a 52 to 48 percent split to overturn Ordinance 119, which was a non-discrimination policy that allowed transgender men and women to use the public bathrooms of their choice, regardless of their born gender. Some critics complained that voters were ...
Grand Theft Auto V, a popular video game, has broken through a ceiling that even concerns a well known gamer.In the re-mastered version of Grand Theft Auto 5, originally released in 2013, players no longer have to imagine wreaking havoc by watching a character on the screen, but now can ...
Results from a study on the physical and social influences of a neighborhood on the health of very disadvantaged urban adolescents shockingly show 15- to 19-year-old teens in Baltimore, Maryland, had poorer health, higher rates of risky behaviors and held worse perceptions about their neighborhoods ...
Randy White, pastor of First Baptist Church in Katy, Texas, is a leader among Houston pastors seeking justice against the city for denying voters\' petitions demanding a ballot initiative about a transsexuals\' rights bill.Now he is taking on some Southern Baptist leaders for what he describes as ...
Dorian Johnson was a friend of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old black man shot and killed Aug. 9 by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri. He also was a witness, having spent the morning with Brown and caught in the grim twist of events that led to the fatal shooting.His third ...
Describing the escalation of his encounter with Michael Brown which started with a request to get out of the way of traffic and onto the sidewalk, Officer Darren Wilson gave details of the growing fears he felt as Brown came towering through the window of the Chevy Tahoe police vehicle and ...
Miss Honduras is missing just days before the beginning of the Miss World pageant. Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and her 23-year-old sister, Sofia Trinidad, went missing Thursday, and now authorities are holding four people in connection with the disappearances.
In a news conference this morning, Houston Mayor Annise Parker, an openly lesbian public official, announced the city will withdraw subpoenas to five pastors demanding notes and other communication relating to a controversial ordinance granting rights to transgendered individuals.