The court wrote in Monday’s 4-3 decision Monday that a lower court was within its discretion when it earlier dismissed the request. In that earlier decision, a Helena district court judge dismissed the six couples’ case last year after state prosecutors argued that spousal benefits are limited by definition to married couples. A voter-approved amendment... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note:  Martin Snyder, Editor of the PuritanBoard, calls our attention to a significant radio broadcast made nearly 50 years ago.  The predictions approach the level of prophecy is ways that should alarm us all.)   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6IXPq1m0Eg&w=640&h=380]   I heard this for the first time tonight (December 19). Then I had the kids listen to... Continue Reading

Many factors contribute to declining fertility, including a lack of hope in the future and a culture that discourages people from taking on the hard work of rearing children.  “Modernity has turned us into a deeply unserious people,” Last said.       The overall U.S. birthrate fell in 2011 to its lowest level ever... Continue Reading

“The D.C. Circuit has now made it clear that government promises and press conferences are not enough to protect religious freedom,” said Kyle Duncan, General Counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in a statement   The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to the Obama administration by ruling in favor of... Continue Reading

France’s official position of secularism has sought to keep faith out of the public sphere, causing tension between religious groups who want to maintain a more visible religious identity and left-wing secularists who posit that religion should be a private matter.     French officials announced a new surveillance policy earlier this week to monitor... Continue Reading

The West Point chaplains asked to officiate the same-sex “marriage” ceremony on campus earlier this month refused…Whether or not the chaplains will face retribution remains to be determined, but their religious freedom is something for which all Americans should fight.     Religious liberty advocates are renewing calls for the Senate to pass a law... Continue Reading

There were 491 abortions, of 20 weeks gestation and greater, that resulted in live births. This means that the aborted child died after it was born. These abortions are coded as P96.4 or ‘Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn’.” The question that should immediately present itself is, why has there not been 491 homicide investigations... Continue Reading

Eastern Michigan University (EMU) announced earlier this week it would not appeal the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued in January. As part of an agreement to dismiss the case, the school paid Julea Ward $75,000. The settlement underscores Christian students’ right to seek an education without violating their religious beliefs….    ... Continue Reading

Closing one’s eyes to the phenomenon just isn’t a good option for evangelical women. “If they don’t know it and we can’t talk about it, they’re going to get caught out in ministry blindsided.” In some parts of the evangelical world others are even trying to move beyond using the novel only as a cautionary... Continue Reading

“The laws concerning the gleaning of fields in the Pentateuch require the poor to work by picking up the leftovers at the edge of the fields,” Mitchell wrote. “Those who own the fields do not have their produce taken by the government and then given to the poor. Since the Old Testament extols the virtue... Continue Reading