A lawsuit against the city of Goldsboro, North Carolina, has been settled in favor of a citizen who had previously been stopped from verbally sharing his faith in public and distributing religious literature. Anthony Denham had been told by a police department major that his activity qualified as picketing under a city ordinance and required
Two members of The Gideons International missionary organization who were arrested for handing out Bibles on a sidewalk outside of a public school are moving to have their cases dismissed in a Florida court. In their defense, the two men are making a case that they were simply exercising their right to free speech. Click
(The occasional articles posted under “Lost (Losing) Liberties” are to show that various Christian groups are under seige in the U.S. I do not necessarily support these various groups’ actions.) Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have filed an appeal on behalf of 11 Christians who were silenced on the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during
When police officers in Grand Rapids, Mich., shut down a group of street preachers outside a pagan festival last fall, they infringed upon those preachers’ constitutionally protected free-speech rights. That is the argument behind a lawsuit filed by the Allied Defense Fund against the city on behalf of one of the preachers. Members of a
The largest Christian referral network dealing with homosexual issues is voicing opposition to a federal “hate crimes” bill introduced in the House. The legislation, says Exodus International, threatens religious freedom. In a CNSNews.com report, a spokesman for the National Prayer Network describes the bill as “the most dangerous legislation ever to come before Congress” that