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  Jan 15, 2019

  University lets people use bathrooms 'they deem they need to use,' opens 23 'all-gender' facilities

  A public university in Ohio is letting people use whatever bathroom facility “they deem they need to use” in order to create a more “inclusive environment” and has also converted nearly two dozen restrooms into “all-gender” bathrooms.

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  Jan 14, 2019

  California pastor ousted after ‘homosexuality is sin' church sign stirs protests

  A northern California pastor has begrudgingly stepped down as members threatened to leave after he posted a church sign that called transgender celebrity Caitlyn “Bruce” Jenner a man and stated that “homosexuality is still a sin.”

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  Jan 13, 2019

  New 'Visual Commentary on Scripture' website offers new way to study the Bible

  A new $2 million web project launched by King's College London is offering users a new way to visually digest biblical Scripture through the analyses of classic and contemporary works of art.

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  Jan 11, 2019

  Southwest Baptist U launches external evaluation to ensure 'theological integrity is intact'

  Southwest Baptist University in Missouri is launching an “external peer assessment committee” to lead the institution through evaluation and discussion of orthodoxy to ensure that its “theological integrity is intact” following the firing of a theologically conservative professor.

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  Jan 11, 2019

  European court rules against Christian homeschool family forced to send kids to school

  The European Court of Human Rights ruled against a Christian homeschool family whose children were removed from the home and forced into a government-approved education program.

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  Jan 11, 2019

  Democrats ban LGBT employment discrimination in the House of Representatives

  The newly-elected Democrat majority in the U.S. House of Representatives wasted no time in adopting rule changes that ban employment discrimination against LGBT people in the lower chamber and requires House members to take ethics training.

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  Jan 10, 2019

  Atheist group warns over 1,000 school districts not to take kids to Ark Encounter; Ken Ham responds

  One of the nation’s leading atheist legal groups has sent a warning to over 1,000 public school districts telling them not to take field trips to Answers in Genesis' creationist attractions in Kentucky.

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  Jan 10, 2019

  Missouri town to move giant cross off public land after atheist group's complaint

  A large cross contested by atheists will be moved off public land following complaints over a Missouri town's Christmas lights display. 

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  Jan 10, 2019

  New York Gov. Cuomo: No budget unless abortion made legal for any reason until birth

  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is refusing to sign the state’s budget unless the legislature passes a bill that makes abortion up until birth for any reason legal in the state. He is also calling on the legislature to enshrine abortion as a right guaranteed in the state constitution. 

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  Jan 10, 2019

  European human rights court to hear landmark case over mom euthanized for depression

  The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to take on the legal case of a man who objects to the fact that his mother was euthanized in 2012 after years of depression.