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The Price of Religious Liberty

13 Nov 2019
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Sam Field

Some people have taken religious liberty for granted. After all, it’s protected in the First Amendment, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and legislation such as the Religious Freedom Restoration...

WRN News from Around the Web: Obama Rule Repealed, Church Demolition, Assisted Suicide, Transgender, Kung Fu Nuns, Empty Heavens

11 Nov 2019
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Alethea Bloomwood

Kung Fu Buddhist Nuns The Druk Amitabha Mountain Monastery in Kathmandu has long promoted gender equality and the empowerment of women. Since 2008, Buddhist nuns have been trained there in kung fu for self-defense,...

Baptist College Expels Trans Student Hours After Surgery

16 Aug 2019
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Nathan Glover

Welch College described the surgery as "sexual perversion," which is against the school's rules. In the trans community to which Awtrey belongs, that means he had undergone a double mastectomy to feel...

Colorado Baker is Being Sued (Again) By Transgender for Refusing to Make a Cake with Satanic Images

25 Jul 2019
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Alison Lesley

Jake Phillips would like to live out his faith in peace as a cake artist A . This is the third lawsuit in seven years against the cake artist, Jack Phillips. His attorneys have argued that...

LDS Church Will Now Allow Baptism for Children of LGBTQ Parents

05 Apr 2019
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Alison Lesley

The move came after 41 months Instituted in November 2015, Russell M. Nelson, the present church president, brought forward a policy which not only deemed same-sex couples as apostates but also forbade...

Google Pulls Christian “Conversion Therapy” App

01 Apr 2019
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Gary Nguyen

The procedures demean and torture transgenders. The app in question from Living Hope Ministries advised individuals on "recovery from same-sex attraction." Matters began to move when Human Rights...

Lady Gaga Calls Out Mike Pence as Christianity’s “Worst Representation”

22 Jan 2019
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Kelly Frazier

Lady Gaga also urged President Trump to stop the federal government shutdown. She said it is deplorable that he thinks it's acceptable for his wife to work at a school which expressly bans LGBTQ...

Christian Homeless Shelter Fighting to Keep Transgender Women Out

16 Jan 2019
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Kelly Frazier

The ADF is defending The Hope Center The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative Christian law firm, now represents The Hope Center, a Christian charity. The center has also stated it has barred...

Church of England Approves Pastoral Guidance for Welcoming Transgender People

12 Dec 2018
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Kelly Frazier

Traditionalists have fought against such a step. into Anglican faith. This guidance was approved by the House of Bishops and follows a certain motion adopted at a 2017 General Synod. It does...

TX Evangelicals Sue for the Right to Discriminate Against LGBTQ Job Candidates and Employees

16 Oct 2018
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Elisa Meyer

Two evangelical non-profits have filed multiple lawsuits on this matter. They have filed multiple lawsuits both in the federal and state courts to this effect, claiming churches and Christian businesses...