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An Ohio school district may be violating the constitutional rights of its students. Mason, Ohio, school officials sent an email to parents in advance of the presidential inauguration saying, "...
Conservatives in Congress are trying to plan ways to keep funding for abstinence education while working in a liberal atmosphere. In an article in the Spectator, David Bass of the John Locke F...
Americans United for Separation of Church and State is challenging an Arkansas school. According to an Americans United press release, Fountain Lake High School in Hot Springs has allowed construct...
Thursday, January 22, 2009 CHICAGO  —  A federal judge has ruled that a state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools across Illinois is unconstitutional, saying it c...
Critics Push to End Abstinence-Only Sex Education Sunday, January 18, 2009 NEW YORK  —  With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be...
A pro-family advocate says budget cuts are coming for Massachusetts schools, but programs aimed at promoting homosexuality need not worry. Many states across the U.S. are facing budget deficits, a...
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) has prepared their Top Ten list of the most outrageous Christian bashing in America in the year 2008. The CADC is an organization that work...
An Illinois family advocate says she's stunned by the approval of what she believes is the first homosexual-affirming middle school in the U.S. The proposal for the Alliance School was approved u...
Banned conservative speakers, stolen votes, assaults on religious liberty, gay English classes, and forbidden Thanksgiving & Christmas celebrations Political correctness ran amuck in our natio...
Why did 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex unions? They voted 32 percent for Obama, twice the percent...
A pro-family advocate is calling the University of Chicago's decision to allow coed dorm rooms troubling. The university announced the decision to parents in a letter that was sent in mid-December....
About one third of 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals voted for Barack Obama.  Something does not compute here.  Obama’s record on abortion and same-sex unions stands in direct oppositi...
HUNTINGTON, Ind. - Public school officials in Huntington, Indiana, deny that a religious education program offered during the school day illegally advances religion. A lawsuit filed last month by ...
Conservative columnist Tony Blankley writes about some disturbing information he came across while researching a new book about the distortion of history and religion in textbooks. The Council on ...
Parents Television Council is discussing the strengths and pitfalls Channel One news. Channel One, a television network targeting teens, has been pumped into middle and high schools across Ame...
The Smithsonian Institution has recently opened a new exhibit in its National Portrait Gallery called “Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs.” Among the history-making women...
Parents of faith have lost a legal case over school tax deductions. A Jewish couple has been waging a court battle in California, calling it unfair that some people who pay for private, religious e...
A religious rights advocate is troubled by a recent occurrence of censorship at a Mississippi school. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, sixth-grader Andrew White was given a creative expression assignment ...
Over 14.8 million Americans aged 12 and older are current users of marijuana. In 2006, an estimated 2.1 million persons– approximately 6,000 per day- tried marijuana for the first time. Just ...
Maybe your child's "holiday" concert at school includes Kwanzaa songs these days.  Our elementary school did.  One grade each year was assigned that holiday, with a young studen...
A former student at the Rhode Island College School of Social Work is suing the school and several of his professors for discrimination, saying he was persecuted by the school's "liberal polit...
WASHINGTON —  Scientific advisers to the government emphasize in a report the importance of teaching evolution in public schools. The report by the National Academy of Sciences and ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —  A museum where Adam and Eve share exhibit space with dinosaurs is drawing criticism from groups of science educators as it nears completion. The $27 million Creat...
A pro-family advocate is outraged that a California public school teacher would pass out homosexual pledge cards to her kindergarten students. The pledge cards were produced by the Gay, Lesbian an...