An ideologically split Supreme Court ruled Monday that a law school can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group that won’t let gays join.
The court turned away an appeal from the Christian Legal Society, which sued to get funding and recognition from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.
The CLS requires that voting members sign a statement of faith and re
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of the federal, state and local governments to substantially limit its reach.
By a 5-4 vote split along familiar ideological lines, the nation’s highest court extended its landmark 2008 ruling that individual Americans have a constitutional right to own guns to a
After four long years of being denied religious property status, a landmark court battle over a cloister of pagan witches is brewing.
The Maetreum of Cybele, Magna Mater, a faction of matriarchal priestesses living in a historic Palenville inn, has filed suit against the Town of Catskill after being denied a religious property tax exemption on their three-acre parcel along Route 23A.
The pro
It threatened to rain as we rode the air-conditioned bus down from the mountain citadel at Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes. Our next stop was Cusco and the annual three-hour Festival of the Sun or Inti Raymi that would begin on June 24 (winter solstice).
The dry season in this southeastern part of Peru starts in June and runs through September. After that the wet season takes over big time.
I was just slapping a handful of yaks fat on to my last piece of exposed flesh when my wife walked into the room.
What the hell are you doing? she asked.
Covering myself in yak fat, I replied with as much dignity as a naked man covered in yak fat can muster.
She gave me one of those looks that can peel paint at 20 paces.
Actually, I really dont want to know, she said.
Ill
It might sound weird, but even in 2010 the brooding Balkan countries cant shake their addiction to psychics, clairvoyants, soothsayers and assorted white witches, all of which are still doing a roaring trade, from Bulgaria to Translyvania.
Clairvoyants and soothsayers ply their ancient trade around hospitals in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, reassuring anxious relatives with visions of a ra
A Grays couples garden resembled a scene from a Harry Potter film, as they tied the knot Pagan style.
Steve Beedan, 50, and Kerry Church, 18, invited 70 of their friends and family to their home in Rectory Road to share their Wiccan wedding with them.
Guests, many of whom wore cloaks, watched as the couple took part in traditional Wiccan wedding rituals, such as handfasting, where the coupl
A partial lunar eclipse taking place on 26 June will appear magnified in the US by an effect known as the “moon illusion”.
The eclipse will begin 10:17 GMT when the Moon enters the shadow of Earth.
Because of the timing, it will not be visible from the UK or Europe.
But in many parts of the US and Canada, the eclipse will appear larger because it occurs while the Moon is so close to the h
In a case triggered by the battle over same-sex marriage in California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that disclosing the names of people who sign initiative petitions generally does not violate their right to free speech.
The 8-1 decision is a victory for gay rights advocates who have used the ‘outing’ of same-sex marriage foes as a political tactic. Same-sex marriage opponents in Wash
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that countries are not obliged to allow gay marriage, rejecting a bid by an Austrian couple to force the state to let them wed.
The court said the rights of Horst Michael Schalk and Johann Franz Kopf had not been violated by their inability to get married.
In Austria, same-sex couples can enter into legally recognized partnerships, similar to marr
