The Leander, Texas City Council voted 5-2 on August 15 to end library room rentals to the public in the wake of an outcry over a controversial Drag Queen Story Hour presentation. The Council also voted 6-1 to require background checks for presenters to children aged 17 and younger, reported Community Impact Newspaper. The votes came after several [...]
A series of anti-God banners in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, are drawing criticism from citizens and even the mayor, but city officials say they have the legal right to be there. The banners read “In NO God We Trust” and are sponsored by Metroplex Atheists, which is holding an event July 14 at the Fort Worth [...]
A small town an hour north of Houston, Texas is defying an outside group's demand to take down a Courthouse cross with one simple act. After the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation complained that four crosses on the San Jacinto County Courthouse violated the Constitution and should be taken down immediately, the community rallied, Texas-style. Hundreds gathered at a town hall and [...]
Group called it anti-gay religious extremism. Apple removed a Christian ministry's app from its store after an LGBT group claimed it implied being gay was a sickness, according to published reports. A gay rights group, Truth Wins Out, got the so-called ex-gay app removed after it convinced the tech giant that the app was "dangerous," "bigoted" and [...]
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector are sounding the alarm after they recently apprehended two Syrian nationals who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into South Texas. The agents say the arrest of the Syrians confirms there is a human smuggling pipeline from countries with connections to terrorism into the U.S. “We don’t know the [...]
Austin police announced that the man described by police as a “serial bomber” is now dead. The suspected bomber reportedly blew himself up with a bomb as police approached. Investigators identified the suspect as a 24-year-old white male. The self-inflicted death of the suspect brings a three-week terror campaign of bombings to a close. The five [...]
It was quite a scene in the high school parking lot – a convoy of trucks adorned with the Christian flag – waving in the Texas breeze! The red, white and blue has flown outside LaPoynor High School in LaRue, Texas, for as far back as anyone can remember. But instead of 50 stars on a [...]
The nation's leading secularist group is asking for a Texas school board to punish a superintendent who prayed during a mandatory staff convocation held at a Texas megachurch. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based legal organization that advocates for a strict separation of church and state, is asking the McKinney Independent School District to discipline [...]
Humanitarian aid organizations IsraAID and iAID send teams to help clear debris, clean ruined homes and offer psychological support to Harvey survivors. Two teams of Israeli aid experts are on their way to Texas to provide vital relief and psychosocial support to the thousands of people who have lost everything in the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey. The [...]
The footprint in the photo is an actual impression in Cretaceous limestone, not a plaster cast. It was chiseled from a layer of limestone at the Cross Branch tributary of the Paluxy River, about three miles south of Glen Rose, Texas. This particular layer of Cretaceous limestone is famous for its dinosaur footprints found along the [...]
