Sarah Padbury

• Boy and Girl Locker Rooms Going Extinct in States on U.S. Coasts
  At the end of 2015, two human rights commissions over 2,800 miles apart enacted new rules that could be precedent-setting for the gender battle across the nation.
  Tuesday, January 19, 2016
• VA Hospital Reverses Christmas Tree Ban
  The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Va. has reversed their decision to ban Christmas trees from all public areas.
  Monday, November 30, 2015
• Chicago Schools in Standoff with Feds over Same-sex Locker Rooms
  A united Chicago school board is fighting an order from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to allow a transgender student full access to the high school girls’ locker room.
  Monday, November 2, 2015
• High School Rejects ACLU Bid to Block Prayer Boxes
  A Louisiana school board rebuffed the ACLU at a meeting Oct. 1 when it passed a resolution calling the organization’s recent threats unwarranted.
  Monday, October 5, 2015
• Office Depot Offers Muddy Apology for Refusal to Print Pro-life Flier
  Office Depot has apologized to a Chicago woman who claims the company refused to print a flier for her last month due to its religious content. But last week’s apology did not rule out the...
  Monday, September 21, 2015
• Pastor Defends Baptisms on High-School Football Field
  A Georgia high school football coach is in hot water after organizing a baptism service on the field last month.
  Monday, September 14, 2015
• Denver Discriminates Against Chick-fil-A Over CEO's Marriage Beliefs
  Several Denver City Council members want to stop Chick-fil-A from opening at Denver International Airport (DIA), claiming the fast food chain CEO’s support of “biblical marriage” would hurt the...
  Monday, August 31, 2015
• Sweet Cakes Raises Almost Triple State Fine on Faith-Based Funding Site
  Christians looking to raise funds for religious liberty causes have a new crowdfunding option that won’t kick them off the site for defending their faith.
  Monday, July 27, 2015
• Washington Florist Fined, Ordered to Create Gay Wedding Arrangements
  A great-grandmother was ordered to pay $1,001 last week for violating its Consumer Protection Act when she refused to create a flower arrangement for a customer’s same-sex wedding.
  Monday, April 6, 2015
• Police Officer, Suspended over Gay Pride Parade, Defends Religious Liberty
  A former Salt Lake City police officer who was put on leave and later resigned after he objected to riding in the motorcycle brigade at the front of a gay-pride parade spoke out for his religious...
  Monday, March 9, 2015
• Court Rules Same-sex Marriage Rights Trump Florist’s Religious Beliefs
  A Washington state judge ruled Wednesday that a Christian flower shop owner is required under state law to provide full services for same-sex wedding ceremonies, even though it violates her faith.
  Monday, February 23, 2015
• Kentucky Sinks Tourism Tax Incentives for Noah's Ark Theme Park
  Kentucky officials withdrew a state tax incentive package for a Christian nonprofit building a replica of Noah’s ark, claiming the rebate violated the principle of church-state separation.
  Tuesday, January 6, 2015
• Serial Anti-Religion Bullies Switch Targets
  Two atheists who recently targeted churches in Hawaii that rent space from public schools are continuing their assault on religious liberty—this time, in Michigan.
  Monday, December 15, 2014
• 'Tis the Season for the Public School Scrooge
  The trend of removing Christ’s birth from the reason we decorate our homes, buy gifts, attend concerts, and take two weeks off from school in December continues.
  Monday, December 8, 2014
• Colorado High School Bans Prayer Meeting During “Free Time”
  A Christian student group had been peacefully meeting for over three years for encouragement, prayer, and singing when officials suddenly ordered the students to stop.
  Monday, November 24, 2014
• Canadian Law Society Reverses Decision, Won't Accept Christian Law Grads
  -The governing board of the Law Society of British Columbia decided last week not to admit graduates of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school, reversing an earlier decision to accept the...
  Tuesday, November 11, 2014
• Family-Owned Pharmacy Leans on Hobby Lobby Ruling for Support
  Attorneys in Washington state filed a brief in federal appeals court last week arguing their clients shouldn’t have to choose between their livelihoods and their consciences.
  Monday, August 18, 2014
• Hawaiian Churches Win Partial Victory in Fight Over School Rentals
  A judge in Hawaii gutted a new lawsuit on Tuesday filed by two atheists against churches that rent space from public schools.
  Tuesday, June 3, 2014