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<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/17259671/ammendment 800x500 350x219.jpg" alt="First Amendment attack" class="ImageFloatRight"/>Two Christian educators in Oregon have filed a federal lawsuit after their district put them on leave for disagreeing with pro-transgender locker room and pronoun policies.</p>
We wanna be red, not blue … but what are the chances?
Friday, May 21, 2021 |
Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com)
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An Oregon-based constitutional attorney questions if it s even possible for more than a half-dozen eastern Oregon counties to become part of Idaho.
A total of seven counties in Oregon have voted to support efforts to leave the Democrat-controlled state and become part of Republican-controlled Idaho. WKRN.com reports the counties want to be part of the Greater Idaho movement, which is pushing the plan to move Idaho s border so the state encompasses more conservative counties in Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington.
A church s case against hostile intolerance
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 |
Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
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A federal judge in Oregon has refused for the second time to throw out a case against a church that wants to build a parsonage for its pastor and his family.
The congregation of Coles Valley Church in the small farming town of Umpqua, Oregon thinks their pastor should live in the same community as the people he is serving. So with the nearest housing in the area being 10 miles away, the church decided to build out a couple of existing rooms in their building to be used as a parsonage. But the owners of an adjacent vineyard did not want that and convinced the local Land Use Board of Appeals to sue the church.
PJI wins free speech case for street evangelist
Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com)
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A court has ruled in favor of a Seattle street evangelist and his First Amendment right to free speech.
Matthew Meinecke, who is well-known in the downtown area for his street preaching, faced an anti-harassment order filed by the manager of a business.
Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute says the anti-harassment order blocked the street preacher from speaking in public forums in the downtown area.
“A local t-shirt shop owner decided that this was causing him to be angry and upset and disturbed, Dacus tells One News Now, “and so [Meinecke] was silenced from being able to preach the gospel there.