by Bob Allen | Jul 3, 2003 | News
Comments last weekend by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist stirred debate over a proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriages. Frist, R-Tenn., said Sunday on ABC’s This Week that he fears a recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay sex threatens...
by Bob Allen | Jul 3, 2003 | News
A federal court says Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the state’s judicial office building is unconstitutional and must be removed. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that...
by Bob Allen | Jul 2, 2003 | News
An op-ed piece in an Arab newspaper labels Nashville, Tenn., as a city of hate. The article in Arab News, an English-language newspaper published in Saudi Arabia, carries a headline “From Nashville With Hate!” It is written by Hussein Shobokshi, a...
by Bob Allen | Jul 1, 2003 | News
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship raised $175,000 for its rural poverty initiative in a two-day offering at the group’s General Assembly last week in Charlotte, N.C. Partners in Hope, launched two years ago as a 20-year commitment to improve life in 20 of the...
by Jodi Mathews | Jul 1, 2003 | News
Hispanics have surpassed blacks as America’s largest minority race or ethnic group, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon reported the new figures to the League of United Latin American Citizens June 18. Estimates place the...
by Mark Wingfield | Jun 30, 2003 | News
Gifts of $9 million from an anonymous donor will enable the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to continue to appoint new missionaries next year despite budget shortfalls. Participants in last week’s CBF General Assembly approved a basic budget of $17.1 million for...
