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A U.S. appeals court has ruled against web designer Lorie Smith, who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law.

Six decades after being denied a spot in the space program by NASA because of her gender, 82-year-old Wally Funk finally reached space.

A new lawsuit against Liberty University claims the Lynchburg, Virginia-based evangelical Christian school has “intentionally created a campus environment” that makes sexual assaults and rapes more likely to occur.

While no COVID-19 restrictions have been in place since June 1, Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain in Las Vegas is continuing to press for a federal court order declaring Gov. Steve Sisolak’s earlier limits unconstitutional.

Atheist and humanist groups are suing Mississippi over the state's In God We Trust license plate, calling it unconstitutional and seeking alternatives that don't require additional fees for Mississippi drivers.

Seventeen professional psychological societies have signed a statement asking the U.S. Department of Education to protect LGBTQ students at religious colleges and universities from discrimination.

Connecticut will no longer allow a religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities, becoming the sixth state to end that vaccine exemption policy.

Among the millions of Southern Baptist women, there are many who have questioned the faith’s gender-role doctrine and more recently urged a stronger response to disclosures of sexual abuse perpetrated by SBC clergy.