I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
As the city of Dearborn prepares for another Arab International Festival in June, the police have lost another court case involving their attempts to prevent Christian missionaries from proselytizing at the annual event.
Quran-burning Florida minister Terry Jones, who was prevented from protesting outside the largest mosque in America in Dearborn recently, announced Tuesday that he will be attending the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June.
The four Christian missionaries charged with disturbing the peace for preaching at the Dearborn International Arab Festival were vindicated on Friday, with one of the four found guilty of failing to comply with a police order and all four acquitted on the main charge of disturbing the peace. The Detroit Free Press reports. The mayor [...]
The four Christian missionaries arrested for disorderly conduct for preaching to a predominately Muslim crowd at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June will stand trial after the judge refused to grant a motion filed by defense attorneys to dismiss the case. The Thomas More Law Center, which is defending the missionaries, the ACLU of [...]
Attorneys from the Thomas More Law Center, representing four Christian missionaries arrested in June while preaching to a predominately Muslim crowd at the Dearborn International Arab Festival, asked the judge in the case to dismiss those charges on Monday. The Detroit News reports:
Conservative commentator and potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is citing the arrest of four Christian missionaries in June at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in defense of his position that the government should prevent the building of a proposed Islamic center a few blocks from Ground Zero in New York. The Detroit Free [...]
An interesting development in the case of the four Christian missionaries arrested at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June: A Muslim attorney from Dearborn organized a rally in defense of the four missionaries at Dearborn City Hall on Monday, condemning the police for the arrest and for violating the First Amendment. The Detroit Free [...]
Despite a lower court ruling upholding restrictions on proselytizing at an Arab festival in Dearborn this past weekend, a Christian ministry was allowed to walk around and hand out leaflets urging the predominately Muslim festival goers to convert to Christianity because the appeals court issued a last-minute stay of that court order pending appeal of [...]
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