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.
A church in Fife Lake, Michigan has filed a federal suit (see full complaint here) against the village over a policy that charges religious organizations for use of a public building in the community while allowing non-religious organizations to use the facility free of charge.
The American Religious Identification Survey, administered periodically by The Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Connecticut, has been released for 2008 and it shows a relatively dramatic decrease in religious belief since the last major study in 1990. Michigan is no exception.
The ACLU of Michigan has sent a letter (PDF here) to the superintendent of South Haven Public Schools asking the school to change their policy of allowing a local youth minister and lunchroom volunteer to proselytize students in the lunchroom during school hours.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling upholding the editorial practices of Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) in a directory they publish listing companies and individuals who can help applicants for unemployment benefits.
After eight years, outgoing President George W. Bush told ABC’s Nightline that he does not believe the Bible is literally true, and that evolution and creation are not mutually exclusive ideas.
Here’s one of the weirdest stories I’ve seen in the current brouhaha over a bailout package for the auto industry. Greater Grace Temple, a large church in Detroit, placed SUVs on their altar, anointed auto workers with oil and is urging followers to pray and fast in order to get Congress to pass a rescue [...]
In the latest in a string of defeats, another Michigan church has lost an appeal in a case challenging a local municipality’s zoning ordinances.
With all the talk about the religious right being anti-McCain, Steven Waldman reports that both the number and percentage of evangelical voters was higher for McCain than it was for Bush in 2004.
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