Trump wins Colorado ballot disqualification case at US Supreme Court
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major victory on Monday, barring states from disqualifying candidates for federal office under a constitutional provision involving insurrection and reversing Colorado’s exclusion of him from its ballot. The justices unanimously overturned a 19th December decision by Colorado’s top court to kick the former […]
Trump should be disqualified from 2024 ballot over 6th January riot, advocates say at trial
Reuters Donald Trump should be disqualified from Colorado’s ballot in next year’s election because he “incited a violent mob” in Washington on 6th January, 2021, an advocacy group lawyer argued at the opening of a trial on Monday. A lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is a test case for whether […]
In the US, Colorado baker loses appeal over transgender birthday cake
Denver, Colorado, USAP The Colorado baker who won a partial US Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith lost an appeal Thursday in his latest legal fight, involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled […]
Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake
Denver, Colorado AP The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple’s wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday […]
After abortion vote, Catholic bishops in US state of Colorado ask lawmakers to refrain from Communion
United StatesRNS Catholic bishops from the US state of Colorado asked Catholic lawmakers who voted in favour of abortion rights legislation earlier this year to “voluntarily refrain from Holy Communion”, according to an open letter signed on Monday and provided to Religion News Service. “Voting for RHEA was participating in a gravely sinful action because […]
Significant Sights: A Rocky Mountain high
SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about why the Rocky Mountains are such a special space for her…
My Mission: Peter Warren, founder of the Youth With a Mission base in Denver, Colorado
Australian PETER WARREN tells the story of how he and his wife Linda ended up serving with Youth With A Mission in Denver, Colorado…
Designer who won’t make same-sex wedding websites loses case in US court
Denver, Colorado, USAP A US appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, another twist in a series of court rulings nationwide about whether businesses denying services to LGBTQ people amounts to bias or freedom of speech. A […]
Amid Catholic opposition, US states are legalising composting of human remains
RNS Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the US states that have legalised the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased”. Meanwhile, California and New York are seeking to be next in line to allow human composting. The […]
Slain officer gave life, showed best of police, says US archbishop
Denver, Colorado, USAP A Colorado police officer shot and killed after rushing into a supermarket where a gunman opened fire sacrificed his life and showed what is best about police, Denver’s archbishop said Monday during a funeral Mass for Officer Eric Talley. “Jesus has told us, greater love than this no man has than to […]