Topic: Texas
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The approval of a specialty Texas vehicle license plate which says "One State Under God" and shows three crosses has again put Texas Governor Rick Perry on the spot in the Republican presidential race.The Texas Department of Motor ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The Texas Board of Education voted unanimously to approve mainstream middle school curriculum materials on Friday in a move seen as a victory for proponents of teaching evolution in public schools.Conservatives had complained the materials up for approval ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas vote on middle school curriculum due on Friday has become the latest battleground over the teaching of creationism or "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution in public schools.At issue is whether Texas education leaders will ...
Religion News in BriefA judge sentenced a church financier to 54 years in prison Tuesday for pocketing millions of dollars that investors believed would be used to build churches.Special Judge Dena Martin ordered former pastor Vaughn Reeves to serve consecutive six-year terms ...
Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs due in Texas court for 1st pretrial hearing since transferPolygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is due back in a West Texas courtroom for his first pretrial hearing since being transferred from Utah.Jeffs was scheduled to appear Wednesday ...
On April 3 , 2008 , after allegedly receiving a phone call from a child reporting systematic physical and sexual abuse, Texas police raided the Yearning for Zion ranch, in the town of Eldorado . The number of children involved presents a ...
The second man arrested in the Polygamist Sect Raid was Leroy Johnson Steed , a 41-year-old man. Leroy Johnson Steed is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints . Hearing in San Angelo to Stop Retreat ...
Levi Barlow Jeffs , a 19-year-old man, was arrested on April 6, 2008 and charged with interfering with the duties of a public servant. It has not been confirmed by authorities whether or not Levi Barlow Jeffs is related to Warren Jeffs ...
Polygamy is the practice of simultaneously maintaining a marriage to more than one spouse. Polygamist Raid is PR Nightmare for Mormons (June 30, 2008) However, according to the Mormon church, fundamentalist sects that practice polygamy, like the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ ...
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the FLDS, is a sect that practices a fundamentalist form of Mormonism. Lawyers want to seal FLDS case (March 30, 2009) Nearly a year after the raid of the ...
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