The U.S. Supreme Court handed the pro-choice community a major victory Monday in a much-watched abortion case, striking down a Louisiana law that required clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

The law was similar to a Texas law overturned by the Supreme Court in 2016 that required abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within 30 miles of the clinic. The high court voted 5-4 to strike down the Texas law, with Chief Justice John Roberts voting with the conservative bloc in the minority.

Pro-lifers believed they might have the votes this time, since Justice Anthony Kennedy – who voted with the majority in 2016 – had been replaced by Brett Kavanaugh.

But on Monday, Roberts flipped sides and joined the liberal bloc, arguing the Supreme Court must abide by precedent. Roberts concurred only in the judgment and wrote a separate concurring opinion.

The Texas case was Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.

“I joined the dissent in Whole Woman’s Health and continue to believe that the case was wrongly decided,” Roberts wrote. “The question today however is not whether Whole Woman’s Health was right or wrong, but whether to adhere to it in deciding the present case. … Adherence to precedent is necessary to ‘avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts.'”

Pro-lifers say the law makes clinics safer for women if complications…

Saying “the foundation of freedom is faith,” Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday urged members of a Texas megachurch to pray for the nation and to rely on God to get America “through these challenging times.”

Pence spoke nearly 30 minutes at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, the same day he also held a press conference at a local hospital with Gov. Greg Abbott and others to address a spike in coronavirus cases in the state.

Pence wore a mask at the church and took it off to speak to the crowd. Prayer and faith, he said, are key during America’s current crises.

“I believe with all my heart … that if we will but hold fast to Him, we’ll see our way through these challenging times, we will restore our nation’s health, we will renew our freedom, and we will inspire people across this land with our witness of the love and compassion and strength that comes in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” Pence said.

Speaking at the church’s “Celebrate Freedom Sunday,” Pence quoted faith-centric comments from the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. and said the “faith of the American people will continue to perfect our nation for generations to come.”

“The foundation of America is freedom. The foundation of freedom is faith,” he said.

Pence quoted Lincoln as saying, “It is the duty of nations as well as of men … to…

These times aren’t easy. While many continue to lose jobs and employer-based healthcare during the ongoing pandemic, the need for affordable and accessible healthcare has never been greater. How can you maintain your access to healthcare when you or someone in your family loses their job?

With twenty-one states reporting rising rates of coronavirus and the United States Department of Labor reporting an unemployment rate of 19.7 percent, many American workers are no longer able to rely on traditional employer-based healthcare to meet their medical needs.

In addition, if you or a loved one does lose their job, maintaining COBRA coverage is expensive – families pay an average of $1595 per month, and it only lasts for 18 months. What happens then?

One simple way we can maintain access to healthcare, even after losing a job, is to become a member of a Christian-based cost-sharing ministry, which shares funds among members to assist with incurred medical expenses. Joining a cost-sharing ministry is an effective way to make healthcare affordable and accessible without being tied to employment status.

Cost-sharing ministries are communities of like-minded people who agree to the biblical values of sharing to help one another pay their medical bills. While the membership requirements vary by organization, cost-sharing ministries match funds from member contributions to provide access to healthcare…

The Editor in Chief for Yahoo Music wrote a column this week examining the history of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and suggested that the United States might want to search for a new national anthem. She also spoke with a journalist and activist who suggested replacing “The Star-Spangled Banner” with John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

Lyndsey Parker referenced several incidents that have happened in recent weeks regarding the National Anthem. First, protestors overturned a statue of “The Star-Spangled Banner’s” author Francis Scott Key in San Francisco. Also, a student at the Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts in New York refused to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a virtual graduation ceremony. Instead, Liana Morales sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which many have called the “Black National Anthem.’

Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” after observing the Battle of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Key held slaves and said that Black people were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”

Parker spoke with Kevin Powell, an activist and journalist who starred in the first season of MTV’s The Real World. Powell cited Key’s being born into a slave-holding family, his prosecution of abolitionists during his time as a lawyer, and his friendship with…

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee if responded to Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King’s called to remove all depictions of Jesus as a White man.

As Christian Headlines reported earlier this week, King asserted that statues showing Jesus as a White man are “gross form[s] of white supremacy” and called for them to be torn down.

His controversial remarks set off a firestorm of backlash from Christians.

Huckabee, who also served as a Southern Baptist minister before entering the political arena, criticized King’s comments in a Fox News interview on Wednesday.

“To say that in any way Jesus is a symbol of white anything is absurd, in part because Jesus wasn’t a white guy,” Huckabee said. “He was a Middle Easterner and probably had more olive skin than he did white skin.”

In Huckabee’s words, Shaun King’s proposal is “one of the most unbelievable things I’ve ever heard.”

 “If someone would study Jesus, they would find that he was the ultimate person who loved the unlovable, who cared for the ones that no one else cared for,” Huckabee explained.

“He cared about people who were slaves. He cared about people who were prostitutes. He stepped in the path of those who were ready to stone to death a woman caught in adultery.”

The former governor also noted that people are forgetting that America was founded on…

A bill that protects the religious expression of public school students throughout the school day and even with homework and other assignments was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine last week.

The Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act, which passed the Senate 32-0 and the House 90-3, says public school students “may engage in religious expression before, during, and after school hours in the same manner and to the same extent” that “a student is permitted to engage in secular activities or expression before, during, and after school hours.”

Further, the new law prevents school districts from prohibiting a student from “engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments.” Teachers “shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student’s work,” the law says.

“Grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards,” the law says.

The law defines “religious expression” as:

• Prayer.
• “Religious gatherings, including but not limited to prayer groups, religious clubs, ‘see you at the pole’ gatherings, or other religious gatherings.”
• “Distribution of written materials or literature of a religious nature.”
• “Any other activity of a religious nature, including wearing symbolic clothing or expression of a religious viewpoint, provided that the activity is not obscene,…

Two high-ranking Mississippi elected officials say the Confederate battle emblem should be removed from the state flag and replaced with the words on the state seal: “In God We Trust.”

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and state Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann made the proposal this week amid a growing controversy over the flag, which has incorporated the Confederate battle flag since 1894.

“We must look for a flag for our collective future to be flown over our collective assets,” Hosemann said in a statement. “… In my mind, our flag should bear the Seal of the Great State of Mississippi and state ‘In God We Trust.'”

My statement on changing the flag. pic.twitter.com/TZz7kfFbBa

— Delbert Hosemann (@DelbertHosemann) June 24, 2020

Fitch made similar remarks.

“It is my personal belief that it is time for us to change our state flag to reflect the love, compassion and conviction of our people,” Fitch said. “The addition of ‘In God We Trust’ from our state seal is the perfect way to demonstrate to all who we are.”

A survey released this week showed 72 percent of likely voters support changing the flag if the new design incorporates “In God We Trust.”

Meanwhile, more than 50 athletic directors and coaches from the state’s eight public universities appeared together at the state capitol Thursday to urge legislators to change the state flag and remove the Confederate…