Arkansas
Arkansas senator agrees to unblock atheist constituents on Twitter and Facebook
By Alejandra Molina — August 18, 2022
(RNS) — An atheist advocacy group sued Republican state Sen. Jason Rapert, arguing he violated its members’ freedom of speech by blocking their viewpoints on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts.
As states ban abortion, a new spotlight on an old battle over sex education
By Riley Farrell — July 14, 2022
(RNS) — Half of the states set to ban abortion have no mandate that schools teach sex education. Only four require curricula to address contraception.
In many COVID hot spots, a pattern: High concentrations of white evangelicals
By Jack Jenkins — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It’s clear that the pattern is more white evangelical Protestants equals lower vaccination rates,’ said Natalie Jackson, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute.
Six arrested in burglary of an Arkansas Buddhist temple, in what may be a nationwide spree
By Yonat Shimron — May 5, 2021
(RNS) — A string of Buddhist temple burglaries has taken place in the last month, including in Southern California, Arizona, Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Bishop George Dallas McKinney, founder of St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church of God in Christ, dies at 88
By Alejandra Molina — March 22, 2021
(RNS) — The son of a sharecropper who was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, founded St. Stephen’s Church of God in Christ in 1962.
Satanic Temple plans to sue Arkansas over Ten Commandments monument
By Yonat Shimron — April 26, 2018
(RNS) — The Satanic Temple, which claims it has 100,000 members around the world, has become a vocal defender of religious freedom.
Man found unfit for trial over Ten Commandments destruction
By Andrew DeMillo — November 16, 2017
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man charged with crashing his vehicle into Arkansas' Ten Commandments display nearly three years after he was accused of destroying a monument at Oklahoma's Capitol was found mentally unfit Thursday to go to trial.
Christian movie studio donates $25,000 to rebuild Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 12, 2017
(RNS) — As of Monday (July 10) afternoon, the American History and Heritage Foundation had received more than $55,000 to replace the monument.
Man arrested for smashing Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol
By Steve Barnes — June 28, 2017
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) The suspect, identified as Michael Reed, faces three charges, including felony defacing an object of public interest.
Ten Commandments monument installed on Arkansas Capitol grounds
By N'dea Yancey-Bragg — June 27, 2017
(USA Today) The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and other opponents have vowed to sue over the controversial display.
Arkansas executions a prime example of how death penalty targets the poor
By Karen Clifton — May 8, 2017
(RNS) You’d be hard-pressed to find a rich person who received the death penalty.
Arkansas governor cuts state contracts with Planned Parenthood
By Reuters — August 15, 2015
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson canceled the state's contracts with Planned Parenthood, making his the third Southern state to do so since anti-abortion activists released videos that they say suggests the organization sells fetal tissue.
Arkansas judge tells state to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages
By Reuters — June 10, 2015
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) Arkansas must recognize as lawful some 500 same-sex marriages that were performed during a six-day window in May 2014, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.
Gay rodeo tests tolerance in Arkansas, hotbed of rights fight
By Reuters — May 21, 2015
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) On a clear Arkansas spring afternoon after a day of horse riding, Wade Earp sighed and said, "I wish we didn't have to have a gay rodeo. I wish we could just rodeo."
Religion is no license to discriminate, in Indiana or anywhere else
By Eliel Cruz — April 3, 2015
Christians everywhere should stand against state laws that can be used to discriminate -- not in spite of our faith but because of it.
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