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.
A controversial prayer rally took place at Ford Field Friday and Saturday but many mainline Christian leaders protested the event, calling out organizers for their anti-Muslim, anti-gay and even anti-Catholic views.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Organizers for Engle’s prayer event were expecting 50,000 to 70,000 people to
While some Detroit-area ministers are actively participating in this weekend’s prayer rally at Ford Field, others are speaking out against the rally as a result of some of the anti-Muslim and extremist views of the rally’s organizers.
More information is emerging about the people involved in organizing this weekend’s prayer rally at Ford Field amid accusations that the event is targeting local Muslims. People for the American Way reports that Lou Engle, the man behind the rally, worked with Transformation Michigan to put the event together.
The Nov. 11 prayer rally at Ford Field being organized by The Call, one of the groups that was also behind Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s August prayer rally in Houston, is provoking controversy on many fronts.
As we reported last week, the man leading the rally, Lou Engle, has More…
At least two Michigan school districts may have violated laws related to sex education in the state in order to play host to a Colorado-based abstinence-only sex education program. A third district did not completely follow state laws in booking the group.
The controversial Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones says that state Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) called him and asked to speak at his Wednesday rally but “chickened out” when it came time to stand on the Capitol steps and give a speech about his anti-foreign laws legislation.
The federal government has asked the federal court in Detroit to drop one charge against a member of a Christian militia arrested in March of 2010.
The Adrian Star Telegram reports that prosecutors asked the court to dismiss a charge of possession of an unregistered rifle against David Brian More…
State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) says reports that he called Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones’ church to ask to participate in a rally last week at the Capitol are wrong.
A voicemail from Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) in which he cancels his planned appearance at a Capitol rally with Quran-burning Florida Pastor Terry Jones has been posted on the website of one of the rally organizers.
James Terpening put the audio up on his website, OperationFreedomsTree.org.
“This is
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