Joseph Perkins

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• Sep 10, 2011

  Bloomberg Remains Unmoved by Pleas for Inclusion of Religious Leaders

  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg refuses to budge. With more than 100,000 petitions delivered to his City Hall offices this past week urging him to allow religious leader to offer a few words of prayer at the 9/11 Memorial Service on Sunday, Bloomberg renewed his vow that the 10th anniversary event would remain strictly secular.

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  Sep 10, 2011

  Sharia Law at Center of Oklahoma Case to be Heard by Federal Appeals Court

  Does Oklahoma have the power to ban its state courts from citing, or using, Sharia law as a basis of legal decisions? On Monday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Denver, will hear opposing arguments on that thorny constitutional question.

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  Sep 9, 2011

  Blackout Leaves Southern Calif., Ariz., Mexico in the Dark

  More than five million people in Southern California, western Arizona and the Baja California Peninsula were left without electricity Thursday after a utility worker in Yuma, Ariz., unwittingly triggered a major blackout.

• Sep 9, 2011

  Mississippi High Court Dismisses Challenge to ‘Personhood’ Initiative

  The Mississippi Supreme Court Thursday cleared the way for residents of the Magnolia State to vote on a “personhood” ballot initiative, which would protect the unborn in the earliest stage of life.

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  Sep 8, 2011

  A Record Year for Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters

  With 2011 not even three-quarters complete, the year is shaping up as one of the costliest ever in terms of weather disasters. So far, there have been 10 separate natural disasters with economic losses of $1 billion or more.

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  Sep 7, 2011

  Clergy Plan 9/10 Prayer Service at Ground Zero

  A group of faith leaders and clergy hope to hold public prayer service at ground zero this upcoming Saturday, one day before the 10th anniversary of the worst-ever terror attack on U.S. soil.

• Sep 7, 2011

  Democratic Lawmakers, Black Clergy at Odds Over Same-Sex Marriage in N.C.

  The black clergy is usually a reliable ally of Democrats, from city hall to the state house to Congress. But on Tuesday, black pastors in North Carolina squared off against Democratic lawmakers over a proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

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  Sep 7, 2011

  Republicans Skeptical of Obama Jobs Plan

  With one in six Americans seeking full-time work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, President Obama is preparing to unveil a major jobs package Thursday that reportedly proposes $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending.

• Sep 6, 2011

  ACLJ Responds to Newspaper 'Attack' on Jay Sekulow

  “Flawed” and “biased” is how a spokesman for the American Center for Law and Justice described an article in The Tennessean that painted the group’s principal officer Jay Sekulow as living a life of luxury bankrolled by the money he earned from defending Christian values in court.

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  Sep 5, 2011

  Christian Lawyer Jay Sekulow Faces Financial Scrutiny

  It’s nothing new for Jay Sekulow – the newspaper article published yesterday in The Tennessean accusing the Christian lawyer of enriching himself at the expense of donors to two organizations for which he is the principal officer.