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Atlanta, Ga., Jun 3, 2016 / 04:59 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The head of the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has resigned after a scare with her daughters involving men entering a women’s restroom.Maya Dillard Smith had been interim director of the chapter since 2015. She said she resigned because of the hostile reaction to her questions about the advocacy group’s participation in litigation on the use of opposite-sex public restrooms by people who identify as transgender.“There are real concerns about the safety of women and girls in regards to this bathroom debate,” she said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It seems to me that instead of stifling the dialogue, we want to encourage a robust debate to come up with an effective solution.”She said she had misgivings about the issue since the time her young daughters encountered three deep-voiced transgendered young adults over six feet tall in an Oakland, Calif. restr...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Julie AsherST. LOUIS (CNS) -- Maria de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda, a writer and author in the Catholic press since 1982, received the 2016 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.The award, which is the highest honor given by CPA, was presented at a luncheon at the Catholic Media Conference June 3 in St. Louis.With emotion in her voice, Scaperlanda said the honor "was most unexpected.""I have known so many of you for so many years. So many of you have made it possible for me to be a writer in the Catholic press," she said, adding with a laugh, "You continue to support people like me who write at home in our pajamas.""I've been thinking this week about how God is a God of details and how coming to this country as a teenager at the age 13 not even speaking English," she said. Born in Cuba, she later immigrated to the U.S.Scaperlanda described meeting some refugee families during her visit to Jordan last...
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday that the world champion U.S. women's soccer team does not have the right to strike to seek improved conditions and wages before the Summer Olympics, seeming to end the prospect of an unprecedented disruption by one of the most successful American national teams....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama shortened the sentences Friday of 42 people serving time for drug-related offenses, continuing a push for clemency that has ramped up in the final year of his administration....
DENVER (AP) -- Both of the U.S. military's high-drama, high-dollar flying teams suffered crashes on the same day this week, but supporters say the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels are worth the money and the risk because they're vital to recruitment and help citizens feel good about their military....
Muhammad Ali is hospitalized in the Phoenix area with what two people familiar with his condition say may be more serious problems than his previous hospital stays....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A train towing cars full of oil derailed Friday in Oregon's scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky and leading to evacuations....
REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- Donald Trump singled out a black supporter at a rally in California on Friday as he sought to demonstrate his support among African-Americans, saying, "Look at my African-American over here!"...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. hiring slowed to a near-standstill in May, sowing doubts about the economy's health and complicating the Federal Reserve's efforts to raise interest rates....
