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A Mennonite pastor who helped a girl and her birth mother escape the United States to evade her court-imposed lesbian “mother” has been freed after serving almost 24 months in a U.S. federal prison. Kenneth Miller, a pastor with the Beachy Amish Mennonites of Virginia, was convicted in 2013 of having helped Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella (both unrelated to Kenneth Miller) to flee the United States. They left the country in late 2009 to evade court-imposed visits to Lisa ’s former civil union partner, Janet Jenkins . According to a website created by Kenneth Miller’s supporters, the pastor was  released  from prison on March 6, and “was given a grand welcome at our church by flashing lights, sirens, and a shower, courtesy of the Amish Auxiliary of the Stuarts Draft Volunteer Fire Dept.” “We held a joyful and praise-filled welcome home service on Sunday,” the website added. Kenneth Miller served his almost two-year sentence after he exhausted his appeals ...

The Kentucky woman who became famous for refusing to sign homosexual “marriage” licenses and spent nearly a week in jail for her Christian convictions has officially registered for re-election. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis announced in November that she would run for a second term, but this time as a Republican. She switched parties after her confrontation with the court system over same-sex “marriage.” After the U.S. Supreme Court ’s 2015  Obergefell v. Hodges  decision imposed homosexual “marriage” nationwide, Davis refused to sign county-issued licenses.  She said that as a Christian, she believed marriage was exclusively the union of one woman and one man.   “It’s a Heaven or Hell decision,” Davis  asserted .  While she said she has “no animosity toward anyone,” she refused to violate “marriage and God’s Word.” Even after U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ordered her to sanction same-sex “marriage” with her signature, she re...

An Iowa pastor, saying the government needs to stop "meddling in religious affairs," is at odds with the state over a law focused on sexual orientation and gender identity that he says hinders his First Amendment right to teach on matters of sexuality. "The state of Iowa is not the self-appointed pope of all churches," Cary Gordon, pastor of Cornerstone World Outreach, a nondenominational church with around 900 members in Sioux City, Iowa, told The Daily Signal. An Iowa Civil Rights Commission brochure on sexual orientation and gender identity says churches are places of public accommodation and generally are not exempt from the law, according to First Liberty Institute, a legal organization that defends religious freedom and represents Gordon's church. The brochure says the Iowa Civil Rights Act, Iowa Code Chapter 216, "was expanded to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes." The change took effect in July 2007...