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The Dallas Morning News – May 15, 2008 (MCT) CALLAHAN COUNTY, Texas – In his first sermon after leaving jail, Yisrayl “Buffalo Bill” Hawkins was in classic form: folksy, paternal and apocalyptic. “No, we’re not getting ready to kill ourselves,” said the prophet of the House of Yahweh, a barbed wire kingdom of brimstone prophecies…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Coast Guard has granted a religious exemption to an officer who sued after being denied a waiver from receiving a Hepatitis A vaccine that he believed was derived from aborted fetuses. Lt. Cmdr. Joseph J. Healy, a Catholic from Catonsville, Md., sued the Coast…

By JONATHAN D. RUBIN c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON — Dramatic increases in food and gas prices are leaving some religious hunger-relief groups praying for relief. Problems were already apparent in 2006, but U.S. churches now report increased difficulty getting meals to people who need them. Food distributors see a perfect storm: a huge…

Associated Press – May 16, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO – Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never ring for gay couples in the nation’s most populous state. A conservative group said it would ask California’s Supreme Court to postpone…
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