Montana lawmaker: There's a religious right to abortion

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Abortion rights groups are challenging abortion bans in some states by arguing the bans — supported by certain religious principles — violate the religious rights of people with different beliefs.

It's time to send a message

Let's TP the U.S. Capitol - and maybe the White House, too.

Religious vax exemption rule temporarily blocked

The legislative committee that oversees the state health department voted Friday to delay implementation of the agency’s proposed rule expanding religious exemptions to required vaccines at childcare and daycare centers.

Religious persecution not just part of history books

Assuming that they still teach history in school, then students today are learning — just as I did almost 50 years ago — that many of the early settlers of the American colonies were people who were escaping from religious persecution in Europe.

Fearing fear

There was an old Scrooge McDuck (world’s richest duck!) comic book story called “Christmas in Shacktown,” which opened with McDuck’s three grand-nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie taking a shortcut home from school just before Christmas by going through Shacktown.

Kalispell looks to public for help naming new trail

The City of Kalispell and consulting firm Alta Design and Engineering are seeking public feedback to help pick a logo and name for the trail that will replace the train tracks running through town.

Music ban makes waves at health club

Three Whitefish residents say action by The Wave raises constitutional questions

EDITORIAL: The irony of guarding the guardians

It was more symbolic than anything, but there was something touching about the decision of several local citizens to stand guard to protect military recruiters in Kalispell.

Hey Newsweek: Why not just call us heretics?

FRANK MIELE

Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.

‘Unreserved’ program helps St. Ignatius students connect

St. Ignatius high school students recently found that there is so much more to their fellow students than they knew.

OPINION: Don't let political correctness shut you up

When are we Americans going to take our country back?

What's wrong with accountability?

Gov. Schweitzer exercised his first veto late in the just-ended legislative session, and frankly we are left a bit puzzled by it.

Superior business offers unique precision cutting

Since opening in June, Twin Creek Creations has made a big splash from Superior going west, but now they are going to be moving in all directions after testing the water.

LETTER: Cowards in cloth? Pastors need to respect 10 Commandments

I recently learned that several local clergymen have asked the progenitor of all of the God’s Ten Commandments signs here in the valley to cease putting them up. The reason is that these overt signs “turn people off” to Christianity. This is gutless.

I was in China doing research when I saw my Uighur friends disappear

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‘Conscience’ bills let medical providers opt out of providing a wide range of care

A new Montana law will provide sweeping legal protections to health care practitioners who refuse to prescribe marijuana or participate in procedures and treatments such as abortion, medically assisted death, gender-affirming care, or others that run afoul of their ethical, moral, or religious beliefs or principles.

Broken hands, broken hearts

An historical and legal perspective on the Jesus statue controversy

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service decision to allow a Jesus statue to remain on Big Mountain in Whitefish.

COLUMN: Vandalism and values: What side are you on?

Editor's 2 cents

Last week, the Ten Commandments Park north of Columbia Falls was vandalized for the second time in a month.

Social control, not gun control, is the answer

As expected, liberal lawmakers and Hollywood celebrities are using the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy as an opportunity to advocate legislation banning private ownership of certain types of weapons.