The American Independent

Two of the country’s largest private water utility companies are participants in a massive lobbying effort to expand controversial shale gas drilling — a heavy industrial activity that promises to enrich the water companies but may also put drinking water resources at risk.

The political tug-of-war waging within the U.S. Catholic Church made headlines in Colorado this month when the church’s Campaign for Human Development threatened to pull tens of thousands of dollars in support from Durango-based immigrant-rights group Compañeros.

Nicole Mosher, executive director of Durango-based nonprofit immigrant-aid organization Compañeros, is weighing how to keep her organization running effectively in light of the surprising news that the anti-poverty Catholic organization that supplies half of Companeros’ annual budget will likely end that support due to Compañeros’ indirect association with gay-rights More…

A new television ad hit Virginia media markets Wednesday, encouraging Virginians to support the EPA’s newly proposed clean air standards.

LANSING — The Westboro Baptist Church will protest a Lansing public high school and at both Michigan State University and Central Michigan University on April 23, a spokesman confirmed in a phone interview with The American Independent.

LEXINGTON, VA — The former head of the National Organization for Marriage said Wednesday that she disagreed with some specific wording in the group’s controversial anti-gay marriage strategies but that she did not find the strategies themselves inappropriate.
During a debate at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, Maggie Gallagher More…

A federal court judge in Minnesota ruled on Monday that a marriage between a man and a transgender woman was legal under Minnesota law and that a health insurance plan could not drop the woman from her husband’s health benefits. The judge said that because one person is male and More…

The Michigan Department of Community Health has launched an “internal investigation,” a department spokesperson tells The American Independent.

A much criticized strategy by the National Organization for Marriage to drive a wedge between the gay community and racial minorities has led some Minnesota churches to express reservations. The churches, along with NOM, are part of the Minnesota for Marriage coalition backing a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in More…