Politics

Conservative TV preacher Pat Robertson said this week that the Internal Revenue Service had been wrong to strip the tax-exempt status from Bob Jones University after finding a ban on interracial dating to be discriminatory.

Kentucky attorney Ned Pillersdorf this week linked three suicides to the Social Security Administration's decision to suspend benefits for 900 people without giving them a hearing.

The lawyer for a Pennsylvania youth pastor who has been charged with rape suggested this week that the underage victim may have been lying because she consented to sex on other occasions.

The sponsor on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks in Wisconsin said this week that medical professionals did not help write the legislation.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said this week that he was a "huge fan" of Pope Francis but that the pontiff should stop buying into the global warming debate and, instead, "leave the science to the scientists."

Dr. Ronnie Floyd of the five-branch Pinnacle Cross Church suggested over the weekend that Caitlyn Jenner had sinned against God by transitioning to a woman in a similar way that family members could sin by abusing children.

A Colorado man told police that he hit his wife with a hatchet around 30 times because he feared that she was going to leave him.

Fox News host Andrea Tantaros defended body-shaming advertisements that had been banned in London for health reasons, saying that "anyone with a functioning brain" would want to make sure their body looked good enough to wear a bikini at the beach.

An Indian filmmaker revealed that she discovered gay boys who had been forced to have sex with their mother and lesbian girls who were raped by their own cousins while investigating the practice of "corrective rape."

Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested on Monday that it was dangerous for young children to learn about sexual diversity because he said that kindergartners shouldn't be exposed to information about "transsexuals" and "stuff that's gross."

Medical marijuana user Ginnifer Hency told a group of Michigan lawmakers last week that a drug task force raided her home and kept 'every belonging' she owned -- including her vibrator -- even after a judge dismissed the charges against her.

Likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said over the weekend that he had learned how to protect the United States by observing his brother's presidency, and how George W. Bush handled the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that occurred on his watch.

Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson asserted over the weekend that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had an unexpected amount of support because socialist policies are secretly very popular with voters.