Results for: "Christian History"

American History, American Judiciary, Christian Ethics, Christian History, Christian Living

This post is part 4 of the series:The Judiciary June 26, 2015 Supreme Court sanctions same-sex marriage On June 26, 2015, five members of the United States Supreme Court rendered a majority decision, in the case of Obergefell vs. Hodges, that same-sex couples were guaranteed a right to marry under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Until recent decades when militant same-sex advocates violently coerced the compliance of many, Western civilization had denied social approval and recognition to same-sex relationships. With this fact firmly fixed in human history, it is...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian History, June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

June 26, 1784 Death of Signer, Caesar Rodney Caesar Rodney (October 7, 1728 – June 26, 1784) was an American lawyer and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, east of Dover. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of Delaware during most of the American...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

June 24, 1817 Death of Thomas McKean Thomas McKean (March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he was a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. McKean served as a President of...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian History, June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

June 19, 1794 Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, passed away Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and his famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which Lee...Read more... Read more... -->

American History, Christian History, June, Role of Pastors

June 14, 1777 The adoption of the flag of the United States by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress In the United States, Flag Day is observed on June 14, which commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on Saturday, June 14, 1777. Observance of this annual event, however, did not receive prominence for many years after the approval of the resolution of the Continental Congress. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that established June 14 as America's official Flag Day. Not until August 1949,...Read more... Read more... -->