Guest Column: 12 things to know about DOMA and Prop 8
by Jimmy Akin
National Catholic Register
Here are 12 things you need to know about the homosexual “marriage” decisions just issued by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has just dealt a pair of blows to the fight to defend the reality of marriage as being between a man and a woman. There will be time for analysis later.
Holidays are built around traditions and for Historic City News readers in St Augustine and St Johns County, few holidays have more great family traditions than the Fourth of July — great food, outdoor band concerts, a day with friends and family, and of course, fireworks.
The City of St Augustine has informed Historic City News of detours, street closures, and parking management needed to control traffic before, during, and after the upcoming Thursday, July 4 Fireworks over the Matanzas event.
Historic City News readers are invited to attend on July 9th when the internationally renowned Spanish musical group, La Folia, will launch its 2013 American tour; performing with original instruments from the period of Spanish colonization.
A 70-year-old St Augustine attorney, Charles Edward Pellicer, whose law office is located at 28 Cordova Street in Saint Augustine, is on probation for two-years and will be publicly reprimanded by The Florida Bar, according to a report received by Historic City News today.
The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has ruled that a landmark law of the Great Society era, the Voting Rights Act, does not reflect today’s racial progress; giving states like Florida a chance to show that it can run fair elections for the first time in decades.
The St Johns County Board of Commissioners has canceled their next regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, July 2, 2013, due to its proximity to the Independence Day holiday and the absence of county staff due to summer vacation schedules.
A 31-year-old St Johns County man was arrested on ten-counts of possession of child pornography this morning following service of a search warrant at his home where detectives located pornographic images on his computer.
