TAMPA The city council's decision two weeks ago to extend Tampa's anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals was a move long overdue, its supporters say. To the leaders of evangelical Christian groups, the inclusion of "gender identity and expression" as a protected class under the city's human rights ordinance is an assault on their religious values that they fear will sanction sexually deviant behavior. ...more

November 17, 2009

A group of Saudi clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister on Sunday to ban women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines, making clear that the country's hardline religious establishment is skeptical of a new push toward moderation. ...more

March 22, 2009

The chief executive officer of Kforce Professional Staffing told a group of religious and business leaders that he uses biblical principles in running the Tampa-based company. ...more

January 28, 2009

Jesse Helms, 86, the North Carolina Republican who served three decades in the U.S. Senate and became a crusader against communism, liberalism, tax increases, abortion, homosexuality, affirmative action and court-ordered busing, died Friday in Raleigh, N.C. ...more

July 5, 2008

Players from Seffner Christian Academy's fall soccer team will readily admit its players are not the biggest, fastest or most aggressive, but all will talk about one thing they have in bulk - heart. ...more

November 12, 2007