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Margaret Sanger, Busted
By   |   09.18.15
In late August a group of about two dozen African-American pastors staged a protest outside of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The National Portrait Gallery isn’t the kind of D.C. landmark you normally associate with protests, but then...
The ACLU’s Sterile View of the First Amendment
By Robert Knight   |   09.17.15
Tie her tubes, or we’ll sue you for sex discrimination, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told a Catholic-affiliated hospital in California. So after first declining to do so, Mercy Medical Center in Redding has now slated a tubal ligation...
‘They Want Cardiac, or They Want Eyes, or They Want Neural’
09.16.15
The Center for Medical Progress unveiled a new video showcasing conversations with three high-level officials with Planned Parenthood Federation of America: Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for PPFA; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA; and Deborah VanDerhei, National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS) at PPFA.
The 2016 Campaign for President and the Info War About the U.S. Constitution
By John Biver   |   09.15.15
Over the course of the past few months I gathered articles about the question of “judicial supremacy” — are U.S. Supreme Court decisions “the law of the land,” or are they rulings on cases? Here is that page of excerpts,...
Pro-Lifers Feeling Betrayed by Sen. Kirk’s Refusal to Defund Planned Parenthood
By Monte Larrick   |   09.15.15
Life activists are putting pressure on U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and other members of Congress to end the 500 million dollar plus taxpayer subsidy to Planned Parenthood. During a news conference in downtown Chicago, lawmakers were also encouraged to pass...
‘Burn Kim Davis Alive!’
By   |   09.14.15
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” He was partly right. Liberty of conscience is indeed sacred. There is, however, a higher...
Kim Davis, ‘Lawless’ in Kentucky
09.14.15
Until her release [last week], Kim Davis, the clerk of rural Rowan County, Kentucky, was confined to a jail cell because she refused to issue marriage licenses over her name to same-sex couples. She has been pilloried in the media for “lawlessness” and compared not to Martin Luther King Jr. for her civil disobedience but to Governor George Wallace of Alabama. Michael Keegen of the grossly misnamed People for the American Way called her actions an “abuse of power” and proposed instead that she should “find another line of work” — that is, resign her elected office — if she “can’t in good conscience fulfill [her] duties.”
Is Kim Davis Right to Refuse Marriage Licenses?
09.12.15
Written by Pastor John Piper I don’t know Kim Davis’s heart, so I can’t assess her motives. And I don’t know her theology. It is possible to do right actions for wrong reasons, and so be wrong in doing right....
America’s Reckless Refuge for Jihad
09.12.15
Our leaders in Washington must suffer from chronic amnesia about the fatal consequences of open borders. Have they forgotten that our asylum and refugee programs are routinely abused by ordinary fraudsters and Islamic terror plotters alike?
10 Questions For Rule-of-Law Critics Of Kim Davis
09.12.15
There’s much talk of late about Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. She actually stopped issuing all marriage licenses, to avoid the charge of discrimination. She’s now out of jail, although it’s possible she’ll be sent back.
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