Tag Archives: First Amendment
Decay of CNN & NYT Irreversibly Damaging Journalism
Media networks are powerful opinion setters. Still, for a reason, most people have deep distrust in newsmakers. Since their outset, press and radio were brought into play for political propaganda.
Posted in Media Watch
Tagged Anthony Scaramucci, Associated Press, Boris Muñoz, CNN, Des Moines Register, Don Alltoada, Donna Brazile, Eric Lichtblau, Fernando del Rincón, First Amendment, Frank LaRue, Gabby Giffords, Harold Lasswell, Hillary Clinton, Lex Haris, Liberty Sentinel, Marshall McLuhan, New York Times, Propaganda Technique in the World War, Roland Martin, Sarah Palin, Thomas Frank, Washington Post
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Religious Liberty is not for Churches, says Biden’s Proposed HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But Becerra raises deep concerns among religious conservatives fighting to protect their First Amendment free speech and religious liberty rights. They are leary of Becerra because he defended the anti-free speech California law (AB 775), struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, that forced pro-life care centers to promote state-sponsored abortions.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged California Family Council, Department of Health and Human Services, First Amendment, James Gallagher, Joe Biden, Jonathan Keller, Religious Liberty, U.S. Supreme Court, Xavier Becerra
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In Times Of Crisis, Elected Officials Must Be Held to One Consistent Standard – The U.S. Constitution
When those entrusted with power to protect the God given rights of the people do so selectively, arbitrarily picking and choosing which freedoms are worthy of protection and to what extent, then we are no longer a nation governed by the rule of law but by the whims of men.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Bill of Rights, Chris Cuomo, CNN, COVID–19, First Amendment, George Floyd, lockdown, Phil Murphy, Tucker Carlson
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The Bill of Rights is Not Dead Yet
Until recently, several states—including Minnesota—declared that it was unlawful to engage in the free exercise of religion in groups of ten or more. When churches dared pursue legal recourse to correct that issue, politicians, pundits and journalists offered criticism.
As one of the attorneys on the receiving end of that criticism on more than one occasion, it left me perplexed. “What’s the big deal?” they might say, “Why can’t churches just worship online?!
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Bill de Blasio, Bill of Rights, Cornovirus, COVID–19, First Amendment, freedom to worship, J.B. Pritzker, Jacob Frey, lock-down, Religious Liberty, Tim Walz
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Religious Freedom Attacks During COVID-19 Epidemic Expose the Greatest Threat to America
The most imminent danger to our republic is the overreach of government power, especially during a crisis. Our nation faces a fatal risk when government takes actions that violate our fundamental freedoms, leading us down the road of tyranny, to the erosion of our constitutional system.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Andy Beshear, Bible study, COVID–19, Essential Freedom, First Amendment, First Liberty, J.B. Pritzker, Jay Inslee, Joshua Freed, non-essential freedom, Religious Freedom
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PODCAST: Christians, the Church, and the State
I’d like to offer a few words about the separation of church and state—a concept long abused by “progressives.” The religion clauses of the First Amendment were intended to protect religion from the intrusive power of the state, not the reverse. The Establishment Clause states that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.” That does not mean religious convictions are prohibited from informing political values and decisions. To expect…
Tagged Christians, Establishment Claus, First Amendment, Religious Liberty
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Slowly Leftists Turn, Step By Step
Last month, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee made it clear that it is specifically coming after your Illinois Family Institute. Led by some of the country's most liberal and political activists, members of the Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing on "How the Tax Code Subsidizes Hate" for the purpose of stripping certain Christian groups of its tax-exempt status.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged American Family Association, Brandon Wolf, Darin LaHood, Equality Florida, Eugene Volokh, First Amendment, Glenn Greenwald, HOW THE TAX CODE SUBSIDIZES HATE, Murtaza Hussain, Obergefelle, SCOTUS, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, U.S. House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee
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Letter Exposes Bigoted, Anti-Liberty and Anti-Life Attitudes of Leftists
How does opposition to human slaughter—including the slaughter of about 440,000 female humans annually—constitute "contempt and misogynistic views toward women"? And are the 36% of women who oppose abortion in "all or most cases" as revealed in a Pew Forum poll guilty of contempt for women and misogyny? Frank asked why "so many white Republican male legislators willfully rule that women carry a fetus to full term in cases of rape or incest." That's an easy-peasy question to answer...
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged Abortion, Alabama, First Amendment, Human Life, JoAnn Lee Frank, Rape and incest, The Constitution
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SCOTUS Allows Lower Court to Ban prayer from Public Square
In case you thought that the potential to flip Justice Kennedy’s seat alone will bring us back to the constitutional promised land, think again. So long as the lower courts are not restrained, we will never return to the Constitution and the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Posted in Faith, Federal, Religious Liberty
Tagged Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Daniel Horowitz, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, John Roberts, Prayer, SCOTUS, Town of Greece v. Galloway
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The ACLU’s Sterile View of the First Amendment
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 for a woman after her scheduled C-section to deliver a baby in late September.
The ACLU’s demand is cut from the same cloth as the Obama Administration’s order under Obamacare to the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their beliefs and provide contraceptives and abortifacients or pay crushing fines. That case is still in litigation.
The latest manifestation of …
Posted in Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life
Tagged ACLU, Catholic, Elizabeth Gill, First Amendment, Hospitals, Little Sisters of the Poor, Mercy Medical Center, Rachel Miller, Sisters of Mercy
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Freedom for Religion, Not From It
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court once again affirmed that the so-called “wall of separation” that exists between church and state is not quite the edifice that liberals would like it to be.... The narrow vote along the usual 5-4 conservative/liberal lines is bound to incite many on the left to express fears about the court trying to turn the U.S. into a “Christian nation.”
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Christian nation, church state separation, Engel v. Vitale, First Amendment, Town of Greece v. Galloway, U.S. Supreme Court
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Dreams of an America with Only One Worldview
It’s hard to think of a more dangerous threat to First Amendment freedoms than the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) scheme a few months ago to station government “researchers” in newsrooms.
It had all the makings of a 1984-style intimidation of journalists, and it was allegedly abandoned shortly after a public outcry.
I say “allegedly” because our betters never give up their quest to dictate to us what is allowable speech. They wait until they think we’re not paying attention, and try again. A couple of years ago, they floated, but abandoned, the old Fairness Doctrine, which throttled talk radio before …
Posted in Federal
Tagged Big Government, Edward J. Markey, FCC, First Amendment, Free Speech, S.2219
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