Tag Archives: Martin Luther King Jr.

Do Christians Regularly Violate the Separation of Church and State?

Posted on September 15, 2021 by David E Smith

Many Christians and non-Christians misunderstand the relationship between morality and religion. Many mistakenly believe that morality is the same thing as religion and, therefore, mistakenly believe that they should not advocate for policies that reflect their moral beliefs. But morals and religion are not the same, and basing our decisions on public policies, laws, or elections on beliefs that derive from religious convictions does not constitute an unconstitutional establishment of a state religion.

All laws reflect or embody someone’s morality. The moral beliefs of people who hold theistic worldviews are no less valid in the public square than the moral …

Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Tagged Barack Obama, D.A. Carson, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Francis Beckwith, Free Exercise clause, Gregory Koukl, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Lynn R. Buzzard, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Perry, Richard Neuhaus, Rob Portman, Robert George, Samuel Silver, sharia, The Golden Rule, The Naked Public Square | Comments Off

CNN’s Bible Expert Don Lemon Opines Again

Posted on March 16, 2021 by David E Smith

Remember last July when CNN’s homosexual “journalist” Don Lemon said, “Here’s the thing, Jesus Christ—if … you believe in Jesus Christ—admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this Earth”? Apparently, Lemon forgot these verses about Jesus:

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

For we do not have a high priest who

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Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Catholic Church, CNN, Don Lemon, Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., Meghan McCain | Comments Off

Black Pro-Life Coalition Calls on Government to Investigate Planned Parenthood for Racial Discrimination

Posted on October 30, 2020 by David E Smith

Planned Parenthood has been called out by the National Black Pro-Life Coalition for “systemic racism” and targeting pregnant Black women in a racial discrimination claim filed against the organization. This network of Pro-Life and Pro-Family organizations wants the federal government to “investigate and hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their continuing violations of civil rights laws as their services have had a tremendously negative and lasting impact on Black women and children--and overall, the Black family.”

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Alveda C. King, Catherine Davis, Cecile Richards, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Department of Health & Human Services, fertility rate, Guttmacher Institute, Johnny Hunter, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King Jr., National Black Pro-Life Coalition, Negro Project, Office of Civil Rights, Planned Parenthood, Stephen Broden, Walter Hoye | Comments Off

Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: "The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were." For political reasons, the authors of the study sought its retraction.

Posted in Education | Tagged abolition of whiteness, Ajax Peris, Americans, Boston University, Brown v. Board of Education, Cancel culture, Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN, college campuses, Don Lemon, education, Galileo Galilei, George Orwell, higher education, J. William Fulbright, Martin Luther King Jr., Michigan State University, race, racism, Stephen Hsu, Steven Clifford, u.s. department of education, University of Arkansas, Walter Williams, William S. Penn | Comments Off

Cancel Culture is Upon Us

Posted on July 2, 2020 by David E Smith

Democrats in California have passed a resolution to tear down a statue of John Wayne and to remove his name from the airport where it stands. The reason they say that they are doing this stems from a 1971 interview Wayne gave in which he was asked about white supremacy. (I believe they dislike John Wayne because he truly loved America.) His answer was unclear. It seemed to me he was trying to say if differing groups want to be supreme, they need to act that way. It was not a good answer, but it was just words.…

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life | Tagged All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, John Wayne, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Pence | Comments Off

Race Is A Lie. Stop Believing It

Posted on June 10, 2020 by David E Smith

In Genesis 1:27, we are told that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him …” Moses is very clear. God did not say he created humanity and then divided us by categories. All men and women are created as a singular race that is a direct reflection of the unity of triune God himself. There is absolutely nothing here that suggests otherwise.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Uncategorized | Tagged E Pluribus Unum, Galatians 3:28, Martin Luther King Jr., Voddie Baucham | Comments Off

Are Politically Engaged Conservative Christians Idolaters?

Posted on January 29, 2020 by David E Smith

In his recent Christianity Today (CT) blog post, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight defends recently retired CT president Mark Galli’s hubristic diktat about the necessity—in Galli’s view—of Trump’s removal from office:

Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election—that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.

Trump’s removal from office would inarguably result in the election of a man or woman who endorses, among other things, human …

Posted in Faith, Media Watch | Tagged Anthony Esolen, Christianity Today, Donald J. Trump, Karl Barth, Mark Galli, Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Buttigieg, Randall Balmer, Scot McKnight, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy Dalrymple | Comments Off

Christians, the Church, and the State

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

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...

Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Tagged Barack Obama, christian, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Jason Collins, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Perry, Pete Buttigieg, Richard John Neuhaus, Rob Portman, Robert L. Toms | Comments Off

Black Church Leaders Defend Baker in Wedding Cake Case

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Benjamin D. Smith

A Colorado baker has a right not to make a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex marriage that is against his faith, and the LGBT agenda is not a new civil rights movement, black Christian leaders said Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The nine leaders spoke in support of Jack Phillips, whose lawyers will ask the high court...

Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Dean Nelson, Family Research Council, Frederick Douglass Foundation, Garland Hunt, Jack Phillips, Janet Boynes, Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, William Avon Keen | Comments Off

An Absolute Right to Refuse Service

Posted on March 5, 2014 by David E Smith

Albert Einstein once said, “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

He was right.

In the aftermath of the Arizona religious freedom skirmish, I have a few questions for those who would presume to compel religious business owners, under penalty of law, to “provide goods and services” to homosexuals in a way that violates that business owner’s conscience.

To wit:

Should a homosexual baker be forced to make a “God Hates Fags” cake for Westboro Baptist Church, simply because its members claim to be Christian?
Should a black printer be forced to develop and print thousands

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Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Albert Einstein, discrimination, Jan LaRue, Martin Luther King Jr., Religious Liberty | Comments Off