Tag Archives: Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Drew Brees, the Mob, and the Poisonous Doctrine of Collective Guilt

Posted on June 9, 2020 by David E Smith

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, a committed Christian, and, before last week, deeply admired and liked by people of all colors and no color, committed an almost unforgivable sin. He said this in response to a specific question about athletes kneeling during the national anthem:

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged 1776 Unites, 1984, Al Sharpton, Antifa, Ben Carson, Black Lives Matter, Bob Woodson, Brittany Brees, Candace Owens, Critical Race Theory, Derek Chauvin, Drew Brees, George Floyd, Hank Aaron, Harriet Tubman, Howard Zinn, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Owens, Jim Crow laws, Malcolm Jenkins, Martin Luther King Jr., New Orleans Saints, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Peggy McIntosh, Rosa Parks, Shannon Sharpe, Slavery, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The 1619 Project, Thomas Sowell, Tony Dungy, Tuskegee Airmen, White Privilege Conferences, Winston Smith | 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

Anger and the Church

Posted on January 3, 2018 by David E Smith

There are some battles in which all Christians and all who are committed to truth are called to engage: all Christians should have opposed slavery; all Christians should have fought for the civil rights of blacks; all Christians are called to oppose abortion; and we are all called to oppose the rancorous, pernicious demands to affirm the pro-homosexuality/pro-“trans” ideologies.

In his book Kingdoms in Conflict, Chuck Colson writes about the failure of the church to oppose the extermination of Jews and the government usurpation of control of the church in Nazi Germany. Immediately following the naming of Hitler as …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Chuck Colson, Conrad Baars, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hitler, Leon Podles, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Niemoller, William Wilberforce | 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

Loony Leftist Leader of Dallas Protest

Posted on July 11, 2016 by David E Smith

What the tragic events of last week did not need was the distraction posed by one of the organizers of the Dallas protest, Dr. Jeff Hood, the 32-year-old bearded, bespectacled white man who is effective at one thing: self-promotion. While Selma had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an eloquent, dignified, and committed follower of Christ, Dallas had Dr. Hood, a narcissist committed to self-aggrandizement, sexual deviance, and syncretism.

Posted in Faith, Islam & Sharia, Sexuality | Tagged Black Lives Matter, Charles Moore, Dallas Observer, Jeff Hood, Jeremiah Wright, Martin Luther King Jr., Megyn Kelly | Comments Off

Justified Civil Disobedience and Civil Servant Kim Davis

Posted on September 4, 2015 by David E Smith

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said “Every public official in our democracy is subject to the rule of law. No one is above the law. That applies to the president of the United States and that applies to the county clerk of Rowan County, Ky., as well.”

Really? That applies to the president? Well, did it apply to President Barack Obama when he instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which was the law of the land—a bipartisan law passed by huge majorities in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Anita Alvarez, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder, Jerry Brown, Josh Earnest, Kamala Harris, Kim Davis, Martin Luther King Jr. | Comments Off

Planned Parenthood Admissions: It’s a Baby and It’s a Boy

Posted on July 31, 2015 by David E Smith

Six weeks ago, I was privileged to be in the delivery room when my seventh grandchild was born. The only response to the doctor’s words “It’s a boy” were tears of ineffable joy.

This morning I heard those same words when a Planned Parenthood medical assistant plucked casually through the bloody remains of a just-butchered baby and announced in a jubilant tone, “another boy!” in the newest Center for Medical Progress video:

Last week, another conscience-deformed obstetrician, Dr. Jen Gutner, writing a defense of Planned Parenthood for the New Republic, criticized the use of the phrase “baby parts” …

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Dawn Lauguens, Easten Niphakis, Jen Gutner, Martin Luther King Jr., Planned Parenthood, Sabita Ginde, Thomas Parker | 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

…

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

Leonard Pitts Gets Arizona Law and Theology Wrong

Posted on February 28, 2014 by David E Smith

Someone needs to thump some sense into syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts for his claim that the now-vetoed Arizona religious freedom bill would have allowed “businesses to refuse service to gay people on religious grounds.” Not so, but more on that in a minute.

Nine times in Pitts’ short column he repeats the mantra “Boycott Arizona,” perhaps hoping to hypnotize an intellectually and morally slothful public. One wonders how far Pitts and his ideological ilk will take their march against diversity and tolerance. Can Arizona citizens express their conservative views on issues related to homosexuality and gender confusion in letters to …

Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Bill Clinton, Chuck Shumer, Civil Rights Movement, Jan Brewer, Leonard Pitts, Martin Luther King Jr., Rich Lowry | Comments Off

Obama Inaugural Speech: The Audacity of a Bad Analogy

Posted on January 22, 2013 by David E Smith

No, the title of this piece is not referring to President Barack Obama’s “say what?” comparison of individual action to muskets and militia:

For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias.

Yes, it should trouble Americans of every political stripe to hear that Obama apparently views individualism and bootstrap independence as outmoded, ineffectual means of “meeting the demands of today’s world,” but the analogy to which the title refers is Obama’s audacious (as in demonstating …

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Barack Obama, LGBT, Martin Luther King Jr., Selma, Seneca Falls, Stonewall | Comments Off