Tag Archives: U.S. Supreme Court

Religious Liberty Wins, For Now.

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Benjamin D. Smith

Based on a quick survey of news articles and blogs on Mississippi’s law, HB 1523, you could conclude that gay, lesbian, transgender, and people who have sex outside of marriage, are about to be in great danger. That is because the news articles and blogs are filled with hyperbole about...

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Aaron and Melissa Klein, Baronnelle Stutzman, Jack Phillips, Kevin Cochran, LGBT, Mississippi, The Religious Freedom Act, U.S. Supreme Court | 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

Pro-Life Americans Have the Opportunity of a Generation

Posted on November 16, 2016 by David E Smith

The American people have returned a pro-life majority to Congress and have elected a president committed to rolling back the Obama administration’s radical abortion policies and to appointing pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. This presents an incredible opportunity for defending innocent human life. Now is the time to act.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Conscience Protection Act, Doe v. Bolton, Donald Trump, Mexico City Policy, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, ObamaCare, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, Weldon Amendment | Comments Off

American People Say “No” to Judicial Tyranny. They Reject the Pop Culture Narrative

Posted on February 26, 2015 by David E Smith

The Family Research Council released a new WPA Opinion Research poll showing that 61 percent of Americans agree that “states and citizens should remain free to uphold marriage as the union of a man and a woman and the U.S. Supreme Court should not force all 50 states to redefine marriage.” The survey also found that 53 percent of Americans agree that marriage should be defined only as a union between one man and one woman.

An overwhelming majority (81 percent) of Americans agree that government should “leave people free to follow their beliefs about marriage as they …

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Aaron and Melissa Klein, Barronelle Stutzman, Same-sex marriage, Sweet Cakes, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

Time for a Governor to Stand up to Judicial Tyranny

Posted on November 29, 2014 by David E Smith

Any ruling from any federal court that imposes domestic policy on a state is by its very nature unconstitutional, and no governor has any obligation to obey it.

Posted in Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality | Tagged Federal Judges, Governors, Judicial Tyranny, Marriage, Montesquieu, Religious Liberty, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

Freedom for Religion, Not From It

Posted on May 12, 2014 by David E Smith

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 | Comments Off