Why Family Matters, And Why Traditional Families Are Still Best
11.03.15
It’s been a good month for champions of the traditional family, but don’t expect the family wars to be ending any time soon. In recent weeks, a barrage of new evidence has come to light demonstrating what was once common sense. “Family structure matters” (in the words of my American Enterprise Institute colleague Brad Wilcox, who is also the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia).
Back to the First Amendment: An Interview with Scott Lively
By Monte Larrick   |   10.27.15
A pro-family activist warns the LGBT Machine isn’t satisfied with its same-sex marriage victory courtesy of the Supreme Court. Now its revving up its engines to defeat the First Amendment Defense Act and is gearing up to pass the Equality...
What Political Correctness Has Wrought
By Robert Knight   |   10.27.15
The West has moved from marriage-centered societies to post-Christian anarchy...
ACLU Uses Hard Cases to Bully Catholic Hospitals
By Robert Knight   |   10.24.15
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is ramping up its campaign to use the courts to force all Catholic hospitals to provide abortions and sterilizations. The strategy is clear: Use the anecdotal exception to destroy the general rule. In the...
AFA Identifies Corporations’ Stances on Religious Liberty
10.20.15
Indexes, ratings, and even awards pepper the culture when it comes to those who are open and welcoming to certain groups, populations, or facets of society. But now, American Family Association wants to make sure that the nation is informed about companies that honor religious liberty — and those that don’t.
Russell Moore: Churches That Don’t Speak Against Abortion Are Like 19th Century Congregations That Stayed Silent on Slavery
10.15.15
Christian ethicist Russell Moore has said that congregations too afraid of being political to speak out against acts of immorality, like abortion, are similar to churches in the 1800s that remained silent on the issue of slavery. As the featured speaker at the Institute on Religion and Democracy's fifth annual Diane Knippers memorial lecture, Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, criticized mainstream Christian congregations that have relaxed their teachings on key issues of sexual morality and other social issues in order to blend in with the "ambient culture" and appeal to today's society.
Polling Supports Our Concerns. Are the Politicians Listening?
By Micah Clark   |   10.08.15
Yet another national poll is out finding that Americans are increasingly concerned about what is happening to religious freedom. This concern is seen in all demographic groups and ages. The Barna Group did their polling even before Kentucky clerk, Kim...
Reflections on the Kim Davis Situation
10.06.15
Recently, someone asked for my thoughts on Kim Davis (in fact, at a baseball game I recently attended) and I really haven’t given it much thought – until now. 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.
Army Kicking Out Green Beret For Protecting a Child Against Abuse
By   |   10.02.15
When a decorated soldier was told to turn a blind eye from intervening in the case of a child who was being repeatedly raped and beaten, he knew it was an order he had to refuse. Now, doing the right thing will cost him his career.
Politicians Look to Take Away Right of Conscience Protections from Medical Professionals
By Monte Larrick   |   09.29.15
SB 1564 will radically alter the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act — an Act that allows medical personnel and health care facilities to avoid participating in morally dubious medical procedures such as abortion, sterilization, and certain end-of-life care.  ...
Pope Francis Visits Little Sisters of the Poor to Show Solidarity in Fight Against Obamacare Birth Control Mandate
09.29.15
Pope Francis offered his support to the Little Sisters of the Poor in a quiet visit to a group of nuns fighting back against the Obama's administration's birth control mandate included in the Affordable Care Act.
A Duty to Interpose
By   |   09.25.15
One of the things we must absolutely learn how to do better than we do is distinguish things that differ, especially things that look similar but which differ radically. We must learn to say, as Dorothy Sayers once famously said, distinguo. I distinguish.
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...
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....
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