Is it too much to ask people to listen politely to those with whom they disagree? I hope not.
A state judge ruled last week that Washington floral artist and grandmother Barronelle Stutzman must provide full support for wedding ceremonies that are contrary to her faith. The court claims that her faith-based decision to refuse to provide floral designs...
02.20.15
Atlanta’s former fire chief who was terminated after he self-published a book that included his faith-based opposition to homosexuality has filed a lawsuit against the city in federal court. This act follows a complaint that his attorneys filed last month with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, citing unlawful discrimination.
02.13.15
A small, but elite group of Americans demonstrate signs of anti-Christian hostility, sociologists David Williamson and George Yancey claim in their new book, So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
02.07.15
A case filed by the American Humanist Association in New Jersey has gone down in flames, defeated by a high school student named Samantha Jones, backed by lawyers from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion, which acted in support. Fox News explains what happened:
Barely five days after The New York Times ran a major news article on the firing of Atlanta’s fire chief for his views on homosexuality, a major Times opinion writer declared that religious liberty is a fine thing, so long...
A fresh campaign has been launched on behalf of an official with the Atlanta fire department – a Christian – who was fired after making public his biblically based views on homosexuality.
Kelvin Cochran, chief of the Atlanta Fire Rescue...
01.09.15
Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was fired from his job this week by the mayor because of his Christian views on marriage.
Every January we make new resolutions for the New Year. But maybe we need to return to an old one: DEFEND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
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John Biver
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01.05.15
If you missed the Illinois Family Institute’s annual fall banquet back in September you missed an important keynote speech by bestselling author Eric Metaxas. Combining encouragement and a call to action, Metaxas emphasized that “it is time for us to...
01.03.15
Despite their opponents’ claims in 2014, religious-liberty laws benefit many people.
Your church may be the next one approached to host a gay wedding and your pastor asked to perform the ceremony. So what can you do to fend off the lawsuits that are certain to follow when you refuse?
Homosexual...
12.26.14
2014 may be remembered as the year of intolerant liberalism, also dubbed the new intolerance, dogmatic liberalism and illiberal liberalism. In no particular order, here are 33 examples of intolerant liberalism in 2014:
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Monte Larrick
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12.26.14
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” (Matthew 5:13)
At...
12.10.14
Rather than striking a blow for individual liberties, the dogma of gay marriage is stifling them
