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By: Rick Santorum – nationalreview.com – June 21, 2020 This Father’s Day is one like no other. Due to the coronavirus shutdowns, thousands of dads in nursing homes will not be visited by their children. Many kids and their moms will not be taking Dad to his favorite restaurant. Grown sons and daughters living in “hot” areas are not traveling so Dad…

By: James Wesolek – txvalues.org  –  June 19, 2020 Reaction to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v Clayton County Georgia has been swift and resounding from all corners of the pro-family, conservative sphere. The egregious ruling redefined the meaning of “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” The implications of this for…

By:  John Stossel – t0wnhall.com – June 17, 2020 For my internet video this week, my staff showed me clips of violent cops. It’s not just Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes — it’s the other cops who just watch. It’s the Buffalo cops who floored a protester and simply walked by as he lay…

By: Ben Guarino,  Chelsea Janes & Ariana Eunjung Cha – washingtonpost.com – June 13, 2020 Four months of discord about the coronavirus epidemic have transformed the cloth mask into a potent political symbol, touted by Democrats as a key part of communal responsibility, labeled by some GOP leaders as a sign of government overreach and as a scarlet letter pinned on the weak. But as…

By: First Liberty – firstliberty.org – June 17, 2020 Providence, RI—First Liberty Institute and William Wray Jr., an attorney at Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C., today filed a charge of discrimination with the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights against Westerly, Rhode Island’s Memorial and Library Association for banning a blind woman from Wilcox Park and Westerly Public Library in Westerly,…

By: Caitlin Oprysko – politico.com = June 16, 2020 Although he was ostensibly in the Rose Garden to discuss police reform, Trump delivered an emphatic defense of law enforcement as a whole, rejecting complaints of systemic racism in policing and contending that only a “very tiny” percentage of police are so-called bad apples. The text of the executive order itself…

By: Cathleen Falsani – ncronline.org – April 24, 2019 Anthony Graffagnino describes himself spiritually as both frustrated and curious. A Pentecostal turned Unitarian, the 28-year-old Graffagnino said he’s had his fill with “stale and dead expressions of faith that I saw really doing nothing to better the people around me or the world around me.” Discovering the Christian mystical tradition through the work…

By: Cathleen Falsani – ncronline.org – April 24, 2019 Anthony Graffagnino describes himself spiritually as both frustrated and curious. A Pentecostal turned Unitarian, the 28-year-old Graffagnino said he’s had his fill with “stale and dead expressions of faith that I saw really doing nothing to better the people around me or the world around me.” Discovering the Christian mystical tradition through the work…

By: Benjamin Watson & Brian Fisher – humancoalition.org I do a fair amount of writing for Human Coalition, so it’s always a welcome relief when someone offers to jump in and co-write an article with me. When I started writing this short blog series on abortion and racism, I was honored that Bishop Vincent J. Mathews Jr., President of the International Missions Department,…

By: Benjamin Watson & Brian Fisher – humancoalition.org I do a fair amount of writing for Human Coalition, so it’s always a welcome relief when someone offers to jump in and co-write an article with me. When I started writing this short blog series on abortion and racism, I was honored that Bishop Vincent J. Mathews Jr., President of the International Missions Department,…

By: Sen. Josh Hawley – thepublicdiscourse.com – June 16, 2020 I rise today to offer a few thoughts about the Bostock case handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. I have it here. I have now had the chance to read the case, the decision by the majority of the court, and the two dissenting opinions, and I have to say I…