Martina’s Truthtelling

Penna Dexter Tennis great, Martina Navratilova is speaking out bluntly against the trend in which athletes who are born male but identify as female are increasingly allowed to compete in women’s sports. Navratilova is a lesbian and has promoted women’s professional sports and LGBT causes for decades. Now, for speaking the truth, she’s in hot water with her tribe. In…

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Government Day Care

Penna Dexter Conservative heads are spinning with successive announcements of presidential candidacies, complete with promises to enact expensive government programs. Let’s pick one: government day care. It’s really preschool because the proposal references “curriculum standards.” Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren proposes federal subsidies for universal early education and child care.  “In the wealthiest country on the planet,” she argues,…

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No Discussing Race

Penna Dexter After an interview promoting his new film, Cold Pursuit, actor Liam Neeson was hit with an onslaught of Hollywood shaming. The character Neeson plays in this movie is a man consumed by his desire for vengeance at all costs, similar to the father in his Taken films. In the interview, he described an episode in his life that…

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Louisiana Abortion Law

Penna Dexter The United States Supreme Court recently blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law requiring that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facilities where they perform abortions. The stay applies while the justices decide whether to hear an abortion clinic’s challenge to this law. If the justices decide to hear the case and…

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We All Know

Penna Dexter Certain states have been seeking to pass legislation shoring up a woman’s right to obtain a late term abortion — up to the moment of birth. This — if we’re honest — reminds us, as a nation, that we’re killing children. Pastor John Piper has a way of demonstrating the obvious to make it even more obvious. He…

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Physician-Only Abortions

Penna Dexter New York recently passed legislation that makes it easier for women to get third trimester abortions. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the new law and celebrated by ordering that the 408-foot spire on the One World Trade Center building, two bridges, and the Alfred E. Smith Building in Albany be lit up in pink. New York’s abortion laws were…

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Shout About Abortion

Penna Dexter Planned Parenthood’s former president Cecile Richards downplayed abortion as her organization’s core activity. She famously maintained that abortion only makes up 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services and that the organization is focused primarily on women’s health. We expected Planned Parenthood’s new president Leana Wen, a medical doctor, to continue in this mode. But she recently blasted media…

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Some Mothers’ Dilemma

Penna Dexter A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed asks a difficult question. Writer Abigail Shrier addresses mothers of teen girls, asking them: what will you do “When Your Daughter Defies Biology.” She relates the experience of a woman, a prominent attorney, who has a college age daughter, whom the mom describes as a “girly girl”. The young woman was sometimes…

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Transgender Policy Affirmed

Penna Dexter Commensurate with a president’s primary responsibility, to protect America, President Trump has set about rebuilding and strengthening our military. Unfortunately, he’s had to fight some court battles to get this done. Early on, President Trump announced he was rolling back the Obama transgender troop policy that mandated facilities and training to smooth the way for transgender Americans to…

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Fairness for All

Penna Dexter A question to ask ourselves as we begin a new year is: “What does the Church do when more and more of it becomes apostate?” WORLD magazine reported on an example of this as the boards of two evangelical Christian organizations, the Council for Christian Colleges and the National Association of Evangelicals, quietly passed resolutions supporting an idea called…

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Obergefell is Policy

Penna Dexter Over three years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples. The ruling has resulted in all states being required to perform and recognize same-sex marriages. This was a 5-4 decision, along liberal/conservative ideological lines. The swing vote was now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. He wrote the opinion for the…

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