Houston voters have rejected moves to enact protections for transgender and gay people after a divisive campaign that has lasted more than a year. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance would have extended protection over housing, employment and other areas. Voters rejected the ordinance by a margin of 62% to 38%, Houston news channel KHOU reported. In the most contested portion,…
Read NowA trio of South Dakota lawmakers presented a state-passed legislative resolution to the Supreme Court on Tuesday that asks the high court to reconsider — and overturn — its abortion rulings, including Roe v. Wade. “We believe … there is significant, documented evidence that women are being harmed” by the Roe v. Wade and related abortion rulings, “and we would…
Read NowIs it possible America’s most important Founding Father was born in France in 1509? From the time of the Apostles and – for more than 1500 years after virtually all political theorizing was produced by Christians, and with Biblical foundations. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo – in the late-fourth and early-fifth centuries taught that civil government was not part of the…
Read NowYou’ve heard the news: China is fully abandoning its one-child-per-family birth policy. Now it’s a two-child-per family policy. The Wall Street Journal described China’s one-child policy as “the most notorious of the Communist Party’s intrusions into Chinese lives” and “one of the worst government intrusions on freedom in world history.” The new policy will still limit the number of children…
Read NowTuesday’s elections, which hinged on social issues such as gay rights and pot, call into question Democrats’ insistence that Republicans are out of step with the times. In Tuesday’s elections, voters rejected recreational marijuana, transgender rights, and illegal-immigrant sanctuaries; they reacted equivocally to gun-control arguments; and they handed a surprise victory to a Republican gubernatorial candidate who emphasized his opposition…
Read NowMaking Our Children Weak—How Violating the Religious Rights of Teachers like Joe Kennedy Harms Society From high school students to presidential candidates, people are acknowledging the constitutional rights of Americans like Coach Joe Kennedy—the high school football coach suspended from his job last week for praying on the football field after the conclusion of the game—to freely exercise their religion….
Read NowYou had to see this coming. A recent article in Irish News argues, “that gay cousins should be allowed to marry each other following the same-sex marriage referendum.” After all, the only reason we don’t allow cousins to marry is to protect the genetic pool. This wouldn’t be a problem for gay cousins. Dr. Michael Brown, who supports traditional marriage,…
Read NowIs it even possible to form a lasting human government? In Federalist #1 – the essays written to support passage of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton wrote that this experiment in liberty would “…decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to…
Read NowHow did we get here? What I mean is that in the late 18th Century . . . surveys showed that 99.8% of those living in the United States—99.8%—claimed to be either Roman Catholic or Protestant Christians… and the other .2% said they were Jewish. In the late 19th Century – Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer, writing for a…
Read NowLater this month the U.N. Climate Change Conference will be held in Paris. You can tell how skewed the environmental priorities of the participants are by looking at one picture that accompanies the op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg. The title of his piece is: This child doesn’t need a solar panel. The picture is of an impoverished half-clothed boy in Mozambique…
Read NowIf you were asked to do a series on the Founding Fathers of America, who would you select? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton . . . there are so many from which to choose. But my guess is – you might not think to include Augustine, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli,…
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