Mr. Dys graduated from Taylor University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, degree in Communication Studies while concentrating his minor study in U.S. History and Philosophy. During his undergraduate career, Dys also studied at the American Studies Program in Washington, D.C. where he interned with the late David Orgon Coolidge as part of the Marriage Law Project of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

A California state bill its sponsors say will prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity at private universities is threatening to expose faith-based schools to enormous legal threats, school officials warn.

SB 1146, introduced in February by state Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, which passed the state Senate May 26, is designed to close “a little-known loophole” in California law under which private colleges can make admission, housing, and faculty decisions based on gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, according to a press release from Lara’s office.

Lara is part of the state Legislature’s seven-member California Legislative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus, which advocates for LGBT rights.

Applying former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous admonition to never let a crisis go to waste, two American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorneys are blaming Christian political activism for a Muslim extremist’s killing of 49 people and wounding 53 at an Orlando homosexual nightclub.

“These ACLU lawyers have sunk to a new low,” said Susan A. Carleson, chairman/CEO of the American Civil Rights Union, a conservative group that opposes the ACLU’s radical agenda. “Caught between a rock and a hard place, they are defending the indefensible by shifting the blame to an innocent community.”

Termed the worst shooting in U.S. domestic history and the worst terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001, the 3-hour-long shooting spree and hostage standoff early Sunday morning beginning at 2 a.m. ended after a police SWAT team killed the gunman, Omar Mateen. Mr. Mateen called 911 after the shooting began, pledged allegiance to ISIS and cited the Tsarnaev brothers’ Boston Marathon deadly bombing in 2013.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave a stern warning today at a press conference about the separation of powers that is established by the Constitution. Ryan told reporters, “We will lose our freedoms in this country, including all of the Bill of Rights, if we don’t robustly defend the separation of powers.” Ryan also responded to concerns about Donald Trump’s suggestions of acting independently as president to prevent certain types or classes of people from entering the United States. According to Article I, Section 8, clause 4 of the Constitution, Congress is entrusted with the power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Ryan said that he would not, at this time, rescind his endorsement of Trump.

WASHINGTON — A coalition of prominent social conservatives is banding together in an effort to nudge the Republican platform further to the right at the party’s convention next month.

The organizations involved include those that have been front and center in the culture wars over abortion and same-sex marriage like the Family Research Council Action, the March for Life and Concerned Women for America.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and a platform committee delegate from Louisiana, said that while he expects the Republican Party to “remain committed to the core values of life, marriage, family and religious freedom,” there are new questions that need to be addressed because they have arisen in the four years since the platform was last revised. The 2012 platform, many Republicans believe, was one of the most conservative on record.