By: Cortney O’Brien – townhall.com – February 08, 2018 First, let me start by saying our U.S. Olympians deserve our awe and respect. They train in their specialized sports for years to compete for and represent our country on the world stage. Sadly, on the eve of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, one figure skater’s spat with Vice...

  By: firstliberty.org – September 15, 2017 On September 7, 2017, attorneys with First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of their clients, Aaron and Melissa Klein. The amicus brief was filed in support of Jack Phillips, the petitioner in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which is expected to...

By: Fred Lucas – @FredLucasWH – May 31, 2017 A farmers market and Facebook posts have opened a new front in courtroom battles over religious freedom. It started when Steve Tennes, who owns a 120-acre farm in Charlotte, Michigan, expressed his traditional view about marriage on the farm’s Facebook page. This drew a warning from an official more than 20...

“Disagreement is not the same thing as hate,” the HGTV star wrote. By Liberty McArtor Published on January 4, 2017 House-flipping celebrity Chip Gaines encouraged people to “lovingly disagree” in a blog post on Monday. “If there is any hope for all of us to move forward, to heal and to grow — we have got to learn to engage...

In a 2–1 panel ruling in mid April, a federal appellate court decided (or at least seemed to think that it decided) that G.G., a girl who identifies herself as male, has a legal right to use the boys’ restrooms at her high school in rural Gloucester County, Va. In so doing, the panel’s majority, consisting of two appointees of...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump warned against “the false song of globalism” in a major foreign policy address on Wednesday in an escalation of his rhetoric rejecting the current framework of international coalitions. “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism,” Trump promised during a speech in Washington. “I am skeptical of...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Religious freedom restoration acts are appearing in numerous states nationwide. It’s what some are calling anti-LGBT legislation. There are more than 100 active bills across nearly two dozen states. And at the heart of it all is a Florida group. First Coast News’ Keitha Nelson sat down with the Founder and Chairman of the Liberty Counsel, Mat...

Let’s get this straight up front: Nearly everything the Left is saying about North Carolina’s House Bill 2 is false. HB2 is a law passed, and signed by the governor, in response to a Charlotte municipal ordinance that allowed transgender individuals to use any restroom they wanted, regardless of whether it was designated for men or for women. The bill...

Let’s begin with two news items. First, in June the Walt Disney Co. will open a new, $5.5 billion theme park in Shanghai, China. China is a great place to make money, but it’s also the land of systematic human-rights abuses, forced abortions, state churches, labor camps, and brutal crackdowns. Disney — undeterred, and with its eyes firmly fixed on...

This week, Gov. Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota vetoed a bill that would have required students in public schools to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their biological sex at birth. South Dakota would have been the first state to pass such legislation, pushing back on guidance from the Obama administration requiring schools to allow transgender students access to...