By: Jonathan Saenz – txvalues.org – June 4, 2018 This morning the U.S. Supreme Court released its Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, holding 7-2 that the Colorado government violated the constitutional rights (Free Exercise Clause) of private business owner and cake baker Jack Phillips. Last year, Texas Values joined 32 state family policy organizationsfrom across the country supporting Colorado cake shop owner Jack...

By: Todd Starnes – toddstarnes.com – June 11, 2018 Resign or be fired. That was the stunning ultimatum delivered to John Kluge, a teacher at Indiana’s Brownsburg High School and a devout follower of Jesus Christ. The 28-year-old had conducted the school’s orchestra and taught music theory classes for four years. He also served as the faculty sponsor for an...

By: Bill Mears & Judson Berger – FoxNews.com – June 4, 218 Supreme Court rules in favor of Colorado baker Supreme Court rules for Colorado baker who wouldn’t make same-sex wedding cake. The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, in one of the most closely...

By: Kaitlyn Schallhorn – FoxNews.com – June 4, 2018 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who declined to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony. The case – Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission – asked the high court to balance the religious rights of the baker against the couple’s right to equal...

By: Reuters – cnbc.com – June 4, 2018 The Supreme Court on Monday handed a narrow victory to a Christian baker from Colorado who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. The justices, in a 7-2 decision, faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling of the claims brought against Jack Phillips, saying it had...

By: U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) – sessions.house.gov – March 15, 2018 U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) released the following statement applauding the passage of a critical measure to protect American students and campuses across the country: “Last week I organized a meeting between our local FBI Special Agent in Charge and local law enforcement agents, elected officials and superintendents...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2018 After reading the FBI’s latest report on active-shooter incidents in the United States, two things are increasingly clear. First, the United States has a growing problem with actual or attempted spree killers. And second, armed and alert citizens can be part of the solution. Let’s begin with the problem. The FBI...

By: Lydia Wheeler – thehill.com – May 23, 2018 A federal district court judge on Wednesday ruled that President Trump can’t block people from viewing his Twitter feed over their political views. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said President Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum and blocking people...

By: Sheryl Attkisson – the hill.com – May 23, 2018 It may be true that President Trump illegally conspired with Russia and was so good at covering it up he’s managed to outwit our best intel and media minds who’ve searched for irrefutable evidence for two years. (We still await special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings.) But there’s a growing appearance...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2018 Constitutional freedoms will die if we forget the importance of defending them even for those whom we hate. Democratic congressman Ted Lieu is at it again. Days after tweeting that Michael Cohen’s decision to take the Fifth in the Stormy Daniels civil litigation was “powerful confirmation that the US Attorney’s Office...