Recent Viewpoints

Before the summer slips away, I want to talk about summer jobs. If you are older, you can probably remember the work experience you received by working various summer jobs. If you are a bit younger, you may not have had that same experience of working a number of different summer jobs but probably had at least one summer job. If you are a teenager, you may never have had a summer job. That’s a problem. Working a summer job…

We now have a U.S. Supreme Court decision that brings same-sex marriage to every state. But will everyone, even those who don’t believe it’s marriage, have to comply? To celebrate what they don’t believe is a marriage? To serve same sex weddings through their businesses? House same sex couples on their Christian college campuses? Employ homosexuals and transgendered people. Both the majority opinion and the dissent seem to protect the freedom of people to live according to values that are…

Is polygamy the next step in the redefinition of marriage? Jillian Keenan writes in Slate that we should legalize polygamy, and adds that “No, I am not kidding.” Frederik Deboer, writes in Politico that: “it’s time to legalize polygamy.” And he adds, “group marriage is the next horizon of social liberalism.” They remind us that many people (from Rick Santorum to Bill O’Reilly to Tony Perkins) have been warning that legalizing same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy and polyamory. The…

The argument against abortion has always been two-fold. Abortion is wrong because of what it does to the unborn baby. But there is another reason. Abortion is also wrong because of what it does to those who live. Mothers often pay a heavy price with post-abortive problems. And the society pays a price because of the coarsening and desensitization that accompanies a culture that aborts more than a million unborn babies every year. Charles Krauthammer picked up on these ideas…

Ryan Anderson, at the Heritage Foundation, has been at the forefront of defending traditional marriage. He is one of the co-authors of the book, What is Marriage? He goes on college campuses and hostile media venues to defend marriage and question the various attempts to legalize and normalize same-sex marriage. His new book, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, deals with the subject from a number of different angles and provides practical help for people willing to…

A recent ABCNEWS/Beliefnet poll found 83 percent of Americans self-identify as Christians. But if 83 percent of the nation’s population is Christian, why do we have so many abortions and out-of-wedlock births, and so much divorce. And why is homosexual marriage now the law of the land? In other words, why is sexual freedom trumping biblical sexual ethics even to the point that — now — our laws force the acceptance of sexual immorality?  If so much of the nation…

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, has written another book reminding conservatives that they need to reconsider how they deliver their message. Back in the early 1950s, Russell Kirk wrote about The Conservative Mind. Arthur Brooks writes about The Conservative Heart. Much of the book talks about how to address the issue of poverty. Capitalism has been a major tool in bringing people out of poverty. Yet here in this country, conservatives who champion the free enterprise system…

Pundits often warn that if we don’t change our ways, America will end up like Greece. Radio talk show host Tammy Bruce makes the case that the Greek mindset has already arrived in America. She says you can find it in the state of Oregon, and gives a number of examples. First, there is the way Oregon dealt with Obamacare. Oregon officials spent $300 million in taxpayer dollars to develop their website and marketplace. It never worked and so the…

Is there an anti-Christian bias in certain segments of society? Professor George Yancey has documented this. You can read the more popular version of his research in the book, Hostile Environment: Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias. He was on my radio program recently to talk about his research and his new book. He uses a term to describe what is happening: Christianophobia. He didn’t make up this word. It is in the dictionary. It is “an irrational animosity toward…

For many years we have seen how liberals and progressives on college campuses have been successful in shutting down dissent. We are now seeing more examples of this in all of society, especially after the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision. A few newspapers say they will no longer allow letters to the editor that oppose gay marriage because it is a fundamental right. Most news organizations have apparently adopted an editorial position that same-sex marriage is the only viable political…

If you think about it, many of the stories in the news today have a common denominator: the rule of law. Victor Davis Hanson in a recent column reminds us the barbarians at the gate are usually not the reason for the downfall of a civilization. Corruption within a country is what collapses a country. Take Greece for example. He argues that: “All the German euros in the world will not save Greece if Greeks continue to dodge taxes, feather-bed…