Why There’s No Such Thing As A Same-Sex Mormon Family
The leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—the Mormons—recently revised their handbook. This may not sound like dramatic news, yet it has caused great weeping, wailing, and gnashing...
View ArticleThe New Sexual World Order Is So Confusing
My liberal friends—what few remain—regularly remind me of the relentless advance of “history” as it progresses towards a certain eschatological state of complete peace and utter equality. I am told...
View ArticlePope Francis Is Part Of The Catholic Church’s Identity Crisis
A faction within the Catholic Church thinks one of the worst problems it faces is people feeling excluded from church life because of their lifestyle choices. For example, because Catholicism teaches...
View ArticleHow Can Gay Rights And Religious Liberty Coexist? With Free Association
The deplorable state of religious freedom in America is due to a fundamental shift in how our country views First Amendment freedoms, speakers at the Cato Institute’s “Protecting Religious Freedom”...
View ArticleAmericans Are Losing Confidence In The Supreme Court
Americans are beginning to lose confidence in the Supreme Court. Traditionally, the court has been unique among our political institutions in that Americans tend to have more confidence in it than they...
View ArticleAnother Study Finds Same-Sex Parenting Isn’t Best For Kids
Does a child need a mother and a father? A new study says they do, confirming what we already knew through human experience and common sense yet is being increasingly denied by people who insist on...
View ArticleNo, The GOP Didn’t Change Its Platform To Exclude Gay Victims Of Terror
Judging from the media attention, the GOP platform drafting committee hearing is one of the most important meetings all year. We are blessed to have blow-by-blow coverage of all the self-destructive...
View ArticleWhy Is This Catholic University Trashing Catholic Teaching On Sexuality?
Refusing to play according to the rules of Catholic morality, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles has enlisted a notable alumnus to send a message to students that they should be perfectly...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Donald Trump Shouldn’t Speak At Catholic Universities
Was it “appalling and disgraceful” that Sacred Heart University, a Catholic institution, recently allowed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to hold a campaign rally on campus? It can be...
View ArticleWith Wyoming Judge’s Case, Left Aims To Ban Religious People From Legal Field
If your religious views block you from performing a job, don’t do that job. That’s the Left’s refrain about religion and expressing it. If you’re religious, that’s fine, but it really needs to not...
View ArticleThe Left Needs To Call Off Its Radical Fringe Bent On Destroying Christians
Ethicist David Gushee’s evolve-or-else warning to religious conservatives about their inevitable clash of orthodoxies with progressives is a sober reminder of the question over what variety of...
View ArticleThe Religious Right Isn’t Really Dead, And It Never Will Be
After Monday’s presidential debate, Damon Linker noted on Twitter that the debate had not featured a single culture war question, causing him to conclude that “the religious right is really dead.” Rod...
View ArticleChildren Of Donor Parents Caution Against Three-Parent Babies
A 36-year-old Jordanian woman and her husband gave birth to their son in Mexico recently with the help of a cutting-edge, Chinese-American fertility specialist from New York City. This is the first...
View ArticleHow The Government Should Punish Colin Kaepernick’s Anti-Patriotism
The NFL is a quarter of the way through its 2016 season. That means San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick has had numerous opportunities to kneel in protest during the national anthem. He’s...
View ArticleThe War On Wedding Vendors Is Ultimately A War On Free Thought
Our First Amendment freedom is functionally meaningless when it is reduced to the “right” to express government-approved views. Throw in a simultaneous prohibition on all expression that hasn’t...
View ArticleWhy The Left Is Going Bonkers On InterVarsity’s Affirmation Of Marriage
When a college employee referring to my participation in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship told me “You are the good ones,” I was flattered. Most evangelical Christians might be weird or crazy, she...
View ArticleChurches Should Welcome Sinners, Not Affirm Their Sins
A pastor friend shared this story with me some months ago. On a particular Sunday morning last Fall, two men entered his moderately sized conservative Bible church in a northeast suburb of Houston. The...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Wants To Destroy Chip And Joanna Gaines For Being Christian And...
“People who give their kids weird names are unsophisticated morons,” I thought to myself when I was 23 years old and busy substitute-teaching a class full of kids named Brysalynn and Traxton. “Clearly...
View ArticleKeep Biological Parents On Birth Certificates Despite LGBT Protests
Like so many youth before me, I went through an extended phase in young adulthood of wanting nothing to do with my family of origin. So upon graduation, I moved halfway across the country, abandoned...
View ArticleWhy Refusing To Design Gay Wedding Flowers Was Barronelle Stutzman’s Act Of Love
Today, as I write, Barronelle Stutzman is standing before the Washington State Supreme Court. Her crime? Loving a man. Don’t get me wrong—this is not an erotic or romantic story. The man she loves is...
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