Brent Leatherwood, the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, signed a letter this week to Tennessee legislators endorsing the proposal by Gov. Bill Lee, who asked the Tennessee House and Senate to pass an “order of protection law” that would separate “dangerous people from firearms.”
The legislation, signed by Republican Gov. Brad Little, restricts the purchase of abortion pills for underage girls and outlaws the transportation of a pregnant girl across state lines for an abortion without her parent’s knowledge and consent.
In his memorable “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., threw down the gauntlet in his great Civil Rights crusade when he refused to obey what he regarded as an immoral man-made law that did not match up with the law of God.
We can expect more cases in which the “deeply rooted” language of Dobbs is cited.
The U.S. Senate this week refused to block taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers when a joint resolution supported by pro-life groups failed to pass.
South Carolina’s governor signed a bill into law that labels churches and religious organizations an “essential service” during emergencies.
A law professor at the University of Miami Law School is proposing two major changes to the U.S. Constitution.
Chuck Colson often observed that politics is downstream from the larger culture. In other words, the way the culture thinks eventually leads to the political outcomes that we see and trouble us today. So many of the recent policy decisions of the Biden administration reflect that in real-time.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett explained that she does not believe it is a judge’s role to impose his or her “will on the world.”
The idea that the government addressing pornography -- something that so dangerous to the public, especially to children -- is somehow akin to theocratic tyranny is, to put it mildly, ridiculous. Even us limited government folks think government has a role to protect citizens. This clearly falls into that category.
