A state has decided that parents cannot seek to save their child’s life. The state in this case is the National Health Service of Great Britain backed by European Court of Human Rights. The parents are Chris Gard and Connie Yates. The child is 10-month-old Charlie Gard. He has a
This is post 2 of 4 in the series “intolerance of islam and atheism” Pluralism Never Comes from Islamism or Atheism The Shadow of Sharia Looms Over the West Ideological War for a Global Caliphate Fight Intolerance With a Kingdom Offensive Sharia is not friendly to freedom Professor Allan Bloom
Baronelle Stutzman, florist and grandmother On Friday we witnessed a travesty of justice and an attack on the 1st Amendment to the US constitution enshrining religious freedom and the freedom of conscience, speech and press. In a 9-0 decision, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled against the 72-year-old grandmother and florist, Barronelle Stutzman, for
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “they preached liberty” They Preached Liberty They Preached Liberty, part 2 Liberty doesn’t just happen. That’s the message of a writer whose work appears here for the first time. Our good friend Elizabeth Youmans recently put us on to a writer
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “they preached liberty” They Preached Liberty They Preached Liberty, part 2 Liberty doesn’t just happen. That’s the message of a writer whose work appears here for the first time. Our good friend Elizabeth Youmans recently put us on to a writer
Our friends at BreakPoint are inviting us to join an effort to preserve religious freedom. Please read on. We see lots of talk these days about religious freedom and government intrusion. What is the proper place of government relative to religious freedom? Some see the federal government as a sort of national
Why are some people and nations rich and others poor? What is the source of wealth? Most people have the mistaken idea that wealth is “found” in the ground. But if this were the case, the Democratic Republic of the Congo would be fabulously wealthy and Singapore impoverished. But the
Fidel Castro is dead! So many people are praising his enlightened leadership. He built a Cuba, they say, that has “good medical care and high literacy rates.” But what about all the people he imprisoned, tortured and killed (the numbers range widely from 10,000 -100,000)? Castro is just the latest
Over the summer, I wrote a series of posts on how western culture has increasingly become dominated by highly distorted and deeply destructive narratives. Increasingly, these sobering words from the prophet Jeremiah describe our situation: “Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue
For many people, the name “Castro” evokes tyranny and the stifling of freedoms: religion, conscience, the press, assembly, speech. All these principles we hold dear in the United States. All were enshrined in the First Amendment to the constitution. Now a new Castro has made a frontal attack on religious freedom in
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