An Iranian Christian convert residing in Germany is in danger of deportation after the European Court of Human Rights dismissed his asylum-seeking case. In 2018, Hassan - whose name has been changed to protect his identity and is filed as "H.H" in public records - fled religious persecution in his home country.
The estimated 30 agents who searched the president's 58-bedroom Palm Beach mansion on Monday carted off 21 boxes of material, as well as multiple binders of photographs, a "leatherbound box of documents," a "potential presidential record," and a "handwritten note." Federal officers took four sets of documents they say were marked "top secret/sensitive compartmented information," three sets of papers marked "secret," and three marked "confidential."
Evangelical leaders say Christians should not respond to legitimate concerns that the Biden administration is weaponizing law enforcement agencies against its critics with sinful fear or threats of violence, which will only strengthen federal efforts to repress believers' civil liberties. Instead, one of the nation's foremost Christian leaders has revealed the exact words he prays when he thinks about the future of American freedom.
While a sweltering August heat wave sweeps through the states, summer temperatures aren't the only numbers on the rise. Inflation keeps breaking records, hitting 9.1% in July; gas prices in June were higher than ever before; and in the current economy, the Misery Index (economic measurement of inflation and unemployment) is skyrocketing. While the White House has remained ambiguous on the definition of a recession, many economic experts confirm that the state of America's economic symptoms fit the conventionally accepted definition.
You may have forgotten the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) even had COVID guidelines. Already whittled down from severely draconian origins to something that more reflected Florida's early policies, the CDC's official guidelines have finally been updated to better reflect public opinion. That's not quite how they put it, of course. "CDC is streamlining its COVID-19 guidance to help people better understand their risk, how to protect themselves and others," began their Thursday press release.
With Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) promising a vote on legislation that will codify same-sex marriage, it is worth reviewing the serious threats to religious freedom that have already arisen as this idea (and its underlying ideology) has been legitimized in recent years. Looming among these is the threat to the tax-exempt status of religious organizations that believe marriage is between one man and one woman.
As American culture drifts from its foundational biblical principles, so too will our society cast aside marriage as an essential societal institution and good. The only solution to reverse this decline in marriage is to recover the transcendent nature and purpose of marriage as revealed in Scripture.
In recent years, and especially since the Supreme Court's repudiation of Roe v. Wade earlier this summer, advocates of abortion have promoted the story that the reason evangelicals are almost uniformly pro-life is rooted in something sinister.
More than 24 hours after an unprecedented FBI raid on his Palm Beach residence, former President Donald Trump remained "flabbergasted" by their actions, a congressman who met with him has revealed.
Tens of thousands of new IRS agents will target middle-class, conservative Christians for new rounds of audits if a bill favored by President Joe Biden passes Congress on Friday, an expert has warned. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives looks poised to pass the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" on Friday. The legislation - which cleared the Senate on Sunday by a party-line, 51-50 vote - would hire 87,000 new IRS agents in an effort to raise $124 billion in new revenue through enhanced "enforcement" actions, such as audits.
The list of ways America's position in the world could be made more precarious keeps getting shorter; everything on the list keeps happening, one-by-one. This week, the disastrous incident is: America has lost eyes on Russia's nuclear arsenal. Russia announced on Monday it was halting U.S. inspection of its nuclear facilities in retaliation for U.S. sanctions imposed for their invasion of Ukraine.
With the nation's first post-Roe school year rapidly approaching, the pro-abortion lobby's crosshairs are once again aimed at one of their favorite targets: female college students. On August 8, Vice President Kamala Harris gathered the president of the American Council on Education and the presidents of eight colleges to discuss her concerns about how the Dobbs decision and the overturn of Roe v. Wade would impact college students. The participants of this meeting offer a vignette of the stunning ignorance that lies behind the Biden administration's perspective on abortion; of the 10 participants, two were self-identifying lesbians and five were men.
The Fargo, North Dakota School Board voted 7-2 at a Tuesday meeting to not recite the Pledge of Allegiance at upcoming school board meetings. School Board Vice President Seth Holden argued at the meeting that reciting the Pledge was a "non-inclusionary act," excluding atheists, agnostics, and adherents of many religions because of the words "under God."
It seems even 10 years after the FRC shooting on August 15, the Southern Poverty Law Center's dangerous lies about mainstream Christian organizations, like FRC and ADF, still persist.
Most people would agree that transparency in government is a good thing, so it was perplexing to see U.S. senators and representatives vote against amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have provided for more transparency at schools for children of U.S. military members.
When someone dies, family members are the ones left to live with the burden of grief and missing their loved one - not the government. So why should a court have the authority to determine when life support ends?
The Supreme Court ruled on June 21 that state education budgets can't discriminate against Christian schools - but the most significant aspect of the case came more than six months earlier. In a revealing exchange during the oral arguments of Carson v. Makin last December 8, an attorney for the state of Maine essentially confessed that the government wants to discriminate based on religion, because politicians have "values they want to instill" in public schoolchildren. Multiple Supreme Court justices then explained precisely how they wish to discriminate against traditional Christian and religious believers.
If Republicans thought marriage was a throwaway issue in 2022, they're learning pretty quickly that voters don't think so. Despite a political climate dominated by the economy, primary season is shedding some interesting light on a subject that pundits wrongly assumed Americans have "moved on" from. While marriage isn't at the top of most voters' concerns in a country where a single chicken breast now costs $4.56, the debate has proven to be surprisingly potent in swing states the GOP can't afford to lose.
On Tuesday, Pew Research Center released a new survey showing that both Republicans and Democrats increasingly view members of the opposite party in a negative light. For Christians, this once again raises an important question as our society steadily becomes more polarized and judgmental: How are we called to love our neighbors who have opposing political views?
"I just want to say a number: zero," said President Joe Biden Wednesday. "Today, we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July - 0%." He added, "While the price of some things went up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount. The result? Zero inflation last month."
A "Student Identification Card" sounds relatively innocuous, like something that could come in handy for a field trip, emergency drill, or cafeteria hour. Such a card seems unlikely to serve a purpose in promoting LGBT indoctrination and deceiving parents. And yet, that's exactly what it is now being used for.
The institution charged with training the next generation of American military leaders teaches that "racism" marks every aspect of U.S. society, "slavery" is alive and well in the United States, capitalism oppresses the poor, and it indoctrinates soldiers in feminism and "queer theory," a Freedom of Information Act request has found.
A recent Barna Research report reveals that there is an uptick in millennials seeking out church post-pandemic. While just a few years ago this generation received the brunt of jokes and stereotypes embodying youthful naivete and a disdain for responsibility, Generation Y is now turning ages 25 through 40. While some argue that with age comes maturity, this new study breaks down the effects of the pandemic as it pertains to millennials engaging in local worship. And the reason might come as a surprise.
The Justice Department must turn over all documentation used to justify a raid on President Donald Trump's Florida home or stand presumed guilty of a vicious double standard that victimized conservatives, multiple experts - including a U.S. congressman - told The Washington Stand. Already, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has called for Attorney General Merrick Garland to be impeached over his role in the historic rifling through a former president's belongings. "Biden has taken our republic into dangerous waters," Hawley wrote. "At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached."
Joe Biden may believe in a woman's right to choose, but what about a doctor's? Or a nurse's? Or a pharmacist's? While the Left rants, vandalizes, and bullhorns about the sanctity of personal decisions, their version of individual freedom has limits. It doesn't apply, for instance, to people who don't share their radical worldview. In that case, there's only one choice - surrender. But fortunately for America, there are still Christians like George Badeaux who refuse to.
Pennsylvania lawmakers on Monday called on the state's acting education secretary, Eric Hagarty, to scrub "Gender Theory Student Indoctrination" from state education websites immediately - or resign. Twenty-one Republicans in the Pennsylvania House supported this "Reform or Resign Ultimatum."
Crime is surging in American cities. An AP story on Monday reported that in municipalities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Portland, violent crime is steeply rising at the same time that the number of law enforcement officers is dwindling. Meanwhile, the Biden administration's top law enforcement officials are occupied with other matters.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents initiated a raid Monday on former President Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, reportedly seeking classified documents taken by President Trump when he vacated the White House. But before we jump to conclusions, Christians should remember to wait for the facts to come out.
In a coming-of-age tale as old as time, schoolyard bullies are quick to steal lunch money. Only this time, the Biden administration threatened to withhold federal lunch funding from a small Christian school for adhering to their biblical values. Unfortunately for the government, Grant Park wasn't going down without a fight.
State universities indoctrinate future teachers in controversial transgender, racial, and political theories - and instruct them to teach these principles to children beginning in preschool, a new report has found. "There's a huge amount of liberal indoctrination going on," the report's author, Will Flanders, told "Washington Watch" guest host Joseph Backholm on Monday. "We found it across every public university in the state that has an education program."
President Joe Biden's plan to have taxpayers fund the travel of women in pro-life states seeking an abortion in another state may be terminated before it reaches viability. Republican lawmakers, including a member of House leadership, have introduced a bill to protect Americans from being compelled to underwrite the transportation costs of poor women to receive an abortion in a less protective state.
At 12 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, it would lie at about 7 o'clock if a clock face were interposed on the famous "palm" map. It's about a mile, as the crow flies, from Sunrise Acres Egg Farm. It's a mile-and-a-half from the nearest Meijer grocery. Jamestown Township, population 9,630, is deep in Michigan's Dutch Reformed farm country. The Township's local library, named Patmos, is deep in something else: trouble.
The mood was "super cheerful - giggly," a woman who worked inside the clinic explained. They came in with other girls, laughing like they were at the mall. Only they weren't at the mall. They were shopping for another gender.
In retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) recent visit to Taiwan, China has announced it is cancelling "dialogue with the U.S. between regional commanders and on defense policy coordination, military maritime safety, returning illegal immigrants, criminal matters, transnational crime, (and) illegal drugs." Additionally, China moved to "halt bilateral talks on climate change with the United States."
In a clear sign of the vitality of the pro-life movement in the post-Roe era, Indiana became the first state since the Dobbs Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade to pass a wide-ranging pro-life bill that protects most unborn children from abortion, with some exceptions included for cases of rape and incest and to save the life of the mother.
After Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) finally indicated last week how small a version of the Build Back Better bill he would support, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hurried to cash that check before the deal fell apart, scheduling a vote-a-rama on Saturday and a final vote on Sunday.
In the aftermath of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which once again allowed state legislatures and Congress to pass laws protecting life, several states have had laws go into effect protecting life at conception. As more and more states move to protect life in the womb in its earliest stages, it is important to see what kind of impact laws outlawing abortion will have on reducing abortions.
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do the wicked prosper? Why is there so much frustration, pain, and seemingly pointless suffering in this world? These are tough questions, and they are made even more challenging to answer because they are usually asked out of acute emotional anguish, provoked by difficult circumstances. Underneath these questions, you will often find a soul wrestling with doubt, asking questions like, "Is God good? Is he in control? Can I trust him?"
If fidelity to Scripture means a loss of members or even ecclesiastical collapse, then "let God be true and every man a liar" (Romans 3:4). Is the survival of a denominational organization more important than obeying our Redeemer? The Archbishop of Canterbury should know better than what this week's conference implies.
New CDC data confirm that monkeypox overwhelmingly occurs in men who identify as gay or bisexual and who engage in risky sexual behavior- yet LGBT activists have said it is "not moral" to ask men to refrain from sex until the government can get the virus corralled.
This summer, students aren't the only ones dreading going back to the classroom. According to staggering enrollment data, parents appear to have had a case of back-to-school blues over public education since COVID-19's onset in early 2020. In the past two years, a mass exodus of over 1.2 million students has left the public school system as parents seek alternative education routes, such as public charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling.
Is religious practice in America dying? If taken at face value, the conclusion of recent studies is clear: the U.S. is becoming increasingly secular. However, other studies continue to show that religious practice leads to increased happiness, less depression, and more involvement in community life, with a religious upbringing leading to positive outcomes in adulthood. In the end, experts say, what remains evident is that despite numerous challenges and a changing landscape, Christianity in America isn't going anywhere.
It took five years of litigation and a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the city in May for the Christian flag to finally be allowed to go up on the public forum flagpole of the Boston City Hall Plaza. Harry Mihet of the legal group Liberty Counsel, which engaged in the court battle against the city, said Wednesday was "a great day for the city of Boston, for the Christian community in the city of Boston, for freedom itself, and for the Constitution."
If the Republican Party wants to assemble the voter base it needs to win national elections, it must maintain pro-life and pro-family stances on the issues, an evangelical leader told a GOP planning and strategy meeting this week. At the same time, he pointed to a decades-long victory on abortion while counseling conservative Christians not to give up, even if it appears they are losing the battle over LGBT issues with some wings of the GOP.
The calls started coming in from across southern Louisiana on Monday. Offices in Shreveport, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge were all-hands on deck, divvying up patient lists to try to reach everyone in time. One by one, they called dozens of women, explaining that their abortion procedures couldn't go forward as planned. "The court reinstated the law," they explained for the third time since Roe v. Wade was struck down. As many as 120 women across the state were scheduled to end their pregnancies this week - all lives that were saved, at least for now, by order of the First Circuit Court.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made a splash with her recent visit to Taiwan - or, at least, she provoked a few. Shortly after she landed, the Chinese military on Tuesday announced live-fire "training drills" in six zones, virtually surrounding Taiwan with at least 10 ships and 100 planes.
If you did a case study of our political and cultural polarization and how radically different the Democratic and Republican parties are, look no further than each party's poster boy - California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Thursday morning that he was suspending State Attorney Andrew Warren "effective immediately." Warren is among the woke cadre of district attorneys who rode to victory on waves of funding from George Soros. With progressive groups like Fair and Just Prosecution, he has pledged to prioritize progressive priorities over enforcing the law, such as a pledge, issued on the date of the Dobbs decision, to enforce no pro-life laws.
As talk of codifying same-sex marriage into law intensifies with the "Respect for Marriage Act" in the Senate, Katy Faust, founder and director of Them Before Us, believes this would be a detrimental move against children's rights. This past Tuesday, on Family Research Council's broadcast, Pray Vote Stand, she shared why she is personally invested in the impact that marriage has on children.
The dangerous and unregulated use of abortion pills is accelerating quickly in America. But what if there was a way to reverse the effects of chemical abortion for women who change their minds?
Although a number of peculiar circumstances led to a pro-life voter referendum failing in Kansas on Tuesday, pro-life advocates should remain engaged in the political fight, confident of their ultimate victory, a scholar said the day after the vote.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that could force taxpayers to pay the costs of women who travel to another state to have an abortion. The decree "paves the way for Medicaid to pay for abortions for women having to travel out of state," said White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre at Wednesday's press briefing.
Primary elections serve a significant role in our constitutional republic. Representing the views and priorities of 330 million Americans can sometimes be a tall order for the two major political parties. In the party primaries, though, candidates have an opportunity to distinguish themselves by appealing to certain constituencies - and hopefully, if they win - to a broader electorate on Election Day.
A pro-life member of Congress, Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), died in a car crash on Wednesday in northeastern Indiana. Two staffers in her vehicle - Emma Thomson, 28, and Zachery Potts, 27 - also perished in the accident in Elkhart County after a driver reportedly went left of center and crashed into Walorski's SUV on State Route 19 at 12:32 p.m. The driver of the other vehicle, 56-year-old Edith Schmucker, also lost her life.
A group of concerned parents have sued the Linn-Mar Community School District for a policy which "authorizes children to make fundamentally important decisions concerning their gender identity without any parental involvement and to then hide these decisions from their parents," according to the lawsuit.
Just as the surge of terrorism and hate crimes against pregnancy resource centers (PRC) and churches appeared to be slowing down in recent weeks, two more churches were targeted in Lawrence, Kans. over the weekend. With this ongoing violence and with the rhetoric surrounding PRCs continuing to heat up on Capitol Hill, pregnancy center staff are increasingly finding themselves having to divert valuable resources away from helping vulnerable women in need in order to bolster security measures for their buildings.
In an attempt at playing four-dimensional chess, the Biden administration has determined to sacrifice the Department of Justice (DOJ) in pursuit of a political advantage. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday the DOJ was suing the state of Idaho over its pro-life trigger law that bans abortion, which has now taken effect.
The senior member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Tuesday that the newest report from the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) "makes it absolutely clear" that there has been no improvement in the human rights situation in North Korea and that the Biden administration "must take immediate action."
The decision of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to visit Taiwan will almost certain bring "Chinese action against the American homeland," an expert on China policy forecasted. The Chinese communist government will launch "further attacks on Taiwan," even though they would be "stiffening the resolve of Taiwan's people," China expert Gordon Chang told "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" on Monday.
A bill that would legally quash pro-life pregnancy resource centers resembles authoritarian governments' efforts to dismiss opposing viewpoints as "disinformation," a U.S. senator said on Tuesday.
The pro-life cause just experienced its first setback at the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Voters in Kansas defeated the "Value Them Both" amendment (or Amendment 2), which would have clarified that the state constitution does not contain an unalienable "right" to abortion. With 63% of the statewide vote total in, Kansans rejected the amendment nearly two-to-one.
George Soros insisted, based upon an unnamed study, that woke prosecutors have nothing to do with the rise in violent crime. He even went so far as to assert, "Violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors." It's unclear what evidence he is looking at.
Tuesday, people in Kansas hit the polls and voting on the "Value Them Both Amendment," a ballot initiative seeking to change the state's constitution to make it possible to pass pro-life laws. With this first post-Roe attempt to change state abortion law, several instances of hate crimes against pro-life individuals and organizations have been reported in the Greater Kansas City area.
As far as campaign slogans go, "We Hate Babies" isn't a particularly good one. And yet, with each passing day, that seems to be the message the Democratic Party is desperate to convey. Like Barack Obama, who insisted he didn't want his daughters "punished with a baby," the Left's post-Dobbs strategy seems to be painting motherhood as the worst form of oppression and pregnancy as a torture encouraged only by pro-life zealots. It's a far cry from society's mainstream, but then, what about the president's party isn't?
"Smoke and mirrors," Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) called it on Monday's edition of Washington Watch. "Completely Orwellian." That's the verdict on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which a damning analysis from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Budget Model (PWBM) has concluded does not improve America's economic picture. "The impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero." Worse, if the act had any effect, it "would very slightly increase inflation until 2024."
Democrats in Congress are moving to reinforce the Supreme Court's grave error in the Obergefell ruling with legislation. Not only does the atrociously named "Respect for Marriage Act" discount the faith of millions of Americans, it also erodes their religious liberty by elevating the "right" to same-sex marriage above the constitutionally-guaranteed right for people to live according to their faith.
In the brief period of human history that the U.S. has recognized gay "marriage," proponents have asked the same question: "How does my gay marriage affect you?" In reality, redefining the central institution in human society causes real harms - the very harms predicted by the defenders of marriage.
One of America's most-hated terrorist enemies has been killed - but it is no time for America to become complacent about the terrorist and geostrategic threats facing our "woke" and politicized military, a top general said on Monday.
The head of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) said Sunday that he and his staff are looking into ways to "make sure" that women veterans and their dependents are able to get abortions if their state has laws that prevent them from doing so.
Less than 40 days out from the Dobbs decision of June 24, abortion clinics have taken a hit in post-Roe America. The overturning of Roe v. Wade ushered in a new era for the pro-life and pro-abortion movement alike, moving the battle over life from the federal level to the states. According to a recent Guttmacher Institute report, 11 red states have taken swift action to protect unborn life. This has resulted in a mass halt in abortions.
On this past Thursday, Republican and Democratic lawmakers convened not in the Capitol, but at Nationals Park, the home of the Washington Nationals team. The teams sold thousands of tickets - mostly to Hill staffers and other politico-types - with proceeds going to charity. But this year, not everyone was there for fun at the friendly faceoff.
On Jaelene Daniels's Twitter page, there's a single pinned tweet. It says, "If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection." "Unashamed," she added below. The post is from 2016, a year before the soccer star made coast-to-coast headlines for refusing to wear an LGBT pride jersey. It was a decision that cost Jaelene a spot on the U.S. Women's National team - ending a longtime dream. "I just felt so convicted in my spirit that it wasn't my job to wear this jersey," she said. Five years later, that conviction hasn't changed.
Is Google censoring search results from pro-life pregnancy resources centers (PRCs)? Sixteen state attorneys general are determined to find out. "We hope that Google isn't doing it," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) told Tony Perkins Friday on "Washington Watch." "But what we did see, for example, the attorney general from New York calling upon Google to limit or censor the searches ... looking for pregnancy centers." More than 20 Democratic lawmakers have also urged Google to censor pregnancy resource centers.
Starting in May, hundreds of Seattle Pacific University students and their allies in the Seattle LGBTQ community conducted a "sit in" at the school demanding that SPU's board of trustees change the institution's "homophobic" policies. Now, Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) has "announced a civil rights investigation into Seattle Pacific University for refusing to hire LGBTQ+ faculty and staff." So what is SPU's response? Unlike other Christian colleges, it's fighting back.
With three months until November, there is a lot of momentum behind the education issue heading into the midterm elections. As parents across the country have become increasingly frustrated with the public school system, they have proven that they're ready to take their passion to the polls.
People can't live without tribes. The same is true for followers of Christ. There are denominational tribes, of course, but there are much more than that. There are intra-denominational enclaves, cross-denominational enclaves, and Christian enclaves which have nothing whatsoever to do with denomination. Many of these tribal affiliations are good, but there is another kind of tribalism afoot that flourishes particularly in our internet age, and understanding it is key.
Last week, Reuters uncovered a private letter from Chinese officials that requested the United Nations human rights chief hide a report on human rights violations in Xinjiang. The report has been in the development process for years at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. It's believed to provide damning evidence of Chinese atrocities against the Uyghur population.
"Every human life is of infinite value - and we, as lawmakers, have a duty to protect the weakest and most vulnerable from harm." These words certainly ring true when considering human trafficking - the modern slavery crisis that victimizes nearly 25 million people around the globe. Over 400 representatives from both sides of the aisle saw the necessity for legislation that defended the human person from the many atrocities inflicted by human trafficking, including kidnapping, forced labor, and sexual assault.
Today marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, intended to raise awareness about human trafficking and to promote solutions to protect the victims. While the movement against human trafficking has grown over the past few decades, there is still much to be done to combat this evil, especially in areas of the world we hear little about. For North Korean women like Jihyun Park, the day is a poignant reminder of past struggles.
In the upcoming school year, Maryland's Montgomery Country Public Schools will prohibit school staff from disclosing students' transgender identity to their parents. The 2021-2022 Guidelines for Student Gender Identity booklet outlines a plan where "LGBTQ students can express their gender identity free from discrimination, bullying, or harassment."
It's the "House of Horrors" of gender ideology. The Tavistock clinic in London, England is the only facility in the United Kingdom performing so-called gender transitions, and it has inflicted them on over 9,000 youth since the 1990s. In 2020, leaked transcripts showed staff concerns about the welfare of children who came through the clinic were suppressed - concerns like, "If I am not wrong, very many vulnerable children have been very poorly treated and will be left with, potentially, a lifetime of damage here."
The state of Florida has instructed public schools to ignore a Biden administration executive action that would force schools to open girls' showers, locker rooms, restrooms, and dormitories to members of the opposite sex, and to let males compete in women's sports. As the state's officials noted, since the federal government admits guidances do not - and cannot - carry legal weight, the latest transgender document "should not be treated as governing law."
On Friday afternoon, the West Virginia Senate will hear the third and final reading of H.R. 302, a bill to clarify and amend West Virginia's abortion laws. Despite loud and disrespectful protests in the state house (abortion activists were well organized), West Virginia's House of Delegates on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed the bill 69-23. Republicans hold the majority in the House of Delegates 78-22, and they hold the majority in the Senate 23-11.
It's rare that GOP leaders are heard cheering on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif). This is the unusual situation caused by the White House's inconsistent messaging regarding Pelosi's upcoming trip to Taiwan - a trip that China's authoritarian leaders really don't want her to make.
On Thursday, Family Research Council hosted a Watchmen on the Wall briefing for ministry leaders in Maysville, Georgia. The meeting offered pastors updates on the most pressing issues facing followers of Jesus in America. Andrew Brunson, Bishop Garland Hunt, Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr., and other speakers offered insight and encouragement on how to respond to today's culture for a biblical worldview and engage in practical ways.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council, announced today it will support challengers to Members of Congress who voted in favor on the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
The Biden administration has abandoned the vast majority of Americans to cater to tiny minorities, special interests, and foreign powers. Transgender activists, the abortion industry, and Chinese Communists enjoy Biden's unmerited favor; middle-class families, taxpayers, and church-goers hear Lunch Bucket Joe say, "Depart, I never knew you."
"Is this really happening?" That's what the University of Kentucky's Riley Gaines thought to herself, looking around the room. No one told her - or any of the other swimmers - that they'd be sharing their NCAA locker room with a fully-grown man. "So not only were we forced to race against a male," she told Tucker Carlson about Lia Thomas, "we were forced to change [in front of] one." And if President Biden gets his way, every girl in America - from kindergarten to college - will be in the same boat.
This past week, the House of Representatives passed legislation allegedly to protect access to "contraception," with just eight Republican congressmen voting yes. What Democrats in Congress are pushing, though, isn't access to "contraception."
A widely accepted "rule of thumb" is that, when the economy experiences two consecutive quarters of economic contraction (declining GDP), it has entered a recession. However, the Biden administration has made much of the fact that the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which is responsible for officially determining the dates of a recession, employs a definition that doesn't mention two quarters of negative growth.
The decision to overturn Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is one that will have an international impact, especially as many pro-lifers in other countries look to the robust pro-life movement in the U.S. for inspiration. In China - one of the other five countries with the world's most radical abortions laws - pro-lifers maintain a tiny presence. But Chinese pro-lifers face more challenges than most as they try to navigate tight government restrictions and a culture shaped by the legacy of China's notoriously brutal "One Child Policy."
Earlier this week, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) served a complaint to a bar that offers drag shows for children. The R House Bar in Miami was recently featured in viral videos in which a topless drag queen can be seen entertaining a young girl.
A devout Catholic college football coach made headlines last week for publicly taking a firm pro-life stance. Coach Jim Harbaugh of the University of Michigan Wolverines spoke at a pro-life fundraiser, along with his wife, Sarah. The Detroit Catholic covered the couple's individual testimonies of faith and commitment to their pro-life values.
A Republican senator has said he will "absolutely oppose" a bill redefining marriage nationwide, warning that liberal activists plan to "use it as a weapon" to drive Christians out of the public square. During Wednesday's episode of "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins," Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) announced for the first time that he will vote against H.R. 8404, marketed as the "Respect for Marriage" Act, if it comes to the Senate floor.
Puberty blockers earned a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month after six minors (ages 5-12) experienced severe symptoms. The puberty blockers in question are known scientifically as "gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) substances" The minors, who were all biologically female, suffered from symptoms of "pseudotumor cerebri" (tumor-like masses in the brain), including visual disturbances (seeing bright lights that aren't there), headache or vomiting, papilledema (swelling of the optic nerve), increased blood pressure, and abducens neuropathy (eye paralysis).
A U.S. congresswoman said on Tuesday that a Biden executive order could potentially use taxpayer dollars to fund the use of ballot harvesting, which could include the use of unsupervised ballot drop boxes, in U.S. elections - leaving election integrity experts highly concerned about how this could lead to potential voter fraud.
In the AP's new style guide, reporters are being urged to write based on someone's emotions rather than on reality - further blurring the lines of objective truth.
If top U.S. officials were trying to lose a cold war to China, they could hardly do a better job. A report from Saturday details how China's infiltration of U.S. infrastructure could potentially give them influence over our nuclear capabilities. Another report from this week detailed how China infiltrated the Federal Reserve, cultivating assets and stealing information. "This is the most dangerous moment in history after the Second World War," warned Gordon Chang on Monday's edition of "Washington Watch."
This week, The Heritage Foundation released a list of frequently asked questions about the Democrats' radical same-sex marriage bill, H.R. 8404. Roger Severino, the former director of the HHS's Civil Rights Division, sets the record straight on what the sweeping law would actually do.
General Mark Milley misled Congress, under oath, about the way firing hundreds of thousands of soldiers who refuse to comply with the Biden administration's vaccination mandate will harm America's national security, a Republican congressman revealed Tuesday.
Every state has certain distinctives. One of Kansas's happens to be owning the geographical center of the contiguous United States. For the lower 48, a little chapel near the Nebraska border is smack dab in the middle of the country. And starting next week, the state can brag about being in the center of something else: the nationwide abortion debate.
Is there any word the Left won't redefine? God once judged the world by confusing their language; now men are judging themselves by confusing their own language. Sharing a common language and understanding of what words mean is one of the most fundamental attributes that holds society together. The Left seems to believe that society isn't worth holding together, if it won't conform to their utopian schemes.
By attempting to change rules through executive action that would lead to widespread violations of privacy rights, conscience rights, religious freedom, fair sports play, and a plethora of other rights, Biden is attempting to remake America into California's image, without the permission of the American people.
Senate Republicans are feeling the pressure to defend marriage and the natural family, as two large grassroots coalitions warn them that a controversial bill will fuel frivolous litigation and subject the most fundamental unit of society to an infinite variety of experimentation and tampering.
No one likes to be told they are on the "wrong side of history," and no one likes being called "hateful." Furthermore, the desire to affirm the dignity of our friends who identify as LGBT is rooted in the biblically consistent conviction that everyone has inherent value and ought to be treated with decency and respect. To affirm the dignity of our LGBT friends and avoid being vilified, should Republicans move on from social issues perceived as divisive, such as the definition of marriage?
According to Lifeway Research, "With a 1.17% growth rate, almost 2.56 billion people will identify as a Christian by the middle of 2022. By 2050, that number is expected to top 3.33 billion." Of course, identifying with a denomination or faith tradition is different from experiencing what Jesus called the new birth (John 3). However, there is no question that millions of men, women, and children are coming to saving faith in Christ.
Never underestimate the Republican Party's ability to self-destruct. That's the one thing years of cultural battles have taught everyone. Heading into November with the elections on a silver platter, the men and women who rebranded themselves as the "anti-woke" have suddenly gone soft on an issue that should be a political no-brainer: marriage. After seven years of letting the court take the heat for redefining history's oldest institution, a surprising number of Republicans are making a fatal mistake - believing they can win back Congress by sounding just as radical as the party set to lose it.
As the Biden administration considers declaring monkeypox a public health emergency, an epidemiologist says the easiest way to combat its spread is to discourage the practices of "aggressively hypersexualized gay men."
Myanmar's military recently executed four pro-democracy activists in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in the southeast Asian country (also known as Burma) in more than three decades. In closed-door trials earlier this year, the activists were sentenced to death for carrying out "brutal and inhumane terror acts" by helping militias fight the army that overthrew the democratically-elected government in February 2021.
Persuading (or rather, mollifying) parents remains a major issue for Democrats. Fully half of likely voters believed education is too politicized, according to a May poll commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers in seven battleground states. They were also dissatisfied with "the amount of say that parents have in what their children are taught" (50%), "the way schools have handled the COVID-19 pandemic" (42%), "the way students are taught about racial issues" (60%), and "the way students are taught about issues related to sexual preference and gender identity" (58%).
Unfortunately, a lot of people who should know better seem to be struggling with how to respond to Congress's marriage debate. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) criticized the Obergefell decision in 2015 but told reporters that she was "keeping a very open mind" about the issue because she has a "good number of very close friends that are same-sex married." The implication is that it would be unloving not to support same-sex marriage - and there are plenty of people who would agree with her.
The Dobbs Supreme Court decision has sparked a renewed focus on adoption in America. A recent Washington Post story reported on the small number of women with unplanned pregnancies who choose adoption and asserted that this is "unlikely to change" despite new pro-life laws. Meanwhile, a new survey of women of childbearing age is providing insight into what factors influence the decision.
Religious freedom is core to who we are as humans. We naturally seek to answer life's biggest questions - about who we are, where life itself comes from, what our purpose is, and where we are going. These answers are found in our Christian faith. This makes the freedom to choose and live out our faith essential to living a fully human life.
In a House Oversight Committee hearing on July 13, self-proclaimed "abortion storyteller" Sarah Lopez insisted, "My abortion is the best decision I ever made. It was an act of self-love [...]." The day before, in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, abortionist Dr. Colleen P. McNicholas said simply, "Abortion is an act of love." The abortion lobby is correct about one thing - abortion is a matter of love, but not true love; instead, it is a complete perversion of love. What is the object of the warped love that motivates abortion?
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, state legislatures are grappling to implement initiatives to improve maternal health care both during and after pregnancy. Extending Medicaid health care coverage for pregnant women up to 12 months after they give birth or miscarry is one of the measures states are taking to ensure women have access to quality maternal care.
Earlier this week, the Miami-Dade School Board voted against adopting two new sex education textbooks for the 2022-23 school year. With a narrow vote of 5-4, the decision followed emotionally charged debate between more than 40 parents and board members.
The Biden administration's international religious policies, which include funding atheists abroad, is "anti-God" and "anti-Christian," said a Republican member of Congress.
State officials in Louisiana have withheld tens of millions of dollars from a Democratic city where elected officials, including its Soros-linked prosecutor, defiantly refused to enforce the state's pro-life laws. The funds would have helped build a critical update to the city's water and sewage infrastructure. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) told The Washington Stand he proposed delaying state funding for city projects until liberal officials stopped threatening to turn New Orleans into a "sanctuary city" for abortion.
At the moment, only 4% of women with unwanted pregnancies place their children for adoption. But with the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, social workers at pregnancy resource centers expect this number to increase due to a potential post-Roe unplanned baby boom. With this possible rise in domestic infant adoptions, a pertinent question has emerged: Is America prepared for a plethora of adoptable babies?
A good Samaritan stopped a mall shooting last Sunday 15 seconds after it began, said Greenwood, Indiana police on Tuesday. At a Monday press conference, Greenwood Police Chief James Ison had said the good guy with a gun engaged within two minutes, but on Tuesday clarified that was due to misreading his notes. The abbreviated timeline only makes the courageous action of Eli Dicken that much more heroic. But the Left doesn't understand the significance of Dicken's manly behavior. In fact, the Left doesn't understand the solemn, masculine duty to protect - in any area of society.
Under the guise of protecting access to contraception, Democratic leaders in Congress have introduced "a Trojan Horse" that protects abortion on demand while denying Christians the religious freedom to opt out of chemical abortions. "Believe me, they are coming for your rights - especially Christians. Especially," warned Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) on Friday.
The House Freedom Caucus declared their opposition to H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act, in a press release on Friday. They characterized the bill as "fearmongering over the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization," which Democrats resorted to "in a desperate effort to distract from their creation of galloping inflation, a record-breaking border crisis, and skyrocketing gas prices."
Amid a "red wave" midterm election cycle, and after the most successful Supreme Court term in living memory, including the long-sought-after overturning of Roe v. Wade, many Republicans seemingly feel a sudden urge to apologize for the victories by abandoning every conservative principle and give Democrats everything they want.
Despite the attempted assassination of a sitting U.S. congressman, the attacker, David Jakubonis, was released the next day by the Monroe County sheriff's department despite being charged with a felony. The release fits a pattern of Democrat lawmakers loosening criminal laws, despite lawlessness continuing to climb.
When the Supreme Court delivered its blow to marriage in 2015, burning down three dozen state laws and tearing up 50 million ballots, the GOP's reaction was straightforward. Outrage. With a handful of exceptions, the response that echoed across the two coasts was a collective "How dare they?" As far as Republicans were concerned, what the five justices did on that June day was a betrayal of the people, our system of government, and the pillar that's upheld society since the beginning of time. "It's an injustice," they railed. Now, seven years later, they finally have a chance to prove it. The question is: will they?
According to the State Department, funding Queer Lisboa and similar initiatives in other countries is part of President Joe Biden's push to "support LGBTQ+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility efforts" overseas.
As the U.S. Senate debates the "Respect for Marriage" Act, a social scientist said politicians must understand that preserving the time-honored definition of marriage is necessary to establish "social justice for children."
On Tuesday, 47 Republican congressmen voted in favor of the "Respect for Marriage Act," a bill that was rushed for a House floor vote with little notice from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The measure would force every state to recognize same-sex marriages in the unlikely event that Obergefell v. Hodges is overturned. At least one congressman is calling the actions of these GOP members a "political calculation."
Despite its name, the bill isn't about marriage or respect at all. It's about imposing the radical Left's sexual ideology as state orthodoxy. Now more than ever, we need courageous elected leaders who will stand up to woke ideology and protect the foundations of our free society.
Three U.S. Senators wrote July 14 to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), expressing concern over "Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group's recent purchase of roughly 370 acres of land near Grand Forks, North Dakota." Fufeng plans to build a wet corn mill on the site. However, because of national security implications that potentially go far beyond food production, Rubio, Cramer, and Hoeven urged the CFIUS to conduct a full review.
In our rejection of God's word, we've abandoned his instructions, thereby destabilizing the intended foundation of marriage for children. The results are devastating for kids. And the implications are repeatedly reflected in news headlines. There will always be challenges with kids, black, yellow, red, and white. However, as adults, we must follow God's plan and prayerfully proceed to what's next.
Mr. Biden would probably have been an excellent salesman, public relations executive, or even talk-show host. But a statesman, sadly, he is not. From issue to issue, on domestic and foreign policy, he has been inconsistent, erratic, and blown about by every wind of changing partisan preference and political pressure.
Watching his environmental legislation stymied by popular will and the democratic process, President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he would implement some of his Green agenda through executive actions. But legal experts tell The Washington Stand that the president has overreached the limits of his constitutional authority - and that his policies will make Americans pay even more for energy.
It's the most radical "summer camp" ever. No, really. The Portland-area Budding Roses summer camp "cultivates free, safe, and empowering spaces for youth to learn, express themselves, and engage critically with the social justice issues that impact them." What that boilerplate gobbeldy-gook means is that they aim to teach 4th through 8th graders about white supremacy, police abolition, protest chants, and how to deal with tear gas.
What is particularly infuriating about transgender ideology is that it fails to grasp its own inherent contradictions.
Politicians who will not enforce state laws should not receive state funds, said Louisiana's top law enforcement official, a decision that could cost defiant cities tens of millions of dollars this week alone.
The House's fast-tracking of the "Respect for Marriage Act" is emblematic of the astonishing speed at which the moral revolution continues to move concerning same-sex marriage. But it is just as true today as it ever has been that natural marriage is the context for strong families, thriving communities, and stable civilizations.
The American people have lost faith in the Biden administration because they have a pattern of denying reality and gaslighting the public. They said inflation was "temporary." They said the border is secure. They said they don't think the Wuhan coronavirus came from the Wuhan coronavirus lab. They said the Taliban wouldn't take over Afghanistan in a weekend. They said men can get pregnant. This is all madness!
"Heroic Faith: Hope Amid Global Persecution" highlights gripping stories of Christians from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe who are bravely devoted to their faith. Co-written by Family Research Council's religious freedom experts, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, Lela Gilbert, and Arielle Del Turco, the book takes a close look at the tragic circumstances Christians face due to dangerous and sometimes deadly opposition to their faith in Jesus Christ.
Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine appeared Monday on MSNBC to promote permanent mutilation as a solution for mentally disturbed minors. "We really want ... to affirm and to support and empower these youth not to limit their participation in activities in sports and even limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state," he said.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rushed the "Respect for Marriage" Act to a vote this week, claiming that the Supreme Court might overturn the 2015 case that first invented a putative constitutional "right" to same-sex marriage. The bill - which would prevent states from recognizing a marriage as the union of one man and one woman - passed the lower house of Congress by a hefty 267-157 margin. While 157 Republicans voted no, 22% of House Republicans voted to redefine marriage and prevent states from recognizing the natural family in the event the Supreme Court reverses itself.
One year ago, President Joe Biden said the inflation that had marked every month of his presidency would soon be a thing of the past. Last July 19, Biden denied the economy would see "persistent inflation," because "our experts believe and the data shows that most of the price increases we've seen were expected and expected to be temporary." By December, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the administration should stop calling rising prices "transitory."
If you asked the talking heads, they'd say Americans are flocking to the Republican Party because of Joe Biden. It's a reasonable explanation, considering the dumpster fire he's made of our economy, energy, and inflation. But there's another reason that voters are turning to the GOP - and it has nothing to do with the price of gas in Wichita. It's because under Donald Trump they rediscovered something important: their moral courage. And this week's marriage debate, however contrived it is, is putting everything they've learned to the test.
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas (R) commissioned charter buses to provide free transportation for migrants who volunteered to travel from overwhelmed Texas border towns to Washington, D.C. To date, over 100 buses with capacity of up to 40 passengers each have arrived, bringing undocumented men, women, and children straight to the streets adjacent to the Capitol, where many politicians were advocating for open borders.
A panel of judges will soon rule on whether Georgia's heartbeat abortion law can take effect. In 2019, Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed a bill prohibiting abortion once a "detectable human heartbeat" is present (the bill included exceptions for rape and incest when a police report has been filed). The law was blocked before it could be enacted by a federal judge who found it unconstitutional based on the federal Roe v. Wade precedent. Since the Supreme Court ruled that abortion is not protected in the Constitution, Georgia's abortion law is up for review.
Minneapolis city councilmembers joined pro-abortion groups on Sunday at a rally to urge Mayor Jacob Frey to directly fund abortions in the next city budget. Councilmembers Aisha Chughtai and Robin Wonsley Worlobah joined 16 pro-abortion groups, as well as U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Minnesota House Majority Whip Kaohly Vang Her, and members of the state legislature's new "Reproductive Freedom" Caucus.
On June 28, four Sudanese Christian men were arrested for violating a previously annulled apostasy law - a law demanding a death sentence for leaving Islam. This latest report of Christian persecution has led to increasing concern about Sudan's future, thanks to a 2021 military coup that shattered widespread hopes for continuing freedom of worship.
Recently, I saw a bumper sticker that read, "The Constitution: Frustrating Liberals Since 1789." This is a humorous witticism, but it carries the ring of truth. Liberal outrage over the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has been generated not only by the end of their cherished national culture of abortion on demand, but also by an understanding of our country at odds with the vision of America's Founders.
As the raging national debate over abortion laws continues almost a month after the watershed Dobbs Supreme Court decision, a former Southwest Airlines flight attendant has won a lawsuit against her former employer for wrongful termination over her outspoken pro-life views.
With economic pressures squeezing middle-class families tighter than any time in a generation, congressional Democrats have decided to ram through a series of laws that would write left-wing positions on social issues into law, including a national bill establishing same-sex marriage.
The strangest part of the Left's obsession with "disinformation" is that, despite their rhetoric, they cannot conceive of countering disinformation as a search for objective truth. For them, it's only a cynical, political exercise. Twisting the facts for political ends is exactly what they accuse their opponents of doing.
The problem used to be that judges wanted to be legislators. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs, legislators want to be judges. It's a shift that seems to be exploding under Joe Biden, who has about as much use for the separation of powers as a menu at Haagen Dazs. Desperate Democrats, who can't manage to get the courts, Congress, or voters on board with their radical agenda, have turned to the one thing that Barack Obama perfected: lawlessness.
While Russia's invasion of Ukraine has slowed to a deadly slog, Russia is rapidly reshaping the territories it controls into its own image. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out Russia's "systematic 'filtration' operations and forced deportations" in a July 13 press statement.
The Founding Fathers envisioned three co-equal branches of government with distinct roles serving as a "check" against each other to ensure that one branch did not grow too powerful. Congress, reflecting the will of the American people, would pass legislation, the president would act on behalf of the nation by enacting those laws, and the Supreme Court would act as a backstop against tyranny and mob rule by interpreting the constitutionality of Congress and the White House's actions. Washington Democrats have all but abandoned this bedrock framework.
In 2019, then-candidate Joe Biden said, "In prison, the determination should be that your sexual identity should be defined by what you say it is, not what, in fact, the prison says it is." Biden and Democratic congressional leaders favor the so-called Equality Act, which would codify the notion that transgender criminals should be jailed in a facility that matches their gender identity. With that legislation stalled, the president is taking unilateral action to promote the transgender cause.
In a ruling that is a clear victory for advocates of keeping biological males out of girls' sports and locker rooms, a federal judge has blocked a Biden administration directive that reinterprets Title IX's prohibition of "discrimination on the basis of sex" to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made it clear during meetings with the United States a while ago that "the Taiwan Strait is not an international waterway, and China has sovereignty and control over the Taiwan Strait." The U.S. disagreed and expressed its dissatisfaction, and Beijing said immediately that "China will not impede the normal navigation and air traffic rights of the relevant countries in the Taiwan Strait," which is nonsense.
Whether it's the beach, a theme park, or a scenic foreign city, vacations can be enjoyable and refreshing. New experiences can open our eyes to the wider world and build sweet memories with loved ones. Extra leisure allows us to reflect and recharge. But among the fun and excitement, vacations have a dangerous side. I'm not talking about jellyfish or sunburn; their danger is only skin deep. I'm talking about the spiritual danger vacations pose by tempting us to leave our Christianity at home.
America is under threat. This is not news in itself, but the kinds of threats we face are of a different sort than in previous years. The list of specific dangers is long and disturbing.
Missouri dad John Potter has made a name for himself by speaking out and rallying other parents to put checks and balances on the Columbia Public School (CPS) district, vying for transparency in their children's educational institutions. This week, the national power struggle between parents and school boards continues, as a high school prepares to receive funding for a new "gender closet."
On Thursday, Texas state officials filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration challenging its recent guidance that health providers can carry out abortions in emergency cases regardless of their state's laws. Under the guidance released earlier this week by the Department of Health and Human Services, health providers who carry out emergency abortions are protected under federal law. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) responded to this by suing the HHS to "ensure that the Left's abortion agenda can't reach Texas babies."
For the first time as president, Joe Biden visited Israel this week, arriving on Wednesday and staying into Friday. The Middle East trip featured both impressive innovation - such as cultural exportation of the American "fist bump"- and salutary preservation of key features of Middle East stability.
While the end of Roe v. Wade is and will remain a source of rejoicing, the Biden administration is doing all it can to prevent states from exercising their constitutional authority over abortion policy. In a number of states, judges have impeded implementation of pro-life legislation already on the books.
This very second, there are men online, in malls, walking through neighborhoods, luring girls away from unhappy homes with one goal: to sell them and use them for sex. They've been kicked, beaten, starved, punished, and forced to subject themselves to a level of brutality and humiliation most of us can't comprehend. Most of these young girls end up pregnant - and not just once. Multiple times. In their abusers' minds, there's only one solution: abortion.
Hey, remember COVID? The U.S. Air Force still believes the virus poses a top threat to their young and healthy workforce. In fact, they believe your tax dollars are best used to cover their legal expenses, to defend their denial of requests for religious exemptions to the COVID vaccine mandate. Strange, because they keep losing.
The Department of Health and Human Services sent a guidance on Wednesday to 60,000 pharmacies nationwide, warning their employees of stiff, legal "corrective action" against anyone who refuses to comply. The guidelines say, for instance, that if a pharmacist refuses to fill an order for mifepristone or misoprostol "because these medications can also be used to terminate a pregnancy - the pharmacy may be discriminating on the basis of sex."
The House of Representatives has passed two abortion-expanding bills, one of which would strike down virtually all pro-life laws nationwide and potentially force taxpayers to fund abortion until birth. Opponents have called it the most extreme pro-abortion bill in U.S. history, saying both measures would shield disreputable abortionists while throwing "a cloak around" sexual predators.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a stated vision of "Equitably protecting health, safety & security." Yet new revelations show that the CDC's website links to an online chat space directed at "LGBTQ+ teens" that is facilitated by transgender activists promoting practices that have been shown to permanently harm the health of minors.
A polling firm believes it has found the perfect strategy for Democrats to fend off a red wave in the 2022 midterms: Blame the culture war in America's public schools on Republicans. The decision comes even as parents struggle to remove pornographic content from school libraries.
Plato and Aristotle asked what form of government was best, and now the debate has been taken up by pro basketball players. On Tuesday, former Boston Celtic Enes Kanter Freedom tweeted at LeBron James, "You are free to leave buddy." James had suggested WNBA player Brittney Griner might prefer remaining in a Russian prison, instead of returning to America. "I would be feeling like, 'Do I even want to go back to America?'" said James.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is rapidly transitioning from a mechanism to improve global health outcomes into just one more institution captured by woke political activism. Fresh off the director-general lamenting that the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade "was a setback" because "restricting [abortion] drives women and girls towards unsafe abortions," the global health body announced its determination to erase women altogether.
America is facing a maternal health crisis. Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that the maternal mortality rate increased between 2019 to 2020. The CDC reported that in 2020, there were 861 deaths due to maternal causes compared to 754 women in 2019 and 658 in 2018.
It began in Boulder, Colorado. On the night of May 3, criminals attacked Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church, beginning a country-wide wave of hate crimes and terrorist attacks against churches, pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), and pro-life organizations unlike anything seen before in the U.S. And if the Biden administration won't do something about it, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has made it clear: he will.
A right-leaning legal group sent two letters on Wednesday. The first, to Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Lauren Hobart, alerted her "to apparent mismanagement and violations of federal civil rights laws that threaten the waste of the Company's assets." The second, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) area office, asked the EEOC to "open an investigation into DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. (the 'Company') for engaging in unlawful employment practices in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Ohio authorities have arrested an illegal immigrant for raping a 10-year-old girl, who subsequently crossed state lines to get an abortion. Numerous media outlets questioned the thinly sourced details of the original story. They were right to do so, based on abortionists' long history of simultaneously lying about rape and concealing the sexual assault of minors.
Immigrant women in custody are "still entitled to abortions," announced the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Top immigration officials are planning on instructing detention centers around the country to allow pregnant women in custody to get abortions regardless of the recent overturning of Roe. v. Wade.
A video of a self-described "pro-abortion doctor" telling the U.S. Senate "abortion is liberation ... and I want to celebrate that" went viral on Wednesday. But the Democrats' star witness proved equally untrustworthy when she asserted a new wave of post-Roe, pro-life protections might threaten the care women receive when suffering from threatening ectopic pregnancies.
Working-class Americans, who previously voted in large numbers for Democrat politicians, are shifting toward the GOP. Turns out, the actions of those in power are not without reactions from voters - voters who rely on affordable gas for their cars and trucks and food to feed their families, and who will look for a political home elsewhere if the party in power refuses to take their concerns seriously.
Not to be outdone by big business and America's public schools, significant historical sites are now joining the woke parade. Recent visitors to Thomas Jefferson's former home Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia have reported that the famous historical site has gone woke.
While inflation numbers burn through projections and Americans stare down a 9.1% price hike, Democrats are on a hopeless mission to persuade the country that abortion access is the nation's biggest crisis. Their crusade has already chewed through hours of the legislative clock this week, as party leaders on both sides of the Capitol host endless hearings on an issue that the majority party can do almost nothing about. But, as Senator Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) viral exchange made clear on Tuesday, the time isn't all wasted. At least voters are getting a clear picture of what the Democratic Party cares about.
Rising prices floored the accelerator instead of the brake in June, increasing 1.3% over the past month and a whopping 9.1% over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Wednesday. BLS said the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) saw "the largest 12-month increase since the period ending November 1981," over 40 years ago.
Comedian Dave Chappelle is no stranger to Emmy nominations - or angry mobs. Last fall, his comedy special, "The Closer" (TV-MA), launched on Netflix and sparked a scandal due to what were labeled "transphobic and homophobic" and "derogatory comments about the LGBTQ+ community."
"Arizona has figured out how to fund students instead of systems, and now solidly leads the nation in educational freedom."
Resisting intense lobbying from well-funded national LGBTQ pressure groups, the state of Florida has taken a step closer to stop taxpayers from funding transgender hormone treatments and surgeries. Concerned parents and at least one teen who has detransitioned after having her breasts surgically removed asked state officials to do more to protect minors.
Left-wing activist organization ShutDownDC, known for its radical and often illegal tactics, offered to pay waiters who tip them off regarding the locations of the Supreme Court justices. "DC Service Industry Workers ... If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details!" tweeted ShutDownDC on Friday. "We'll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they're still there 30 mins after your message."
Since the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned the egregiously wrong Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration has been doing everything in its power to expand the use of chemical abortion. For years, the abortion industry has made unsubstantiated claims about the safety of chemical abortion carried out with the use of mifepristone and misoprostol. Here are five common myths about chemical abortion and the science that dismantles them.
A law professor accused a U.S. senator of "opening up trans people to violence" by denying that men can get pregnant during a hearing in the Capitol on Tuesday. Critics say transgender activists increasingly equate rejecting extremist gender ideology with assault, or they suppress debate altogether, in order to foist controversial ideas of gender fluidity on the public.
According to KCBS Radio, San Francisco OBGYN, professor, and pro-abortion activist, Dr. Meg Autry, is mobilizing a group to bring abortion access to women in pro-life states. Her bay area-based group, Protecting Reproductive Rights Of Women Endangered by State Statutes (or, PRROWESS), is crafting plans to send an abortion clinic ship to the Gulf of Mexico, where they could perform surgical abortions five miles off the shore on a ship in federal waters. They are currently in the process of fundraising a minimum of $20 million and even a ship donation.
In March 2021, President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law, which the White House touted as "a bridge to an equitable economic recovery" from the COVID pandemic by "delivering direct relief to the American people" and small businesses. But a recent report found that a federal government agency that works with libraries and museums used $15 million of ARP funds for programs aimed at children that promote "anti-racism" and "equity, diversity, and inclusion," among other programs for the general public.
Transgender activists propose administering a battery of drugs and surgeries to young children with gender dysphoria, but a newly released report refutes nearly every supposed benefit they list - including claims that such treatments reduce suicides. In fact, they may increase them, some studies show.
An anecdote about a 10-year-old girl being raped, which President Joe Biden forcefully cited to promote abortion-on-demand, appears to be a myth, according to the highest legal authority in the state where the assault supposedly happened.
What does a blockbuster dinosaur franchise have to do with theology? Plenty, it turns out.
June 24 wasn't just the end of federal abortion on demand - it was also the end of a long-running corporate ruse. America's biggest businesses, we were told for years, would do anything to protect their woke social causes. They'd write letters, donate to the loudest activists, lobby on Capitol Hill, even publicly shame their own customer base. But when push comes to shove, would these CEOs really fall on their sword to protect abortion? The answer, so far, is no.
Complete with images and a QR code for a "Google doc with more resources," a pro-abortion flier walks a woman though the process of using abortion drugs to kill her unborn child. The 11-step process begins with the woman taking a pregnancy test (Step 1), ends with her starting birth control (Step 11), and along the way, makes certain to put her life in danger.
Scrambling for ways to reinstate a top-down abortion policy that bars all 50 states from punishing abortionists, House Democrats have scheduled at least two votes and multiple hearings - including a bill that could strike down nearly all state pro-life protections until birth.
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden told reporters that he is considering declaring abortion a public health emergency. This executive decision could potentially free up immediate federal funds to promote abortions.
As international conflicts and tensions continue to mount, the U.S. military's persistent focus appears to be on rules of speech.
Food pantries, counseling, and community hospitality - according to the Pottstown, Pa. Zoning Officer Winter Stokes, such activities are "by definition ... more than that of a church." Stokes issued citations to Christ Episcopal Church of Pottstown and Mission First, "a ministry of Cedarville UMC [United Methodist Church]" which shares an address with First UMC of Pottstown.
Fighting, tardiness, absenteeism, and an unwillingness to complete classwork are all issues Rebekkah Biven, a public school teacher in Tulsa, Okla. says were exacerbated post-pandemic. After the COVID lockdowns, Biven and many of her colleagues at MacArthur Elementary returned to classrooms that were more chaotic than before due to months of isolation that had adverse effects on students' social skills.
Less than 48 hours after U.S. and British intelligence officials called a rising China "the most game-changing challenge we face," President Joe Biden stood poised to remove tariffs from Chinese products - while doubling down on plans to foist controversial social-engineering policies on the U.S. military.
Why has our humanitarian assistance made so little progress toward a "free, peaceful, and prosperous world"? The answer is simple: We are neglecting religious freedom in our development efforts.
"Children's entertainment" is no longer guaranteed to be appropriate for children. With Disney vowing to promote sexual perversion, and a drag queen story hour targeting children in every city, this conclusion has become increasingly obvious. Yet, somehow, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has managed (or is it womanaged?) to up the ante yet again, aiming woke propaganda not at kindergartners, but at infants.
Gavin Newsom is the photogenic governor of California. He is known for his outbursts of selective moral indignation and also for his unfiltered elitism. In the words of satirist Kevin Nelson, Newsom is "the P.T. Barnum of masking, vaccines, boosters, lockdowns, and arbitrary mandates for all those who do not think like him."
It took me about a year of being in prison to get to the point where I could consistently press through my fear. I did not come to the point where I had no fear, but I came to the point where I could stand firm in spite of fear. I want to share with you how I came to this point and how you can overcome fear as well.
When the U.S. Supreme Court published its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, it gave the nation an opportunity for healing. The Constitution provides us the tools for balancing competing interests and for finding resolution for tough questions through the two branches of government accountable to the people at the ballot box.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday morning to "expand access to abortion care, including medication abortion." The executive action signaled the president plans to take aim at pro-life pregnancy resource centers and offer free legal protection to the abortion industry.
The Biden administration's lax immigration policy does not merely show incompetence, it "actually aids and abets the cartels in doing as much harm to our country as possible," according to the top law enforcement official in a border state.
Pro-life advocates say Senator Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) plea to "put a stop" to pro-life pregnancy resource centers is a faith-based initiative: It's based on abortion activists' pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.
I hear some people saying confidently now, "Persecution will be good for us. It will build the church. Bring it on." We need to be careful not to be over-confident. I say to you again, it can be more difficult than we think, and God's faithfulness, His help, His grace, may look different than what we would expect.
Here are some ways PRCs have expanded their general services to meet more specific needs in their local communities - needs that will undoubtedly be greater now that the Supreme Court has returned the ability to protect unborn children to the states.
While investigating and choosing to avoid companies that fund abortion, consumers can take their pro-life convictions a step further by choosing to support businesses that take an active stance on honoring human dignity rather than merely remaining neutral.
Relativism is the notion that reality is a result of human interactions and cultural interpretations - in other words, reality is subjective. But as we see with the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, only the truth endures.
Fewer Americans than ever before believe that the Bible is God's word. According to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday, only 20% of American adults believe that the Bible is the inspired, literal word of God.
A Gallup poll released Tuesday revealed that Americans' confidence in major U.S. institutions is steadily declining.
The nation's largest teachers union voted on Wednesday to defend abortion-on-demand, capping off a politically charged convention that encouraged teachers to "validate" children experimenting with transgender ideology and homosexuality.
A new FRC report documents an alarming trend over the past three years of rising intolerance towards Christians in the West. The report lists 99 unique incidents of religious persecution across 14 separate countries spanning from January 2020 to May 2022.
PRCs meet the unique needs of their local communities. With over 2,700 centers nationwide, these services demonstrate why PRCs are so beneficial and how they stand in stark contrast with abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.
Even in the post-Soviet era, the hope that we are living in a "different world" is a false one. But we can look with confident joy to the day when the God of the universe will create "a new heaven and a new earth" when the redeemed "from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages" will stand "before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white (pure) robes" (Revelation 21:1, 7:9).
Across today's increasingly violent world, Christians who are persecuted for their faith can be numbered in the hundreds of millions. Most of them live in poverty and constant uncertainty, yet they continue to pray, praise, and openly worship.
Popular satire news source The Babylon Bee received a sting from TikTok after they were removed from the platform Monday without explanation, according to CEO Seth Dillon in a comment to The Washington Times.
It was midnight on July 4, 2018. Pastor Andrew Brunson, a survivor of religious persecution in Turkey, was greeted with an American flag as he descended from an Air Force flight in Germany after a harrowing two-year imprisonment. Overwhelmed with joy, he buried his face in the star-spangled banner.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent string of pro-religious liberty decisions, including striking down a law that excluded religious schools in Maine from participating in a school voucher program and upholding the right to public prayer, many are claiming that by ruling in favor of religious organizations and individuals, the current Supreme Court is destroying the so-called constitutional idea of "separation of church and state."
Although each PRC faces unique challenges and takes different approaches to cater to the specific needs of its local community, there are general services that one can expect to find at each. PRCs stand together when it comes to optimizing care for mothers, fathers, and their babies. In addition to pregnancy tests and counseling, here are some of the services typically available at PRCs.
When it comes to gas prices, there's good news and bad news: The good news is the price of oil may fall by half. The bad news is, if that happens, it's because America is in a recession.
Last week at the annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C., The Heritage Foundation hosted a panel titled, "Victims of 'Polite' Persecution: Believers Targeted By Secular Abortion and Gender Activists." One of the panelists was Reverend Dr. Bernard Randall, an ordained bishop of the Church of England and a former chaplain at a Christian K-12 school in Cambridge, who took to the podium to share his experience of being on the receiving end of religious discrimination.
After Dobbs, dozens of corporations are scrambling to broadcast their pro-abortion stance to the world by announcing they will cover the cost of an abortion for their employees. But one company has recently decided to flip the script by offering to cover birth and adoption-related medical costs for their employees instead.
Ninety left-leaning attorneys general and district attorneys across the country have pledged to not enforce criminal charges related to laws protecting the unborn.
On Sunday, July 3, Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins partnered with Michael Farris, the CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to commemorate the Supreme Court's historic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The event brought together various pro-life leaders and supporters of the movement for an evening of prayer, worship, and discussions on a post-Roe America.
The sentiment that America is not worth celebrating is not new. Small but growing calls to boycott have almost become part of the tradition for holidays like Thanksgiving and the 4th of July. And the truth is, America does have problems. Even if we disagree about what the biggest problems are, the fact that America has issues is one of the few things everyone agrees on. But one of the emerging problems in America is the idea that it's inappropriate to be grateful for something until it has been perfected.
As we celebrate Independence Day, I believe the Founders would be smiling at the work of the Supremes because these two monumental rulings, Dobbs v. Jackson and Kennedy v. Bremerton, are absolutely in sync with two foundational rights enumerated in our Founding Document, the Declaration of Independence.
Today, we can celebrate God and give thanks to those who sacrificed much for the freedoms we share as a nation and for the beauty of this country. We can also be people who commit to praying for our country. While we can pray for many things for our country today, I urge you to pray these scriptures as you give thanks to God for the United States of America.
Slightly more than one out of every three pastors of Christian churches (37%) possesses a biblical worldview - i.e., adoption of the basic scriptural principles and teachings that form the filter through which we experience, interpret, and respond to the world. While that is far better than what the Inventory has discovered in the adult population among those who consider themselves to be Christian, it is a far cry from what most people expect - and what today's confused culture so desperately needs - from Christian church leaders.
Since the Supreme Court's decision to correct Roe v. Wade, many in the mainstream media have claimed that for decades, conservatives have not only worked to end this injustice but have somehow "conspired" to do so. It's as if an insidious cabal has met in shadowy places, working like termites to undermine the framework of our justice system.
President Joe Biden has admitted that he does not have enough support in his own party to suspend the filibuster, a necessary step for Democrats to pass a nationwide expansion of abortion. Biden launched into the topic on Thursday while responding to a poll that said 85% of Americans believe the country is moving in the wrong direction. U.S. voters "do not think that," he fired back, asserting that we have "the strongest economy" in the world. "The one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court ... "
Despite a month and a half heads-up, Joe Biden didn't exactly snap to attention when his party's greatest fears were realized. The end of Roe v. Wade inflamed the Democrats' die-hards, who were immediately ready to burn down the Supreme Court with the conservative justices inside. While the Left suggested everything from impeaching Brett Kavanaugh to pitching abortion tents in Yellowstone, their slow-moving president seemed incapable of urgency.
In the process of building a legal, political, and cultural movement that would ultimately defeat Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers achieved something else as well: a court that would adhere to the Constitution.
Pride month is now over, but America's fascination with pride isn't quite put to rest. We've got a pride problem, and we're proud of it.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, a renewed surge of terrorism has been unleashed against churches and pregnancy resource centers, with at least 25 attacks occurring across the country over a seven-day span.
This week at the annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C., I sat down with one of the most influential rabbis in the United States, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, and talked about the importance of religious freedom for all. Appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and recently elected USCIRF vice chair, he shared why he has passionately committed his life to combatting antisemitism and championing human rights, and why every American should care.
Since the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration has been scrambling to find new ways of ensuring laws cannot protect unborn children. At the top of their list is chemical abortion - a pill regimen of mifepristone (distributed under the brand name Mifeprex) and misoprostol.
Pro-life advocates won an indelible victory on June 24 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But they may have forgotten one of the most important skirmishes that paved the long road to this historic victory: Seventeen years ago, pro-life Christians defied a Republican White House pressure campaign and insisted the president withdraw his first choice for the court.
"Health and humanitarian challenges that the world is facing" include COVID vaccines, monkeypox, malnourished children in Africa, and... the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade? That's according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a Wednesday briefing. The comments were just what you would expect from a former African warlord who now does the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.
They came in force, armed with spray paint and rocks. They shielded their identity from security cameras with umbrellas and masks. After assembling in a park, as many as 100 people marched two blocks to the office building of Hinson Baptist Church, which also houses a community coffee shop and office space for First Image, a Christian pro-life group that operates pregnancy centers in the Portland, Ore. area.
Following the Supreme Court's historic 6-3 decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Democrat strategists and so-called "pundits" within the mainstream media went into a manic frenzy. The entire country was swept up by the media's maelstrom of political skullduggery - it was intended to deceive the American people, and more importantly, distract them from the truth.
Western Christians facing legal penalties for sharing the Bible say their persecution has opened up new opportunities to share the gospel with wider audiences than ever. Police crackdowns have resulted in their broadcasting scriptural messages on TV, converting atheists, and saving emergency response personnel. The results led one Christian to exclaim he has been "rejoicing for the persecution."
On Thursday, Family Research Council hosted a luncheon at the second annual International Religious Freedom Summit. With an estimated 250 multi-faith advocates in attendance, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins presented a groundbreaking report titled, "Free to Believe? The Intensifying Intolerance Toward Christians in the West."
Playing for the NBA gave him a platform - using it cost him his career. That's the latest chapter in the unlikely story of Enes Kanter Freedom, the outspoken basketball center who's spent the bulk of his 11 years in the league fighting for human rights.
On the second day of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in downtown Washington, D.C., Family Research Council hosted a breakout session called, "Heroic Faith: Hope Amid Global Persecution." The panel was moderated by Arielle Del Turco, FRC's Assistant Director of the Center for Human Dignity. In her words, "Hearing the stories of the persecuted is vital to understanding what is happening to Christians living in dangerous places. Knowing about their experience enables us to know how to pray for and assist the persecuted."
The president's party historically struggles in midterm elections, and the president's habit of stumbling from crisis to crisis doesn't help their cause. Between foreign foibles and domestic disasters, Democrats have few positive developments they can point to, despite controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House. They were ready to latch on to anything that might re-float their party's boat - when the Supreme Court's decided to send abortion policy back to the states.
"[The blood] - it looked like I was sitting in the middle of a crime scene. I suppose it was a crime scene. I mean, I had just murdered my child ... But this couldn't be normal. Planned Parenthood didn't ever tell me this could happen.... I decided that I would call them in the morning... if I didn't die before then." -Abby, 23 Abby lived. In fact, she went on to become one of the most effective pro-life activists in the movement: Abby Johnson. Like a lot of women, she thought taking the abortion pill would be the easy way out. She was wrong.
This Supreme Court ruling signals the beginning of a massive shift in domestic politics, yes, but it will undoubtedly have a ripple effect throughout the world. The more immediate - and less discussed - effect will be on the international abortion debate.
While the legacy news media obsesses over allegations that former President Donald Trump once flung a plate that caused ketchup to run down a wall, the suffering and persecution of the world's Christian population remains all-but-invisible. Believers in the world's deadliest nation for Christians want Americans to know their spiritual brothers and sisters "are going through Hell. You need to pray for them."
From Nigerian villages devastated by Fulani militia to Afghans fleeing the Taliban, religious oppression is a global crisis. International Christian Concern, a nonpartisan human rights organization, unveiled their 2022 Persecutor of the Year Awards report, shedding light on the atrocities men and women of faith face around the world.
When Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act this week, he used some interesting legal rationale: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. What does the end of federal abortion on demand have to do with dangerous gender ideology? A lot, Marshall insists.
Nearly one-third of all boys are already growing up in a home without a father of any kind - and decades of social science have shown a fatherless home breeds a panoply of social ills, from crime to lower education and lack of employment.
As the reverberations of the Supreme Court's historic overturn of Roe v. Wade last week continue to settle on our culture, one thing is clear: we pro-lifers may very well find ourselves having difficult conversations with our friends and family members who disagree with us about abortion in the coming months. So how can we avoid these conversations becoming heated shouting matches? And what are some of the most persuasive pro-life arguments that we can bring up? Here are a few tips.
"Imagine staying in business after losing 25% of your company." That's the U.S. Army's latest dilemma, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) warns. Despite a military-wide recruitment emergency, America's biggest branch is on the verge of losing 13% of its National Guard, 10% of the Reserve, and 24,250 active-duty soldiers out of the service over the president's ludicrous vaccine mandate.
Monday, in Seattle, the Boy Scouts marched in the local Pride Parade. Rainbow flags were held aloft by a line of boys marching behind another row with American flags. The LGBT flags were displayed on poles several feet higher than the flags of our country. On a personal level, this pains me.
Although the phrase and the wristbands are less commonly used today, the question "What Would Jesus Do?" has been tossed around a lot by liberal Christians, who would like to believe that Jesus wouldn't have condemned homosexuality if he were alive. The Bible, however, paints a much different picture.
Democrats' extreme rhetoric and increasingly desperate attempts to leverage the federal government's power to expand abortion reflect how Democrats "worship abortion," a Republican U.S. senator said on Tuesday afternoon. "I'm just struck with how we believe that life is sacred. We are building a culture of life. Everything I hear from the Left is elevating abortion, as if abortion is sacred," Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) shook his head. "It's their religion, sadly."
In a country where the right to worship freely has historically been a tenet of society upheld by the Constitution, we continue to see a fight for religious freedom - Monday's victory for Coach Joe Kennedy is a prime example. Yet, while many Americans are fixated on the major headlines in mainstream media from this past week, the international battle for religious freedom wages on as persecution thrives in many countries today.
Pro-abortion activists are determined that the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision will not signal the end of abortion in America. Abortion proponents at almost all levels of government responded almost instantly to the decision - or even anticipated it - with strategies to promote abortion through means that don't rely on federal courts. Here are 10 ways the Left is seeking to expand abortion.
In the 72 hours since the Supreme Court's bombshell ruling, the Democrats' hysteria has sucked up most of the oxygen in the room - and that's just fine with corporate America. While some CEOs have taken their battle stations on the sinking ship of Roe v. Wade, the bigger story might be how many haven't. It's been an unusually quiet weekend for several of the country's major brands, who've had almost two full months to consider their response. Is it cold feet from Disney's cautionary tale - or could abortion be the new neutral ground?
There is much talk now about how the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is actually a matter of denying or removing a constitutional right. Even the President has gotten into the act. According to Joe Biden, in reversing Roe, "the Supreme Court of the United States expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people that it had already recognized." These claims merit a close look.
The current session of the U.S. Supreme Court has shown greater fidelity to the Constitution than any collection of justices in nearly nine decades, according to a legal scholar. "You'd have to go back to 1935," Ken Klukowski, former legal advisor to the Trump administration, told "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" on Monday.
Religious displays, such as Nativity scenes and displays of the Ten Commandments, may return to classrooms and courthouses after Monday's Supreme Court ruling, a legal scholar has argued. The sweeping decision erased decades of judicial activism that had stifled religious liberty.
The judicial dominos are starting to fall since Friday's Dobbs ruling at the Supreme Court. On Monday, a New Orleans judge on Monday temporarily blocked three Louisiana laws that would restrain or ban abortion, after the Supreme Court on Friday sent the power to set abortion policy back to the states.
The court's decision in favor of Coach Kennedy could help other Americans as God-fearing as he. Currently, confusion about what the Establishment Clause requires is widespread. Like Bremerton, many local school districts often discourage or inhibit religious expression out of a desire to avoid "excessive government entanglement." But with the Kennedy decision, the Supreme Court has made clear that is not what the Constitution requires at all.
In the latest major decision to come down from the U.S. Supreme Court in what has become a historic month of June, the majority ruled that a high school football coach has the constitutional right to pray in public view after games.
To the children who grew up in the shadow of Roe v. Wade, Friday's Supreme Court ruling ushered in a world they'd never experienced. For the first time, entire generations woke up Saturday morning in a country not controlled by abortion on demand. But as much as the Left has leaned into this misunderstanding over the years, the end of Roe was never going to be the end of this fight. If anything, conservatives warn, it's the starting gun.
There are many examples of how some evangelicals are turning from scriptural norms regarding human sexuality. This is disturbing, as the biblical teaching is clear and definitive. Instead, some believers seem to see Scripture not as God's self-revelation but as a moral buffet from which each of us can select or reject specific teachings based on personal preference.
When society tells young men and women that their careers, personal ambitions, and Starbucks coffee budget are more valuable then starting a family or taking care of your own elderly family members, the inherent value of human dignity suffers. And this devaluing of human life starts at the earliest point possible - in the womb.
President Biden's approval numbers have been declining since the day he took office. To be sure, there are challenges, like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that are beyond his control. But dealing with the unexpected is one of the things that is expected of a president. Still, the president's biggest challenges are not the things beyond his control but the disconnect between his priorities and the priorities of the American people.
The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to abortion extremism on Friday, striking down the arbitrary restriction the Left has used to prevent voters from enacting laws to protect the most vulnerable. Relying on judicial brute force for five decades may have degraded some abortion supporters' reasoning abilities, judging from their reactions. Here are a few of the most egregious comments made about the pro-life Dobbs ruling.
"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled." With these words, nearly half a century's worth of prayer, lobbying, campaigning, and legislating has come to fruition. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Moving forward, the American people, through their elected representatives, will have the power to defend unborn children. \r
As pro-life advocates rejoice, abortion activists vent, seethe, and devise ways for their political allies to circumvent the Supreme Court decision allowing states to protect the unborn at younger stages of their lives. "It's a sad day for the court and for the country," said President Joe Biden, who called the ruling "a realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court."
President Joe Biden spoke Friday in response to the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health, in which the court overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The speech was heavy on outrage, but light on truthfulness. Here are a few of Biden's worst whoppers.
Finally: a Supreme Court that stands up for the Constitution in the face of government tyranny. The morning before it overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the Supreme Court issued another opinion strongly supporting the Second Amendment in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. Quite of few public figures on the Left fired off at the mouth with emotional reflexes - unsurprisingly, they were wide of the mark.
The fight to protect unborn children and their mothers is far from over. With this ruling, the abortion industry that has been built through the exploitation of women and the killing of their children has been dealt a devastating blow. Still, our work is far from finished. In some states, the evil of abortion that ends the life of an unrepeatable child, breaks the heart of a mother and father, and shatters the conscience of a nation continues (learn which states don't currently have protections for the unborn here). Therefore, we must double our efforts to support mothers and fathers in need.
While there are admittedly a multitude of factors that have led to the fatherhood crisis we find ourselves in here in America, one thing is certain: nothing will change unless we are willing to help cultivate genuine, godly masculinity and fatherhood in our own families and communities.
The nation is now digesting the 79-page Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling that overthrows Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. Critics are panicking as if this means abortion is now illegal. But this decision does not make abortion illegal. What it strives to do is return to Americans what the pro-abortion Roe and Casey decisions stole from them: the right to decide the fate of abortion state by state.
After two generations of prayer, activism, and tireless organizing, pro-life advocates rejoiced Friday morning as the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. "While we are grateful that the tyranny of Roe has ended, we are mindful of the solemnity of this moment," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said. "What the Court has done is an act of repentance, out of which we bring forth the fruit of repentance, rebuilding a culture of life in America."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a memo to the Catholic Church in the Stockton area that their churches would be under threat on Friday night due to pro-abortion extremist groups calling for a "Night of Rage" against churches.
"We are entering a new era," said Connor Semelsberger, the director of Federal Affairs, Life and Human Dignity at Family Research Council, following the Supreme Court's decision to completely overturn Roe v. Wade. What does that era look like for all 50 states? The Washington Stand takes a deeper look.
In the most historic and momentous ruling in a generation, the U.S. Supreme Court has resoundingly overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that struck down virtually all state laws regulating abortion and that divided the American people unlike any other issue for 49 years.
It was the last conversation they would ever have. On May 24, sometime between 11:44 a.m. and 12:50 p.m., 44-year-old Eva Mireles called her husband, Ruben Ruiz, and told him "she had been shot and was dying," in the words of Texas Department of Public Safety Director Colonel Steven McCraw, who testified at a Texas Senate hearing on June 21. No one knows what else passed in that last, private moment between husband and wife, but they do know one thing: Ruben Ruiz tried to save her - and was stopped.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Biden administration is set to strip protections for women and girls by expanding "sex" to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
For the third year in a row, violent crime - including homicide, robbery, and rape - has risen in America's major urban areas. Five cities stand at risk of breaking last year's murder rate, while six cities will outdo 2021 for the highest number of serious offenses. But Christians must go deeper than the patina of statistics and crime reports to get to the darkened heart of lawlessness.
Five years ago, Chloe decided she was transgender. Last year, at the ripe old age of 16, she abandoned the flirtation with transgender ideology and embraced her natural sex. In the intervening four years, she had both her breasts removed. "I was failed by the system," she now says. "I literally lost organs." If a new bill becomes law, teens like Chloe will finally be able to hold their doctors accountable.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) held a press conference along with fellow Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.), and Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) to highlight the law's impact on women's sports and comment on the Biden administration's plan to revise it.
The Department of Education on Thursday issued a 701-page proposed rule announcing changes to the interpretation of Title IX, which covers education. The proposed rule was announced exactly 50 years after Title IX was first passed into law, on June 23, 1972.
Liberal states cannot require Americans to show "some special need" to exercise their constitutional right to carry guns in public for their own protection, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday morning. Instead, the court ruled, the Constitution recognizes each citizen's right to self-defense in public places.
Today is the 50th anniversary of Title IX - signed into American law by President Nixon in 1972 to protect women from sex-based discrimination in sports, it was a mighty stride of progress for women's rights and equality. Today, over 215,000 women play collegiate sports and benefit from the protections that Title IX paved the way for. Though there are many victories and achievements to remember on this semi-centennial birthday of Title IX's enactment, a heated debate ensues over the protections now,
The camaraderie, grit, commitment, and innate desire to win necessary to succeed in sports have defined the American way of life from our founding. From a young age, athletes across every sport learn the value of determination and teamwork. We must continue to ensure women have full exclusive access to the sports teams that are essential in fostering these critical traits.
To break Ukraine's resistance, Russia has blockaded the Black Sea, access to which is critical for Ukrainian shipping. Long known as the "breadbasket of Europe," Ukraine grows crops "for export across the European Union, as well as China, Turkey, India, Egypt and Africa." If the blockade continues, many of those millions of people will not be fed.
For a woman who says she doesn't "like conflict," U.S. soccer's Megan Rapinoe has sure started her share of it. The pink-haired co-captain of America's 2019 World Cup team has made a name for herself - not because of her players' success - but because of her expletive-laden political rants. Now, the fiercely leftist activist, who owes her lucrative career to women's sports, is on a public crusade to destroy them.
So many pregnancy centers have been attacked that they are in danger of turning from a tragedy into a statistic. Another pregnancy center had its windows smashed on Sunday night, this one in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. That brings the total to 62 acts of violence, property destruction, and disruption of religious services in 52 days. How are the victims faring? The Washington Stand's Joshua Arnold reports.
Last week on the tarmac, Kamala Harris argued that a person's religion isn't a good reason to oppose abortion. "I've convened faith leaders. And, for those of us of faith, I think that we agree, many of us, that there's nothing about this issue [abortion] that will require anyone to abandon their faith or change their faith." Where to begin with that?
In a seemingly unprecedented escalation of the ongoing violence against churches and pregnancy centers, abortion activists have attacked the offices of a pro-life U.S. congressman. The overnight attack marks the first time someone has caused property damage to the office of a member of Congress since the leak of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on May 2.
Tuesday, in the case of Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that blocked taxpayer-funding of religious school tuition. Chief Justice John Roberts's court has ruled in favor of religious groups in more than eight out of every 10 cases it has heard.
Six days after the FBI announced a formal investigation into a series of attacks against churches and pro-life organizations, the agency seems to be following through, though no arrests appear to have been made.
Portsmouth, Ohio seems an unlikely site for a culture war. But the rural town of 18,000, nestled on the rolling banks of the Ohio River, has seen the child's section of its public library set up a display featuring books normalizing the LGBTQ message for children as young as two years old.
Three months removed from the drama in Tallahassee, the country's outrage at Disney is still real. Now, with a stock portfolio that looks more like an Olympic alpine course, shareholders are panicking - and so should management. The film that was supposed to be the entertainment giant's great white hope is a disaster in the making.
Do you have four minutes of your life to throw away? Do you have spare brain cells you want to kill off? Then watch this video, produced by the U.S. Navy - which means, produced by American taxpayers - on "proper" - that is, politically correct - gender pronouns.
With the national average gas price hovering around the unprecedented price of $5 a gallon, President Biden has been desperately searching for ways to lower gas prices for months, including selling 90 million barrels from the Strategic Oil Reserve, waiving prohibitions on gasoline blends with higher ethanol content, and pleading with foreign authoritarian regimes to pump more oil. Why isn't it working?
A Navy video instructing sailors how to use people's preferred pronouns would repel anyone who does not wish to end up "indoctrinated in their agenda [and] forced to take a vaccine," Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) told "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins."
On Sunday, June 19, the Ethiopian rebel group, the Omoro Liberation Army (OLA), murdered more than 200 people. Reports from the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) suggest that the attack on the town of Gimbi was connected to the ongoing conflict between government forces and the OLA.
With the end of June rapidly approaching, crowds gather outside the Supreme Court every decision day in anticipation of the release of its decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. And, to no one's surprise, the chaos continues to mount as people passionately express their stance on life and abortion on Capitol Hill.
Religious equality and school choice scored a victory at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as justices ruled that excluding faith-based schools from a state's private school voucher program "violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment." The court's conservative-leaning bloc ruled 6-3 that state officials cannot restrict parents' use of state funds to secular schools.
A growing chorus of women athletes are speaking out in support of FINA's recent move to ban biological men from competing in women's swimming events, and the governing bodies of other sports are beginning to follow suit.
The Republican Party of Texas has come under pitched media attack for adopting its latest platform, which affirms natural marriage, the right to life, and America's status as "one nation under God" while rejecting Drag Queen Story Hour and punishing people who do not use someone's preferred pronouns.
Three weeks into Pride Month's suffocating deluge, the LGBT agenda is getting a rare reality check. In a gutsy move Sunday, the governing body of international swimming, FINA, decided to interrupt the global parade with a stunning rebuke of every rainbow the sports world is flying. Starting this week, biological men will be banned from competing against women at federation events, the group announced. "We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete," FINA agreed, "but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events..."
For nearly two months, Jane's Revenge has sought to incite violence and instill terror in those it hates. When will the FBI shut down Jane's Revenge? When will the residences of Supreme Court justices be protected from intrusion and intimidation? When will all Americans enjoy equality under the law?
There is a new bully on the playground: the education establishment. Bolstered by teachers unions and the Democrats' political machine, certain school boards and administrators are pushing a progressive and dangerous social agenda down the unwilling throats of America. The Left's push into K-12 schools includes everything from drag queen story hour to unisex locker rooms. But these aren't even the most troubling trends. \r
Google engineer Blake Lemoine recently made headlines following a Washington Post profile where he claimed that a Google chatbot currently under development called "LaMDA" (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) had become so advanced that it became "sentient" (or had developed a consciousness). But an artificial intelligence (AI) expert and Oxford professor of mathematics is unconvinced.
Supporters of the National Parents and Families Engagement Council, announced by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on June 14, praised the board as "a channel for parents' voices to be heard." Yet one look at some of the council's 14 acknowledged members shows it represents a small segment of elitist, left-wing views.
A survey by Gallup recently revealed that 81% of American adults believe in God, the lowest percentage since 1944. Between the early 1940s - when Gallup first started conducting the survey - and 2011 more than 90% of adults believed in God.
From China's purposeful hiding of COVID-19 and causing its spread all over the world, to their ally Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many people wonder if World War III is upon us. The pandemic, war, famine, and death are right in front of us. This alarming message draws the attention of global democratic countries to Taiwan. An article featured on the cover page of The Economist highlights this issue: "The most dangerous place on Earth."
It isn't often that Hollywood's own betrays the values and worldview of Tinseltown - but now, even their brightest stars are admitting that all that glitters isn't gold. Recently actresses like Zendaya and Sophie Turner have opened up about the trauma and emotional toll it took for them to portray characters on some of the darkest and most sexually explicit shows on television. \r
President Biden spoke Wednesday in the East Room of the White House at an event to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month. "The message is simple," he said. "Pride is back at the White House." Pride may be back, but what about reality? Here are thirteen claims from President Biden's speech. What's true? What's false?
Across the country, inflation is spreading like a financial cancer. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman called inflation "the cruelest tax" because it is invisible, eroding the value of hard-earned dollars in the unseen corners of the economy. It hits everyone, from the low-income worker trying to put food on the table to the companies that pass along their own rising costs to ordinary Americans.
Americans are not thrilled with government. Gallup's "Mood of the Country" survey published earlier this year found that only 30% of Americans are happy with their government. That's a 13-point decline in just two years. Yes, it's been a particularly rough couple years but dissatisfaction with government and politicians is not a new phenomenon.
Our nation is at a crossroads. We have reached a point where political violence is becoming mainstream, largely but not solely because our leaders ignore it. Just look at liberals' reaction - or lack thereof - to pro-abortion terrorism. Where are the sweeping condemnations from President Joe Biden?
The abortion industry has always been about one thing - profits. No organization knows this better than Planned Parenthood. Over the years, Planned Parenthood has figured out a way to reduce expenses and increase revenue. Their cash cow - chemical abortion.
After weeks of silence from top law enforcement officials in the Biden administration following an explosion of attacks against churches, pro-life organizations, and individuals over the last 46 days, the FBI announced Friday that it is now "investigating" the incidents, although it was unclear whether the investigation would include church attacks.
A left-wing billionaire has donated $10 million to an organization that counsels public school teachers to exploit their influence over young minds to drive "social change" - even instructing math teachers to "infuse social justice into mathematics." Could U.S. taxpayers also be financing the effort? The Washington Stand's Ben Johnson investigates.
After threatening to open a federal investigation into parents who spoke out against liberal policies at local school board meetings, the Biden administration's attempt to mollify moms and dads by opening a new parents council is transparent "deception," a Republican congresswoman said on Thursday.
With gas prices topping $5.00 and grocery store prices through the roof, the Family Security Act 2.0 announced today by Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), along with Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.), comes as welcome news to families across the country.
Half of the country now thinks America's moral values are "poor," Gallup says. And the question on most people's minds must be: What's wrong with the other 50%? "Poor" suggests that the nation's moral values register at all - an assumption this Pride Month is quickly proving wrong.
"Hispanics don't want to pay $5 for gas. Hispanics don't want violent criminals running the streets. Hispanics don't want schools trying to convince their son that he's their daughter," Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) argued on Wednesday. And the political earthquake shaking Texas this week is proving him right.
"I don't want to hear any more of these lies about reckless spending," President Biden complained Tuesday. "We're changing people's lives." But a June 2022 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that tens of billions of dollars had, indeed, been spent recklessly during the COVID pandemic.
During the current eruption of attacks against churches and other pro-life organizations that have happened in the last seven weeks, a clear majority have taken place in states controlled by Democrat administrations. The Washington Stand has found no records of arrests made related to any of these incidents.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon directing executive agencies to counter state laws protecting children from gender transition procedures, and "advance" such procedures instead - under the name of "equality." The executive order assigns responsibilities in advancing the "LGBTQI+" agenda across a wide swath of the federal bureaucracy, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, the Treasury Department, the State Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Management and Budget.
Nine conservative leaders, led by Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote, recently issued a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) expressing their concern over the nationwide increased attacks against churches, pro-life organizations, and pregnancy resource centers.
The widely-panned Disinformation Governance Board, also known as the Ministry of Truth, floated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is different than advertised. Of that much, conservatives were sure from the first proposal. But whistleblower documents released earlier this month by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have now confirmed those suspicions.
What kind of person would let needy kids go hungry over a spat about gender identity? Apparently, President Joe Biden. In one of his most ruthless power plays yet, Biden has decided to take away kids' lunches until every school opens its bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams to transgenderism.
President Joe Biden wants you, the American voter, to know that he is sick and tired of taking the blame for inflation. "I don't want to hear any more of these lies about reckless spending. We're changing people's lives," the president said Tuesday. But while President Biden was boasting of "the greatest job recovery in American history," he made "no mention of the largest increase in the cost of living and inflation in 40 years," criticized Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, host of "Washington Watch."
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has demanded the Biden administration explain why it has yet to enforce laws on the books that protect pro-life organizations and Supreme Court justices from a torrent of abortion activist-driven violence. Hawley called Attorney General Merrick Garland to account in a letter sent to the Biden administration's Justice Department on Tuesday.
As the number of attacks on pro-life groups and individuals ticked up to 51 this week, including a Republican state representative and a church, the group behind many such assaults promises to take "increasingly drastic measures" which are not "so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti."
Rather than address the root causes of mass shootings, Democrats "want to use" rampant crime "as a reason to take every law-abiding citizen's gun away," a Republican congressman said Wednesday.
As darkness descended upon Seytenga village in northern Burkina Faso last weekend, gunmen stormed into the community killing at least 55 civilians. This is the latest violent massacre in the west African country, which has seen increased violence from Islamic extremists.
It's America's main street. Pennsylvania Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C. can take you from White House all the way to the Capitol Building, passing the U.S. Constitution along the way. And traditionally, every summer as Independence Day approaches, it's not uncommon to see this national avenue lined with American flags. But not this year.
A curious detail in the June 8 arrest of the man who intended to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh doesn't fit into the various political narratives surrounding his attempt. Namely, the would-be shooter, Nicholas Roske, called 911 on himself. As mass shooters become all too common, it's rare - if not unheard of - for them to plan an attack and then turn themselves in beforehand. This provokes the question, what changed Roske's mind?
It's Flag Day, and we all know which one the Biden administration is flying. Of course, this president, who made LGBT activism his number-one priority, didn't wait for June to start his radical revolution. It began the millisecond he stepped foot in the Oval Office with orders to debauch the military, schools, health care, sports, and social services. Now, a year and a half later, as the border collapses, our economy tanks, and a gallon of gas costs more than a meatball sandwich, the president's 24/7 social extremism doesn't seem like such a good idea after all.
Inflation debases the U.S. dollar, functionally taking money away from those who worked hard to earn it. We know how to stop this injustice, but those who have the power refuse to do so.
State policies that allow children to access so-called gender-affirming care without parental consent have created a significant increase in suicides, according to a new Heritage Foundation study.
In a poll meant to prove that conservatives threaten democracy, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) revealed that young men who belong to the Democratic Party are the most likely group in America to approve of killing a political opponent.
"We're in the middle of a major crime wave all across this country. Unfortunately, that crime is being directed increasingly against people of faith and those in the pro-life community," Senator Josh Hawley told Tony Perkins on "Washington Watch." on Tuesday. "And this administration won't do anything about it."
A featured article in Sports Illustrated published on Monday is characterizing a possible U.S. Supreme Court victory for a former high school football coach's right to public prayer in Bremerton, Wash. as a "further erosion of the separation between church and state."
In recent weeks, headlines have been full of local controversies over transgender indoctrination creeping into schools without parents' knowledge. Three mothers in Pennsylvania are suing their children's first-grade teacher for introducing classroom lessons on gender identity.
Making money is tough for businesses these days. Making friends is even harder. For most CEOs, Pride Month was already a lose-lose situation - celebrate too much and risk consumer backlash. Ignore it and face the fringe. But if companies thought walking that tightrope was tough, it's nothing compared to the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) latest shakedown. Just how much power does the LGBT movement wield? The world is about to find out.
For the last handful of years, no one's been under the impression that Fox News is particularly conservative. But at least they were reasonable, many thought. After Friday's glowing endorsement of transgenderism, the benefits of those doubts are gone.
Abortion activists have committed 48 acts of violence or vandalism against churches, pro-life organizations, or individuals in the last 42 days - something that amounts to "a kind of war" against pro-life Americans, according to a Republican congressman.
Yet another pregnancy resource center was targeted over the weekend in Gresham, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. At approximately 3 a.m. on Friday morning, police and fire responded to a fire in the Gresham center, which is owned and operated by First Image, a Christian organization that runs multiple pregnancy resource centers in Oregon.
The conflict in Ukraine has drawn much attention from a sector of the evangelical community who support a "neither Left nor Right" political approach. The support for the rights of citizens in Ukraine has bewildered some of us. For some of the "neither Left nor Right" crowd, what should be opposed in America should be celebrated overseas. In what follows, we examine a few such ironic stances.
Sadly, Western culture is growing increasingly hostile to foundational Christian beliefs about marriage, sexuality, and ethical behavior - including many beliefs that Judaism and Islam often share. Thus, challenges to religious believers' right to live out their faith in the public square are mounting, and secular forces are attempting to marginalize their speech.
A new survey from Pew Research Center found 5.1% of Americans aged 18-30 identify as transgender or non-binary, a markedly higher percentage than in other age groups. What's driving this fad in our young adults, and how should Christians respond?
On Friday, Fox News Channel aired a story praising a family who allowed a five-year-old girl to begin transitioning to the opposite sex, claiming that the move was inspired by their "conservative faith," and that God "created" the child transgender. The segment wrapped extreme gender ideology in heretical religious verbiage.
Teachers at Richards Middle School in Fraser, Michigan have been hiding the transgender status of a biological male student from parents. Earlier this week, Fox News obtained an email from a counselor at the public school warning teachers to not inform the mother of the student that her child was going by a different name and pronoun.
The primetime January 6 Commission hearings are a "sham," focusing on issues that voters find irrelevant, while doing nothing to protect churches and pro-life women's centers from a rising tide of violence, a Republican member of Congress has said.
While the nation holds its breath to see if Roe v. Wade will be overturned, another case that will be decided by the Supreme Court any day could have just as much impact on the future of the country. But it has received only a fraction of the attention.
The Washington Stand has found that there have been at least 41 separate incidents of violent attacks against churches, pro-life organizations, and pro-life property across the country since the May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case that indicated the overturning of Roe v. Wade. These attacks include arson, vandalism, property theft, and property destruction.
Things continue to go from bad to worse for the Biden administration on the economy. And based on the latest numbers from May, the president isn't close to righting the ship.
While the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) describes itself as "...a collection of like-minded churches working in cooperation with one another to impact the whole world with the Good News of Jesus Christ," the focus on the convention's annual meeting this year will be on an issue not normally associated with the spread of the gospel.
Every mass shooting is one too many, and calls to prevent them often descend with the moral force of a hurricane. Family members of the victims "had one message for all of us: Do something. Just do something. For God's sake, do something," said President Biden after the shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. and Uvalde, Texas. "Let us finally do something." But for many people, the outraged slogan "do something" really means "do anything."
Wednesday, the New York Times published an article pointing out that the word "women" is conspicuously missing - "vanishing" from the abortion debate. Author Michael Powell referenced a recent ACLU tweet that read, "Abortion bans disproportionately harm: Black, Indigenous & other people of color; the LGBTQ community; immigrants; young people; those working to make ends meet; people with disabilities. Protecting abortion access is an urgent matter of racial and economic justice." This tweet, Powell contended, left out a relevant demographic: women.
Protestors have ramped up their efforts to vocalize their support for legalized abortion in light of the Dobbs draft leak one month ago, some even resorting to violent measures. In fact, it has become nearly commonplace to find protestors outside of each of the five conservative-leaning justices' homes.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans on Sunday to attach new strings to school lunch money and food stamps. The agency declared its intention to "interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on sex ... to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity," in both Title IX education policies and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP) benefits, or food stamps.
For years, the LGBT movement didn't like being hitched to the "T." The transgender cause felt like a distraction - the crazy uncle that made people think twice about normalizing their unnatural lifestyles. Now, after years of riding the coattails of its LGB brothers and sisters, the "T" has not only stepped out of the shadows - it's sucking up all of the oxygen in the room. Just how quickly have things shifted? One look at Pride Month says it all.
Once again, the Biden administration is putting its commitment to climate change ideology over any concern for human rights.
For well over a decade, Christian believers in Nigeria have been killed, kidnapped, raped, mutilated, and driven from their homes, churches and villages, which are often torched in the aftermath. But on Pentecost Sunday, June 6, the horrer reached a terrifying new level at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. \r\r
One day after a thwarted assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted, "No one is in danger over the weekend because of our not having a bill" that would improve police security for justices' family members. "The justices are protected," she claimed on Thursday.
With the start of summer, the Supreme Court justices are set to decide on an unusually high number of prominent cases including disputes over abortion, religious liberty, gun laws, and the environment.
Thousands of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, are headed to the U.S. border from the southern tip of Mexico. Covering several lanes of a highway, the caravan of approximately 6,000 people, including many children, set off from the border city of Tapachula early Monday morning.
An intensifying campaign of violence targeting the Supreme Court and pro-life women's centers make Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) past threats against conservative justices seem "sickening," a U.S. senator said on Wednesday. Instead of coddling rioters promising "days of rage," America needs a rebirth of faith and virtue, he said.
What will make a difference for our nation's future? Redeeming the brokenness in families, starting with your own.
A man armed with a gun, a knife, and pepper spray was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Maryland home on Wednesday. He told officers that he wanted to kill the justice, who is one of five members of the court to sign on the leaked draft Dobbs opinion from February, which would overturn Roe v. Wade.
When you can't recruit to save your life, maybe decking out your most macho branch in rainbow bullets isn't the best commercial. The U.S. Marine Corps tried that last Wednesday, raising plenty of eyebrows with its controversial Pride tweet of multi-colored rounds, holstered in a Corps helmet. Turns out, the few were not proud.
Although congressional Democrats say they brought two gun control bills to the House floor Wednesday to "protect our kids," they snuck in a provision requiring all federal agents to receive training in controversial sexual orientation and gender identity ideology.
The Washington Stand has found that there have been at least 28 separate girls' and women's sports titles that have been won by biological males in the last 19 years, with the trend accelerating exponentially in the past three years.
Every year, the National Institutes of Health awards $30 billion in taxpayer-funded grants, but federal scientists - including Dr. Anthony Fauci - have also received tens of thousands of royalty payments, often from the very companies petitioning for those grants. A handful of Republican senators have demanded federal bureaucrats answer concerns about this potential conflict of interest.
From the image of George Washington kneeling in prayer at Valley Forge, to Abraham Lincoln's invocation of God at the end of the Emancipation Proclamation, to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer, Americans throughout history have called on God in times of crisis, thanksgiving, and uncertainty.
On Friday, President Biden proclaimed, "My plans have produced the strongest, fastest, most widespread economic recovery America has ever experienced, with record jobs, a new record of small businesses, and wages rising." Whose economy is President Biden talking about?
You don't have to be a genius to understand that America is a nation in crisis. The issue, however, is that understanding the nature of this crisis might not be quite as obvious as recognizing that we are, in fact, in one. My proposal to you is that we have a single crisis in America that's introduced a number of serious challenges in this nation: a crisis of worldview.
By effectively taking over the student loan process, the Obama-Biden administration concentrated enormous power in the hands of the federal government. Generations of young people and adults wishing to continue their educations now become financial debtors to Washington.
If you would have told me when I took office in 2016 as the state's chief legal officer that our faith and freedom would come under attack the way it has recently, I would have guessed that was too big a bridge even for the radical Left to cross. However, with the way that many elected officials and their bureaucrats used the pandemic to try to strip away liberties given to us by God (not the government), it has been a terrifying reality.
Recent polling commissioned by FRC Action should give fresh hope to those who simply want the freedom to live out their sincerely-held beliefs, their children protected from gender ideology, and corporations to remain neutral in the culture wars.
A Democratic governor has allowed a bill preventing male athletes from competing in female sports to become law without his signature - but not before calling it "mean-spirited" and saying he finds it "very distressing" that the bill could discourage young people from embracing transgenderism.
Over the weekend, officials at Abbott Nutrition, the company at the heart of the national baby formula shortage, announced that the manufacturing site has restarted production. Since February, baby formula shelves in grocery stores across the country have been empty, leaving parents scrambling.
One U.S. ambassador in eastern Europe took time out of America's crucial work with NATO during Russia's invasion to fully participate in a gay pride festival. Robert Gilchrist, ambassador to Lithuania, spoke at Baltic Pride 2022 in Vilnius, which ran from May 31-June 5.
After 16 years of Pride Nights, the Tampa Bay Rays probably took their players' support for granted. Not anymore. Heading into Saturday's game, when the team was supposed to sport rainbow logos, a group of players decided to wear something else on their sleeves: their convictions.
When does a tweet carry real-world consequences? When it has potential to spark an international incident. But that didn't stop official U.S. embassy accounts tweeting about LGBT Pride Month in countries where such behavior is not accepted.
Thirty-eight years ago today, President Ronald Reagan stood above the rocky crags of Normandy, France and gave a soaring speech about the most significant military operation of the 20th century. To the brave men who survived D-Day, he said, "You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why?"
Numerous prosecutors nationwide "have violated their oath" of office by promising not to enforce pro-life legal protections if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, a state attorney general said on Monday. What will that mean for state laws when Dobbs comes down?
The possibility of the overturning of Roe v. Wade has many abortion groups taking drastic measures against pro-life counterparts, especially among communities of faith. From protesting outside of several conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices' homes to vandalizing pregnancy resource centers, the intimidation tactics point to the escalating tension between pro-lifers and pro-abortionists as they await the final verdict on Roe.
Over the weekend, Pizza Hut was trending on Twitter, but the topic wasn't new toppings or a dinner deal - it involved their stance on Pride Month. Social media users slammed the franchise for recommending a book about a young boy dressing in drag in their children's book club program BOOK IT.
On Pentecost Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria, four gunmen stormed a Catholic Church during mass, massacring at least 50 worshippers in one of the most brutal rampages of the year. As word of the attack spread, so too did outrage that the violence in this African nation continues on.
To be in politics is to do two things simultaneously: Advocate and oppose. To support one position is, by definition, to be against another. This is axiomatic and unavoidable. This reality is part not only of political life but, for Christians, life generally.
There's a small club of Americans that no parent wants to join: the tight ring of families who've lost children to school shootings. The circumstances might be different, and the cities too, but the pain is always the same - a raw, wrenching feeling that this never had to happen.
Thirty-three years ago, winds of change blew through China. I remember a time when the hope of freedom lifted the spirits of everyone around me. Passion stirred in my fellow classmates, including one who wrote "Liberty" on his bedsheets with his own blood. I organized a group of students to attend the Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Anything was possible for this revolution, but we did not realize any of the dire consequences.
A string of domestic crises may have turned America's attention inward - mass shootings, a baby formula shortage, unprecedented gas prices, but the war in Ukraine has raged on. Today marks the 100th day since Russia invaded. There is no end in sight.
This week, North Korea was handed the gavel to the United Nations' Conference on Disarmament while the rogue nation is itself under sanctions by the UN Security Council for developing nuclear weapons.
If you're wondering where America's heroes rank on Joe Biden's list of priorities, try below the rainbow flag. While federal agencies have been tripping over themselves to pledge allegiance to LGBT activism, two couldn't be bothered to recognize the fallen troops who make our freedom possible.
Fearful that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe and send abortion policy back to the states, some pro-abortion officials in some progressive cities are preparing to draw it down to the local level.
"Jane Says Revenge." Friday morning on her day off, Janet Durig received a rude awakening when a former neighbor sent her a text alerting her that these words had been spraypainted on the side of Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center (CHPC). The door was splattered in bright red paint with the vandal's red footprints trailing to the end of the sidewalk. In her 19 years as director, Durig has never seen vandalism like this occur.
Although President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats want to "disarm America," gun control legislation cannot solve the spree of mass shootings plaguing the nation, said world-renowned evangelist Franklin Graham on Friday. Dealing with the root causes of such atrocities demands that we recognize that "to confront evil, only God can change hearts."
As American corporations continue an unprecedented pattern of activism in support of controversial social issues, pension fund investment firms are following suit. Investment giants like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have been outspoken in their support of hotly debated issues like gender identity and climate change, which is causing alarm among state officials and financial experts.
As inflation rates hover near 40-year highs, President Joe Biden has announced a record-breaking new federal expenditure, pouring fresh fiscal fuel on the nation's economic fire.
As the nation eagerly waits for the Supreme Court to release a final decision on the future of Roe v. Wade, U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.), founder and chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, along with 47 other Republicans expressed their unwavering support for the Hyde Amendment.
As the world awaits the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, pro-lifers across the country are preparing for what they hope will be a post-Roe world. Sadly, the pro-abortion industry has been working just as hard pushing a culture of death.
The most troubling unanswered question is why the police behaved so timidly during the Uvalde school massacre. One possible answer is that America sowed the wind during the violent summer of 2020 and is now reaping the whirlwind.
I believe that building a robust and compassionate community of care that focuses relentlessly on providing families the support they need to bring life into this world is the future of the pro-life movement.
Thousands stood to cheer at last year's Pray Vote Stand Summit when Quisha King, spokesmom for Moms for Liberty, declared during a panel on fighting indoctrination in public schools, "I really think at this point the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system - that's it."
To help meet the needs of Ukrainians, Christian organizations like Samaritan's Purse are providing essential medical supplies in the war-torn country.
During a monthly call organized by Family Research Council's men's ministry, Stand Courageous, Haven, Kansas Police Chief Stephen Schaffer shared a behind-the-scenes look at how the small-town dispute over the national motto became a nationwide controversy - and how he kept the faith in the process.
A Republican congressman has called it "inexplicable" that the Biden administration has announced improving "school safety" is "not something [President Joe Biden] believes in" and is "not his focus."
While someone who advocates for human rights should have much to discuss about the situation in China, Michelle Bachelet kept her comments short - and echoed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) talking points.
It might seem like every other June 1, but inside corporate board rooms, this Pride Month feels different. Companies aren't coasting into this rainbow bonanza like past years - empowered and carefree. They're looking in the rearview mirror at a 2022 that's been anything but kind to their CEOs' woke causes.
It's Pride month again, which means we will all have another chance to offer a pinch of incense to the gods of the sexual revolution. How should Christians respond? Here are a few things to remember.
The healthy American family is a product of our unalienable rights. Today, we are called not to protect but to restore these essential elements of our nation. This noble and urgent work must start with re-establishing the family as the country's central, sacred institution.
Why is FRC launching a digital news outlet? We want to equip followers of Jesus with truth and wisdom so that they can rest assured that they have the truth from a source they can trust.
The 75th World Health Assembly concluded in Geneva, Switzerland, without passing 12 of 13 amendments the Biden administration proposed to increase the World Health Organization's (WHO) power.
After months of denying or downplaying inflation, President Joe Biden has kicked off a 32-day campaign to convince voters that he holds the key to taming the nation's skyrocketing prices.
As America continues to wrestle with the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, many school-age children may be experiencing trauma, wondering whether they are safe at school.
Since Joe Biden's first day as president, the U.S. military has spent 539,771 hours on the Left's absurd priorities of "diversity and inclusion." The Air Force was on the verge of making it 539,772 - until Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) stepped in.
Senate Democrats considered gun control legislation last week in response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, but Republicans questioned whether such a response would actually address the real problem.
A Sterling Middle School teacher was shocked to come across a tweet from a parent discovering a book promoting prostitution in the school's library.
Khalid Payenda, the former Afghanistan finance minister, who once oversaw a $6 billion budget, now drives an Uber in Washington, D.C. to support his family.
At a press conference on Friday, the nation learned that a mass shooter gained access to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, when a teacher propped open a school door. That's a fitting metaphor for school safety nationwide, where the cracks in our social fabric and lax security measures allow disturbed, disgruntled, and mentally ill people to victimize our most vulnerable citizens. But two experts in the field say that Washington's hyper-partisan focus on passing more gun control laws will only further endanger our children, while ignoring known solutions that would improve school security.
New analysis from Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center reveals a "particularly shocking" absence of biblical worldview among pastors of evangelical churches, "because evangelical churches, by definition, believe that the Bible is God's true and reliable words to humanity." The latest release of the American Worldview Inventory, conducted in February and March of this year, revealed that 37% of Christian pastors held a biblical worldview, and the numbers are only slightly better among pastors of evangelical (51%) and independent or non-denominational (57%) churches. "With barely half of evangelical pastors possessing a biblical worldview -- and that number continuing to decline -- attending what may be considered an 'evangelical' church no longer ensures a pastoral staff that has a high view of the scriptures," said George Barna, Senior Research Fellow with FRC's Center for Biblical Worldview.
In the Gospel of John, these immortal words of Jesus are recorded: "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends" (John 15:13).
Turns out, customers aren't the only ones upset with State Farm's transgender book drive. Employees, who've been on the receiving end of hundreds of local complaints, are making their own phone calls to corporate -- furious that the company would drag its good name into the mud, and them with it. "We're an insurance company who's known to be conservative," one Midwest agent told RedState. "That is why this is so shocking. I can assure you (I'm on a private Facebook page for agents at only 4,000 members) that 99 percent of us are beyond [outraged]."
Turns out, customers aren't the only ones upset with State Farm's transgender book drive. Employees, who've been on the receiving end of hundreds of local complaints, are making their own phone calls to corporate - furious that the company would drag its good name into the mud, and them with it.
Cracks in our social fabric and lax security measures are allowing disturbed, disgruntled, and mentally ill people to victimize our most vulnerable citizens.
In the Gospel of John, these immortal words of Jesus are recorded: "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends" (John 15:13).
New analysis from Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center reveals a "particularly shocking" absence of biblical worldview among pastors of evangelical churches, "because evangelical churches, by definition, believe that the Bible is God's true and reliable words to humanity."
A stunning trove of documents, including photos taken inside Chinese prison cells and internment camps, reveals that the crackdown on China's Uyghur Muslim population has been directed from the highest levels -- and sunk to the lowest depths of abuse.
There's an old saying that the only things in the middle of the highway are yellow stripes and roadkill. State Farm is finding that out, four days into a raging PR disaster of their own making. To no one's surprise but theirs, Americans didn't respond too kindly when the insurance company was caught dishing out transgender books to five-year-old kids. Angry customers started ringing agents' phones off the hook, asking what the devil they were doing wading into the LGBT debate. Headquarters blinked. But instead of touching the hot stove and backing away, State Farm got burned by another mistake: believing it could please both sides.
Congressional Democrats' instinct to exploit every tragedy for political advantage has proven reliable as ever. In the wake of the racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved on Tuesday to consider the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 (H.R. 350), which the U.S. House of Representatives passed on May 18 with only a single Republican vote (from retiring Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger). The act authorizes "dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity."
Everyone us are trying to grapple with the horror of what happened in Uvalde, Texas. The slaughter of so many innocent children and teachers is sparking fresh debate in Washington about gun control and mental health funding. But what if the problem is deeper than that? Cornerstone Chapel Pastor Gary Hamrick tackles some of those tough questions and answers in his very compelling sit-down with Tony Perkins on Wednesday's "Washington Watch."
There's an old saying that the only things in the middle of the highway are yellow stripes and roadkill. State Farm is finding that out, four days into a raging PR disaster of their own making.
A stunning trove of documents, including photos taken inside Chinese prison cells and internment camps, reveals that the crackdown on China's Uyghur Muslim population has been directed from the highest levels - and sunk to the lowest depths of abuse.
The Biden administration's problems with transparency stretch beyond their proposed amendments to the World Health Assembly to hamstring American sovereignty on public health affairs; they also can't seem to tell the whole truth on how the COVID pandemic got started to begin with.
Congressional Democrats' instinct to exploit every tragedy for political advantage has proven reliable as ever. In the wake of the racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved on Tuesday to consider the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 (H.R. 350), which the U.S. House of Representatives passed on May 18 with only a single Republican vote.
In an explosive announcement last week, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone declared that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may no longer receive the sacrament of the Eucharist because of her outspoken support for abortion.
Two more days, and the classrooms would have been empty. Parents would be at home, going over lists for summer camp or rubbing sunblock on those small faces at the pool. They wouldn't be reliving the moment they dropped their sons and daughters off at school, kissing them goodbye for what would be the last time. They wouldn't be waking up in the rawest pain of their lives, empty bedrooms down the hall. And they wouldn't be consumed by the guilt that if they'd just kept their kids home that day, none of this would have happened.
Republican-dominated state legislatures have sent a clear message to weak or doddering governors: If you don't protect girls from unfair male competition in athletics, we will. Lawmakers overrode Republican governors in Indiana and Utah who vetoed legislation barring males who identify as females from competing against women and girls in sports -- and they appear poised to do it again against a Democrat.
Georgia set a voting record for early turnout for Tuesday's primary election and has already far outpaced the total votes cast in the gubernatorial primary four years ago. The record comes after Georgia passed the Election Integrity Act of 2021, which President Joe Biden described as "Jim Crow in the 21st century."
The World Health Organization (WHO) re-elected the controversial figure Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director General for a second five-year term on Tuesday. In a noteworthy statement, Tedros's re-election was not supported by his native Ethiopia due to his ties to the leftist Ethiopian political party Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been connected to human rights violations and to contributing to Ethiopia's famine in the 1980s.
There's been a flood of reporting on the Southern Baptist Convention's sexual abuse report, released earlier this month. What does it mean for the SBC and where does the church go from here? No one is better equipped to answer those questions than Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Don't miss his in-depth conversation on Tuesday's "Washington Watch" with FRC's Tony Perkins.
Our schools have been forced into marginalizing the source of life. Religion is out, and defining your own reality is in. How can we be shocked when these products of our godless culture shatter society's false sense of security - built on a foundation of lies?
Republican-dominated state legislatures have sent a clear message to weak or doddering governors: If you don't protect girls from unfair male competition in athletics, we will.
Georgia set a voting record for early turnout for Tuesday's primary election and has already far outpaced the total votes cast in the gubernatorial primary four years ago.
The World Health Organization (WHO) re-elected the controversial figure Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director General for a second five-year term on Tuesday.
Florida health officials issued an emergency order last Friday closing an abortion business in Pensacola after a report by Reprotection, a pro-life investigative organization. The group found that within the last nine months, three patients had been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after their abortions.
Michelle Bachelet's controversial visit to China began on Monday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is billing her trip as a way to address human-rights challenges in China, something her office has been looking into for years. However, Bachelet is unlikely to see any hint of China's human rights violations on her trip.
Monday, the Texas School Board Association formally dissociated from the National School Boards Association (NSBA), becoming the 24th state association "to withdraw membership, participation, or dues." They voted in response to the release on Friday of an independent review of the NSBA's infamous letter from last fall asking the federal Department of Justice to investigate concerned parents as domestic terrorists (which whistleblowers say they did).
Americans are finding out what State Farm apparently puts a premium on: indoctrination. Thanks to a company whistleblower, the corporation was just outed for trying to flood local libraries and schools with transgender stories for children. "The project's goal," the January email read, "is to increase representation of LGBTQ books and support our communities in having challenging, important, and empowering conversations with children Age 5+." Turns out, parents don't like the idea of an insurance company laying claim on their kids. And the outrage pouring into headquarters proves it.
President Joe Biden wandered off script when he said the United States would intervene militarily to keep China from invading Taiwan, but a conservative member of Congress said on Monday's episode of "Washington Watch" that Biden's words showed rare resolve against an American enemy -- and the White House's efforts to walk back the president's comments only benefit the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
Americans are finding out what State Farm apparently puts a premium on: indoctrination. Thanks to a company whistleblower, the corporation was just outed for trying to flood local libraries and schools with transgender stories for children.
Monday, the Texas School Board Association formally dissociated from the National School Boards Association (NSBA), becoming the 24th state association "to withdraw membership, participation, or dues."
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's controversial visit to China began on Monday. However, Bachelet is unlikely to see any hint of China's human rights violations on her trip.
The Biden administration's attempt to usurp Congress's public health authority by rewriting international law may have just encountered an untimely grave.
President Joe Biden wandered off script when he said the United States would intervene militarily to keep China from invading Taiwan, but a conservative member of Congress said on Monday's episode of "Washington Watch" that Biden's words showed rare resolve against an American enemy - and the White House's efforts to walk back the president's comments only benefit the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
Russian officials have permanently banned Family Research Council President Tony Perkins from setting foot in the nation, because of his outspoken criticism of Moscow's religious liberty restrictions. On Saturday, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs included Perkins on a list of 963 Americans "who are permanently banned from entering the Russian Federation." "I'll have to scratch Russia off my list of vacation spots," quipped Perkins.
The NBA's Jonathan Isaac hasn't played a game since August 2020 -- but people are still talking about what happened at the last one he did. It was the height of the George Floyd riots, and the league was in full-on social justice warrior mode. Thanks to COVID, the season had rebooted in a bubble -- and for most pro-sports, it was an intensely political time. Almost every team had plastered "Black Lives Matter" across courts, jerseys, warm-up hoodies. And yet, three games into the bridged season, Isaac still did what no other player had the courage to: he stood for the national anthem.
Is the outrage feigned or uninformed? That's one question after the Louisville Courier Journal declared they were shocked -- shocked -- to discover Christian teaching at the Christian Academy of Louisville (CAL). While the school received no complaints, a Twitter user reportedly acquainted with a parent whose child was upset by the assignment tweeted screenshots with the commentary "Shameful. #stopthehate."
The NBA's Jonathan Isaac hasn't played a game since August 2020 - but people are still talking about what happened at the last two he did. Three games into the abridged season, Isaac still did what no other player had the courage to: he stood for the national anthem.
Is the outrage feigned or uninformed? That's one question after the Louisville Courier Journal declared they were shocked - shocked - to discover Christian teaching at the Christian Academy of Louisville (CAL).
Russian officials have permanently banned Family Research Council President Tony Perkins from setting foot in the nation, because of his outspoken criticism of Moscow's religious liberty restrictions.
In the United States we have lived under emergency orders from presidents, governors, and mayors for almost a year and a half.
When Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry was 13, he remembers his mom sitting him down after his team got crushed in a tournament that scouts were watching. She looked in his face, a moment he still remembers to this day, and said, "No one gets to write your story but you... Take your time... and write what you want to write. But just know that this story -- it's yours." Twenty-one years later, the world is finding out that the two-time MVP almost didn't have a story at all.
A panel of three federal district courts heard testimony earlier today to consider whether SPLC lawyers "engaged in an abuse of judicial process known as judge shopping," as stated in a letter from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to the committee's chairman, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). SPLC lawyers and other activist lawyers filed two cases, Walker v. Marshall and Ladinsky v. Ivey (which were consolidated) against Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, a law which took effect on May 8 that protects minors from harmful gender transition procedures.
Here yesterday, gone today. Americans just don't have the appetite for falsehood Leftists wish they had. That's one conclusion to draw from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision to "pause" their "Disinformation Governance Board," more accurately known as the Ministry of Truth, only three weeks after its launch. It didn't even last as long as the previous Leftist propaganda organ, CNN+, which was shuttered April 30 after only a month. Representative Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) called the board's suspension "a telling admission... that they knew they were being destroyed in the court of public opinion."
The Biden administration's proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations strengthen the WHO by allowing the director general to unilaterally declare a public health emergency of international, or intermediate, or regional concern without the consent of a U.N. member state. If the new paradigm falls into place, we will find ourselves hurtling into a different world.
When Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry was 13, he remembers his mom sitting him down after his team got crushed in a tournament that scouts were watching. She looked in his face, a moment he still remembers to this day, and said, "No one gets to write your story but you ... Take your time ... and write what you want to write. But just know that this story - it's yours."
Here yesterday, gone today. Americans just don't have the appetite for falsehood Leftists wish they had. That's one conclusion to draw from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision to "pause" their "Disinformation Governance Board," more accurately known as the Ministry of Truth, only three weeks after its launch.
A panel of three federal district courts heard testimony earlier today to consider whether SPLC lawyers "engaged in an abuse of judicial process known as judge shopping," as stated in a letter from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to the committee's chairman, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
Missing the days of 2020, when angry mobs were fixtures on America's streets? If you're nostalgic for the arson, destruction, and looting, abortion activists are promising more of it. Back by unpopular demand, the Left's riots are set to return once the final Supreme Court ruling on Roe is handed down. "This will be a Summer of Rage across America," the Women's March vowed after last weekend's protests. "We will be ungovernable," the radicals threatened, until the violence they bring to our cities can be replicated in every mother's womb.
Last week, PolitiFact wrote the first of what will likely be many articles aimed at quelling the reality that our children are being sexualized in the education and media spaces.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the racist shooting in Buffalo "an act of pure evil." The president himself visited the crime scene on Tuesday and declared, "Evil will not win. I promise you hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word." When evil so palpable and grotesque confronts us, it jars us out of our daily routines and forces us to reckon with its seriousness. Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler said the extent of evil involved in the shooting "staggers our imagination, but it's real." So how do we handle it?
Missing the days of 2020, when angry mobs were fixtures on America's streets? If you're nostalgic for the arson, destruction, and looting, abortion activists are promising more of it.
Last week, PolitiFact wrote the first of what will likely be many articles aimed at quelling the reality that our children are being sexualized in the education and media spaces.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the racist shooting in Buffalo "an act of pure evil." The president himself visited the crime scene on Tuesday and declared, "Evil will not win. I promise you hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word." When evil so palpable and grotesque confronts us, it jars us out of our daily routines and forces us to reckon with its seriousness. Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler said the extent of evil involved in the shooting "staggers our imagination, but it's real." So how do we handle it?
Starbucks pays big bucks for their PR firm's advice -- but not as much as they're about to pay for ignoring it. "Don't take a stance you cannot reverse," Zeno Group warned corporate clients after the Supreme Court leak. A lot of major brands have listened, terrified of becoming the next Disney. Not this one. The coffee giant, who's never been afraid to stir the pot, is out with their most outrageous policy yet -- and every cup you buy helps pay for it.
President Biden travelled to Buffalo, New York Tuesday to commemorate victims of a mass shooting in a supermarket on Saturday afternoon. "Evil did come to Buffalo," he said, "and it's come to all too many places, manifest in gunmen who massacred innocent people in the name of hateful and perverse ideology rooted in fear and racism." Before we turn away too quickly, it's worth acknowledging the truth in what Biden said: the shooting was evil. The shooter was motivated by hate, racism, and fear. Those whom he killed had done him no wrong.
When it comes to subjecting children who are confused about their gender to hormones, puberty blocking drugs, and irreversible surgeries, the Biden administration has exhibited an alarmingly one-track mind: inject and cut now, ask questions later.
While America's supply chain woes are affecting many markets, few are more urgent than the baby formula crisis. Across the country, caregivers are scrambling to grab the last baby formula cans on the aisles of their local grocery stores. One of the top formula manufacturers in America, Abbott Nutrition, had to shut down one of their factories due to a bacterial contamination recall in February. According to research pricing organization Datasembly, the national out-of-stock rate hit a high of 43 percent last week, leaving many politicians and parents in a panic for solutions. A lot of grocers have placed limits on how much formula an individual shopper can purchase, while others are clear out, leaving desperate shoppers to drive miles to a store in hopes that they may still have formula in stock.
Starbucks pays big bucks for their PR firm's advice - but not as much as they're about to pay for ignoring it.
The shooting shouldn't be about scoring political points. This should be about protecting life, a core duty of government under any party. The shooter was a symptom and product of the fractured communities, online anonymity, and social mistrust running rampant through our country and only exacerbated by the lockdowns.
When it comes to subjecting children who are confused about their gender to hormones, puberty blocking drugs, and irreversible surgeries, the Biden administration has exhibited an alarmingly one-track mind: inject and cut now, ask questions later.
While America's supply chain woes are affecting many markets, few are more urgent than the baby formula crisis. Across the country, caregivers are scrambling to grab the last baby formula cans on the aisles of their local grocery stores.
The great baby formula airlift of 2022 will soon be underway. After 40 percent of popular brands were out of stock by late April, Swiss manufacturer Nestle, which owns Gerber, announced it will fly extra baby formula to the United States. FDA rules effectively prevented the importation of foreign-made products, and were only suspended on Monday.
The year 2022 will remembered for a lot of things, but the rise of the corporate resistance movement has to be near the top. After years of abuse, Republicans were finally George McFly to Back to the Future's Biff, landing a blow on Disney that still stings. Suddenly, woke CEOs, who'd gotten overly comfortable treating conservatives like political punching bags, were forced to stop and think: Could we be next? Now, in the deafening silence of Big Business, there are quiet rumblings that the GOP's resolve might just have turned the tide.
The small city of Haven, Kansas was bustling Monday evening as residents and journalists gathered for a city council meeting. On May 3, council members hastily voted to remove the "In God We Trust" decals from police vehicles. But the residents responded to this move with great resistance.
The year 2022 will remembered for a lot of things, but the rise of the corporate resistance movement has to be near the top. After years of abuse, Republicans were finally George McFly to "Back to the Future"'s Biff, landing a blow on Disney that still stings.
The great baby formula airlift of 2022 will soon be underway. After 40 percent of popular brands were out of stock by late April, Swiss manufacturer Nestle, which owns Gerber, announced it will fly extra baby formula to the United States.
The small city of Haven, Kansas was bustling Monday evening as residents and journalists gathered for a city council meeting. On May 3, council members hastily voted to remove the "In God We Trust" decals from police vehicles. But the residents responded to this move with great resistance.
A usually hum-drum budget hearing turned fiery last Wednesday when Representative John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) took Acting National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Lawrence Tabak to task over special payments made over the past 10 years to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, and other officials.
With Roe v. Wade on the chopping block, there's an interesting theory popping up in certain media outlets that the end of federal abortion could backfire on Republicans. How will the GOP gin up its base without the 1973 ruling to rally around, some pundits are wonder? Simple, conservatives say. Not only would a positive Supreme Court ruling kick off a furious battle over life in the states, but thanks to the Left, there's no shortage of cultural outrage to unite the party together. Exhibit A? The transgender debate.
No parent ever thinks it will happen to them. One day, they wake up and their son or daughter is just gone - lost to a world they never saw coming. Some parents have said it's like living in a horror film or screaming through a nightmare they can't wake up from.
Living as a Christian could get a student suspended from public school in Fairfax County, Virginia. Last week, the school board conducted an annual review of its Regulation 2601, proposing edits to a 70-page-long document on "Students' Rights and Responsibilities (SR&R), and parents noticed something shocking. According to a short provision buried deep in the document, students could face suspension for up to five days, and possibly further punishment, for referring to a fellow student according to their biological, God-given sex.
As the list of vandalized churches and pro-life organizations continues to grow due to pro-abortion extremist attacks in the wake of the leaked Dobbs Supreme Court decision, the silence from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is becoming increasingly deafening.
When the Supreme Court justices met Thursday for the first time since the leak, life looked anything but normal. Now they head into the city from secret locations, leaving their homes in the care of entire swat teams.
The pending U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has dominated most conversation on Capitol Hill over the past week. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's comments at the Senate Banking Committee hearing were no exception.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) wants to make sure you know how much he approves of abortion. Yesterday he announced $57 million in state funding to promote abortion - on top of $68 million he announced in January.
For 45 years, the American Family Association (AFA) has stood at the forefront of upholding and strengthening "the moral foundations of American culture" and "giv[ing] aid to the church here and abroad in its task of fulfilling the Great Commission." With Wednesday's grand opening of the 20,000-square-foot, two-story Don Wildmon Center for Cultural Transformation in Tupelo, Miss., AFA will be well equipped to "combat the forces that seek to destroy Christian influence in America and overthrow the founding principles of our republic" for years to come.
It's been an unusually quiet week for corporate America after one of the biggest cultural bombshells of the modern age. The news that the Supreme Court might be on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade hasn't unleashed an army of woke CEOs on the country like most reporters expected.
If it was a "show vote," then it did its job. When Democrats decided to put the most extreme abortion bill ever drafted on the Senate floor, it showed people plenty. If anyone was under the illusion that Joe Biden's party was remotely reasonable on the issue of life, they learned pretty quickly that those days are over.
Inflation statistics for April were released this morning, and they can't be what Democrats were hoping for. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "The all items index increased 8.3 percent for the 12 months ending [in] April, a smaller increase than the 8.5-percent figure for the period ending in March."
The recent research report from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, entitled Millennials in America: A Generation in Crisis, reveals new insights into where the nation is heading as the individuals in the youngest adult generation take on a growing number of positions of power and influence.
Wait, WHO's grabbing power? Yes, they are. Flush off their unprecedented interference during the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) is acting to ensure they have even more power next time around.
When Joe Biden stepped in front of the press pool this morning, there was one inflation he didn't address: the inflation of violence. Since last week's stunner of a SCOTUS leak, the only thing that hasn't shocked America is the Left's crazed response. With their usual disregard for people's dignity, privacy, and property, pro-abortion radicals have been on the march from New York to California, burning, spray-painting, and bull-horning their way through the country-reminding everyone that the only kind of "protests" they understand are the dangerous ones.
Last week, during a city council meeting in Haven, Kansas, council members voted to remove the "In God We Trust" decals from police vehicles.
"When words are many, transgression is not lacking" (Proverbs 10:19), so it's little surprise that among all the ink spilled over the leaked Dobbs decision draft, there were at least a few shockingly poor takes.
In the wake of the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would reverse the Roe v. Wade decision if handed down, extremists have carried out acts of property destruction against pro-life organizations and have disrupted religious services. Sunday night, a pregnancy resource center in Manassas, Va. became another target of vandals.
There've been some over-the-top reactions to the Supreme Court leak, but the fanatics have really outdone themselves with their latest idea: a Mother's Day strike.
Now that the country has had a few days to process the Supreme Court scoop of the century, the mood is changing. As shock gives way to suspense, the entire country is waiting - waiting to see whodunit, waiting to see if the justices will expedite the ruling, waiting to see if the ruling we saw is final.
Another 24 hours have come and gone, and Americans are no closer to answering the burning questions on everyone's minds: who leaked the draft Supreme Court ruling on Roe - and why?
New research from the American Worldview Inventory conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University reveals that children's disregard for their parents often has to do with the worldview confusion caused by the parents.
It was the scene that wasn't supposed to play out for another seven weeks - angry protestors outside the Supreme Court, clutching signs and shouting at the building's dark offices.
There's virtual anarchy on our southern border - costing U.S. servicemen their lives - and what is Homeland Security's priority? Policing free speech.
These days, Democrats can't even turn around without bumping into another poll that reminds them of the shellacking that awaits in November.
For once, Disney has no comment. Bob Chapek's company, whose loudmouth Leftists pushed the CEO into a losing war with Florida leaders, had nothing to say Friday when the governor pulled the plug on Disney's sweetheart deal with the state.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek wasn't the only one waking up to an uncomfortable new reality Friday morning. Across corporate America, Chapek's counterparts probably all had the same uneasy feeling about what had transpired in Tallahassee the day before.
If Disney didn't know conservatives meant business, they do now. Four weeks into this national drama between Florida and CEO Bob Chapek, state leaders aren't just speaking out - they're hitting back.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Tim Scott is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
As much as it would pain the Left to admit it, Bob Chapek was right. The Disney CEO, whose back must hurt from bowing to so many LGBT demands over the last month, warned that getting involved in Florida politics would "divide and inflame."
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Tom Tiffany is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Roger Marshall is among the 74 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with a "True Blue" award for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Lance Gooden is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Jerry Moran is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. John Kennedy is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Bob Good is among the 74 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with a "True Blue" award for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Rick Scott is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded her with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Bill Hagerty is among the 74 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with a "True Blue" award for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Louie Gohmert is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Jody Hice is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Joni Ernst is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded her with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Chuck Grassley is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Steve Daines is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Andy Harris is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. John Boozman is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Bill Huizenga is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Doug LaMalfa is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Mike Rounds is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded her with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Sen. Jim Inhofe is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Pete Sessions is among the 74 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Ted Budd is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Michael Guest is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Roger Williams is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Matt Rosendale is among the 74 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with a "True Blue" award for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Mike Carey is among the 74 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with a "True Blue" award for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) recently released its annual scorecards announcing "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. Rep. Randy Weber is among the 58 members of Congress who scored a perfect 100 percent for votes cast in both 2020 and 2021. Recently, FRC Action awarded him with two "True Blue" awards for displaying unwavering commitment to and support of faith, family, and freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family Research Council Action (FRC Action) announced today its "True Blue" award winners for the Second Session of the 116th Congress and the First Session of the 117th Congress. The annual award recognizes the members of Congress who displayed unwavering commitment and support of faith, family, and freedom. Of the 223 members of Congress who voted "True Blue" in at least one of the past two years, 55 senators and 168 representatives scored a perfect 100 percent on FRC Action's 2020 Vote Scorecard and/or 2021 Vote Scorecard.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last night, Family Research Council Action, the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council, filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas over the federal mask mandate on all airplanes. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of FRC Action, two FRC Action members who live in Texas, and a child. Tony Perkins is participating in the case both as president of FRC Action and as the father of the child.
Millennials, the generation born between 1984 and 2002, are a very significant force in American culture. Let's consider the tail end of the Millennial generation, those aged 18 to 24. That segment represents the latter third of the generation, comprising roughly 30 million individuals.
Winston is tied up on the table\u2014the police have arrested him for thinking his own thoughts. His interrogator stands above him, holding up four fingers...
With several major companies launching advertising campaigns to \u201Cget out and vote,\u201D political parties describing this election as the deciding factor in our country\u2019s future and survival, and politics seeping into daily conversation more than ever...
\rHere are "The 7" top trending items at FRC over the past seven days: \r1. Update: The Sticking Point with Mandatory Vaccines \rVirginia Health Commissioner Norman Oliver recently promised to make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory and members of a Virginia House committee killed two bills that would have added a religious exemption to the mandate. Americans must decide if they want to live with this