Politics

July 14, 2020

Thugs Killed an Innocent One-Year-Old. Now the Family Has Questions for Black Lives Matter. by Beth Baumann

By Beth Baumann, Townhall - "For the cowards that did this, you should be ashamed of yourself because everybody talk about Black Lives Matter, what about baby lives? What about teenager lives?" the one-year-old's grandmother said during an interview with Fox News' Lawrence Jones. "You took an innocent child from a mother and a father, as well as the grandparents, and I don't think it's fair."... Based on the way city officials are conducting themselves following the child's death, Davel Gardner Sr. said he doesn't believe his son's life mattered.

July 14, 2020

Religious Liberty Is Important, But It’s Not Enough, by Ryan T. Anderson

By Ryan T. Anderson, Public Discourse - The past two weeks brought welcome rulings from the Supreme Court on religious liberty. We should celebrate these victories, because religious liberty is an authentic natural and human right. But it’s not enough. And even the best of religious liberty wins can’t adequately contend in a proxy war over substantive issues... We must do more politically to protect human flourishing and the authentic common good. This is particularly true with respect to the Court’s Bostock ruling, which read progressive gender ideology into our nation’s civil rights laws. ...

July 14, 2020

President Donald Trump Finalizes Rule Confirming Abortion is Not a Human Right, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - The Trump administration finalized another pro-life regulation Monday, this one to clarify that the definition of sex discrimination in Obamacare does not include abortions... The new rule officially ends a 2016 regulation from the Obama administration that could have forced medical workers to help abort unborn babies. It restores the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination to “the plain meaning … as determined by biology,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

July 14, 2020

A Catholic Case for the Second Amendment, by Sean Fitzpatrick

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine - The Fourth of July weekend in Chicago had more to do with firearms than fireworks, with 49 shootings, 60 victims, and 14 fatalities. A 10-year-old girl was killed in her home by a stray bullet, shot through the head. A toddler was killed in his car seat by another stray bullet, shot through the chest. The Windy City, logging 324 murders for 2020 at the time of this writing, is reeling in a storm of reckless crime with tempers flaring, police retreating, and guns blazing.