Politics

April 26, 2018

Christian, Read This Bill

By Alan Shlemon, The Stream - I’ve been saying for years that homosexuality is the topic our society will use to bully and restrict Christians. After reading California’s Assembly Bill 2943, I can see a hint of how this might happen... Assembly Bill 2943 If you’re a Christian, Muslim, or Jew (especially if you live in California), I encourage you to read Assembly Bill 2943 and Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) analysis of it.

April 25, 2018

Trump Gives Boost to Abstinence Education

By Stephen Wynne, ChurchMilitant - The Trump administration is plotting a new course for an Obama-era sex-ed funding mechanism... On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a major reorientation of its Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program toward abstinence-focused education... Designed to "give youth the information and skills that will enable them to prevent pregnancy and related risks, in order to successfully navigate from adolescence into adulthood,"

April 25, 2018

The Church and Islam: Dangerous Illusions

By William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine - The idea of opposing dangerous ideologies is not foreign to Americans, but the idea of opposing an ideology that is also a religion is more problematic. It has become increasingly problematic now that we live in an era in which merely disagreeing with another’s opinions is tantamount to a hate crime. So, just for the record, critiquing Islam does not mean that one hates Muslims.

April 25, 2018

Could a California Bill Ban Christian Teaching on Homosexuality?

By Christine Rousselle/CNA/EWTN News -A proposed law in California could have a chilling effect on free speech, warn critics who fear that it could ban efforts to explain and promote Christian teaching on sexual morality... “The broad reach of AB 2942 leaves even simple religious speech on same-sex attraction or activities open to legal action and impinges on the basic human right of freedom of religion,”