Breitbart News reported last week that Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) passed an amendment in the House Armed Services Committee protecting religious speech of service members in the military. President Barack Obama has now threatened to veto the bill if it passes the full House and Senate.
The White House released a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) on H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014...Last week we reported that President Obama’s agenda may depend on how many judges he can appoint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Today Obama nominated three legal heavyweights to fill every vacancy on the D.C. Circuit, potentially setting up a historic battle over how the Senate confirms judges...
Sir John Dalberg-Acton famously observed, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” No federal agency enjoys more power than the “absolute power” wielded by the Internal Revenue Service. It’s little wonder, then, that under this power-drunk Obama regime, the IRS has become “corrupted absolutely.” It’s become the hammer to this president’s favorite nail: political dissent...
President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It’s not the Supreme Court; it’s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama’s agenda succeeds or fails turns on whether he remakes that court in his image, and Republicans are preparing for battle.
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” (Mark 8:36)
It’s a sad day for both Scouting and for freedom. Indeed, it’s a sad day for America. The century-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) – created in 1910 to “prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes” – has betrayed its own constituency, mission, oath and law...
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has changed its century-old policy to bring into membership open and avowed homosexual youths through age 17.
However, the Scouts will maintain the ban on anyone ages 18+ who is homosexual, meaning that a 17 year-old Eagle Scout will be expelled from the Scouts upon his eighteenth birthday, instead of transitioning into adult leadership. This incoherent policy...Under President Obama, “justice” is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and listening to your every word. Still, if you happen to be a federal employee, now it’s even listening for your silence...
‘I can’t imagine how scared my mom must have been and how alone she felt,” Marlin Stutzman, a congressman from Indiana, would later comment. After he heard about Dr. Kermit Gosnell, he did what congressmen do: He went to the House floor, where he pleaded with the media to cover the case of the since-convicted Philadelphia abortion doctor, whose filthy clinic has exposed the right to abortion as the right to a dead baby, a right that emanates from the penumbras of Roe v. Wade...
Liberty University--America’s largest Christian university--had its day in court yesterday against Obamacare before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. It is the most comprehensive legal challenge currently in the federal courts against President Obama’s signature law...
URGENT: A Philadelphia doctor was found guilty Monday of murdering three babies born alive in an abortion clinic, Fox News confirms. He was acquitted in the fourth baby's death, and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of an adult patient. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was convicted of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic...
When NBA basketball player Jason Collins recently announced to the world that he’s sexually attracted to other men, Michelle Obama tweeted, “So proud of you, Jason Collins! This is a huge step forward for our country. We’ve got your back!” Jason even got a personal call from the president...
The Obama-Hagel Pentagon is trying to minimize Breitbart News’ blockbuster story last week of top brass meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein, whom we reported calls Christians “monsters” imposing a “rapacious reign of theocratic terror” and says sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the military an act of “sedition and treason” that must be punished...
Protecting our children should be our foremost concern when creating and implementing health policy. The first line of defense in protecting the health and safety of children is input and guidance from parents and doctors. The decision to allow unfettered access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B to girls as young as 15 shows an alarming lack of concern for the safety of young girls and the fundamental rights of parents...
A Legal and Ethical Analysis of the Proposed BSA Resolution to Allow Open Homosexuality in the Boy Scouts...
Pentagon personnel responded to Breitbart News’ report about court-martialing service members who share their faith in the military, which the Pentagon confirmed on May 1, and the Air Force on May 2 separately confirmed a second time...
What’s the big deal? I mean, why are we surprised that an abortionist and his staff would, behind the walls of an always-lethal abortion clinic, commit one of the most horrific serial killings in American history? What did you think abortionists do, heal people? Why are we taken aback that there was no oversight, no regulation, or that Planned Parenthood...
Earlier this week, I was interviewed by a very nice radio talk-show host about the proposal to allow what the Boy Scouts term “open and avowed” homosexuality into Scouting itself. During the conversation, I made a point about Scouts promising to be “morally straight,” and the gentleman interviewing me said...
Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally. They come here in pursuit of what we recognize as the American dream – the chance to live in freedom and have the opportunity to work hard to make a better life for themselves and their families...
Throughout my life I have tried to bring Christians together to engage and transform the culture - with varying degrees of success and failure. My identity as a Catholic Christian grounds me in a vision of the human person, marriage and family, the Natural Law, human freedom, and an understanding of a truly just social order which flows from the Social teaching of my Church...
A faction in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) just proposed a resolution to change BSA’s longstanding policy regarding openly homosexual behavior, one that will subject them to crippling lawsuits and cannot possibly survive over time. Regardless of where a person stands on the question of whether there should be open and avowed homosexuals in the Boy Scouts, this policy doesn’t make sense either way...
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1
Be they theist or be they atheist, on this most scientists agree: In the beginning there was nothing. There was no time, space or matter. There wasn't even emptiness, only nothingness. Well, nothing natural anyway...
As a lawyer in the same-sex marriage litigation at the Supreme Court who has spent a couple years working through all the implications of declaring a constitutional right to gay marriage, it became clear that such a declaration would also mean there is a right to polygamy...
On Sunday, April 14, the pro-life community lost one of its most effective and esteemed members, 90-year-old Barbara Willke. She died peacefully after suffering a severe head injury due to a fall. For over four decades, Barbara diligently worked alongside her husband, Dr. J.C. Willke, to protect innocent human life from womb to tomb...
Perhaps the worst part of the horrifying allegations against a Philadelphia abortion clinic is that it operated for 17 years before anyone did anything. 72-year-old Kermit Gosnell has been charged with killing seven babies and accused of killing hundreds in gruesome and illegal late-term abortions. Prosecutors claim...
I just had breakfast with the Rev. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg. Well, not the real Peter Muhlenberg, but a preacher friend of mine named Travis Witt. Travis does a powerful impersonation of the Revolutionary War-time pastor-patriot at churches and other venues around the country. Travis will be in his full Muhlenberg character at The Awakening 2013 on April 19-20 in Orlando, Fla...
“It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” said the smooth-talking, skirt-chasing, totally busted philanderer. “Well, no, Bill,” replied Congress. “Actually, things just ‘is’ what they is.” Here’s what marriage is: The God-ordained, lifelong, covenantal union between man and wife, designed to provide men, women and children optimal...
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) became law in 1996, when Congress reacted after the Hawaii Supreme Court suggested it might redefine marriage in that state. DOMA received 342 votes out of 435 in the U.S. House, and 85 out of 100 in the U.S. Senate, and was then signed into law by President Bill Clinton...
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman has come out in favor of same-sex “marriage” because one of his sons has announced that he is homosexual.My heart goes out to Sen. Portman and his wife. As the mother of a homosexual child...
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Rev. Billy Graham is running full-page advertisements in a number of newspapers across the country, urging voters to vote for candidates that support biblical values of life, natural marriage, and religious liberty. ...
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The House of Representatives voted to repeal Obamacare. While that's so, the Senate has yet to act and Obamacare is not the only threat to the liberty of Americans. In fact, the religious liberties of Americans continue to come under fierce attack as culture becomes more secular. Liberty Counsel Action has chronicled some of the ways in which we have seen the rights and liberties of Americans threatened.
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Hans Bader, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. He says, "on June 12, a Senate Committee held a hearing to promote a bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), that would hold private employers liable for potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in punitive damages and attorneys fees if a judge or jury later decides they committed discrimination based on sexual orientation."
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Michigan counseling students are another step closer to “freedom of conscience” protection. Last week, the Michigan House of Representatives passed the Julea Ward Freedom of Conscience Act, which forbids public colleges from disciplining a psychology student for refusing to counsel against sincerely held religious beliefs.
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Liberty Counsel Action faxed a letter to members of the House of Representatives on May 29th letting them know Liberty Counsel Action would be scoring a vote scheduled for May 30, 2012, which would make it illegal for individuals to kill their unborn children because of the sex of the child.
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Liberty Counsel Action faxed a letter to California Senators regarding a bill they will soon vote on. The California State Senate is considering a bill that completely bans counseling that helps people overcome same-sex attractions, for minors and requires adults to provide informed consent before receiving what is often referred to as change therapy.
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Liberty Counsel Action has submitted a comment regarding the Department of Health and Human Services' Regulation mandating all health insurance cover contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization. LCA highlights that this mandate is an egregious disregard for the consciences and religious liberties of Americans.
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President Obama recently posted a synopsis of some of the ways he’s contributing to the collapse of American culture, by contributing to the deconstruction of its cornerstone, the family. The synopsis, posted on the White House website, was purported to be a summary of Obama’s efforts to ensure every American is “treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society;” however, that is not the case.
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Last week, Health and Human Services released preventive health services guidelines that include yet another mandate that requires an “abortion premium” for the establishment of state health care exchanges. Plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge each month from each premium payer. This is payment for elective abortions.
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March 1, 2012, the Senate will take one of the most important votes it's taken since our destructive president took office. The Senate will vote on whether to protect religious liberties and whether the government has the authority to force Americans to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization procedures. It is imparative that senators be encouraged to support this bill. We have heard from leaders on the Hill that the Senate is not getting enough feedback from Americans on this issue.
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While it wasn’t made in public, at some point along the way President Obama must have made an oath to undermine and patently violate the U.S. Constitution at every opportunity available.
On January 4, 2012, the president committed his most blatant and obvious violation of our Constitution to date by making four appointments without the advice or consent of the U.S. Senate, even while the Senate was in session and available. In fact, one of his unconstitutional appointees had already been rejected by the Senate: Richard Cordray as head of the newly invented Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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As election year approaches and some of the candidates take more Libertarian positions, it is important to understand the definition of liberty and what Congress may do to impact what some would call liberty.
However, before diving into the question of liberty, it must be recognized that the United States of America has a Constitution in which the roles of the government are established. The analysis in this paper is conducted with fidelity to that document. The Constitution provides a process for changing America’s governing documents and until these processes are engaged, some of which are mentioned below, the government may exercise the authority it has been given, but may not exceed that authority. The question of liberty rests largely on America’s founding documents and the intentions of the Founding Fathers in their use of the term.
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Washington, D.C. – The Susan G. Komen Foundation announced today that it has bowed to the pressure of the pro-abortion lobby and will again fund the largest abortion provider in the country, Planned Parenthood, undermining Komen’s stated mission of “fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures.”
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Monday, January 23, 2012, Congressman Jim Jordan, along with forty-four other Congressmen, introduced the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act, H.R. 3805. The bill ensures women seeking an abortion have the opportunity to see an ultrasound before consenting to an abortion procedure.
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On December 12, 2011, the Senate voted against moving forward with the appointment of Mari Carmen Aponte. Liberty Counsel Action is pleased with this vote, and in fact, encouraged Senators to vote no.
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Liberty Counsel Action encouraged senators to vote "no," and they did just that. In a vote of 54 to 45, the senators refused to move forward on the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This is a big win for those who are strict constructionists, as Caitlin Halligan would have certainly attempted to legislate from the bench, in accordance with her radical liberal ideology.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee continued its attack on marriage Thursday, November 10, 2011. In a party-line vote of ten to eight, the Committee reported the "Respect for Marriage Act" to the full Senate for consideration.There is still time to stop this bill! Won't you take a moment to call your Senator and let him know that you don't want the federal government to undermine marriage by repealing DOMA? Call today 202-224-3121.
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The Occupy DC movement has been a neighbor of Liberty Counsel, an organization affiliated with Liberty Counsel Action, for months now. As they use bull horns to rally the occupiers of McPherson Square, Liberty Counsel occupies (and pay for the use of) an office building right across the street, and is often distracted by the noises associated with Occupy DC (police sirens being the most frequent noise pollutant, a result of the occupiers disrupting traffic and engaging in other nefarious conduct). That being said, we’re strict constructionists.
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The House of Representatives, in a vote of 396-9, passed the a Resolution affirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto and encouraging the posting of the motto in public places. The vote, which took place on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, showed, overwhelmingly, that Americans, as represented by their Congressmen, agree that "In God We Trust" is and should remain the motto of the United States.
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This Sunday, September 25th, Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, is scheduled to appear on “America’s News Headquarters” with Shannon Bream on Fox News. The estimated time for the interview is 1:40 p.m. ET. Staver will be discussing his recent trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority's bid for statehood at the U.N. Staver will also be debating the topic of the Ten Commandments with a representative of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. This debate will be centered around the recent lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Virginia against the Giles County School Board, after Narrows High School posted a display on law with ten equal-sized frames, one of which includes the Ten Commandments.
Mathew D. Staver, Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action, has been appointed to a panel of Legal Experts to address key legal issues affecting nonprofit organizations. At the request of Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, The Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations selected a total of 66 panelists in an effort to analyze and present information on major accountability and policy issues affecting religious and nonprofit groups, which were addressed in Senator Grassley’s staff report in January. The Commission is chaired by Michael Batts, CPA, founder of Batts Morrison Wales & Lee, an Orlando-based accounting firm dedicated exclusively to serving nonprofit organizations and their affiliates throughout the United States.
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Obama is making enemies of our friends by undermining the values other nations are founded upon.
Just months after the relationship between the United States and Pakistan became tumultuous due to the raid on the Osama Bin Laden compound, Obama and his cronies fanned the flames of adversity last June by holding a LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered) Pride celebration at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan.
While the Obama Administration continues to refuse to recognize the opposition to the “celebration,” many religious groups throughout the country denounced the activity and protested Obama’s attempts to impose his values on the people of Pakistan. The hypocrisy of it all is that while the Obama Administration consistently attempts to impose its values on other nations, here in the U.S., the Administration vilifies the imposition of values on people.
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By: Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D. and Mary E. McAlister, Esq.
Our children are under attack by an insidious and virulent enemy. On August 17, 2011, more than 50 activists attended a conference for “minor-attracted adults,” i.e., pedophiles, which sought to eliminate the “stigma” attached to pedophilia and to redefine pedophilia as a normal “sexual orientation.” The United States Department of Justice has determined that 64 percent of forcible sodomy victims are boys under the age of 12 and that 58,200 children were kidnapped by non-family members in 1999. So-called “experts” in the field of human sexuality claim that children are sexual not only from birth, but even in the womb and are willing participants in sexual acts with adults. Children are encouraged to experiment with sex early and often and to engage in sex with members of the same-sex as well as the opposite sex. Sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers are at epidemic proportions, and new and sometimes fatal strands of diseases are being reported. More than 50,000 teens have contracted HIV which has advanced to full blown AIDS and by 1992 more than 7,000 boys and 1,500 girls have died from HIV/AIDS. How did we get here? How do we stop the madness before we lose an entire generation?
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