Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms – by Isabel Sawhill
...marriage is good for children. Those who live with their biological parents do better in school and are less likely to get pregnant or arrested. They have lower rates of suicide, achieve higher levels of education and earn more as adults.
Josh McDowell: Pornography threatening ‘downfall’ of church – by Anugrah Kumar
More shockingly, half of all Christian families report that pornography is a problem, and 30 per cent of pastors have viewed pornography in the last 30 days. The newly produced video on the website shows that pornography aggressively preys on and attacks its victims.
Maine Churches to raise money to fight gay marriage
Conley's also seeking endorsements from well-known pastors who might be willing to record video and audio clips that can be played at churches taking part in Maine's collection-plate drive, he said. Those clips would also be sent to the state's Christian radio stations as public service announcements.
Public Money Finds Back Door to Private (Mostly Religious) Schools
Johnathan Arnold, headmaster of Covenant Christian Academy in Cumming, Ga., said he viewed using the program to discount tuition for existing students as unethical. “We, as a Christian school, felt that wasn’t the right approach,” he said. “You’re giving money out of the goodness of your heart with the intent to receive nothing in return.
In past 40 years, churches shift positions on abortion
Concerns about moral values during the sexual revolution…galvanized evangelical leaders into action, said the Rev. George Grant of Parish Presbyterian Church [PCA] in Franklin. “There was a great deal of alarm about the future of our world,” he said.
House Minority Leader Pelosi Calls Proposed Chaplain ‘Conscience Clause’ a ‘Fraud’
The White House issued a statement on Tuesday verifying that the administration “strongly opposes” the provision, known as Section 536 that provides protection for the chaplains and Section 537 that says military facilities cannot be used to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blasted a Republican proposal that would protect military chaplains... Continue Reading
‘A nation of Osteens and Obamas’; A Nation of Heretics
Many of America’s contemporary crises, from the housing bubble and the financial crash to the collapse of the two-parent family, can be traced to just this tendency — encouraged by too much contemporary religion — to make the self’s ambitions the measure of all things. If a foreign visitor –a modern-day Alexis De Tocqueville, let’s... Continue Reading
Jonathan Haidt on Social Conservatives, New Atheists and Civility in Politics
Liberals, Haidt found, mostly pay attention to just three moral foundations -- care, fairness and liberty. Conservatives, though, especially social conservatives, pay attention to all six (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty). As a result, Haidt argues, liberals have to work harder to understand conservatives than vice versa.
Study Shows Bias at California Universities
Report shows how the liberal politicization of UC schools decreases students’ ability to think objectively. In 2000, a group of about 175 raucous UC Berkeley students disrupted conservative author Daniel Flynn as he gave a speech about how he believed Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a... Continue Reading
Black Christians in an ‘Adulterous’ Relationship With Obama, Says Evangelical Pastor
“Obama laid down the gauntlet on black leaders,” Jackson said. “The question we are being forced to address is ‘are you going to be black or be godly.'” An influential African-American evangelical pastor says that many black Christians are in an “adulterous” relationship with President Obama over the issue of same-sex marriage and that if... Continue Reading
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