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Gender Identity Guidance

July 15, 2024September 21, 2016 Steve MacDonald

The Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination has issued a draft document titled “Gender Identity Guidance” that could cause trouble for churches in the Bay State. Dustin Siggins explains the issue as we explore the ramifications for free speech and religious freedom.

S’Preme Court Revives Challenge To Obama Care…

September 26, 2018November 27, 2012 Steve MacDonald

…on religious grounds.

S’Preme credit first to Hot Air, whose title I have assumed as my own. And second, how about a do-over?

Liberty University had challenged the law on religious grounds courtesy of the insurance mandate itself, the HHS’ contraceptive mandate, and the retarded left-wing notion that the government can prohibit any and every exercise of religious expression the moment it steps outside the four walls of the place of worship.

SCOTUS overturned a lower courts dismissal of that case –giving it new life

It’s That Simple

September 26, 2018October 30, 2012 Steve MacDonald

I am still without power so content from me will be thin at best until further notice. But that doesn’t mean I can’t try to start a row with 16 seconds of video. Yes, It’s that simple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enC0eFJgmpA&feature=player_embedded Hot Air

Will people of Faith stand up to defend that Faith?

September 26, 2018May 19, 2012 Skip

The beginning of this extremely well done video lays out the call to Catholics to help protect their faith and their values:

In generations past, the Church has always been able to count on the faithful to stand up and protect her sacred rights and duties. This generation of Catholics must do the same.

Now I am an evangelical Protestant, not Catholic, so there are theological points on which we will never agree upon. That said, I believe that there is a message here for Bible believing Christians who take their faith seriously and personally (i.e., not a “back row Baptist” or a “country club Christian”) as well as to Catholics. I do believe that Obama, as with many Progressives, see a personal faith as being a hindrance to implementing Bigger Government -they realize that in order to have fealty to government, there must be no nothing “above” Government.

NH Democrats Fight To Abolish Religious Freedom

September 26, 2018March 9, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Why is the New Hampshire Democrat Party attacking religious freedom in the State of New Hampshire? From the state party chair, to Democrat candidates for governor, right down to elected members, Planned Parenthood, and EMILY’s list lobbyists. The entire morally bankrupt Democrat party machine has a laser-like focus on denying you another first amendment right. The right to religious freedom is under attack again.

NRA – a very timid step, but are they finally getting the big picture??

September 26, 2018February 13, 2012 Skip

As an former NRA member, I still get their NRA-ILA alerts and I am always figuring that this is the indication of what they are thinking concerning the “big” picture. After all, a couple of years now when the Dems were pushing the DISCLOSE act that would have restricted Free Speech, the NRA was silent. Absolutely silent – and that in and of itself created a fire storm from both conservative grassroots and from their own membership akin to “Are you guys flippin’ morons?? You CANNOT just concentrate on protecting just the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) if they take away your First!”

The NRA kept saying that they were a one issue group (as if that was a sufficient), so that’s why they wouldn’t be speaking out on that issue. Period – and in my mind, given what they could have brought to bear, a cop-out of the first degree. That is also why I am an ex-NRA member, because unless you are willing to protect it all, you will lose your one issue. A particular section of a wall cannot stand on its own and be effective if the rest of the wall has been knocked down by incoming enemy fire – and make no mistake, the entire founding philosophy of the Constitution is under heavy attack from Progressives. Yes, concentrate on your single issue, but there are times we all have to be voluntarily interlocked to protect the freedoms that are trying to be wrenched from us under the guise of the Marxist “greater good” collective group-think. This is, again, one of those times.

Trading Religious Freedom for material gain?

September 26, 2018February 12, 2012 Skip

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36 (H/T: Big Government)

The Church of Obama’s Big Government – kiss my ring!

September 26, 2018February 4, 2012 Skip

(H/T: Powerline)

So, Obamessiah is deciding he is the new King Nebuchadnezzar? All bow to King The One, as he tosses religious freedom under his chariot?

September 26, 2018February 1, 2012 Skip

From RedState: “Conscience is the most sacred of all property.” (James Madison)

The First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Are we Christians next to be tossed into Obama’s secular version of the Fiery Furnace simply for holding to religiously based beliefs other than what he is trying to establish with his latest Obamacare ruling? Certainly the Roman Catholic Church is square in his gunsights of the new Obamacare regulations set by Health and Human Services Sebelius. Yet, does not Obama understand that religious freedom was a prime impetus for the establishment of our country? Or just ignoring it to consolidate his power as he did in direct opposition to the Constitution when he has appointed unaccountable czars, has made “recess” appointments by unilaterally declaring the Senate in recess (even as it was not), and unilaterally changed large swaths of how Americans have to behave (shades of tin-plated despots everywhere). And all he has to do is use his Executive levers of powers of an overlarge Federal Government that has grown from the laziness of a Congress that refuses to take up its own responsibilities under and to the Constitution?