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Anyone wondering what Donald Trump would do to fill the pro-life promises of his campaign didn't have to wait long to find out! In his first weekday on the job, the new White House started turning the page on eight deadly years of the Obama administration. After two terms of shipping American dollars to overseas groups like International Planned Parenthood, this president wasted no time pulling the plug, flipping the script on the pro-life Mexico City policy that Obama suspended.
Here are three words you don't usually see in the same sentence: "religious liberty" and "California." But thanks to Superior Court Judge David Lampe, that's exactly what one Christian is celebrating in a battle over religious freedom and wedding cakes.
Kids see plenty of offensive things at school — but when did fathers become one of them? Ask New York's Department of Education.
How badly does the Left want to retake control of Congress? Not badly enough to rethink its strategy on abortion, apparently. If Democrats' obsession with the issue is costing the party elections, they don't want to hear it. Even from their own.
Thursday afternoon, I was honored to attend the swearing in of my friend Sam Brownback as the next Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom.
The president laid out a compelling plan for the year in his State of the Union address, but it's important to remember that the key to good policy is good personnel. So it's no surprise that anti-faith liberals are attacking some of the appointees in this administration, especially in one of the largest and most powerful departments, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has been the nemesis of conservatives, especially under Barack Obama.
Tuesday night, President Trump turned his first State of the Union Address into an American pep rally. Cheering the American people for helping one another overcome a year of natural and man-made tragedies, the president cast a winning vision of unity.
It was painful to watch just how beholden the Left is to the abortion mentality as the Senate voted Monday evening 51-46 against sending the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36, S. 2311) to the floor for a vote (60 votes were needed for it to proceed).
Days after the nation solemnly marked the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the woman at the helm of the nation's abortion giant has announced her retirement.
When voters went to the polls and elected Donald Trump, they weren't just picking an American leader — they were choosing an international one. As anyone who's traveled outside the United States knows, most of the developed world pays more attention to American politics than some of our own citizens do. They understand: Where America goes, others follow.
If there's one thing I've always said, it's that Christians should never check their faith at the door when they enter the public square. So, let me start by practicing what I preach. Like you, I've heard all of the allegations about Donald Trump's past, his years of baggage and personal failings. I don't pretend to know what's true and what isn't — certainly not now, in an environment as toxic as ours. But there is a truth I do know: faith in Jesus Christ that calls us to live with moral clarity in everything we do. And that means calling sin, sin.
Liberals have stuck to a pretty consistent strategy in dealing with American Christianity: If you repeat something often enough, people will start to believe it. With the media's help, they set out to convince the country that evangelicals were dying on the political vine. But, as so often happens, they were proven wrong on the biggest of stages when, in 2016, the church's "withering" influence proved to be anything but.
Most federal workers weren't planning on a long weekend — but thanks to Senate Democrats, that's exactly what they got. Apparently, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) idea of solving the government's problems is closing it! And while there are plenty of days we'd agree, this weekend's shutdown is just the latest evidence that the Left has no intention of cooperating on anything — including the issues it cares about.
When pro-lifers spilled into the sunny streets Friday morning, the weather wasn't the only thing lifting spirits. To the tens of thousands at the March for Life, it's the climate of this administration that bears celebrating. A year removed from the most pro-abortion president in history, the mood up and down the National Mall was upbeat.
Trump is closing the chapter on one of the worst assaults on religious liberty in a generation.
Religious liberty isn't found in political proclamations but in the policies they inspire. In the last administration, the challenge wasn't getting leaders to acknowledge Religious Freedom Day, it was getting them to practice it the other 364. That's finally changed under Donald Trump, who wasted no time in beginning the process of repairing the foundation his predecessor destroyed.
If you've ever toured Monticello, then you know that Thomas Jefferson had very strong opinions of what his legacy should be. He wanted to be remembered as the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and as the "father" of the University of Virginia. Both are inscribed on his tombstone, along with his second proudest achievement — authoring the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom.
When the sun broke over the frosty city of Washington yesterday, light caught the stony silhouette of a man. Arms crossed, the towering likeness of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerges out of granite, as unflinching as the leader himself. Like a centurion, he stares straight ahead, eyes fixed on another monument of freedom: the Jefferson Memorial. Like a faint echo, the wind whips around the words etched in the rock at his back, as relevant as ever, "We shall overcome."
A Northern Virginia public school held a school-wide assembly before Christmas break featuring transgender crusader Amy Ellis Nutt.
Abortion may have taken 59 million lives since *Roe v. Wade*, but it's created at least 118 million victims.
