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Fresh off a vote last week urging our abrupt surrender in Iraq, and just hours removed from coming up 62 votes short in an attempt to override the president's veto, Democrats will use the House floor this afternoon to slide through legislation conceived of, written by, and moved in consultation with a key segment of their special interest constituency. The bill, harmlessly coined "the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" by House Democrats, would create a nebulous new class of criminals based not on the things they do, but on the basis of what they may or may not...

Religious rights undermined By Clint Haggart When the Supreme Court of Canada and previous Liberal government said same-sex marriage will be recognized in Canada, they said churches will never be forced to perform one of these marriages. Unfortunately, there will come a time when the gay rights movement will push the issue in court and will likely win. It wouldn’t be the first time gay rights groups tried to screw Canadians of faith. In 1999, Scott Brockie, a Christian printer, refused to publish gay rights literature saying it was in clear violation of his Christian beliefs. He, in fact, had...

The following is a brief excerpt from the book reviews secition of the June 2004 Homiletic and Pastoral Review, page 73.The article is titledAnti-Christian BiasPERSECUTION: HOW LIBERALS ARE WAGING WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANITY. By David LimbaughExcerpt from review:Persecution might have made an even stronger and more compelling case had it compared the state of present day American society with other historical instances of a Christian nation entering a period of religious repression (e.g., Russia at the time of the Communist revolution), thereby drawing lessons that might be applicable to our own situation.For instance, many experts describe the unfolding of a religious...

January 26, 2004 According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Oberlin is the number-one college choice for professors and kids in the Northwest. It's also popular with the children of far-Left activists and it's become a haven for homosexual and "transgendered" students.Click to Learn More Intolerance and hatred are ugly attitudes, yet in today’s schools, hostility is often the greeting for traditional values. Adults are likely to be treated like adversaries at their neighborhood schools if they don’t want acceptance of homosexuality or cross-dressing to be a part of youth education. Nationwide, reports of the suppression of religious freedom and...

If it’s true that for a stone to avoid gathering annoying moss it needs to keep moving, then evangelical Christianity in America today may best be analogized as a boulder entangled in and about to suffocate from the fungus of legislative anti-Church doctrine bigotry. (Note: I define “evangelical” here as those who look to the traditional Bible as the supreme norm of truth for Christian belief and practice; hold a supernatural worldview that is centered in a transcendent, personal God who interacts with creation; focuses on the forgiving and transforming grace of God through the historic Jesus Christ in the...