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I’m writing more in anger than in sadness. As holder of an Eagle Scout badge, I went through the sadness stage back in 2013 when the Boy Scouts board caved to the LGBTQ lobby. Well, okay, I was pretty angry then, too, watching the saboteurs within and without the organization systematically undermine it in the name of “tolerance.” It didn’t matter that the Scouts won all their court battles, including at the Supreme Court, to maintain their moral standards. The saboteurs were intent on ending the Scouts’ common-sense, existentially necessary exclusion of boys who sexually desire males. And that was...

In 1953, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the Rev. Billy Graham saw that his crusade audience was segregated in roped-off sections. He personally tore the barriers down. Over the next six decades, he preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to more than 200 million people in 185 countries. Without giving an inch of theological ground, he adjusted his message to the moment, for example, dropping the name “crusade” for his rallies so as not to offend Muslims that he was trying to reach for Christ. Scrupulously nonpolitical, he did something in 2016 for which the Left will never forgive him. He came...

Falsely accusing opponents with hate is a devilish tool of the anti-Christian crew. Given its prominence in current public discourse, one would think that hate, not love, is a many-splendored thing. The perfectly good word, which oozes out of every media pore, is now so overused that it means next to nothing. Every time you turn around, someone is accused of "hate" merely for expressing disagreement. This is not just a matter of semantics. It's serious. When you cheapen a word, it discourages honest discussion and leads to more confusion and conflict, which is how the devil likes it. We...

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has done us a wonderful service with her Aug. 15 article in the Atlantic, “Is Rick Perry as Christian as He Thinks He Is?” It’s a masterpiece of liberal misuse of the Bible, which will become more frequent as the campaign heats up. First, only God and Mr. Perry know what Mr. Perry thinks of his own faith. I doubt that either has shared that knowledge with Mrs. Townsend or her editors. Maryland’s Democrat lieutenant governor from 1995 to 2003, Mrs. Townsend starkly makes the case that being Christian means using other people’s tax dollars to help...

It’s ok for “transsexual” men to use the ladies’ room? A mother should accept her daughter making a living by running porn sites? America should embrace same-sex “marriage?” Dear Abby, what have you come to? For more than 50 years, Dear Abby has been counseling people on how to live their lives. People usually associate Abby with common sense, but in reality she’s an unsung warrior in the sexual revolution—firmly on the side of Playboy, NARAL, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Dear Abby consistently steers people into the arms of Planned Parenthood, homosexual activist groups, and the...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41290 Thursday, November 4, 2004 Bush should ignore the usual advice Posted: November 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Robert Knight © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com No matter how Bush won the election – decisively or closely – the advice from pundits is always the same: Go left, young man. They're already at it, advising President Bush to forget his conservative base and be a "leader for all the people." Well, of course the president should be magnanimous in victory, but this doesn't mean forgetting that he...

How's this for chutzpah? The homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign, which has endorsed John Kerry for president, is demanding the Republican Party suppress any speeches or performances at the GOP convention by people they don't like. That's right. Republican strategists are supposed to take advice from a lobby group that calls the Defense Of Marriage Act "hate-filled" legislation, even though both houses of Congress passed it overwhelmingly in 1996 and it was signed by Bill Clinton. HRC also contends that ordinary people, such as the 71 percent of Missourians who voted to pass a state constitutional amendment to protect...

Like a bad penny, the proposed federal "hate crimes" law just keeps coming back. It doesn't matter that there is no evidence that crimes against homosexuals are prosecuted any less vigorously than crimes against other victims. It doesn't matter that actual crimes against homosexuals have declined in recent years. Liberal GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch, Utah, and Gordon Smith, Ore., are planning to bring up a new version of the Kennedy-Smith federal "hate crimes" law, which has been filed as an amendment to the defense authorization bill. Proponents of the Hatch-Smith bill insist that their version seeks to empower state officials...

Just so Americans understand what we're in for with the creation of legal homosexual "marriage" in Massachusetts, here is some perspective. Marriage, as a civic institution in Massachusetts, has been destroyed, not "expanded." The very first homosexual couple "married" in the "gay" Mecca of Provincetown told the Boston Herald about their new "commitment": [Jonathan Yarbrough] says the concept of forever is "overrated" and that he, as a bisexual, and [his partner Cody] Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage. "I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one partner, not...

"Something's not right here," Britney Spears sang during one of her bump-and-grind numbers at the NFL kickoff party on the national mall on Thursday night. With the Capitol as a backdrop, Spears turned America's front yard into a celebration of sluttery, complete with scantily clad dancers, crotch-grabbing and the stirring patriotic message: "If you want to party, just grab somebody." Meanwhile, down in Montgomery, Ala., the monument bearing the Ten Commandments installed by Chief Justice Roy Moore in the state Supreme Court building languished out of view, banished by a federal judge who found their placement obscene. Oh, not obscene...

Even though people on both sides of the issue deny it, it is increasingly obvious that homosexuality is dominating a new place on the scale of American political life. Even in conservative circles, prominent voices – some of whom I call friends, all of whom I respect – continually find themselves divided on not only the issue, but also how people of conscience respond to it. In recent weeks, David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America, have been "duking it out" on the issue of whether or...

Apology or not, David Horowitz might want to reconsider his pro-‘gay’ stance I’m in the middle of a tiff with a friend, David Horowitz, who is taking issue with Christian conservatives’ attempt to keep the GOP from falling into the camp of "gay" activists. He has written two columns on his FrontPageMagazine.com website. The first, "Pride Before a Fall" (May 20), accused Christian conservatives of intolerance and poor judgment concerning their meeting with Republican Party Chairman Marc Racicot to discuss Mr. Racicot’s earlier meeting with 300 homosexual activists. The latest column, "Render Unto Caesar" (May 27), responds in large part...

Some Christian conservatives confuse religion and politics. To say so is not anti-Christian; it is common sense Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis In a previous column ("Pride Before A Fall"), I...

Latest conservative to distort Jesus' teachings and slam 'religious right' In “Pride Before a Fall”, David Horowitz informs us in his FrontPage Magazine.com webzine that Jesus did not mention homosexuality in the four Gospels. The implication is that Jesus did not think it was any big deal, so we shouldn't, either. By Mr. Horowitz’s reasoning, since Jesus didn't bother condemning rape, Jesus must be indifferent to that, too. Jesus was not recorded in the New Testament speaking directly about incest or child pornography, either. Does that make them okay? The Torah and Jewish tradition clearly forbid sodomy. If Jesus had...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis In a previous column ("Pride Before A Fall"), I took several Christian conservative leaders to task for protesting RNC Chairman Marc Racicot’s appearance at a meeting...

Watching a Great Paper Dive Into Pedophilia Chic     5/1/2003By Robert KnightCommentary When I was a news editor at the Los Angeles Times during the ’80s, I thought I had seen the outer limits of liberal moral meltdown. On issue after issue, most staff members took the politically correct line, from abortion to welfare, gun control, tax increases, porn “censorship” and “gay” rights. But the paper has now outdone itself, even by its own liberal standards. By awarding a Los Angeles Times Book Prize to the odious Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, by Judith Levine, the Times...

"In the wee hours of April 15, 1912, the great ship (SS Titanic) slipped into the deep waters of the North Atlantic, sending 1,503 passengers and crewmen to a watery grave. "The vast majority of the dead were men, many of whom stood bravely as they watched lifeboats full of women and children row away from the doomed ship. "During the U.S. Senate inquiry, First Officer Charles H. Lightoller was asked, "You discriminated entirely in the interest of the passengers -- first women and children -- in filling those lifeboats. Lightoller replied: 'Yes, sir,' to which the senator pressed, 'Why...

You couldn't help but be elated upon hearing that Pfc. Jessica Lynch was rescued. But it was a little like the relief that parents experience before the anger sets in after junior has done a death-defying stunt and lived to tell about it. Many brave men risked their lives to save Pfc. Lynch following an Iraqi man's report that a woman soldier was being tortured at a hospital. We still don't know what the Iraqis did to her. The two broken legs and spinal injury indicate torture. No word on whether she was sexually assaulted as well. Her comrades, most...