Archive - Richard Land
The danger of the state as a substitute for conscience
You have heard it said: “You can’t legislate morality.”
My response: One of my personal heroes was Martin Luther King, Jr. I am grateful his morality was legislated on George Wallace and Lester Maddox. more »
By Richard Land - Mar 31, 2009 - (2)
Topic: Citizenship, Religious Liberty
Jump in out-of-wedlock births disheartening
The news of 4.3 million births in the United States in 2007—the highest birth rate in U.S. history—seems to be something to celebrate, and it is. more »
By Richard Land - Mar 24, 2009 - (4)
Topic: Family, Children, Parenting, Fathers
North Carolina judge takes aim at home education
You may have heard about a North Carolina judge’s pending order that may place three children in public schools this fall because the home-schooling their mother provided over the last four years needs to be “challenged.” more »
By Richard Land - Mar 17, 2009 - (7)
Topic: Family, Children, Education,
Tell Senators to Oppose Global Warming Tax
Dear Friends:
Back door attempts in Congress to push through a global warming tax are heating up.
It is our understanding that the Democrat Senate leadership is planning to move forward with a cap-and-trade bill, which would drastically limit levels of greenhouse gases that electrical, industrial, and transportation sectors can emit, tax them for what they do emit, and slap them with hefty fines if they exceed those emissions levels. more »
By Richard Land - Mar 12, 2009 - (3)
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, , Science, Environment
Lamenting the reversal of pro-life stem cell policy
This is a sad day for the sanctity of all human life in America. President Obama, in rescinding President Bush’s order of August 2001, which banned federal funding of research that causes the destruction of human embryos, has declared open season on unborn babies, allowing them to be destroyed for the sole purpose of harvesting their embryonic cells and tissue in the hopes of discovering treatments for maladies and diseases affecting older and bigger human beings. more »
By Richard Land - Mar 9, 2009 - (7)
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research
Help Stop Controversial Justice Department Nominee
Dear Friends:
David Ogden—a man who has represented Playboy and Penthouse before the courts, provided legal counsel to Planned Parenthood, and supported special protections for homosexuals—could soon be confirmed as deputy attorney general. more »
By Richard Land - Feb 25, 2009
Topic: Family, Children, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Pornography, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, , Social Issues
Is the Government Planning to Make Your Health-care Decisions?
There are many things in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that concern me, but there is one thing craftily tucked into this bill that is most disturbing–the $1.1 billion to create a superstructure of rationed health care to the sick and the elderly. more »
By Richard Land - Feb 24, 2009 - (9)
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Citizenship, Legislation
LINCOLN AT 200: Spiritual blueprint for a presidency
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Lincoln Memorial has long been my favorite monument in our nation’s capital. Its awesome grandeur and elegant simplicity reflect the unique combination of grandeur and simplicity that was Abraham Lincoln, the most American of presidents, a man who literally rose from humble log cabin origins to the highest political office in the land. more »
By Richard Land - Feb 16, 2009 - (5)
Topic: Citizenship, , National
Modern-day cannibals
Throughout his campaign for president, President Barack Obama said he would reverse President George W. Bush’s ban on the federal funding of stem cell research on human embryos. more »
By Richard Land - Feb 11, 2009 - (7)
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, National
Giant steps toward a government takeover of the health-care system?
The new SCHIP legislation is nothing less than a vehicle to advance “socialized medicine” by stealth. The program’s purpose, when it was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress in 1997, was to assist in subsidizing health care for children in families whose incomes made them ineligible for Medicaid but who couldn’t afford private health insurance. more »
By Richard Land - Feb 3, 2009 - (12)
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Citizenship, Legislation, National