Archive - Richard Land
Letter to HHS on Conscience Protections Proposal
On behalf of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, we urge the Department of Health and Human Services to reject its proposed rule “to rescind in its entirety” the final rule entitled “Ensuring That Department of Health and Human Services Funds Do Not Support Coercive or Discriminatory Policies or Practices in Violation of Federal Law,” promulgated late last year (73 FR 78072, 45 CFR Part 88). more »
By Richard Land - Apr 21, 2009 - (3)
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Life, Abortion
The source of integrity
What does it mean to be a person of integrity? Scripture tells us such a goal is a worthy pursuit: Better a poor man who lives with integrity than a rich man who distorts right and wrong (Prov. more »
By Richard Land - Apr 14, 2009 - (1)
Topic: Faith, Bible, Family, Living
‘Wedding’ bells ring off key in nation’s Heartland
Iowa is now the poster child for why it is important to have constitutional amendments that decree that marriage is only between one man and one woman. more »
By Richard Land - Apr 7, 2009 - (7)
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality
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