The dehumanizing effects of pornography affect those on both sides of the screen. Not only is the viewer dehumanizing themselves by separating the goodness of sexual intercourse from its proper context within marriage as God designed, but there is also a victim who is portrayed and treated as nothing but a simple object of desire. …
Continue...On Tuesday, voters in Kansas rejected a proposed amendment to their state constitution that would have given state legislators the authority to pass future laws restricting abortion. The “No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment” (also called the “Value Them Both” amendment) was on the ballot in Kansas as …
Continue...Demand for abortion pills has increased significantly since the recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to put greater restrictions on abortion. Axios reports that organizations that provide information about or access to abortion pill has skyrocketed in the weeks since the Dobbs decision was released. The result is that chemical abortion is likely to …
Continue...The House on Thursday passed the Right to Contraception Act by a final vote of 228-195. The vote was split mostly on party lines, with 220 Democrats and only eight Republicans voting in favor of the bill. It’s still unclear if the Senate will bring the bill forward for a vote. The legislation was rushed …
Continue...Pro-life Christians have long understood that the Roe v. Wade decision—which institutionalized abortion on demand in all 50 states—was a moral travesty. But what has often been less clear for us is why it was considered unjustifiable as a matter of constitutional law. A broad range of conservative and liberal legal scholars have been in …
Continue...From Jan. 22, 1973, until June 24, 2022, abortion law was uniform across the United States. But in their ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court returned the “authority to regulate abortion . . . to the people and their elected representatives.” That does not mean, though, that the people or …
Continue...The Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is only a week old, and already there are misperceptions, misunderstandings, and misconstruals about what abortion law will look like now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. Here are four main misperceptions that have been expressed in light of the recent ruling and …
Continue...Today, the Supreme Court announced a historic decision that overturns the disastrous precedent set in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This decision represents a moment that we all have been praying for and working toward for decades. Many of you as pastors and ministry leaders are seeking to lead your people well …
Continue...Last weekend, Americans celebrated Juneteenth National Independence Day, our nation’s newest legal public holiday. The observance honors Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery which dates back to June 19, 1865. But for some Black Americans, slavery both ended before and after that date. Here is a brief timeline of the …
Continue...On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that Maine’s “nonsectarian” requirement for otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Kagan …
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