A federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin recently ruled that the housing allowance provided to ministers under the federal tax code is unconstitutional.  The suit was brought by the far-Left Freedom from Religion Foundation.   The U.S. Congress created the “parsonage allowance”...

In hopeful news for religious liberty, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has agreed to hear two challenges to the constitutionality of the Obama Administration’s contraceptive and abortion drug mandate. The High Court has accepted appeals of lower...

Last week, the Family Research Council (FRC) issued a press release in which they publicly ask Illinois’s U.S. Senator Mark Kirk to apologize for his bigoted decision to cancel a U.S. Senate office building room reservation for our friends at...

Another day, another secularist attempt at religious cleansing. The United States Supreme Court, which, with jaw-dropping irony, opens every session with prayer, recently heard – for the umpteenth time – oral arguments on whether local governing bodies can likewise open...

Last week, U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) confirmed my reasons for vehemently opposing his election.  His obamaniacal act of hubris last week also reminded me of the emails I received chastising me for what some perceived as my wrongheaded, doctrinaire...

Two military chaplains have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), alleging religious harassment during a VA chaplaincy training program.  Retired U.S. Army Major Steven Firtko and Navy Commander Dan Klender were participants in...

Back in 1869, Baptists in Kentucky established a “Home for the Helpless,” seeking to serve orphans and other homeless children. Like so many other Christian churches and denominations of the era, Louisville’s Baptists saw the need for an orphanage to provide care for parentless and abandoned children, who before the establishment of orphanages were housed with adults in almshouses.

The religious liberty death spiral continues. One of the most dangerous and discriminatory pieces of legislation in modern times – the ironically tagged “Employment Non-Discrimination Act,” or ENDA – passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday by a vote of 64-32....

New York’s homosexual marriage and anti-discrimination laws are already taking a toll on Christian business owners, one of whom is currently before the state’s Human Rights Commission. Robert and Cynthia Gifford own the 100-acre Liberty Ridge Farm, a business in...

This week, the Illinois House of Representatives completed a mission started by its Senate counterparts in February by redefining what is outside of its authority: a nature-ordered union of one man and one woman, the institution of marriage. Come June 1, 2014 marriage in Illinois will be defined as "between two persons."

As state lawmakers prepare to go back to Springfield for the second half of the fall veto session this week and as rumors intensify about a pending vote on redefining the institution of marriage (SB 10), citizens of...

How exactly is discrimination defined, and what constitutes discrimination? These are questions that are not merely hypothetical or conjecture anymore, these are serious questions that every person must definitively answer. The culture is currently trying to define the word discrimination...

The U.S. Army has admitted it was wrong to use false information in a recent training module that named AFA as a “domestic hate group.” The lie had been widely disseminated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  Army spokesman...

An U.S. Air Force sergeant has filed a discrimination complaint after being relieved of his duties because of his religious beliefs about the institution of marriage.  Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk says he was subject to disciplinary action because he...

Two Illinois members of Congress have joined as sponsors of legislation to protect citizens who believe in natural marriage from religious discrimination by the government.  U.S. Representatives Randy Hultgren (R-Geneva) and Daniel Lipinski (D-Chicago) have signed on as co-sponsors of...