Like prior Constitution-extorting funding programs, which have sadly been legitimized by the Supreme Court over a series of progressively bad decisions, the “stimulus” bucks also put principled governors in a bind. Sure, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana would prefer not to take the money, but its money their (unborn) citizens are footing the bill for anyway.
My hypothesis: If you were able to lock a randomly chosen Iowa State Lawmaker in a padded room, and inject him with a magical truth-serum, here are four things you’d hear, from their lips to your ears, on the conjoined subjects of gay marriage and judicial activism:
Ethically-speaking, no one, beyond a self-governed individual with a conscience, has the moral right to determine how much is too much for other people. This is true, not only in an orthodox biblical sense, but it is also true in the sense of having an authentic free-market society.
Between the dates of February 22–27, 2009, an acquaintance of mine associated with the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce compiled several news articles to summarize the agenda of President Barak Obama as reflected in one simple week. Here’s what he compiled:
“We don’t believe in the canard of gay “marriage!” So hollered the good and wholesome majority of citizens at city hall on February 2nd, 2009. In response to their well-spoken arguments, the Sioux City Council passed a resolution that night, re-affirming Federal and State law which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
Words have meanings! Let me put it to you this way: a successful terrorist dirty-bomb or another hijacked passenger liner may not be the “final act” that ends our blessed America. Rather, playing political word-games in a culture that loves to toy with a cacophony of definitions in the name of “political correctness” may be what historians someday record as the “mentality that ended the American era.”
Monday, February 25, 2008 – It was a very sad night! The night that spoken prayer was silenced by three members of the current Sioux City Council. Two councilmen, in particular, revealed both a general lack of respect for the proper, constitutional role of faith in the public square, as well as what might be fairly identified as “generalized Bible-illiteracy.”
Part II of a Series on the Connection Between Free Speech and the Freedom of Religion. As I shared in my last column: “The idea of ‘separation of church and state,’ as it is defined today by liberal educators and …
Part 1 of a 2-Part Series on the Connection Between Free-Speech and the Freedom of Religion. There are those among us today who appear to believe that the active engagement in politics by Christians, in general, and church leaders, in …
Environmental science has reversed itself on the issue of runaway temperature trends three times in less than a century. In the 1920s, newspapers warned of an “imminent glacial age.” In the 1930s, science the world over predicted an onslaught of “global warming.” By 1972, Time magazine was again warning us that mankind would soon meet its demise at the hand of “runaway glaciations.”