Vanderbilt is far from the first university to approve such a policy. It joins a group of 71 other American colleges and universities that opted in the last several years to pay for students to undergo transgender-related surgeries. Other schools with similar policies include Ivy League universities and many state schools north of the Mason-Dixon... Continue Reading

In a letter sent in early June to Safe Haven Baby Boxes, the nonprofit organization that installed the boxes, Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS) said the boxes are not a legal way for mothers to give up their babies. Women who use the boxes could face child abandonment charges, the agency warned. But Safe... Continue Reading

Perhaps no evangelical leader has been more outspoken in opposition to Trump than Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. In a single weekend last month, Moore penned an op-ed in The New York Times and made an appearance on “Face the Nation,” in which he called Trump’s campaign “reality television moral sewage.”   Donald... Continue Reading

“The ACLU has said the Mississippi law could affect people in sexual relationships outside of a heterosexual marriage. While the initial challenge is focused on the provisions pertaining to marriage, the organization said in a statement that it planned to fight the other provisions.”   A federal judge in Mississippi has allowed to stand a... Continue Reading

“This wasn’t about converting him to become your firebrand evangelical. This wasn’t even about making him a stone-ribbed conservative. This was about hearing as the leader of America, as a leader in the free world, he had a fundamental understanding that there was a relationship between the reach and power and scope of government and... Continue Reading

The bill states there is substantial evidence that after 19 weeks of gestation, an unborn child reacts to stimuli and can feel pain during an abortion. If the bill is signed into law, abortionists will not be able to perform abortions at 20 weeks of gestation or more with the exceptions of when the mother’s... Continue Reading

“A Republican congressman read his colleagues a Bible verse from Romans that calls for the execution of gays. ‘ Come again? Wait, what? What? What in the world is he talking about? A “Bible verse” from “Romans” that calls for the “execution of gays”? Way to bury the lede there, Peters. You found something that... Continue Reading

Students do not check their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door, he said. “If students are permitted to pass out Valentine or birthday cards at school or to talk about Superman and Captain America at lunch, they cannot be prohibited from sharing Bible verses and discussing their faith during their free, non-instructional time,” Mihet told... Continue Reading

In this sense, Orlando is a “Reichstag fire” event, I predict, because it is a genuine and appalling atrocity that will lead to the demonization, in law and in custom, of orthodox Christians and any who disagree with whatever LGBTs and their allies want.   Hold your Godwins, please. The term “Reichstag fire” refers to... Continue Reading

“The Confederate battle flag resolution was another step in the convention’s effort to address its past actions regarding slavery and racism. The SBC, which began in 1845 in part in support of slaveholding missionaries, approved a resolution in 1995 repenting of racism and asking for forgiveness from African American Christians.”   Messengers to the 2016... Continue Reading