A related question is whether pastors should continue to perform weddings with state authority. “The state has allowed pastors to be its agents in marrying people.” One proposal is to have civil weddings and church weddings separate.   Although the case for gender ideology, and thus same-sex marriage stems from a secularist denial of human... Continue Reading

In a statement from last month, Governor Pence described the legislation as “a comprehensive pro-life measure that affirms the value of all human life. I believe that a society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable — the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn,” stated Pence.   A regional... Continue Reading

While it’s good that countries are working to safeguard children, “[i]t needs to be said unequivocally that constrictions in intercountry adoption bear tragic consequences for tens of thousands of children who today could be growing up in loving families were it not for these restrictions,” he wrote. In fiscal year 2015, adoptions by Americans dropped... Continue Reading

The global religious wildcard is China. Even today, demographers estimate that more Christian believers are found worshipping in China on any given Sunday than in the United States. Future trends, while difficult to predict because so much is below the religious radar, could dramatically drive down the world’s religious “nones.”   While Christianity may be... Continue Reading

“In contrast to the 150 percent expansion of the population aged 65 and over in the next 35 years, the youth population (under age 20) is projected to remain almost flat, 2.5 billion in 2015 and 2.6 billion in 2050,” the report says.   Sometime in the next four years the global population of human... Continue Reading

“Since 2014 there has been a significant increase in attacks on Christians and Christian communities by radical Hindu forces in India,” Open Doors USA CEO David Curry told FoxNews.com. “The central government has refused to speak out against the atrocities – thus further encouraging radical Hindus to step up their discrimination against Christians.”   Hindu... Continue Reading

The RFRA legal test of the mandate has three components: whether the mandate created a substantial burden on the petitioners’ religious exercise, then whether the government has a compelling interest (i.e., a good reason) for burdening them, then whether the current “accommodation” is the least restrictive means of accomplishing the government’s objective.   (WNS)–The nuns... Continue Reading

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act seeks to use evidence for fetal pain to set a national 20-week abortion threshold. But it does allow for exemptions when the mother’s life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest. Last week, South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard approved a 20-week abortion ban, making his state the... Continue Reading

As explained by Fergus McMillan, chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland, “We are currently working with a range of partners, including Equality Network, to increase the reporting of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crimes and incidents and improve the support available to those targeted.”   For more than a decade, I’ve been warning that those... Continue Reading

“My goal is — if they’re pro-choice — is to give them something they’ll think about,” he said. “That’s it. I don’t think we want to say people will not change their minds. I’m open to having my mind changed. I could be wrong. And then the way I keep an open mind is to... Continue Reading