Dwight McKissicMcKissic, who is black, also criticized the NAACP for taking “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson’s “innocent racial remarks regarding relationship that he had with blacks on the bayous of Louisiana during his earlier years and spinning it into some kind of racial animus or insensitivity toward blacks during the Jim Crow era.”   A... Continue Reading

The act requires that most employers provide insurance that includes coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. Churches are exempt, but religious nonprofit organizations — like Geneva College — only get an “accommodation.” That accommodation allows them to tell their insurance administrator that they object to the coverage. The insurance administrator must then provide the... Continue Reading

Robertson wasn’t expressing “his personal views,” but principles that are intrinsic to his religion.  You see, Robertson didn’t simply attack and disparage the sexual preferences of a minority, as Alec Baldwin recently did in a hateful rant. No, Robertson’s opinion—couched as it was in scriptural references that suggest he not only owns a Bible, but... Continue Reading

The class curriculum would have used Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism, a book co-authored by leading ID theorist Stephen Meyer. “In the course, we would have generally discussed the power of neo-Darwinism to account for the diversity of life relative to intelligent design as a competing idea” said Wilson, a retired train... Continue Reading

Songs that mentioned Jesus, like Silent Night, were rewritten with new lyrics espousing the benefits of National Socialism by none other than chief Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg and Heinrich Himmler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. At the height of Nazi Christmas revisionism, any mentions of the Savior were replaced with mentions of the... Continue Reading

Under the proposed law, parents wanting to homeschool or enroll their children in an online school would have needed to first pass a background check. If that check revealed a “record or report of any investigation at any time,” then their request could have been denied. A poor relationship with a disgruntled neighbor, misunderstanding, or... Continue Reading

Santa Christ may be a mystical Jesus, who, like Santa Claus, is important because of the good experiences we have when we think about him, irrespective of his historical reality. It doesn’t really matter whether the story is true or not; the important thing is the spirit of Santa Christ. For that matter, while it... Continue Reading

We have it sunk deep into our collective cultural consciousness that Christmas is for the happy people…. But this is so damnably backwards. Christmas – the great story of the incarnation of the Rescuer – is for everyone, especially those who need a rescue. Jesus was born as a baby to know the pain and... Continue Reading

In its structure, Trail Life isn’t reinventing the wheel. It patterns itself after the Boy Scouts with uniforms, awards for completing projects, military-style ranks, and an outdoor orientation. While Trail Life’s program is openly Christian, leaders insist that members of other faith groups are welcome. But boys who openly admit being gay cannot join. “This... Continue Reading

Dendrites, the common six-armed shape, form at temperatures between 3 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Hollow columns form at 14 to 21 F and needles form at 21 to 25 F. “It is even possible for a single snowflakes to be a combination of shapes as it moves into different temperatures within a cloud,” Pindrock said.... Continue Reading