The Presbytery of Twin Cities Area (PCTA) will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review its property case against Prairie Community Church in Eden Prairie, Minn. In July, the Minnesota Supreme Court denied a similar petition from the presbytery to review the decision the Minnesota Court of Appeals in favor of Prairie Community Church of…
By Matthew Mihelic,The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission Over a year ago, the series of awful videos emerged revealing that Planned Parenthood was selling the body parts of aborted babies. And this summer, the Supreme Court has reminded us once again that they claim to possess the authority to define human life. In its June…
By Ryan T. Anderson, Tony Evans and Robert P. George, The National Review. The year since Obergefell v. Hodges was decided has proven that courts should leave democratic debate to the people. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Obergefell v. Hodges that the United States Constitution mandates same-sex marriage. But in…
By Russell Moore, The Hill. Turn on cable television and you’ll likely see people screaming at each other. Log on to your Facebook page and you’ll experience a similar reality. With all the fuming controversy in America, why would we stir up culture wars where we don’t really even need them? That’s the question the…
Justice Scalia firmly believed in the right of the people to establish a constitutional government that would recognize the ultimate authority of the people, not an elite of unelected judges, to establish laws. By Albert Mohler, at www.albertmohler.com “Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.” So advised a man who ought…
Posted at New Vision. Statement by the Most Rev. Stanley Ntagali on the recent decisions to change the definition of marriage by the United States’ Supreme Court and the Episcopal Church in the USA The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America to change the definition of marriage is grievous. There…
Over the last few days, many religious organizations have been asking questions about how the Obergefell decision, holding that the U.S. Constitution requires states to license same sex marriages, will affect their ministries and how they can preserve their religious freedom rights. There are conflicting voices among the opinions released Friday, June 26. Justice Kennedy in the…
By Brian Walsh, The Washington Times. Millions of religious Americans—many in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage and many opposed to it—have been anxiously watching to see whether the federal courts would open the door for government to penalize them for living their lives according to their religious beliefs about marriage. They rightly believed that—regardless of…
By David M. Drucker, The Washington Examiner. Carmen Fowler LaBerge practically predicted the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Back in September, the religious liberty activist and leader of the Presbyterian Lay Committee said bluntly that social conservatives were losing the debate over marriage to advocates of government-sanctioned same-sex unions. On Monday, the Washington…
By W. Scott Lamb, A Christian Manifesto. For many years prior to Friday’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision by SCOTUS, people on both sides of the same-sex marriage discussion have debated the religious liberty consequences such a decision might bring. How long would it take before same-sex marriage proponents moved on from Obergefell and declared battle against sexual-orientation based…