The most high-profile religious liberty case being appealed to the Supreme Court deals with religious freedom and parental rights in the classroom. The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, seeks to protect parents’ right to opt their children out of coursework that conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Read MoreThis kind of florid fantasizing AND self-flagellation is NOT NORMAL! It may feel that way because we hear it all the time now, but it is the product of a sick culture wiring parents to not only catastrophize but to literally not be able to see REALITY: A bunch of kids playing together on a front lawn — not even down the street! — isn’t 100% safe, true, but it is safer than almost any childhood activity since the dawn of time. It is, in fact, SUPER SAFE.
Read More“So the Justice Ride is also ordered around trying to bring together these students who want to learn about how to defend the preborn baby but also want to make themselves frankly uncomfortable,” he said. “For most people, the first time you walk onto campus, it’s enormously uncomfortable to talk to someone, ask[ing], ‘What do you think about abortion?’ But when you’re in the community of the justice riders, you’re together with them, and you’re standing alongside a veteran person who has done this for a long time, it makes it so much easier.”
Read More“Parents don’t shed their First Amendment rights at the entrance to a school’s soccer field,” Fellers said in a statement. “We wore pink wristbands to silently support our daughters and their right to fair competition. Instead of fostering open dialogue, school officials responded with threats and bans that have a direct impact on our lives and our children’s lives. And this fight isn’t just about sports—it’s about protecting our fundamental right to free speech.”
Read MoreThe institution of marriage is not doing well.
Some groups continue to uphold it in the form that prevailed in western society until recently: the permanent, exclusive union of life of one man and one woman, oriented toward the spouses’ personal development and the begetting and raising of children.
But more people are pursuing alternative romantic lifestyles. Many marry but do not have children. The “same-sex marriage” movement accepts all elements of marriage except the difference in the spouses’ sexes. Others want to expand the number of spouses, apparently without limit. Amid this confusion, it is not surprising that fewer bother to marry at all.
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