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Perspective: The Constitution was designed for a moral and religious people

Perspective: The Constitution was designed for a moral and religious people

Sep 18, 2023 |

As inspired as the Constitution is, the Founding Fathers repeatedly declared that it would only be effective in preserving freedom if the people it governs are a moral and religious people. But who determines what is moral — a professor, a politician, a judge, a social activist, a pollster? Who becomes society’s governing scepter for morality? All may have good intentions, but when all is said and done, whose moral code should govern our society?

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Opinion: The Constitution wasn’t made for partisan warriors

Opinion: The Constitution wasn’t made for partisan warriors

Sep 18, 2023 |

If the founders called a man “disinterested,” they paid him the highest compliment. It meant fair-minded and wise. A disinterested citizen could not be bought nor persuaded by personal advantage; instead, he remained committed to the good of the republic and the interests of all. If disinterestedness stood as the chief virtue for the young republic, “faction” (what today we call “partisanship”) stood as its opposite.

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Religious student clubs regain equal treatment in California schools after court ruling

Religious student clubs regain equal treatment in California schools after court ruling

Sep 18, 2023 | ,

In April 2020, two students filed a lawsuit seeking to restore the faith-based clubs’ previous status. The district court ruled for the school district, but that decision has now been overturned by the 9th Circuit. School officials cannot treat religious clubs differently than other student organizations even if they impose faith-based restrictions on their members, the ruling said.

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Drag queens defeated Down Under

Drag queens defeated Down Under

Sep 18, 2023 | , ,

Lyle Shelton, best known to Australians as the former Managing Director of the nation’s largest Christian advocacy group, the Australian Christian Lobby, has had all charges brought against him in his home state of Queensland dismissed. As is becoming clear in jurisdictions across the Western world, the process is the punishment. Someone like Lyle Shelton can walk free, but only at an overwhelming financial and personal price. Then the next upstanding citizen is forced to suffer the same fate.

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