Category: Sovereignty Rights
Freedom of speech, religion in play as Spanish priest prosecuted for denouncing radical Islam
Freedom of speech and religion in Spain is in play as Father Custodio Ballester faces a possible three-year prison sentence and fines after a trial this week found him guilty of making allegedly “Islamophobic” statements in print and in an interview.
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Christian photographer wins lawsuit against Louisville over same-sex discrimination rule
A federal court awarded nominal damages to a Christian photographer after the city government of Louisville, Kentucky, sought to enforce an anti-discrimination ordinance that could have forced her to provide photography services for same-sex civil weddings.
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Populism Roars Back at UN
U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s return to the United Nations was a triumph of populism over globalism. He was one of several populist world leaders who criticized the European Union and the United Nations for open borders, climate, and gender policies.
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‘American Evangelicalism is in the news, and Europeans think we are all the same. Now, let’s be gracious but bold as Christ’s ambassadors’
According to Gagné’s estimates, there are about 5 million evangelicals in the United Kingdom, 2 million in Germany and 1 million in France, the European countries with the largest number of churches.” Asked about their interest in influencing politics, he says that “evangelicals have their concerns”, including in particular religious freedom, which they also consider to be declining in Europe. In general, their “conservative values really differ from those we see in a secular society (…) When they have opportunities to speak their minds, they take them”.
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Campus Free Speech After October 7
Roy Altman (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida) moderate a discussion with Ilya Shapiro (Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute) and Nadine Strossen (Senior Fellow, FIRE; and former ACLU President) about the free-speech climate on campus, which many have observed has worsened following the horrible attack on October 7, 2023—and again with the murder of Charlie Kirk during a campus debate in Utah. The panel will discuss why free speech is central to the Western tradition, particularly on campus. They will also discuss the significance of October 7 to the Jewish community, free speech controversies tied to this date, and campus anti-semitism.
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Grieving Father Demands Accountability After Daughter’s Senseless Murder
Grieving father Stephen Federico demanded legislators hold career criminals accountable for their crimes Monday at a fiery House Judiciary Committee field hearing for victims of violent crimes. Federico’s daughter, 22-year-old Logan, was murdered on May 3 while visiting friends in South Carolina.
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An eyewitness account from Michigan: Latter-day Saints under gunfire fought to save each other
The chaos, gunfire and conflagration that killed at least four people and wounded eight others here on Sunday morning began like any sacrament meeting of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints anywhere in the world.
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Manhattan DA Refuses to Prosecute Woman Who Assaulted Pro-Life Journalist
The Thomas More Society, a pro-life legal group, has announced that the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to file charges against a woman who attacked a pro-life journalist earlier this year during a man-on-the-street interview, leaving the journalist bloodied and requiring medical care.
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Americans Must Reject Attempts to Restrict Internet Free Speech
A recurrent theme during the past decade of American politics has been the repeated calls for censorship of “hate speech” or “misinformation” on the internet, mostly coming from the political left. One way that many believe they could circumvent the First Amendment and enforce censorship on the internet is through reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Worryingly, besides the usual Democratic suspects, some Republicans have started calling for Section 230 reform and internet censorship.
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Tyler Robinson and the Violence of Porn
Internet pornography is to Playboy magazine what fentanyl is to whiskey. The world of online porn, the world that Robinson and hundreds of millions of his peers have inherited, is a world bereft of the limitations and tethers of the last century. Children routinely access it. Smartphones keep it near users at all times. Curated genres and “communities” guarantee that no fantasy is too brutal or degrading that it can’t be found.
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Nigerian Man Faces Death Penalty for a WhatsApp Message?
Blasphemy laws punish individuals for speech that others find offensive towards their own beliefs or sacred symbols. While most of the Western world eliminated these harmful laws decades ago, many countries that live under Islamic Sharia law still enforce them today. Blasphemy laws are used to persecute religious minorities, often particularly threatening Christians. This blatant violation of religious freedom exacerbates social tensions and an overall climate of violence.
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Turning Point USA Draws 2,000 at First Tour Event Since Kirk’s Assassination
More than 2,000 people packed into an auditorium at the University of Minnesota for the first Turning Point USA event in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a report said. The stop for the “This is the Turning Point” tour, which came after Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, was hosted by conservative commentator and author Michael Knowles, according to MPR News.
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