(HT Russell Moore) A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital. The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that. If you’d told me that ten years ago, I would have assumed it was from the pages o...

•An internal memo leaked from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed that the agency was considering ways to enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.” The memo proposed, for example, granting “‘deferred action”–that is, an exemption from prosecution–to the tens of thousands of illegal-immiigrant high-school graduates who would qualify for citizenship under the DREAM Act (which, by the way, has failed in Congress several times). Meanwhile, the national union council that represents the 7,000 employees of the Office of...

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Family Research Council) In 21 years, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Judge Vaughn Walker “never made an issue of his sexual orientation.” Until yesterday. After two decades of criticism that he wasn’t gay-friendly enough, the 65-year-old judge paid back his skeptics with the most powerful rebuke against man-woman marriage this country has ever seen. Back in 1987, his impartiality on homosexual issues was so stunning that Democrats actually opposed his nomination to the court where...

This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Heidelblog) In the 1960s it was common to hear American civil rights leaders appeal to natural justice and natural law in defense of the extension of civil rights to oppressed peoples, namely African Americans. Those arguments were compelling to Americans because they are fundamental to the nature of the country. Our founding documents, after all, appeal to “self-evident” truths among which is the truth that “all men,” including African Americans, “are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator wit...

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Denny Burk) Yesterday, a federal judge overturned California’s ban on gay marriage—a measure that was added to the state’s constitution through a 2008 ballot effort called Proposition 8. Federal district judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Proposition 8 was a violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment (p. 109). The judge immediately stayed his own decision pending appeals, so gay marriages will not be performed until the issue is resolved in the higher courts. Read the dec...