Over on the Family Research Council (FRC) blog, there’s an interesting piece discussing a recent column in The New Yorker, of all things, where the subject of spoiled kids is tackled. You might be surprised by what the columnist had to say. FRC boils it all down and provides some necessary commentary here.
Yesterday, a state legislative committee convened to discuss the harsh reality of human trafficking. Rep. David Meeks (R-Conway) had a proposal approved by the committee to further study how to move forwarding to combat this problem. Meeks has also drafted a 32-page bill to crack down on human trafficking when the legislature convenes in January. Click here to read more about yesterday’s meeting.
The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is part of an address by President John Adams, one of the drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, issued October 11, 1798.
“[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”