Should the Government Force You to Bake Cake?

Religious Freedom, ,

Should gay people be able to force Christian business owners to violate their religious beliefs? Liberal judges seem to think so.

We’ve heard stories about photographers, bakers, or Christian camp operators being forced by judges to accommodate gay weddings. Never mind the fact that these individuals have clear religious convictions about marriage and homosexuality. Some have found themselves in court, where judges fined them and told them they had to do business with same-sex couples in spite of their religious beliefs.

What person, gay or straight, would want their wedding photographed by a person being forced to take their picture? I can only imagine the quality of the photos. Would you want to eat a wedding cake that a judge had forced someone to bake for you? Of course not.

The goal is not pictures or cake. The real goal is to use the courts to impose a social and political agenda on people who oppose that agenda—people who oppose it not because of arbitrary bias, but because of a sincerely-held religious belief.

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Obama Administration Poised to Silence Political Opponents

Current Events,

The IRS is proposing new regulations giving themselves more authority to restrict nonprofit groups.

For the first time, the IRS wants to define “candidate-related political activity” to include projects such as voter guides, legislative scorecards or reporting voting records of elected officials, get-out-the-vote campaigns, promotion of voter registration, or even mentioning the names of candidates who are running for office. Any “candidate-related political activity” could jeopardize a group’s nonprofit status.

These new proposed rules are significant, because they affect organizations’ ability to engage in issue advocacy and basic political speech.

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Abortion Advocates Fail to Mention Consequences for the Mothers

Abortion, , ,

Abortion not only takes the life of a baby; it can negatively impact the life of the mother.

The Elliot Institute is a nonprofit organization that studies the effects abortion has on women.  These are some of the repercussion of abortion indicated by their research:

  • 31% of women having abortions report suffering physical health complications;
  • 10% of women having abortions suffer immediate, potentially life-threatening complications;
  • Women have a 65% higher risk of clinical depression following abortion vs. childbirth;
  • 65% of women suffer symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after abortion;
  • Women’s death rates from various causes after abortion are 3.5 times higher than after giving birth ;
  • Many women describe their experience as ‘a nightmare,’ which can hardly be equated with ‘choice;’
  • 60% of women surveyed after abortion responded that, ‘Part of me died;’
  • Suicide rates among women who have abortions are six times higher than those who give birth;
  • Abortion increases a woman’s risk of future miscarriages by 60%.

More information is available on the Elliot Institute’s website.

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