“Religious liberty belongs to no party, no ideology, no creed: It is our common property and our shared inheritance,” said William Galston. Galston, a political scientist and advisor to former-President Bill Clinton, was honored on May 30 at the National Religious Freedom Award Dinner in Washington, D.C.
The following blog post is by Family Council Staff member Sarah Bean.
In light of last Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision there are already talks of a movement sweeping across states to repeal state-enacted marriage amendments. Already there are claims that traditional marriage is a thing of the past, and those of us who believe marriage is between one man and one woman are a dying breed, or we just need to stop being “bigots” and accept the inevitable. After all there’s no harm, right?
The interesting thing about this debate is that despite same-sex marriage proponents’ claim marriage-redefinition is “inevitable,” it really is not.
In 2008, then-Lt. Governor Bill Halter promised Arkansans the Arkansas Lottery would “generate” at least $100 million in college scholarships every year.
A year later, then-Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue estimated it would be more like $116 million.
Both men completely dismissed one estimate at the time, however: The Department of Finance and Administration’s.