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.”
A recent Pew Research Center survey shows that more young Americans (30-years-old and under) have doubted God’s existence. A solid majority of this demographic, 68%, does not doubt God’s existence, however, this is down 15 points from five years ago, when 83% of American millennials indicated that they never doubted God’s existence. Father Jonathan Morris has an interesting take on these results, saying that doubting is not the same thing as not believing. Click here to watch his interview with FOX News.