FIRST-PERSON: Merry Christmas — it’s okay to say it
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--It’s that joyous season once again. And nothing so warms a wintry heart like singing “O Mid-Year Break Tree,” “We Wish You a Merry Solstice,” or that more recent favorite, “A Whiskered White Male Is Coming to Town.”
FIRST-PERSON: Homosexuality, child sexual abuse & foster care
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--For loving parents, the need to protect one’s children from harm -- whether it be from extreme weather, poor nutrition or even "stranger danger" -- registers first on the concern scale. Recent efforts to "normalize" homosexual behavior, however, have left many children exposed to the elements.
FIRST-PERSON: The ‘Father of the Bride’ revisited
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--“Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God and the face of this company to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, which is an honorable estate instituted of God signifying unto us the mystical union which is betwixt God and His church.”
FIRST-PERSON: Avoid the siren song of foreign law
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--“The Sirens, they say, had maidens’ features.... They played the flute, lyre and sang. The isle where they lived was full of the mariners’ bones they had led to destruction. It was foretold the Sirens would die when a ship passed them unharmed. Only Odysseus, bound to the mast heard their lovely song and lived, while his shipmate’s whose ears were filled with wax sailed on.” (Greek mythology)
FIRST-PERSON: It’s OK to say ‘Merry Christmas’
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--All young Joel Curry wanted to do was include something fun and festive in a class project at school last Christmas.
FIRST-PERSON: The will of the people
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--There’s hope for the majority of Americans who believe marriage is for a man and a woman. The “will of the people” will define marriage, not the courts. That’s why we need the Federal Marriage Amendment -- the people must be heard.
FIRST-PERSON: The Pledge: What would Washington say?
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--Far more than two simple words are at stake as we await an opinion from the United States Supreme Court in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. The court is weighing whether the words “under God” should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Religion’s Place in the Public Square
America was founded on the pursuit of religious liberty, including the liberty to acknowledge God and to pray in the public square. This liberty originates in higher law, or "the laws of nature and of nature's God," as the Declaration of Independence puts it. In the words of Rabbi Daniel Lapin, the founders modeled themselves […]
FIRST-PERSON: Religion’s place in the public square
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (BP)--America was founded on the pursuit of religious liberty, including the liberty to acknowledge God and to pray in the public square.
