Every week I will offer a curated selection of articles and posts of interest to Christians loving God with all their minds in a hostile society. Check out these links and learn.
12 U.S. Senators Demand Google Reinstate Live Action’s Life Saving Ads | Live Action
“Today [Sept. 16], 12 U.S. Senators led by Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) and Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) are demanding answers after Google began censoring pro-life ads by Live Action, a human rights nonprofit with the largest and most engaged following in the global pro-life movement.
Sometimes you must dig a bit to learn the truth about pending legislation. Lifesite reports: “A small section of the Senate infrastructure bill, titled the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), promises to devastate the liberties of American Christians and anyone else holding to a traditional, biological understanding of human sexuality and gender.
Eight Reasons to Love the Constitution – National Review
Probably most Americans don’t know that September 17, 2021, was the 234th Constitution Day. To help us remember, National Review gives us eight reasons we should love the Constitution.
This Is How Freedom and Democracy Come to an End – CultureWatch
“Under the guise of ‘keeping us safe’ we have seen politicians, leaders, health bureaucrats and most of the media push the most shocking assault on basic liberties, human rights, and the democratic process that has been witnessed in peacetime.”
The Future of Conservative Constitutionalism – National Review
“Originalism thus champions an ideal of self-government rooted in the premise that legitimate public power is generally a function of popular sovereignty, and therefore that the legislative branch should be the moving force in our system of government. The executive exists largely (albeit not exclusively) to implement Congress’s statutory frameworks. And the judiciary exists to interpret and apply the Constitution and the laws in particular cases, restraining or enabling public or private action as required. As the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist put it in the early days of originalism, if judicial action were not fundamentally interpretive in this way, then judges would have to be understood as “a small group of fortunately situated people with a roving commission to second-guess Congress, state legislatures, and state and federal administrative officers concerning what is best for the country,” and that is surely not what they ought to be.”
Tucker Carlson: The degradation of our people is the real American crisis
This 16 minute video is worth watching.
Notes on Woke – The Human Life Review
“For at least a generation, we have been drifting from what used to be considered liberalism—Lyndon B. Johnson-style liberalism—towards the rough waters of hysterical leftism. Marxism, Maoism; whatever you want to call it, its characteristics are the same.”
Francis Schaeffer and Resistance Theory – CultureWatch
Bill Muehlenberg shares what apologist Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) wrote about resistance theory, “the idea that Christians may at certain times rightly challenge the state, resist the state, and even disobey the state.”
Incremental Steps Toward Punishing Politically Incorrect Speech?
Scott Clark at The Heidelblog offers brief, cogent thoughts on the censoring of free speech related to health matters.
Gene Veith at Patheos also warns about Biden’s social infrastructure bill: “As I posted yesterday, President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social infrastructure bill that congressional democrats vow to pass would have revolutionary consequences, vastly expanding the power and reach of the federal government, undermining the institution of the family, and damaging America’s educational system.”
