Society & Culture

“The legislative effort to defund Planned Parenthood failed Monday (Aug. 3) in the U.S. Senate, but pro-life advocates said they will not give up.”

Carl Trueman: I thought of this when I saw the footage of Jimmy Kimmel tearing up on his late night chat show as he told the audience of the shooting of Cecil the Lion. I wonder - did Kimmel tear up when he saw the video of the Planned Parenthood doctor talking about crushing infants as so many organ factories?

For Southern Baptists and GOP, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

“The term ‘income inequality’ is deceptive. It is used to imply that income equality is the norm and anything else is abnormal and harmful to society.” Income Inequality and Legal Plunder

Coca-Cola, Ford, Xerox Detest Being Listed as Planned Parenthood Sponsors in Light of Baby Parts Selling Scandal

“The quarter-century controversy over the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial has finally ended, after the US Department of Defense sold the government land on which the 29-foot cross stood.
Judges have disagreed over how emblematic the San Diego memorial really was of Christianity.” CT

The Bob Jones Battle: Will the same-sex marriage decision endanger religious institutions’ tax exempt status? Donald Verilli’ answer to Justice Alito echoes loudly: “It’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is–it is going to be an issue.”

Chattanooga shooting stirs U.S. Muslims’ concerns about radicalization

“[G]reat thinkers throughout human history—and from every political community until about the year 2000— thought it reasonable and right to view marriage as the union of husband and wife. Indeed, this view of marriage has been nearly a human universal.”