In the last 24 hours, the kerfuffle over Duck Dynasty and Phil Robertson’s GQ interview seems to have sparked two widely divergent, yet tenaciously held, opinions. The first, held by Sarah Palin (here), Mike Huckabee (here), and other conservatives, seems to believe that The First Amendment is being trampled on by the godless Hollywood/Media complex…
2013 Elections: A View From a Blue State Conservative
In yesterday’s off-year elections for Governor, Chris Christie, a conservative Republican, coasted to a second term in blue state New Jersey while Ken Cuccinelli, the conservative, Tea Party leaning Republican Attorney General came up short against Terry McAuliffe in the purple-turning-blue state of Virginia. How one interprets the results of these two elections will determine…
Desmond Tutu, a Homophobic Heaven & Muddled Theology
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, apparently has a very strong view when it comes to equal rights for homosexuals. This past July at a United Nations’ gay rights campaign kick-off in Cape Town, Tutu, the retired South African Archbishop of the Anglican Church, was quoted as saying: I would refuse to go to…
Happy Halloween, Trunk or Treat, & Redeeming the Day
Happy Halloween! I used to say that all the time growing up and even into my adulthood. What does that greeting really mean, anyway? As a Christian, I was certainly not giving my endorsement to all things Satanic and demonic. It was simply meant as a way of acknowledging a holiday that is, for most…
Obama & NSA Eavesdropping: How Could He Not Know?
How could President Obama not have known about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) eavesdropping program aimed at the leaders of some of America’s closest allies? It seems unfathomable that the President of the United States was unaware for most of the five years of his Presidency that the NSA as spying on German Chancellor Angela…