The one-year anniversary today of the unveiling of President Barack Obama’s version of the “faith-based” initiative has pushed the issue back into the spotlight. Unfortunately, the news is not good.

Speaking at yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast, Obama boasted that he had “turned the faith-based initiative around.”

I was surprised to read that statement, because everything I see indicates that we’re […] Read More

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family (FOF), is not a happy camper these days.

“What is happening in Washington right now is my greatest nightmare,” Dobson said during a recent radio broadcast. He opined that everything he has worked on for 25 years is “coming apart…. It’s unbelievable what’s taking place.”

In separate remarks while accepting an award […] Read More

By now, many of you have heard about the preacher in Tempe, Ariz., who is praying for the death of President Barack Obama.

Thanks to You Tube, Pastor Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church has become kind of famous. Anderson’s recent “Why I Hate Barack Obama” sermon has attracted wide attention.

The night before an Obama speech in […] Read More

The Rev. Wiley Drake is on the warpath again — and this time, he has really gone too far.

As you may recall, Drake is the pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif. He urged supporters to offer “imprecatory prayers” (curses) against Americans United and specific staff members in August 2007.

It seems Drake, a […] Read More

It’s possible “Tonight Show” Host Jay Leno already has conclusive results on this, but for today’s purposes, I’m just going to make a wild assumption.

I’m going to assume that if I stopped the average American on the street and asked him or her to name all the U.S. Supreme Court justices, most would probably have no clue.

In […] Read More

Should taxpayers be forced to subsidize social service programs that discriminate in hiring on religious grounds?

Most Americans would quickly and emphatically say, “No!” If taxpayers of all faiths (and none) are paying for a program, taxpayers of all faiths (and none) should be eligible to work there. Applicants should be judged on their qualifications, not their theological opinions. […] Read More