by Richard Nelson | Sep 30, 2014 | Blog
It feels like every week, what was once considered a fallacious "slippery slope" argument from traditionalists has actually become reality. From the revocation of religious liberty to codified transgenderism in public schools, moral insanity reigns. At...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog
Karen Swallow Prior has a must-read in The Atlantic about California State University’s recent decision to derecognize Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Advocates of religious liberty who haven’t been living under a rock for the past year will find her...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 18, 2014 | Blog
Contemporary political discourse frequently speaks in divisions like “social issues,” “the economy,” and “foreign policy.” While not without truth, these highly demarcated categories can obscure the real way in which worldview and...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog
Here are some noteworthy pieces from around the media and blogosphere: Commonwealth Policy Center announces endorsements for 2014 elections. “Battles For Eight Open Seats Could Determine Control of Kentucky House This Fall”—Lexington Herald...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 11, 2014 | Blog
The New Morality Police march on. Their latest prisoners: Intervarsity Fellowship and Gordon College. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship was stripped of its recognized student group status by every campus of California State University, simply on the grounds...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 10, 2014 | Blog
You can’t always get what you want, sang Mick Jagger. Casino gamblers often learn this lesson at a high price. This time, however, it’s the business suits atop a casino that have lost. The Revel Casino Hotel has closed doors just two years after opening,...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog
Richard Dawkins, arguably the most famous evolutionary biologist in the world right now, recently offered his perspective via Twitter on unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome. He responded to a question about what to do if an unborn child is determined...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog
Richard Dawkins, arguably the most famous evolutionary biologist in the world right now, recently offered his perspective via Twitter on unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome. He responded to a question about what to do if an unborn child is determined...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog
There’s a surreal quality about the way same sex marriage advocates so ruthlessly pursue any and all who disagree. Personally I can’t remember in my lifetime a movement so obviously double-faced in its rhetoric and campaigning. For years, same sex marriage...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog
There’s a surreal quality about the way same sex marriage advocates so ruthlessly pursue any and all who disagree. Personally I can’t remember in my lifetime a movement so obviously double-faced in its rhetoric and campaigning. For years, same sex marriage...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month a judge made a decision on Tennessee’s constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. The unusual thing about this particular judge was that he actually upheld the state’s right to define marriage thus. I say...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 14, 2014 | Blog
Richard Nelson, director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, writes in an editorial for the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer that the city should ask itself whether an LGBT non-discrimination law is necessary. From his piece: We were once told that somebody's private...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog
Mark Regnerus has presented new data about the beliefs of Christians who support same sex marriage. For the study, Regnerus gathered responses from four groups: Christians who opposed SSM, Christians who supported SSM, Christians identifying as LGBT (lesbian, gay,...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
It was recently reported that the Owensboro City Commission will hear the first reading of an ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as protected behavior into its nondiscrimination code on August 19. Specifically, the move will elevate...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog
David Frum has a superb piece today in The Atlantic about the effect that casinos have on cities and local economies. The short version: It’s not pretty. Frum begins by explaining a curious trend. The post-recession economy has lent to gaming floors fewer and...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog
"Always winter, never Christmas." That's how the characters in C.S. Lewis's classic fairy tale The Chronicles of Narnia described the frozen world they lived in. I'd like to adapt this, edit it somewhat and apply it to the McConnell-Grimes race:...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog
New York Times reporter Josh Barro put himself in the news last week by tweeting, “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly.” His violent rhetoric was the...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog
Last night Richard Nelson participated in a panel for a spirited discussion on KET’s Kentucky Tonight program. The topic was the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. Nelson was joined by Amy Cubbage of the Kentucky ACLU; Samuel Marcosson, professor...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog
Last night Richard Nelson participated in a panel for a spirited discussion on KET’s Kentucky Tonight program. The topic was the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. Nelson was joined by Amy Cubbage of the Kentucky ACLU; Samuel Marcosson, professor...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 26, 2014 | Blog
The “Growing Up Transgender" panel discussion hosted in Louisville earlier this month revealed something even more troubling about our culture and how we think than it does about the tortured souls who believe they are trapped in the bodies of the wrong...
