by Richard Nelson | Dec 3, 2013 | Blog
Businessman Billy Harper jumped onto the casino expansion bandwagon last week and called for casino legalization to recapture revenue lost to other states and use it to build Kentucky roads and schools. Sounds awfully close to a remake of the golden oldie we heard...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 2, 2013 | Blog
Last Monday evening, Commonwealth Policy Center Executive Director Richard Nelson appeared with Martin Cothran on KET's "Kentucky Tonight" where he discussed and debated the Employment Non-Discrimination Act against Chris Hartman of the Fairness Campaign...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 2, 2013 | Blog
Last Monday evening, Commonwealth Policy Center Executive Director Richard Nelson appeared with Martin Cothran on KET's "Kentucky Tonight" where he discussed and debated the Employment Non-Discrimination Act against Chris Hartman of the Fairness Campaign...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 26, 2013 | Blog
A major development out of Wisconsin: A notoriously liberal federal judge has struck down the clergy housing allowance tax deduction. This would have devastating effects on many rural, small church pastors. Read more about it: "Federal Judge: Clergy tax-free...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 24, 2013 | Blog
As sure as it is being anticipated, the gambling industry will be inching its ravenous claws into this year’s General Assembly, scheduled to start in January. This is hardly new. Attempts to expand gambling in Kentucky have been a constant back-and-forth for...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 22, 2013 | Blog
Fifty years ago today on a sunny afternoon in Dallas, Texas the peace of our nation was shattered when our 35th president was gunned down in his motorcade. When the shots rang out and when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pronounced dead just shortly thereafter, something...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 21, 2013 | Blog
As promised, movement is being made to introduce expanded gambling in Kentucky; and the movement is happening on multiple fronts. According to Blue Grass Politics, Democratic House Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark has pre-filed expanded gambling legislation for the 2014...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog
POLICITO reports that the issue of same-sex marriage that divides the family of former vice president Dick Cheney is emblematic of the larger national scene on gay marriage, an issue that many report has the GOP in a full-on identity crisis. In a recent...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 16, 2013 | Blog
According to the Huffington Post, Colorado is promoting Obamacare and luring people to sign up by appealing to base instincts. One ad says "Let's get physical" and promotes free birth control. Another says "Friends with benefits" which implies...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 15, 2013 | Blog
Louisville political columnist John David Dyche penned a column with WDRB questioning the merits of expanded gambling, an issue that besets the Commonwealth in a seemingly unending cycle. Drawing upon the recent (and excellent) op-ed by conservative columnist Ross...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 12, 2013 | Blog
A group of 40 protesters rallied on the capitol steps in opposition to the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline which will carry fracked gas through Kentucky’s Bluegrass region. Participants quoted Scripture and cited their faith as their reason to oppose it. It’s...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 11, 2013 | Blog
A controversy has brewed in Kentucky Baptist life over one of its entities, Sunrise Children Services, considering to end its ban on hiring homosexuals. Sunrise Children Services is the foster care entity that receives funding through the Kentucky Baptist...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 8, 2013 | Blog
A troubling bill that should have believers of all faiths concerned passed the U.S. Senate yesterday. Titled the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA), the bill imposes strict hiring standards on all employers, especially employers who are people...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 7, 2013 | Blog
An article in Wednesday’s edition of the Louisville Courier Journal titled “Protestors cite faith in opposing Bluegrass Pipeline” is interesting on a number of levels. Conservative Christians were conspicuously absent from the protest which consisted...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog
A peculiar case in Kentucky has gained the attention of marriage advocates and marriage revisionists. According to the Courier-Journal, a couple in Kentucky is seeking the state’s very first “gay divorce.” This is peculiar not only for a divorce...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 31, 2013 | Blog
With the 2014 General Assembly just around the corner, gambling advocates are back to their old ways and insisting, yet again, that Kentuckians deserve the right to vote on whether to bring expanded gambling (casinos) into the Commonwealth. Despite Kentucky not being...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
A disturbing investigative report out of NBC News sheds light on the Obama administration's advance knowledge that its healthcare law would force millions of individuals to lose their private insurance, despite repeated promises from the President himself that...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 25, 2013 | Blog
Though Kentuckians are still two years away from the next Governor's race, citizens are already being treated to a boilerplate of anticipation as to who will be at the top of the gubernatorial ticket. Republican political columnist and Louisville attorney,...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog
Same-sex marriage continues its march across America as New Jersey becomes the 14th state to allow same-sex marriage. Political specatators will probably cast Chris Christie as the political winner. For one, as the leader of a deep blue state, Christie's...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 15, 2013 | Blog
Last week in Washington D.C., the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Manhattan Declaration co-hosted an event on the topic of religious liberty. Panelists included Russell Moore, president of the ERLC, Kirsten...
