Steve Beshear: Genuine Defender of Marriage?
Will the real Steve Beshear please stand up? The Kentucky governor received commendation from commonwealth conservatives for arguing on behalf of Kentucky’s traditional definition of marriage. But since then it has become less clear just how committed the...
Brief analysis of Love v. Beshear
When Judge John Heyburn struck down Kentucky’s constitutional law defining marriage on July 1, he did so on dubious grounds—appealing to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which essentially says that all citizens must be treated...
Hobby Lobby and the Rage of the Liberal Machine
Last week the Supreme Court voted 5-4 that the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act could not force “closely held companies” to violate religious conviction by furnishing abortifacient contraception in insurance plans. The case was not just a...
Gay literature promoted to preschoolers
Dear editor Kentucky New Era, Last Saturday’s paper included two stories promoting homosexual literature to parents and children. One article entitled, “Writer David Levithan on LGBT books for the young,” states that “[t]he best thing parents...
Supreme Court Update and Resources on Marriage
On Monday, the Supreme Court will reveal its important ruling in the case of Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood and the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate. The President's healthcare legislation seeks to require all employers to include contraceptive care in...
IRS Scandal Symptomatic of Unaccountable Government
Government scandal is nothing new for America. Yet we are seeing something uniquely sinister unfold as we speak: The increasing evidence of a sustained and concentrated attack on citizens via the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS admitted this week that it...
Google Opts Out of Porn Ads
Earlier this month Google initiated a major blow for the internet pornography industry when it announced it would no longer accept advertising for sexually explicit material. While this decision won't make pornographic material inaccessible through Google's...
President Obama Imposes Moral Confusion Via Executive Order
Earlier this week, President Obama announced an executive order prohibiting federal contract workers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The use of an executive order to enforce a policy that does not actually exist is...
"Pastoral Letter" From Planned Parenthood Pushes Abortion
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
“Pastoral Letter” From Planned Parenthood Pushes Abortion
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
