The Family Research Council kicked off their annual Values Voter Summit in the nations capitol on Friday with an all-star line of potential GOP presidential candidates and rising political stars attempting to motivate the social base of the conservative movement. But are there enough "values voters" who will vote to make a difference in the 2014 and 2016 elections?
Have you noticed a Hollywood institution missing in the debate over Syrian intervention? Every time America is challenged to engage in an international conflict, anti-war demonstrators converge to protest the use of military force – led by at least one Hollywood celebrity willing to be arrested for the cause.
Over the past several months several politicians have said that their views on certain hot button issues – namely gay marriage – have “evolved.” As a former State Senator, I suggest most of their views did not change or “evolve” over time, instead, they found a convenient time and place to jump on board when public opinion shifted in their favor or for their political gain.
Many articles have been written on why Pastor Louie Giglio withdrew from giving the benediction at President Obama's second inauguration on Monday. Now the story on why Giglio may have pulled out and what might have happened between the Presidential Inaugural Committee and the White House is discussed. My colleague at The Christian Post, Michelle Vu, has written an excellent article entitled Obama May Have Disagreed With Inaugural Committee's Handling of Giglio Controversy, describing how the decision to scrub Giglio may not have sat well with the White House, but nevertheless, President Obama seemed reluctant to use his political capital to keep Giglio on the program. The Atlanta based founder of the Passion Conference gave a sermon to his congregation in the mid-1990's exclaiming what the Bible says about homosexuality. Like tens of thousands of other pastors who have done the same, he has since been labeled "vehemently anti-gay." Vu writes: "In Giglio's mid-90s sermon, he also warned that gay activists were likely to seek to exclude Christians from the public forum for holding traditional biblical views of homosexuality. He said: "Underneath this issue is a very powerful and aggressive movement. That movement is not a benevolent movement, it is a movement to [...]
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) was nominated by President Barack Obama on Monday as his new Secretary of Defense. Yet the three groups that appear likely to stand in the way of his nomination, not typically known for working together, include gay rights activists, Republicans and pro-Israeli organizations. Hagel is not the first Republican lawmaker nominated by an incumbent Democratic president. In 1997, former President Bill Clinton nominated retired Sen. William Cohen of Maine to head up the Pentagon and he sailed through an easy nomination process. However, it seems Hagel will not be afforded the same luxury and here are some of the more obvious reasons. Gay activists on both sides of the political fence had taken shots at Hagel, mainly for his comments in 1998 when he called Clinton's choice for U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, James Hormel, "openly, aggressively gay." Hagel has recently apologized, saying his remarks were "insensitive." Immediately after Obama made it official he was nominating Hagel, the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP leaning gay-rights organization, took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post opposing the nomination. The ad also blasts the former Nebraska senator on his support for the Defense of Marriage Act and [...]