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The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the U.S. Constitution on Wednesday – and upheld a lower court’s decision–when it ruled that the University of Wisconsin-Madison unconstitutionally discriminated against a religious student group by withholding funding. Asserting the “separation of church and state,” the university had refused to fund Badger Catholic, a student-led [...]

LifeWay Research released its latest survey on Millennials – Americans born between 1980 and 1991 –and found that 61 percent either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with same-sex marriage. The research findings will be highlighted in a new book – “The Millennials: Connecting to America’s Largest Generation” – by the president of Lifeway Christian Resources, [...]

The divide between his rhetoric and reality continues to mount: President Obama’s health care law is creating government rationed health care. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Wednesday that $17 million in taxpayer funds would be used to create “comparative effectiveness research” –a term identified during the health care debate as [...]

California’s 3rd Appellate District Court summarily denied today Pacific Justice Institute’s petition, which sought to force the state attorney general to defend marriage. Presiding Justice Arthur Scotland rejected the petition without comment. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) filed a request on Monday in state court aimed at forcing California’s governor and attorney general to appeal [...]

In his Stoplight® commentary, Stuart Shepard shares about some warning labels he’s seen. And some things that ought to have labels, but don’t.

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The tenuous relationship between grassroots conservatives and the “conservative establishment” appears to be a reflection of a deeper issue – the ongoing contention between social and fiscal conservatives. Yet, what is evident to grassroots conservatives still seems to escape the establishment: Social issues, such as marriage and life, still do matter. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s [...]

Days after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services bowed to public pressure and posted a the results of favorable abstinence survey, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement Tuesday, stating it was “unwise” to promote abstinence-only education. In its policy statement, “Sexuality, Contraception and the Media,” AAP’s Council on Communications and [...]

A Texas appeals court reversed a lower court ruling on Tuesday – and the hopes of gay activists – when it ruled that a same-sex couple, who married in Massachusetts, could not obtain a divorce in the state. The 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas wrote that, in light of the 2006 constitutional amendment [...]

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (ICF) said today that the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling will make it difficult – but not impossible – to operate on some college campuses. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an unexpected setback for First Amendment protections earlier this year when it chose to uphold an [...]

A Texas appellate court has overturned a trial court’s divorce decree granted to two gay men married in Massachusetts now residing in the Lone Star state. There are two lessons to be gleaned from this decision: 1) Not all trial judges can accurately read and interpret the plain language of a marriage amendment (Why does [...]

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The Alaska primary holds important lessons for conservatives. Stuart Shepard gets analysis from Tom Minnery of CitizenLink and Jim Minnery, who led a successful pro-life ballot initiative.