Freedom and the First Amendment

“. . . Americans are starting to realize that marriage is about a whole lot more than two people who love each other. It’s about conscience rights and religious liberty. It’s about the ability to engage in the political process without fear of losing your livelihood. And it’s about the great American tradition of faith, family, and time-honored traditions. Someone has to stand for those. . .”–Tony Perkins.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”–C.S. Lewis.

“Christian commitment in Western culture may soon require more courage than ever before. . . .Nathan Hale graduated from Yale in 1773, taught school in Connecticut, and became a captain in the Continental Army. Arrested by the British for spying on their troops, he was hanged on September 22, 1776. His last words so moved British observers that they passed them down to posterity: ‘I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country’ “–Jim Denison.

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