The legal backlash against President Obama’s transgender restroom policy in public schools and universities hasn't stopped. On Wednesday, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the order lacks not just the force of law, but any constitutional standing or common sense. "President Obama and his appointees do not have legal authority to require our children to share locker rooms and bathrooms with children of the opposite sex," Landry wrote in a letter to state educational leaders. Landry added that he is consulting with other state attorneys general about the next legal moves necessary to secure federal educational funding.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Eric Fanning to the position of Army secretary, making him the first openly homosexual leader of a U.S. military service. The confirmation comes eight months after President Obama nominated Fanning to the position. The nomination is the latest in a series of policy changes and appointments the Obama administration has made in an effort to advance the homosexual agenda. Last month, Obama announced the hiring of the first openly transgender White House staffer.
Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon challenges the claim made by Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach that homosexuality is simply a religious offense rather than a moral one. Gagnon points out that "In the Levitical chapters on sex laws (18 and 20), the prohibition of homosexual practice appears alongside the prohibitions of incest, adultery, and bestiality, all of which are clearly moral prohibitions, all of which are also called 'iniquity' or 'sin' (18:25)."
The White House has received a large amount of backlash from conservative state officials after it instructed public schools across the nation to let boys and girls share the same bathrooms. Leading the charge against the Department of Education's guidance was Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who proclaimed that Texas would not yield to "blackmail from the president of the United States." "We will not sell out our children to the federal government," Patrick said at a press conference Friday. "There is no compromise on this issue."
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest responded Friday to President Obama's directive that every public school in the United States open up its bathrooms to both genders. "North Carolina public schools in receipt of the President's letter are reminded that there is a binding state law on the books governing bathroom policy and the President's non-binding directive is merely his attempt to push his version of a social policy on our state with no Constitutional authority to do so," Forest said. "It should be rejected as a matter of principle and policy."
Denny Burk, Professor of Biblical Studies at Boyce College, writes about President Obama's new open-bathroom directive. "This radical directive is a heavy-handed, unconstitutional overreach in order to force Americans to pretend that some boys are girls and some girls are boys," Burk says. "It is absurd and wrong. And I wonder if this may not be a bridge too far even for people who are otherwise liberal. Are fathers going to be okay with their daughters undressing in locker rooms where boys can see them? No matter how much one may support President Obama, what dad would go along with this?"
North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) responded Friday to the Obama administration’s bathroom directive: "The last time I checked, the United States is not ruled by a king who can bypass Congress and the courts and force school-aged boys and girls to share the same bathrooms and locker rooms," Berger said. "This is an egregiously unconstitutional overreach of the president's authority, and North Carolina's public schools should follow state law which protects our children’s safety and privacy."
Supporters of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore will rally in Montgomery next week to oppose his suspension by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission. “It’s time to show up. It’s time to speak. It’s time to actually care enough to do something," a flyer advertising the rally said. The event will be held in Montgomery on May 21st at 11:00am. Event details can be found at IStandWithJudgeMoore.com.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued a final regulation Friday that will pressure health insurers to cover sex change operations, which could then be subsidized by taxpayers through Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare. The final rule comes the same day the Obama administration ordered schools to let children use whatever bathroom or locker room matches "their chosen gender identity," or risk losing federal funding.
Sanctity of Marriage Alabama faulted the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) Thursday for acting on politically-motivated complaints and filing unfounded charges against Chief Justice Roy Moore which resulted in temporary suspension from office on May 6, 2016. "Chief Justice Moore has violated no federal court order and has done nothing wrong," Tom Ford, spokesperson for Sanctity of Marriage Alabama said.
The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping directive telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. A letter to school districts will go out Friday, adding to a highly charged debate over transgenderism in the middle of the administration’s legal fight with North Carolina over the issue. The declaration does not have the force of law, but it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.
The Alabama Republican Assembly responded Wednesday to the charges made by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. "At a time when many of our elected officials are failing morally, ethically, and otherwise, Judge Roy Moore has stood strong for the traditional values that made America great," Jennifer Montrose, president of the conservative group, said. "The Alabama Republican Assembly stands firmly in support of Judge Moore and asks the Court of the Judiciary to drop these politically motivated charges immediately."
Among those who agree that the Bible prohibits homosexual practice, there is a disagreement about whether the story of Sodom and Gomorrah should be used in support of this conclusion. Kevin DeYoung writes on this debate. "I still see good reasons to accept the traditional interpretation and conclude that Jude 7 is a reference to the sin of homosexual behavior," he says. He then gives five arguments in support of this conclusion.
North Carolina's Lt. Governor Dan Forest joined Bill Hemmer of Fox News this morning to discuss the Obama Administration’s actions this past week to hold North Carolina hostage with the threat of lawsuits and federal funds in order to push their leftist agenda—which would uphold a radical ordinance passed by the city of Charlotte.
Denny Burk comments on a video released Monday by the Family Policy Institute of Washington, in which multiple Seattle University students, when questioned, declare that there isn't really any difference between men and women. "What you are seeing here is a willingness to abandon reason and common sense in order to prop-up fictional identities," Burk says. "To put it in theological terms, it’s 'suppressing the truth in unrighteousness' (Rom. 1:18). It’s evicting God’s revelation about the way things are in order to ensconce an anthropological fiction."
One Alabama lawmaker on Tuesday warned his Facebook followers that he believes liberals are actively working to "purge godly men" from government, including state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was recently suspended for his stance on same-sex "marriage." "I support Chief Justice Roy Moore and his brave and principled stand for Alabama values, Christian morals, and fundamental Constitutional precepts," State Rep. Will Ainsworth (R-Guntersville) said.
The State of North Carolina and the federal government exchanged lawsuits Monday over the state's effort to keep men out of women's bathrooms, with Attorney General Loretta Lynch calling HB2 the modern-day equivalent of the post-slavery Jim Crow laws that were challenged in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Bryan Fischer writes on Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's suspension by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission. He says: "Constitutional liberty now has just one lone judicial defender in America. If Judge Moore goes down, the last vestige of true freedom will go down with him. We truly will no longer be citizens but serfs, abjectly submissive to our judicial overlords."
In this video, Voddie Baucham, J. D. Greear, and Russell Moore discuss one of the most pressing questions of our day, "How Can Homosexuality Be Wrong if It Doesn't Harm Anyone?"
North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department to defend House Bill 2, the law that blocked Charlotte's open-bathroom ordinance. The U.S. Justice Department sent NC Gov. Pat McCrory a letter on Wednesday claiming that the state's controversial bathroom law is in violation of the Civil Rights Act. They gave the Republican leader until the end of the business day Monday to respond with a solution to "remedy the situation."
Opinions are divided on Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's suspension and potential removal from office. "Once the United States Supreme Court has spoken that is the law and whether you like it or not judges have to follow the law," said lawyer Christine Hernandez. But two-time congressional candidate Dean Young supports Moore. "It makes me very sad we’ve gotten to this point as a nation, it makes me understand we are so close to falling apart," he said.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been charged with violating judicial ethics and suspended from office. His crime? Telling Alabama probate judges to follow the Constitution and not issue any marriage licenses to same-sex couples, notwithstanding federal court opinions to the contrary. "The Judicial Inquiry Commission has no authority over the administrative orders of the chief justice of Alabama or the legal injunctions of the Alabama Supreme Court prohibiting probate judges from issuing same-sex marriage licenses," Moore said.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been charged with violating judicial ethics and suspended from office. His crime? Telling Alabama probate judges to follow the Constitution and not issue any marriage licenses to same-sex couples, notwithstanding federal court opinions to the contrary. "The Judicial Inquiry Commission has no authority over the administrative orders of the chief justice of Alabama or the legal injunctions of the Alabama Supreme Court prohibiting probate judges from issuing same-sex marriage licenses," Moore said.
The North Carolina law that blocked Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance violates federal civil rights laws, the U.S. Department of Justice is now claiming. A letter from the Justice Department to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said the law violates Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination in education based on sex. The DOJ has given the state until May 9 to "determine whether you will remedy these violations" by not implementing or complying with the law called House Bill 2.
At Loyola Marymount University, the Bias Incident Response Team and the Los Angeles Police Department have been mobilized to investigate an alleged “hate crime." The offense is "denying transgenderism," according to one of the offended students. In this article, attorney David French comments on the situation: "It is not criminal to state biological facts about gender . . . The very fact that the school’s Bias Incident Response Team reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department is a pathetic joke."