Opinion

Topic: The Plymouth Monument. In recent years, we’ve seen many statues of historical figures toppled or disfigured. The largest granite statue in America is in Plymouth, MA. It’s called the Forefathers Monument, and it’s dedicated to the memory and the influence of the Pilgrims. Hopefully the historical revisionists have no plans to topple that statue […]

Topic: How Important Are Chaplains? Chaplains in America are older than the nation. This includes military chaplains and legislative chaplains. In fact, when the ACLU challenged the chaplain program in the early 1980s, the Supreme Court ruled against them because of the historical reality of the whole chaplaincy program, which predated the writing of the […]

Topic: Slavery and the Catholic Church. We are reminded today ad nauseam about slavery, America’s original sin. Like many other nations around the globe at the time of our founding, our founding fathers did not rid slavery from the land—although some of the founders actually did try to do that, but we wouldn’t have become […]

Topic: Sir William Blackstone and the Declaration of Independence. Our Declaration of Independence references “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” The chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court Thomas Parker, notes that such phraseology reflects the influence of Sir William Blackstone, who wrote four commentaries on the laws of England in the 1700s. These […]

It seems like everyone is talking these days about Rob Reiner’s hitjob movie against the religious right. It makes “Christian Nationalists” into the bogeyman. Although I travel in the circles of Christian conservatives, I have yet to meet anyone who has actually seen Reiner’s movie. But I have seen a trailer for it. The thesis […]