Posts by Kevin Schaal
Chick-fil-A Bans: San Antonio and Buffalo Airports Oppose Free Expression | National Review
In the past two weeks, two different airports have blocked Chick-fil-A from the premises. First, the city council of San Antonio banned the chain because, in the words of councilman Robert Trevino, “everyone should feel welcome when they walk through our airport.” Then, two weeks later, a New York Democratic assemblyman, Sean Ryan, announced that the…
Read MoreThe ‘Trans’ Child as Experimental Guinea Pig | National Review
In the U.K., the National Health Service has a “gatekeeping” approach to transgender youth in which psychological evaluations are conducted and irreversible treatment is not recommended for under-16s. However, according to the Sunday Times of London, doctors at Britain’s national youth-gender clinic have complained that even this degree of protection for young people is proving…
Read MoreMale and female brains are different, even in the womb: new study | News | LifeSite
A new scientific study has found that pre-born babies’ brains show significant differences between sexes and thus before any parental or societal conditioning.In the April 2019 edition of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, an article titled “Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development” details the authors’ study of 118 unborn babies (70 male, 48 female)…
Read MoreSin in the Body
I wonder exactly what it was like that Sunday just a short time after the founding of the church at Jerusalem. Things were happening. People were getting saved every week. The Apostles were performing miracles and the church was growing. People were selling their possessions and contributing to the common fund so the needs of…
Read MoreAbortion Will One Day Be Unthinkable
Every age has its blinders, constructed, usually, through a combination of ignorance and self-interest. Many things such as bloodletting and wet nurses that are seen as good or indispensable in one age are unthinkable in another.Our modern-day willingness to settle for sex apart from commitment, to accept the dereliction of duty by men who impregnate…
Read MoreThe Gospel Coalition’s Drift Toward Identity Politics – Sovereign Nations
Over the last two years, many evangelicals have stood in alarm at what seems to be a concerted effort to shift the direction of conservative evangelicalism towards social justice. Whole conferences have been devoted to it. New leaders have arisen, seemingly from nowhere, as spokespersons for particular issues of justice, and popular evangelical blogs…
Read MoreMormon leaders reverse LGBT policy, raising the question: What is revelation? – Religion News Service
(RNS) — In a stunning reversal, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that it is walking back a controversial 2015 policy that affected members in same-sex marriages and their children.The 2015 policy had prohibited children of same-sex couples from being baptized (which Mormons can do beginning at age 8) and also…
Read MoreSame-Sex Marriage Isn’t Apostasy, LDS Church Decides
Four years after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that the children of same-sex couples could no longer be baptized, church leaders reversed the decision. CNN reported on Thursday that Dallin Oaks, who belong to the governing body of the LDS church, announced the change at a Salt Lake City conference. After…
Read MoreHow The Equality Act Threatens Speech, Religion, And Women’s Rights
If your church does not have a “for members only” policy regarding weddings, it is time to implement one. (Kevin Schaal) + Could This Force Churches to Host Gay Weddings? Gregory Angelo, a pioneer in Republican advocacy for gay rights, recently published a detailed argument titled “Don’t fall for the ‘Equality Act’,” addressing concerns about…
Read MoreThe Real-Life Power of ‘Unplanned’ | RealClearPolitics
The Real-Life Power of ‘Unplanned’COMMENTARY. By Ashley McGuireApril 01, 2019UnplannedFilm.comIf you’re a 14-year-old girl where I live, you can walk into a clinic and get an abortion without your parents ever knowing. But if you want to go see “Unplanned,” a movie about abortion that opened in theaters nationwide Friday, you’ll need Mom or Dad (or some…
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