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Mother’s Day Mother’s Day is a day set aside to honor and give recognition to those whose very bodies provided all of us our very first home.   Being a mother is worthy of being highly valued and esteemed in society. Being a mother is more than having a baby. Done well, being a mother is the hardest job a woman could have. …

Late yesterday the Governor signed into law Senate Bill 3310/House Bill 3621 regarding sex education in Tennessee’s public schools. The law in Tennessee is now clear that our schools are to teach students the value of abstinence, provide them medically accurate information about disease and pregnancy prevention, and equip them with the tools and life-skills they need to choose abstinence.  …

This editorial by David Fowler was originally published in The Tennessean on May 27, 2008; it applies to President Obama’s decision this week about marriage. Debates are often won and lost based on how the key terms are defined. In the cultural war, the California Supreme Court just threw down the gauntlet with their recent redefinition of marriage. Advocates of real marriage …

Watching politicians argue policy can sometimes be amusing, particularly when liberals use conservatives’ arguments against them and vice versa. There are times when you think the liberal speaking on the House or Senate floor is the conservative. The bill dealing with the religious discrimination taking place at Vanderbilt University is a prime example. It has been fascinating to observe. (The …

Vanderbilt University has certainly been in the spotlight in the last few weeks over its new policy prohibiting student religious groups from requiring, in their by-laws, that an elected student leader believe in the tenets of that group’s religion. But its Board of Trust that is meeting today may still be in the dark.  And they are in the dark …

Know the difference between a “merit plan” and a “modified federal plan”? You ought to. It has everything to do with how Tennessee Supreme Court justices will be selected in our state. The Tennessee constitution says that judges for the appellate courts and the Supreme Court “shall be elected by the qualified voters of the state.” For years we had …

David Fowler explains the reasons the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law allowing teachers to pray with students at football games and other events. Listen to this edition of the Family News in Focus radio update from CitizenLink. April 16, 2012 Tennessee Law Permits Teachers to Pray With Students by Stuart Shepard

I recently spoke with a key legislator about a very important piece of legislation – a proposed amendment to our state constitution that actually deals with the very structure of our government. There aren’t too many legislative proposals that do that. But he was of the opinion that this issue wasn’t really important to voters, that it was just a …

Isaiah and the Gospel. Watch FACT’s 2012 Easter Commentary “When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem him.” Prophet Isaiah Isaiah 53:2, …

Senate State and Local Government Committee defeated Senator Jim Kyle’s bill to repeal last year’s House Bill 600 that prohibited local governments from imposing on private sector businesses non-discrimination policies that go beyond the protected classes covered under state and federal law. Listen to the FACT Report on this story. The vote was 2 in favor of repealing the law …