America’s Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion (by Herbert London)

I had an opportunity to read America’s Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion by Herbert London, and find it to be a useful online reference for debating the pseudo-intellectuals current trying to re-write America’s history, and re-form our nation into a secular one.

The book is written to match the style of the “intellectual elites,” so it is not a quick or easy read. It is, however, a very comprehensive answer to the majority of the talking points of the social liberalism in regard to religion in America, including secularism as a alternative religion, truth as a relative concept, the fallibility of “science,” the “Government’s Rationalist Largesse (Chapter 4),” why the secularists see Patriotism as a moral problem, and the development of the ideas of tolerance, discrimination, and discernment.

Rather than documenting historical fact, this book is written as a nearly 100 page op-ed, but with the handy index at the end, it’s a great reference for a conservative perspective on nearly every aspect of the discussion over religion in America, today. The book is available on Amazon.com, now – be sure to check it out.

Mike Huckabee Interviews Bill Maher About Religion

Mike Huckabee of Fox News interviews Bill Maher about religion and Bill’s movie Religulous.

Gay Rights Trump 1st Amendment

Yesterday on this blog there was a post entitled Do Photographers Have Constitutional Rights? No, Says New Mexico. The subject was, of course, the New Mexico case where a Christian wedding photographer declined to photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony and ended up being ordered by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission to pay more than $7000 in legal fees to the offended couple. 

I was working on writing a post on this subject but was running into problems finding more information.  It seems that outside Christian circles, this story has hardly been reported at all.  The MSM doesn’t appear to believe this story is newsworthy.  Indeed, doing a Google news search for "Elane Photography," "Elaine Huguenin," and "Christian photographer" only turn up three results.  The blogosphere is, however, a different story.  There is no shortage of opinions on the subject

As mentioned in the previous post, Elaine Huguenin, co-owner of  Elane Photography, was charged before the New Mexico Human Rights Commission with discrimination against a lesbian couple for refusing to photograph their commitment ceremony.  Of note in the few pieces I’ve found on this is the fact that Mrs. Huguenin specified in an email to the potential clients why she would not photograph the ceremony.

New Mexico has an anti-discrimination law that includes sexual orientation as one of the categories of individuals that cannot be discriminated against.  The point has been made that had Mrs. Huguenin simply declined the request without giving a reason, she and her company would have been fine.  But because she specified that she was not willing to photograph the ceremony because it was a gay ceremony, she is guilty of discrimination.

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