With Presbycast On Cancel Culture And Calvinist Pirates

by Heidelblog on November 11, 2023 | Comment

As always we had a good time on the old Presbycast Hayride, Jamboree, and Barn Dance. Chortles told us the story of the Huguenot Pirates—real pirates, not “piratical” pretenders hitting defense flower vases with baseball bats or setting harmless grass alight—and the . . . Continue reading →

What Happened To The University (And Is It A Safe Place For Rational People)?

by R. Scott Clark on November 8, 2023 | 4 Comments

As I was driving to Bakersfield last week, it occurred to me that it was thirty years ago this year that I began my academic career as a teacher. In 1993 I was serving as the pastor of what was then Walnut . . . Continue reading →

Free Speech And The Fifth Circuit

by Heidelblog on August 26, 2023 | 2 Comments

Whether or not the federal government and its myriad agencies will be able to coerce, cajole, encourage, threaten, and browbeat social media companies into removing views it does not like from their platforms was the question before the Fifth Circuit Court of . . . Continue reading →

How “Pride” Month Became a Religious Holiday

by Heidelblog on July 15, 2023 | 2 Comments

The month of June hadn’t even begun yet when Donald Trump became the first Republican president to express his support for LGBT Pride Month. On May 31, President Trump tweeted about celebrating LGBT Pride Month and how we should “recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT . . . Continue reading →

Baylor Charters LGBTQ Organization

by Heidelblog on May 30, 2023

PRISM, an LGBTQ student organization, hosted an on-campus “Queer Sex Ed” event on Mar. 23 at Baylor, a Christian university in Waco, Tex. “Secret is out. See you tomorrow,” the flyer caption, posted to the group’s Instagram, reads. “You can still DM . . . Continue reading →

A Radical Truth Being Silenced: There Are Only Two Sexes

by Heidelblog on May 1, 2023

My immediate offense was a tweet criticizing child gender-reassignment surgery, an irreversible act that can permanently sterilize the patient. My criticism was strongly worded, because some things deserve to be strenuously opposed. Children who undergo gender-reassignment surgery are legally unable to consent . . . Continue reading →

The True Definition of ‘Woke’ Is ‘Anti-thought’

by Heidelblog on April 22, 2023 | 4 Comments

Once upon a time we were supposed to see the woke agenda as striving towards social justice. That’s because the term “woke” originated many decades ago as black slang that meant a keen awareness of the many forms of discrimination. But no . . . Continue reading →

Censorship Of The Dead: The SciFi Writers Warned Us

by Heidelblog on April 19, 2023 | 1 Comment

Last week The Telegraph reported that Agatha Christie’s novels are being sanitized for re-release. HarperCollins, their publisher, is removing references to physique, race and ethnicity in new editions of Miss Marple and selected Poirot novels. Christie joins Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming . . . Continue reading →

Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace

by Heidelblog on April 14, 2023

In the most recent attack on free speech at its law school, a mob of students—egged on by Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach—shouted down Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan who had been invited to speak by the Stanford . . . Continue reading →

Undergrads Abandon Free Speech

by Heidelblog on February 22, 2023 | 1 Comment

The college student disillusionment with free speech is growing at an alarming pace,” said Buckley Program Founder and Executive Director Lauren Noble. “More students are intimidated from speaking freely and more students are willing to intimidate others from speaking freely than at . . . Continue reading →

Federal District Court Orders Airline To Return Job To Flight Attendant Fired For Her Pro-Life Views

by Heidelblog on January 2, 2023

A federal court has ordered Southwest Airlines and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) to give former flight attendant Charlene Carter her job back after she was allegedly fired over her stance on abortion. As CBN News reported in July, after a five-year . . . Continue reading →

School Board Member Under Fire For Voicing Concern About Sexualized Posters In An Elementary School

by Heidelblog on December 30, 2022

Activists are calling for a New Jersey school board member to resign after she voiced opposition to a poster she said was inappropriate for schoolchildren, and criticized gender and sexual identity curriculum at large. “Last night, I attended an elementary ‘Math Night.’ . . . Continue reading →

University Of Wyoming Bans Church Elder On The Basis Of Speech Content

by Heidelblog on December 28, 2022 | 3 Comments

The University of Wyoming’s (UW) decision to ban a church elder from operating a table inside the student union raises free speech concerns, lawmakers and legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. UW restricted Laramie Faith Community Church elder Todd Schmidt’s . . . Continue reading →

A Kansas Supreme Court Justice On The State Of Free Speech At KU Law

by Heidelblog on December 21, 2022

So you will understand why I was disappointed to hear from KU Law students who recently came to me to express concern over administration actions surrounding a lunch-hour event sponsored by the student chapter of the Federalist Society. My understanding, from participants, . . . Continue reading →

Religious Freedom Watch: Math Teacher’s First Amendment Rights Upheld

by Heidelblog on October 14, 2022

In a victory for free speech at public schools, Fort Riley Middle School officials have agreed to pay $95,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees for violating a math teacher’s First Amendment rights when they reprimanded and suspended her for addressing a student . . . Continue reading →

Religious Freedom Watch: Austin Fires Chaplain For His Religious Convictions

by Heidelblog on October 4, 2022

In June 2021, Dr. Fox began writing a series of blog posts on truth, justice, and the good news of the Gospel. One issue he wrote about was the unfairness of men competing in women’s sports. Dr. Fox wrote with no animus . . . Continue reading →

Washington State AG Threatens Civil Liberties Of Christian College

by Heidelblog on August 9, 2022 | 7 Comments

Seattle Pacific University, a private school associated with the Free Methodist Church, claims its rights are being violated by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office launched an investigation into the school’s hiring practices. At issue is the school’s policy, prohibiting . . . Continue reading →

Consider The Implications Had Kennedy Lost

by R. Scott Clark on July 2, 2022 3 Comments

In Kennedy v Bremerton, the Bremerton, WA School District argued that, were Coach Kennedy allowed to go to the 50 yard line to pray after games, student-athletes might feel pressured to join him for fear of losing playing time etc. Continue reading →

SCOTUS: 1st Amendment Protects Americans From Gov’t Reprisal For Engaging In Personal Religious Observance

Did The Court Just Replace The "Lemon Test"?

by Heidelblog on June 27, 2022 | 3 Comments

Held: The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression…. …Here, no one questions that . . . Continue reading →