Better late than never.

President Barack Obama, strangely passive at times as Congress attempted to pass a health-insurance reform bill last year, apparently has decided to show some leadership in getting one of his legislative priorities accomplished. Unfortunately, all signs indicate that he still hasn’t gotten the message regarding the most foundational health-care principle of all – that abortion is bad for a baby’s health and should not be funded with tax dollars.
We’ve asked you to tell your elected officials about your concerns for the sanctity of human life in this bill, and we’re asking you again because it looks like there will be one more serious attempt to pass a bill earlier this year. And to be considered a moral and just bill, it simply must exclude federal funding for abortions and health-benefit plans that cover them. Click here to tell President Obama of your concern, and here to communicate the same message to your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators.

Later this term the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a Christian campus organization’s ability to require its members to subscribe to its statement of faith outweighs the university’s prerogative to bar the organization from receiving student activity funds.

At stake, we believe, is whether legitimate faith-based views on controversial issues disqualify people or organizations from full participation in the public life of a community.

Testimony has concluded in the federal trial over the way Californians have defined marriage, in a case that is likely to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Vaughn Walker will likely hear final arguments in the case next month, and there is nothing on the trial record that indicate a ruling would come soon after that. In the meantime, his ability to judge the case fairly has been subtly called into question.

Former Vice President Al Gore became the toast of Hollywood in 2006 upon the release of An Inconvenient Truth, which chronicled his efforts to convince America that global warming is a real and imminent threat to our environment. The film won two Academy Awards, became one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time and is credited with giving new life to a previously moribund environmental movement. It also gave Gore’s crusade publicity that culminated in his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Oops.

The veracity of Gore’s campaign was called into question in a big way on Valentine’s Day, when Britain’s Daily Mail on Valentine’s Day published a story quoting the scientist best known for studying the issue that, well, there has been no “statistically significant” warming for the past 15 years.

The past few weeks have only deepened our appreciation for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, announced Jan. 21. The justices did what the judicial branch is supposed to do – decide if a law is compatible with the U.S. Constitution and uphold it or strike it down accordingly. If the decision rocked Washington, perhaps that’s because previous courts have preferred to take a different approach to their role – one that must be more fun but was never envisioned by our Founding Fathers.

The liberal howling over Citizens United has been sustained over the past three weeks – and it is burdened by the same fundamentally flawed mindset that spawned campaign-finance reform in the first place.

Ultimately the attention paid to golfer Tiger Woods’s Feb. 19 public apology for repeated acts of adultery says more about us than it does about him.

We empathize with U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, who will walk away from the Senate at the end of this year rather than deal with the childish approach to politics that has come to dominate Washington.
It’s certainly possible that he announced his retirement Feb. 15 to avoid a difficult re-election battle. He is a former governor of Indiana and may be better suited as an elected executive than as a legislator. But Bayh’s point is well-taken; partisanship has become king in Washington, with party politics long having since taken precedence over doing the best thing for constituents.

When CMC was founded in 2004, it would have been easy to shape our views to fit the mold of one party or the other; each political party has its share of Christian organizations that have adapted their theology to fit a political ideology. We can’t do that, and we won’t.
From the very beginning, we have decided to be on the side of the revealed Word of God. There was a time when both political parties agreed that the sanctity of human life is worth protecting and that marriage should be defined as what it is, the union of one man and one woman. The major parties have largely taken polar opposite views on those questions, but that doesn’t affect what the Bible says about them, and so we won’t change our views either. To be salt and light in the public square, we will continue to advocate for what’s right.

CMC is dedicated to bringing a biblical worldview to bear on the crucial moral issues of the day. If you believe the Bible is the Word of God, as we do, these are particularly challenging times. But the alternative to accepting the challenge – passively accepting any policy, as if our convictions did not matter – is not an option. Won’t you help us advocate for truth in Washington, D.C.?

Through these e-mails and our informative Web site, we enable folks like you to make your voice heard in the culture, so you can do your part to fulfill Jesus Christ’s declaration that you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. In a time when biblical morality is increasingly challenged as the only standard for behavior that matters, won’t you help us keep you informed on issues that matter to you? Please consider supporting CMC with a one-time or, better yet, begin a monthly sustaining offering. Click here to give.

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A coalition of social-justice organizations, including CMC, were instrumental in 2008 in the passage of the Second Chance Act, common-sense legislation that provided funds for pilot programs to help released felons make the transition to free society.

Now comes what is arguably even a better idea: the Inmate Work, Education, and Responsibility Curriculum Act (I-WERC). It takes the principles of prison re-entry inside institutional walls to prepare incarcerated men and women for a life without bars even before they are released.

Click here to ask your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators, to support I-WERC, H.R. 4458.

If you have a fourth-grader or fifth-grader at home, you’ve probably become fluent in the language of video games, youth soccer, the Disney Channel or some combination of the three. Look at him or her today and ask yourself: is this child ready for comprehensive sex education – including how to experience sexual pleasure and find contraception?

The International Planned Parenthood Federation says yes (and isn’t much concerned in your answer anyway). In the twisted minds of these radical activists, sex education for children as young as age 10 is not only desirable but “an opportunity that will not come around a second time.” We’re not making this up.

The report is a stark reminder that Planned Parenthood is undeserving of federal funding to help promote any aspect of its agenda. Click here to ask your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators to champion legislation that would forbid tax dollars from going to this organization and like-minded groups.

Yes, we watched the Super Bowl when we got home from church Sunday night (DVRs are wonderful, aren’t they?), and we were as surprised by the outcome as anyone who isn’t from Louisiana or living there.

For men and women of faith, of course, there was nearly as much buildup for a 30-second ad that aired during the game as there was for the contest itself. And once it aired, we saw it as a public-relations victory for pro-life forces – or, more specifically, as an embarrassing defeat for abortion advocates.