Showing posts with label Todd Starnes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Todd Starnes. Show all posts

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Starnes: Judicial Tyranny: Kentucky Judge Does With a Gavel What Bull Connor Did With Dogs and Fire Hoses

Starnes: Judicial Tyranny: Kentucky Judge Does With a Gavel What Bull Connor Did With Dogs and Fire Hoses
Pastor Rick Warren once told me the fight for religious liberty would become the civil rights issue of our generation.
On Thursday Pastor Warren's prophetic words were fulfilled at the hands of the United States Government.
It happened in the Commonwealth of Kentucky where Judge David Bunning ordered U.S. Marshalls to arrest Kim Davis - the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky.
Mrs. Davis is a devout Christian who refused to issue gay marriage licenses. She claimed that doing so would violate her religious beliefs.
Davis is represented by the public interest law firm Liberty Counsel. The firm’s attorneys asked the court to accommodate her beliefs by simply removing her name from the licenses.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

[UPDATE] Tennessee Backtracks On Decision To Replace “Mother” And “Father” With “Parent 1” And “Parent 2″…

The governing agency that oversees documentation for the entirety of the Tennessee state court system has reportedly reversed a controversial decision to remove “mother” and “father” from an official form in exchange for the more general terms “parent 1″ and “parent 2.”
The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts reportedly backtracked on its initial decision to amend the “permanent parenting plan” form — a document that details arrangements between parents in the event of divorce — after receiving feedback from the public, according to a statement given to conservative commentator Todd Starnes.
“After receiving feedback regarding a recent change made to the permanent parenting plan form, the AOC has reviewed the procedures and determined that, before making any changes to the form, the AOC should consult with the Domestic Relations Committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference,” read a statement from the office. “We have reverted to the previous form and the Committee has been notified.”
A screen shot of the permanent parenting plan form
A screen shot of the permanent parenting plan form
A representative for the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts did not tell Starnes why the initial change was made and a request for comment have not yet been returned to The Blaze.
“This is political correctness gone absolutely amock,” said Kendra Armstrong, a family law attorney who brought the issue to Starnes attention. “It’s just ridiculous.”
It is unclear if the Domestic Relations Committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference will green light the initial change or if “mother” and “father” will continue to be the standard for the form, though a change might be expected in the wake of gay marriage legalization.
(H/T: Todd Starnes)

Saturday, August 1, 2015

[VIDEO] Todd Starnes: Congress Vacations While Humans Are Harvested

Congress is packing its bags and getting ready to go to the beach -- the summer recess.
While our elected leaders are working on their tans and sipping fruity drinks with tiny umbrellas -- Planned Parenthood will still be harvesting body parts from aborted babies.
House Speaker John Boehner ignored my call to suspend his vacation and deal with this most pressing matter.
The Center for Medical Progress first exposed Planned Parenthood's human chop shop on July 14th -- and yet - our tax dollars are still being used to subsidize their killing fields.
To be fair - legislation has been introduced - and investigations are underway -- but based on the evidence already uncovered Congress is well within its rights to temporarily suspend funding.
It's the least they could have done.
But sadly -- when it comes to protecting the unborn - the least is the most Congress has ever done.
 

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Todd Starnes: It's Time to Stop the Harvest and Defund Planned Parenthood's Killing Fields

By now you've seen the video -- a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing baby livers and Lamborghinis over dinner.
They were haggling over body parts harvested from Planned Parenthood's killing fields. The doctor went on to explain how they perform less "crunchy" abortions so that profitable organs aren't damaged.
They don't want the babies -- just their parts.
The video was filmed by the Center for Medical Progress, the second of what could be many more undercover stings. Planned Parenthood's only defense was to say the videos were heavily edited. They also expressed remorse for the tone of the secretly recorded conversations.
Proper tone? So what, exactly, is the proper tone when negotiating a price for discarded body parts? What exactly is the proper tone when you’re running a chop shop for unborn children?
CNS News reports Planned Parenthood received nearly a half billion dollars in tax money last year - more than $60,000 an hour.
Blood money.
The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil."
So today, I am calling for Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to take action. We must demand that Congress cease all other business and deal with this matter of the utmost importance.
Planned Parenthood must be defunded immediately. Until that happens, the blood of the unborn is not just on the hands of Planned Parenthood. It's on the hands of every American taxpayer.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Todd Starnes: Feds Want You to Eat Healthier S’Mores

By Todd Starnes, Fox Nation
I have disturbing news to share with you from your federal government. The USDA wants Americans to remove chocolate and marshmallows and fire from our summertime s’mores. Instead, the USDA is suggesting we load up the graham crackers with strawberries and low-fat yogurt.
That's not a s'more. That's a fruit salad with an oversized graham cracker crouton.
Over the past six years the Obama administration has waged a War of Culinary Aggression against lard-loving Americans, banning cupcakes and Ho-Hos, cheeseburgers and Cheetos. Remember back in 2012 when Mrs. Obama served cabbage sloppy?
Last year, the US Forest Service tried to convince us that S'mores would taste better if we replaced the chocolate with banana chunks and the graham crackers with angel food cake. It's culinary heresy!
And yet, according to Gallup, Americans are fatter than ever before -27 percent of the population. An all-time high.
When President Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform the nation, is this what he had in mind? What kind of dystopian society have we become where a red-blooded American cannot enjoy a graham cracker smothered in milk chocolate and topped with a slightly charred marshmallow?
Friends, the federal government is breaking a cardinal rule. You don’t tinker with the Big Mac’s special sauce. You don't add a twelfth herb to the Colonel's secret recipe. And you certainly do not take the chocolate or the marshmallow out of a s’more.

Monday, November 18, 2013

STARNES: You Won't Believe How Obama Is Celebrating Christmas

Most of us mark the Christmas season by celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. President Obama, on the other hand, will be marking the Christmas season by celebrating ObamaCare.

“This holiday season, talk to your loved ones about health insurance,” reads one graphic.

“The best way to spread holiday cheer, is by talking about heath care at this time of year,” another states.
Check out these images that were posted on President Obama’s Facebook and Twitter pages:












Thursday, September 12, 2013

STARNES: School Tells Child She Can’t Write About God

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A Tennessee mom is looking for answers after her daughter’s teacher refused to let the child write about God for a school assignment.

Erin Shead, a 10-year-old student at Lucy Elementary School in Millington, was assigned to write about someone she idolized. The girl, who is a Christian, decided to write about God.

“I look up to God,” she wrote. “I love him and Jesus, and Jesus is His earthly son. I also love Jesus.”
The youngster also said that God would “always be the #1 person I look up to.”

“It was so cute and innocent,” Erica Shead told television station WREG. “She talked about how God created the Earth.”

But Shead said her daughter’s teacher objected to the choice and told her she could not use God as an idol for the assignment.

Erin told her mom that it had something to do with religion  - that God could not be her idol. The teacher then allegedly told the child that she had to take the paper about God home – because it could not remain on school property.

“How can you tell this baby – that’s a Christian – what she can say and what she can’t say?” Shead asked.
The teacher approved of Erin’s second choice — Michael Jackson.

Shead told WREG she met with the principal and still has questions about what happened.

Via: Fox News

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Friday, August 30, 2013

STARNES: OUTRAGE! Public School Art Project Desecrates American Flag

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By Todd Starnes, Fox News Radio

Students at a Kentucky high school were encouraged to stomp on an American flag that had been placed on the floor as part of an art display, outraging parents and students.


The display at McCracken County High School, was a re-creation of “Dread” Scott Tyler’s 1989 installation titled “The Proper Way to Display an American Flag.”

A photograph shows a music stand on top of the flag that had been placed in a hallway, in a story first reported by Kathleen Fox, a reporter with The Paducah Sun.

As part of the art exhibit, students were encouraged to stand on the flag and write their reflections on how they felt standing on the flag.

Local residents filled social networking sites with their outrage over the flag desecration with many calling for the art teacher to be fired.

“The teacher should be fired and run out of town,” wrote one outraged Paducah resident. “I have a son serving to protect this flag at this very moment.”

“It is a sad day when the symbol of this great nation is relegated to occupy the floor,” a reader wrote. “It is a truly sorrowful day when the one who placed it there has the nerve to ask, ‘How does it make you feel?’”
“I doubt this teacher intended the disrespect her art project exhibited,” one reader wrote. “But nonetheless, it was really a despicable assignment.”

Art teacher Shand Stamper has since apologized for the controversial art display – telling The Paducah Sun that it was not a specifically assigned project. The newspaper reported she sent a written letter of apology to school administrators.

Via: Fox News Radio

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Atheists Call 9-11 Memorial Cross “Grossly Offensive”

A Jewish firefighter who wants to display a Christian cross as part of a New Jersey 9-11 memorial is facing stiff opposition from a group of atheists who called the religious image “grossly offensive.”
The American Atheists are threatening to sue Princeton, NJ if they proceed with plans to erect the memorial. They took issue with a beam that was salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center because a cross had been cut out of one side of the beam.
Photo courtesy of “The Times of Trenton/NJ.com”
Photo courtesy of “The Times of Trenton/NJ.com”
“This particular beam has a religious symbol on it,” American Atheists president David Silverman told Fox News. “They have a beam with a religious symbol and that makes it a religious icon.”
Silverman said placing the beam on public land would be a “clear violation of the separation of church and state.”
He also said the cross symbol would send a terrible message to non-Christians. He said the city would be giving the “appearance that all of the people who suffered and died on 9-11 and their families are being memorialized by a Christian symbol.”
“That is wrong,” Silver told Fox News. “That is un-American.”
American Atheists attorney Bruce Afran sent a letter to city leaders warning they may file a lawsuit to stop the memorial.
“While the intention to commemorate those who died at the World Trade Center is admirable and appropriate for a community, the use of such a singular religious image will be grossly offensive and alienating to many people,” he wrote in a letter published by The Times of Trenton.
But Princeton Deputy Fire Chief Roy James said the cross symbol has nothing to do with religion.
“I’m a Jew,” he told Fox News. “Ironically, I’m fighting to have this cross there because I believe that someone’s story is behind that. That story needs to be told. It has nothing to do with religious faith. It has something to do with telling history.”
Photo special to Fox News.
Photo special to Fox News.
James came up with the idea for a memorial several years ago. Last year, he got permission from the Port Authority to acquire a beam from the World Trade Center.
“We had to sign a paper saying we would take care of it and respect it,” he said.
The cross had already been cut out of the beam before it arrived in Princeton. James explained that in the days after the terrorist attacks, symbols like the cross and the Star of David were routinely cut out of the beams and given to family members

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Crowd Chants 'Hail Obama'

Crowd Chants “Hail Obama”
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Hundreds of people at a Florida campaign rally in featuring First Lady Michelle Obama began chanting “Hail Obama”, according to a television reporter who was covering the event.
“Crowd for #FLOTUS event in Daytona now chanting “Hail Obama,” tweeted WOFL Fox 35 reporter Mike Synan. “Wow, just wow.”
The rally was held at Daytona Beach’s Ocean Center. More than 5,000 people showed up — the crowd described as restless and boisterous.
Synan said the chanting came during a warm up session before the First Lady appeared on stage.
He repeated the claim in a follow-up message on Twitter, “True. Would not lie. Chanting “Hail Obama.”
Synan later said someone in the crowd would yell “Hail Obama” and then “hundreds that could hear that person would repeat.”

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Obama administration acknowledged releasing illegals who didn’t fit ‘priority’ for deportation


Letters obtained by The Daily Caller show the Obama administration has acknowledged releasing illegal immigrants from law enforcement custody and back into the general U.S. population even when they are outside the qualifications outlined in the president’s new immigration policy.
In March, the administration released an illegal alien from law enforcement custody for the reason that he did not “fit” any administrative “priority” for deportation.
On March 27, according to the Fox News Channel, a “veteran” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer and one of his colleagues “were conducting surveillance on a vehicle in Newark, Del. with [license] plates that were registered to a criminal alien target.”
“During the surveillance, they observed an individual get into the vehicle. The person was detained, questioned and taken to an ICE office so that his fingerprints could be run through a federal database,” Fox News’ Todd Starnes reported in August. “The individual was not their criminal alien target. However, he was a 35-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had ten previous traffic violations — including driving without a license.”
When that Fox story broke, National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council president Chris Crane said the ICE agent had exercised “prosecutorial discretion” and decided to “charge [the suspect] as being in the United States illegally and let the judge sort it out.”
That National ICE Council is a subset of the American Federation of Government Employees, an AFL-CIO member labor union. (RELATED: Immigrants don’t have to prove they meet DREAM Act criteria to avoid charges, ICE union chief says)
Political leaders inside ICE ordered the agent to release that criminal alien suspect, however. Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions wrote in a letter to ICE director John Morton on Aug. 3 that the suspect was released because he wasn’t a “presidential priority.”


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