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October 04, 2019
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Anti-Religion Group Rains on Court's Parade of Forgiveness
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by David Closson
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Earlier this week, the nation watched a remarkable series of events unfold in a Dallas courtroom. After a closely watched trial, former police officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murdering Botham Jean, a twenty-six-year-old African American accountant who was eating ice cream when she shot and killed him. The off-duty police officer believed she had entered her own apartment and that Jean was a burglar.
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Worldwide, Freedom Has Consequences
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The countries of Eastern Europe are familiar with the high cost of the failure to respect religious freedom. It's in this setting that FRC's President, and current U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chair, Tony Perkins, delivered a speech in Poland on Thursday. As a part of the annual Warsaw Dialogue for Democracy, the Polish government put religious freedom on the agenda, acknowledging just how central it is to the flourishing of free societies.
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Seeking Shelter from Political Correctness
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by JP Duffy
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On a January evening last year, an inebriated man tried to enter the Downtown Hope Center, an Anchorage, Alaska faith-based shelter that helps women seeking to escape domestic violence. In a display of compassion and prudence, the shelter arranged and paid for him to go to a hospital for care rather than allowing him to stay in a large room with women who had sought refuge from abusers. For that, city officials in Anchorage took the ministry to court. But what rational logic puts battered women in a single, big, shared room with biological men?
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For the October 4, 2019 edition of Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, we feature: Travis Weber, Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs and Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, and David Closson, Director of Christian Ethics and Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council, to discuss the radical Christian forgiveness offered in the courtroom to convicted policewoman Amber Guyger and a complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation; Mike Cloud, U.S. Representative for the 27th District of Texas, on his recent trip to Israel; Meg Kilgannon, Education Associate with Family Research Council, to discuss FRC's latest publication, "The SPLC's Teaching Tolerance: What Parents, Teachers, and Administrators Need to Know; " Jesse Gill, Licensed Psychologist, on FRC's latest resource for pastors, "Safeguard Your Ministry From Moral Failure."
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