As we continue to cover Dr. Al Mohler’s blog series on gambling this week, we look at his post from yesterday, titled, “Casino Culture and the Collapse of Character.” In Dr. Mohler’s blog, he describes gambling’s seedy history and its current “acceptability” and “promotion” by states that cannibalize their own citizens for government revenues. Excerpted [...]

The Obama administration has had a deleterious effect on the nation’s economy — and Tom Minnery has the visual evidence to show it. Watch on YouTube.

ProtectMarriage.com, the legal team defending the California marriage amendment known as Prop. 8, announced this afternoon that they are appealing the case to a retinue of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rather than going straight to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Feb. 7, a three-judge panel from the 9th struck Prop. 8 down, reasoning that since the California Supreme Court had previously extended marriage to same-sex couples in the state, the 2008 voter initiative to keep the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman unconstitutionally revoked a “right.” “This gives the 9th Circuit, the entire 9th Circuit, a chance to correct this really anomalous decision by just two judges overturning the votes of seven million Californians,” said Andy Pugno, general counsel for ProtectMarriage.com. “When there are bad decisions, we have to deal with those and build a record so that we have a full record and all the legal arguments in front of the Supreme Court.”

Several states say churches shouldn’t be the only ones who don’t have to buy contraception, possible abortifacients for employees.

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The National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) posted a press release concerning a sex-education program meta-analysis sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which under-reported the ineffectiveness of comprehensive, contraceptive-based sex education. The report was published in the March issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. “The researchers chose not to report that the [...]

Dawn Hawkins, from Morality in Media, spoke up about a nearby passenger who was looking at pornography on a recent Delta flight. She writes: I am quite shaken up at the moment. I’m still shaking and my heart is pounding. I was just on a Delta flight from Baltimore to Detroit, on my way to [...]

For some, the impact of pornography and sexually oriented businesses appears far removed from the business community. Yet, a growing body of research shows the negative influence of red-light businesses is not restricted to the bad part of town. Online pornography is increasingly causing significant damage to the office environment, costing millions of dollars in lost time and productivity, sexual harassment claims and employee turnover. Brick-and-mortar businesses have a similar impact on local retail communities. Where sexually oriented businesses exist, crime rates go up, property values go down and consumers flee the area.

Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, based in Louisville, Kentucky. This week, Dr. Mohler will focus on issues surrounding the vice of gambling. CitizenLink.com will link to his blogs as they are posted online, along with providing a brief commentary and useful links. Dr. Mohler’s first blog, [...]

Written by Daniel Weiss There are conflicting reports about women’s use of pornography. Tradition has it that pornography is a “man’s thing” but some media reports describe an increase in women’s use of pornography. So, which is it? In fact, both are true. Men are more than six times as likely to use online pornography, [...]

Reliable statistical data measuring the impact of pornography on infidelity and divorce is difficult to find. Many surveys suffer from small sample sizes or come from biased research pools (i.e. they are conducted by therapists treating sex addicts). Still, when this anecdotal evidence is combined with larger, representative studies, the research reveals that pornography poses a significant threat to long-term marital happiness.

The Obama administration did an about-face concerning military policy and the federal Defense of Marriage Act on Friday, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress the Department of Justice will not stand in the way of any service members’ same-sex spouses suing the military for spousal benefits. Holder wrote that he has determined that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) — the federal law defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman — violates the equal protection clause of the First Amendment. “The President and I have concluded that classification based on sexual orientation should be subject to a heightened standard of constitutional scrutiny under equal protection principles and (DOMA) fails such scrutiny as applied to couples who are legally married under state law,” he wrote.