Supreme Court Plans to Make National Decision on Same-Sex Marriage – What it Means
By Jason Hines, PhD - The Court will answer two questions. First, ?does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between…
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Author: Jason Hines
January 2015
June 2014
Opinion on the Hobby Lobby Decision: More Equal Than Others
By Jason Hines - Today the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that Hobby Lobby and other closely held corporations can refuse to…
February 2014
Liberty Twice Removed
First Nebuchadnezzar forced the people to worship himself under threat of death. Then he forced the people to worship God under threat of death.…
November 2013
OPINION – Mandate Debate: Why I Cannot Support Hobby Lobby’s “Religious Freedom” Claim
By Jason Hines - Hobby Lobby is attempting to argue that they will deduct the cost of birth control from their employees' salary so…
August 2013
In the Middle: God Is Still Writing Our Stories
By Jason Hines - You will at some point experience doubt, fear, sadness, disappointment – these things come. They are the cost of doing…
June 2013
What Changed? Will the Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Cases Affect You?
Neither Hollingsworth nor Windsor demand that any church, even in states that allow gay marriage, be forced to conduct gay weddings. Moreover, these decisions…
Grow Together: Lessons from the Wheat and Tares
By Jason Hines - The parable of the wheat and tares teaches Christians a simple lesson: That we should not be eager to rip…
Prayers, Parks, and Monuments: Litigation Over Religious Symbols in America
By Jason Hines - Now the clock is ticking for the group because there are KY tourism tax incentives for the project that are…
May 2013
God Has Enough Grace for Everybody
By Jason Hines - I wonder sometimes what this world would be like if we responded with the love and grace of God instead…
April 2013
God’s Love Remains Despite Tragedy Fatigue
These types of incidents used to be few and far between for us in the United States. (I fully realize that these types of…