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Evangelical roundup: Texas Heartbeat Act edition

John Fea   |  September 3, 2021

What are evangelical Christians saying about the Texas Heartbeat Act? Here’s a bonus addition of the roundup. And it’s not behind the Current paywall! 🙂 James Dobson on Facebook: Just before midnight last night, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a […]

Making sense of the Texas Heartbeat Act

John Fea   |  September 2, 2021

Read Texas Senate Bill 8 here. Some highlights: The bill says that Texas “never repealed, either expressly or by implication, the state statues enacted before the ruling in Rove v. Wade…that prohibit and criminalize abortion unless the mother’s life is […]

Texas effectively bans abortion

John Fea   |  September 1, 2021

Here is Adam Liptak at The New York Times: The Supreme Court did not take action early Wednesday on a request to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, allowing the most restrictive abortion […]

Election fraud “expert” testifies at Texas State Senate hearing. Quotes 2 Peter 1:10 on “election.”

John Fea   |  August 9, 2021

Watch: The woman speaking in this video is Dr. Laura Pressley. She is testifying on election fraud before the Texas State Senate Committee on State Affairs. You can watch her entire testimony at the 12:28:20 mark of this video. What […]

A new Battle of the Alamo?

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford recently published Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. It has a provocative title and an even more provocative argument: Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas […]

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare (7-2) and religious liberty (9-0)

John Fea   |  June 17, 2021

Here is Politico on the Texas challenge to the Affordable Care Act: The Supreme Court on Thursdaythrew out a lawsuit threatening the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, finding that Republican-led states behind the case did not have legal ground […]

Texas is trying to whitewash its history

John Fea   |  May 21, 2021

One of these days I will try to put together a list of state education boards trying to change their history curriculums so that students do not come face to face with the many sins of America’s past. Texas will […]

Will Hurd has his work cut out for him

John Fea   |  May 11, 2021

Former Texas representative Will Hurd wants to make the GOP more moderate. Good luck. Here is a taste of his interview with Emma Green at The Atlantic: Green: Are you frustrated that the oxygen gets sucked up by people like Lauren […]

A Texas state representative defends the phrase “purity of the ballot box.” It does not go well.

John Fea   |  May 10, 2021

Watch: The Washington Post has it covered: Early on in a contentious night of debate over a bill that would create newvoting restrictions in Texas, state Rep. Rafael AnchĂ­a (D) zeroed in on what he called a “peculiar term.” The bill said […]

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