Author: Deal Hudson
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Why Should the Church Continue to Perform Marriages for the State?
Deal W. Hudson Published January 2015 We take for granted that priests, and other ministers, sign a couple’s marriage license after a wedding ceremony. At that moment the state, both the individual states and the United States, legally recognizes the marriage. Priests and ministers, thus, act as agents of the government and are duly recognized…
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Gov. Christie — Go to Green Bay!
Deal W. Hudson Published January 8, 2015 Following the victory of the Dallas Cowboys over the Detroit Tigers, longtime Cowboy’s fan, Gov. Chris Christie, gave Jerry Jones a hug — Jones is the owner of the Cowboys. Since Christie was sitting in the owner’s box his impetuous embrace was caught on TV and broadcast to…
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Why It’s Absurd to Deny Obama’s Healthcare Bill Contains Abortion Funding
Deal W. Hudson October 18, 2010 With the decision of the Ohio Elections Commission to allow a hearing to decide whether the Susan B. Anthony List has falsely represented the voting record of Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH), the question is again raised: Was abortion funding authorized by the health care legislation signed into law by…
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Mike Huckabee’s Anti-Catholic Problem
Deal W. Hudson Published January 2, 2008 Author’s note: I no longer consider Pastor John Hagee as anti-Catholic. What happened, however, with Rev. Tim Rude and Tim LaHaye remains relevant to Huckabee as a political candidate. Gov. Mike Huckabee will be a major player in the run for the GOP presidential nomination regardless of whether…
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Why Wouldn’t Romney Sign the SBA Pro-Life Pledge?
Deal Hudson Published June 27, 2011 Pro-lifers around the nation were surprised when Mitt Romney refused to sign the pro-life pledge distributed by the Susan B. Anthony List to all the GOP presidential candidates. Romney has been trying to fortify his pro-life credentials since his 2008 nomination defeat to Sen. John McCain. One reason Romney…
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The Trouble with Mitt Romney’s Pro-Life Conversion
Deal W. Hudson Published December 27, 2007 Mitt Romney, by his own admission, was a pro-abortion governor of Massachusetts. That changed on November 8, 2004 in his second term during a conversation with Dr. Douglas Melton from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. According to Romney, Dr. Melton dismissed the “moral issue” of cloning embryos for…
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Understanding “Incivility”
Deal W. Hudson Published October 25, 2010 Is the religious right uncivil? Conservatives Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner think so. In a joint Huffington Post column titled “The Success and Failure of the Religious Right,” they argue: The language and tone of the religious right have often been apocalyptic, off-putting, and counterproductive. “Just like what…
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Duped by Civility
Deal W. Hudson Published March 7, 2011 Reading Nietzsche taught me one thing: People can talk about values and really be interested only in getting their way. Case in point: All the talk about political “civility” is more about power than good manners. Specifically, it’s about marginalizing everyone who finds it necessary and appropriate to…
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The Worst Book I Ever Read
Deal W. Hudson A Review of Conversations With God ( Book 1) When I wrote a book on happiness in 1995, I was required to read a number of the popular self-help books on the subject. It was only dogged persistence and several strong cigars that got me through them. But lo and behold, at the…
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Fill the Basket Before Dinner!
Deal W. Hudson It was too pretty, and evocative, a late fall day, to watch football or pursue any other indoor pastime. Without thinking much about it, I grabbed an old pillow case full of golf balls, my hickory niblick, a laundry bag and headed for the front yard. The grass was still green there,…
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