Currently there are several bills in the South Dakota legislature opposed to the current federal attempt to take over health care in America. These included SB 137, SCR 1 and HJR 1001. On Monday, SCR1 passed the state Senate 22-10, and now goes to the state House for consideration.

A new landmark study shows that abstinence education is more effective in reducing sexual activity among youths than other programs. One-third of students who completed the abstinence program had sexual intercourse within two years of the class. By comparison, more than half of those who participated in safe sex and condom use programs said they had sexual intercourse.

Four Christians on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the recently enacted Hate Crimes Prevention Act, arguing that it seeks to criminalize deeply held religious beliefs that are in opposition to homosexuality. The new law, the lawsuit contends, “is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy.”

Five of the ten U.S. missionaries who were detained for taking children out of Haiti were questioned by a judge Tuesday. Rather than wait for a permanent facility to be built, the team felt “God … laid upon our hearts the need to go now.” They leased a 45-room hotel at Cabarete, Dominican Republic, to serve as a temporary orphanage.

Doublethink is a word and concept made famous by George Orwell and his book on statist oppression 1984. It refers to the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s mind at the same time while accepting both. President Obama is a master of this feat.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday that the Pentagon has begun the process to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that bars homosexuals from openly serving in the military. President Obama during the State of the Union address last week called for the repeal of the contentious policy.

As the New Orleans Saints get ready to battle it out with the Indianapolis Colts this weekend, churches are being cautious with their Super Bowl viewing parties to avoid copyright infringement. And they’re starting by leaving “Super Bowl” out of their event title.

SB 74 has been amended in a desperate effort to gain some access to the product of embryonic stem cell research, and a vote in the South Dakota Senate is expected Wed. Feb. 3. The bill no longer calls for an outright repeal of the ban on ESCR in South Dakota, but would allow treatments derived from ESCR elsewhere to be brought into South Dakota. The bill is still practically unnecessary and morally reprehensible.

Remember the “hate crimes” legislation the Democrat congress sneaked through cloaked in the defense bill last year? CNS News reports the Thomas More Law Center is challenging the Constitutionality of this unconstitutional legislation. Protecting immoral, dangerous behaviors from criticism, and quashing freedom of speech and freedom of religion under the auspices of protecting people is not the American way.

In the growing tradition of “Hitler videos,” someone has taken a clip from a Hitler movie and redone the subtitles. The first referenced Hitler’s fury over the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts, and the second was over GlacierGate.

Pro-gay activists and church leaders are touting an alternative “inclusive” prayer event to this year’s National Prayer Breakfast. Called “The American Prayer Hour,” the event on Feb. 4 is being held in protest of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Organizers claim that the “secretive fundamentalist organization” – The Fellowship Foundation, also known as The Family – behind the annual National Prayer Breakfast is directly tied to the bill.

A Baptist church in Idaho whose members were detained in Haiti for attempting to move children to the Dominican Republic said Sunday that its team was “falsely arrested” and it is working to “clear up the misunderstanding.”

The President’s first State of the Union speech may be over but the con goes on. Keep your eye on the coin as the shills move the shells around. With the world shivering in the grip of the worst winter in decades man-made global warming becomes climate change. When will all the revelations of lies and fraud on the part of the climate grifters expose this for the power grab it is?

Though people complain that the upcoming Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad is divisive and controversial, the commercial is simply allowing a family to tell its personal story, contends a theologian. Dr. Darrell Bock, research professor of New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary, said there is a push back on the ability of someone to tell a personal story, or the right to free speech.

Socialists in congress and in the White House may be intent on forcing government health care on the people of America, but the states are no longer the door mats our despotic federal government has become accustomed to. More than 2/3 of the states are moving to nullify government health care, and South Dakota is moving forward with three bills in the legislature to resist this.

Reason.TV has a great video on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision restoring (gasp) freedom of speech to private companies and private groups. See the hyperbolic hysteria of the “mainstream” media over this decision…and then see it for the utter hypocrisy it is.

We’ve heard many stories over the past year about children being led to sing praises to The One Barack Obama in schools. As disturbing as this is, we’ve just learned of something even worse: Obama’s Organizing for America goons are trying to recruit children at public schools to intern in advancing Obama’s Marxist agenda.

“If you don’t like it just turn off the TV!” goes the liberal mantra as all form of sexual perversion, obscenity and violence slinks unannounced into our living rooms. But when the message is perceived to undercut some carefully crafted left-wing narrative? Well, then not so much.

The final witness in the federal court battle over California’s voter-approved marriage definition finished giving his testimony Wednesday, but the closing arguments and the final ruling are still weeks away. On Feb. 26, Judge Vaughn Walker will call both sides to meet to arrange the dates for closing arguments to be delivered.

A ten-member team of Baptist church members from the United States was arrested in Haiti Saturday after trying to take dozens of children out of the quake-devastated country and into the Dominican Republic. The group was arrested for reportedly lacking the proper documents as they were taking children aged 2 months to 12 years to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic as part of a “Haitian orphan rescue mission.”

Scott Brown of Massachusetts may have taken away the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority, but the Republican Sen.-elect isn’t your typical conservative. He says he’s fiscally conservative and pro-choice…but oppose partial birth abortion and federal funding of abortion.