Richard Land
Richard Land
Richard D. Landis the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, a post he has held since July 2013...
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I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one.
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The last thing that people of faith should ever want is government-sponsored religion. It's like getting hugged by a python -- it squeezes all the life out of you.
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He speaks for an ever-diminishing number of American evangelicals, and that process accelerates every time he makes a statement like this.
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The safety program is vague. But at the same time, I think the commitment is there for the certificate holders (who own cab companies) to really improve the safety program for the drivers and themselves.
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If he doesn't change his mind and support this amendment he will have a virtually impossible task to win the Republican nomination.
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I think the president underestimated the level of goodwill and trust he should expect from conservatives.
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Each individual congregation calls its own pastor. They ordain their own pastors,
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There's two or three of them that clearly choose to ignore that (rule) because they can make more money elsewhere.
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The American people are not sending their young men and women to Afghanistan for this definition of freedom. Mr. Rahman should be released immediately.
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President George H. W. Bush didn't know David Souter from Adam's cat until he was introduced to him by John Sununu. This president has known Harriet Miers for 15 years, has worked closely with her.
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If a geo-restricted cab has a passenger going to the airport and they pick up a passenger (there), I have no problem with that. But during conventions, there's been evenings over there we haven't had more than 14 taxicabs come over there (to the convention center). That's what really set me off about doing something.
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that in the early 1990s prompted moderates to leave in droves. In 2000, former US President Jimmy Carter left, despite being a three-generation Southern Baptist, complaining that the convention had adopted policies that ''violate the basic premises of my Christian faith.
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It was outrageous to ever have a court suggest that the RICO laws, which were meant to bust racketeers and the Mafia, should be used for pro-life protesters exercising their First Amendment right of freedom of speech. We can take comfort in the fact that this was a unanimous decision. Even the pro-choice justices couldn't stomach this horrendous abuse of the law against the pro-life movement.
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Everyone who is concerned about the sexual victimization of children and women should applaud the enactment of this legislation. It significantly increases the ability of authorities to go after the pimps and the customers who exploit these young women and children sexually and in such horrific ways. The so-called End Demand aspects of this legislation are pioneering in many ways and hopefully will go a long way toward helping to end the terrible sexual exploitation going on in our nation.