David N. Bass

Published January 13, 2007, on WorldNetDaily.com

News earlier this week that researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard Medical School have uncovered a new non-controversial stem cell treatment did nothing to stem the tide of pro-embryonic stem cell madness that swept Congress on Thursday.

In a vote that still fell well short of the two-thirds majority required to overcome a presidential veto, the U.S. House passed H.R. 3 by a 253 to 174 margin Jan. 11. The bill would lift restrictions established by President Bush in 2001 that prevent federal dollars from being used for additional research involving the destruction of human embryos. Read the rest of this entry »

Published September 9, 2006, on WorldNetDaily.com

Just over one week after signing a sweeping pro-homosexual bill into law, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed textbook duplicity by vetoing a bill designed to outlaw public school materials from “reflecting adversely” upon persons because of their sexual orientation. Sidestepping the core moral questions raised by the legislation, Schwarzenegger rejected SB1437 for attempting “to offer vague protection when current law already provides clear protection against discrimination in our schools based on sexual orientation.”

Perhaps mystified by Schwarzenegger’s apparent reticence to sign this bill into law, state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, herself a lesbian and the primary sponsor of the bill, expressed disappointment in a press release, chiding the governor for responding “to a small, shrill group of right-wing extremists rather than a fair-minded majority of Californians who support this reasonable measure.”
The veto might have had something to do with the massive influx of calls the governor’s office has recently received in response to Schwarzenegger’s approval of SB1441 Aug. 28. That measure, also sponsored by Kuehl, discriminates against any entity receiving public funding for speaking out against the homosexual lifestyle. This includes religious organizations that firmly believe in the sanctity of marriage and traditional views of sexuality. Read the rest of this entry »

Published August 19, 2006, on RenewAmerica.us

With cohabitation, pre-marital sex, single-parent families, divorce and even adultery rampant in our society, it’s obvious that some Americans view marital commitment with suspicion and contempt. By and large, popular culture teaches that wedded fidelity is secondary to pleasure, self-fulfillment and autonomy. Sexual freedom is seen as a necessary and almost sacred component of life in our post-modern age. Marriage is still a good thing, many feel, but there are a variety of more “progressive” alternatives available that are just as legitimate if not better.

Yet this downplaying of the importance of marriage is ironic given what contemporary social researchers are continually finding — traditional marriage between one man and one woman offers immense benefits to both spouses that cannot be or duplicated in any other relationship. The politics of sexual liberation aside, objective researchers for years have maintained that married households are the safest, healthiest and most satisfying place for men, women and children. Read the rest of this entry »

Published August 12, 2006, on WorldNetDaily.com

News flash: What teens watch, listen to and read affects their thinking and behavior.

Sound common-sensical? In years gone by, it was. But today, in our increasingly permissive culture, otherwise well-intentioned parents often ignore the obvious. Some even downplay the notion that the media influence behavior at all. Kids are resilient, right? They can see the fakery in lurid music and risqué movies. But such sentiment rings hollow in the face of those nagging things called “facts.” Read the rest of this entry »

Published August 7, 2006, on RenewAmerica.us

Irony ran thick in a recent July 26 speech by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. After lambasting the Bush administration for dividing the nation, Dean demonstrated his own mastery of divisive rhetoric by accusing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of being an “anti-Semite” and then comparing U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris to communist dictator Joseph Stalin.

Only the esteemed former governor of Vermont turned presidential candidate turned DNC captain could be so duplicitous without batting an eye. Read the rest of this entry »

Published July 29, 2006, on WorldNetDaily.com

Homosexual advocacy groups were dealt yet another stinging blow this week when the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the state’s Defense of Marriage Act and ruled that no fundamental right exists to same-sex marriage. Demonstrating admirable judicial restraint, Justice Barbara Madsen wrote for the majority, stating, “[W]hile same-sex marriage may be the law at a future time, it will be because the people declare it to be, not because five members of this court have dictated it.”

The ruling comes at the close of a particularly devastating month for same-sex marriage supporters. In July alone, numerous state courts across the country – including those in such prominent blue states as New York and Connecticut – upheld marriage as the union of one man and one woman and dismissed attempts to radically alter this fundamental institution of society. Read the rest of this entry »

Published February 11, 2006, on AmericanDaily.com

Social conservatives are so preoccupied with the battle to prevent judicial activists from reinventing the definition of marriage that they’re losing sight of a trend already wreaking untold havoc on the nuclear family – cohabitation.

Also known as “shacking up” or “playing house,” this non-matrimonial experiment has grown in the United States from the frowned-upon custom of a small minority to a socially acceptable living arrangement practiced by over ten million people. And those who remain steadfast in condemning the practice are routinely ostracized and ridiculed as hopelessly out of step with the sexual mores of our time.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published January 28, 2006, on WorldNetDaily.com

The raging debate over homosexual marriage took another interesting turn this week when Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock struck down Maryland’s state law defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The decision, handed down Jan. 20, claimed that Family Law §2-201 unfairly abridged the fundamental marriage rights of the nine homosexual couples who filed the lawsuit.

Judge Murdock was not satisfied with merely striking down the state statute, however. In her written opinion, the circuit court judge went several steps further by claiming that the prohibition of same-sex marriage in no way “rationally relates to a legitimate state interest.” Murdock also dismissed the notion that same-sex marriage has any negative influence on traditional marriages or the nuclear family, or that “tradition and social values alone” can bolster what she deemed a “discriminatory statutory classification.”  Read the rest of this entry »

Published January 21, 2006, on RenewAmerica.us

I’ve come to realize that one of the greatest recipes for disaster in modern day America is when a federal judge is given cart blanche to rule on a case involving anything that even remotely smacks of religion. Inevitably, some precious freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution is eroded or even stripped away. That’s exactly what happened when U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III handed down a ruling in late 2005 in a case involving not only religion, but science and the public schools as well.

Needless to say, the resulting decision was rather messy.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published November 20, 2005, on AmericanDaily.com

Even before President Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court, liberals were pounding the Appellate Court judge as an individual who would bring an unacceptably biased view of the judiciary to the nation’s top court. One need not look far for evidence. Shortly after President Bush announced his new pick, the president of People for the American Way, Ralph Neas, remarked that Judge Alito “has a record of ideological activism” in opposition to a number of pet liberal causes. Not to be outdone by any of its sister liberal groups, the National Organization for Women chimed in with similar rhetoric, calling Judge Alito a “judicial extremist.”

The nagging doesn’t stop with Judge Alito, either. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently said that a move by Republicans in Congress to pass legislation splitting the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into two separate circuits constituted an assault on “an independent judiciary.”  Read the rest of this entry »