By L.A. Williams Christian Action League August 1, 2024 Less than five months after U.S. senators Thom Tillis and Ted Budd fired off a letter raising questions about how North Carolinians would be kept safe once the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians began selling recreational marijuana, Tillis now says he supports a “comprehensive regulatory framework […]
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Fort Liberty Training Scandal: Pro-Life Groups Wrongly Labeled as Terrorists
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League July 23, 2024 How can slides used to train soldiers at the country’s largest U.S. Army base contain information that does not “represent the official policy or views” of the Army? How did the slides originate? And how have they been used for the last seven years without anyone […]
Youth Marijuana Use Is Impacting Military Recruitment Crisis, Pentagon Study Suggests
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League April 5, 2024 The overwhelming majority of young Americans do not qualify for military service because they are either overweight, abuse drugs or have mental health issues, according to a new Pentagon study that one pro-family leader says should impact the nation’s debate over marijuana legalization. All total, 77 […]
N.C. ‘Marijuana Superstore’ Set to Open April 20th Sparks Concerns from Sens. Budd and Tillis
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League March 8, 2024 North Carolina’s two U.S. senators are raising concerns about a “marijuana superstore” on land governed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and set to open on April 20th of this year. The joint letter to law enforcement and multiple government officials says that the operation […]
NCGOP Censures Sen. Thom Tillis for Support of Same-Sex Marriage and Gun Control Bill
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League June 14, 2023 North Carolina Republicans made it clear at last weekend’s convention that they are not pleased with Thom Tillis. More than two thirds of the 1,801 delegates at the Greensboro event voted to censure the U.S. senator for his votes in support of homosexual marriage and a […]
Bipartisan Resolution in Congress Introduced to Get Billy Graham Statue Project Moving
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League February 24, 2023 It’s been more than seven years since North Carolina lawmakers voted to replace a statue of former governor Charles B. Aycock in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall with one of evangelist Billy Graham, and five years since Graham’s death made him eligible for the memorial. And […]
Burr, Tillis Censured by Local GOP over Support of Same-Sex Marriage Bill
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League December 21, 2022 A county-level chapter of the North Carolina Republican Party has censured the state’s two U.S. senators over their support for same-sex marriage and is urging the state party to do the same. The Granville County Republican Party passed the resolution this month censuring Sens. Richard Burr […]
Legislators Who Supported Same-Sex Marriage Must ‘Answer to the Almighty,’ Bishop Patrick Wooden Says
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League December 16, 2022 Politicians who voted to codify same-sex marriage in federal law this month will answer to God for their immoral actions, says a long-time Raleigh pastor. “The God of the Bible has the last say,” said Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr., pastor of Raleigh’s Upper Room Church of […]
U.S. Senate Repeals ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ Supplants it with Misnamed ‘Respect for Marriage Act’
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 1, 2022 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 61-36 to pass the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, an attempt to codify same-sex marriage into federal law and, in the process, trample religious liberty for those who believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. The bill, […]
Sen. Tillis Likely to Vigorously Defend His Support for ‘RFMA,’ But Trusted Conservative Christian Voices Say the Bill is Very Bad
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 18, 2022 The full passage of the misnamed “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA) in the U.S. Senate and then the House seems likely if enough Republicans don’t come to their senses. The measure got through a cloture vote in the Senate, 62-37, and 12 Republicans made it […]