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June 5, 2015 Radio Commentary

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“Gender Fluidity” Confusion

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 5, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Not too long ago, we learned that the terms gender and sex have different definitions. In this culture, the word gender indicates sexual behavior, but sex biologically identifies as male or female humans, animals, plants, and other living things. However, the politically correct phrase, “gender neutral,” was coined to propagate the false notion that no one is male or female, man or woman, boy or girl.

Alongside the attempt at gender neutrality comes another term called “gender fluidity,” meaning gender is not settled or fixed, which conveniently provides “wiggle-room” for males who claim to be females and females who claim to be males, and cross-dress, either temporarily or permanently, day-by-day or forever.

Before you decide that’s too absurd to be true, consider this May 15th FoxNews.com report. “One of the nation’s largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity in its classroom curriculum, including lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – [promoting] the idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls.” Continue reading →

May 29, 2015 Radio Commentary

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RFRA: Indiana, Arkansas & Georgia

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, May 29, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has been federal law since 1993, and for two years, Georgia legislators have introduced a State Religious Freedom Restoration Act, that has not passed. This year’s version is still alive for 2016, but toward the end of the session, Governor Deal said such a law in Georgia must include nondiscrimination language.

That’s disturbing, because of what happened last month. After Indiana’s governor signed a new RFRA into law, he and his state were pressured into changing it to include nondiscrimination language that, literally, destroys religious freedom for believers in biblical morality.

Indiana’s newly passed and amended RFRA (a) gives civil rights status for sexual orientation and gender identity, (b) eliminates a personal right to claim or defend religious expression based on biblical morality, (c) exempts nonprofit religious organizations, societies and affiliated schools, but (d) a rabbi, priest, preacher, minister, pastor, or designee of a church or nonprofit religious organization or society may not, personally, allow biblical morality or religious doctrine to affect their behavior toward the public. So, (e) biblical morality and religious doctrine may be expressed within worship-affiliated structures, but (f) may not be expressed when dealing with the public in Indiana. Continue reading →

May 22, 2015 Radio Commentary

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Governor’s Post-Session Acts

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, May 22, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

For 40 days after the General Assembly adjourns for the year, the governor may exercise his power to veto bills of his choice. However, he cannot veto a proposed constitutional amendment or a bill to provide a new constitution, but he DOES have line-item veto over the budget.

Before signing next year’s $21.8 billion state budget May 11th, Governor Deal used his line-item veto to delete $809,900 that had been designated to build a seawall on Hutchinson Island in Savannah, because it did not meet constitutional requirements for state funding. Then, on May 12th he vetoed eleven bills.

Six of the vetoes concerned local governments, but S.B. 76 affected the entire state. It would have eliminated the current 15-inch height restriction on motorcycle handlebars. It was vetoed because that simple change would have allowed higher handlebars, although raising handle bars beyond 15 inches has proven to make cycles more difficult to control and steer. Last year’s statistics reveal that motorcycle and bicycle crashes accounted for 13 percent of fatalities on Georgia roads. The governor also vetoed two tax bills and one that would have created a separate agency for the Division of Aging Services. Continue reading →

May 15, 2015 Radio Commentary

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Marriage in Georgia & Elsewhere

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, May 15, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Because natural marriage was under attack nineteen years ago, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr (R) authored the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and introduced it in the U.S. House of Representatives; Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles (R) introduced it in the Senate; Congress passed it with veto-proof margins and Democrat President Bill Clinton signed it. Therefore, since September 21, 1996 federal law has defined marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman and spouse as a “person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.” But on June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of DOMA.

Before 1996, Georgia law simply defined marriage as “an actual contract,” without explaining who could enter the contract. So, the Georgia General Assembly passed a bill in 1996 to clarify who could marry whom. As Governor Zell Miller signed it into law, he said, “H.B. 1580 defines marriage in Georgia as the union between a man and a woman. Further, the bill forbids the issuance of a marriage license to persons of the same sex or for the state of Georgia to recognize marriage licenses from other states which do not meet Georgia’s definition of marriage.”

Eight years later in 2004, the Georgia General Assembly passed S.R. 595 to amend the State Constitution with the language of the law and 72.6 percent of voters passed it on the 2004 General Election ballot. But, here we are eleven years later, facing nation-wide campaigns to redefine marriage, although the majority of voters always support natural marriage. Continue reading →