Category Archives: Radio Commentaries

June 15, 2018 Radio Commentary

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Choose: Stand or Acquiesce

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 15, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

On May 11th Lambda Legal subpoenaed Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and National Day of Prayer Task Force President Dr. Ronnie Floyd in a lawsuit filed last August against the Trump administration’s transgender military ban. They were targeted for participating in the Evangelical Executive Advisory Board, that was established by President Trump to provide his administration with data and counsel on various Christian concerns and issues.

Liberty Counsel challenged the Perkins subpoena in a May 29th letter explaining that the documents they want include information protected under the First Amendment Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, and the right to Petition the Government, stipulating that such demands violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The subpoenaed items include, “All Documents and Communications from the relevant period between You and President Trump, the Executive Office of the President, the Trump Campaign, Vice President Pence, the Office of the Vice President, or the Department of Defense, concerning military service by transgender people, public policy regarding transgender people, medical treatment for transgender people, and/or transgender people in general.” Continue reading →

June 8, 2018 Radio Commentary

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Cakes, Flowers, and Religious Freedom

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 8, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Life-changing decisions aren’t new to Jack Phillips in Colorado. He’s the man who lost 40 percent of his income because of his religious beliefs. Jack and his wife opened Masterpiece Cakeshop (sic) in 1993, but in 2012 the Colorado Civil Rights Commission decided Jack’s faith and his business were less important than the lifestyle of a couple of his customers.

After Jack refused to decorate a wedding cake for two male customers, his business was boycotted within hours, he was verbally harassed, and his life was threatened. Claiming Jack discriminated against them, the men filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which decided Jack was guilty of illegal discrimination because he would not decorate a cake for a same-sex wedding, although, clearly, his action was based on his faith.

Because of the Commission’s decision, Jack stopped making wedding cakes, lost 40 percent of his business, and let six of his ten employees go. Incidentally, he wouldn’t decorate cakes for Halloween, either. Continue reading →

June 1, 2018 Radio Commentary

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Red light, Yellow Light, Green Light

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, June 1, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

In this politically correct society, you’d think everyone would bend over backward to keep from offending a majority of the population, but not so! The academic elite have decided college and university students are the only folk who should not be offended. As a matter of fact, that protective mind-set has so thoroughly permeated higher education that administrators comply with the whims of students who demand cancellation of a speaker’s invitation.

If acted upon, those demands become “dis-invitations,” that may materialize in various ways – administrators may issue a formal cancellation, or students may demand cancellation, or a speaker may withdraw due to student rebellion. When speakers DO come, students may persistently disrupt or heckle them during their speech.

While surveying 449 of the 5,300 colleges and universities in the United States, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reported serious free speech violations in a tenth of the schools. Because the federal government subsidizes public colleges, they are required to uphold the First Amendment rights of the students and faculty, as well as visiting speakers. But, right now, some schools are not doing so well with that. Continue reading →

May 25, 2018 Radio Commentary

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Kratom: Opioid or Supplement

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, May 25, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

The Georgia General Assembly won’t reconvene until the second Monday of 2019, but legislators have plenty to do until then. While they run for reelection, most of them will be appointed to serve on any one of three dozen study committees they created this year.

Two separate committees will study in-state cultivation of marijuana – in-state growing to produce THC oil, and in-state growing to produce industrial hemp. Another bill, H.R. 1160, created a committee that will study Mitragyna speciosa, a.k.a. Kratom, which the Food and Drug Administration identifies as “a plant which grows naturally in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea.”

After attributing 36 deaths to kratom, the FDA warns consumers not to use any product that’slabeled kratom or any supplement or dietary product that contains kratom or its psychoactive compounds. Kratom affects the same opioid brain receptors as morphine and appears to have properties that expose users to possible addiction, substance abuse, and dependence on kratom. Continue reading →