Students who oppose gay marriage are homophobic, according to an audio recording of a Marquette University instructor who went on to say that gay right issues cannot be discussed in class because it might offend homosexuals.

I reached out to the 20-year-old student at the center of this outrageous episode and the story he tells should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks religious schools are safe havens for open discourse.

The story was first reported on a blog run by a Marquette University professorand was picked up by the good folks over at The College Fix.

The young man, who asked not to be identified, explained what happened when his ethics instructor, Cheryl Abbate, led a conversation in “Theory of Ethics” class about applying philosophical theories to modern political controversies. There were a list of issues on the board – gay rights, gun rights, and the death penalty.

“We had a discussion on all of them – except gay rights,” the student told me. “She erased that line from the board and said, ‘We all agree on this.’”

Read more from this story HERE.

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Last spring, Obamacare supporters were ebullient when the Obama administration announced a milestone “victory:” Despite a truly disastrous roll-out, they’d enrolled eight million Americans in the program.

The Obamacare debate, the president said, was officially over. We expressed skepticism over the White House’s stats almost immediately, noting that the official numbers didn’t account for duplicates, non-paying “customers,” and consumer attrition — not to mention the high percentage of “new” enrollees who previously had insurance, but were forced to use Obamacare’s exchanges to obtain plans after their existing arrangements were cancelled under the new law. The last two weeks have witnessed two more blows for the “it’s working!” crowd. First came the sharply revised 2015 enrollment projections:

Fewer than 10 million people are expected to enroll in “Obamacare 2.0″ for 2015, the Obama administration said Monday. That’s a significant drop from the original goal. The Congressional Budget Office had projected 13 million, but officials said they expect the ramp up to be slower than the CBO originally thought. The revised goal is 9 to 9.9 million. It raises questions about whether Obamacare enrollment will reach projections down the road. The CBO had projected enrollment would hit 25 million by 2017, but now the administration says it will probably take at least one or two more years to reach that threshold. Officials are realizing it will find it tougher to convince the remaining uninsured to enroll. Many who opted not to sign up this year said the cost was too high.

It’s almost as if many people aren’t too excited about purchasing less-than-affordable coverage that saddles them with high out-of-pocket costs and sparse provider networks. One thing the administration has going for it this year is that the individual mandate tax designed to punish shirkers is rising considerably, although those penalties are still much lower than the costs associated with buying Obamacare health plans. Now we have this embarrassing admission from administration officials, who’ve been forced to reveal how Team Obama inflated its top line enrollment figure…

Read more from this story HERE.

I am a legal immigrant. I did not choose to come to the United States—I was carried here, by my parents, who arrived with one suitcase and nothing else. They were not fleeing political oppression, religious persecution, or economic collapse. In fact, as white South Africans in the 1970s, they were born into a life of exclusive privilege and prosperity. My father had grown up poor but made his way to medical school. A life of wealth awaited.

Yet my parents chose to immigrate to the United States instead, living in a basement apartment with no family nearby, enduring a Chicago winter they could never possibly have imagined. My father had to redo part of his medical residency as my mother tended to an eight-week-old infant alone.

After many years and much hard work, they achieved the American dream. But they certainly would have been more comfortable in South Africa.

Years later, I asked my father why they had left South Africa. To this day, he has the same answer: “Illegality became the law.”

As students, he and my mother had both volunteered in the black and “coloured” townships where whites were rarely seen. They saw, firsthand, the injustice of a regime that stripped citizens of their vote, their property, and their dignity. And at that time, they could not have foreseen Nelson Mandela’s “miracle.”

Read more from this story HERE.

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By David W. Almasi.

As the potential harm of the President Obama’s amnesty bid for possibly more than 5 million illegal aliens residing in the United States becomes clearer, members of theProject 21 black leadership network are continuing to speak out against his unilateral action to try to remake America.

Joe R. Hicks, former executive director of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference:

President Obama strode into the White House promising to give the American people the audacity of hope. What we are witnessing instead, with his immigration agenda, is an audacious grab for power and an evisceration of the Constitution.

Having kicked the can down the road, obviously refusing to ruin his own chances for re-election in 2012, and tap-dancing on the issue until after the 2014 mid-term elections, Obama now disdainfully punches the amnesty card for upwards of five million illegal residents with the knowledge that almost half of all Americans polled oppose his maneuver.

With the stroke of a pen, Obama rewards those who arrogantly mock our border laws while simultaneously telling those hopeful immigrants still waiting patiently to lawfully come to America that they are chumps.

Read more from this story HERE.

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Obama spurns GOP with expansive immigration orders

By Julie Pace.

Spurning furious Republicans, President Barack Obama unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation and refocus enforcement efforts on “felons, not families.”

The moves, affecting mostly parents and young people, marked the most sweeping changes to the nation’s fractured immigration laws in nearly three decades and set off a fierce fight with Republicans over the limits of presidential powers.

In a televised address to the nation, Obama defended the legality of his actions and challenged GOP lawmakers to focus their energy not on blocking his actions, but on approving long-stalled legislation to take its place.

“To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill,” Obama said, flexing his presidential powers just two weeks after his political standing was challenged in the midterm elections.

As Obama addressed the nation from the White House, immigration supporters with American flags draped over their shoulders marched on the street outside carrying signs that read, “Gracias, Presidente Obama.”

Read more from this story HERE.

The Reverends Ephraim Radner and Christopher Seitz have published in First Things what they’ve dubbed the “Marriage Pledge.” The pledge would effectively separate civil marriage from the religious ceremony—signers of the pledge would refuse to sign marriage certificates, for instance. The pledge has been signed by more than 100 members of the clergy, as well as laypersons in support of the pledge and came about due to fears of pastors being forced to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies.

As Christian ministers we must bear clear witness. This is a perilous time. Divorce and co-¬habitation have weakened marriage. We have been too complacent in our responses to these trends. Now marriage is being fundamentally redefined, and we are ¬being tested yet again. If we fail to take clear action, we risk falsifying God’s Word.

The new definition of marriage no longer coincides with the Christian understanding of marriage between a man and woman. Our biblical faith is committed to upholding, celebrating, and furthering this understanding, which is stated many times within the Scriptures and has been repeatedly restated in our wedding ceremonies, church laws, and doctrinal standards for centuries. To continue with church practices that intertwine government marriage with Christian marriage will implicate the Church in a false definition of marriage.

Read more from this story HERE.

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Judicial Watch reports that the Obama administration has turned over about 42,000 pages of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal. The administration was forced to turn the documents over to Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Judicial Watch is posting them on its web site. The administration turned them over on November 18, 2014.

One of the documents provides smoking gun proof that the Obama White House and the Eric Holder Justice Department colluded to get CBS News to block reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson was one of the few mainstream media reporters who paid any attention to the deadly gun-running scandal.

In an email dated October 4, 2011, Attorney General Holder’s top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, called Attkisson “out of control.” Schmaler told White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz that he intended to call CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer to get the network to stop Attkisson.

Read more from this story HERE.

The Obama administration is bracing for another surge of illegal immigrants next spring, bringing online a family detention center that will have 2,400 beds.

“We must be prepared for traditional, seasonal increases in illegal migration. The Dilley facility will provide invaluable surge capacity should apprehensions of adults with children once again surge this spring,” said Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas S. Winkowski.

In advance of the president’s new pro-immigrant announcement set for Thursday night, ICE is readying its strategy for next year when over 100,000 illegals are expected to flood over the U.S.-Mexico border.

Read more from this story HERE.

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A fee to go into Mexico? Pilot program underway

By Barbara Medina.

If you are a United States citizen and cross the border frequently you may have to pay a fee to go into Mexico.

The National Immigration Institute in Mexico (INAMI) has started a pilot program in which foreigners that enter Mexican territory for more than seven days or they will be involved in paid work, they will have to pay 306 pesos, or about 28 US dollars.

“We are doing what should be done,” said Rudolfo Figueroa, representative of INAMI in Baja California. “Foreigners who enter Mexico have the obligation to register; if they will be in national territory for more than seven days, they have to pay the right of non-residents.”

Read more from this story HERE.

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Obama’s Amnesty Will Add As Many Foreign Workers As New Jobs Since 2009

By Neil Munro.

President Barack Obama’s unilateral amnesty will quickly add as many foreign workers to the nation’s legal labor force as the total number of new jobs created by his economy since 2009.

The plans, expected to be announced late Nov. 20, will distribute five million work permits to illegal immigrants, and also create a new inflow of foreign college graduates for prestigious salaried jobs, according to press reports.

Obama has already provided or promised almost one million extra work permits to foreigners, while his economy has only added six million jobs since 2009.

Under the president’s new amnesty plan, “up to four million undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least five years can apply. … An additional one million people will get protection from deportation…

Read more from this story HERE.

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Feds order Bible college to deport 120 Christian students

By Todd Starnes.

Myron Guiler wept.

I held the telephone receiver in my hand and listened as the Ohio pastor became overwhelmed with emotion.

“It’s heartbreaking,” he said. “I can’t stand to see these 120 children go. It’s my heart. I’ve poured my life into it.”

Guiler is the president of Marietta Bible College, a small unaccredited school that provides Bible training mostly for impoverished international students. The college is a ministry of the Marietta Bible Center Church.

According to the school’s website, it “underwent the complete review process by Ohio board of Regents in 1988 and was offered State licensure. The license was refused, because of our Biblical conviction, that such acceptance would place the State in authority over the church, the rightful position of Jesus Christ only (Colossians 1:18). Therefore, this institution is not certified by the Board of Regents nor the State of Ohio.”

By the government’s own admission, the college has dutifully applied for recertification for more than 10 years – without a single problem. So why not offer a measure of grace? Maybe Uncle Sam just lost the paperwork?

Read more from this story HERE.

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Sheriff’s Tough Message to the President Goes Viral Ahead of Obama’s Big Immigration Speech: ‘Only You Are Singularly Responsible’

Sheriff Scott Jones, in charge of one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the country, has recorded a video message to President Obama asking for immediate immigration reform. In the aftermath of the recent murders of Sacramento Sheriff Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County Sheriff Detective Michael Davis Jr., by a suspect found to have been in our Country illegally and removed four different times, Sheriff Jones initiates a national conversation for the need of immediate action by the federal Government.

“In the scope of today’s society, the inaction of our nationally elected officials has real consequences for the populace as a whole. Now is the time to take this conversation out of coffee houses and talk shows to an audience who has the ability to affect real change.” –Sheriff Scott Jones

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‘OPEN REBELLION’: CHAOS IF REPUBLICANS DON’T WITHHOLD FUNDING FOR OBAMA EXECUTIVE AMNESTY

By Matthew Boyle.

Conservatives say that Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be “complicit” in President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty if they don’t pull out all the stops to block him.

They warn that chaos is around the corner if that’s how it goes down, even though they’d much rather have Republican leaders fight the president alongside them.

“Fight or be complicit in lawlessness,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told Breitbart News, is the message to congressional GOP leaders on Obama’s amnesty.

If Republicans move forward with the plan from House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to fund the entire government—including Obama’s executive amnesty, which the president is set to announce on Thursday night—in an omnibus spending bill, a Senate GOP aide told Breitbart News conservatives will spread chaos across Washington.

“If Obama announces executive amnesty and the House passes an omnibus with no language blocking it, there will be no Senate vote, because conservatives will burn down the Capitol,” the aide said. When asked to clarify if he was serious they’d burn the building to the ground—or if he was speaking metaphorically—the aide said “open rebellion.”

Read more from this story HERE.

Tonight, Obama unilaterally – with zero congressional approval – enacted what some have called the “most sweeping overhaul” of US immigration policy in decades. Why? Because he apparently wants the United States to continue to self-destruct. And because he believes he’s King Obama.

What did he do that was so outrageous? First, he’s rewarding at least four million illegal aliens who have been in the US for five years or more by ordering immigration officials to ignore the law and not deport them. Second, he’s further rewarding these illegal aliens by authorizing them to work in the United States. Third, Obama is dramatically expanding his Dreamer program by eliminating the age cap of thirty years for illegal aliens who simply claim their parents brought them to the U.S. when they were minors. He’s also no longer prioritizing deportation of Dreamer parents. This will impact millions of illegals who are in the U.S. today.

Rewarding lawbreaking with a promise not to deport is a form of amnesty, pure and simple. The illegal is excused from the consequences of his unlawful acts. But even worse, he is also rewarded for what he has done.

What’s so bad about all of this? It’s a blatant violation of the law. The president of this country – no matter who he is – does not have the authority to ignore the laws that say it’s illegal for non-citizens to sneak across the border, work and have kids in a country that’s not their own. Nor does he have the authority to ignore laws requiring their deportation. And he certainly does not have the authority to then reward these illegal aliens by granting them work visas and other benefits of their long-term law breaking. His job is to enforce the laws, not break them.

Not only does Obama’s amnesty debase the rule of law, it is inevitable that it will also encourage millions of more illegal aliens to sneak across the U.S. border. Everyone knows that rewarding illegal behavior will serve as inducement for the exact same thing in the future.

So America’s borders will continue to crumble, as will our language and culture. Wages will spiral downward as the American worker takes the brunt of the millions more joining the labor market. Multinational corporations – and the politicians they own – will celebrate, recognizing yet another step toward the open-border policy they secretly desire.

What should the Republican Congress do about this lawless President? As I stated in August, Obama has done plenty to justify impeachment including his “dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize. He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos.”

Although impeachment would clearly be a hit on reputation – and should be pursued – it won’t stop Obama. What the newly-GOP-infused Congress should do is defund the chief executive. The defunding could be targeted, designed to impose real inconvenience to the President until he bows to the legislative branch.

Will the Republican-led Congress have the courage to do this? Hopefully. Many conservatives are sick and tired of a “go along, get along” system where both parties continue to participate in the deconstruction of a great nation. They’re sick and tired of holding their noses and voting for the lesser of the evils. If the GOP does not confront this lawlessness, it risks fading into obscurity, losing opportunity to lead in 2016.

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Tonight, Obama unilaterally – with zero congressional approval – enacted what some have called the “most sweeping overhaul” of US immigration policy in decades. Why? Because he apparently wants the United States to continue to self-destruct. And because he believes he’s King Obama.

What did he do that was so outrageous? First, he’s rewarding at least four million illegal aliens who have been in the US for five years or more by ordering immigration officials to ignore the law and not deport them. Second, he’s further rewarding these illegal aliens by authorizing them to work in the United States. Third, Obama is dramatically expanding his Dreamer program by eliminating the age cap of thirty years for illegal aliens who simply claim their parents brought them to the U.S. when they were minors. He’s also no longer prioritizing deportation of Dreamer parents. This will impact millions of illegals who are in the U.S. today.

Rewarding lawbreaking with a promise not to deport is a form of amnesty, pure and simple. The illegal is excused from the consequences of his unlawful acts. But even worse, he is also rewarded for what he has done.

What’s so bad about all of this? It’s a blatant violation of the law. The president of this country – no matter who he is – does not have the authority to ignore the laws that say it’s illegal for non-citizens to sneak across the border, work and have kids in a country that’s not their own. Nor does he have the authority to ignore laws requiring their deportation. And he certainly does not have the authority to then reward these illegal aliens by granting them work visas and other benefits of their long-term law breaking. His job is to enforce the laws, not break them.

Not only does Obama’s amnesty debase the rule of law, it is inevitable that it will also encourage millions of more illegal aliens to sneak across the U.S. border. Everyone knows that rewarding illegal behavior will serve as inducement for the exact same thing in the future.

So America’s borders will continue to crumble, as will our language and culture. Wages will spiral downward as the American worker takes the brunt of the millions more joining the labor market. Multinational corporations – and the politicians they own – will celebrate, recognizing yet another step toward the open-border policy they secretly desire.

What should the Republican Congress do about this lawless President? As I stated in August, Obama has done plenty to justify impeachment including his “dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize. He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos.”

Although impeachment would clearly be a hit on reputation – and should be pursued – it won’t stop Obama. What the newly-GOP-infused Congress should do is defund the chief executive. The defunding could be targeted, designed to impose real inconvenience to the President until he bows to the legislative branch.

Will the Republican-led Congress have the courage to do this? Hopefully. Many conservatives are sick and tired of a “go along, get along” system where both parties continue to participate in the deconstruction of a great nation. They’re sick and tired of holding their noses and voting for the lesser of the evils. If the GOP does not confront this lawlessness, it risks fading into obscurity, losing opportunity to lead in 2016.