In our blog, read about the political and cultural issues affecting Tennesseans written from a conservative perspective. Commentaries are typically written by David Fowler, an attorney who served in the Tennessee state Senate for 12 years before joining FACT as President.
Did Evangelicalism Help Formulate Trump’s Views on Abortion?
Apr 10, 2024 by David Fowler
On Monday, Donald Trump released a video putting forward his position on abortion. It was predicated on six religious precepts as best I could tell. Each reminded me of something I see within the evangelical culture that protested his position. Did h...
Did Biden Offer Christians an Image of God Awareness Day for Easter?
Apr 4, 2024 by David Fowler
President Biden’s proclamation of Transgender Awareness Day coincided with Easter Sunday. Perhaps he thought it was a great day for the proclamation, because he noted we are all made in the image of God. Easter is, in fact, a great day for reco...
My Long Lesson in Political Folly
Mar 22, 2024 by David Fowler
I am almost 66 years of age. I am completing my 29th year at the state legislature, 12 as a state Senator and 17 as a lawyer-lobbyist. Every one of those years was needed for God to teach me what I needed to finish life well in the sphere of law and ...
Controversy Surrounding the Attorney General’s Opinion on State Sovereignty
Mar 14, 2024 by David Fowler
A good friend asked for my opinion on a statement released by another organization critical of a formal opinion issued by the Tennessee Attorney General’s office on the constitutionality of Senate Bill 2775/House Bill 2795, the “Restoring...
The State of the Evangelical Church in Tennessee Will Be Revealed This Tuesday
Mar 7, 2024 by David Fowler
Next Tuesday will be a watershed day for the institutional Bible-believing, evangelical churches in Tennessee. On that day, its theology and what it has been feeding into the lives of the Christians in our legislature will be revealed for all to see....
Alabama Supreme Court’s Chief Justice and the Pro-Life Community’s Conception of God
Feb 29, 2024 by David Fowler
Last week Alabama’s Supreme Court caused a distressing stir even among some in the pro-life community by holding that a frozen embryo was a “child” within the meaning of the state’s wrongful death statute. The decision means t...
Justice Alito Nailed It Monday, and His Explanation Is Damning
Feb 23, 2024 by David Fowler
On Monday, United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito released an opinion in a case in which the state trial “reasoned that a person who still holds traditional religious views on questions of sexual morality is presumptively unfit to ser...
Bill Lee, Republican Legislators, and Christian Leaders: Time Is Running Out for You
Feb 16, 2024 by David Fowler
“Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” are the lyrics to a song released by the band, Chicago, in 1969. Good questions and appropriate to our time. The time for our governor, legislators, and Christian leaders to n...
From Marx to After School Satan Clubs and the Conversion of Our Children.
Feb 8, 2024 by David Fowler
In 2012, I brought to the legislature a bill that encouraged teachers to present the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warning, and human cloning.” ...
Lessons on Parental Rights Learned from My Hydrangeas
Feb 2, 2024 by David Fowler
Lessons on Parental Rights Learned from My Hydrangeas
And odd sounding title for sure, but I learned something from transplanting hydrangeas from my parents’ yard to mine that I think will serve us well as we think about a piece of st...
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