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.
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...
My Thoughts on Federal Parental Rights Legislation: #%*&@!!!
Jan 25, 2024 by David Fowler
I got an email last Friday urging me and others like me to support “a critically important piece of legislation in Congress” by U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and James Lankford (R-OK). It “would require any imposition on parental r...
The Shift in Law That Has Made Abortion Laws a Nightmare
Jan 17, 2024 by David Fowler
The reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer has spawned lawsuits by Tennessee women and physicians concerned about the state’s new laws criminalizing abortion and bills providing exceptions to that law. The lawsuits and bills have provided a mirror...
Why I Dreaded a Reporter’s Call Last Week
Jan 11, 2024 by David Fowler
A newspaper reporter called last week to ask me questions “about the local, state and national political issues that you see as increasingly salient to the conservative Christian community in Tennessee, and what sorts of forces drive these...
How Memphis’s After School Satan Club Schools Christians
Jan 5, 2024 by David Fowler
This week The Satanic Temple plans to launch its first after-school program in Tennessee at an elementary school that is part of the Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) system. It’s called the After School Satan Club. Rather than dec...
How Might a Potential Pro-life Law Define Christianity?
Dec 29, 2023 by David Fowler
Monday will mark the beginning of a new year, and soon I will mark my twenty-ninth year at the state legislature. Yet, this year I plan to take a whole new approach to lobbying. The need for change was brought to a head this month by a growing nation...
Don’t Let the Fauci Grinches Steal Christmas
Dec 22, 2023 by David Fowler
Every year the profundity of the Christmas story grows and matures in me. But I sense that Fauci Grinches have stolen from many Christians (I have been one of them) and from all others the most glorious and astounding good news they could ever hope t...
Did the U.S. Supreme Court “Create” Nominal Christianity? What Can Be Done About It?
Dec 15, 2023 by David Fowler
If you grew up around Christians, you may have heard of “nominal Christians.” I just realized the United States Supreme Court helped create them—pastors and lay persons alike. It established the jurisprudential climate that has help...
Assessing Governor Lee’s School Voucher Proposal
Dec 8, 2023 by David Fowler
Governor Lee wants to expand his education voucher or scholarship program to improve education. Opponents see it as a plan to destroy public education. When asked by a friend if I was following the issue, I said, “No, and I didn’t plan to...
Evangelical Prophets Come to America’s Rescue
Dec 1, 2023 by David Fowler
Last week an internationally known man along with a woman, both of whom are part of what I will refer to as the prophetic sector of the Christian communion within the United States, called Christian women to a fasting and prayer event next year at th...
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