At some point the lack of candor about the nature of law for the sake of playing judicial politics catches up with you. That day may soon be upon us. ...

A recent Fox New headline trumpeted its new three-part series on America with this headline: “America ‘unrecognizable’ and on the brink of collapse, experts warn: ‘Turning on our own legacy.’” The series will look at the “pivotal changes that signal the nation's exponential decline in the last 30 years that created the country we see today.” I think C.S. Lewis will provide a far better understanding of the pivotal point than Fox News. I hope you benefit from it. 

Next Thursday, the Tennessee House of Representatives is likely to enact into law (absent a gubernatorial veto) a bill that would allow persons to sue and recover monetary damages from all health care providers involved in rendering “gender transition” services to that person while a minor. Its goal is a worthy one. But I did not realize until yesterday morning that the bill contains language regarding the nature of law and the power of state government that may be the greatest insult to God I have ever seen in my 28 years at the state Capitol. I hope you (and our legislators and governor) will now see what I failed to see.

Over the last few months, I have had multiple exchanges with Christian policymakers and lawyers around the country about legislation directed at stopping “transgender treatments” on minors. I found myself urging them to consider the same points made against Tennessee’s version of the bill by the American Civil Liberty Union’s lawyer last week. Was I siding with the ACLU or were my friends? 

This week several Tennessee abortion clinics sued to have a federal district court in Nashville prevent Governor Lee’s executive orders on social distancing and essential services from applying to their abortion practice. Parts of the press release about it were most amusing, even made me chuckle, but not for long.