Benjamin Bull is an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:44:00 GMT Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:44:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Some sentences are made of words while others are made of jail time. And home-schooling families focused on the former kind of sentences are increasingly finding themselves under the threat of the latter-even in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2013/03/04/sentences-for-teaching-sentences-n1525987 f7aee62a-9c0a-484a-b8ed-b53a6f20d873 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:44:00 GMT Any serious discussion of "hate speech" laws should start with a consideration of George Orwell's prophetic look into the future-specifically the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Recall that in Orwell's book, Big Brother... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2013/01/18/so-whats-wrong-with-hate-speech-laws-n1491748 373bb177-8a50-4c3a-a0b0-39f336dab8b1 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT The attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi brought to light that terrorism is on the rise in North Africa. But for African Christians this has been a reality for many years. Indeed the most recent example of such... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/12/11/state_dept_should_designate_boko_haram_a_foreign_terrorist_organization 07efaa64-3616-4d64-8144-1a7c35511802 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT About five years ago, I had the privilege of making a presentation before the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a European intergovernmental organization established to protect, among other things,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/10/20/must_religious_organizations_be_required_to_admit_nonadherents_as_members 309a9a67-84ab-4d57-bc8a-fc39a7777a1c Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT About five years ago, I had the privilege of making a presentation before the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a European intergovernmental organization established to protect, among other things,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/10/20/must_religious_organizations_be_required_to_admit_nonadherents_as_members 034b7339-c7a0-4ca1-b9a7-c5c9eecf5b39 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT Since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in January 1973, more than 55 million babies have been aborted in America. If a number like "55 million" is hard to grasp, think of it this way-if you added together the populations... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/10/16/abortion_kills_children_and_entire_populations 890caafe-bc27-4552-911d-b58d80d43c5a Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:00:00 GMT There has been a demonstrable move away from Judeo-Christian faith and practice in Europe for a number of years. Just ask British hoteliers Peter and Hazelmary Bull. What was once respected as authoritative is now... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/09/27/has_christianity_become_intolerable 221bda2d-dd70-4045-9ded-49b9af0d92ff Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT There is a movement underway in Europe to remove the tax exemptions churches have enjoyed for centuries. In Spain and Italy this attempt is being broadly pursued, while in Britain it is being done piecemeal. For... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/09/20/time_for_the_religious_to_pay_their_fair_share c724c340-28be-461e-85f7-82ad6c1d0865 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT A brief glance to Britain's past, and one can see that it was only after centuries of bloody battles and religious intolerance that freedom of religion was finally secured. However, just a few short years into the new... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/09/15/loopholes_for_christians_or_a_bit_of_common_sense aa58a042-b639-40b5-8f7a-40ba78aabc6e Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT There is a growing so-called "children's rights" movement that is attempting to hijack parental rights, and, as a result, prematurely end the life of ill children. A recent article in the Journal of Medical Ethics... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/09/11/childrens_rights_that_end_the_lives_of_children efc097b2-2c83-4689-acf4-c9b3f752fce9 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT Last week, Seattle's Chamber of Commerce endorsed same-sex "marriage" and encouraged "yes" votes on Referendum 74, a measure which gives voters the opportunity to either uphold or reject a bill passed by the legislature... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/07/25/disinformation_campaign_surrounds_washington_states_push_to_redefine_marriage 1c10f550-7344-40c3-8f71-cc11a53c05c9 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:08:00 GMT Last week, the British Columbia Supreme Court emulated the state of Oregon's assisted suicide law via a decision in Carter v. AG Canada, which "carves exceptions into the laws allowing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/06/21/canada_goes_the_way_of_oregon_on_assisted_suicide ee15e086-a385-467a-b2f7-6d232fac3c62 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT Efforts are currently underway in Spain to criminally prosecute Catholic Bishop Juan Antonio Reig Plą of the diocese of Alcalį de Henares. It seems he had the audacity to deliver a homily from the Bible during a Good... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/04/26/the_hate_speech_prosecution_bishop_juan_antonio_reig_plą 105bf40c-3918-4036-a725-f76f679ac820 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:35:00 GMT A gut-wrenching example of the lengths to which men will go to silence the voices of conscience recently played out in an Ontario Court of Justice. There, Judge S. Ford Clements sentenced pro-life advocate Mary Wagner... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/04/03/if_you_cant_beat_the_truth_silence_it 3f05f0fc-c4af-48e0-9bd5-4d18a6b99fe6 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Throughout the world, the moniker of "human rights" has long been a cloak for a number of so-called rights that cannot be justified in any other way. From free education, to free healthcare, to various aspects of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/03/28/same_sex_marriage_isnt_a_right 334cc5b4-cb55-4ba2-8f23-a148577ecb0c Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT While we sit in our soft chairs watching big screen TVs and complaining that microwave popcorn takes too long to cook, activists backing the homosexual agenda relentlessly march on. Availing themselves of avenues that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2012/01/12/special_rights_for_some_undercut_equal_rights_for_all e7a79f82-e368-406b-9188-cccfc5f2bed2 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:55:00 GMT All Domenic Johansson really wants for Christmas is his life back. He lost it about two-and-a-half years ago, on an airport runway in Sweden, where he was waiting to take off with his parents for their new home... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2011/12/21/peace_on_earth ab03d706-8e7f-4428-a25f-3321dc5c74b3 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:38:00 GMT On Dec. 6, the White House released a memorandum instructing the heads of U.S. executive departments and agencies abroad to join in the "struggle to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenjaminBull/2011/12/13/when_will_discrimination_against_christians_be_banned 0e06bf9f-5d85-444c-8240-a393b586d7fa Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT