Frank Turek is a speaker and award-winning author/coauthor of three books; I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. Legislating Morality, and Correct, Not Politically Correct. He also hosts a TV show that airs Wednesday nights at 9 pm and 1 am ET on DirecTV, Channel 378. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek 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) Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In yesterday's column, I listed some of the benefits that natural marriage provides children and society. But some claim that promoting natural marriage exclusively violates the rights of people who are attracted to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2013/03/01/the-case-against-equality-part-2-n1523048 eced8bd9-bd03-41b2-8dd2-96967388888e Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Pascal said, "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive." So-called marriage "equality" is attractive. Who could be against equality?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2013/02/28/the-case-against-equality-n1521881 afe62d64-ed33-4109-8b89-5499e8ab3207 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT When I hear Christians saying we ought not get involved in politics but just "preach the Gospel," I show them this satellite picture of the Korean peninsula. Here we see a homogenous population of mostly Koreans... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2012/10/23/north_korea_and_christians_in_politics 1b45e9f6-a37b-41bc-9a49-ae2873f7c50b Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT What if we all simply decided to interpret the 5-4 Supreme Court decision to uphold Obamacare as a 9-0 vote to overturn Obamacare? "Well, that wouldn't be right!" you say. "That wouldn't respect the rule of law.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2012/07/10/why_not_treat_scotus_opinions_like_they_treat_the_consitution ba0979e6-582d-4060-8295-afadaf8d9ea0 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT "An Umpire." That is how John Roberts properly described the duty of a Supreme Court justice during his confirmation hearings. His rulebook? The U.S. Constitution. Thank you sir, may I have another! No, you may... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2012/07/04/john_roberts_the_umpire_who_homered_for_the_wrong_team 60098f52-2480-4644-9673-815f4b19f0be Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT "Politics is fought between the forty yard lines," remarked Charles Krauthammer just after Obama was elected in 2008. Krauthammer is right about nearly everything, but his rule clearly warrants an exception when applied... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2012/06/05/the_great_destroyer be193705-3022-40e7-92d9-bc7a6bc7da67 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT I am greatly saddened that Christopher Hitchens is gone. There is no one with whom I disagreed more who I admired so much. I emailed Christopher several times since his diagnosis with cancer, my last... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2011/12/19/christopher_hitchens_evidence_of_a_divine_being 2116c18e-b096-4371-822e-bda8ab81f6c8 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:26:00 GMT George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." When you tell the truth about homosexuality today, you can be sure that the central tools of deceit-name-calling and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2011/08/26/who_are_the_real_gay_bigots_and_bullies 67fb5446-bc41-4bdb-a158-956c1249c7f0 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT Are you supposed to have sex at work? I guess it depends on your profession, but for most of us the answer is “no.” Why then is corporate America obsessed with training about sex? As described in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2011/06/28/sex_at_work e66313e8-8cdb-46fe-ba07-873461edfb83 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:01:00 GMT It's easy to spot militant atheists who attend my presentation called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. They usually sit with their arms folded and scowls on their faces. During a recent presentation at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2011/04/24/mom_plays_god_brings_good_from_evil 87f4f9cd-f0b6-4814-bb6b-f3c76f286336 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:01:00 GMT The United States Congress was in a rare joint session. All 435 representatives and 100 senators were in attendance, and the C-SPAN-TV cameras were rolling. The members were gathered together to hear a speech by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/10/31/jesus,_christians_and_politics 2f9760d2-ae77-48b8-8d2c-d5c711d66db9 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT In April 2009, President Barack Obama said, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." This reflects a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/10/05/american_exceptionalism__obama_vs_jefferson 786ea5f8-092d-4619-ab10-d61bb1b95568 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:01:50 GMT "Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," and that "we are the ones we've been waiting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/08/30/crimes_against_liberty 638d5783-9362-4b0a-98c9-9071ef437da2 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:27:39 GMT We're in the middle of the Top Ten false "facts" reported by Judge Vaughn Walker in his decision to overturn Proposition 8 in California-a decision that could erode marriage and First Amendment rights in the entire... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/08/13/top_ten_gay_marriage_false_"facts"_part_2 3840681f-a750-41e0-83e8-bb307362ca6f Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT When one judge overturned the will of more then seven million Californians last week in Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, he listed 80 supposed "findings of fact" (FF) as evidence that Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/08/12/top_ten_gay_marriage_false_"facts"_part_1 e63895be-8c5e-4feb-9c5d-720a526f2790 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT Elena Kagan called the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy "a moral injustice of the first order." A moral injustice of the first order? Where on her moral hierarchy is a real "first order" injustice like murder?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/07/01/judicial_activism_vs_liberty d1ccdcb8-3f1b-411b-b46c-f2ed6a7fb3fd Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:01:01 GMT Do the New Testament documents tell the truth about what really happened in the first century? As I wrote in my last column, authors claiming to write history are unlikely to invent embarrassing details about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/05/07/the_bible__embarrassing_and_true_pt_2 8fca00c4-6d76-4491-899e-13d3494c6740 Fri, 07 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT What are your most embarrassing moments? You don't want to admit them. And if you do admit them, you certainly won't add to your shame by inventing embarrassing moments about yourself to make you look even worse. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/05/06/the_bible_embarrassing_and_true 52dcd9a3-bb8e-434c-ae6c-fabb6e4cacad Thu, 06 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT Since they lack the votes to pass their health care bill, the Democrats are thinking of "deeming" Senate bill passed in the House without a vote. When Bret Baier asked President Obama if he supported "deem and pass,"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/03/19/deem_obama_impeached 145a9ef1-96c4-44ed-b435-41d25e534171 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT When I did something stupid as a teenager, my parents would say, "You know better!" They were right. In most cases it wasn't that I didn't know the right thing to do; it was that I was in rebellion because I wanted to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/03/11/liberalism_rebellion_disguised_as_compassion 5ec1e2c4-ce08-4051-a683-3deb823ef3f7 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:01 GMT The central argument in favor of same-sex marriage or overturning "Don't ask don't tell" contains a fatal flaw. In fact, this is the flaw at the heart of the entire gay rights movement. Joint Chief Chairman Adm.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/02/04/gay_rights_dont_ask,_dont_think e81fd060-4fd4-4089-b6cb-9f08d6426149 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:54 GMT On November 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, I received an email from my friends Neil and Anna Mammen announcing the birth of their second daughter, Caroline Lois. Other than a cleft palate Caroline seemed fine, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/12/24/sweet_caroline_where_was_god aef724cf-5bde-42ee-944b-7ff834dde192 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:39 GMT You can't put honesty in a test tube. "Science" doesn't say anything-scientists do. Those are a couple of the illuminating conclusions we can draw from the global warming e-mail http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/11/25/science_doesnt_say_anything_-_scientists_do 31741e04-4bc1-4c9a-83f8-58cc0bdf4e1e Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:01:32 GMT Is Rush Limbaugh like President Obama's grandmother-someone the President called "a typical white person"-someone who is suspicious of black people? Racism is a serious charge in today's society. Once you're perceived... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/10/21/rush_to_slander_who_are_the_real_racists 81603bd3-c517-4aad-8095-a2633242c206 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT When I learned that my Representative, Sue Myrick, would hold a health-care town hall meeting at our local high school, I decided to attend to see firsthand how much of the passion against socialized medicine was the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/09/02/i_saw_astroturf_grow 2258c2e8-a047-41e5-9448-942e8d540585 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT As more Americans learn that "hope and change" really means more government and less liberty, support for President Obama is falling dramatically. That should be no surprise. Despite the 2008 election, liberalism is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/08/20/democrats_mislead,_republicans_fail_to_lead 07119d4c-8fae-4917-9d11-ef1fe26396e0 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:46:08 GMT As more Americans learn that "hope and change" really means more government and less liberty, support for President Obama is falling dramatically. That should be no surprise. Despite the 2008 election, liberalism is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/08/20/democrats_mislead,_republicans_fail_to_lead 63a692e0-430e-41af-b415-c208b3db299a Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT As our great country accelerates its slide into economic and moral Hell, be careful whom you blame. The present boldness of liberals and timidity of conservatives are only the secondary causes. Much of the blame can be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/07/15/country_a_mess__blame_the_church eddc2306-ad15-40fe-918d-04475ee697e5 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Is waterboarding torture? If it is, we've been torturing our service members for years. As a United States Naval Aviator, I attended SERE school in the California desert in 1985. SERE (which stands for Survival... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/05/06/politically_correct_torture 100737fb-3517-4f07-8683-d99680565df2 Wed, 06 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT Nearly 45 years ago, medical doctor C. Truman Davis felt he had grown too callous to the agony Christ suffered at Calvary. His callousness disappeared after he researched the crucifixion and wrote an account of Christ's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/04/12/the_passion_reconsidered 6f674b92-839e-4a1a-a2a9-b0cb1ed98202 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:00:10 GMT Who is the current leader of the Republican Party? No one. But there certainly is someone who wields the most influence over people who agree with the Republican Party platform, and that is Rush Limbaugh . How so?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/03/16/limbaugh,_obama,_stalin_and_leadership 8743124e-062b-40e5-8880-299c5aea51fe Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:00:44 GMT My friend David has a knack for cutting through the smokescreens people throw up when they're trying to avoid making commitments, be they commitments to God or to other people. Last week, with one comment, he blew away... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/03/02/sleeping_with_your_girlfriend 6090e736-b580-4e3a-803d-7e130163b8e3 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT When I debated atheist Christopher Hitchens recently, one of the eight arguments I offered for God's existence was the creation of this supremely fine-tuned universe out of nothing. I spoke of the five main lines of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/01/14/big_bang_evidence_for_god 58a9b87b-bb30-476a-a278-aaa0a997a8e4 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:26:35 GMT After the passage of Prop 8 in California, homosexuals are still howling that they don't have "equal rights." Hopefully, the California Supreme Court will respect the equal rights of voters by affirming... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/11/26/the_preposterous_premise_for_gay_marriage a0c09fa6-8699-4cbc-8fee-6435a5350c8c Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:01:00 GMT After my last column, I got an e-mail from retired FBI agent Bob Hamer. Bob's the author of a riveting new book that takes you undercover with him into the world of drug bosses, hit men, and his last assignment, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/11/01/born_gay_or_a_gay_basher_no_excuse 5a8b5730-3114-4c04-a5e5-2f6d398047ab Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:01:00 GMT Twenty years ago, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public. In the book that resulted from their meeting, they... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/10/26/a_vote_against_gay_marriage_is_a_vote_for_tolerance 0099734c-e42e-465e-a19f-d10cefe04ccb Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:43:39 GMT Joe Biden recently asked why his Democrat Party isn't seen as the "Party of God." He then went on to answer his own question with this stunning observation: it's because Democrats are "uncomfortable talking about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/10/20/the_party_of_god 67257a68-f6f3-489d-9d6f-1b8614707c04 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:56 GMT If the economy is truly the issue that will decide this election, John McCain only needs to ask one rhetorical question to the American people during Wednesday night's debate: Are you currently working for, or have you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/10/15/mccains_killer_question 9e10a97e-9dfd-42c7-9842-1ed5e80935c9 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT I like to strike up conversations with people I meet while traveling. Last Tuesday, on the way back to San Francisco airport, I asked the driver where he was from. "Jordan," he replied. In an effort to make a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/08/03/jesus_and_the_case_for_war d74f1ee1-e8aa-4cad-abd8-2d8427c76001 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:47:26 GMT Barack Obama's recent op-ed in the New York Times declares, "It's time to end this war." (You remember that Senator McCain tried to respond, but the Times apparently wanted to give McCain his opinion rather than allow... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/07/31/the_presidency_is_not_an_entry-level_position 6d9f8f32-2a1c-4167-a279-d593398fe699 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT At least one lesbian is not happy with me for the case I made last week against same-sex marriage on our TV program. She wrote me this ALL CAPS e-mail with "VERY JUDGEMENTAL" in the subject line: ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/06/16/why_you_ought_to_judge f4568bc5-13c6-4620-a097-7fd0c52a6c4e Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:07 GMT Why not legalize same-sex marriage? Who could it possibly hurt? Children and the rest of society. That's the conclusion of David Blankenhorn, who is anything but an anti-gay "bigot." He is a life-long,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2008/05/26/gay_marriage_even_liberals_know_its_bad 8316fc76-80cb-4d8d-99c8-6f69c43e4273 Mon, 26 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT