Category: Grace

Oath to uphold marriage is personal; Knowles didn’t swear it for anybody else

Bill Knowles, county clerk, standing by his wife, Marlene, is Hamilton County’s longest-serving official. (Photo Chattanoogan.com) By David Tulis The appeal Christians must make to lesser magistrates in times of growing tyranny should include the power of the oath of office. Oathtaking today is much watered down, and “affirmations” are accepted. An affirmation is hardly […]

Bad faith and its bitter fruits; constitutional obedience is ‘good faith’

Women in Montgomery, Ala., declare their fealty to marriage Feb. 22, 2015, as a federal trial court judge’s ruling bullies probate judges into uniting gays as man and man. (Photo Sanctity of Marriage Alabama) Legal activists such as the ACLU’s Randall Marshall, outside a court in Mobile, Ala., and gay plaintiffs are overthrowing marriage by […]

EPB’s luscious ‘eminent domain’ upon the field of marriage

EPB is a city-owned utility that teases schoolchildren with hardhats at school, and dudes by online porn flicks. (Photo EPB.net) By David Tulis EPB is the city’s electric utility engaged in the for-profit business of selling pornography through its telecom division. The 2014 earnings from this ribald public service is a meager F$101,080 and for […]

New defense for aliens, liberty lovers: No requirement to obtain driver license

An 1939 court opinion on the state driver license makes clear that it is obtained in equity, meaning by consent, application and voluntary action. Existing statute appears to recognize this prospect. By David Tulis As you pointed out in the first of our two phone conversations, “driving is a privilege.” OK. Licensed driving is a […]

Should city government sell porn? A review of underlying law

By David Tulis The sale of pornography by Chattanooga city government  is a matter of concern because pornography is an ideology that makes war on contentment. The human condition most obviously in view is sexual contentment — with one’s wife or husband, or with one’s state as an unmarried man or woman. Porn incites a […]

Orphaned by fire, Lockhart children face providence of God

Randall and Candy Lockhart with, from left, Haley, Mark and Rebecca. (Photo David Carroll at Chattanoogaradiotv.com) By David Tulis It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a fire races through a small house at 220 Houser St. in north Chattanooga. Three children spill into the yard. But inside, a mother and father are unable to escape […]

White abortionist was goof-off in your dad’s biology class

Jane Bullington, right, of Knoxville talks about babies with minority students at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va.‡‡ (Photo by Center for Bio-Ethical Reform) By David Tulis The gentleman physician who stands by, his stethoscope dangling at the collar of his white lab coat, got his worldview from the public school system from which you […]

Shadow on the field of your inheritance

By David Tulis You googled “abortion chattanooga” because you are searching. You have liberty to do so. Some long while ago the Supreme Court issued a decision, Roe something-or-other, that makes abortion a fundamental right. You have a sense of thankfulness for the judges, two rows of elderly, black-robed men and women with serious, dignified […]

Do Christian people really want revival in U.S.?

John the baptizer in prison, having called forth fruit worthy of repentance and having criticized the adultery of a king. (Image Freebibleimages.org) By David Fowler For the last several years, I’ve increasingly heard Christians comment about the need for revival in America. “We need to turn back to God,” they say. “We need to cry […]