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Paul Stanley is a commercial insurance executive, writer and former journalist living in Memphis, Tennessee.

Meet Bethany Blankley

The most enjoyable part of my role at The Christian Post is discovering and recruiting talent to contribute to our new political opinion page, "The Wonk Room." Recently I ran across Bethany Blankley, a columnist and media personality who is making a name for herself by defending and advocating for Christian principles in an intelligent and articulate manner that often wins more people to Christ than beating them over the head with the skillet of righteousness. After a brief conversation with Bethany on Wednesday, she penned this column for The Wonk Room about Rob Bell's recent statement on marriage that I posted this morning. I would encourage you to read her column and also check out her website at www.bethanyblankley.com.    

By |2013-03-21T11:31:07-05:00March 21st, 2013|My Blog Post|Comments Off on Meet Bethany Blankley
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The Legal Arguments to Same-Sex Marriage

If you are tired of reading and hearing about the same-sex marriage debate and wish it would relegate itself to page 8 of the Metro section of your local paper, then join the crowd. I feel the same and I say this as a journalist whose biggest stories over the past 18 have centered on the issue. But brace yourself because this issue is not going away any time soon. The pr0 same-sex marriage train is running down the track and on the surface their appears to be no one or group (including the evangelical church) willing to stop its momentum. Still, I feel compelled to post an excellent op-ed penned titled by my new friend, Laura Hollis, who is an attorney and professor at Notre Dame. Laura researched and wrote the column with the high level of academic skill and diligence you would expect from someone at such a famed institution. Laura's column can be read here. In addition, Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptists Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has written a two-part exclusive for The Christian Post that looks at how the U.S. Supreme Court will view California's Proposition 8 and issues surrounding the Defense of [...]

By |2013-03-20T10:16:37-05:00March 20th, 2013|My Blog Post|Comments Off on The Legal Arguments to Same-Sex Marriage
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Paul Stanley interviews Gov. Mike Huckabee at NRB Convention in Nashville

Below is the link to my taped interview with Gov. Mike Huckabee at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville earlier this month. I've also included a link to story I wrote based on a transcript of the interview. http://video.christianpost.com/former-gov-mike-huckabee-at-2013-nrb-convention-full-interview-4666/ http://www.christianpost.com/news/huckabee-talks-about-career-nation-in-exclusive-nrb-interview-91330/

By |2013-03-18T14:51:48-05:00March 18th, 2013|My Blog Post|Comments Off on Paul Stanley interviews Gov. Mike Huckabee at NRB Convention in Nashville
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The Story Behind the Story of How the Boy Scouts Announced Their Decision to Consider Gay Scout Leaders

On Wednesday the Boy Scouts of America board of directors deferred action on allowing professed homosexuals to serve as troop leaders until their annual meeting in May. The lack of a decision is seen by many as merely a strategy to buy the organization more time to drum up support and possibly neutralize the opposition of religious and pro-family groups. But there is much more to how this story unfolded. On Friday, January 25, one of our senior editors at The Christian Post informed me someone close to the issue knew that BSA chief Wayne Brock had called on the major religious groups such as the Mormons, Catholics and Southern Baptist to “inform” them they were going to change their policy to allow homosexual scout leaders. I use the word “inform” intentionally, because according to the head of one Christian organization, the Boy Scouts had no intention of having a dialogue about the subject and had already decided on a course of action. Or a least that’s what they thought. After confirming the meetings had taken place with the spokesperson of one of the groups, I sent an email to the BSA at 1:13 p.m. that afternoon with the hopes [...]

By |2013-02-07T12:08:49-06:00February 7th, 2013|My Blog Post|Comments Off on The Story Behind the Story of How the Boy Scouts Announced Their Decision to Consider Gay Scout Leaders
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The Story Behind the Story on Louie Giglio and President Obama

Many articles have been written on why Pastor Louie Giglio withdrew from giving the benediction at President Obama's second inauguration on Monday. Now the story on why Giglio may have pulled out and what might have happened between the Presidential Inaugural Committee and the White House is discussed. My colleague at The Christian Post, Michelle Vu, has written an excellent article entitled Obama May Have Disagreed With Inaugural Committee's Handling of Giglio Controversy, describing how the decision to scrub Giglio may not have sat well with the White House, but nevertheless, President Obama seemed reluctant to use his political capital to keep Giglio on the program. The Atlanta based founder of the Passion Conference gave a sermon to his congregation in the mid-1990's exclaiming what the Bible says about homosexuality. Like tens of thousands of other pastors who have done the same, he has since been labeled "vehemently anti-gay." Vu writes: "In Giglio's mid-90s sermon, he also warned that gay activists were likely to seek to exclude Christians from the public forum for holding traditional biblical views of homosexuality. He said: "Underneath this issue is a very powerful and aggressive movement. That movement is not a benevolent movement, it is a movement to [...]

By |2013-01-18T11:59:13-06:00January 18th, 2013|My Blog Post|Comments Off on The Story Behind the Story on Louie Giglio and President Obama
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