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Bryan Fischer, formerly the executive director of the Idaho Values Alliance, is the host of the daily 'Focal Point' radio talk program on AFR Talk, a division of the American Family Association. 'Focal Point' airs live from 1-3 pm Central Time, and is also simulcast on the AFA Channel, which can be seen on the Sky Angel network.
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October 11, 2009
Judge Robert Bork wrote a book a number of years ago in which he described an America that was "slouching towards Gomorrah." Well, you can forget the slouching . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 10, 2009
All of us agree that the left has made its major gains in eroding religious liberty in America through activist judges. What they have not been able to gain at . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 4, 2009
Kevin Jennings, the openly homosexual founder of GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) is in charge of making sure America's public schools . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 27, 2009
According to a far-left website, a gay activist by the name of B. Daniel Blatt has written that passing ENDA (The Employment Non-Discrimination Act) could well . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 24, 2009
The Islamic community hopes to have 50,000 Muslims surrounding the U.S. Capitol for Jummah prayer this Friday, September 25.
While all people are of course . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 12, 2009
The Bible is quite direct on the subject: if a nation lives in obedience to God, it will have little or nothing to fear from wild beasts. "If you walk in my . . .
Under ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood will indeed be running health care clinics inside public schools
Bryan Fischer
September 11, 2009
Here at the American Family Association, we have received many inquiries in response to our Action Alert and press release warning Americans that under . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 1, 2009
It is likely to be an exercise in nation-wide indoctrination, Pres. Obama apparently intends to deliver a speech to a captive audience next week — every public . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 28, 2009
Can a devout Muslim be a good American? I submit that the answer to this extremely important question is "No."
This is simply because the values of Islam are . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 21, 2009
It's time we stopped all this nonsense about Islam being a religion of peace. Proof: When Scotland released the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 20, 2009
Athletic officials are flailing about trying to figure out how to handle the case of a possibly transgendered athlete, a teenager who has taken the world of . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 17, 2009
The new director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, is a self-proclaimed evangelical Christian who wrote a best-selling book in 2006 . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 12, 2009
After the Washington state legislature passed a law granting homosexual relationships all the rights and privileges of marriage, making them the full equal of . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 11, 2009
The Washington Post features an article today arguing for the urgent necessity to build devices to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal-fired energy . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 10, 2009
Autumn Sandeen (who is biologically a male in every cell of his body despite adopting a female name) writes at Pam's House Blend that it's all hokum that sex . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 7, 2009
So much for the university as a marketplace of ideas and academic freedom.
Theresa Wagner appears to have been denied a position at the Iowa (University) . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 31, 2009
According to Shawn Tully of Fortune Magazine, despite all the rhetoric you have heard from the President and Democrats as they try to hawk their oppressive . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 30, 2009
The president's proposal to nationalize America's health care industry is wrong-headed on many fronts, but the pro-family community has three compelling reasons . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 25, 2009
As I watched President Obama's desperate, impromptu and face-saving press conference on Friday, one thing emerged clearly. He is simply refusing to acknowledge . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 5, 2009
It's hard to know where to begin to critique President Obama's speech to the Muslim world yesterday. It was historically inaccurate, as almost nothing in the . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 1, 2009
Notorious Wichita abortionist George Tiller, who collected $6,000 from desperate women to perform abortions on their unborn but post-viable babies, was shot to . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 27, 2009
The Judeo-Christian tradition, on which Western jurisprudence rests, is quite clear about the obligation of judges. "You shall do no injustice in court," says . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 26, 2009
President Obama's nominee to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is by all objective accounts an activist judge who will indulge . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 20, 2009
Scientists have unveiled what they claim is a 47-million-year-old missing link fossil in the mythical chain of evolution.
Not to worry. Honest media accounts . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 16, 2009
Homosexual activists have searched long and fruitlessly for the "gay gene," the genetic marker that would prove homosexuals are "born that way," and simply can . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 14, 2009
America's pastors, who week and in week out instruct the faithful in the truths of the Scripture, are the hope of America's future. If they recover their . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 12, 2009
Members of the pro-family community have observed for years that there is strain of fascism in the homosexual movement. This expression of the movement is not . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 9, 2009
As I wrote Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is heading up the GOP response to Sen. Obama's pick to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, is sending some . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 7, 2009
Leaders in the pro-family movement initially were encouraged by the selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be the GOP's point man on the party's evaluation of . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 6, 2009
It is truly a bizarre experience to watch Idaho's Republican governor and its Republican-dominated Senate demand a tax increase in the midst of the worst Idaho . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 2, 2009
While Idaho's Rep. Mike Simpson voted against the so-called "Hate Crimes Prevention" bill on Wednesday, Idaho's Blue Dog Democrat, Rep. Walt Minnick, voted for . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 1, 2009
A lawsuit has been filed against Canyon County and the state of Idaho in an effort to force taxpayers to cough up more money to pay for public defenders. Public . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 20, 2009
On the pages of the Idaho Statesman, the Gem State's largest newspaper, Amy Herzfeld recently expressed her determination to continue pressing for legislation . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 18, 2009
I had the privilege of opening the Tea Party event with an invocation at Ann Morrison Park and closing it with a benediction at the Capitol Park rally, where I . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 15, 2009
Wednesday's Tea Party Boise will climax with a 12:30 p.m. rally at Capitol Park, right across the street from the state capitol.
Yours truly will be the MC . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 10, 2009
As we watch the Somali pirate incident unfold in the Middle East, it serves as a reminder that, besides 9/11, Islam has had one other shaping influence on the . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 9, 2009
While it is true that Darwin was himself an abolitionist, because he argued that all humans were descended from a common ancestor, his view of evolutionary . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 8, 2009
Nothing is plainer in the Scripture than that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. In the second chapter of the Bible, we find, "For this reason a . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 27, 2009
The Idaho House of Representatives will soon take up a bill, House Bill 216 (HB216) designed to protect the conscience rights of pharmacists and pharmacies.
. . .
Bryan Fischer
March 26, 2009
Notre Dame's decision to award an honorary degree to President Obama and invite him to be this year's commencement speaker has stirred up justifiable outrage in . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 20, 2009
The rush by the House to pass a brand new law to tax 90% to 100% of the AIG bonuses is a perfectly terrible response to a perfectly onerous scandal.
. . .
Bryan Fischer
March 19, 2009
An alarming 39.7 percent of babies born in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, were born to unmarried women, and the trend lines are . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 16, 2009
Just as the politicians in my home state of Idaho have decided to hold their collective noses, stick them deeper into the federal trough, and start squabbling . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 13, 2009
In a truly remarkable development, homosexual activists in Canada have openly admitted the rather severe health risks associated with their non-normative sexual . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 10, 2009
Below is an email I received from a member of the community, in response to the Idaho Values Alliance's press release regarding an atheist billboard recently . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 4, 2009
Historically, there has always a certain amount of tension between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party specifically and in the . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 2, 2009
Genuine conservatism is a three-legged stool. We believe that reclaiming America requires spiritual renewal, political reform, and social relief. Not one or the . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 21, 2009
The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee declined this morning even to print Sen. Nicole LeFavour's latest bill to provide special workplace protections based . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 9, 2009
The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday on February 12 serves as a reminder that in his name scientific McCarthyism is alive and well in America's . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 4, 2009
A well-intentioned but wrong-headed bill which will raise Idaho's compulsory attendance age to 18 will receive a hearing in the House Education Committee. Idaho . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 28, 2009
While Pres. Bush did the right thing in commuting the sentences of Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos (although they deserved an outright . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 20, 2009
As the Supreme Court said in 1892, "This is a Christian nation." Props to Pastor Rick Warren for conducting his inaugural invocation in the name of Jesus, as . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 19, 2009
The open letter to Adolph Hitler below was written by a prescient Catholic priest, Ingbert Naab, in Germany in 1932. Eventually 20 million copies of this letter . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 23, 2008
Why does much of the world pause once a year to honor the birth of a Jewish boy born 2000 years ago to a peasant woman in a cave in an obscure village? In . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 18, 2008
Prediction: for the first time in American history, a speaker at a presidential inauguration may be booed unmercifully, and his remarks completely drowned out . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 16, 2008
The flap over holiday displays in the Washington State capitol reached such epic proportions of silliness and political correctness that the state governor . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 13, 2008
"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 12, 2008
The importance of helping the poor is a priority for the both conservatives and liberals. The critical difference is how that aid to the poor is delivered.
. . .
Bryan Fischer
December 11, 2008
In an article attacking the time-honored understanding of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, a feature article in the current issue of Newsweek . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 10, 2008
Judie Brown of the American Life League pulled no punches at Idaho Chooses Life's annual banquet on Friday night. President-elect Barack Obama, she declared, is . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 4, 2008
Homosexual activists are working overtime to convince the American public that their struggle is the same civil rights battle that African-Americans won decades . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 1, 2008
WorldNetDaily featured on online discussion over the weekend on the question of whether Sen. Barack Obama's election to the presidency represents the "will of . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 27, 2008
I exchanged some email correspondence late last week with a friend, who in turn was in conversation with a man who argues that America's Founding Fathers . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 25, 2008
Idaho legislator Rep. Steven Thayn has proposed a novel, even revolutionary idea which will strengthen Idaho families, strengthen the parent-child relationship . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 20, 2008
Benjamin Franklin, when asked at the end of the Constitutional Convention what kind of country the Founders had created, famously said, "A republic, if you can . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 13, 2008
In the wake of conservative losses at the polls last week, veteran columnist Cal Thomas wrote a column (Religious Right R.I.P.) in which he urges evangelicals . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 11, 2008
There is an angry, venomous and even dangerous hatred that fuels many in the activist homosexual movement, which those who challenge the radical homosexual . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 6, 2008
Here's the single most important takeaway from Tuesday's election: evangelical voters are responsible, all by themselves, for putting Sen. Barack Obama into the . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 28, 2008
Perhaps one of the most enlightening — and frightening — elements of Sen. Obama's candidacy is the criterion he will use in selecting nominees to the U.S. . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 25, 2008
Focus on the Family Action published a sobering but frighteningly realistic "What if" letter on Wednesday, written by a Christian in the year 2012 reflecting . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 23, 2008
"The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power." ~ James 5:16
Christians comprise about six percent of India's population. In 2004, heavily . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 17, 2008
We wrote earlier this week about an alarming jump in HIV cases in southeastern Idaho, a state that most people around the country might think would be immune. . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 9, 2008
It's bad enough that Idaho allows gambling on real live ponies. Now the governor is leading the charge to let Gem Staters vote on horses that live and move only . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 6, 2008
Uncle Sam & Congress-man
By Joy Hubbard, Bryan Fischer and Debbie Fischer, with apologies to Dr. Seuss
That Uncle Sam!
That Congress-man!
We do not like . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 2, 2008
In typical congressional fashion, the bailout bill, which was three pages long last week, expanded to a gargantuan 450 pages by the time it passed the U.S. . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 22, 2008
Pop quiz: Two quotes follow. See if you can guess the party affiliation of the man who made each statement.
Statement A: "There must be no blank check when . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 19, 2008
~ He who puts up security for another will surely suffer,
but whoever refuses to strike hands in pledge is safe. (Proverbs 11:15)
~ A man lacking in . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 5, 2008
Bottom line on Wednesday night's speech: The Democrats are in trouble — Gov. Palin doesn't hit like a girl.
While America's Big Media sputtered to find some . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 3, 2008
1. Proof that Sen. McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is an inspired one can be found simply by watching the left wing media bloviate, . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 2, 2008
"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 29, 2008
Aides for Sen. McCain indicated this morning that his choice of a running mate is the Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
The 44-year-old Palin, by the way, . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 23, 2008
"You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 19, 2008
It is a political fact of life that evangelicals play a determinative role in presidential elections. The 36% of evangelicals who voted for Bill Clinton in 1992 . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 18, 2008
"...the baby leaped in her womb..." ~ Luke 1:41
"...the baby in my womb leaped for joy..." ~ Luke 1:44
The two primary contenders for the presidency, Sen. . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 7, 2008
Lynn Moses, a Driggs, Idaho man, entered the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon yesterday at 2 p.m. in an unfolding story of government tyranny.
Mr. Moses . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 1, 2008
Lynn Moses will be locked up in federal prison next Wednesday. His crime? Protecting the city of Driggs, Idaho from flooding.
When Mr. Moses began to develop . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 28, 2008
Idaho has what is called a Blaine Amendment, a sad remnant of anti-Catholic bias that made its way into the state constitution.
It was a virtual condition of . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 14, 2008
Many Christians — and I count myself among them — believe that each nation has a redemptive calling from God, and that part of America's calling is to be a . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 11, 2008
As an ancient and time-honored book of Eastern spirituality says, appropriate corporal punishment is an important part of raising children to maturity.
. . .
Bryan Fischer
July 7, 2008
Dr. Tryce Hansen has captured in summary form the problems with same-sex marriage, and why it's bad for kids. Any society that truly cares about children will . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 4, 2008
"When the wicked rule, the people groan." Proverbs 29:2
The City of Boise is coming after my home, to collect a federal court judgment against me and Brandi . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 25, 2008
In another heartbreaking, gut-wrenching 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court today further trashed the Constitution's 10th Amendment by prohibiting states from executing . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 23, 2008
According to the Associated Press, Bradley Stowell, a 36-year-old man with a history of sexually abusing more than two dozen minors, has been released from . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 19, 2008
After going through the anguish of the trial for the brutal murder of young Samantha Maher, her family will now have to face the agony of going through another . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 17, 2008
Former congressional candidate and staunch conservative Norm Semanko decisively won the election for post of chairman of the Idaho Republican Party at last . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 12, 2008
The tide continues to run in Norm Semanko's favor as he challenges moderate Kirk Sullivan for the post of Idaho GOP party chair. Despite Mr. Sullivan's claim in . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 11, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, as historian David Barton points out, the theory of evolution was around long before Charles Darwin. As far back as the 6th century . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 10, 2008
Former congressional candidate Norm Semanko sent a widely distributed email out last night indicating that he will allow his name to be placed in nomination for . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 29, 2008
The fitness of Kirk Sullivan to continue as the chairman of the Idaho Republican Party has again been called into question by late-breaking developments in the . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 20, 2008
Idaho Federal Judge Lynn Winmill has a well-deserved reputation as an activist judge. Not too long ago, he trampled on the Boise Rescue Mission's First . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 17, 2008
Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling overturning the state's ban on gay marriage is just another catastrophic example of judicial activism on steroids.
. . .
Bryan Fischer
May 15, 2008
The Interfaith Alliance, a far-left religious advocacy group in Idaho, has accused Scott Lively, a scheduled speaker at this weekend's "Shake the Nation" . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 7, 2008
The Idaho constitution stipulates that the justices who sit on the Idaho Supreme Court are to be elected, not appointed.
A disturbing trend has developed in . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 18, 2008
What follows is a straightforward, 4-step refutation of the theory of evolution. They're easy to remember, and make a nice little cadence when spoken with a . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 17, 2008
It's time for everyone who has an ounce of Judeo-Christian compassion and an ounce of concern for the poor to jump off the global warming bandwagon. Our trendy . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 10, 2008
The Constitution restricts the taxing power of the central government, in Article I, Section 8, to a select list of activities: coining money, establishing Post . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 8, 2008
In my last column, I suggested that since, according to Romans 13:1, all political power has been delegated by God, Christians have an appropriate and necessary . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 5, 2008
There are at least two main reasons why followers of the Judeo-Christian tradition should and must be involved in politics, reasons derived directly from the . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 4, 2008
A poll commissioned by the prestigious Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and co-sponsored by the Idaho Values Alliance found that only 12% of Idahoans . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 26, 2008
A number of legislators belonging to the Idaho House of Representatives, including Speaker of the House Lawerence Denney, recently observed that members of the . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 18, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court today takes up the case of Washington, D.C.'s ban on the personal possession of handguns. The 30-year old ban has left law-abiding . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 14, 2008
While the left relentlessly pressures John McCain to distance himself from Pastor John Hagee and his criticisms of the Catholic Church, they seem blithely . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 12, 2008
The Nampa Library Board yesterday voted 3-2 to pull two pornographic books off library shelves and sequester them in the library director's office, a move which . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 7, 2008
The racist bigotry recently exposed at Boise's Planned Parenthood has its roots in the long and unsavory past of this organization.
(When an actor posing as . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 3, 2008
In what will come as a surprise to even casual readers of the New Testament, presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday that the Sermon on the Mount . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 1, 2008
Caller: "We just think the less black kids out there the better."
Autumn Kersey of Planned Parenthood of Idaho: "(laughs)...understandable, understandable." . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 29, 2008
A seven-state investigation conducted last summer by a student magazine at UCLA, The Advocate, revealed the presence of an ugly strain of racism in Planned . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 15, 2008
Leslie Goddard of the Idaho Commission on Human Rights (ICHR) recently promoted S1323, a bill focused on "sexual orientation" and "gender identity," on the . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 11, 2008
A blatantly activist ruling issued by federal judge Lynn Winmill may provide an intriguing opportunity for Idaho to take the national lead in breaking the . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 8, 2008
James Dobson today announced his personal endorsement of Gov. Mike Huckabee for the presidency, on the grounds of his firm and historic support for the sanctity . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 6, 2008
Last night was great for John McCain, good for Mike Huckabee, bad for Mitt Romney, and disconcerting for conservatives everywhere.
The letters "GOP" may soon . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 19, 2008
When Adolph Hitler took power in Germany, he recognized immediately that the major threat to his tyrannical designs would come from the church. If he could . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 18, 2008
The ACLU has submitted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Sen. Larry Craig, who has been engaged in protracted legal machinations to keep the issue of his . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 17, 2008
In what could quickly become an embarrassment to the American Psychological Association, which long ago sold their professionals souls to be shills for the . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 14, 2008
Jim Fisher of The Lewiston Morning Tribune took me to task recently for challenging the decision by the Moscow, Idaho city council in December to grant . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 11, 2008
Not too many people are happy with the current process of selecting presidential nominees — too long, too expensive, too confusing.
The simplest solution . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 3, 2008
Unfortunately for thoughtful adherents of the Judeo-Christian tradition, no one candidate has emerged as the clear best choice to carry the flag of intelligent, . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 1, 2007
Last Wednesday, the Idaho Values Alliance exposed Alaska Airline's discriminatory pricing structure for flights to New York City over the holidays. The story . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 30, 2007
Quietly and with no fanfare, Alaska and Horizon Airlines have begun offering travel specials that are only available to gays, lesbians and transgendered . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 19, 2007
Imagine you are a Christian parent, and you have the option of placing your children in a public school which is specifically designed to honor and protect . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 6, 2007
Concern for public health is reason alone not to grant special rights on the basis of non-normative sexual behavior. As Congress considers the Employment Non . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 1, 2007
Rev. Fred Phelps, unlike every evangelical I personally know, actually does hate homosexuals. Yesterday, Phelps received an expensive smackdown for an anti-gay . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 28, 2007
According to a new policy issued on Sept. 27, in response to a single, solitary complaint, the flag ceremony at military funerals in all 125 national cemeteries . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 12, 2007
When Ann Coulter acknowledged on Donny Deutsch's "The Big Idea," which airs on CNBC, that she believes in the historic Christian truth that Christians would . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 11, 2007
Biologically and biblically there are just two genders — male and female. An individual is either male or female in every cell of the body, and this sexual . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 9, 2007
In a disturbing indication of where we are headed in America if the homosexual agenda is not stopped in its tracks, a new law has been introduced in England . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 5, 2007
Judge Charles Porter's ruling against Senator Craig's effort to withdraw his guilty plea was about as much of a legal smackdown as it is possible to deliver. . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 3, 2007
In the wake of the dustup over John McCain's comments about America's heritage as a "Christian nation," nationally syndicated columnist Michael Medved has . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 2, 2007
It increasingly looks as though Sen. Larry Craig's strategy is to stretch out the legal process as long as possible, perhaps virtually to the end of his term, . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 1, 2007
If Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican Party's presidential nomination, the GOP will — and should — forfeit any chance it has to become the majority party in . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 27, 2007
I had the opportunity to speak earlier this week on behalf of the Idaho Values Alliance in presenting testimony to the Legislative Family Task Force chaired by . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 21, 2007
(Much of the material in this column is drawn from the Cornwall Alliance's abundantly footnoted "Call to Truth," which you can find at www.CornwallAlliance.org. . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 20, 2007
In today's Wall Street Journal, Pete du Pont reminds readers that global warming and cooling have occurred cyclically in Earth's history, and most of these . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 19, 2007
Gov. Otter resisted pressure to make gender the primary qualification for selecting the next Idaho Supreme Court justice, picking the candidate who was most . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 18, 2007
A straw poll taken after last night's Values Voter debate was won overwhelmingly by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Although final numbers have not been . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 17, 2007
A wing of the evangelical movement, headed by Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals, is hopping on the trendy environmentalism bandwagon, . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 14, 2007
Today's Idaho Statesman reveals that Idaho Senator Larry Craig has missed 50 votes in the senate as he battles to rescind his guilty plea to a charge of . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 12, 2007
Jim Fisher of the Lewiston Morning Tribune recently accused me of homophobia for suggesting that it would be appropriate for Idaho's senior senator to resign, . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 5, 2007
As word comes of Sen. Larry Craig's reconsideration of his announced resignation from the U.S. Senate, it turns out that his best ally in getting rid of his . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 28, 2007
By now virtually all of America is aware that Idaho's Sen. Larry Craig pled guilty on August 8 in Minnesota to a charge that he engaged in lewd behavior in an . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 27, 2007
Kevin Richert, the editor of Idaho's largest newspaper, assailed me in yesterday's edition for reminding readers that, according to Idaho code, sexual . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 24, 2007
The editor of the Idaho homosexual activist publication Diversity is such a fan of diversity and so brimming with tolerance that he has no hesitation . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 22, 2007
As forest fires now threaten the homes of the rich and the famous in the Sun Valley area, it's worth taking another look at possible solutions to what has been . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 21, 2007
In many states, including Idaho, sex outside marriage is against the law, and that includes consensual sex between teenagers. Sex outside marriage, whether . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 11, 2007
Idaho Congressman Bill Sali has taken a beating in the last two days from the left-wing blogosphere and the old media for his criticism of the Hindu invocation . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 10, 2007
In a ruling with disturbing public policy implications, federal magistrate Mikel Williams ruled two weeks ago that ordinary Idaho taxpayers must pay to provide . . .
Bryan Fischer
August 7, 2007
As news comes that the Iraqi government has fallen into virtual paralysis due to sectarian bickering between Sunnis and Shias, there are two facets of our . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 20, 2007
In response to a query yesterday from a member of the Idaho Values Alliance network, I shared some of my thoughts about where the race for the GOP presidential . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 9, 2007
Matt Salisbury of Nampa has declared his intention to challenge Idaho freshman GOP Congressman Bill Sali in the 2008 primary. This means Republican voters in . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 4, 2007
The clearest constitutional thinking on the U.S. Supreme Court is being done by Clarence Thomas. Of all nine justices, he consistently is the most committed to . . .
Bryan Fischer
July 3, 2007
"The justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected by the electors of the state at large." — Idaho State Constitution.
It's hard to find a declaration in . . .
Bryan Fischer
June 22, 2007
I had a lengthy conversation yesterday with one of the 19 candidates for Chief Justice Gerald Schroeder's soon-to-be-vacant seat on the Idaho Supreme Court, a . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 28, 2007
According to Idaho Supreme Court Justice Linda Copple Trout, ordinary Idahoans "don't know how to make a choice on who would make a good judge." In essence, . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 17, 2007
As the U.S. Senate works feverishly to cobble together a "comprehensive" bill on immigration reform, here are some suggestions for Congressmen regarding what . . .
Bryan Fischer
May 2, 2007
As the nation prepares for the 56th annual National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 3, it's worth taking a moment to reflect on a seminal moment in American . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 30, 2007
Boise State University has still failed to clarify the discrepancy between statements made by the school's communications director, Frank Zang, and the director . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 27, 2007
Boise State University plans to break ground on May 8 on an expansion of the Student Union Building which will include at least one bathroom intended for use by . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 25, 2007
Robert Spencer, one of the world's leading experts on Islamic jihad, delivered a well-attended lecture this week on the campus of Boise State University on the . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 23, 2007
Several excerpts from the Supreme Court ruling upholding Congress' 2003 ban on partial birth abortion are worth noting. In Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion, . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 18, 2007
A good friend of mine, Andrei Constantinescu, who was born and raised in Romania, and has lived in the United States for the last five years, was naturally . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 17, 2007
The Second Amendment unequivocally protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms, both for their own self-protection and for defense against the . . .
Bryan Fischer
April 4, 2007
On Monday, the Supreme Court once again demonstrated it has no regard for the constitutional limits on its judicial overreach by meddling in issues that were . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 27, 2007
The original intent of the Second Amendment is quite clear and straightforward: the Founders wanted to protect the right of individual Americans to own guns. . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 22, 2007
This week has been Cesar Chavez week at Boise State University, as our local campus celebrates the legacy of one of the three men to have his birthday . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 16, 2007
By now you are certainly familiar with the statement by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that homosexuality is "immoral." He received . . .
Bryan Fischer
March 8, 2007
The Idaho Values Alliance is committed to promoting religious liberty, the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, and judicial restraint, convictions we . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 7, 2007
Despite the claims of secularists to be all about tolerance, the sad reality is that once homosexual behavior receives any kind of legal endorsement through . . .
Bryan Fischer
February 3, 2007
Many state laws — including those in my home state of Idaho — currently allow for single adults to adopt children, which has become a pathway for children to be . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 24, 2007
An elementary student in Nampa, Idaho is in trouble with school authorities because she insists on saying the Pledge of Allegiance in English only. It . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 19, 2007
A pro-abortion column appeared in the Friday, January 19 edition of the largest circulation newspaper in my home state, written by the executive director of the . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 17, 2007
Virginia this week is celebrating the 220th anniversary of the passage of Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom. This bill was so important to . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 12, 2007
The House of Representatives, as expected, last Thursday passed a bill that will expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR). ESCR is morally . . .
Bryan Fischer
January 4, 2007
As I write these words, newly-elected Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, whose campaign was substantially financed by members of the Council on American . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 27, 2006
The Massachusetts Supreme Court Wednesday issued a ruling in which the justices flatly declare that the state legislature is violating the state constitution by . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 21, 2006
Things continue to get more confusing and contentious over what kind of public displays will be tolerated during the Christmas season. Amazingly, the Washington . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 7, 2006
Jewish columnist Dennis Prager, who argued in a recent column that newly-elected Congressman Keith Ellison should use the Bible rather than the Koran in his . . .
Bryan Fischer
December 4, 2006
Government health officials reported last week that out-of-wedlock births have climbed to an all-time high of 37%, largely due to a dramatic rise in births . . .
Bryan Fischer
November 16, 2006
As I wrote in my first column on the subject of the correct interpretation and application of the First Amendment, it is incumbent upon us to ascertain as . . .
Bryan Fischer
October 23, 2006
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
(Note: emphasis is added unless otherwise . . .
Bryan Fischer
September 20, 2006
In the Sept. 3 edition of the Lewiston Morning Tribune, editor Jim Fisher accuses me of working to impose a Christian theocracy on Idaho and working with others . . .
