A bill on sex-selective abortions was heard in the South Dakota Senate Human Services Committee on Monday and ended with a deadlocked vote. Pro-abortion liberals had a fresh spin this time in their effort to obfuscate and maintain access to abortion on demand: the bill to ban sex-selective abortions is “racist” and “discriminatory.”

“Remember the Arizona” was the rallying cry of American forces in the Pacific during World War II. The fall of the U.S.S. Arizona, along with other ships and sailors at Pearl Harbor, became emblematic of the freedom for which Americans were fighting. Recent events have ensured that “Remember Arizona” will now become a rallying cry for religious freedom.

Do officials lose the right to pray as they deem appropriate based on their belief and conscience, and do political enemies have the right to censor officials’ prayers based on terms they simply claim are offensive? Does the Constitution guarantee protection from being “offended?”

Knowing as he does that there are many in the world who share an animus towards the Jewish state, and having been associated all his life with anti-Israel leftists and Islamists, it is not beyond credulity that Obama will display brute force against Netanyahu – something he has assiduously refrained from doing with respect any other nation state, especially the world’s tyrants.

In 400 years, America may not look the same to the first settlers — but the battles it wages certainly would. Even after four centuries, true religious freedom is as scarce today as it was when the pilgrims stepped onto the ship that would carry them to the new world. The only difference is, the threats to that ideal comes not from a foreign power — but within.

We are watching a frenzied campaign of leftist media hysteria and disinformation surrounding the religious freedom protection bills in Arizona, Mississippi and a few other states. Those who are opposed to these bills are falsely claiming they would promote the ill treatment of homosexuals. This is nonsense, of course. This is not about homosexuals themselves, but specific demands made by homosexuals that would force those with moral objections to violate their conscience.

These are some of the important bills which are scheduled to be considered in the South Dakota Legislature today. They include legislation dealing with firearms, EPA standards, election petitions, education, expanding gambling, and more.