The Venue is a church, founded last year in central Florida, with a bold and unique vision. The Venue has a vision of getting into schools — as many as it can — and staying there. It will enable them to reach out to children and families right where they’re at, instead of expecting those families to come to them.

Why do people use arguments that they don’t believe themselves? Because they know what their conservative opponents’ positions are, and are trying to trick those opponents into a false compromise. They want to look like they’re willing to “meet halfway,” when they’re really not willing to budge from their extreme stance at all. If you mix water and poison, the result isn’t a compromise between the two. The result is poison. And if you try to mix a truth and a lie, the result isn’t a compromise; it’s a lie.

On September 25, Guido Barilla, the president of the large pasta company that bears his family’s name, was interviewed on an Italian radio program. He was asked why his company didn’t portray any “gay” families in its advertising. His answer brought the predictable wrath of homosexual activists.

One of the acts consisted of a married couple who fancied themselves to be a singing duo. Unfortunately they were, by any halfway reasonable standard, absolutely terrible. I think it’s hard to disagree that they should have taken a good, hard, honest look at themselves before going too far. It’s easy to laugh at the foolishness of people like this couple, but when it comes right down to it we’re all in the same boat as them.

One of the slogans of the current “gay marriage” movement is “love shouldn’t have limits.” Like most expressions of “pro-gay rights” positions, this slogan involves some very misleading wording. No one can place a limit on love, and no one is trying to. Love, correctly defined, is not an emotion or an attraction; it is merely choosing to act in someone else’s best interest. Anyone can love anyone else; love has no limits.

When certain things are commonly portrayed certain ways in the media — TV, movies, comics, etc. — it could be argued that this influences how people think about these things. At the very least, though, it reflects how people want to think about these things. Portrayals are frequently highly inaccurate, however, leading us to base opinions on flawed visions of “reality.”

If anyone does not wish to participate in marriage on the terms it comes with, they are more than welcome to excuse themselves from it. They are not welcome — at least in the eyes of anyone who truly understands and values marriage — to change its terms to suit themselves.

Back in the days of the Great Depression it was common for people to name things after the president. For example, a newspaper that a homeless person covered himself with while sleeping was known as a Hoover Blanket. Well, it’s clear that the current president also should have some things named after him (besides ObamaCare, of course)

Imagine if a small child got his hands on a fast car and discovered that he could figure out how to make it move. He had no knowledge of the rules of the road, or even any interest in learning those rules, but only wanted the chance to take this awesome toy wherever he wanted and go as fast as he could. If someone were to deny him any further access to the car, he would consider them the greatest party-pooper there ever was, and would likely fight them tooth-and-nail. But would they be wrong to keep the car from him?

In the course of various discussions about frequently debated subjects, I have observed that there are some people whose viewpoints indicate that they live in the real world, and others whose viewpoints indicate that they live in a fantasy world. By the latter, I refer to people who assume that certain things are true that really aren’t, and that certain things have happened that never really did or could.