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05/31/2026

The U.S. Supreme Court has never recognized a constitutional right to physician-assisted su***de, and that distinction matters more than most people realize.

Despite what much of the public rhetoric suggests, the court has repeatedly rejected attempts to add that right to the Constitution. In Cruzan v. Director of the Missouri Department of Health, the court recognized a patient's right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, but it was careful to draw a clear line. That right protects a patient allowing natural death, where a person dies from the underlying pathology, not because someone has intentionally introduced poison into their body. One is about preserving dignity in dying. The other is about deliberately causing death. These are not the same thing, and the court has never treated them as such.

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05/30/2026

Four bills quietly introduced in the Michigan House could fundamentally transform the state's relationship with human life.

House Bills 5825 through 5828 work together as a package, and what they propose goes far beyond a single policy change. This legislation would authorize doctor-assisted k*lling, rewrite criminal law to accommodate it, shield participating doctors from any professional discipline for ending a human life, and embed assisted death directly into Michigan's insurance framework. This is not a narrow adjustment to healthcare policy. It is a comprehensive restructuring of the legal and medical systems designed to normalize the taking of human life and protect those who participate in it. Michigan residents need to understand what is actually in these bills.

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05/29/2026

Michigan is considering a bill that would legalize doctor-assisted k*lling, and the consequences reach far deeper than healthcare policy.

Proponents are calling it the Death with Dignity Act, but the real question this legislation forces us to answer has nothing to do with pain management or personal autonomy. It asks whether we will continue to recognize the inherent sanctity and dignity of every human life, or whether we will embrace a worldview where human value becomes conditional, subjective, and ultimately determined by government-authorized will. Once a society accepts that framework, it is only a matter of time before some lives are deemed valuable and others are not. This is not a policy debate. It is a defining moment for how Michigan, and this nation, answers the most fundamental question of all.

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05/28/2026

Two worldviews are at war over the value of human life, and only one of them leads to freedom.

One worldview holds that every human being is created in the image of God, possessing inherent, inalienable dignity from conception until natural death. Under this view, government exists to protect life, not to redefine its value or decide that certain lives matter more than others. The competing worldview treats human value as conditional, placing personal autonomy above all else. When autonomy becomes supreme, the door opens for those in power to determine who is worth protecting and who is not. This is not a political debate. It is a battle over the most fundamental question a society can ask: what makes a human life valuable?

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A city tried to silence a man's home prayer group, and now the case is headed to the Supreme Court.Daniel Grand, an Orth...
05/27/2026

A city tried to silence a man's home prayer group, and now the case is headed to the Supreme Court.

Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jew in University Heights, Ohio, invited fellow members of his community to join him for a minyan prayer session in his home. Because Orthodox Jews do not drive on the Sabbath, and the nearest synagogue was too far to walk, his home was the only reasonable option. The city responded with a cease-and-desist letter, claiming the gathering was equivalent to operating a house of worship in violation of zoning law. The Wagner Center joined a coalition of 44 other amici in a Supreme Court brief defending Grand's right to worship in his own home, with Professor Wagner stating plainly: "Government officials cannot use zoning laws as a pretext to suppress peaceful religious exercise." Home worship was a cornerstone of American religious life at the founding, and it remains fully within the scope of First Amendment protection today. Americans of every faith must be free to pray together in their homes without fear of government punishment.

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The government's words matter, and when they obscure the truth, the law suffers for it.William Wagner, WFFC Distinguishe...
05/27/2026

The government's words matter, and when they obscure the truth, the law suffers for it.

William Wagner, WFFC Distinguished Chair for Faith and Freedom, submitted official public comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services challenging the agency's use of the phrase "medical aid in dying" to describe physician-assisted su***de. Wagner argues that this language is designed to conceal rather than clarify, and that government has an obligation to reflect objective reality in its terminology. His submission also raises serious legal concerns about whether Medicare-funded hospice providers in states where assisted su***de is legal have remained in compliance with the Assisted Su***de Funding Restriction Act of 1997. "The rule of law depends upon truthfulness and clarity," Wagner stated. "Government should not use terminology designed to conceal or soften the intentional facilitation of death." At stake is more than semantics. The line between compassionate palliative care and the intentional facilitation of death must be preserved, and federal oversight must ensure that taxpayer dollars are never used to erase it.

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The Supreme Court has never recognized the right to physician-assisted su***de. So, why are there bills in Michigan's le...
05/26/2026

The Supreme Court has never recognized the right to physician-assisted su***de. So, why are there bills in Michigan's legislature right now that are trying to legalize it? This week, Will wades through court precedent and ideological divide to get to the moral heart of the issue, and what it means for our America.

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Freedom has never been free, and Arlington National Cemetery makes that impossible to forget.This Memorial Day address c...
05/25/2026

Freedom has never been free, and Arlington National Cemetery makes that impossible to forget.

This Memorial Day address calls every generation to reckon with the cost of liberty. From the patriots of the Revolutionary War to those currently serving in military operations in Iran, the thread is the same: brave men and women who believed some truths are worth dying for. Our rights do not come from government, courts, or kings. They come from our Creator, and they have been defended at a staggering price by those who understood duty better than comfort. Scripture says it plainly in John 15:13: "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." Today, we honor those who lived that truth.

To the Gold Star families, your loved ones are not forgotten. To the next generation, do not take this nation for granted. Honor the fallen by living worthy of their sacrifice.

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05/22/2026

If the government gets to define truth, no one in power can ever see their own corruption.

Romans 13 is clear that government bears real authority to establish order and hold wrongdoers accountable. But Judge Wagner identifies the limit that makes that authority legitimate: liberty requires virtue, virtue requires truth, and truth requires a source beyond government itself. The moment the state becomes the sole arbiter of truth, the safeguard is gone. Power without a transcendent check does not protect the people. It protects itself.

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The attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is an assault on every American who believes in religious freedom.Judge Wi...
05/21/2026

The attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is an assault on every American who believes in religious freedom.

Judge William Wagner writes with moral clarity on what the murders of worshippers in San Diego, following violent attacks against Jewish, Catholic, Mormon, and Protestant congregations over the past year, reveal about the deeper crisis facing our nation. This is not simply a political or legal problem. It is a moral one. When people begin viewing others as ideological enemies or objects of hatred, violence becomes easier to justify. America must reject both violent religious extremism and secular extremism without qualification. Any doctrine, religious or secular, that justifies murdering innocent people stands condemned morally and constitutionally. The First Amendment's protection of religious liberty belongs equally to Muslims in California, Jews in Michigan, Catholics in Minnesota, and Protestants in Wayne. No grievance, ideology, or agenda can override that truth. The answer is not vengeance or fear. It is the reaffirmation of human dignity, constitutional liberty, and the sanctity of every life created in the image of God.

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