In our blog, read about the political and cultural issues affecting Tennesseans written from a conservative perspective. Commentaries are typically written by David Fowler, an attorney who served in the Tennessee state Senate for 12 years before joining FACT as President.
The Shift in Law That Has Made Abortion Laws a Nightmare
Jan 17, 2024 by David Fowler
The reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer has spawned lawsuits by Tennessee women and physicians concerned about the state’s new laws criminalizing abortion and bills providing exceptions to that law. The lawsuits and bills have provided a mirror...
Why I Dreaded a Reporter’s Call Last Week
Jan 11, 2024 by David Fowler
A newspaper reporter called last week to ask me questions “about the local, state and national political issues that you see as increasingly salient to the conservative Christian community in Tennessee, and what sorts of forces drive these...
How Memphis’s After School Satan Club Schools Christians
Jan 5, 2024 by David Fowler
This week The Satanic Temple plans to launch its first after-school program in Tennessee at an elementary school that is part of the Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) system. It’s called the After School Satan Club. Rather than dec...
How Might a Potential Pro-life Law Define Christianity?
Dec 29, 2023 by David Fowler
Monday will mark the beginning of a new year, and soon I will mark my twenty-ninth year at the state legislature. Yet, this year I plan to take a whole new approach to lobbying. The need for change was brought to a head this month by a growing nation...
Don’t Let the Fauci Grinches Steal Christmas
Dec 22, 2023 by David Fowler
Every year the profundity of the Christmas story grows and matures in me. But I sense that Fauci Grinches have stolen from many Christians (I have been one of them) and from all others the most glorious and astounding good news they could ever hope t...
Did the U.S. Supreme Court “Create” Nominal Christianity? What Can Be Done About It?
Dec 15, 2023 by David Fowler
If you grew up around Christians, you may have heard of “nominal Christians.” I just realized the United States Supreme Court helped create them—pastors and lay persons alike. It established the jurisprudential climate that has help...
Assessing Governor Lee’s School Voucher Proposal
Dec 8, 2023 by David Fowler
Governor Lee wants to expand his education voucher or scholarship program to improve education. Opponents see it as a plan to destroy public education. When asked by a friend if I was following the issue, I said, “No, and I didn’t plan to...
Evangelical Prophets Come to America’s Rescue
Dec 1, 2023 by David Fowler
Last week an internationally known man along with a woman, both of whom are part of what I will refer to as the prophetic sector of the Christian communion within the United States, called Christian women to a fasting and prayer event next year at th...
Learning How to “Be” a Thankful Person Can Be Expensive
Nov 22, 2023 by David Fowler
Being a thankful person this Thanksgiving was challenging. My challenge was small and inconsequential compared to what many are facing right now. But it doesn’t change the fact that I have had to process what it means to be defined as a thankfu...
What I learned from almost thirty years of seeking to advocate for righteous laws
Nov 17, 2023 by David Fowler
It has been brewing in me for the last few years, and this week it came to a head. I concluded that I pursued my public policy work for the better part of twenty years under a worldview that could not have been framed better had I been a strict mater...
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