In a previous column about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments in the case against Arizona's immigration enforcement law, I asked how Christians should respond in the debate. It's easy to de-personalize illegal aliens and to view them at a distance as a monolith set of lawbreakers, as I admittedly tend to do. They are individuals made in the image of God, which also means they're moral agents accountable for their acts.

I'll admit it. When I find out some actor, singer, or novelist I like is a liberal and/or supports what I oppose, I'm a little disappointed. And I'm disappointed a lot. Even if I try not to care, I care. But what bothers me most is when Christians, well known or obscure, openly approve what God condemns and sound as if they've never cracked open a Bible.

The findings are well known at this point. Children living with their married, biological parents are at lower risk of such social pathologies as poverty, delinquency, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, drug use, and criminality. These children also perform better in school.

Live Action, a pro-life advocacy group, released an undercover video yesterday recorded at a Planned Parenthood location in Austin, Texas. The "pregnant" operative tells the employee why she wants to kill her unborn baby.

"I see that you're saying that you want to terminate if it's a girl," the employee said, "so are you just wanting to continue the pregnancy in the meantime?" The so-called counselor informs the operative she can abort up to 23 weeks, and around that time, her baby's sex can be determined.

"… I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)

While running for the Illinois state senate in 1996, Barack Obama responded to a questionnaire saying he favored legalizing homosexual "marriage" and wrote that he "would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages." In 2004, he said he opposed homosexual "marriage," based on his faith, and didn't consider it a civil right.

Did Harvard University hire the blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts, because she claimed to be an American Indian?