Bryan Fischer here with the Life and Liberty Minute. Major League Baseball freaked when Georgia passed a law requiring photo ID to vote by mail. Frenzied accusations of racism drove MLB to move its All-Star game from Atlanta to Colorado. The move will take 100 million dollars out of the Atlanta economy, and will hurt minority workers the most. Worse, Colorado has voter ID laws, just like Georgia, and is much less diverse. Colorado is 5% black and 87% white, while Georgia is 33% black and 60% white. Many of the major corporations that forced the move also require photo ID. Delta requires a government-issued ID to get on one of their planes. And if you pick up your tickets to the All-Star game at the Will-Call window, you’ll need picture ID. A friend of mine used to say, “Sin makes you stupid.” Delta and major league baseball prove that my friend is right.

Bryan Fischer here with the Life and Liberty Minute. The purpose of the Constitution was to spell out the inalienable rights that have been given to us by God, which no government and no human authority has the moral right to take away. Among these is “the right to keep and bear arms.” This is not a right that belongs to the states, nor to the militia - no, it is the right of the people to bear arms in their own defense. The federal government can’t take it away, and no state government can take it away, because it is a bedrock right that belongs to the people themselves. The only permit Americans need to bear arms is the Constitution itself. Iowa this week became the 22nd state in the Union to recognize this, allowing its citizens to buy and carry handguns with no permit required. An armed society is a polite society. Iowa is safer and more polite than it was a week ago.

Bryan Fischer here with the Life and Liberty Minute. King David exercised political power for 40 years, and came to know things about what makes a nation prosperous. He told his son Solomon that the secret to his success as a political ruler was simple: “Be strong, he said, and show yourself a man.” “Keep the charge of the Lord your God, keeping His statues, that you may prosper in all that you do.” A nation needs leaders who display masculine strength and will be faithful to the moral standards of God. No nation can last long which has leaders who show total disrespect for the moral standards of the word of God. People follow their leaders into godliness or ungodliness. Let’s pray that our leaders Remember what John Adams said. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Bryan Fischer here with the Life and Liberty Minute. First Kings 1 tells the story of Adonijah trying to steal the throne from Solomon, King David’s choice to succeed him. Rather than wait his turn, wait for God to elevate him in His own time, Adonijah put himself forward and tried to lift himself up and place himself on the throne. His plans were exposed and frustrated and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. The lesson here is that we must reject any temptation to angle or maneuver for position or to exalt ourselves. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble, and He lifts them up in due time. God knows the plans He has for us, and nothing can stop Him from fulfilling His will for our lives. Let’s humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand, and believe that He will lift us up at the proper time, the time of His choosing, just as He did for Solomon.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. There is no mention of the filibuster in the Constitution. When it was first instituted, it was done to preserve unlimited debate, especially for controversial legislation, so that every senator would have the opportunity to argue his position on a bill. Eventually everybody had their say, they ended debate, and voted. Thus, in a genuine filibuster, somebody is always talking. But the Senate changed the rules so that now a filibuster means everybody stops talking, the exact opposite of its original intent. Joe Biden wants to get rid of the fake-a-buster, and for once I agree with him. I’m all for making sure that every senator’s voice gets to be heard, but I’m all for getting rid of this phony version, which stops debate instead of promoting it. Let’s have a robust debate, and then let’s vote.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden claims to be a big time supporter of diversity in the military but that is plainly not true. His Defense Department just hired Richard Torres-Estrada to oversee the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. Last year, however, Estrada compared the then current commander in chief, Donald Trump, to Adolf Hitler. So the guy who now oversees hiring for the Navy Seals would have no place for a man who received 74 million votes for president in November from patriotic Americans. It won’t be an office of diversity and inclusion; it’ll be an office of woke sameness which rejects diversity for mind-numbing uniformity which excludes anyone who brings a Christian worldview to work as a defender of our freedom. If our military goes woke, it goes broke, meaning it will no longer work.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. Regressive evangelicals seem to think the Bible is all about open borders. But it’s not. When Israel approached the Promised Land, Moses asked the kings of Edom and Moab for permission to pass through their territory on the way to Canaan, and was denied - twice. What did Moses do? Did he invade their land or sneak across their borders? No - Exodus says he “went around the land of Moab and the land of Edom.” Borders around countries are God’s idea, not man’s, and are to be respected. When we protect our sovereign borders from an invasion of illegal aliens who enter without our permission, we are following the template laid down by God himself in his Word. There is nothing wrong and everything right about insisting that the people of other nations honor and respect our borders. And God agrees.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. The Democrats' new voting bill, which I call the Permanent Democrat Majority Until The End of Time bill, would forbid every state in the union from requiring signature verification on any election form. Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a recall in California, and state law requires that every one who signs his recall petition be a registered voter. In the fall election, 99.4% of all mail-in ballots were accepted because minimal signature verification was done. But on the recall petition, only 81.7% of signatures have been accepted as Newsom has his toadies scrutinizing every signature under a microscope. When it comes to voting, Democrats scream that signature verification is voter suppression. In California, apparently, voter suppression is in the eyes of the beholder.

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. Reparations represent compensation paid to descendants of former slaves. While the idea has some superficial appeal, it is profoundly unbiblical. That’s because, in a Christian nation, we do not punish sons for the sins of their fathers. In a culture governed by Judeo-Christian values, each man is to be held accountable for his sin, but not for the sins of others. As Deuteronomy 24:16 says, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.” Ezekiel 18:20 says the same thing. “A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son.” The only debt we do owe to each other is the obligation to love each other, and that’s a debt we will always owe.

The Life and Liberty Minute features Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60-second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.