by United Families International | Aug 4, 2011 | UFI Blog, UN
*Another in UFI’s series of blog posts from the young adults attending the UN High Level Meeting on Youth By Niels Wankier Having lived in the country of Bulgaria for two years as a service missionary for my church, I had hoped to be able to use my language skills and...
by United Families International | Aug 3, 2011 | Abstinence, AIDS, Same-Sex Attraction, UFI, UFI Blog, UN
UFI in the News Four students from BYU and a student from Arizona State University attended a conference with the UN in New York City to represent United Families International on July 25 and 26. Many young people attended the conference to discuss issues facing the...
by United Families International | Aug 2, 2011 | Family, motherhood, UFI Blog
By Rachel Allison Several years ago my husband and I had the opportunity to travel to India. We were there for eleven days to tour and inspect progress being made in the slums of Hyderabad, so we weren’t expecting modern or state of the art anything. The Indian...
by United Families International | Aug 1, 2011 | Research, Same-Sex Attraction, UFI Blog
Is reparative therapy (or reorientation therapy as it is sometimes called) harmful to individuals who experience same-sex attraction? Is it “unethical” as some members of the psychological associations claim? Those who stridently oppose reparative therapy object to...
by United Families International | Jul 29, 2011 | Free Speech, Proposition 8, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Attraction, Same-Sex Marriage, UFI Blog
Here’s the question that we asked UFI readers: “Have you ever been called a “hater” or a “bigot” because of your stance on same-sex marriage?” Here is how readers responded: 78 percent “Yes” 22 percent “No” The Chilling of...
by United Families International | Jul 28, 2011 | Abortion, Abstinence, AIDS, Child Development, Sex Education, UFI Blog
By Rachel Allison Hollywood and the media send “in your face” messages of sexual lies that far too often men and women swallow, hook, line and sinker. “Sex on the first date? That’s okay, it was love at first sight”. “You waited to have sex until the third or...