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All Eyes on California Supreme Court’s Deliberation over Marriage Law
All Eyes on California Supreme Court's Deliberation over Marriage Law February 25, 2008 Dear Friend of the Family, We all remember the 2003 Goodridge decision in which the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts uprooted state marriage law. Four unelected individuals...
UFI Addresses United Nations General Assembly, Calls Upon Commission to Address Family Issues
UFI Addresses United Nations General Assembly, Calls Upon Commission to Address Family Issues Dear Friend of the Family, Opportunity often presents itself to those who are observant, vigilant and prepared. Thomas Christensen, a longtime member of the Governing Board...
Gay Straight Alliances Take Aim at Parents’ Values, Confuse Students
Gay Straight Alliances Take Aim at Parents' Values, Confuse Students February 14 , 2008 "Every fall, millions of parents drop their children off at taxpayer-funded public schools, assuming that their children's education will provide what they need to be successful in...
AIDS Relief Program Could be Transformed into Abortion on Demand Funding Source
AIDS Relief Program Could be Transformed into Abortion on Demand Funding Source Dear Friend of the Family, Congressman Tom Lantos (Democrat, California), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, is circulating draft legislation to reauthorize President...
Significant Efforts Underway to Defend Marriage on State Level
Significant Efforts Underway to Defend Marriage on State Level Dear Friend of the Family, An election year gives citizens a wonderful opportunity to have a voice in the laws and people who govern our land. It behooves us all to research those candidates and issues...
Pro-Life Message is Winning, but War is Not Over
Pro-Life Message is Winning, but War is Not Over Dear Friend of the Family, On the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, we are greatly encouraged by the recent news that the number of abortions in the United States fell to the lowest...
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Religious Liberty–The Harder the Conflict the more Glorious the Triumph
By Caitlin Woolbert “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell,...
What Can You Do to Change the World? These People Are…
by Erin Weist A few months ago we wrote about the World Congress of Families that convened in Salt Lake City, Utah and focused on issues that affect families and family relationships. I was fortunate enough to attend several of the lectures and am thrilled that they...
Using Title IX to Remove Choice
by Diane Robertson We’re at that time of year where seniors in high school are making choices about what they want to do after graduation. Many are preparing for college, the military or some sort of training beyond high school. My oldest daughter, is there now. In...
January 17, 2016 – Mark it on Your Calendar
by Elise Ellsworth January 17, 2016 marks the thirty-third anniversary of a unique holiday – Sanctity of Human Life Day. This now almost-forgotten holiday, always falling on the third Sunday of January, was originally designated by President Ronald Reagan to coincide...
The Spirit of Christmas Can Stay All Year
by Erin Weist I have long loved the feeling of the spirit of Christmas. There is something different, something magical, something special in the air. Among Christian nations the month of December is a special one. Christmas time is when we celebrate the birth of...
Who Needs a Father?
By Patrick Williams "You're one of the good guys!" This is one of the things my father wrote in a birthday card to me some years ago that I never will forget. Nothing makes you feel like a man than such validation from the man you look up to. Just as in this...
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