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Gender Identity Politics: Erasing Womanhood at the United Nations and How that Will Affect You
From the Desk of Tori Black: Hello Friends, As we planned for the Commission on the Status of Women this year, we felt strongly that we needed to address two aspects of the current trends in transgender activism: the participation of transwomen in women’s sports...
Masterpiece Cakeshop: Successfully defends religious liberty – again!
From the desk of Tori Black: Hello Friends, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop was in the news again. We’ve shared his story with you before. He is one of an increasing number of business owners who find themselves caught in a battle between First Amendment rights...
The United Nations and the Family: What does it have to do with you?
From the Desk of Tori Black: Hello Friends, Most people don’t realize the pervasive influence that the United Nations has on our everyday lives and the way it can affect our families. UN deliberations affect our laws, the curriculum in our schools and the policies...
The Countercultural Institution on the Family
From the Desk of Tori Black: Hello Friends, Author and researcher Jennifer Marshall has said “Marriage is a promise. Not just between one man and one woman, but to the community at large, to generations past and to those yet to be born. Wedding vows set apart this...
The Equal Rights Amendment: Still a Bad Idea for Women and Families
From the Desk of Tori Black: Hello Friends, In 1972 the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passed the US Senate and was sent to the states for ratification. It was first proposed in 1923 but didn’t gain any traction until following the feminist revolution that began in the...
The Reality of Abortion: Sacrificing the Future
From the Desk of Tori Black: Hello Friends, On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the New York legislature passed a law that would protect the most radical of abortion procedures. The state has defined abortion as a fundamental right. Doing so may infringe on rights of...
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By Tonya Cox I am a mother in California. My husband and I spent most of our family life raising our five children in here. Our youngest child is a senior in high school and our third California high school graduate. I cannot express how grateful I am that in a few...
Gender Identity Politics: Erasing Womanhood at the United Nations and How that Will Affect You
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” That infamous statement came from the 1998 grand jury testimony of Bill Clinton....
The United Nations and the Family: What does it have to do with you?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black March 20, 2003, my family had joined my parents in Maui for a spring vacation. From our tiny, speck of an island in the middle of the...
Unexpected Motherhood
By Kimberly Williams Each year there are millions of unintended pregnancies. In 2013, I became part of that statistic, which changed my life forever. I had been casually dating a guy for 6 months. It was right before Christmas of 2012 that I decided to take a...
The Countercultural Institution of the Family
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black In 1975, Tippi Hedren, the actress best known for her role in the Alfred Hitchcock horror film The Birds, visited a Vietnamese refugee...
The Equal Rights Amendment: Still a Bad Idea for Women and Families
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Teresa Hunsaker For many decades now we have witnessed the progress of the movement for ‘equality’ between the sexes. In fact, the debate has...
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