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By John Biver
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09.02.17
The Illinois Family Institute and its sister organization, Illinois Family Action, have posted on each of the organization’s website an “about” page with a summary of each group's mission (here is IFI's, here is IFA's).
Every now and then, however, IFI and IFA receive notes from friends and allies questioning some aspect of the organizations’ activities.
By Monte Larrick
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09.01.17
It is the beginning of a new academic year and for many students who attend taxpayer funded schools in Illinois that means about 10 months of left-leaning indoctrination along with co-ed restrooms and locker rooms. A grassroots activist says schools do not have to be that way.
By Micah Clark
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08.31.17
Jean Twenge is a researcher who has looked at data on over 11 million youth as part of a new generational study. The millennial generation is timing out as a new, unnamed generation appears. These young people could be called...
By John Biver
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08.30.17
The Illinois Family Institute always appreciates when its work is read by more people, and we benefit when others bring attention to our work. Over the years when writing op eds I’ve made mistakes — failed to correct typos or...
08.30.17
On August 28th, the West Chicago Public Library Board voted 6-1 to retain the homosexuality-celebrating picture book This Day in June. IFI thanks you for your support in emailing the library director Benjamin Weseloh to share your concerns about this book.
The American Family Association has partnered with The Moral Outcry in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn one of the most devastating high court cases in American history, Roe v. Wade.
Roe v. Wade, which was decided in 1973,...
A prominent Christian ministry is taking the Southern Poverty Law Center to task over its published list of what it considers "hate groups."
08.26.17
As I listen to the main stream media daily and hear what they determine to be the “news stories” of the day, I have asked myself on numerous occasions, “What has President Trump accomplished in his first eight months of office?”
By John Biver
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08.25.17
Picture this: You’re at the library with your three-and-a-half-year-old daughter whose attention is grabbed by a colorfully illustrated children’s book. She takes it off the shelf and asks you what the book is about.
You are happy to oblige until...
08.25.17
Ever have a conversation with someone about God’s view on a matter, such as homosexuality, abortion or sme-sex "marriage," and they bring up some wild response from the Old Testament law as a defense? They say, “What about not eating shellfish?” Or, “what about wearing mixed fabrics?” They dig up certain passages on restrictions on beard trimming, or keeping your hair at a certain length. They do this to downgrade the validity of the Scriptures, but also to...
