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Legalizing Counterfeit Birth Certificates
By David E. Smith   |   03.19.17
This morning, the Illinois House Human Services Committee held a hearing on a highly controversial proposal that would legalize fraud through the alteration of birth certificates by gender-dysphoric persons who wish to have the government reinforce their deceit. The bill passed on a party line vote.
Transgenderism and Cancer
03.18.17
Pharmaceutical companies have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to test new drugs. Yet, we in America are permitting confused youth to be used as guinea pigs in medical procedures that mutilate the anatomy and flood the body with potentially damaging hormones. The current rush to acceptance of transgenderism ignores a problem beyond the immediately obvious. Are we setting up hundreds of thousands for early deaths due to cancer?
Call to Prayer (March 2017)
03.16.17
This month’s IFI Prayer Team guidance comes from Phil DelRe, Executive Director of Voice in the Wilderness Ministries. To Our Great God and Savior, With our hearts bowed before you, we join the heavenly host and cry, Holy, holy, holy,...
Hang in There for a Happy Marriage
By Micah Clark   |   03.16.17
The Marriage Foundation out of England recently published a report studying unhappily married adults.   Specifically they looked at 10,000 young marrieds who had newborn babies in 2000 or 2001.   They studied a segment of these new parents based upon the...
Identity Politics and Paraphilias: Leftists Can’t Navigate Either
03.16.17
The recent “March for Women” in Washington, D.C., might have been  a bit vague in its goal, but it sure was vulgar its execution. It also provided nice fodder for this series on identity politics. This is from the Free...
Illinois is Broke, but Lawmakers Still Want to Start Paying for Abortions
By Monte Larrick   |   03.16.17
Illinois lawmakers haven't been able to craft a truly balanced state budget for years and now the Left wants to add funding for abortions to the spending list. Enactment of House Bill 40 will likely come at the expense of programs that help women and children.
These College Students Support Freedom for Muslim Singers. What About Christian Photographers?
By John Biver   |   03.14.17
Is it higher education or higher indoctrination? Many college kids today spend four or more years being indoctrinated as much as they are educated. In this short video, watch a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students learn more about liberty...
Poverty Isn’t the<br>Chief Cause of Crime
03.14.17
Written by Heather Mac Donald I have been talking about the criminal-justice system at colleges recently and encountering the inevitable claim from students (picked up from their professors) that poverty causes crime. This video throws that exculpatory narrative into doubt....
Defining Our Own Reality
03.13.17
The entire "transgender" movement rests on the proposition that a person can define his or her (or "ze") own reality, and that society should recognize and yield to that conception of reality at all times in all places. It appears to be yet another unwieldy extension of the Supreme Court's infamous declaration in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (upholding Roe v. Wade) that "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."
Social Justice Syndrome
03.11.17
If you were to come across someone who cried in the streets, who saw the world in terms of black and white and made death threats against strangers, who cowered in a special room and made public displays of naked self-harm and blood letting, you might conclude that they were suffering from a personality disorder.
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