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By Laurie Higgins
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10.16.15
Princeton University law professor Robert P. George posted an alarming warning on his Facebook page recently about a Christian family who received a letter from the administration of their children’s private “classical” school in which parents were told the school...

10.15.15
Christian ethicist Russell Moore has said that congregations too afraid of being political to speak out against acts of immorality, like abortion, are similar to churches in the 1800s that remained silent on the issue of slavery.
As the featured speaker at the Institute on Religion and Democracy's fifth annual Diane Knippers memorial lecture, Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, criticized mainstream Christian congregations that have relaxed their teachings on key issues of sexual morality and other social issues in order to blend in with the "ambient culture" and appeal to today's society.

10.15.15
The number of marijuana users among teens is increasing. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported in 2013:
Marijuana use rose to 7.5% of users aged 12 or older in 2013. This is up from 6.2% of users in 2002.

By Dr. Michael L. Brown
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10.15.15
I’ve been saying that 2015 is the year of pushback, and this might be the most significant act of pushing back so far: A group of legal scholars, most of them university professors, have declared that the U.S. Supreme Court’s...

By Laurie Higgins
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10.14.15
IFI’s opposition to, for example, a boy in a girls’ locker room is not based on fear that he may rape a girl—though that, of course, is a possibility.
Rather, our opposition emerges from the fact that physical embodiment per...

10.14.15
The public is being cautioned not to place a great deal of faith in a new study that suggests the existence of a "gay gene." Observers may also want to consider the source: a researcher who himself is gay.

By Monte Larrick
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10.14.15
Pro-Lifers are rallying against pieces of legislation that will lift the ban on tax-payer funding of abortion and another bill that will force pro-life healthcare professionals to refer patients to abortionists. Leaders are expressing the need for greater efforts to...

By David E. Smith
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10.12.15
In an article in the Journal of Law and Religion, Law Professor Helen Alvare of George Mason University, examines the inevitable clash between new legal rights to sexual expression and our constitutional right to the free exercise of religion. According...

10.12.15
A homosexual "married" couple is featured prominently with a young boy (their son) in the new Campbell's Soup advertisement. Campbell’s #RealRealLife campaign aims to change the face of the American family. It starts off with the first man feeding soup to the little boy and in a "Star Wars" Darth Vader voice says, "Luke, I am your father." Then the other man enters the scene and says, "No, Luke, I am your father." How confusing for this little boy and for all children viewing this commercial.

By David E. Smith
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10.11.15
The Center for Medical Progress has video documentation of the illegal activities of Planned Parenthood who are selling the body parts of aborted children to research companies for profit. The videos can be viewed at www.centerformedicalprogress.org
The callous and barbaric...



