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Legal Scholars Rise Up Against Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Decision
By Dr. Michael L. Brown   |   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...
A Brief Word About the Incoherence of “Transgender” Locker Room Policy
By Laurie Higgins   |   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...
Strong Doubt Cast On Another ‘Gay Gene’ Study
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.
Weary of New Legislation, Illinois Pro-Lifers Celebrate Adoption
By Monte Larrick   |   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...
Religious Freedom vs. Sexual Expression
By David E. Smith   |   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...
New Commercial for Campbell’s Soup
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.
Governor Rauner Needs to Hear From Us Loud and Clear!!!
By David E. Smith   |   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...
Global Experience Shows that Physician-Assisted Suicide Threatens the Weak and Marginalized
10.10.15
Allowing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) would be a grave mistake for four reasons, as explained in a Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, “Always Care, Never Kill.”[1] First, it would endanger the weak and vulnerable. Second, it would corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor–patient relationship. Third, it would compromise the family and intergenerational commitments. And fourth, it would betray human dignity and equality before the law. Instead of helping people to kill themselves, we should offer them appropriate medical care and human presence.
Polling Supports Our Concerns. Are the Politicians Listening?
By Micah Clark   |   10.08.15
Yet another national poll is out finding that Americans are increasingly concerned about what is happening to religious freedom. This concern is seen in all demographic groups and ages. The Barna Group did their polling even before Kentucky clerk, Kim...
Racetracks in Illinois to Shut Down
By   |   10.07.15
The owners of Arlington Park closed the racetrack 18 years ago, saying that competition from casinos was killing horse racing. Two years later, under Governor George Ryan, the Horse Racing Act was amended to subsidize horse racing by reducing or...
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