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The Absurdity of Transgenderism: A Stern but Necessary Critique
03.10.15
We should make public policy and encourage social norms that reflect the truth about the human person and sexuality, not obfuscate the truth about such matters and sow the seeds of sexual confusion in future generations for years to come.
Dear Rob Bell: The Church Isn’t Giving an Inch on Gay Marriage
03.07.15
Dear Rob Bell, I recently read your comments, made to Oprah, about the church being “moments away” from affirming gay marriage. Here are your remarks as reported on one website:
Library Internet Filter Bill
By David E. Smith   |   03.05.15
State Representative Peter Breen (R-Lombard) recently introduced HB 2689, also known as the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act. This common sense legislation would help protect children and families from obscene and illegal material on the Internet and prevent public...
NY Post Recommends that Obama Tell Still More Falsehoods About Islam
By   |   03.05.15
Yet another non-Muslim assures us that the Islamic State is not Islamic. And once again, his analysis is based on comforting falsehoods about Islam that will not convince even one young Muslim who is considering joining the Islamic State not...
H.R. 1153 Offers Asylum for Homeschoolers
03.04.15
Amid the immigration debate in Washington, D.C., legislation is pending that will make it possible for families who are treated harshly over homeschooling to find refuge in the United States. The legislation was developed by HSLDA along with supportive members of Congress in the wake of the Romeike family’s asylum case.
Tax Payer Funding for Abortion
03.03.15
Late last week, State Representative Sara Feigenholtz introduced HB 4013, a bill that would remove all prohibitions on taxpayer funding of abortions. In other words, this legislation would reverse the current law which bans taxpayer funding of abortion under Medicaid. In 1977 there were over 12,700 abortions paid for under Public Aid’s Medicaid program with taxpayer dollars.
Ultrasound Opportunity Act in Springfield
By David E. Smith   |   03.03.15
IFI is working with other Illinois pro-life groups in advocating for an important pro-life bill sponsored by State Representative Barbara Wheeler (R-Crystal Lake).  If passed, HB 2701 would require abortion providers to simply offer an ultrasound picture to women considering...
By Monte Larrick   |   03.02.15
Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI's Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.
Watchdog Group Releases Anti-Christian-Bigotry Map
By   |   03.02.15
In 2007, and with that same nauseating arrogance that has come to define him, then presidential candidate Barack Obama duplicitously quipped, “I am absolutely convinced that culture wars are just so ’90s. Their days are growing dark.” Dark, indeed. America’s...
Americans Fed Up With Billion$ Going to Christian Persecuters
By   |   02.28.15
Even with the daily pro-Muslim sentiment coming out of the White House on a daily basis, many Americans are surprised to find out that billions of their tax dollars are funding nations that enforce Islamic law and persecute Christians — and an overwhelming majority oppose it.
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