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A very important, albeit confusing, ruling was handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) last summer. In the United States v. Windsor case, the Supreme Court struck down the federal definition of marriage contained in the...
01.15.14
Sixty-two days. Today, my dear son or daughter, you are 62 days old. I say son or daughter, because, you are 62 days old in the womb today, so we don’t know a whole lot yet about you. But what we do know is this. You are ours and you are loved.
In 2010 millions of American tea-party constitutionalists, to include the GOP’s Christian base, united in a remarkable grass-roots effort to rein in our unbridled federal government and return it to its expressly limited constitutional confines. As a result, an unprecedented...
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Monte Larrick
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01.14.14
Illinois Family Institute is excited to announce the appointment of Monte Larrick as its Media Affairs Director.
Larrick, an award-winning broadcast journalist, recently retired from Moody Broadcasting in Chicago after more than 30 years of service. He will be using...
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Rev. Thorin Anderson
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01.12.14
There is much hand-wringing over the violence and chaos of Chicago’s inner city neighborhoods and the fiscal crises facing the state, and we are led to believe that people really want solutions. The evidence would say otherwise. While those who...
Ray Comfort’s short movie 180 continues to influence people to turn away from abortion.
180 is the story of eight people who were all for abortion, but in a matter of minutes or seconds change their views to become pro-life....
A Colorado baker who declined to bake a cake for a same-gender “wedding” is fighting through an appeal to make sure his constitutionally protected freedoms – as well those of others – aren’t taken away.
In the summer of 2012,...
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David E. Smith
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01.08.14
Registering to vote is the first step in engaging in civic life and becoming a good steward of your God-given responsibility of self-government. Any Illinois citizen who will be eighteen by Election Day is eligible to register.
The process for registering is easy and convenient, but, sadly, millions of Americans choose not to take the time. Estimates count that from 35 percent to 50 percent of Americans are not registered to vote.
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David E. Smith
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01.06.14
According to a recent article in the Southtown Star newspaper, elected officials in the Village of Tinley Park are planning to pass an ordinance to allow video gambling machines within city limits. The vote may come as early as the next village board meeting on January 7, 2014.
