Articles by David E. Smith
By David E. Smith
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11.19.15
Last month, Illinois Family Institute and the Christian Emergency League held a Jericho Prayer March around the executive mansion in Springfield. More than two hundred people joined us to pray, protest, and call on Governor Bruce Rauner to end all...
By David E. Smith
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11.17.15
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is poised to render a decision next year that will be its most significant ruling on the abortion issue in more than twenty years. The SCOTUS has agreed to hear a challenge...
By David E. Smith
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11.17.15
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will revisit the legality of the Obama Administration’s contraceptive and abortion drug mandate in a crucial case this coming term.
SCOTUS announced last Friday that it will hear another challenge to the...
By David E. Smith
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10.20.15
When Planned Parenthood President Cecil Richards testified before Congress last month, she asserted that abortions represent only 3 percent of total services provided by Planned Parenthood. However, when questioned further about a funding discrepancy by U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Richards admitted that not 3%, but 86 percent of Planned Parenthood's revenue comes from abortions!
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...
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...
By David E. Smith
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08.27.15
The race for the 18th Congressional will be held on September 10th. Republican Darin LaHood and Democrat Rob Mellon are the two nominees running against each another in this special election to replace the seat once held by Aaron Schock,...
By David E. Smith
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08.17.15
Pro-life citizens are gearing up for the National Day of Protest on August 22, 2015 at Planned Parenthood facilities all across America. This #ProtestPP—which is primarily sponsored by Created Equal, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Pro-Life Action League, and 40...
By David E. Smith
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08.15.15
Early Bird Specials Expire on August 31st!
The Illinois Family Institute’s annual fall banquet is just five weeks away! This important event will be held Friday, September 18th at 7:00 p.m. at The Stonegate Conference Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois....
By David E. Smith
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08.15.15
The Center for Medical Progress released its sixth video earlier this week titled Human Capital – Episode 2: Inside the Planned Parenthood Supply Site. The video features a former StemExpress procurement technician explaining how women are manipulated to “donate” to...
By David E. Smith
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08.08.15
Continuing to advance a progressive socialist agenda, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proudly announced this week that taxpayers in the City will be required to contribute to the funding of a new so-called “health” benefit: sex reassignment surgery.
It is difficult...
By David E. Smith
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08.01.15
In the wake of yet another video linking Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, to the sale of organs from aborted babies, lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are planning to vote to defund the inhumane organization that profits from...
By David E. Smith
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07.17.15
This week, U.S. Representatives Peter Roskam (R-West Chicago), Randy Hultgren (R-Campton Hills), Daniel Lipinski (D-Chicago), Mike Bost (R-Belleville), Rodney Davis (R-Decatur), and John Shimkus (R-Effingham), joined dozens of their colleagues in the U.S. Congress in calling for an investigation into...
By David E. Smith
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06.30.15
Sexual Orientation Gender Identity (SOGI) lawsuits against individuals and ministries have increased in the past couple years, but with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex “marriage,” it is even more important that ministries take steps to evaluate and...
By David E. Smith
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06.27.15
A poem by Rev. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858-1901), best known as the author of the hymn “This is My Father’s World,” expresses how I believe Christians must approach the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to redefine marriage.
The words of his...
