Dear Father Jenkins, I work for the Illinois Family Institute on the board of which sits a Notre Dame alumnus. In addition, we have a number of Notre Dame alumni subscribers. I want to thank you for your efforts to...

A new book released this week for teens and parents that seeks to address questions about sexual orientation has quickly brought out the long knives of the far left.    As author Linda Harvey observes: I figured my new book, “Maybe...

The urgent battle to defend and preserve marriage in Illinois is heating up in Illinois and is being watched with feverish interest by homosexual activists and their ideological allies throughout the country (Click HERE to read what the powerful Washington...

Today, May 30, 2012, the homosexual activist organization Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois have filed two lawsuits against the clerk of Cook County, charging that his office’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to 25 homosexual couples violates the...

An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruling that gender identity is covered by Title VII’s prohibition against discrimination based on sex is being hailed as a ”sea change’‘ by transgender activist organizations. But an attorney for Liberty Counsel Action notes...

Beware of the schoolyard – jihad, not so much When I was a kid, I got bullied fairly frequently because I was short. So my parents enrolled me in a judo class. After a few unexpected flips in the hallways,...

Two controversies recently highlighted by the mainstream media underscore the urgent need for people of faith and moral conscience to vigorously oppose the homosexual political agenda. Twenty years ago, these stories would never have been reported, but today, activists within...

The past year has seen the tragic suicides of five young men who identified as homosexual or who were taunted with homosexual epithets. I shouldn’t need to say this, but no one should be harassed or bullied — ever. Children...

On August 4, 2010, homosexual judge Vaughn Walker overturned the express will of 7,000,000 Californians when he declared their ballot initiative, Proposition 8, unconstitutional. Matthew Franck writing on Public Discourse has described Judge Walker’s decision as “wholly fallacious,” the “nadir...

Last year, I wrote about the serious ethical problems that have long plagued the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). What prompted my initial article was the discovery that IFI was included on the SPLC’s corrupt “Active U.S. Hate Groups” list....

A three-fold outrage Earlier this month, openly homosexual State Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago) introduced a bill to legalize homosexual “marriage” (HB 178). Adding to this outrage is House Speaker Michael Madigan’s (D-Chicago) creation of a new committee — the Youth...

Laurie Higgins, Director of the Division of School Advocacy at the Illinois Family Institute, issued the following statement in response to the Chicago Board of Education’s decision to postpone a vote on the proposed homosexual high school: Late last Tuesday...