![Yes, there Is Scouting Life after the Scouts Yes, there Is Scouting Life after the Scouts](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Trail-Life-USA-516x260.png)
By Robert Knight
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09.19.16
Under the radar, near a campfire, a counter-cultural force is rising.
Only three years old, Trail Life USA, the Christian answer to the politically correct Boy Scouts of America, is operating 700 troops in 48 states, with nearly 30,000 troop...
![America’s Abandonment of Traditional Values Has Hurt the Black Community America’s Abandonment of Traditional Values Has Hurt the Black Community](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/black20mom-516x260.jpg)
08.19.16
One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I’d like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people.
![Pastors Challenge IL Ban on Sexual Identity Counseling in Court Pastors Challenge IL Ban on Sexual Identity Counseling in Court](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bigstock-Woman-with-problem-on-receptio-5309908-516x260.jpg)
08.18.16
Illinois' ban on sexual identity counseling is facing a legal challenge from pastors who fear they could be charged with consumer fraud if they provide pastoral counseling to young people who want to turn away from same-sex attraction.
![The West’s War on the Family The West’s War on the Family](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Saving20_20Budgeting20Tips20for20Low20Income20Families_0-516x260.jpg)
08.06.16
For decades, now, Christians have worried about the progressive push to strip naked the public square by forcing religion into the shadows of a private sphere. Recent events have made clear that this is not the case.
![Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Urban League, and Suffering Children Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Urban League, and Suffering Children](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blmc2-516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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07.18.16
Recently, ABC 7 Eyewitness News anchor Terrell Brown interviewed Shari Runner, the president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League on the problems of black-on-black violence and the Black Lives Matter movement. Her predictable responses sound like she just returned...
![Americans Wrongly Think Cohabitation Is Good Americans Wrongly Think Cohabitation Is Good](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Cohabitation-516x260.png)
By Tamara Cochran Louris
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07.12.16
Marriage is a beautiful and sacred institution, created by God for procreation and as a picture of Christ and His Church.
Genesis 2:24 instructs, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:...
![Family is the Enemy of Socialism Family is the Enemy of Socialism](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Traditional-Family-is-Unacceptable-516x260.jpg)
06.20.16
Last week I looked at the history of the original socialists and at what Pope Francis aptly termed their “ideological colonization” of the family and marriage, work that started in the 19th century with the likes of Robert Owen, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
![Fathers and the Future of America Fathers and the Future of America](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fathers-516x260.png)
By Israel Wayne
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06.18.16
“So, what is your relationship with your father like?”
As a volunteer chaplain for our county’s juvenile detention center, I asked this question about three hundred times over the course of about six years. I only recall two occasions where...
![CUNY Math Professor Donates Sperm in Target Bathrooms CUNY Math Professor Donates Sperm in Target Bathrooms](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Ari-Nagel-516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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06.16.16
A recent New York Post story illuminates the tragic consequences of the sexual revolution that separated sex from procreation, sex from marriage, and marriage from children. Children are intentionally and cavalierly separated from their biological parents.
![America’s Safest City America’s Safest City](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/chicago-crime-violence.jpg)
06.09.16
On Sunday The New York Times published a front page story on a weekend of crime in Chicago with 64 people shot, six of whom died. With in-depth reporting on four inside pages, the Times said “It is a level of violence that has become the terrifying norm, particularly in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods.”
![PayPal Scorns Conservative Americans While Embracing Cuban Communists PayPal Scorns Conservative Americans While Embracing Cuban Communists](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PayPal.jpg)
By Dr. Michael L. Brown
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04.09.16
In an act of extraordinary hypocrisy, PayPal, which last month announced its plans to expand into Cuba, has decided not to expand into North Carolina because the state is determined to keep its public bathrooms and locker rooms safe.
PayPal...
![Alabama Supreme Court Rejects SCOTUS Marriage Opinion Alabama Supreme Court Rejects SCOTUS Marriage Opinion](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Alabama-Supreme-Court-Rejects-SCOTUS-Marriage-Opinion.jpg)
03.07.16
[On Friday] in a 170-page ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage opinion by issuing its own Judgment in favor of Liberty Counsel’s Petition for Mandamus. In the petition, Liberty Counsel demanded on behalf of its...
![The Collapse of Gender Sanity The Collapse of Gender Sanity](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Collapse-of-Gender-Sanity.jpg)
02.23.16
Physiology doesn’t lie: Women are less effective than men at meeting military objectives, and far more likely to be injured in combat. Let’s stop denying reality in a misguided effort toward “equality” and agree that women should not be drafted to combat roles.
![Women and the Draft Women and the Draft](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Women-and-the-Draft.jpg)
If there really are no differences between men and women, then sure, subject women to the military draft. However, the Christian worldview doesn't overlook or ignore the differences between men and women, but celebrates those differences. Equality doesn't mean common sense should be silenced in favor of political correctness.
![Three Reasons Why Marriage Matters Three Reasons Why Marriage Matters](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Three-Reasons-Why-Marriage-Matters.jpg)
02.03.16
I'm getting married in May. My fiancé and I dated for three years before we got engaged and couldn't be more excited to start our lives together. But in reflecting on marriage and getting married in a culture that frankly has forgotten what marriage means, I wanted to share three reasons why I believe marriage matters.