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I am proud of my wife, Paulie. She started young loving Jesus. She gave her heart to Him when she was seven years old. Her mother guided her to the foot of the cross. And there she has remained.
Paulie’s...
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By
Robert Knight
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05.27.15
As the calendar slips toward the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, there’s a storm cloud hanging over America that will release its thunder in late June.
That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to declare a constitutional...
![‘Be Prepared’: ‘Gay’ Men with Boy Scouts in Tents ‘Be Prepared’: ‘Gay’ Men with Boy Scouts in Tents](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MeritBadge.jpg)
I said it was coming. Many of us did. Two years ago this week the Boy Scouts of America voted to welcome into its ranks “open and avowed” homosexuality (boy-on-boy sexual attraction and behavior), thereby disavowing the “morally straight” Scout...
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People living in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood are in for a shock, says an Illinois-based family advocate.
![Boys Scouts of American Urge Change in Policy to Allow Openly Gay Adult Leaders Boys Scouts of American Urge Change in Policy to Allow Openly Gay Adult Leaders](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/aoh_boyscouts.jpg)
05.21.15
The national president of the Boy Scouts of America, Robert Gates, said Thursday that the organization’s longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults is no longer sustainable, and called for change in order to avert potentially destructive legal battles....
![Justice Who Loves Gay Marriage May Force it on Those Who Don’t Justice Who Loves Gay Marriage May Force it on Those Who Don’t](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ginsburg660.jpg)
A conservative legal organization is calling for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse herself from deciding the marriage case now before the court.
![Phoning in Phony Polling Phoning in Phony Polling](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Picture.jpg)
05.18.15
In the marriage debate, we pay a lot of attention to how polling questions are asked.
But a new report from Pew Research shows that we should watch where they’re being asked too. For years, Family Research Council and other conservative groups have watched the media twist and distort survey questions to feed their “inevitability” narrative on same-sex “marriage.”
![What is Marriage to Evangelical Millennials What is Marriage to Evangelical Millennials](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/College.jpg)
05.16.15
A few weeks ago, I assigned the article “What is Marriage?” to the students in my gender theory class, which I teach at an evangelical university. This article presents an in-depth defense of the conjugal view of marriage, and I included it on the reading list as part of my efforts to expose students to a range of viewpoints—religious and secular, progressive and conservative. The goal is to create robust civil dialogue, and, ideally, to pave the way for thoughtful Christian contributions to cultural understandings of sex and gender.
![Religion, Race and Same-Sex Marriage Religion, Race and Same-Sex Marriage](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Redefining-marriage.jpg)
05.07.15
Attitudes about same-sex marriage have undergone a rapid shift in American society. As recently as 2009, 40% of Americans said they believed that marriage between same-sex individuals should be legal and recognized by law as valid. Those views burst through the majority level in 2011, with support reaching a high of 55% in Gallup's annual Morals and Values survey in 2014.
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Abba, Father.
Come now, Holy Spirit, and speak through Your humble servant. Let this prayer be Your prayer – truth in love, salt and light.
And war.
Lord Jesus, ours is a nation in rebellion. Evil is good and good...
![Marriage and Equal Protection Marriage and Equal Protection](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/black-marriage1.jpg)
05.02.15
For the Court to strike down laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife would be to abolish the idea that men and women matter—equally—in the lives of the children they create.
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05.01.15
This past Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments for Obergefell v. Hodges in what is shaping up to be a landmark case in the national marriage debate.
![Bait And Switch: How Same Sex Marriage Ends Family Autonomy Bait And Switch: How Same Sex Marriage Ends Family Autonomy](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/marriage-998x697-copy.jpg)
04.30.15
Abolishing all civil marriage is the primary goal of the elites who have been pushing same sex marriage. The scheme called “marriage equality” is not an end in itself, and never really has been...
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04.28.15
Religious leaders from a wide array of denominations have released a joint statement reaffirming their support for traditional marriage ahead of the Supreme Court's hearing of oral arguments on Tuesday. The Christian leaders have said that reaffirming marriage as being between one man and one woman is vital for protecting children and offering them both a father and a mother.