Hold a Voter Registration Drive!!
By David E. Smith   |   01.05.16
Register to vote for the upcoming Primary Election before Feb 16th. Registering to vote is the first step to engage in civic life and become a good steward of your God-given responsibility of self-government. The process for registering is easy...
Last Day of 2015: One Last Reminder
By David E. Smith   |   12.31.15
Thanks to the remarkable generosity of supporters, we made our goal today and earlier than expected! We are truly overwhelmed by the support of fellow Illinoisans that we have received over the last few days. I sincerely thank the good...
A Surprising Trend Among Churches
By Micah Clark   |   12.30.15
There is an interesting article on six church trends in America that you may want to check out.   The last trend may be of particular interest to our readers.  It points out, according to new research, that many churches are...
SCOTUS  to Hear  Major Abortion Case  on Women’s Health
By David E. Smith   |   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...
Indulging Transgender Fantasies Makes Them Worse
11.07.15
Society has got to stop enabling the harmful fantasies of the transgender community, both for their sake and for ours.
FRC Commends U.S. House, Urges U.S. Senate to Remove Planned Parenthood Funding
10.23.15
Family Research Council (FRC) commends the U.S. House of Representatives for the passage of H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, and urges the U.S. Senate to take up and pass the bill. This bill will restrict for...
Legal Scholars Rise Up Against Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Decision
By Dr. Michael L. Brown   |   10.15.15
I’ve been saying that 2015 is the year of pushback, and this might be the most significant act of pushing back so far: A group of legal scholars, most of them university professors, have declared that the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
A Brief Word About the Incoherence of “Transgender” Locker Room Policy
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.14.15
IFI’s opposition to, for example, a boy in a girls’ locker room is not based on fear that he may rape a girl—though that, of course, is a possibility. Rather, our opposition emerges from the fact that physical embodiment per...
‘Burn Kim Davis Alive!’
By   |   09.14.15
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” He was partly right. Liberty of conscience is indeed sacred. There is, however, a higher...
Anti-Christian Bigotry on the Bench and in the Media
By   |   09.08.15
The federal judge who threw Christian clerk Kim Davis in jail previously “oversaw a legal settlement that included anti-harassment sessions” for students in Boyd County, Kentucky, The New York Times reports. In fact, the judge, David Bunning, had denied free...
Special Event: IFI Banquet Less Than 5 Weeks Away!!
By David E. Smith   |   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....
Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood and Racism — The Real Legacy
08.08.15
Given all the grisly and disturbing news we've been getting about Planned Parenthood — which is the nation's largest provider of abortion, and presumably, the body parts of unborn babies — would it surprise you at all to know that there's also a quiet campaign to rehabilitate Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as a champion of women's dignity and human rights?
After Court’s Gay-Marriage Ruling, We Need Peaceful Coexistence, Not Culture War
08.07.15
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of gay marriage, a question arises: Should we protect the rights of Orthodox Jews, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, Latter-day Saints, and Muslims who believe that marriage is a union of husband and wife? Two bills recently introduced in Congress show diverging answers.
Action Items for Pro-Family Citizens
By Kathy Valente   |   08.06.15
On July 28, 2015, Illinois State Senator Kyle McCarter (R-Vandalia) introduced the Religious Freedom Defense Act, SB 2164, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to redefine marriage for all fifty states. In a press release, Senator McCarter stated:...
There is No Pro-Life Case For Planned Parenthood
08.06.15
I’m hoping to do something broader about the abortion issue in this space soon, given the prominence that the debate over Planned Parenthood funding has suddenly assumed. But for this week a word (well, a few words) on the argument inthis Dana Milbank column, which was also basically the argument in this earlier Milbank column, which is also roughly the argument in this Ruth Marcus column, which is also the argument in this Damon Linker column, which is also a case that Slate’s Will Saletan has made repeatedly in the past, which … well, you get the idea.
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