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Justices and judges of all different courts are fond of making sweeping generalizations in their written opinions that sound so pithy and “final” that they make for good quotes for TV commentators and newspaper summaries. In the hands of agenda-driven lawyers and other judges, however, these sweeping generalizations end up in new lawsuits trying to [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reluctantly bowed to public pressure on Monday and released a pivotal abstinence study with results that fly in the face of the Obama administration’s policy of “zeroing out” all abstinence-education funding. CitizenLink and pro-family organizations alerted people Wednesday that the administration had refused to release the study. [...]

Tom Minnery share insights about New York City and religious freedom.

California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is making news because she said that, if elected governor, she will uphold the law.  This is a headline in California. I wonder if it’s also shocking that she will uphold the law even if it means that she will not have the support of major Hollywood stars.  Shocking. Weirdly, upholding the [...]

Thanks to a flurry of citizen action, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was prompted to release the National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions about Sex and Abstinence – Final Report to the public late yesterday (8-23-2010). HHS had previously withheld the survey data, even after a doctor and researcher submitted [...]

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With just 70 days remaining until the 2010 midterm elections, congressional Democrats appear to be preparing for the worst – the possible loss of their majorities in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. Regardless of the electoral outcome, the American people should also be preparing for the worst – the “lame-duck” session. The lame-duck [...]

U.S. District Judge Randal Hall denied the request of Jennifer Keeton, an Augusta State University (ASU) counseling student who was forced to take remedial courses or face expulsion for voicing her beliefs against homosexuality.  Keeton has requested a court order that would have kept her from having to submit to “sensitivity” training while her case [...]

Abortionists agreed last week to drop a suit challenging Louisiana’s new ultrasound law. A federal judge has cleared the way for the law to go into effect. Louisiana is one of more than 20 states that allow women to see an ultrasound before an abortion. Abortionists are still challenging another part of HB 1453 that [...]

More than 300,000 children in Texas are forgoing the first day of school.  Instead, their families have opted to school them at home. Since 2005, Texas has witnessed a steady increase of families – up 20 percent to an estimated 120,000 – opting to take control of their children’s education and instilling them with traditional [...]

Former Attorney General,  Edwin Meese III, wrote a great op ed last week about Judge Walker’s Prop. 8 decision.  It was so good, it’s worth a mention a week later. Meese makes several succinct points about all that Judge Walker ignored in his written decision. By refusing to acknowledge binding Supreme Court precedent, substantial evidence produced at [...]

Everyone wants to talk about the Ground Zero Mosque, including New York’s Mayor Bloomberg, who gave an impassioned speech about it a couple weeks ago. In the speech, the Mayor invoked the first principles of our Constitution and Bill of Rights: The simple fact is, this building is private property, and the owners have a [...]

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Glenn T. Stanton, director for family formation studies at Focus on the Family, debates and lectures extensively on the issues of gender, sexuality, marriage and parenting at universities and churches around the country. Stanton just finished his fourth book, “Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity” (Waterbrook, 2011). 1. [...]