Posts Tagged ‘Family’
The New American Elite
By Alan Caruba The only constant in the life of individuals and nations is change. Since the beginning of the last century, the process or rate of change has accelerated with the invention and availability of a myriad of machines, technologies that have altered the lifestyle of Americans as well as of millions around the world. Let me put it [...]
The High Costs of Marriage Absence
By Phyllis Schlafly Most Americans are unaware that about $700 Billion a year of federal taxpayers' money is handed out to non-taxpayers allegedly below a poverty line (in addition to $250 Billion a year given out by the states). After Barack Obama became President, he increased federal welfare spending by a third because, as he promised during [...]
No Man is an Island: Why Individualism Can’t Sustain Freedom
Ryan Messmore, Heritage Foundation Is individualism adequate to sustain liberty and rein in government? This issue surfaced during the Republican primary debate last week in Las Vegas. “This country has always put people in groups” and treated them accordingly, said Representative Ron Paul (R–TX). America needs to move away from this [...]
Save Taxpayer Money Defund UN Population Fund
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign Save Taxpayer Money; Defund UN Population Fund There’s never been a better opportunity to defund a department of the United Nations than right now. Fresh out of the House Foreign Relations Committee is H.R. 2509, that would prohibit funding of the United Nations Population Fund. The proposal has 78 [...]
The Security Sex
By Selwyn Duke We have all heard about the sex gap in voting patterns. This is the phenomenon whereby, in every election, women are far more likely to support liberal candidates than men are. For instance, in 1996, Bill Clinton captured 54 percent of the women’s vote but only 43 percent of the men’s. And in subsequent elections, the [...]
Marriage Keeps Love Alive and Hearts Pumping
Sarah Torre, Heritage Foundation Many a bachelor has taunted and teased a groom-to-be that “I do” will be his famous last words. But for all the jesting predictions about the finality or fatality of marriage, walking down the aisle could be the healthiest thing you do to keep your relationship alive and your heart ticking. A new study [...]
“X” Marks the Spot — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, When I was growing up, not that the process was ever completed, we had a Hobo’s “X” marked on our front door. You couldn’t see it; but all the same it was there. Stray animals wandering the neighborhood would recognize the mark and know they were welcome to stop in for a meal and safe lodgings for as long as [...]
The Poverty Cost of Absent Fathers
By Phyllis Schlafly The United States has millions of children living below the poverty line, and the principal reason they are poor is that their parents are not married to each other. Poverty is massively greater for children living with a single, divorced, or cohabiting parent than with parents who are married to each other. The poverty rate [...]
The Cost to Taxpayers of Missing Fathers
By Phyllis Schlafly It's time that the American people face up to the sad plight of the 20 million American children who are growing up without their fathers in the home. Back in 1993, Charles Murray identified "illegitimacy as the single most important social problem of our time ... because it drives everything else." But Murray was whistling [...]
Fathers Matter: Involved Dads Impact Children’s Lives and Civil Society
Heritage Foundation, Culture Watch This Sunday – as with most Father’s Days - many dads will likely receive a jesting card, the latest all-in-one toolbox, and even more cheap ties. No matter how thoughtful the gift, our material offerings to fathers will likely fall short of recognizing the enormous impact dads make on the lives of [...]
Bowl a Hundred, Dad! — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Call me one of the lucky ones, I’m still able to pick up a telephone and call my Dad; but I do have to speak very loud for him to hear. Mostly I talk to him via Mom; saves a lot of yelling back and forth so we keep it simple. I tell him, “Bowl a hundred” if he’s on the way to the bowling alley to be with his [...]
Father’s Day and the Importance of Marriage
By Rachel Sheffield, Heritage Foundation For many Americans, poverty is hidden from view, and its reality is conveniently tucked out of sight and out of mind in places like inner cities or across rural landscapes. The effects of poverty, though, are all too real for those suffering in the shadows. Consider one startling fact: Children [...]
Establishing a Christ-Centered Home
A Way of Life, Richard J. Maynes Recognizing that we have a heavenly family helps us understand the eternal nature of our earthly families. The Doctrine and Covenants teaches us that the family is fundamental to the order of heaven: “And that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with [...]
There’s No Place Like Home
A Way of Life with Steve Farrell The family is where the rubber meets the road, where selfless service is given daily, where eternal values are taught again and again until they are believed, practiced, and passed on to the next generation ... and spread outward to the community at large, where security from a confused and cruel world can be [...]
Marriage Ordained of God
A Way of Life, Boyd K. Packer Fifteen years ago, with the world in turmoil, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” the fifth proclamation in the history of the Church. It is a guide that members of the Church would do well to read and to follow. It states in part: [...]
No Place for the Natural Man in Our Homes
A Way of Life, Juan A Uceda My beloved brethren, our homes have to be places where the Holy Spirit may dwell. “Only the home can compare with the temple in sacredness.” 2 There is no place for the natural man in our homes. The natural man is inclined to “cover sins, or to gratify pride, vain ambition, or to exercise control or [...]
Protecting Our Families
Prophet Statesmen, Quentin L. Cook An ever-present danger to the family is the onslaught of evil forces that seem to come from every direction. While our primary effort must be to seek light and truth, we would be wise to black out from our homes the lethal bombs that destroy spiritual development and growth. Pornography, in particular, is a [...]
Be the Strong Link in the Family Chain
A Way of Life, David B. Haight President Hinckley, in a comment a short time ago, talked about the links of his family, his family chain, and hoping that he would be a strong link in that chain and that his link would remain strong. He told the account of attempting to pull the stump of a tree out of the ground on their property and how the [...]
Judge Walker Rejects Prop 8 Stay Request
By Maurine Proctor One outrageous thing after another continues to happen in the Prop 8 case in California. This just in: Judge Vaughn Walker has denied the motion of Prop 8 proponents for a stay on his unbelievable ruling overturning Prop 8 until it can be reviewed by a higher court. In other words, he has ruled that same-sex marriages can [...]
Video Games Are Not Free Speech
By Phyllis Schlafly Parents nationwide have tried again and again to get some help from governmental authorities to protect their kids from the violent video games on the market. Several states have passed laws stating that retailers cannot sell violent video games to kids under a certain age unless they show parental consent. Unfortunately, [...]
Same-Sex Marriage Judge Finds That a Child Has Neither a Need Nor a Right to a Mother
Liberty News, CNSNews.com, Terrence B. Jeffrey U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who ruled last week that a voter-approved amendment to California’s constitution that limited marriage to the union of one man and one woman violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, based that ruling in part on his finding that a [...]
Why Judge Walker Should Have Recused Himself
By Bryan Fischer The ultimate issue in the Prop. 8 case has to do with society’s approval of homosexual conduct, and whether it should be treated as the full moral and legal equivalent of heterosexual conduct. This is an enormous public policy concern, and is extremely controversial. This makes it wholly unlike marital intimacy between a man [...]
Sen. DeMint Warns President Obama Will Ratify Radical U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com, Christopher A. Guzman Washington (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) said that if President Barack Obama gets his way and the Senate ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the precedent would be set to place parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community. “We [...]
The Newest California Fault Line: Judge Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional
by Spencer Anderson, Executive Director Family Leader A landmark court ruling came down from Judge Vaughn Walker in California Wednesday. He concluded that Proposition 8-California's ban on same-sex marriage-is unconstitutional. The proposition was supported by an overwhelming seven million California's. 52% of voters decided to overturn a [...]
Liberty Counsel Files Amicus Brief Defending a Mother’s Rights
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Columbus, OH – This weekend, Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief with the Ohio State Supreme Court on behalf of Kelly Mullen and her daughter, Lucy Mullen. This case is on appeal after the lower court held in favor of Ms. Mullen and dismissed the petition of her former lesbian partner, Ms. Hobbs, who seeks [...]
The Gamesmenship of Restraining Orders
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the big problems with family courts is that judges issue restraining orders virtually for the asking, without any evidence of actual domestic violence or even threat of violence. The Illinois Bar Journal explained that women use these restraining orders as a tool for the mother to get child custody and to bar the father [...]
Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights
by Phyllis Schlafly Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminist demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated [...]
Republicans Derail Tea Party Event Over Social Issues
By Bryan Fischer A Tea Party was scheduled this past Sunday for Lexington Green - you know, where the shot was fired that was heard ‘round the world - but it got canceled at the last minute. Why? Apparently because big tent Tea Party Republicans are scared to death of social issues. Brian Camenker, the president of MassResistance, was slated [...]
Speak More Frequently About Jesus Christ
A Way of Life, Neil L. Andersen To fathers and mothers, to grandfathers and grandmothers, and to those without children of their own who lovingly nurture children and youth, my counsel is to speak more frequently about Jesus Christ. In His holy name is great spiritual power. “There no other name given nor any other [...]
America’s Future: Pro-family Judges Thrown In Jail
By Bryan Fischer If you want a peek into where America’s homosexual activists want to take us here in America, look no further than Madrid, Spain, where a prosecutor tried to get Judge Fernando Ferrin Calamita thrown in prison for issuing a pro-family ruling in an adoption case. Although the prosecutor was unsuccessful in that attempt, he did [...]
Teaching Children Things Pertaining to Righteousness
A Way of Life, Francisco J. Vinas In a time when the family is under attack from the forces of evil and when the conditions in which we live are not so very different from those that Alma experienced, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve have set forth in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” that “parents have a [...]
Is Media Deceny Unconstitutional?
By Maurine Proctor Two recent developments bring into question what the Founders intended when they penned the First Amendment's clause regarding free speech. For example, did they intend for your 13-year old to be able to receive sexually explicit texts or for an unsuspecting viewer of network television to be surprised with profanity or a [...]
Responding to Mother’s Love
A Way of Life, Bradley D. Foster Perhaps the reason we respond so universally to our mothers’ love is because it typifies the love of our Savior. As President Joseph F. Smith said, “The love of a true mother comes nearer being like the love of God than any other kind of love” As in all things, the Savior set the perfect example in [...]
Coming Soon…Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Clinics — Maurine Proctor
By Maurine Proctor What if I told you that 423 taxpayer funded abortion clinics could be open for business virtually overnight! No, this is not courtesy of Obamacare, it's courtesy of the military. If the annual appropriation bill for the Department of Defense (DOD), aka the military, passes the Senate in its current form, that will be exactly [...]
Sex-Ed for Kindergarteners? — Maurine Proctor
By Maurine Proctor Do you want your five or six-year-old learning about sex at school? What we're seeing in Montana is proving to be a trend throughout the country. The Helena Public School system in Montana is coming under fire for a proposed plan to teach sex education to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. According to Fox News, "it [...]
Prosecutor Warns About Sex-Ed Law — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly A Wisconsin prosecutor recently sent a letter to five school districts warning that a new sex education law passed by the State Legislature could lead to criminal charges against teachers for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Wisconsin schools aren’t required to offer sex ed courses, but if they do, they must [...]
University of Illinois Professor Fired For Standing By Catholic Teaching on Homesexuality — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell Calling it hate speech, the University of Illinois has fired a Catholic professor hired to teach an introductory course on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought for responding to a student question about why homosexuality is immoral under Natural Law. The professor, Ken Howell answered in his email: "Natural Law says that [...]
Obama Administration is Sabotaging Defense of Marriage Act
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – In his decision declaring section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, Judge Tauro characterizes Congress’s decision to define marriage for federal purposes as between one man and one woman as an "irrational" desire to "punish[]" same-sex couples based solely on [...]
Bringing Our Children to Christ by Example — Cheryl Lant
A Way of Life, Cheryl C. Lant Speaking on the pattern and process of bringing our children to the Savior Jesus Christ, Cheryl C. Lant notes: "e must become worthy examples. This is also a process. If we want our children to come to Christ so that they might see His face, it is important that we seek to see it as well. We have to know the way in [...]
The Awesome Power of Family Courts — Phyllis Schlafly
The Phyllis Schlafly Report, June 2010 The month of June when we observe Father's Day is a good time to review some of the injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights. For example, do you think judges should have the [...]
That’s OK; Let’s Just Outbreed Them — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer A Reuters’ article from the weekend indicates that more American women are not having children: Nearly 20 percent of older women do not have children, compared to 10 percent in the 1970s, the Pew Research Center said. "In recent decades, social pressure to play traditional roles has lessened in a broad variety of ways and [...]
Don’t Hang Labels On Kids — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The American College of Pediatricians mailed a letter this spring to 14,800 U.S. public school superintendents urging them to avoid prematurely labeling children as “gay” or “transgender.” The letter announced a new website called FactsAboutYouth.com to provide factual information to educators, parents, and [...]
Social Issues vs. Fiscal Issues — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The media are forever trying to create a division in the Republican Party between those who care most about so-called social issues and those who want priority for fiscal issues. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is the most recent politician to fall into this trap by asserting that the next president "would have to call a [...]
Ronald Reagan On the Joy and Duty of Fatherhood — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer The first formal "Father's Day" was celebrated JUNE 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd heard a church sermon on the newly established Mother's Day and wanted to honor her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, who had raised six children by himself after his wife died in [...]
Democrats Try to Lock Up Their Base
By Phyllis Schlafly "You have to decide what your goals are." That's what the Democratic staffer who wrote the marriage penalty into Obama's Health Control Law told a Wall Street Journal reporter. Indeed, the Democrats and their feminist allies have decided that one of their major goals is to increase the number of single moms by increasing [...]
Children of Lesbian Parents Do Well — Not! — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer Marriage and the family is God's idea. From the very beginning, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman, and a family consists of parents and the children they have conceived together or adopted. When the Bible says that God "created them male and female," implicit in that is that the two sexes are [...]
Homosexuality, Hitler and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer The bottom line from what follows is this: Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. Gays in the military is an experiment that has been tried and found disastrously and tragically wanting. Maybe it's time for Congress to learn a [...]
Mothers Teaching Children In the Home — L. Tom Perry
A Way of Life, L. Tom Perry Please allow me to reminisce for a few moments and share a few of the lessons I learned from my mother about teaching the gospel in the home. My mother understood the value of teaching her children about standards, values, and doctrine while they were young. While she was grateful to others who taught her children [...]
Is She Or Isn’t She? Let’s Ask Her — Bryan Fischer
by Bryan Fischer Speculation continues to swirl about the sexual preference of likely Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. She is apparently out to her friends and others in her academic and social circles, but not out to the public at large. The White House has flatly stated that she is not gay, which could prove a tad embarrassing if the open [...]
Let’s Say It’s A Slur To Call Kagan A Lesbian — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer It is apparently an open secret in D.C. circles that possible Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a lesbian. Although she herself has never come out of the closet, her partner has, and is an out-and-proud member of the D.C. social circle. Well, it's take two to tango, and so the math is pretty easy here. Which is why [...]
