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Gary Bauer

Gary currently serves as senior vice president of Public Policy and Culture at JDFI, president of American Values, and chairman of Campaign for Working Families PAC. Previously, he served in the Reagan administration as Under Secretary of Education and Head of the Office of Policy Development. Gary became president of the Family Research Council, senior vice president of Focus on the Family, and was appointed by President Trump to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Content By Gary Bauer

Policy & Culture

Standing For Christ in America Today

It used to be fairly easy to openly profess Christ in America. That’s increasingly not the case today as a professional female golfer and a sports writer just learned. Their story should inspire us all to stand up for Christ.

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Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Podcast

Massachusetts Foster Care System ‘Overwhelmed,’ but Christian Couple Denied Foster Care License

In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom with Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy at the James Dobson Family Institute, shares breaking news on the Massachusetts couple, Mike and Kitty Burke, who were denied a foster care license due to their “religious beliefs about marriage, sexuality, and gender.”

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Policy & Culture

Does Planned Parenthood Hate Children?

Planned Parenthood has massively profited from decades of destroying innocent human life in its abortion centers. Now, for those children who fortunately escape the abortionist’s knife, Planned Parenthood is threatening them, too, by promoting gender dysphoria mutilating surgeries and powerful sterilizing chemicals. 

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Policy & Culture

FBI Criminalizing Catholics And Evangelicals

Evidence is growing that multiple FBI offices were involved in an effort to monitor and infiltrate Catholic churches. Here’s what happened.

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Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Podcast

Reflections on Reversal of Roe v. Wade From the Battlefront – Part 2

In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom with Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy at the James Dobson Family Institute, you’ll hear Part 2 of Bauer’s interview with special guest Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBAPLA).

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Policy & Culture

The War Against Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

August 5th was the day that Kirk Cameron called on Christians to sponsor reading hours at their local public libraries. JDFI strongly supported the idea, and we are happy to report that 350 events in 46 states took place.

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Policy & Culture

See You At The Library

August 5th was the day that Kirk Cameron called on Christians to sponsor reading hours at their local public libraries. JDFI strongly supported the idea, and we are happy to report that 350 events in 46 states took place.

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Policy & Culture

“In God We Trust” Comes Out Of The Closet

For decades, God has been pushed out of the “public square” in America. School prayer and Bible reading were canceled by Supreme Court rulings in 1962 and 1963. Ten Commandment plaques, common on courthouse lawns and town squares as recently as the 1950’s, have been removed after an aggressive campaign by atheist groups and radical secularists. But now, there are increasing signs the tide is turning.

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Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Podcast

Reflections on Reversal of Roe v. Wade From the Battlefront

In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom, Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy at the James Dobson Family Institute, interviews special guest Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. Dannenfelser defines the next chapter in the pro-life/pro-personhood movement as "good versus evil." JDFI invites you to listen to this historical postmortem from an individual who has been a warrior on the front lines of the 50-year battle to reverse Roe v. Wade.

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Policy & Culture

100% Failure Rate For “Trans-surgery”

There were dramatic hearings on Capitol Hill on so-called, "gender-affirming care" for children. One witness, Chloe Cole, made a dramatic plea to members of Congress to save young women like herself, who were subjected to horrific surgeries and powerful chemicals in the name of gender-affirming care.

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