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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.

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Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Podcast

Reflections on Reversal of Roe v. Wade From the Battlefront

August 9, 2023

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”

August 9, 2023

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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Policy & Culture

The Equality Charade?

August 7, 2023

The terribly misnamed "Equality Act" is back. This proposed law is the number one legislative goal of the LGBTQ+ lobby. The reason is simple: The legislation would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by adding the homosexual "alphabet soup" as a protected class under federal law.

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Policy & Culture

Food Nazis: Learn Gay Or No Food For You!

August 4, 2023

The Biden administration is attempting to deprive low-income children of nourishment unless their Christian preschool agrees to LGBTQ+ demands. Do I have your attention?

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‘If I Were the Devil:’ A Prophetic Warning for America from the Late Paul Harvey

August 2, 2023

In this week's episode of Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom, Gary reflects on the prophetic warnings for America from a 1964 commentary by the late Radio Hall of Fame inductee Paul Harvey, “If I Were the Devil." Bauer walks line by line through this revealing essay, pointing out how right Harvey was on every point, and how today, demonic delusions beyond anything Harvey predicted, are celebrated and forced upon American citizens as "righteous" by a seemingly all-powerful government. JDFI invites you to listen to this fascinating, but disturbing, show and take action in your local communities—before it’s too late.

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Policy & Culture

Christian Persecution In Communist China

August 2, 2023

Persecution of Christians is increasing at an alarming rate across the globe. Pastor Pan Yongguang of the Mayflower Church is urging American Christians to defend the persecuted church, particularly in Communist China.

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Policy & Culture

The Left’s Assault On Freedom

July 31, 2023

The James Dobson Family Institute is committed to defending the Constitution of the United States and our Bill of Rights. All of those rights are under attack, but particularly concerning is the attack on the First Amendment, which guarantees, among other things, the freedom of religion and the freedom of speech.

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Policy & Culture

A Strange View of “Sacred”

July 28, 2023

Pro-life conservatives in Congress, led by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), are courageously fighting the Biden administration's radical pro-abortion policies. Sen. Tuberville has been blocking military promotions in protest of the Pentagon's new policy that uses your hard-earned tax dollars to subsidize the travel costs of female personnel seeking abortions.

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America, as Founded, is Being Replaced by Godless Big Government Secularism

July 26, 2023

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, warns Christians not to be deceived, America is indeed in the throes of a new civil war over what kind of a nation it is going to be. Will it remain America, as founded, grounded on Judeo-Christian principles—a constitutional republic? Or, will it deteriorate into a godless all powerful neo-Marxist state?

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Policy & Culture

Faith-Based School Prevails

July 26, 2023

Religious liberty just prevailed in another American court case. A three-judge panel for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a Catholic high school could legally refuse to renew the contract of a school counselor who was in a same-sex marriage.

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