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.
In this week’s episode of Defending Faith, Family and Freedom with Gary Bauer, Bauer shares his childhood story about how a preempted ‘60s TV program ignited a God-sized dream of one day working for a President of the United States. Bauer winds us through his meager and serpentine lifepath that indeed landed him at the Oval Office, serving the 40th American President, Ronald Reagan.
More than half of all U.S. abortions are performed by administering dangerous chemicals to pregnant women. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the abortion drugs in 2000, and the Biden administration is working very hard to make the drugs more widely available, including by mail.
The persecution of Christians in communist China is getting worse. Sadly, international groups, the American media and the Biden administration don't seem to care.
A teacher in Washington state outraged parents there when she urged stronger guidelines and laws to keep student's vital information secret from their parents. The Auburn, Washington teacher asserted that children "are not safe in this nation from their Christo-fascist parents." Her blatant bigotry toward Christian moms and dads should result in her immediate firing.
Here's some good news. In spite of non-stop media propaganda, American voters want to protect children from so-called "gender-affirming" surgeries and drugs. According to a Rasmussen poll, 58% of likely voters approve of "legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgery on minors."
In 2022, the Florida legislature, at the urging of Governor Ron DeSantis, passed a law requiring public schools to remove material, including books, that are pornographic, violent or not age-appropriate.
In this week’s episode of Defending Faith, Family and Freedom with Gary Bauer, Bauer unpacks the ramifications of a new poll showing that 75% of Americans believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Bauer says by every measurement, America’s kids are in deep trouble! To learn what you can do to help change this dangerous direction, listen to this informative podcast.
Remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left when the Trump Administration allegedly "lost" 6,000 migrant children? Well, tragically the current Administration has lost exponentially more migrant children, but there's barely a word about this national scandal from the "mainstream media."
Here's an update on a story we reported earlier this month. On January 10th, a radical secular group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), demanded the removal of a painting of Jesus at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in King's Point, New York.
In the early hours of Monday morning, a woman got out of her vehicle and set fire to a gay pride flag hanging outside a restaurant in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. The flag was inscribed with the words, "Make America Gay Again." The woman has since been arrested and charged with a hate crime. No one was hurt and there was no significant damage to the restaurant.
