State of the Union Reaction
President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address last Tuesday night, the platform every president uses to address dozens of issues in our country, many of which are unrelated to the values agenda.
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.
President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address last Tuesday night, the platform every president uses to address dozens of issues in our country, many of which are unrelated to the values agenda.
Professional sports leagues, movie stars, politicians, multi-national corporations, social media "influencers" and many other powerful entities have all taken a modern "progressive" view on the definition of marriage and gender fluidity. Christians in these institutions are increasingly forced to accept moral relativism on such issues or risk losing their jobs or other benefits. All of this is being done in the name of "tolerance."
The Minnesota State Senate just passed, by a 34 to 33 vote, arguably the most radical pro-abortion law in America. Gov. Tim Walz (D) has already signaled that he will proudly sign it into law.
In this inaugural weekly podcast, Gary Bauer, Senior Vice President of Public Policy at the James Dobson Family Institute, introduces his audience to Defending Faith, Family and Freedom.
Last week we praised Ivan Provorov, a defensive player for the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. He refused to wear a jersey with the LGBTQ rainbow flag on the Flyers' "Pride Night." He said he respected everyone, but could not participate because doing so conflicted with his Christian faith (He belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church.)
The pro-abortion movement is still reeling from the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the ending of the legal fiction that there is a right to kill an innocent unborn child in our Constitution.
Today, 41 members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland accusing the Biden Administration of abdicating its constitutional responsibility.
Vice President Kamala Harris is in "hot water" after an obvious attempt to censor the most important words in America's Declaration of Independence.
The U.S. military has a proud history of protecting the United States from our foreign enemies. Our brave men and women in uniform have courageously sacrificed "life and limb" for the cause of freedom. Over many decades, the U.S. military has been an institution the American people trusted and admired, even when our faith in other institutions was declining. In the 20th century, we led the free world in defeating Nazism and Soviet Communism.
In September 2022, extreme pro-abortion California Governor Gavin Newsom paid to put up public billboards in seven states promoting California as an abortion haven. Some of Newsom's billboards outrageously twisted the words of Jesus in Mark 12:31, "Love your neighbor as yourself."