Dobson Policy Center Launches New Podcast
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.
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 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."
Monday and throughout the week, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. We honor Dr. King in part because he recognized that despite the original national sin of slavery, America is a fundamentally decent country that has brought hope, liberty and prosperity to millions of people.
As the Apostle Paul reminds us, God works all things for good. We saw that play out recently as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a near-death tragedy on the football field.
A federal court has ruled in favor of Christian colleges and universities that hold biblical views on sexuality and marriage.