11-Sep
This week marked the 22nd anniversary of the savage attack on the United States by radical Islamists. The day was filled with death and destruction, but it also brought out the courage and faith of millions of Americans.
Gary Bauer
Senior VP of Public Policy & Culture
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Through the Dobson Policy & Culture Center, we focus on issues related to righteousness in the culture, such as the sanctity of human life, the God-ordained institution of marriage, parental rights, freedom of religion, and other liberties guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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Marxism Versus The Family
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote those words in 1848. But the same Marxist philosophy infects America's powerful teacher unions and leftist officials at all levels of government. Communism was devoted to building a "New Man," and Marx and Engels saw the nuclear family as an obstacle. Today's Marxists still believe the same thing.
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VP Kamala Harris Misleads On Life
Vice President Kamala Harris taped an interview with Face the Nation in Jakarta that was broadcast on Sunday. She covered a number of subjects, but abortion dominated a major portion of the interview. Harris made it clear that the Biden administration wants Congress to pass a federal law allowing unrestricted abortion.
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Show Me State Shows The Way
Pro-family advocates scored a significant victory in Missouri recently. Here’s why it matters. The state passed a ban on so-called “gender affirm care” for children in June. These radical medical procedures are neither “affirming” nor are they health care. They involve powerful sterilizing drugs and extreme surgical procedures in vain attempts to deny biological reality.
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Socialist Libraries
Emily Drabinski is not a household name yet. But the new president of the American Library Association (ALA) is certainly not shying away from controversy.
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More States Act to Protect Women and Girls
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen just signed an executive order defining the words “men” and “women.” We commend him. At the same time, it is revealing and disturbing that such action is needed in 2023 in the United States. But it is needed as “trans” ideology sweeps through our culture.
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Moms For Liberty
The Labor Day weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal features an interview with Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, the co-founders of Moms for Liberty. This parental rights group was founded on January 1, 2021, to the applause of millions of Americans who were tired of the government takeover of parents’ rights and responsibilities. The timing was exactly right. Today, it has 300 county chapters in 46 states and “120,000 active on-the-ground moms.”
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The Right to Pray!
On September 1, Christian football coach Joe Kennedy will return to his beloved Bremerton High School in Washington state for his first game in eight long years. That was when he was fired for continuing to kneel and pray on the football field after games when he was ordered to stop by school officials.
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Standing for Life Costs Five Brave Souls Their Freedom
JDFI condemns the outrageous conviction of five pro-life activists who were found guilty in federal court this week of violating the FACE Act. They peacefully held a sit-in at a notorious Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
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A Setback For Death By Mail
Between 2011 and 2020, U.S. chemical abortions doubled. This trend has accelerated since the Supreme Court overturned abortion on demand. What a sad commentary on the “culture of death” in our country. Not only do the pills kill unborn children, they also present significant risks to the women who ingest them.
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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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“Public policy” refers in other contexts to politics, such as elections and political parties. That is not what we mean by the term. Our focus is on issues related to righteousness in the culture, such as the sanctity of human life, the God-ordained institution of marriage, parental rights, freedom of religion, and other liberties guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. This is an incomplete list but should be illustrative. Of course, we are also opposed to policies that are anti-biblical, such as critical race theory and other efforts to propagandize and manipulate the minds of children. We oppose the entire LGBTQ ideology, as well as adultery, premarital sex, and matters that most conservative Christians view as contrary to Scripture. At the heart of our belief system is a biblical worldview, such as absolute truth and the teachings of Jesus. We are committed to the family as outlined in the Book of Genesis, a view of the family that is under vicious attack from within our culture. We are here to defend the family with every resource. Indeed, defending and promoting these beliefs and the truths in God’s Word are our raison d’etre, our reason to be.