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November 30, 2017
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

Adoption Becomes the Latest Battleground in Religious Liberty Debate
Kimberly Leonard, writing for the Washington Examiner, describes the clash between religious liberty and LGBT rights as it expands to include the issue of adoption. The issue is emotional and increasingly difficult to see clearly. In changing the definitions of marriage and family, the responsibility of raising children has been subordinated to the false notion that people have certain rights to have children. What has been obscured is the well-being of the children themselves, not to mention the rights of religious organizations to act in good conscience as they attempt to find safe and healthy homes for children in need.[...]
November 29, 2017
Lisa Hudson

Are Religious Schools in America Losing Their Religion?
In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI said, “The spiritual crisis overtaking the West is the most serious since the fall of the Roman Empire near the end of the 5th Century.” Two hundred years ago, 85 percent of the population regularly attended church. That number has dwindled to about 20 percent today. It doesn’t take a proclamation from the Pope to recognize the place we find ourselves as a nation. Our seemingly accelerated moral decay is no longer the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. It’s the elephant in the room everyone (including some Christians) seems to be embracing as the new normal.[...]
November 28, 2017
Andrea Moury

Supreme Court to Decide If California Pro-Life Centers Must Promote Abortion
While it begins its final sitting of 2017 this week, the Supreme Court already has many Americans anticipating the hearing of a case the justices just announced they will take up in 2018. Likely to become a high-profile ruling, the outcome of National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra will determine if free speech is really free or if it can be dictated by the government.[...]
November 22, 2017
Karen R. Effrem, MD

House Leaders Ignore Citizen Concerns, Pass National Database Bill
It was heartening last week to see citizens nationwide come together to provide a great groundswell of support for data privacy in opposing HR 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (FEPA). Sadly, however, as with the Every Student Succeeds Act, House Leadership was again far more attuned to the desires of Big Data and other special interests than they were to the concerns of average citizens and parents. The House passed FEPA on an unrecorded voice vote with a mere 23 minutes of “debate” (a.k.a. “cheerleading”) in which no one raised a single concern about the bill’s extremely poor handling of privacy as outlined in our one-page document and letter to Congress.[...]