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The Plague of Morally Toxic Public Schools
What happens in public schools really matters, to each student, to each family and to our nation. Because, as Abraham Lincoln said: “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of the government in the next.” What would happen if a child were to spend most of his waking hours, during most of his formative years, in an institution bent on persuading him to adopt certain fundamental beliefs? There is no mystery here. Children are easy to manipulate.
Why Can a Parent Not Marry an Adult Child?
On April 5, 2007, Time Magazine asked the question, “Should Incest Be Legal?” Three years later, when Columbia University professor David Epstein was arrested for a three-year, consensual affair with his adult daughter, his attorney noted, “It’s OK for homosexuals to do whatever they want in their own home. How is this so different?
An Appeal to Bethany Christian Services to Reconsider Their Decision Regarding Gay Adoption
To the leadership of Bethany Christian Services, I make this heartfelt appeal as a fellow-disciple of Jesus who also cares about the wellbeing of needy children. Please reconsider your decision to provide services for gay and lesbian couples wanting to adopt. Please ask yourselves again: Is this decision truly honoring to the Lord in whose name you work? Is it truly in the best interest of the children whose lives you seek to better?
Back off Judge Barrett's Catholicism Original
Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been nominated to be the next Justice on the Supreme Court justice. And she’s Catholic. Catholics believe some crazy things. That the Holy Spirit “overshadowed” a Jewish virgin who then conceived the son of God, and that she was later assumed body and soul into Heaven. We believe that the death of her son was a sin offering, and that every Sunday we perpetuate that sacrifice by eating a wafer that has literally become his body.
Rather Than Reopen, It’s Time to Rethink Government Education | National Review
(GlobalStock) There is no better time to make a change than right now, when public education is in chaos. What’s that popping sound? Could it be a million figurative lightbulbs clicking on above public-school parents’ heads? The vast majority of American families send their children to public schools. Only 11 percent of children attend private schools, and fewer than 5 percent are homeschooled.
Rather Than Reopen, It's Time to Rethink Government Education
Tony Perkins is President of Family Research Council. Cathy Ruse is Senior Fellow and Director of Human Dignity at Family Research Council. This article appeared on NationalReview.com on August 13, 2020. There is no better time to make a change than right now, when public education is in chaos. What’s that popping sound? Could it be a million figurative lightbulbs clicking on above public-school parents’ heads? The vast majority of American families send their children to public schools.
"Sex Ed for All Month" Pushes Radical Sexual Ideology for Youth. FRC Responds With New Pamphlet for Parents.
When Guinevere sang about “The Lusty Month of May” in Camelot, I am quite sure she did not have this in mind. May has been deemed “Sex Ed For All Month” by the powerful lobby shops pushing radical sex ed on children. Planned Parenthood has its blood-drenched hands in this new effort, but the chief force behind “Sex Ed for All Month” is the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS), the oldest architect of institutional sex ed.
Our Culture Needs Marriage, Because It Needs Mothers
Cathy Ruse is FRC's Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Human Dignity. This article appeared in The Stream on May 10, 2020. “Far more people appear to suffer alone,” according to an article on The Washington Post. A tragic consequence of the coronavirus pandemic? Yes, to be sure, but this quote comes from a story filed in 2006 about a study on social isolation. Countless mothers will be absolutely alone this Mother’s Day because of the pandemic.
Sex Education in Public Schools: Sexualization of Children and LGBT Indoctrination
**DISCLAIMER: This brochure includes some graphic descriptions of sex education class content. Not so long ago, sex education in public schools involved a couple of uncomfortable hours looking at simple line drawings showing human growth and development and listening to advice on how to be careful, respect others, and save sex for marriage. Things are very different today.
Virginia Democrats force citizens to deny the reality of male and female - on Good Friday
April 17, 2020 (FRC) – While Virginia families were preoccupied with the trauma of the coronavirus pandemic and job loss, Governor Ralph Northam quietly signed into law a bill that forces public businesses and even private organizations to open women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and dressing rooms to men who claim that they are women. It is an official rejection of God’s purposeful design of male and female.
Virginia Democrats Force Citizens to Deny the Reality of Male and Female - on Good Friday
While Virginia families were preoccupied with the trauma of the coronavirus pandemic and job loss, Governor Ralph Northam quietly signed into law a bill that forces public businesses and even private organizations to open women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and dressing rooms to men who claim that they are women. It is an official rejection of God’s purposeful design of male and female.
Looking for Good Family TV During the Quarantine? Here's What We Are Watching
If your family is like ours, television is a rarity in our house. We gave up cable television years ago, but we stream movies on the weekends and can “earn” a television program or two during the week for good behavior (adults and children alike). But now that COVID-19 is keeping us all at home all day and every night, there is greater demand than ever for “Family TV.” Believe it or not, there are some good options that are both entertaining and appropriate for children.
"The Forgotten Americans"
The great Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation considers “the forgotten American” in a recent column originally published by Fox News. “In times of crisis such as we face now with the coronavirus pandemic, presidents often speak movingly of the ‘forgotten Americans’,” he writes. Lee Edwards is not only a scholar of the modern American conservative movement but a participant present at every stage since founding Young America’s Foundation in 1960 and working on the Goldwater campaign in 1964.
5 Considerations When Talking to Your Kids About Coronavirus
Everyone is together at home. That is a blessing, and a challenge—especially when it comes to talking to your children about this pandemic. Here are five things to consider, with input from Clinical Psychologist Dr. Michael Horne of Virginia: 1. Stay Calm. “Children take their cues from their parents,” says Dr. Horne. “When their parents are worried and highly stressed, they become more anxious.” I have certainly observed that in my own interactions with my children.
Keep Your Kids Home on Transgender Propaganda Day This Thursday!
Do you want your child to be psychologically manipulated at school on Thursday? Might be a good day for a Mommy Date at the museum! The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign and their pals at the powerful National Education Association are pushing public schools to recognize this Thursday as “Jazz and Friends National Day of School & Community Readings.” One of the books they are promoting is I Am Jazz, a transgender propaganda book designed for children.
Keep Your Kids Home on Transgender Propaganda Day This Thursday!
Do you want your child to be psychologically manipulated at school on Thursday? Might be a good day for a Mommy Date at the museum! The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign and their pals at the powerful National Education Association are pushing public schools to recognize this Thursday as “Jazz and Friends National Day of School & Community Readings.” One of the books they are promoting is I Am Jazz, a transgender propaganda book designed for children.
The Plague of Morally Toxic Public Schools
Cathy Ruse is FRC's Senior Fellow for Legal Studies. This article appeared in Decision Magazine on February 1, 2020. What would happen if a child were to spend most of his waking hours, during most of his formative years, in an institution bent on persuading him to adopt certain fundamental beliefs? There is no mystery here. Children are easy to manipulate. They are eager to please, especially in a school setting where their grades and future careers depend on it.
Transgender Regret: The Rise of the Detransitioners
Transgenderism is a hotel you can check into, but if ideologues have their way, impossible to leave. States and localities are rushing to make it illegal for adults and kids to seek counseling for unwanted sexual and gender confusion. If you’re a child and you are given puberty blockers, your development will likely be permanently stunted. If you are then given cross-sex hormones, you will be rendered infertile, permanently. If you pay a doctor to sever healthy organs, they are gone.
What I Learned About Transgender Politics in an Affluent County's Schools
I live in Fairfax County, Virginia, which has the 10th-largest public school district in the nation, but I never focused on our public schools. My kids go to Catholic schools, and that was the center of our universe. I never focused, that is, until I heard that the Fairfax County School Board voted to let boys into the girls’ bathrooms. The vote was 10-1. Was there only one sane person on the Fairfax County School Board? I had to find out. So I began attending school board meetings.
Kids are lab rats in school boards’ transgender social engineering experiments
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia, October 31, 2019 (The Stream) — I live in Fairfax County, the 10th largest public-school district in the nation. But I never focused on our public schools. My kids go to Catholic schools, and that was the center of our universe. I never focused, that is, until I heard that the Fairfax County School Board voted to let boys into the girls' bathrooms. The vote was 10-1. Was there only one sane person on the Fairfax County School Board? I had to find out.
School Board Sex Politics With Students in Fairfax County
Cathy Ruse is Senior Fellow for Legal Studies and Director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council. This article appeared in The Stream on October 30, 2019. I live in Fairfax County, which is the 10th largest public-school district in the nation. But I never focused on our public schools. My kids go to Catholic schools, and that was the center of our universe. I never focused, that is, until I heard that the Fairfax County School Board voted to let boys into the girls’ bathrooms.
Teacher Fired Over Trans Pronouns Sues School
West Point High School French teacher Peter Vlaming is a soft-spoken man who was well loved by his students. He wasn’t looking for a fight. He was just looking to do his job. But when the school demanded that he use male pronouns for a biological girl student who had decided to identify as a transgender boy, Vlaming was faced with the choice: follow his beliefs and potentially lose his job—or violate his beliefs and keep it.
Will Christians become outcasts at public universities?
By Penny Nance and Cathy Ruse, Voices Contributors | Friday, October 04, 2019 Courtesy of Penny Nance, Cathy Ruse We are Christian women, mothers of college students and college-bound children, who have serious concerns about how the “gender fluidity” movement has taken root at public schools and universities. The idea that gender is fluid and self-determined, as opposed to biologically determined, has been germinating for decades.
Will Your Child Be Forced to Celebrate Sex Politics 15 Times This School Year?
Powerful forces are pushing your child’s public school to celebrate sex politics this year—15 times! How many of these events have made it onto your school’s calendar? Find out today. For the 2019-2020 School Year: 1. Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) – Includes books that have never been banned, but have been the subject of parental concern because of age-inappropriate sexual content. 2.
Will Your Child Be Forced to Celebrate Sex Politics 15 Times This School Year?
Powerful forces are pushing your child’s public school to celebrate sex politics this year—15 times! How many of these events have made it onto your school’s calendar? Find out today. For the 2019-2020 School Year: 1. Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) – Includes books that have never been banned, but have been the subject of parental concern because of age-inappropriate sexual content. 2.
Pinch Yourself: New York City Walks Back LGBT Counseling Gag Rule
Cathy Ruse is Senior Fellow for Legal Studies and Director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council. This article appeared in The Stream on September 14, 2019. The LGBT movement has asked for the repeal of its favorite new law in New York City. In a public statement on Thursday, the Speaker of the City Council agreed. Why? Because free speech matters. And elections have consequences.
Pinch Yourself: New York City Walks Back LGBT Counseling Gag Rule
The LGBT movement has asked for the repeal of its favorite new law in New York City. In a public statement on Thursday, the Speaker of the City Council agreed. Why? Because free speech matters. And elections have consequences. Sweeping Speech Bans In 2017 the City Council passed a law that punishes counselors who engage in LGBT-related speech from a certain viewpoint — the viewpoint of a patient seeking to overcoming unwanted transgender feelings or same-sex attraction.
Recent Grad Exposes Sick University-Funded Sex Culture
Thanks to recent college graduate Kara Bell for shedding light on how today’s colleges promote sex, porn, condoms, lies, and a body-and-soul-killing hookup culture. Hello?? Are there any adults in the room at these publicly-funded institutions? Take a few moments to read her columns. Be prepared to be furious. Christian parents must be the adults in the room.
15 Apps All Parents Should Know About
Wow. I had no idea there was a calculator application that hides private browsing and photos. The home page of the app is a workable calculator but if you click on %, it opens up all that is behind it. It’s the perfect way to hide what you are really doing. This is just one of 15 apps the Sarasota (Florida) Sheriff’s office is warning parents they should keep away from their children. Hats off to my friend Donna Rice Hughes at Enough Is Enough for giving their research wider exposure.
The future of our nation depends on the state of our schools
The future of our nation depends on the state of our schools By Kim Swindell Wood | August 8, 2019 12:19 pm Language of Liberty – By Cathy Ruse This week, the Supreme Court declined to accept a case over whether government schools may force students to follow transgender ideology in official school policies, against science and female students’ privacy rights. They won’t be able to avoid the issue for long. We send our children to private, Christian schools.
URGENT: Tell Virginia’s governor not to ban healing therapy for gender-confused kids
August 7, 2019 (Family Research Council) — Disgraced Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has directed his Board of Counseling to punish any counselor who responds to a teen's cry for help to accept her own physical biology. That's called putting politics in front of people. You have heard of these bans.
Virginia's Governor Wants to Lock Teens in Transgenderism. Stop Him.
Disgraced Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has directed his Board of Counseling to punish any counselor who responds to a teen’s cry for help to accept her own physical biology. That’s called putting politics in front of people. You have heard of these bans.
Engaging a Culture in Crisis: Christians Gather to Discuss Strategies
Two hundred Catholics gathered for a two-day conference last weekend high in the hills above La Crosse, Wisconsin. Organized by Cardinal Raymond Burke, former Chief Justice of the Vatican Supreme Court. Cardinal Burke is one of the most important bishops in the Catholic Church and is seen by millions of Catholics as the torchbearer of Christian orthodoxy in what can be a very confusing time.
Library Buries Photos of Kids Playing on Top of Drag Queens
Remember the shocking photos of adult men in drag, lying on the floor at a library, with toddlers crawling on top of them? Well, government officials in Multnomah County, Oregon hope you’ll forget about them and keep bringing your children to Drag Queen Story Hours. Last October, St. John’s public library in Portland, Oregon, presented Anthony Hudson dressed as drag queen “Carla Rossi” in a program for 2 to 6-year-old children.
California Public Schools Promote Polyamory for Pre-Teens
The world recently learned that the American Psychological Association promotes “polyamory,” “swinging,” and “relationship anarchy.” Their experts say it’s healthy and ethical. They’re crazy. Leftists who run our nation’s public schools love to hide behind the skirts of the American Psychological Association when it comes to crazy sex ed. So in a recent column I wondered how long it would take for them to push polyamory on the pubertal. Then I learned they already do.
California Public Schools Promote Polyamory for Preteens
The world recently learned that the American Psychological Association promotes “polyamory,” “swinging,” and “relationship anarchy.” Its experts say it’s healthy and ethical. They’re crazy. Leftists who run our nation’s public schools love to hide behind the skirts of the American Psychological Association when it comes to crazy sex ed. So in a recent column I wondered how long it would take for them to push polyamory on the pubertal. Then I learned they already do.
Polyamory is for Pre-Teens in Public Schools. Oh, Really?
The world recently learned that the American Psychological Association promotes “polyamory,” “swinging,” and “relationship anarchy.” Their experts say it’s healthy and ethical. They’re crazy. Leftists who run our nation’s public schools love to hide behind the skirts of the APA when it comes to crazy Sex Ed. So in a recent column I wondered how long it would take for them to push polyamory on the pubertal. Then I learned they already do.
Adulterers: The New Protected Sexual Minority
Just when you thought the American Psychological Association couldn’t get any more psychologically unbalanced, along comes their next task force. It’s for what they call “consensual non-monogamy.” The “Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force” promotes the rights of people who engage in “diverse expressions of intimate relationships.” Like open relationships, swinging and “relationship anarchy.” Relationship anarchy is not defined. It sounds like a Moral Majority pejorative, circa 1981.
Adulterers: The New Protected Sexual Minority
Cathy Ruse is Senior Fellow for Legal Studies and Director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council. This article appeared in The Stream on July 10, 2019. Just when you thought the American Psychological Association couldn’t get any more psychologically unbalanced, along comes their next task force.
The Future of Our Nation Depends on the State of Our Schools
This week the Supreme Court declined to accept a case over whether government schools may force students to follow transgender ideology in official school policies, against science and female students’ privacy rights. They won’t be able to avoid the issue for long. We send our children to private, Christian schools. Tuition is high; the financial burden on our family is significant. But we have determined that government schools are just not an option.
The Future of Our Nation Depends on the State of Our Schools
This week the Supreme Court declined to accept a case over whether government schools may force students to follow transgender ideology in official school policies, against science and female students’ privacy rights. They won’t be able to avoid the issue for long. We send our children to private, Christian schools. Tuition is high; the financial burden on our family is significant. But we have determined that government schools are just not an option.
Faith-Based Solutions Are Vital to Preventing Veteran Suicide
By the end of every day, an average of 20 U.S. military veterans will have committed suicide. This number is staggering, especially when you consider the fact that less than 1 percent of the U.S. adult population are currently serving in the military. What happened? Ask Richard Glickstein and he’ll tell you that there are several reasons.
FRC Blog " Under the "Equality Act," A Woman's Place is in the Bleachers
Last week, the Heritage Foundation presented another compelling panel on the impact of the transgender movement on women and girls, and its chief legislative vehicle: Nancy Pelosi’s so-called “Equality Act.” Featuring women leaders like Beth Stelzer of Save Women’s Sports and Jennifer Bryson of Let All Play, the panel examined the devastating impact that this political movement is having in the lives of real women and girls, and women’s sports in general.
Under the
Last week, the Heritage Foundation presented another compelling panel on the impact of the transgender movement on women and girls, and its chief legislative vehicle: Nancy Pelosi’s so-called “Equality Act.” Featuring women leaders like Beth Stelzer of Save Women’s Sports and Jennifer Bryson of Let All Play, the panel examined the devastating impact that this political movement is having in the lives of real women and girls, and women’s sports in general.
What if Abortion Laws Reflected the Actual Views of Americans?
On Saturday I led a panel discussion on “Abortion Until Birth: What Happened in New York, What Almost Happened in Virginia, and What Lies Ahead in the Federal Courts.” I was joined by Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Greg Schleppenbach of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat, and Jeff Caruso of the Virginia Catholic Conference. The following are excerpts of my introductory remarks.
The cost of sending your kids to public school just might be their souls
February 12, 2019 (Family Research Council) — Recent decades have seen "Mommy Wars" about daycare and breastfeeding. Are we on the cusp of a new fight over whether to send your kids to public school? If so, I say bring it on. It's long overdue. Should we pull our kids out of public school? Millions of parents with children in public schools can't believe they're asking this question. But they are. Family Research Council hosted an expert panel on this question last week.
The Cost of Sending Your Kids to Public School Just Might Be Their Souls
Recent decades have seen “Mommy Wars” about daycare and breastfeeding. Are we on the cusp of a new fight over whether to send your kids to public school? If so, I say bring it on. It’s long overdue. Should we pull our kids out of public school? Millions of parents with children in public schools can’t believe they’re asking this question. But they are. Family Research Council hosted an expert panel on this question last week. Grab a cup of coffee and an hour and watch it here.
The Tremendous Power of Transgender Ideologues
Transgender ideologues have tremendous power in our culture, and they’re wielding it against the least powerful. If children and their families can survive the pill-pushing gender clinicians, they still have to face the virtue-signaling politicians and their speech bans. It’s the Hotel Transgender: You can check in, but you can never leave.
Hotel Trans: Check In Any Time, But Never Leave
Transgender ideologues have tremendous power in our culture, and they’re wielding it against the least powerful. If children and their families can survive the pill-pushing gender clinicians, they still have to face the virtue-signaling politicians and their speech bans. It’s the Hotel Transgender: You can check in, but you can never leave.
Hotel Trans: Check In Any Time, But Never Leave
Transgender ideologues have tremendous power in our culture, and they’re wielding it against the least powerful. If children and their families can survive the pill-pushing gender clinicians, they still have to face the virtue-signaling politicians and their speech bans. It’s the Hotel Transgender: You can check in, but you can never leave.
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