Articles by David E. Smith
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David E. Smith
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11.11.10
The Pew Research Center recently released a study highlighting rapidly changing views on the American family. About 29 percent of children under 18 now live with a parent or parents who are unwed or no longer married, a fivefold increase...
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David E. Smith
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11.09.10
This past weekend, Pope Benedict XVI visited Spain where approximately 100 homosexual activists intentionally staged a kiss-in protest in front of the Barcelona cathedral.
This obnoxious and in-your-face protest was well covered by international press. But no where have I...
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David E. Smith
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11.05.10
On the national level, the November 2nd midterm elections were historic. The Republicans gained at least 61 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. It may rise to 64 or 65 seats when undecided races are finally decided. This is...
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David E. Smith
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10.28.10
In an alarming story, a woman in Grand Rapids, Michigan is facing possible charges from the state Department of Civil Rights for expressing her Christian faith, not in the public square but in church!.
The 31 year-old woman has been...
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David E. Smith
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10.19.10
Two weeks from today, our state and nation will be voting on important government positions that will dramatically effect the direction of our nation.
Obviously, this year’s mid-term elections are extremely important. Voters will be asked to decide if they...
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David E. Smith
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10.07.10
Harvard scientists have pioneered a fast and efficient new technique for turning adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) that is already changing laboratory practice and eliminates a major safety hurdle of using such cells to treat patients, reports...
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David E. Smith
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09.27.10
Illinois Family Institute joined many other pro-family organizations in submitting a Friend of the Court (amicus) brief in the California Proposition 8 appeal. A federal judge overturned California’s voter-approved marriage amendment (Proposition 8) earlier this year. The Alliance Defense Fund...
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David E. Smith
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09.23.10
Last week in Washington, the Values Voter Summit honored the work of American Family Association’s founderDr. Don Wildmon for his 33 years of leadership and faithful service advocating conservative social and moral policies.
Wildmon began AFA in 1977 in the...
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David E. Smith
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09.14.10
Last week, another activist judge in California usurped the people’s will by striking down the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and ordered that avowed homosexuals must be inducted into the U.S. Armed Services. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips has decided...
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David E. Smith
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09.13.10
National Review Online (NRO) recently published an editorial entitled “The Case for Marriage.” The publication’s editors discuss how those in powerful positions in our society seem to be coming to the inevitable conclusion that our culture should be open to...
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David E. Smith
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09.10.10
On Thursday (September 9th), the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia lifted a ban on federal taxpayer funding of human embryonic stem cell research pending further review.
Proponents of the research involving the destruction of human embryos...
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David E. Smith
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09.07.10
We are happy to announce that the effort to obtain Choose Life specialty license plates is alive and well. As many of you know, a pro-life coalition headed up by IFI board member Jim Finnegan, president of Illinois Choose Life,...
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David E. Smith
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09.03.10
The nation’s leading group of pediatricians has issued a policy statement warning its members, parents and the media of the messages American teens and children are getting about sex from television, the Internet and other media outlets.
The statement was...
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David E. Smith
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08.26.10
Last week we sent you an IFI E-Alert asking you to contact Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to ask her to support the Thomas More Society’s motion to immediately transfer the legal case regarding the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion...
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David E. Smith
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08.26.10
A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday, stopping the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in the Obama administration’s new guidelines.
The court ruled in favor of a suit filed by Dr. James L. Sherley,...
