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What “Comprehensive” Sex Education Really Means
By David E. Smith   |   05.06.13
When you hear the term “comprehensive” as a way to describe legislation, you can be sure the government has big plans to invade a new corner of your life. “Comprehensive sex education” for public schools is no exception. That’s why it’s critical HB 2675 be stopped!
Planned Parenthood’s Sex Education Bill Advances
By Kathy Valente   |   05.03.13
On Wednesday, May 1st, Mrs. Tammy Schulz traveled with 2 of her children from Oak Park to Springfield to testify in opposition to a terrible sex education bill being pushed by Planned Parenthood of Illinois.  It was scheduled...
Illinois Should Not Mandate Inappropriate Sex Education
04.27.13
Once again, members of the Illinois Legislature are trying to mandate explicit, inappropriate sex education, as they attempt to do year after year. House Bill 2675 is peddled as an attempt to reduce “teen-pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases,” but this is a ruse. We are aware of no research indicating that contraceptive-based sex-education classes have ever shown a reduction in teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. While the bill’s supporters claim...
Middle School’s Anti-Bullying Activity: Girls Asked to Kiss Girls
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.25.13
If you want to see where the deceitful effort of homosexual activists to exploit bullying-prevention for their own selfish and pernicious goals goes next, look at what recently happened in a New York middle school. School administrators colluding with college...
Fatuous Floor Debate in Springfield on Comprehensive Sex Ed Bill
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.24.13
All Illinoisans should be troubled that our lawmakers vote for bills without demanding any evidence proving that the bills will solve the problems that the bills’ sponsors cite as the reasons the bills are needed. Case in point: last week’s...
Friday’s Day of Silence: Partisan Abuse of Public Resources
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.17.13
This Friday, April 19, 2013 is the National Day of Silence which is sponsored by the homosexuality-affirming advocacy group, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN’s raison dêtre is to transform the moral and political views of our...
Warning: Comprehensive Sex Ed Returning to Springfield
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.09.13
Our relentless “progressive” lawmakers hell-bent on the early sexualization of children and the exploitation of public schools to normalize homosexuality have re-introduced the comprehensive sex ed bill (HB 2675), which if passed will foist on all schools the kind of...
Teachers Promote Same-Sex “Marriage” During School in District 113
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.04.13
The week before the Illinois Senate was scheduled to vote on a bill to legalize same-sex “marriage,” student members of the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) at Deerfield High School sent this email to every staff and faculty member: Dear...
The SPLC’s Newest Ideas for Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.02.13
In addition to cowardice, one of the reasons that conservatives fail to oppose the myriad ways “progressives” exploit public schools to transform other people’s children into their social and political image is that we dismiss each new effort of theirs...
“The Truth About Medical Marijuana” Conference in Palos Hills
03.26.13
Truth and Consequences of Marijuana as Medicine   A fact-checked, research-based discussion about marijuana and Illinois Our speakers will sort fact from fiction about how marijuana impacts health and safety, Illinois youth, drugged driving and the workplace. They will explain what...
Keep Your Kids Home on Homosexuality-Affirming “Day of Silence”
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.13.13
On Friday April 19, 2013 the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is once again exploiting public schools to promote homosexuality and gender confusion as moral and normative through the political protest called the Day of Silence. A coalition...
Worried About Bullying?  Be More Worried About Govt. “Fixed” Schools
02.28.13
Let’s face it: Kids can be really dumb. I know, because I was once a kid. In kindergarten, I accidentally tied myself to a playground tetherball pole, leaving myself stranded and dangling when the recess bell rang. In sixth grade...
Pre-K Won’t Help Kids
02.28.13
President Obama ended his State of the Union speech on a warm-and-fuzzy note by calling for Pre-K programs for almost all children. The best thing he could do for pre-kindergarten children is to make sure he doesn’t hang trillions of dollars of debt around their necks, but that isn’t the route he is taking.
To This Day Project
02.26.13
Here's evidence that bullying can be addressed in compelling, innovative, and apolitical ways that do not introduce or affirm controversial, non-factual beliefs about homosexuality:
Homosexual Faux-Marriage and Public Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.16.13
The legal recognition of same-sex unions as marriages will have far-reaching, devastating and pernicious cultural consequences, including within our public schools. Here are some of the ineluctable changes in public education that Illinoisans can expect if “same-sex marriage” is legalized...
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