Last month the US Justice Department took a look at violent crimes committed against “youth”—defined as Americans from 12 to 17 years of age.  Most of the study’s findings centered on the rise and fall of violent crime rates and...

On Friday afternoon, the Illinois State Senate Executive Committee heard testimony on Senator Heather Steans‘ “Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act” (HB 4963).  With nine Democrats and 6 Republicans on this committee, the bill easily passed out of the committee...

Our state lawmakers are returning to Springfield this week and are expected to debate the controversial proposal to redefine marriage, a change that would prove destructive to children, family, society, and religious liberty in Illinois. Proponents of marriage re-definition are pulling out all the stops to get what they want during the lame duck session of the General Assembly (January 3-9).

As politicians compete to prove who loves the middle class more, they’re missing the elephant and the donkey in the room. The middle class needs not just tax breaks and jobs but also marriage.

Thus says the LORD:  “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”[Jeremiah 31:15] It has happened again. This time...

If you’re wondering what the election results mean for the biblical definition of marriage, you’re not alone. For the first time in history, American voters expressed their approval of same-sex “marriage.”  Until Election Day 2012, Americans in 32 states have...

Illinois state lawmakers return to Springfield today for the first day of the lame duck Veto Session.  Among the many pieces of legislation the legislature might take up is HB 30, which would legalize “medical” marijuana.  Take ACTION:  Click HERE...

At our 20th Anniversary Fall Banquet, Illinois Family Institute presented a Covenant Keepers Hall of Fame’s Longest Married Couple Award to Bud and Clara Cawthon of Pittsfield, Illinois. The couple celebrated their 75th anniversary of marriage in April 2012.

The U.S. Supreme Court decides next week whether to hear challenges to laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of a man and a woman. It does so after two different electoral outcomes. In May, North Carolinians voted to amend their state constitution to protect the conjugal definition of marriage, a definition that 41 states retain. But on Nov. 6, voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington state endorsed a revisionist view of marriage as the union of any two adults.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) released the results of a nationwide survey conducted on Election Day of actual voters. The poll was conducted by Kellyanne Conway’s highly regarded firm, ‘the polling company, inc.’ This latest survey shows that fully...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, with his finger ever on the pulse of "progressives"—I mean, Chicagoans—has discerned that two of the top three problems facing the city are the absence of casinos and legalized “same-sex marriage.” The city’s failing schools, gang activity, murder rate, debt, unemployment, poverty, family breakdown, child abuse, and drug use pale in significance when compared to the absence of casinos. Perhaps Mayor Emanuel sees casinos as the solution to all those problems.

I had other plans for today until I read the Chicago Tribune editorial that ebulliently celebrates the rejection in four states of the central defining feature of marriage—sexual complementarity. In a display of astonishing hubris, the Trib editorial board has...

Written By Kevin DeYoung Try arguing with left-leaning Christians about homosexuality and within the first five minutes someone will throw divorce and remarriage in your face.  Much to my chagrin, I’ve been embroiled in debates about homosexuality many times, and...

Marijuana is one of the most hotly debated drugs of our time.  According t an important report by Kevin Sabet, PhD, Policy Consultant and Assistant Professor, University of Florida, we can say with some certainty that marijuana use is significantly...

Gardasil has been controversial from the beginning. While other vaccines protect against diseases spread by casual contact, Gardasil was developed to protect against a sexually transmitted disease called Human Papilloma Virus or HPV. Merck & Co., the manufacturer, has been...