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Presidential Voter Guides include U.S. Senate races prepared by Faith and Freedom Coalition. Also Family Research Council Action's Voter Guide & Score Cards Are your like-minded friends, family, neighbors & co-workers really registered to vote? Quickly find out online - http://www.areyouregistered.org/ffc/ Faith and Freedom Coalition: 2012 Congressional Scorecards - http://ffcoalition.com/sites/default/files/2012-FFC-SCORE-CARD.pdf FRC Action: 2012 Values Voter Presidential Voter Guide - http://downloads.frcaction.org/EF/EF12F14.pdf FRC Action: 2012 Values Voter Presidential Voter Guide (Spanish Language) - http://downloads.frcaction.org/EF/EF12I01.pdf FRC Action: 2012 Pro-Family Congressional Scorecards (and 5 previous Congresses, also searchable by Name, etc.) - http://www.frcaction.org/scorecard FRC Action Voter Tools - http://www.frcaction.org/votertools FRC Action: 2012 Political Party...

Retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, whose fiery exhortations to protect America from encroaching Shariah law and other dangers have highlight headlines in recent months, has been named executive vice president of Family Research Council. According to today’s announcement, he will be tasked with the responsibility of overseeing day-to-day operations including policy, church ministries, finance, development, communications, human resources, facilities, information technology, constituent communications and customer service. An original member of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force, he ultimately commanded the elite team in combat operations, and later led the Army’s Green Berets as well as the Special Warfare Center and...

When the General Assembly returns to town all eyes focus on the state budget. Despite media-driven perceptions that the legislature obsesses over "controversial" social issues, economic issues dominate every legislative session, and 2012 will be no exception. Given the new Senate configuration, however, members will be expected to multitask and address other issues that were on the minds of many Virginians when they voted in November. Representing tens of thousands of those voters, The Family Foundation will have several legislative priorities we hope will find success. The first indicator of whether change has come to the state Senate will occur...

In an interview on Studio B Monday, Shepard Smith challenged Rick Santorum on his position on gay marriage. Santorum said that whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry is really a question of values, saying, “The question is whether we should change the laws of this country to reflect a different value structure. What we’re talking about here are different values. We have to Judeo-Christian values that are based on Biblical truth and truth that can be acclaimed and resolved through reason. And, those truths don’t change just because people’s attitudes may change.” He went onto say, “People are allowed...

Sarah Palin is not running. Rick Perry has shown himself not up to the challenge (unfortunately). Herman Cain got borked by the establishment media and could not take the heat (unfortunately). Ron Paul, for every sensible position, has one that marks him as a kook. Newt Gingrich is being attacked relentlessly, fairly or unfairly, and because of his very mixed record on many issues, the attacks are weakening him. Michelle Bachmann's apparent role as Mitt Romney's attack dog has left her mired in single digits in the polls. So the political class in this country (and I include the elites...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom some pundits had written off as the GOP's nominee, may find a second coming in Iowa, if new poll data holds up. As Mitt Romney's campaign has suffered a startling decline in recent weeks, only to see Newt Gingrich eclipse the former Massachusetts governor's front-runner status, the battle for the Iowa caucuses set for Jan. 3 has become a wide-open race. New survey data prepared for the Perry campaign and shared by a source close within the campaign shows that the Texas governor may be poised to do much better in next month’s Iowa caucuses...

Sen. Santorum throws down a gauntlet to the other candidates on marriage: "What New York did was wrong. I will oppose it. And I will go to New York if necessary and help overturn it....The 10th Amendment does not mean that states can do whatever they want whenever they want it..." He seems to be referring to reports that Gov. Perry said he's "fine" with gay marriage in New York.

...I write to address a political golden calf; the claim that the current agenda calling itself "progressive" is progressive at all. The term implies progress toward something better. The political agenda being offered under the moniker of "progressive" is, in effect, regressive. What is happening is a clash of worldviews which involves competing definitions of human freedom, human flourishing and true progress. The commentator Glen Beck has convinced many that the word "progressive" should be abandoned. He asserts that the word has been so utterly co-opted by George Soros and others with left wing political ideologies that it is irretrievable....

Hey, Admiral, did you see Free Republic's pro-life, pro-family disclaimer?Mom's gonna be real happy when we tell her ... ya think it's a good time to ask for a sister?

Pro-family write-in against anti-family Charlie Baker for Governor in Mass Republican primary Send a strong message to Massachusetts RINO establishment! POSTED: Aug 12, 2010 Finally, "the rest of us" have an alternative for Governor. As you know, the Massachusetts Republican Party establishment has selected Charlie Baker and Richard Tisei as candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor. Baker and Tisei are arguably among the most radical anti-family Republican party-endorsed Governor or Lt. Governor candidates ever in Massachusetts - or in of any state in America. In any place but Massachusetts they would be liberal Democrats, not Republicans. How bad are they?...

Tuesday September 21, 2010 Negative Psychological Impact of Abortion Results from 'Hard-Wiring' in Women's Brains: Scholars By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiNEW YORK, September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings," write Evelyn Birge Vitz and Paul C. Vitz in an article published in the September 20 issue of Public Discourse. Evelyn Vitz is Professor of French and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University....

Anthony Comstock: the first pro-life activist in the modern history  Pioneer in the fight against abortion and in efforts to press the Congress and politicians to protect families and their children and adolescents  By Julio Severo  To expose children and adolescents to pornographic materials and movies under the cloak of “sexual education”, showing explicit scenes and positions of sex, including homosexual. To expose children and adolescents to methods called of “family planning”, including abortion, to hinder pregnancy as if it were a sexually transmissible disease. That, unhappily, is the pattern of criminal violence prevailing at the schools and in the...

John Arrington, Illinois Republican for U.S. Senate: WHY I AM PRO-FAMILY: In His Own Words EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final installment in a series titled "In Their Own Words". The series is for informational purposes only and is not an endorsement of any particular candidate. RFFM.org would like to thank those who participated. Some candidates promised to submit personal essays and did not, while others refused to participate. RFFM.org is a pro-family website/blog, subsequently, liberal candidates like Mark Kirk were not invited to share their opinions. RFFM.org also believes money and influence should not determine a candidate's viability. There...

Republican Vaughn Ward declared his candidacy for the 1st Congressional District of Idaho Tuesday in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Boise Tuesday.

At a huge rally in the capital, Cardinal Antonio Rouco, the leader of Spain's Roman Catholics, told protesters the birth rate in Europe will be depleted unless Christian values are maintained.Catholics attended a huge open air mass beside Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium.The mass marked the Feast of the Holy Family. But Catholic leaders from across Europe joined their local counterparts and members of the Spanish centre-Right opposition to castigate the socialist government's policies."Europe will be practically without children," warned Cardinal Rouco, 73, the conservative Archbishop of Madrid. "Who denies to defend a human being so innocent and weak, already conceived...

The normal routine of the League was interrupted Friday afternoon, when an anonymous caller called to say he owned guns and his next target was the former director of the League, Mike Heath (above). The death threat was apparently related to the recent win on Question 1, which revoked the right of homosexuals to be married in Maine. The caller said the following: “I am calling about Mr. Mike Heath, the Executive of your Christian Civic League of Maine. He thinks that gay people should have our rights revoked that we already have. Well I can tell him this...

It's now 31-0 in state marriage elections in favor of normalcy. (Are we starting to see a pattern here?) This was the big one! A win here was crucial and for a while it looked very shaky. But the pro-family forces pulled it off by 53%-47% -- a major loss for the homosexual lobbies that put an enormous amount of money and energy into this. A short time after the polls closed it became clear that our side would probably win by about six percentage points. After the liberal coastal cities quickly posted their numbers, one could calculate that they...

From RFFM.org's Executive Director, Dan Zanoza: RFFM.org will post an op-ed submission from all Illinois pro-family statewide candidates. An op-ed posted on RFFM.org from a particular candidate is not an indication of an RFFM.org endorsement. Op-ed submissions from candidates must meet the following criteria...

On the Bobby D Show tonight at 10pm EST. Prez. Obama's speech today. 55 mins of what. Would Pres. Bush been able to give a 55 min. speech without mentioning our soldiers over seas. Would he been able to give a 55 min. speech without one liberal reporter reminding him how many men have died in Iraq. Would he have been able to give one 55 min. speech without someone asking when he was going to bring the troups home from overseas. Prez. Obama gets the get out of jail free card everytme he goes around the board. 1-877-bobby40 call...

The Family Foundation Action, a non-profit pro-family group in Richmond, has just released their 2008/2009 Legislative Report Card. This document ranks our state senators and delegates on how they voted, according to issues that are important to the family. Check out this link to view a PDF copy of the report card, or you can download or print your own. http://www.tffaction.org/images/Report_Card_Final.pdf