Free Republic

Conservative Organizations Slam Law Center for Labeling Them 'Hate' Groups By Stephen Clark Published December 24, 2010 | FoxNews.com Conservative groups and lawmakers are firing back at the Southern Poverty Law Center for releasing a new report labeling some mainstream conservative organizations as "hate groups" for their opposition to gay marriage. In its latest report, the center added 18 "anti-gay groups" to its list of active hate organizations, including Concerned Women for America, the Traditional Values Coalition, the Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage. They join the center's list of more than 900 hate groups, including the...

Dear Friends, Our dear friend Dr. Jerry Prevo, pastor of Anchorage Baptist Temple, has asked for our help in stopping an ordinance from becoming law. The Anchorage (Alaska) City Assembly passed an ordinance that would add "sexual orientation" to the city's non-discrimination and civil rights law. If signed into law by the Mayor, this ordinance will force individuals and small businesses to accept and accommodate all forms of "sexual orientation" including homosexuals, transgenders, and cross dressing. We have seen in other cities where, due to these laws, a Christian photographer was fined for not photographing a lesbian commitment ceremony, the...

In their efforts to improve the situation of women around the globe, a handful in the international community believe there should be no honoring of motherhood in public policy since motherhood "traps" women in lowly domestic endeavors instead of using their talents in the workforce.

Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for Concerned Women for America, an advocacy group that promotes biblical values in public policy, takes on Starbucks Corporation’s "As I See It" marketing program, which prints the wit and wisdom of its customers on the sides of coffee cups. According to Barber, many of these statements are polemical and offensive to people who believe in G-d. For example: The Way I See It # 347 – "Why in moments of crisis do we ask G-d for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a...

In a shocking breach of medical ethics, the leading stem-cell and cloning researcher in South Korea admitted last week that he used eggs donated by subordinates in his work. According to Nature magazine, the junior researcher “felt obliged to donate after making mistakes early in the experiment that wasted eggs and set the team back by months.” This gross abuse of position and power is a lapse that Concerned Women for America (CWA) has warned could happen, and the case demonstrates growing concerns about the ethics of research involving human cloning. Hwang became a sensation in South Korea, a...

Adult stem-cell research may lead one day to cures for terminal and debilitating diseases "I hope we will always be guided by both intellect and heart, by both our capabilities and our conscience." -President George W. Bush1 Few areas of scientific study hold as much potential as adult stem-cell research. This research is already generating medical breakthroughs and treatments for debilitating diseases and disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, sickle cell anemia and Parkinson's. Indeed, scientists laud stem-cell treatments as the "miracle cure" of the 21st century. Unlike so many areas of biotechnology, adult stem cells do not spark a...

A TIME magazine cover story and a recent pro-homosexual school event should leave no doubt that homosexual activists are recruiting kids into homosexual sex and a “gay” identity, using “tolerance” as a ruse. The TIME October 10 piece, “The Battle Over Gay Teens,” which includes not a single reference to the extremely dangerous medical consequences of homosexual behavior, especially for boys, includes these details: • A cocktail party in Manhattan with billionaire liquor magnate Edgar Bronfman, Sr. and Clinton political strategist David Mixner was held in May to raise money for the Point Foundation, a scholarship program to turn “gay”...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

Pro-Life Groups Work to Block Arlen Specter’s Appointment to Chair Senate Judiciary Committee By (EP) Days after the Nov. 2 election, Sen. Arlen Specter remained at the center of a political firestorm of his own making. The Republican senator from Pennsylvania raised the ire of conservatives across the country with comments that he made about pro-life judicial nominees the day after President Bush’s re-election.

Specter Watch: What Happened to Sen. Arlen Specter and What it Means     11/23/2004We wanted you to have the most up-to-date information about Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and his candidacy for Chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The nine Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday, November 18, their support for Sen. Specter for the committee chairmanship. The support means that Specter will likely assume the position in January. However, the good news is that the firestorm you, Concerned Women for America (CWA) and many others helped fuel over the past two weeks means that Sen. Specter's hands...

Cartoon by: Carmelo Torres The GOP's November 5 election victory was a referendum of sorts against "gay marriage," homosexual adoption, and attacking the Boy Scouts - as candidates who strongly defended traditional family values on these issues won key races across the nation. Candidates in competitive races who embraced the most extreme homosexual planks - such as Georgia Sen. Max Cleland's (D) support of the "gay" lobby over the Boy Scouts of America, and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Shannon O'Brien's (D) flip-flopping embrace of "gay marriage" - lost their elections after being criticized for abandoning mainstream values. Although liberal and self-described...