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• Prayer and Public Policy: A Constant Interplay

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 6:00pm in Family and Religion with 2 comments

  A short piece in today’s Washington Post examines President Obama’s religious faith. The occasion of the article is the President’s remarks today to the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event held at this time of year in the capital. Interestingly, the article does not attempt to distinguish among the usages of prayer in the [...] More

• The Truth about Abstinence Education: What Obama and Pelosi Don’t Want You to Know

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 10:53am in Family and Religion with 3 comments

  Yesterday, a new study was released showing that abstinence education programs were effective in reducing teen sexual activity while conventional safe sex programs had no positive effects. Ironically, this finding comes at a time when President Obama and the Pelosi/Reid Congress have abolished all federal funding for abstinence and created a new funding stream [...] More

• Abstinence Education Effective in Reducing Teen Sex, Comprehensive Sex Ed Not

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 8:01pm in Family and Religion with 14 comments

  A new study concludes that abstinence-only education had a significant and long-term effect in reducing teen sexual activity.  “The abstinence-only intervention reduced sexual initiation,” reports the study, which is featured in the most recent issue of the medical journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, published by the American Medical Association. The study found that a [...] More

• Same-Sex Marriage and a Level-Playing Field for Religious Argument

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 5:15pm in Family and Religion, Ongoing Priorities with 19 comments

  Last week, the evidentiary phase of the trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger came to an end. Perry is the federal court lawsuit in California that claims, in effect, that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage. Specifically, the lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the November 2008 amendment to the California constitution that [...] More

• Pregnancy Care Centers: Serving Mothers and Communities

  Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 9:34am in Family and Religion with 2 comments

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• Obamacare’s Uninvited Wedding Guest: A New Health Tax

  Posted January 21st, 2010 at 3:09pm in Family and Religion, Health Care with 10 comments

  Does marriage provide health benefits? According to the research, it does, but not according to many in Congress. Under the Senate-passed health care bill, couples who choose to wed, or to remain wedded, will face financial penalties cohabiting couples will be spared, even if a married couple makes the exact same combined income as a [...] More

• Fighting Human Trafficking Requires Multiple Institutions

  Posted January 20th, 2010 at 10:55am in Family and Religion with 3 comments

  President Obama has declared January 2010 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Human trafficking is a horrific reality of our world today. Millions of people are victimized worldwide, including thousands of people within America’s borders. Human trafficking is one of the issues explored in a brand new resource from The Heritage Foundation called [...] More

• Same-Sex Marriage in DC: Game, but Not Set or Match

  Posted January 15th, 2010 at 4:42pm in Family and Religion with 6 comments

  Advocates of traditional marriage filed an appeal in the District of Columbia today, as expected, seeking review of yesterday’s D.C. Superior Court ruling that a public referendum on the issue would violate the city’s Human Rights Act. The appeal will place the issue before the D.C. Court of Appeals, which will be asked next week [...] More

• Supreme Court Already Overturning Prop 8 Judge’s “Eleventh Hour” Decisions

  Posted January 15th, 2010 at 11:01am in Family and Religion, Rule of Law with 5 comments

  On Monday, The New York Times carried an op-ed by Heritage Foundation scholar and former US Attorney General Ed Meese titled “Stacking the Deck Against Proposition 8.” In that piece, Mr. Meese criticized a series of pre-trial rulings issued by Judge Vaughn R. Walker in the landmark same-sex marriage case currently underway in [...] More

• No Cameras in Prop 8 Marriage Case

  Posted January 14th, 2010 at 11:00am in Family and Religion, Rule of Law with 6 comments

  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 late yesterday that a federal judge in San Francisco had acted improperly in altering longstanding rules barring the televising of federal court proceedings. As a result, the federal trial of Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment on the definition of marriage adopted in November 2008 by California voters, will [...] More