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Family Research Council Presidential Voter Guide
The 2008 Presidential Voter GuideDownload Voter Guide Dear Friend of the Family,On behalf of Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, we have placed our new voter guides below as we enter this momentous election year. We ...
01/15/2008
Dolly Creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning
The scientist who created Dolly the sheep, a breakthrough that provoked headlines around the world a decade ago, is to abandon the cloning technique he pioneered to create her. Prof Ian Wilmut's decision to turn his back on "therapeutic clon...
11/16/2007
Billboard Attacks Gay Marriage Vote
Saturday, October 06, 2007 BOSTON - A New Jersey group yesterday unveiled a massive billboard in Springfield that compares a local legislator to Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold for switching his vote on gay marriage. Called "Betrayed," the bi...
10/06/2007
Pressure tactics subvert dialogue
Those who call for parents to be allowed to know what their children are being taught in public school are purveyors of "hate speech."That is the absurd message from Know Thy Neighbor, a pro-gay marriage group that, sadly, relies on intimidation...
09/27/2007
Speech cancelled amid questions of 'hate speech' versus 'free speech'
A speech by a "parental rights" activist in Gloucester has been canceled after a gay marriage advocacy group threatened to protest what it deemed "hate speech."Cape Ann Marriage and Family, which characterizes itself as "pro-famil...
09/26/2007
Governor is wrong on abstinence education
In 1998, with President Clinton in the Oval Office, the federal budget dispensed its first round of abstinence education funding to Massachusetts. Averaging more than $700,000 a year, the money has come to the commonwealth every year since. Not anymore. G...
09/18/2007
Governor Should Reconsider Abstinence Veto
Gov. Deval Patrick apparently doesn't want any other person or group imposing their values on Massachusetts school children. But he thinks it's fine for him to impose his own values on them.That is the only conclusion to draw from a rhetorical war...
09/10/2007
Important Voices Aren't Being Heard
Somewhere along the line, the notion that adolescents should be taught the benefits of abstaining from sex became a political football. That’s in no small measure because the parties on both sides of the issue made it that way. On the one hand,...
09/07/2007
What's the Rush?
Governor should move slowly on casino issueWith the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and Middleboro negotiating what is billed as a $1 billion casino deal, the pressure has been mounting on Gov. Deval L. Patrick to issue a speedy policy statement. From Boston, to ...
09/05/2007
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United States. The danger is that large numbers of Catholics will, as a result of clergy sex scandals and the large, highly publicized cash awards and settlements following in...
08/06/2007
Abstinence ed a needy ounce of prevention
In the face of an epidemic rise in violent crime, sexually transmitted diseases and single-parent families, we need leadership to ask the hard questions and to seek the wisest innovative solutions possible. The critical problems facing us in the city requ...
07/12/2007
What's civil about taking away people's right?
So this is what it's come down to, with your public servants saying your opinions do not matter, and what's more, if you persist in demanding to exercise your democracy, you'll be dismissed as a bigot who opposes civil rights or a religious nu...
06/13/2007
If you can't buy their vote, buy their job
The way the gay "advocates" look at it, it shouldn't be this hard to buy a few votes. The "We're a Family Too" crowd wants to make sure the voters of Massachusetts never get a chance to weigh in on "gay marriage" next...
06/01/2007
Why I have Opposed Casinos in the Commonwealth
I have opposed opening casinos in Massachusetts, not on moral grounds (anyone who has the successful lottery that we do has no moral out on this issue), but on the question of whether or not it makes good economic policy. After studying this for eleven ye...
05/25/2007
Proposed Repeal of Law Could Lure Gay Couples to MA
BOSTON - Gay couples from across the country could be getting the green light to marry in Massachusetts after three of the state's top political leaders said they support repealing a 94-year-old law that has blocked the practice.While gay couples livi...
04/08/2007
Gay Marriage and the Race Card
Gay ‘marriage’ and the race card The debate over gay marriage is cruising along: California’s landmark case will be heard this year and we’re all waiting on Maryland’s imminent decision about whether to legalize gay marriage....
04/04/2007
Truro man rejects bias label
TRURO - He walked into an ambush last month, when a selectman accused him of bias for signing an anti-gay marriage petition.Leo Childs, chief of the town's rescue squad, kept quiet for several weeks after the incident. He also kept making middle-of-th...
05/09/2006