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		<title>The Left Can’t Handle Hegseth’s Combat Stance</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/11/the-left-cant-handle-hegseths-combat-stance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>Motherhood is the foundation of all civilization. A movement determined to dismantle society would inevitably target women’s femininity to disrupt the natural male-female dynamic, leaving behind an androgynous, gender-blurring culture that struggles to reproduce itself. In other words, the culture we largely see today. This explains why the far left is so fixated on advancing the “women in combat” agenda and why Trump’s nomination of P<strong>ete Hegseth</strong> as secretary of defense has left leftists furious and discombobulated.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/11/the-left-cant-handle-hegseths-combat-stance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Federal Appeals Court Rules Favorably for Thousands of Air Force Service Members</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/12/federal-appeals-court-rules-favorably-for-thousands-of-air-force-service-members/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious accommodations]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jorge Gomez</em></p>
<p>This week, a federal appeals court issued a favorable ruling impacting thousands of military service members. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld an injunction protecting U.S. Air Force service members from being punished or involuntarily terminated from the military for requesting religious accommodations to the vaccine mandate. Importantly, this protects <a href="https://firstliberty.org/news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Liberty</a>’s own Senior Counsel <strong>Danielle Runyan</strong>, a member of the Air Force Reserve, whose religious accommodation request was denied.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/12/federal-appeals-court-rules-favorably-for-thousands-of-air-force-service-members/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Military Officials Keep Punishing Religious Service Members</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/military-officials-keep-punishing-religious-service-members/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2022 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jorge Gomez</em></p>
<p>A federal judge recently issued a temporary order preventing disciplinary action against two officers who requested a religious accommodation to the military vaccine mandate.</p>
<p>Judge <strong>Steven Merryday</strong>—serving on the District Court for the Middle District of Florida—strongly rebuked the military’s approach to religious accommodation requests. His <a href="https://lc.org/020222DODOrderonTRO.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" data-feathr-click-track="true">order</a> stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The military is well aware of the frailty of their arguments in defense of their practices… The two service members are very likely to prevail on their claim that their respective branch of the military has wrongfully denied a religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccination.</em></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/military-officials-keep-punishing-religious-service-members/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>COVID-19 Science or Blind Compliance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>[On] Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, U.S. Senator <strong>Ron Johnson</strong> (R-WI), conducted a hearing on the issue of COVID-19 interventions. More specifically, the senator invited testimony regarding our military’s new practice of requiring mRNA injections of all our nation’s soldiers. Mr. Johnson’s goal was quite simple and straightforward. He wanted to learn what the available data shows concerning this new drug’s efficacy and potential side effects.</p>
<p>Why is this important?</p>
<p>Well, it is pretty simple.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/covid-19-science-or-blind-compliance-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Senator Cotton Challenges the Left&#8217;s Psy-War Assault on the U.S. Military</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/u-s-senator-cotton-challenges-the-lefts-psy-war-assault-on-the-u-s-military/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Austin Bay</em></p>
<p>The psychological-warfare attack — its script straight from the antifa/Black Lives Matter version of the Cold War&#8217;s Marxist playbook — began in January when the predictable chorus of hard-left hacks in academia, media and government vilified the American military with toxic allegations calculated to demoralize military personnel, sow destructive institutional suspicion and undermine command authority with the goal of weakening U.S. national security.</p>
<p><span class="column--highlighted-text">The propaganda ploy the hard left&#8217;s commissars, fuhrers and utopian messiahs use in their psychological assault first targets individuals. </span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/u-s-senator-cotton-challenges-the-lefts-psy-war-assault-on-the-u-s-military/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WHERE is Congress on Court’s (Self-)Mutilation of the Military?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/12/where-is-congress-on-courts-self-mutilation-of-the-military/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colleen Kollar-Kotelly]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<h2 class="video__subtitle" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">IS THERE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY?<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;">FOR THE “TRANSGENDERED,” APPARENTLY YES.</span></h2>
<p>Throughout our series on judicial tyranny, I’ve been trying to conjure up analogies and metaphors to describe the absurdity of judicial supremacism. Yet, no degree of absurdity or hyperbole could capture what was just promulgated from the mouth of a federal district judge.</p>
<p>Forget about legislating from the bench or even nullifying the Constitution; D.C. District Court Judge <strong>Colleen Kollar-Kotelly</strong> issued <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4325819-DOE-Et-Al-v-TRUMP-Et-Al-Order.html">an order</a> Monday changing the laws of biology and ordered the Pentagon to admit anyone who decides to castrate themselves into the military by Jan.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/12/where-is-congress-on-courts-self-mutilation-of-the-military/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Senate to Trump:  Force Transgenders on Military</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/u-s-senate-to-trump-force-transgenders-on-military/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kirsten Gillibrand]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD</em></p>
<p>&#8220;New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, introduced a bipartisan amendment to protect transgender service members from President Trump&#8217;s plan to ban them from the military,&#8221; <a href="http://time.com/4936786/transgender-military-ban-amendment-susan-collins-kirsten-gillibrand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> Time.</p>
<p>&#8220;The amendment introduced Monday would prohibit the Department of Defense from dismissing current transgender service members &#8216;solely on the basis of the member’s gender identity,&#8217; Senators said in a statment.</p>
<p>&#8220;Any individual who wants to join our military and meets the standards should be allowed to serve, period.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/u-s-senate-to-trump-force-transgenders-on-military/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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