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		<title>Why the Left Gets a Pass on Political Violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>We keep being told that both sides of America’s political divide are equally culpable for violent rhetoric and violent acts. It’s a lie.</p>
<p>Virtually all of it comes from the political left. It wasn’t right-wingers who shot President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> and murdered health care executive <strong>Brian Thompson</strong> in New York and conservative activist <strong>Charlie Kirk</strong> in Utah in cold blood.</p>
<p>It wasn’t Young Republicans who attacked a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley, campus last week, beating up a TPUSA staffer.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/why-the-left-gets-a-pass-on-political-violence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pritzker Calls for &#8220;Summer of Love&#8221; 2.0?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; color: #ff6600;">Pritzker publicly calls for “mass protests, mobilization, and disruption”</span></em></strong></span></div>
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<p>After reading and listening to almost a week’s worth of commentary about Gov. JB Pritzker’s <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Pritzker-Sunday-Speech.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign speech</a> to New Hampshire Democrats on Sunday, April 27, 2025, and despite a wise recommendation to <a href="https://x.com/JeanneIves/status/1916887484027355254">ignore him</a>, some problems need to be tackled. His militant comments and calls for mass protests against Republicans in general — and the Trump administration specifically — stirred significant controversy on both sides of the political spectrum.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-calls-for-summer-of-love-2-0/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NPR’s Lurch to the Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>For years, those of us in the media have known that National Public Radio could also be called National People’s Radio.</p>
<p>It’s no secret that tax-subsidized NPR has leaned left since its inception in 1970. But the network had some good reporting and used to keep its most radical elements mostly in check.</p>
<p>Public radio even features discussions pitting conservatives against liberals on various issues. I did some of those when I worked as a cultural policy analyst for the <a href="https://www.frc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Research Council</a> and <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concerned Women for America</a>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/nprs-lurch-to-the-left/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Projection and Denial: That’s the Biden Way</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p><strong>Sigmund Freud</strong>, the founder of psychoanalysis, chronicled neurotic disorders, including “projection” and other psychological defense mechanisms.</p>
<p>Projection occurs when someone projects their own feelings, motives, behaviors and thoughts onto others. It’s a way of coping with one’s own insecurities and to blame one’s problems on others.</p>
<p>Another Freudian concept is denial. That’s when someone dismisses external reality and formulates his or her own “truth.”</p>
<p>Both disorders are not only rampant among America’s political left but have become tools in their war on common sense, truth and decency.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/01/projection-and-denial-thats-the-biden-way/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Religious Liberty in America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>This episode of <strong>Illinois Family Spotlight</strong> features remarks from <strong>Ariella Del Turco</strong> on the topic of religious liberty in the first half, along with a question and answer segment with Ambassador <strong>Sam Brownback</strong> during the second half.</p>
<p>Arielle Del Turco is the director of Religious Liberty at the <a href="https://www.frc.org/"><strong>Family Research Council</strong></a> (FRC) and is the co-author of FRC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.frc.org/issuebrief/hostility-against-churches-supplemental-report-first-quarter-2023">Hostility Against Churches</a>&#8221; report.</p>
<p>Sam Brownback is the former governor of Kansas, formerly representing Kansas in the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/spotlight-religious-liberty-in-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Far Left&#8217;s Slander Machine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Written by David E. Smith</span></em></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the story of &#8220;the boy who cried wolf,&#8221; but perhaps the modern version should be about &#8220;the organization that cried hater.&#8221;</p>
<p>The far left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has forged a reputation as a nationally outspoken advocate against &#8220;hate groups.&#8221; Founded in 1971 and based in Montgomery, Alabama, the SPLC is no stranger to controversy.  The group has long been accused of targeting conservative and Christian organizations.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/the-far-lefts-slander-machine/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>You know it’s a good sign when President<strong> Joe Biden</strong> and lefty celebrities go bat crazy.</p>
<p>At a press conference in Spain, Mr. Biden trashed the U.S. Supreme Court as “destabilizing” because of its “outrageous” rulings on abortion and guns. He pledged to do an end-run on the U.S. Senate filibuster to pass a national abortion bill.</p>
<p>On June 24, a 6-3 court majority overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em> in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</em></a>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/07/scotus-unleashes-the-lefts-outrage/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Big Tech Crushes Hope For Change</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>While Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists fend off anti-trusters, Silicon Valley has not missed a beat in its “woke” censorship of views they don’t like.</p>
<p>COVID-19. Climate change. Vote fraud. Former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>. Human sexuality. Whatever.</p>
<p>Toe their leftist line or get muzzled.</p>
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<p>Last week, Google-owned YouTube blocked all videos on the <a href="https://www.reintegrativetherapy.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reintegrative Therapy Association</a> channel after a left-wing group in Alabama complained loudly about them and <em>Forbes</em> carried an article parroting the group’s report.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/01/how-big-tech-crushes-hope-for-change/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Strong Fathers Desperately Needed to Steer Families Back Toward Personal Responsibility</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/strong-fathers-desperately-needed-to-steer-families-back-toward-personal-responsibility/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 02:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>It’s no secret that families depend in many ways on the involvement of fathers.</p>
<p>A striking illustration of this can be found in America’s prisons, where charitable groups donate greeting cards for inmates. Mother’s Day cards are quickly snatched up, while Father’s Day cards go unclaimed. Most of the inmates either had a bad relationship with their dads or never knew them.</p>
<p>Likewise, we can trace many social ills to the demise of strong marriages and the absence — physical or emotional — of husbands/fathers in the household.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/strong-fathers-desperately-needed-to-steer-families-back-toward-personal-responsibility/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Hoax</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Andrew Harrod</em></p>
<p>Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “staffers have admitted that the hate accusations leveled by the SPLC are a ‘con,’ a deceptive scheme to raise money,” writes PJ Media Senior Editor <strong><a href="https://pjmedia.com/columnist/tyler-o-neil/">Tyler O’Neil</a></strong>. In his new <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Making-Hate-Pay-Corruption-Southern/dp/1642934399">book</a>, <em>Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center</em>, O’Neil shreds the SPLC’s claims to be an impartial “hate arbiter” and exposes the SPLC as a corrupt, leftist smear merchant.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/the-southern-poverty-law-center-hate-hoax/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Congress Should Defund Federal Government From Coordinating With the SPLC</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/congress-should-defund-federal-government-from-coordinating-with-the-splc/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Richard McCarty</em></p>
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its co-founder <strong>Morris Dees</strong>, who was recently fired by the organization, have long and sleazy pasts. Over the years, they have been sharply criticized for their tactics, priorities, and mistreatment of employees.</p>
<p>Despite this, the federal government has regarded the SPLC as an expert on extremism and has a long history of coordinating with law enforcement at the <a href="https://getliberty.org/2009/08/alg-blasts-dhs-methodology-used-in-rightwing-extremism-memo-revealed-in-freedom-of-information-response-by-department/">federal</a> and <a href="https://getliberty.org/2009/10/alg-blasts-missouri-information-analysis-center-for-retaining-no-records-of-erroneous-miac-modern-militia-movement-report/">state</a> level. SPLC sources were among those used to draft <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf">the Department of Homeland Security right-wing extremism memo</a> in 2009.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/congress-should-defund-federal-government-from-coordinating-with-the-splc/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lefty SPLC, Soros Foundations Build Coalition to Ban ‘Hate Speech’ Online</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/11/lefty-splc-soros-foundations-build-coalition-to-ban-hate-speech-online/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Corinne Weaver</em></p>
<p>The anti-conservative hate group, Southern Poverty Law Center, wants to censor people it disagrees with and it’s asking the top social media companies to help.</p>
<p>On Thursday, October 25, the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/10/24/splc-announces-policy-recommendations-social-media-internet-companies-fight-hate-online">liberal organization</a> announced that it had formed a coalition with five other groups to encourage the prohibition of so-called “hate speech” online. SPLC partnered with four <strong>George Soros</strong> funded organizations: the Center for American Progress, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/aly-nielsen/2017/08/29/soros-funded-org-falsely-labels-conservative-groups-white">Color of Change</a>, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/joseph-rossell/2015/03/19/fcc-cites-groups-funded-soros-ford-foundations-206-times-internet">Free Press</a> and<a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/alliance-for-justice/"> Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,</a> as well as the National Hispanic Media Coalition.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/11/lefty-splc-soros-foundations-build-coalition-to-ban-hate-speech-online/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;The Centrality of Prayer&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #113)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/the-centrality-of-prayer-illinois-family-spotlight-113/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s spotlight features a conversation between Illinois Family Institute&#8217;s <strong>David Smith</strong> and <a href="https://www.frc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Research Council</a>&#8216;s Pastor <a href="https://www.kicministries.org/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Pat McManus</strong></a> at a recent IFI prayer event in Springfield. Pastor Pat is the Illinois director of FRC&#8217;s <a href="http://www.watchmenpastors.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchmen on the Wall</a>.</p>
<p>They discuss September 17th&#8217;s prayer meeting and the spiritual warfare going on in Illinois and the nation; truth under attack; the importance of prayer; the need not just to vote, but to vote your biblical values; why the pastor needs to lead; the consequences of the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/the-centrality-of-prayer-illinois-family-spotlight-113/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Southern Poverty Law Center Is a Hate Group</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Josh Goldstein</em></p>
<p>Like many leftist organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, started out with good intentions. It was founded in 1971 by <strong>Morris Dees</strong> and <strong>Joseph Levin</strong> and is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama.  The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned, as did conservatives such as the great <strong>William F. Buckley</strong> and <strong>Ronald Reagan</strong>, the American Nazi Party and the Democrat-affiliated Ku Klux Klan.</p>
<p>A favorite SPLC tactic was suing Klan affiliated organizations for their crimes and then distributing the money to the victims.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/03/southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-hate-group/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Congress Fails to Repeal Johnson Amendment in Tax Bill</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/12/congress-fails-to-repeal-johnson-amendment-in-tax-bill/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael Gryboski</em></p>
<p>A measure within the federal tax overhaul bill that would end the IRS regulation barring churches from endorsing political candidates has been removed from the proposed legislation.</p>
<p>The U.S. Senate&#8217;s parliamentarian struck out the language overturning the Johnson Amendment, with the Hill reporting last week that the reason was because it &#8220;did not meet Senate rules that require elements of the tax bill to have something to do with the budget.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Senate is seeking to move a House-Senate conference report under special budgetary rules that prevent Democrats from using a filibuster,&#8221; <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/365047-tax-bill-no-longer-includes-johnson-amendment-repeal-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained The Hill.</a>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/12/congress-fails-to-repeal-johnson-amendment-in-tax-bill/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Can Religious Liberty Movement Learn From Success of Pro-Lifers?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/10/what-can-religious-liberty-movement-learn-from-success-of-pro-lifers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Samuel Smith</em></p>
<p>As conservative Christians continue to push for religious freedom protections in the wake of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage, there might be lessons religious freedom advocates can take away from the successes of the pro-life movement.</p>
<p>Two pro-life leaders and a religious liberty scholar participated in a panel discussion on Saturday titled &#8220;What the Religious Liberty Movement Can Learn From the Victories of the Pro-Life Movement&#8221; at the Family Research Council&#8217;s Values Voters Summit.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/10/what-can-religious-liberty-movement-learn-from-success-of-pro-lifers/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hate, Bernie Style</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Two remarkable things unfolded last month.</p>
<p>The Democrats openly embraced socialism in the form of single-payer health care. And they announced a secular, anti-Christian test for public office. The two go together like Abbott and Costello. Or better yet, since this is far from funny, Marx and Lenin.</p>
<p>“Democratic Socialist” Vermont U.S. Sen. <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong>’ scheme for a single-payer, government-run health care system has already been endorsed by 16 Democrat senators.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/10/hate-bernie-style/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mud-Slinging, Left-Wing SPLC on the Defense</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2017 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Gemma</em></p>
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claims to be a watchdog over “hate groups and racial extremists throughout the United States.” But perhaps the SPLC is a radical left-wing organization itself, with an extremist agenda of its own.</p>
<p>According to a June 21, 2017 article in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Aided by a veneer of objectivity, the SPLC rightly condemns groups like the Ku Klux Klan and New Black Panther Party, but it has managed to blur the lines, besmirching mainstream groups like the Family Research Council, as well as people such as social scientist Charles Murray and Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a critic of Islamic extremism.”</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/mud-slinging-left-wing-splc-on-the-defense/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mainstream Conservatives Are On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Hate Group&#8221; List</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/08/mainstream-conservatives-are-on-cnns-hate-group-list/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jordan Schachtel</em></p>
<p>CNN has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/us/hate-groups-us-map-trnd/index.html">published</a> a list of “hate groups” currently operating in the United States, relying on an extremely partisan analysis from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).</p>
<p>Several truly extremist groups populate the list, such as the Ku Klux Klan, New Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and others.</p>
<p>But along with the neo-Nazi and Islamic extremist groups on the list, the SPLC has lumped in as “hate groups” mainstream, well-known conservative individuals and organizations who merely speak out about the threat of radical Islam.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/08/mainstream-conservatives-are-on-cnns-hate-group-list/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Guidestar to Remove ‘Hate Group’ Labels on Conservative Groups for ‘Time Being’</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/guidestar-to-remove-hate-group-labels-on-conservative-groups-for-time-being/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rachel del Guidice</em></p>
<p>The nation’s leading source of information on U.S. charities announced it will modify its use of a controversial “hate group” designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.</p>
<p>“We have decided to remove the SPLC annotations from these 46 organizations for the time being,” read a <a href="https://learn.guidestar.org/news/news-releases/update-regarding-splc-flags-on-guidestar-nonprofit-profiles">statement</a> posted Friday on GuideStar’s website. “This change will be implemented during the week of June 26, 2017. In the meantime, we will make this information available to any user on request.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/guidestar-to-remove-hate-group-labels-on-conservative-groups-for-time-being/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Watchman on the Wall (Spotlight #045)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[3 Cord Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens for Community Values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pastor J.C. Church]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p align="left"><strong>Pastor J.C. Church</strong> is the Founder and Senior Pastor of <strong><a href="http://vitm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Victory In Truth Ministries, </a></strong>a growing multicultural church, birthed in September of 1997. He currently serves as the P50 Pastor in Ohio for the <a href="http://www.frc.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Family Research Council</strong></a>. He is also the President and Founder of <a href="http://www.3cordalliance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>3 Cord Alliance</strong></a>. JC joins Monte Larrick on this issue of Illinois Family Spotlight.</p>
<p align="left">Pastor Church has a passion for leaders and leadership principles. He has been called to “equip the body of Christ to know how to operate in faith, and possess the promises that God has for them”.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/watchman-on-the-wall-spotlight-045/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Contact Kinzinger To Defund Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/contact-kinzinger-to-defund-planned-parenthood/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 20:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctity of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Kinzinge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Health Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defund Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Research Council]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Chris Iverson</em></p>
<p>We&#8217;re flooding U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger&#8217;s office in Washington D.C. with calls urging him to vote YES on the AHCA!</p>
<p>Call U.S. Representative Kinzinger at (202) 225-3635 and say:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want to urge Representative Kinzinger to vote YES on the AHCA!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The AHCA will defund Planned Parenthood for one year, cutting 33 percent of their revenue! It can only defund the abortion clinic chain for one year due to Senate rules. This will be a major pro-life victory, but there are a handful of Republicans who have not committed to voting yes yet.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/contact-kinzinger-to-defund-planned-parenthood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ted Cruz Close to Winning Tony Perkins Endorsement</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/12/ted-cruz-close-to-winning-tony-perkins-endorsement/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adrienne Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Vander Platts]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ifaction.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Perkins.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-5098 size-full" src="http://ifaction.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Perkins.jpg" alt="" width="598" height="357" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Perkins.jpg 598w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Perkins-300x179.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/fL2wlR83C_MjzFfhEQClKg">Ted Cruz</a></strong> has <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/0J0kYyg78sz7pWhvQfFA0g">successfully courted <strong>Bob Vander Platts</strong></a>, Iowa&#8217;s main Christian powerbroker, winning his endorsement Thursday that was sought feverishly by about half the Republican field. Now, Cruz in closing in on winning the backing of another top social conservative networker: <strong>Tony Perkins</strong>.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s clearly movement going toward Ted, and I think he&#8217;s making all the right moves,&#8221; Perkins told CNN Thursday. &#8220;But from a timing standpoint, I&#8217;m still watching, waiting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perkins, who heads the Family Research Council, sits at the top of a pair of sprawling social conservative networks, the Conservative Action Project and the Council for National Policy, that are the hidden hub of the forces looking to push the Republican Party further right.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/12/ted-cruz-close-to-winning-tony-perkins-endorsement/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cruz Says GOP Candidates Afraid to Talk &#8220;Gay&#8221; Marriage</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/05/cruz-says-gop-candidates-afraid-to-talk-gay-marriage/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 10:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Elections]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ted_cruz.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3832" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ted_cruz.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz" width="605" height="328" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ted_cruz.jpg 605w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ted_cruz-300x163.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Taking on the competition in his run for the White House, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz says that there are many Republican politicians who are scared to jump into the debate over same-sex “marriage” and religious liberty, including some of the candidates he’s running against.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Written by Michael F. Haverluck</em></p>
<p>While speaking at the <a href="http://www.watchmenpastors.org/">Watchman on the Wall</a> three day conference that ended Friday, U.S. Senator <strong>Ted Cruz</strong> told the crowd of more than 600 in the nation’s capital that he is not afraid to champion their religious freedom. &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/05/cruz-says-gop-candidates-afraid-to-talk-gay-marriage/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Bold Proposal for Conservative GOP Candidates</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/03/a-bold-proposal-for-conservative-gop-candidates/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Carson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeb Bush]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted Cruz]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2016possiblegopcontenders101.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3527" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2016possiblegopcontenders101.jpg" alt="2016possiblegopcontenders101" width="590" height="269" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2016possiblegopcontenders101.jpg 590w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2016possiblegopcontenders101-300x136.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" /></a></p>
<p><em>Written by J. Matt Barber</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>“My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, ‘I follow Paul’; another, ‘I follow Apollos’; another, ‘I follow Cephas’; still another, ‘I follow Christ.’”<em> ~</em>1 Corinthians 1:11-12</strong></span></p>
<p>As Jesus warned, “If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand” (Mark 3:25). Nothing has borne out this reality in recent decades like that exasperating spectacle called the Republican presidential primary.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/03/a-bold-proposal-for-conservative-gop-candidates/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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