Independence Day https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:18:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Independence Day https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 SPOTLIGHT: How Did Our Founders View Freedom? https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/spotlight-how-did-our-founders-view-freedom/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:00:09 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=26699 Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg

How did our Founders view freedom?

In this episode of Spotlight, former Illinois state representative, Peter Breen, tackles this question.

Peter Breen is the executive Vice President and Head of Litigation for the Thomas More Society, a non-profit national public interest law firm that is dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, religious liberty, and election integrity.

In his speech, Breen proves that the Founders not only tolerated Christianity, but they also directly promoted it.… Continue Reading

]]> 26699 From the Redcoats to the Black Robes https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/07/from-the-redcoats-to-the-black-robes/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:30:10 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=11888 Written by Daniel Horowitz

King George couldn’t hold a candle to the judicial despotism we are governed by some 12 score and three years after the colonists rebelled against what they thought were “intolerable acts.” Sure, there was some taxation without representation going on in the 1770s, but I think the colonists would have taken that any day if they were to see in their crystal ball the severity of today’s social transformation without representation.

We celebrate so much more than the founding of a new nation on July 4.… Continue Reading

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