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		<title>DEI is Self-Centered and Childish</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/03/dei-is-self-centered-and-childish/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>There is a concerted effort to divide our country, and the people responsible know that if they can get us to focus on ourselves, our grievances and our victimhood, the very fabric of our nation can be torn apart thread by thread. As Solomon said, “A cord of three strands is not easily broken,” but a cord of one is defenseless. In other words, divide and conquer.</p>
<p>The transparent “us against them” agenda of the diversity, equity and inclusion movement is but one example.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/03/dei-is-self-centered-and-childish/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LGBTQ’s False Religion Paints in Rainbow Colors of Sexual Anarchy And Criminalization of Dissent</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/lgbtqs-false-religion-paints-in-rainbow-colors-of-sexual-anarchy-and-criminalization-of-dissent/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>If nothing else comes of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ bizarre embrace of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, it is striking evidence that a false religion is out of control.</p>
<p>Virtually all major league sports teams and dozens of minor league teams have caved to the LGBTQ religionists. “Pride” events dominate June, formerly known for weddings and Father’s Day. Talk about cultural appropriation.</p>
<p><em>The Washington Post</em> recently devoted an entire Religion page to two articles bashing “Christian nationalism.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/lgbtqs-false-religion-paints-in-rainbow-colors-of-sexual-anarchy-and-criminalization-of-dissent/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I’m Done With The Democrats’ ‘Good Intentions’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>I used to chalk up liberal policy failures to good intentions gone awry.</p>
<p>Having embraced liberalism in college, I thought it was the best way to help poor people. But as evidence mounted that it hurt them, I had to reassess. Many people also do that after taxes shred their paychecks, especially if they marry and have children.</p>
<p>This is one reason Democrats have been reflexively hostile to marriage, using the courts to redefine it.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/11/im-done-with-the-democrats-good-ontentions/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Too Far Gone&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #240)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/spotlight-240/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 06:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>According to <strong>Laurie Higgins</strong>, public schools in Illinois are too far gone – no Christian parent should subject their children to the indoctrination curricula that is being forced on our state’s K-12 students. Laurie was speaking as a featured guest of <strong>Janet Parshall</strong> on her radio program, <em>In the Market with Janet Parshall</em>, where they discussed the tsunami of radically liberal, pro-LGBTQ and anti-Christian laws and teaching “standards” that are inundating our tax payer-supported public school classrooms.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/spotlight-240/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats Have Turned Normal and Common Sense Into Raw Sewage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Ron Ewart</em></p>
<blockquote><p>“Identity politics rejects the model of traditional give-and-take politics, presupposing instead that the most important thing about us is that we are white, black, male, female, straight, gay, and so on. Within the identity-politics world, we do not need to give reasons—identity is its own reason and justification.  Because identity politics supposes that we are our identities, politics does not consist in the speech, argument, and persuasion of normal politics but instead, in the calculation of resource redistribution based on identity—what in Democratic parlance is called ‘social justice.’”—Joshua</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/12/democrats-have-turned-normal-and-common-sense-into-raw-sewage/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PODCAST: Is ‘LGBTQ’ Pressure Beginning to Crack the Evangelical House?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/07/podcast-is-lgbtq-pressure-beginning-to-crack-the-evangelical-house/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>In his opening address at the recent IFI Worldview Conference, <strong>Dr. Robert Gagnon</strong> poses the question “Is ‘LGBTQ’ Pressure Beginning to Crack the Evangelical House?” Dr. Gagnon believes that exposure to the daily indoctrination of culture is resulting in a Stockholm Syndrome of sorts among our youth, even those in evangelical churches, and he considers whether this same phenomenon is afflicting evangelicalism as a whole.</p>
<p>Emphasizing a reliance on Scripture, he encourages Christians, both in the pews and at the pulpit, to refute the false narrative of the LGBTQ agenda and stand firmly against immorality.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/07/podcast-is-lgbtq-pressure-beginning-to-crack-the-evangelical-house/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Is LGBTQ Pressure Beginning to Crack the Evangelical House?&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #207)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/spotlight_207/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>LGBTQ pressure continues to mount in government, schools, workplaces and even in our churches. Dr. Robert Gagnon argues against policies of appeasement with sexual extremists at this year&#8217;s IFI worldview conference in Barrington.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/spotlight_207/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;If you Compromise on Life, It&#8217;s Easy to Compromise on Anything Else&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #186)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-186/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Reverend Franklin Graham joined Monte Larrick for an interview right before the IFI fall fundraising banquet last year and is featured on this episode. They talked about freedom of speech, why Christians need to be involved in politics, why only God can ultimately change today&#8217;s culture, how Rev. Graham believes we can change the education system, where civil disobedience is permitted, the conundrum in Illinois education with the new LGBTQ history mandate, and finally a message from Reverend Graham to the Christians in Illinois.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-186/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Creating Social Justice Warriors Doesn&#8217;t Start in College&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #159)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/raising-social-justice-warriors-illinois-family-spotlight-159/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This edition of spotlight features a Laurie Higgins appearance on the Sandy Rios in the Morning show on American Family Radio to discuss rampant radically leftist sexual ideology in public schools. They specifically drilled into the National Education Association&#8217;s annual meeting where they affirmed several radical leftist ideas like unrestricted access to abortion, LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, white fragility, etc.</p>
<p>They also discuss democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s christian heresy, the normalization of polyamory and pedophilia, and what retirees can and should be doing to advance the Kingdom.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/raising-social-justice-warriors-illinois-family-spotlight-159/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>That Giant Liberty-Sucking Sound From the Tolerant Left</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/that-giant-liberty-sucking-sound-from-the-tolerant-left/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>Various leftist grievance groups have insisted for years that they just want equal treatment and equal rights, that they only want to end discrimination and that they come with an attitude of &#8220;live and let live.&#8221; Nope.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve long known that the &#8220;tolerance&#8221; police don&#8217;t merely want equal rights and to be treated with civility. They require that you honor their ideas as superior, reject your own contrary ideas and do penance for ever having held your own ideas.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/that-giant-liberty-sucking-sound-from-the-tolerant-left/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Picks Pro Life Heritage Foundation Alum to Lead HHS Civil Rights Office</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/trump-picks-pro-life-heritage-foundation-alum-to-lead-hhs-civil-rights-office/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Joshua Denton</em></p>
<p>In a move vigorously applauded by social conservatives and simultaneously denounced by same-sex “marriage” advocates, President Donald Trump has appointed <a href="http://www.heritage.org/staff/roger-severino">Roger Severino</a> to head the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights.</p>
<p>Severino formerly served as the Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society. As Director, his three main focuses where on religious liberty, marriage, and life issues.</p>
<p>His track record of defending religious liberty, natural marriage, and the sanctity of life go further back then his time at the Heritage Foundation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/trump-picks-pro-life-heritage-foundation-alum-to-lead-hhs-civil-rights-office/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So it Begins: This State Forces LGBT “Accommodation” Rules on its Churches</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/09/so-it-begins-this-state-forces-lgbt-accommodation-rules-on-its-churches/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Onan Coca</em></p>
<p>Across the country states have been <a href="http://eaglerising.com/16827/religious-freedom-in-america-soon-to-be-a-thing-of-the-past/">passing laws meant to defend the First Amendment</a> from government overreach, and simultaneously liberals and the media have been decrying these protections as “homophobic” and “bigoted.” These same liberals have argued that conservatives are being paranoid and that no protection is needed…</p>
<p>Sadly, Massachusetts has just proved every conservative fear accurate.</p>
<p>On October 1<sup>st</sup> the most draconian “non-discrimination” laws in the nation will go into effect in the Bay State.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/09/so-it-begins-this-state-forces-lgbt-accommodation-rules-on-its-churches/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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