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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Banned Books Week &#038; Parents’ Concerns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>In case you missed it, the week of September 22nd was announced as Banned Books Week according to the <strong>American Library Association</strong> (ALA). The ALA wants the public to believe that raising concerns about obscene material in children&#8217;s books is the same as Nazi book banning.</p>
<p>Thomas Hampson sits down with Monte Larrick to combat this false narrative. Thomas Hampson is a <a href="https://illinoisfamily.org/education/banned-books-week/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributing writer for IFI</a> serving as an intelligence analyst, U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/11/spotlight-banned-books-week-parents-concerns/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Government Failed at Fatherhood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Written by Victor Joecks</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Sunday was Father&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s much less popular than Mother&#8217;s Day for a sad reason.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Fewer fathers are involved in their children&#8217;s lives. That&#8217;s caused by two main factors.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The first is children born to single moms. In 2022, almost 40% of births were to unmarried women, according to the CDC.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/the-government-failed-at-fatherhood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Success in Classrooms</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Written by John Stossel</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Government-run schools keep failing. It shouldn&#8217;t surprise us. Monopolies rarely serve customers well.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">People call them &#8220;public schools,&#8221; but &#8220;government-run&#8221; is more accurate. After all, charter schools are available to the public. Privately run supermarkets are open to the public for more hours than &#8220;public&#8221; schools are.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">International tests show American kids don&#8217;t learn as much as kids in other countries. During the pandemic, they did even worse because our teachers unions kept schools closed.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/success-in-classrooms/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Awake Illinois with Shannon Adcock</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>This Spotlight episode features Shannon Adcock&#8217;s speech that she presented at Foundations of Faith and Family Conference.</p>
<p><strong>Shannon Adcock</strong> is the founder of <a href="https://www.awakeil.com/">Awake Illinois</a>, a grassroots organization that was founded to expose the public schools&#8217; sexualization of children.</p>
<p>In her speech Shannon highlights the <a href="https://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/715">Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment</a>, which protects the <em>&#8220;fundamental right of parents to direct the care, upbringing, and education to their children.&#8221;</em> She comments,</p>
<blockquote><p>This [parental right] is fundamental.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/spotlight-awake-illinois-with-shannon-adcock/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Transgender Activists in White Coats</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>In this episode of Spotlight, we are featuring remarks from <strong>Dr. Michelle Cretella</strong> given at IFI’s 2019 <strong>Worldview Conference</strong>. During her presentation, she points out the differences between <em>true, biological science</em>, which supports pro-life and pro-family propositions, and the<em> anti-science cult of gender ideology</em>, which is preached by mainstream medicine, psychiatry, public and private education systems, and social and mass media.</p>
<p>Dr. Cretella also addresses the <em>serious implications</em> of the transgender movement: erasure of parents’ rights, women’s rights, and religious freedom; establishment of gender identity as a protected class; as well as potential legal action that awaits anyone who persists in using “discriminatory” language, i.e.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/spotlight-transgender-activists-in-white-coats/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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