FRC: Social Conservative Review

Family Research Council sends out this periodic email called The Social Conservative Review. This is just a sampling of the resources the latest email shares. It is an incredible resource! Share with your networks and join their email today.  

*SAMPLE*
The Social Conservative Review: An Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News--December 13, 2013
Legislation and Policy Proposals
"Peonage for the Twenty-First Century," The Public Discourse
"Sam Rocha's Strange and Startling Philosophy of Education," First Things
"Schools Improve When Leaders Stop Rationalizing Mediocrity," Education Next
"How bad are the Common Core lessons on the Gettysburg Address?," Thomas B. Fordham Institute
"U.S. Achievement Stalls as Other Nations Make Gains," Education Week

Government Reform
Regulation
"Regulation Nation: Gov't regs estimated to pound private sector with $1.8T in costs," Fox News
"3 Examples of Government Regulation Gone Horribly Awry," PolicyMic
"Why Do We Have Excess Regulation, and Can We Get Rid of It?," National Review Online

Health Care
Abstinence
"Why Abstinence Works...Even When it Doesn't," Independent Journal
"Sex and College Students: When 'just say no' doesn't work," Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

Health care reform: ACA/Obamacare
"Sex, Lies, and ObamaCare," The American Thinker
"Do we want more affordable health care? Then we need to leave health care to the free market," The Center for Vision and Values
"New Obamacare Headache: Is Your Enrollment Real?," ABC News
"Obamacare Enrollments May Not Be Real," Washington Free Beacon

Keep Reading... Family Research Council Social Conservative Review

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To those who have not had that union represented in your own home: dads can also be in the face of a mentor, an amazing uncle or grandfather or even a fatherly figure in your community.

There is no one who can compare with the Father we all share - He's pretty crazy about you and He never fails. Here's to being leaders in our generation that applaud dads and make it popular again to be a culture that loves our earthly fathers and gives allegiance to our Heavenly One.

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FRC Social Conservative Review

Family Research Council is one of the groups I LOVE promoting! I am so grateful for their work. They are definitely a Watchman on the Wall for those who care about traditional family values.

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Educational Freedom and Reform

Homeschooling

• "Homeschooling and the Attack on Religious Freedom," Family Research Council
• "Homeschoolers Help Stop Raytown Daytime Curfew," Home School Legal Defense Association
• "Americans Warned: Home Schoolers Stripped of Rights," CBN News

Legislation and Policy Proposals

• "Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth," The American
• "After Persepolis: Graphic Novels Challenged in the Classroom," Education Week
• "Accountability Dilemmas," EducationNext
• "Why Changing The GED To Incorporate Common Core Worries Adult Educators," NPR

College Debt

• "Imagine No College Debt (It Isn't Hard to Do)," The Atlantic
• "No more student loan debt at College of the Ozarks," The Deseret News
• "Real World Impacts of Growing Student Loan Debt," Fox Business
• "How Do Schools Stack Up?," The Wall Street Journal
• "Student Loan Write-Offs Hit $3 Billion in First Two Months of 2013," The College Fix

Government Reform
Regulation

• "Has government regulation slowed the recovery?," Tampa Bay Times
• "Government by regulation," The Washington Times

Waste/Fraud/Abuse

• "Ridiculous government waste," The Hill
• "Fiscal hawks say government waste, unspent funds could offset sequester," Fox News
• "Kansas legislation would create redundant agency to cut government waste,"KansasWatchdog.org

Health Care
Abstinence

• "Sex education 'should promote value of abstinence'," The Telegraph
• "Abstinence added to sex-ed legislation by State Senators; House needs to reconsider the bill," The Denver Channel
• "Hooking kids on sex: Start "saturation process" in kindergarten," The Washington Times

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

• "'Not One Dime': Health Care Law Projected to Add $6.2 Trillion to U.S. Deficit," The American
• "Tennessee Gov. undecided on Medicaid expansion," The Galen Institute
• "Why Health Care Needs Attention from Republicans," The Houston Chronicle
• "Health Care and Republican Governors," National Review Online
• "Happy Birthday, Obamacare!," The Library of Law and Liberty

Homosexuality
With the Supreme Court deciding on same-sex "marriage," read FRC's Peter Sprigg'sblog posts on Defining Marriage.

• "Employment Non-Discrimination Act threatens free markets," CNN
• "Don't Do It, for the Kids," U.S. News and World Report
• "Morning Bell: The Marriage Debate Through a Child's Eyes," The Heritage Foundation
• "'Gay Marriage' and Religious Freedom Are Not Compatible," RedState
• "Same-Sex Marriage: We're Playing Chess, Not Checkers," The Public Discourse
• "Getting The Marriage Conversation Right," Catholic Stand
• "Religious Liberty and the Same-Sex Marriage Cases: the Arguments," The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
• "Young Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage Undaunted," New York Times

Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion

• "Mind-Boggling Abortion Statistics from China," Family Research Council
• "Washington to Force Abortion Insurance?," National Review Online
• "Abortion in France Gives Ireland the Benefit of Hindsight," Turtle Bay and Beyond
• "Abortion Advocates Handcuffed By Previous Agreement," C-FAM
• "MD Board of Physicians Refuses to Accept Complaints from 5,000 Citizens," Students for Life of America
• "New bill could drastically reduce number of abortion facilities in Texas," Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
• "North Dakota passes slew of pro-life bills, including heartbeat bill, ban on abortions for Down's," LifeSiteNews.com
• "China Admits to the Greatest Slaughter in Human History," The Gospel Coalition
• "Kansas Becomes Third State This Year to Pass Sweeping Pro-Life Laws," Liberty Counsel

Euthanasia and End of Life Issues

• "NICE's end of life decision making scheme: impact on population health," BMJ
• "Liberal Euthanasia Activists Redfining Sedation Into Killing," LifeNews.com
• "Euthanasia should be option for humans, too," The Daily Athenaeum

Marriage and Family

Family Economics

• "What Tocqueville Knew," The Wall Street Journal
• "The Secret to Success for Social Entrepreneurs: Innovative Obedience?," Values and Capitalism
• "What Economics Can't Explain," The Acton Institute
• "What Principles Are Important for Human Flourishing?," Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics
• "The Trader Joe's Lesson: How to Pay a Living Wage and Still Make Money in Retail, "The Atlantic
• "The Broken Trust of Money," New York Sun
• "Why do economists recommend college for its benefits but not marriage?," The Iona Institute

Family Structure

• "What I Stand For," Townhall.com
• "New Report: 48 Percent of First Children Born to Unwed Mothers," CNSNews.com
• "After Steubenville: 25 Things Our Sons need to know about Manhood," A Holy Experience
• "Holy Matrimony: The Unexpected Connection Between Religion & Sexual Fulfillment,"Salvo Magazine
• "The Case for Getting Married Young," The Atlantic
• "We Don't Need to Redefine Marriage to Fix Policy Problems," The Public Discourse
• "Give working families a rest," The Briefing

Keep reading! 

Latest Social Conservative Review

Thanks to Family Research Council for these substantive emails they send out on issues that matter to the so-co base. Enjoy the articles, share them with your network and thank FRC and other organizations like them for the work they are doing for your values!

Amy 

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Dear Friends,


Barry Brown is a bear of a man. A veteran and an athletic trainer, he is also the recipient of adult stem cell therapy.

When Barry learned he needed triple bypass surgery, he began working with Dr. Joshua Hare of the University of Miami's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute. While undergoing heart surgery, Barry's adult stem cells - harvested from his bone marrow - were injected directly into his heart.
Did the treatment work? Well, on the third anniversary of his adult stem cell transplant, Barry ran a half-marathon of more than 13 miles.
Ethical stem cell research and treatment is working. As David Prentice, Ph.D., director of the Family Research Council's Center for Human Life and Bioethics, said earlier this year in congressional testimony:

Numerous peer-reviewed papers document improvement in patient health after adult stem cell treatment, including a paper published in 2008 in theJournal of the American Medical Association reviewing 10 years of studies and 69 published patient trials that documented the benefit to patient health of adult stem cells for autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes, systemic lupus, and Crohn's disease, as well as acute and chronic heart damage and peripheral vascular disease.

You can view a video about Barry and other short films about patients treated successfully with adult stem cells here. FRC believes that sound science and moral integrity not only can coexist, but necessarily complement each other.

Adult stem cells save lives. Take a jog with Barry Brown and see for yourself.

Sincerely,
Rob Schwarzwalder
Senior Vice-President
Family Research Council

P.S. Read FRC President Tony Perkins' Washington Times op-ed on party platforms and the fall election to learn more about the stakes involved this coming November.

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Educational Freedom and Reform
Homeschooling

• "Education Establishment Still Doesn't Get It!," Home School Legal Defense Association
• "Homeschooling is a plausible and economically sound choice for education," Examiner.com
• "Homeschool co-ops: Point-counterpoint," WORLD Magazine

Legislation and Policy Proposals

• "Suits Challenge Classrooms That Segregate Boys, Girls," The Wall Street Journal
• "Maintenance of Inefficiency," Education Next
• "Virginia's 'together and unequal' school standards," The Washington Post
• "President Obama and Education Reform: The Personal and the Political," American Enterprise Institute
• "Condoleezza Rice's Inspirational Remarks on School Choice," The Heritage Foundation
• "Should the White House Control What Your Kids Learn?," Ethics and Public Policy Center
• "Real 'School Choice," First Things
• "Another Example of Liberal Bias in Higher Education," Alliance Defending Freedom

College Debt

• "The High Cost of College: An Economic Explanation," The American
• "A conversation with Sens. Wyden and Rubio: Holding higher education accountable," American Enterprise Institute
• "Debt Collectors Deputized in Student Loan Manhunt," Minneapolis Star-Tribune
• "How Not to Blow It With Financial Aid," The Wall Street Journal

Government Reform
Regulation

• "The Culture of Over-Regulation Must Stop," The Heritage Foundation
• "Bill could restrict efforts to regulate Wall Street," The Boston Globe
• "Anger over Government plans to cut thousands of health and safety inspections," The Independent

Waste/Fraud/Abuse

• "Are Entitlements Corrupting Us? Yes, American Character Is at Stake," The Wall Street Journal
• "Health System in U.S. Plagued by $765 Billion in Waste," Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Health Care
Abstinence

• "Mississippi Schools, With America's Highest Teen Pregnancy Rate, Largely Adopts Abstinence-Only Sex Education," The Huffington Post
• "District seeks grant for abstinence ed in middle schools," Palm Coast Observer
• "Try Before You Buy?," Salvo

Conscience Protection

• "Proclaiming 'individual' religious liberty," WORLD Magazine
• "Catholics for Choice argues religious freedom only applies to private actions," Catholic News Agency
• "Catholic Women and Contraception: Stark Challenges, Hidden Opportunities," Ethics and Public Policy Center

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

• "The Casualties of the Healthcare Law," Family Research Council
• "Why Is the ObamaCare Tax/Penalty Needed at All?," The American
• "Health Reform Consensus Seen Possible," MedPage Today
• "Maine Challenges Health Care Law's Medicaid Provisions," The FedSoc Blog
• "Calling the shots," WORLD Magazine
• "Does Paul Ryan Want to Take Medicare Away From Seniors?," The Center for Vision and Values

Homosexuality

• "What You Need to Know About the Mark Regnerus Study of Homosexual Parents," Family Research Council
• "NY Gay Bar Hosts Obama Fundraiser," The Washington Post
• "Under the Radar," World Mag
• "SBTC pres.: gay marriage not civil rights issue," Baptist Press
• "Gay Marriage Gets Full Support From White House at Democratic Convention," Turtle Bay and Beyond
• "BREAKING: Franciscan U of Steubenville faces sanction for teaching homosexuality as deviant," LifeSiteNews.com

Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion

• "Abortion and Women's Health," Family Research Council
• "Abortion and the Courts: A Brief Political History of Judicial Conservatism," The Public Discourse
• "Abortion and the Black Woman," The Gospel Coalition
• "The Party of Abortion," The Weekly Standard
• "Life isn't perfect but should be cherished," The Washington Times
• "The Right to Life and the Irrelevance of Rape," The Public Discourse
• "Not even one peer-reviewed study shows Medicaid funding reduces incidence of abortion," LifeSiteNews.com
• "Abortion on Demand Democrats," First Things
• "Nine-Year Battle to Prosecute Kansas Planned Parenthood Comes to an End," Crosswalk
• "China Human Rights Dissident Asks Apple to Help End One-Child Policy," Turtle Bay and Beyond
• "People Are Dying... and No One Seems to Care," Julian Freeman
• "Ireland Pro-Lifers Fighting to Keep Unborn Children Protected," LifeNews.com

Bioethics and Biotechnology

• "The Surrogate Uterus: Baby M and the Bioethics Commission Report," The Public Discourse
• "Bioethics the Spearpoint of Attack on Religious Liberties," First Things
• "The conflict between gender ideology and science exposed again," The Iona Institute

Euthanasia and End of Life Issues

• "Respecting Uncle Jack: On Death With Dignity," The Public Discourse
• "Euthanasia is a Cultural Addiction," First Things

Stem Cell Research 
To read about the latest advances in ethical adult stem cell research, keep up with leading-edge reports from FRC's Dr. David Prentice, click here.

• "Missing Link Discovered Between Stem Cells And Immune System," Medical News Today
• "The controlled cell," Physorg.com
• "Neonatal heart stem cells may help mend kids' broken hearts," Medicalxpress

Human Trafficking

• "California Legislature passes anti-slavery bills in its last week in session," Examiner.com
• "Runaway platform ," WORLD Magazine

Women's Health

• "Full-Time Work Means Better Health for Mothers," First Things
• "Egg donors often recruited unethically, study finds," Fox News
• "I'm Totally Gonna Buy This Book," Live Action

Marriage and Family
Adoption

• "IN OUR VIEW: Adoption, foster care," TheSpectrum.com
• "Tevlin: Adoption case from long ago brings lessons for one now," Minneapolis Star Tribune
• "Adoption conundrums," MercatorNet

Family Economics

• "Want More Jobs? Let's Build Stronger Families," Family Research Council
• "The Problem With Modern Economics," Institute for Faith, Work & Economics
• "Misunderstanding Markets," Economics for Everybody
• "Family Property Means Managing for a Legacy," New York Times
• "An Economic 'Plan'?," Townhall.com

Family Structure

• "Marriage: The Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty ," The Heritage Foundation
• "Want to Love Your Kids? Stop Overparenting Them," Christianity Today
• "How Do You Explain the Trinity to Children?," Moore to the Point
• "When Should My Children Be Baptized?," Challies.com
• "Children's "Rights" That End the Lives of Children," Townhall.com
• "Why California's Three-Parent Law Was Inevitable," The Public Discourse

Media
Pornography

• "Group believes Romney administration should prosecute pay-per-view porn (The Hill)," PornHarms.com
• "Democratic platform puts no limits on Internet porn, pushes for Web freedom," The Daily Caller

Internet

• "Bit by Bit It Takes Shape: Media Evolution for the 'Post-Truth' Age," The Atlantic
• "Children's Immersion in Technology is "Shocking"," Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty

• "Irony of Ironies: Vatican II Triumphs Over Moribund Modernity," The Acton Institute
• "Proclaiming 'individual' religious liberty," WORLD Magazine
• "Catholic bishops: Gay marriage threatens religious liberty," Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• "It Happened One Night: Alexis and Mitt in America," Library of Law and Liberty
• "Driving the Churches Away," Challies.com
• "Court Rulings Secure Greater Religious Freedom For All Americans," Alliance Defending Freedom

Religion in America
Check out Dr. Kenyn Cureton's feature on Watchmen Pastors called "The Lost Episodes," featuring how religion has had an impact on our Founding Fathers.

• "The Bible and Economics: Will There Be Inequality in Heaven?," Values & Capitalism
• "The Evangelical Jesus Prayer," Christianity Today
• "Bad Religion and the American Tradition," FirstThings
• "God Among the Delegates," The Catholic Thing
• "Why should Christians read literature?," Baptist Press

Secularism

• "Desiccated Christianity," The Acton Institute
• "Secularism can't satisfy the deepest needs of the human heart," Chicago Tribune

International
Israel

• "God, Jerusalem and American Foreign Policy," The Jerusalem Post
• "If I forget you, O Jerusalem," WORLD Magazine
• "Palestinians Joining the Arab Spring?," Commentary Magazine

International Economy and Family

• "Dalrymple: British aid to India only fuels corruption," The Acton Institute
• "Famine, Global Poverty an d The Destruction of the Family Farm," Global Research

Religious Persecution

• "Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Escapes Apostasy Death Sentence," Christianity Today
• "Nigeria's Deadly Deployments," Christianity Today
• "Why blasphemy laws are wrong," Baptist Press
• "Playing politics with the global war on Christians," National Catholic Reporter
• "Seeing No Anti-Christian Persecution," The American Conservative

Sharia law -- U.S., foreign

• "A Glimpse into the American Mosque," The Public Discourse
• "Fears About Shariah Law Take Hold In Tennessee," Vermont Public Radio
• "Rising anti-Islamic sentiment in America troubles Muslims," Belief Blog
• "A More Immediate Threat," The Center for Vision and Values

The Courts
Constitutional Issues

• "Supreme Court to review class-action case," Reuters
• "More Posner Delusions," National Review Online

Judicial Activism

• "Justice Kagan Denies Politicization of the Court," The FedSoc Blog
• "FedSoc Teleforum 9/6 on Bickel's "The Least Dangerous Branch": Still Relevant 50 Years Later?," The FedSoc Blog

Other News of Note

• "Shall this Republic Stand," Family Research Council
• "'Occupy' Terrorists Now Called 'Radical Right' by Southern Poverty Law Center," American Thinker
• "Is There an Afterlife?," The Center for Vision and Values
• "Temperamental Conservatism and the Importance of Limits," The American Conservative

Book reviews

• "First Freedoms," Claremont Review of Books
• "Literary Bondage," Crosswalk
• "The Fix: How addiction is invading our lives," MercatorNet
• "Review: The Ward of Heaven and the Wyrm in the Sea," WORLD Magazine

FRC's Social Conservative Review

A resource you definitely should check out and share on your network.

Thanks Family Research Council!

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