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| March, 2007 |
By Chuck Darrell
Is DFL Congressman Keith Ellison, (MN 5th District) the first Muslim to be elected to the US Congress?...
By Chuck Darrell By a voice vote, the Senate Health, Housing and Family Security Committee passed a bill (SF 345) that ...
By John Helmberger Recently, we received a letter from a long-time supporter of the Minnesota Family Council that gave ...
By Tom Prichard Most places they wouldn’t have much in common but at the Minnesota state legislature expect the unexpec...
Comparing the sub-zero temperatures outside to the chill in the new DFL controlled state legislature, Republican Governo...
While DFL State Senator Linda Higgins searched for co-authors to a bill that would allow municipalities to expand
domes...
| December, 2006 |
By Abby Ludvigson
“Is it wrong to have two mummies?”
“It’s not wrong if they’re nice to you and if you like them. ... ...
By Abby Ludvigson
Here is what elementary children are saying regarding what they learned from the “Family’s All Matter...
By Barb Anderson
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me.” That childhood rhyme got it wrong...
By Chuck Darrell
After heavy losses in July, and the passage of 7 out of 8 marriage amendments in November, the strateg...
During the holidays my wife and I shared a pair of recordings with our children; circa 1972 when we were members of the ...
By Staff Writer
The Minnesota Family Institute’s Election IMPACT 2006, a non-partisan, church-based effort to register ...
PFN: Tom, what happened with the Nov. 7 elections?
Prichard: Both nationally and in the state, the Republicans took a b...
By Staff Writer
One of the bright spots in the election was the defeat of state Sen. Dean Johnson of Willmar. Johnson...
President Bush described it as a “thumpin’” for Republicans. Whatever word you use for it, there’s no question that vote...
| August, 2006 |
James Wilson, while not necessarily a household name, is one of the more important historical figures in our nation’s hi...
| July, 2006 |
By Charles H Darrell
For several years, opponents of the marriage amendment have defended their position by saying that...
| June, 2006 |
| March, 2006 |
| December, 2005 |
by Barb Anderson
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is waging an all-out war against abstinence education. This ...
by Dave Bohon
Since its founding in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has promoted itself as the “nation’...
With the October 31st nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito, President Bush appears to be on track to r...
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., was born in April, 1950, in Trenton, New Jersey.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton...
A Ramsey County judge ruled in October that Planned Parenthood was guilty of breaking state law when one of its clinics ...
The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court once more affords our nation the opportunity to debate th...
by Alan Sears
Throughout our history, the United States has been unique. We are the only modern nation founded not on a...
• Twenty percent of adolescents have had sexual intercourse before their 15th birthday. One in seven of these girls beco...
How do you defend abstinence-until-marriage sex education programs in your school or state? Here are a few points in fav...
by Dave Bohon
A liberal civil liberties group has set its sights on a highly successful values-based prisoner rehabil...
WHAT. IFI is a values-based prisoner rehabilitation program proven to dramatically reduce re-arrest rates among its inma...
by Bryan Malley
On Nov. 8th, Gov. Tim Pawlenty chose Lee Buckley, a former Director of Labor Relations at Northwest A...
Shouldn’t we want to put a stop to crimes committed out of hate for a group of people? Yes, but we don’t need a new law ...
What are the implications if “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” are added as specially protected civil rights cl...
Following is the text of the prayer delivered January 23, 1996 by Pastor Joe Wright to the Kansas House of Representativ...
Despite suffering unceasing attack from homosexual activists and their allies, a state constitutional amendment defining...
The reaction to the Pastors’ Summit by homosexual activists in the Twin Cities was both typical and alarming.
An hour b...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
If they weren’t so sadly mistaken, I’d be almos...
| September, 2005 |
by Dave Bohon
As our forebears pushed westward throughout the majority of the 19th century, turning a dangerous and ...
by Dave Bohon
The Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota For Marriage coalition will sponsor a special one-day Pa...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
As you might imagine, the Minnesota Family Coun...
by Dave Bohon
The latest report from Rutgers University’s National Marriage Project gives some alarming news on matri...
by Jennifer Hilde
Sixty-five percent of Minnesota’s approximately 64,000 high school graduates attend post-secondary ...
by Tom Prichard
President, The Minnesota Family Council
This past August I spent a week in California participating ...
by Dr. Dan Burrell
One of the most dangerous things a commentator can do is to criticize a pop culture icon. Some of ...
by Dave Bohon
President Bush’s nomination of John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court was met with a volley of enthus...
Baptist Press News
William H. Rehnquist, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Chief Justice since 1986, died Sept. 3rd after batt...
by Andrew Hartsock
Canada’s Parliament obtained “royal assent” for a “gay marriage” bill July 20th, after signing the...
by Andrew Hartsock
The Churchwide Assembly (CWA) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted Aug. 12 t...
by Dave Bohon
Imagine every Christian in Minnesota fervently praying on a daily basis for their elected officials. Th...
Should pastors and Christians be involved in politics? asked Pastor Terry Fox of Immanuel Church, Wichita Kansas. “I thi...
by Andrew Hartsock
The number of abortions being reported in the state dropped over the last year, reported the Minne...
| July, 2005 |
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
Persevere: to persist in or remain constant to ...
by Dave Bohon
It all started innocently enough. Kathy Hofmann, a long-term substitute teacher at Mayo High School in ...
We have included in this issue of Pro-Family News a composite of votes by state legislators for the years 2003-05. This ...
by Dr. Warren Throckmorton
For years the National Education Association has taken teacher dues money and pursued left...
Minnesota’s state government officially shut down on July 1st, after the governor as well as Republican and DFL legislat...
by Dave Bohon
A pair of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court on Ten Commandments displays in Kentucky and Texas may not ...
by Dave Bohon
It has become a perennial problem. Each year otherwise conservative elected officials, concerned with g...
Baptist Press News
Sandra Day O’Connor retired July 1st from the U.S. Supreme Court, providing President Bush with th...
by Andrew Hartsock
Minneapolis hosted this year’s National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) convention June 15th-17th ...
by Dave Bohon
Adam Erwin has some words of wisdom for young people entering college, and for high school seniors look...
AgapePress
A new national survey finds that young college students are in a serious search for deeper meaning and pur...
As people of faith fighting to defend traditional marriage, we have the most powerful weapon in heaven or earth. It is p...
| June, 2005 |
by Dave Bohon
Pro-family leaders from across Minnesota gathered May 5th at the International Market Square in downtow...
by Dave Bohon
Veteran educator Barb Anderson knows a thing or two about bringing cultural diversity to the classroom....
by Barb Anderson
At the moment a baby takes its first breath, the doctor pronounces either, “It’s a boy,” or, “It’s a...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
As this issue of the PFN goes to press, the 200...
by Jennifer Hilde
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the new Miss Minnesota is...”
These exciting moments leading up to the an...
by Rich Gall
As we raise the third generation after Roe v. Wade, it should be entering our consciousness that this cu...
by Dave Bohon
For decades the left-leaning National Education Association (NEA) has wielded unprecedented influence i...
by Dave Bohon
For decades the left-leaning National Education Association (NEA) has wielded unprecedented influence i...
by Tom Prichard
President, Minnesota Family Council
One of the things I’ve been studying lately is worldview. Each o...
by Charles H. Darrell
The sign of a dysfunctional church is one that can’t defend the obvious. The current debate ove...
Baptist Press News
By a vote of 56-43, the U.S. Senate confirmed embattled judicial nominee Priscilla Owen in part of...
An appeals committee within the United Methodist Church has reinstated a lesbian minister who had been removed from her ...
A historical marker denoting the site of the “first organized and annual gay and lesbian civil rights demonstration” in ...
Baptist Press News
The U.S. House of Representatives voted May 24th to provide federal funds for stem cell research t...
by Dave Bohon
In a decision that has intensified the call for a federal marriage amendment, on May 12th a federal jud...
by Dave Bohon
More than a thousand students in hundreds of schools across the nation boldly participated in a “Day of...
by Dr. Warren Throckmorton
Weekly it seems a new situation comes into the public consciousness where schools are the ...
| April, 2005 |
| March, 2005 |
A statewide poll released by Minnesota For Marriage, a coalition of groups and individuals working for passage of Minnes...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
As reported in the cover story of this issue, t...
by Janet Boynes
with Sharon M. Knudson
While Janet Boynes is reluctant to talk about her lesbian past, she realizes ...
by Dave Bohon
On March 1st state government officials happily announced that a revised economic report had resulted i...
by Dave Bohon
How would your teenager score on a biblical worldview survey? That’s an important question because in a...
by Dave Bohon
Does your pastor have a solid biblical worldview? Only about 50 percent of Protestant pastors do, accor...
by Tom Prichard, President
Minnesota Family Council
This legislative session our top priority is, not surprisingly, ...
by Dr. Bradley Price
There is a battle in the universe between good and evil, and the prize is the souls of men. Ther...
by Barb Anderson
On February 7-8, 2005, the Minnesota School Health Education Conference held its annual symposium fo...
by Dave Bohon
On April 14th, students from around the Twin Cities are invited to participate in a “Day of Truth” to h...
by Dave Bohon
It started in force several years ago when Ellen DeGeneres “came out of the closet” with the help of he...
by Dave Bohon
As George Bush was preparing in January to be inaugurated to his second term as President of the United...
A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage as only between a man and a woman is back on tr...
by Dave Bohon
Conservative Christians and pro-life activists may be talking hopefully about a final reversal of Roe v...
by Dave Bohon
A task force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) released its recommendations for how ...
The pro-life New Life Family Services, which sponsors five crisis pregnancy centers throughout the Twin Cities, will hol...
by Ed Vitagliano
AgapePress
While organizations like the American Psychological Association (APA) are throwing their...
| January, 2005 |
by Dave Bohon
Two-Thousand and Four was a busy year for the Minnesota Family Council in its campaign to protect and d...
by Tom Prichard
President, Minnesota Family Council
An editorial in the December 6, 2004 Minneapolis Star Tribune of...
by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Public opinion polls show that the vast majority of Americans oppose legalizing same-sex...
by Dave Bohon
Mary Thompson is a local writer whose works have been read by thousands across the state and nation. Th...
by Dave Bohon
When officials of Regions Hospital in Minneapolis decided to remove a cross from its place of prominenc...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
That’s not in my job description.” Have you eve...
by Dave Bohon
The 2005 legislative session finds advocates of traditional marriage renewing their efforts to pass a s...
by Dave Bohon
In response to the increasing momentum for a state constitutional amendment that would define marriage ...
by Dave Bohon
In one of his newspaper columns back in 2002, national talk show host Dennis Prager, himself a practici...
by Ingrid Nemzek
Our son, Andy, was 11 years old when he first approached me with the request, “Mom, could you please...
by Dave Bohon
A new government survey has found that home schooling, once considered rare, is becoming more popular w...
by Jerry Wade
Statistics show that the average family with investments has approximately $130,000 committed to mutual...
An alarming number of homosexual clubs are being started in Minnesota K-12 schools. One homosexual activist organization...
by Rachel Robinson
Most Christians are more secular then they realize, and this must change if the Church is to have ...
| November, 2004 |
by Chuck Colson
With the presidential election finally over and with the re-election of President Bush, some are thin...
The November 2nd election was very encouraging from a number of perspectives. Marriage between one man and one woman was...
by Bishop John C. Nienstedt
The teaching of the Catholic Church is quite clear that marriage is the faithful, exclusi...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
My column this month has two purposes, which at...
by Dave Bohon
A national ministry is sponsoring a pastors seminar in the Twin Cities January 31st, aimed at encouragi...
One of the most symbolic upsets in the battle for moral values was South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle’s defeat to pro-life...
Traditional marriage was a big winner nationwide Nov. 2nd as voters in 11 states approved constitutional amendments bann...
by Dave Bohon
The Minnesota Family Institute’s 2004 Voter’s Guide proved to be a valuable tool for pro-family support...
by Robert Barnett
Minnesota captured a second-place ranking and was one of eight states to earn passing marks from a ...
by Dave Bohon
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases involving the display of the Ten Commandments...
by Dave Bohon
Leave it to Hollywood. Just in time for Christmas it has released a fanciful — and filthy — celluloid r...
by Allie Martin
AgapePress
An author and political science professor at a Christian college writes that the 40th pre...
by Amy J. Tate
In September the U.S. Mint revealed that the 2005 nickel will bear for the first time a new image of T...
A new booklet from the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families is being used to expose the perver...
AgapePress
A new study shows that Protestant clergy in America name divorce as the top threat to families in their co...
Eternal Change Agent
Conservative newspaper columnist Cal Thomas says Christians shouldn’t put their faith in politics ...
by Dave Bohon
There are a lot of misconceptions about what is permissible for celebrating Christmas in public places ...
| October, 2004 |
by Dave Bohon
Abortion is destroying black America. That’s the message a coalition of African-American pro-life activ...
by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
Speaking to the Democratic National Convention in July, Ronald Reagan’s son Ron condemned pol...
by Scott Noble
It’s not particularly easy to offer some new and valuable commentary regarding the Abu Ghraib prison a...
by Tom Prichard
President, Minnesota Family Council
Many Americans are wondering whether this year’s presidential el...
by Dr. Dan Burrell
Let me ask you a question. What would be the response in your church, Sunday school class, or Bibl...
by Robert Barnett
Cultivated by conservative grievances against university education, a new student academic watchdog...
by Dave Bohon
A proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between a man and a woman received a majo...
by Dave Bohon
An organization that works to expose the pro-abortion, “safe sex” agenda of Planned Parenthood has foun...
by Dave Bohon
One of the nation’s most high-profile spokesmen for traditional marriage brought a message of encourage...
Ralph Reed is considered by many to be one of the nation’s premier spokesmen for Christian conservative activism in the ...
| September, 2004 |
by Tom Prichard, President
Minnesota Family Council
The greatest challenge facing the well-being of our state and na...
by Alan Sears and Craig Osten
Marriage and the family are under attack by homosexual activists and their allies, both...
On November 18, 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the case of Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department...
Are same-sex partnerships deserving of the same status as traditional marriage? Are they merely a variation of the same ...
by Susan Brinkmann
According to Jeffrey Satinover, M. D., a psychiatrist and member of the Department of Politics at ...
by Alan Sears
Homosexual activists and their allies in the mainstream media have been working overtime preaching th...
| August, 2004 |
| August, 2004 |
by Elizabeth Jenson
My uncle advised me, “Education is the key to your future.” He should know. A former prisoner of ...
by Wayne Pederson
Jesus taught his followers how to deal with those outside the faith. We're to represent Jesus with ...
by Tom Prichard, CEO
Minnesota Family Council
As the debate over same sex “marriage” heats up, one issue that bears ...
by Charles Darrell
OK, I give up. I can’t imagine a single example of how same-sex-marriage will affect my own hetero...
by Mark Earley
If you’re looking at the same-sex “marriage” debate and thinking it won’t affect you, allow me to brin...
by Dave Bohon
Minnesota’s Indian casinos pulled in over $1.3 billion in revenue last year, a California-based researc...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
Reading news coverage of the abstinence-versus-...
by Andrew Hartsock
A group of Christians from Minneapolis’ Bethlehem Baptist and other area churches joined the festi...
by Dave Bohon
An employee of the Minnesota Department of Revenue has filed a lawsuit against the state agency, claimi...
by Andrew Hartsock
A video promoting homosexual parenting is being used in Minnesota classrooms, and it has some Twin...
by Andrew Hartsock
Politicians who do not vote pro-life should discontinue receiving communion and clear their consci...
by Dave Bohon
No, the campaign to protect traditional marriage is not over. While the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA...
The House of Representa-tives passed a bill July 22nd that prevents federal courts from legalizing same-sex “marriage” n...
by Dave Bohon
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 29th in favor of a lower court’s decision to bar the federal governme...
by Dave Bohon
Pro-family leaders are warning that the U.S. Senate’s vote adding “sexual orientation” to federal hate-...
AgapePress
The president of a faith-based legal group emphasizes that churches in America can support the Federal Mar...
by Dave Bohon
Christians and social conservatives nearly all agree philosophically that legal abortion should be ende...
| July, 2004 |
by Dave Bohon
For Brian Tommerdahl, grassroots activism started back in 1993. That’s when he first realized that the ...
by Tom Prichard, CEO
Minnesota Family Council
On pages six and seven of this Pro-Family News you’ll find our annual ...
by Robert Barnett
A throng of Catholic homosexual activists and their sympathizers made a public show of support at t...
by Robert Barnett
A construction company has sued the city of Minneapolis, charging that the municipality’s ordinance...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
Recently on my way to work I heard a news item ...
by Dave Bohon
As the Minnesota’s state legislative session lurched to a close this year, a number of lawmakers celebr...
by Dave Bohon
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled June 1st that the federal ban on partial-birth abortion is an un...
Minnesota’s Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer needs your help in the upcoming elections on Primary Day, September 14th, ...
AgapePress
According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), at least three Democratic senators have pled...
by Dave Bohon
As the battle to save traditional marriage heats up, one of the aims of homosexual activists is to inti...
by Dave Bohon
America’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, was laid to rest June 11th, following a nearly 10-year battle ...
| May, 2004 |
| May, 2004 |
by Dave Bohon
Nearly 200 concerned parents, educators, and church leaders gathered in Detroit Lakes April 24th over w...
by Dave Bohon
Believe it or not, for most of this nation’s rich history, Americans looked to the church for moral gui...
by Tom Prichard
President
The Minnesota Family Council
While I’m disappointed that the Defense of Marriage Amendmen...
by Barb Anderson
A new resource for schools has been released by filmmakers Debra Chasnoff and Helen S. Cohn, veteran...
by Charles Darrell
Last holiday season my wife and I shared a pair of recordings with our children; circa 1972 when w...
by Robert Barnett
In an effort to continue combating liberal influences on society’s understanding of homosexuality, ...
The National Association for Research and Therapy(NARTH), which works with people who want to leave homosexuality, have ...
A Ten Commandments monument which was displayed in front of Duluth’s City Hall for nearly 50 years was moved to a city g...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
What a terrific evening we had at our annual Pr...
by Elizabeth Jenson
The 2004 Minnesota legislative session is history, and with it Gov. Pawlenty’s efforts to seat Dr...
by Ed Vitalgiano
AgapePress
A new national study reveals that a startling number of young people are becoming infect...
by Robert Barnett
The Twin Cities’ Catholic archbishop has rebuked a staunchly conservative Catholic lay organization...
by Michael Foust
Baptist Press News
Same-sex “marriage” was legalized in Massachusetts May 17th, marking the first t...
by Dave Bohon
Dr. James Dobson has been on the front lines of many pro-family campaigns over the last three decades. ...
AgapePress
America’s Christian Heritage, by Gary DeMar, 2003: Broadman and Holman, 85 pages, $15.00. Available from t...
Over 200 pro-family supporters joined Tom Prichard and the Minnesota Family Council staff April 29th for MFC’s Annual Pr...
| April, 2004 |
by Dave Bohon
President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA) April 1st, making it the thir...
by Dave Bohon
In today’s society parents are increasingly called upon to do battle with government bureaucracies for ...
by Linda Harvey
Lesbian bride dolls. Fourth grade “gay” clubs. A king and king at the high school prom. Dating tips f...
by Tom Prichard
Political strategizing has gone into overdrive this legislative session, and what was never meant to ...
by Dave Bohon
While the Duluth City Council voted 5-4 on March 15th to move a controversial Ten Commandments monument...
by John Helmberger
Chief Executive Officer
Minnesota Family Council
The legislative session is always a busy time f...
by Dave Bohon
As the battle to defend traditional marriage has heated up over the last few months, a strong team of a...
by Dave Bohon
Mark Dayton has a message for Christians and pro-family conservatives who are working for state and fed...
by Robert Barnett
Wisconsin has taken the first step toward ratifying a state constitutional amendment defining marri...
by Matthew Spalding
For thousands of years, societies have held that marriage is a relationship between a man and a w...
All scripture references are taken from the New American Standard version of the Bible.
Genesis 13:13; 18:20; 19:4-5
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A recent national poll has found that more than half of all Americans believe having children outside wedlock is morally...
AgapePress
Congressional sponsors of a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would ban homosexual marriage ...
AgapePress
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, one of the nation’s premier promoters of abortion, has selec...
by Dave Bohon
The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported a 17 percent increase in new HIV cases among...
by Robert Barnett
Homosexuality is expected to be among the subjects addressed when the Methodist church meets next m...
by Robert Barnett
A prominent national Catholic weekly news publication with a reputation for often holding an outspo...
by Dave Bohon
Imagine your first-grader bringing home a book from the school library that tells the story of a prince...
| March, 2004 |
by Dave Bohon
Minnesota Family Council President Tom Prichard announced the addition of a new team member to the MFC ...
by Dave Bohon
The Minnesota Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) says a seven-foot-high Ten Commandments monument outside the...
by Dave Bohon
Homosexual activists, local politicians, and same-sex couples gathered at Minneapolis City Hall Februar...
by Dave Bohon
A recent poll of the religious beliefs and practices of Minnesotans found that a majority think homosex...
A recent survey by the international polling company Zogby found that 82 percent of Minnesota voters agree with the stat...
by Barb Anderson
On February 2nd the
24th Annual Minnesota School Health Education Conference, held at the Radisson ...
| March, 2004 |
by Dave Bohon
Should a ministry owned by the six Minnesota synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA...
by Tom Prichard
President, Minnesota Family Council
One of the staples of politics and legislative work is the publi...
by Dr. Dan Burrell
As the father of four school-aged children ranging from six to nearly sixteen, I thoroughly enjoy ...
by Robert Barnett
Ohio has become the 38th state to pass a law officially defining marriage as being solely between o...
by Dave Bohon
Three months after ruling that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry and ordering the state legis...
by Dave Bohon
A recent poll of the religious beliefs and practices of Minnesotans found that a majority think homosex...
| February, 2004 |
by Elizabeth Jenson
There is a lot at stake in the 2004 legislature. What will the state’s academic standards look li...
by Sondra Erickson
State Representative
According to a study commissioned by the Minnesota Department of Health, t...
by Barb Anderson
Across Minnesota, thousands of parents have been greatly disturbed by the failure of the graphic saf...
by David Schmidt
For me personally, there is nothing more frustrating than hearing a friend, colleague, or relative c...
by Robert Barnett
St. Paul’s mayor and city council have repealed a provision of a city ordinance that outlawed publi...
by Dave Bohon
In his Jan. 20th State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush declared his intention to help pr...
by David Barton
During the early days of this great nation, Christians provided a guiding influence in three vital a...
by Jenni Parker
AgapePress
Keeping Your Kids Sexually Pure, by La Verne Tolbert: Zondervan, 2002, 208 pages, 13.00 (...
by Robert Barnett
New Jersey has become the latest state to wade into the controversial waters of legal recognition o...
Family News in Focus
Home-schooled students have traditionally wound up in small colleges, but that’s starting to cha...
| January, 2004 |
| August, 2003 |
Myth #1: Homosexuality is normal and biologically determined.
The truth: There is no scientific research indicating ...
by Dave Bohon
A Minneapolis Councilman has proposed city ordinances that would give domestic partners – homosexual co...
by Dave Bohon
Will the Evangelical Church in North America (ELCA), the largest Christian denomination in Minnesota, e...
by Dave Bohon
There’s an old saying (actually it’s Scripture) which admonishes us not to look down on small beginning...
| August, 2003 |
by Tom Prichard
President, Minnesota Family Council
Abortion on demand, banning the Pledge of Allegiance and volunta...
by Brad Frese
The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, by Alan Sears and Cra...
by Dave Bohon
For several days in early August the Episcopal Church USA will grace the Twin Cities with its collectiv...
| July, 2003 |
At the Minnesota Family Council, we are concerned about school materials your children are being exposed to without your...
Many of us are familiar with this quote: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains ...
| June, 2003 |
by Dave Bohon
It all began last November with the election of a conservative governor and a team of like-minded state...
by Dave Bohon
On May 29th Minnesota Family Council president Tom Prichard entered the confines of Carleton College in...
by Tom Prichard
What makes a family? One man and one woman? Two men? Two women? A man and more than one woman? A woma...
by Dan Burrell
Why is it that today’s generation seems to want to “sue first” and “think later”? Have we become so li...
by Barb Anderson
Everyone knows the international distress signal for ships at sea. That acronym, S.O.S., is also the...
What do teenage girls and tea have in common? Barb Anderson, a Minnesota Family Institute (MFI) staff member and coordi...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted June 4th to ban partial birth abortions, joining the Sen...
by Robert Barnett
A scrappy Texas organization has been enjoying a good measure of the pro-life community’s limelight...
by Audrey Misiura
An evangelical pastor in Stillwater has found himself in the middle of a controversy for standing u...
Did your U.S. congressman vote to ban partial birth abortions? Why not send an e-mail and thank him. If you are represen...
| May, 2003 |
by David Brody
Focus on the Family
Tens of thousands of students went to school April 28 proclaiming the message tha...
by Dave Bohon
Christina Sluka, who lives with husband David and their three young children in Eden Prairie, has serve...
by Joe Field
Iraq is not the only country that has been subjected to a “shock and awe” campaign. In fact, it is happe...
| March, 2003 |
by Dave Bohon
After two years of complaints from the Minnesota Family Council and other pro-family individuals, Manka...
by Dave Bohon
Is the politically charged agenda of homosexual activists really a threat to traditional values in Minn...
| January, 2003 |
by Tom Prichard
Gov.-elect Tim Pawlenty’s promise not to deal with the budget deficit by raising taxes will be a cent...
by Adam Erwin
Being a parent of a teenager can be a real challenge. Given the violence, drug abuse, sexual promiscuit...
by Mike Christenson
As this special issue of Pro-Family News makes abundantly clear, January marks the 20th anniversa...
The Minnesota State Legislature will face some key family issues during its 2003 session. Those issues include replacing...
When state legislators convene at the state capitol on Jan. 7 to begin this year’s legislative session, no issue will lo...
by Barb Anderson
In 1948 one of the greatest scientific scams of all time was put over on the American public by Dr. ...
by Judy Lindsay
What happens if a student comes to a teacher or counselor asking what to do about her lesbian relatio...
by Brian Gwyn
Charter schools are falling behind comparable public schools in student test scores, according to a stu...
On Nov. 12, the Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed a Hennepin County judge’s harassment restraining order against Derek...
For the folks at Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation, Jan. 22 is cause for celebration. For the res...
Congress is planning to reconsider bankruptcy reform legislation this year, minus language that targets pro-life free sp...
Congress is planning to reconsider bankruptcy reform legislation this year, minus language that targets pro-life free sp...
by Patrick Morley
The following is excerpted from Patrick Morley’s book The Seven Stages of a Man’s Life.
One of t...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (EP) — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been ordered to remove a 5,300-pound granite monument of the...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (EP) — An Ohio State University study has found that the nature of relationships a preteen has may play a...
| October, 2002 |
by Mike Ricci
A Roseville father has appealed a ruling that was issued on the grounds that he had harassed a teacher ...
November 5th, Minnesotans will go to the polls and vote for the candidates of their choice for local and statewide races...
Just before the 2000 election, Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) sent a letter to 90 percent o...
by Robert Barnett
Renewing a stand he has taken repeatedly during his tenure, Duluth Mayor Gary Doty refused a recent...
by Ann Redding
Extensive research on the effects of non-violent pornography by Drs. Dolf Zillmann and Jennings Bryan ...
by Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy professor Dallas Willard amusingly asks, "What would you think if you asked your ten-yea...
Many gay activists argue that the homosexual lifestyle is completely "normal" and "healthy' and have dismissed findings ...
by Mike Christenson
Minnesota Family Institute has produced a Voter's Guide every election cycle for more than a deca...
by Mike Ricci
Kids are now back in class, and most parents who have kids attending the public schools are expecting n...
by Ann Redding
I don't think the book Protecting Your Child in an X-Rated World: What you need to know to make a diff...
Maybe it was the providence of God. Governor Ventura's office accidentally issued a proclamation declaring the week of O...
Minnesota Family Council's growth and success has been in large part to the efforts of volunteers who have selflessly g...
Your Tax Dollars Paid for 3,110 Abortions in 2001
Those are the latest figures according to a Minnesota Department o...
by Stacy Eichenlaub
Results from a recent study completed by the University of Minnesota's Center for Adolescent Heal...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a human rights group based in New York, has accused the U.S. of being a human rights violator ...
by Joe Field
Quiz time. Who is to blame for the 9-11 terrorist attacks?
If you guessed al Qaeda or Bin Laden, you ma...
Editor's note: Just what is wrong with the Profile of Learning and School to Work programs being advanced by the state ...
by Audrey Misiura
We may be losing our rights to free speech and religious expression in the workplace. And also, we ...
| September, 2002 |
by Laura Adelmann
Many citizens, this time in Olivia, Minn., are relieved that plans for a local strip club have been...
by Mike Ricci
Former Congressman Tim Penny recently announced that he is running for governor of Minnesota, but has r...
PRINCETON, NJ - Gallup polling shows that increasing numbers of Americans are living together prior to getting married. ...
Anyone who has "channel surfed" a basic cable package knows the objectionable content being aired. More unsettling is t...
by Laura Adelmann
When does "educating" the public become promotion of a particular viewpoint?
Minnesota Education L...
In Daniel Goleman's excellent book Emotional Intelligence he writes about the last moments of Gary and Mary Jean Chaunce...
by Mike Ricci
Despite a great deal of scientific, religious, public, and political opposition, a couple recently anno...
Hoping to add to a growing list of laws aimed at protecting citizens from "unfavorable" speech, the Swedish parliament h...
Marriage Myth: Marriage must be "happily-ever-after"-or you didn't get it right!
"The belief in a happily-ever-after ...
In the August issue of Pro-Family News we reported that the owner of Pure Gold "gentleman's club" in Nicollet, Minnesota...
PHILADELPHIA (EP) - The national office of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) has received major criticism from...
Immediately after the tragic attack on the World Trade Center towers, a pastor in New York City wanted to use a communit...
ATLANTA (EP) - A study by the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that couples who live together are less li...
Planned Parenthood and the clergy
I was forwarded an email from Planned Parenthood on their efforts to have clergy a...
by Mike Ricci
Governor Ventura has made statements during his term that people of faith have found highly objectionab...
In an effort to delete religious expression from our public life, secularists have long used the Establishment Clause of...
by Joe Field
Minnesota Department of Corrections employees, Thomas Altman and Ken Yackly, brought something to a stat...
by Audrey Misiura
America's children are being bombarded with sophisticated and seductive advertisements for a new ca...
Minnesota Family Council (MFC) President Tom Prichard applauds President Bush for signing the "Born Alive Infants Protec...
| August, 2002 |
by Laura Adelmann
New technology is bringing the miracle of life into clear perspective.
Check out www.gemedicalsys...
by Joe Field
How would you react this Sunday if your preacher announced to you that the Ten Commandments were not aut...
The following article is excerpted from “Quiet Whispers from God’s Heart for Parents,” written by John Trent, Ph.D. See ...
by Ravi Zacharias
Is it not instructive of our bias that society popularly brands many tragedies as “Acts of God”?
...
Minnesota mom warns parents about dangers of teen Methamphetamine abuse
Dear Editor:
My son did not want to die, and...
Governor Ventura's office inadvertently issued a proclamation declaring the week of October 13 through October 19, 2002 ...
Recently, Pro-Family News (PFN) sat down with Mike Christenson, Chief Operating Officer at Minnesota Family Council, to ...
by Diane Behm
The issue of differences has sparked many discussions recently in Buffalo, Minn., but parents feel that...
How do you respond to cultural issues like homelessness, broken families, addiction, homosexuality, and abortion? Do you...
Even the Star Tribune thinks it stinks
What stinks is the filing by the head of the Minnesota Sierra Club, Sam Gars...
by Laura Adelmann
Edgy, provocative and topical. It’s not what one expects when tuning into a Christian radio station...
| July, 2002 |
by Dawn Lippman
May 23 marked the culmination of a fierce battle involving members of Minnesota’s Big Lake school boa...
by Robert Barnett
Pro-family legislators launched a new front in the culture war May 15 by introducing a proposed fed...
by Frederica Matthewes-Green
A French proverb goes, "To understand all is to forgive all." If we only understood how ...
Teacher speaks out about Internet filters in public schools
Dear Editor:
As a high school computer teacher for over...
by Dawn Lippman
According to author William J. Bennett, the current cultural shift away from the nuclear family compr...
by Michael Medved
Why should a state capitol building -- or any other public facility, for that matter -- use Jewish ...
Fearing abstinence education
In a recent issue of City Pages, an alternative, shall we say, leftist newspaper in th...
A Gallup poll taken May 6-9 revealed that only 18 percent of the U.S. public ranks American moral values as “excellent” ...
by Dawn Lippman
More than 200 elegantly dressed California women began their evening April 20 with a three-course mea...
by Robert Barnett
Education unions cannot require teachers who are granted religious objector status because of union...
Whoever said “sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me” should get a good tongue-lashing. Time ...
| June, 2002 |
by Laura Adelmann
Hundreds swarmed the April 25 Big Lake School Board meeting after Pro-Family News (PFN) exposed the...
So you’re a dad, or you’ll be one soon. Maybe you’re wondering if it’s worth it, all the hard work, the heartbreak, and ...
by Dawn Lippman
Critics are saying Abercrombie & Fitch's latest quarterly magazine is more pornographic than ever. ...
by Ravi Zacharias
The notion of sin is not a very popular one today, is it? With the exception of war crimes or inst...
AIDS education stirs debate
Regarding the "Anoka Dad Takes Action" article [featured in the March issue of Pro-Famil...
Editor’s Note: Armella Willaert contributed to this report.
Tom Prichard, President of Minnesota Family Council (MFC), ...
by Tom Prichard
Victory at legislature! Legislators don’t raise taxes . . . but also put off day of reckoning with bu...
by Laura Adelmann
According to North Branch parent Michele Lentz, her word wasn’t enough for school officials to excu...
by Barb Anderson
In the minds of many teenagers, prom night and promiscuity are synonymous. Not so for a group of yo...
by Joe Field
Field: What pro-family measures were promoted in this legislative session and how did they fare?
Tom P...
| April, 2002 |
by Laura Adelmann
After parents of Big Lake School District students began protesting the high school’s diversity les...
Governor Jesse Ventura recently proclaimed June 2002 “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration Month,” whil...
Duluth citizen takes action on city’s new ‘Human Rights’ ordinance
In the break room of my workplace, I recently cam...
Enjoyment was the highest principle guiding philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s decisions. However, he later wrote that thi...
A song popular about 40 years ago contained the line “don’t know much about history.” Apparently things haven’t changed ...
by Laura Adelmann
Under legislative redistricting, Minnesota’s political leadership may finally be lining up with the...
by Joe Field
According to Rosie O’Donnell, who recently announced that she is a lesbian, the picture is rosy for gay ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (EP) - After a formal hearing in U.S. District Court in Utica April 12, Judge David N. Hurd order...
Ideologically miles apart
Each session the state House and Senate vote on nearly identical pro-family amendments. Th...
by Tom Prichard
President, Minnesota Family Council
"Christians shouldn't be involved in politics." "The only way t...
by Robert Barnett
The Boys Scouts of America (BSA) has reaffirmed its longstanding policy of banning open, avowed hom...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) - Millions of Americans will gather across the U.S. May 2 to observe the National Day of Prayer. O...
by Barb Anderson
On Tuesday, March 5th, I walked into Champlin Park High School to attend my precinct caucus and beco...
by Dawn Lippman
You might not see the kids out in the open, casually laughing with friends as they stick quarters int...
Washington, D.C.- Following several months of study by a broad-based task force, the Board of Directors of the national ...
| March, 2002 |
Minnesota Family Council and a broad-based group of organizations and individuals in Minnesota are voicing sharp critici...
by John Leo
US News and World Report
Some 440,000 copies of Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias" are now in print. Who kne...
Teacher speaks out about religion in textbooks
Sometimes we teachers get a worse rap than we deserve. I work at the...
The Social Security system has been ailing for years, but politicians are reluctant to prescribe a cure. Now, it looks l...
by Dawn Lippman
As we sweat it out through the heat of controversy during this year’s legislative session, perhaps it...
by Laura Adelmann
Legislative negotiations will be heating up, predicted Minnesota House Speaker Steve Sviggum (R-Ken...
by Laura Adelmann
PFN: Do you think union members who are state employees will strike over the domestic partner ...
* Marshall School
* Richfield High School
* Southwest High Minneapolis
* St. Paul Public Schools
* The Blake Sch...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) -- The school voucher movement seemed to be on its way to a major constitutional victory Feb. 20 d...
In other Supreme Court news:
* Justices criticized and ridiculed a local Ohio ordinance requiring anyone who goes doo...
Politics and the governor’s race
Some of the latest activities by Governor Ventura makes one wonder whether he'll run...
The raging debate over domestic partner health benefits could ultimately play out in the courts, according to Minnesota ...
Amidst all the hubbub at the Capitol these days about trying to track down the Governor, budget vetoes and subsequent ve...
My name is Arlene Reed, and I am a compulsive gambler. I started gambling when in the process of a divorce 22 years ago....
Jill Jackson, a mom from Embarrass, Minnesota, was just that –- embarrassed — when she discovered what her teenage son h...
By Dawn Lippman
Will Planned Parenthood push condoms ‘til the cows come home?
If it weren’t such a serious subject,...
by Barb Anderson
While breast cancer was a topic of interest and concern at the 22nd Annual Minnesota School Health E...
by Barb Anderson
The keynote speaker for the general session of the school health conference was Carol Falkowski, dir...
by Barb Anderson
Editor’s Note: Article contains explicit information that may offend some readers.
The 22nd Annu...
| February, 2002 |
| February, 2002 |
by Katie Hostetter
Nathan Unseth is not a certified teacher. Rather, he is a typical parent eager to help his son, I...
As the facts bear out, gambling addiction is devastating to families and also has significant impacts on society.
* ...
Many of you received Minnesota Family Council’s recent E-mail Action Alert informing you that Gov. Ventura wants to use ...
by Laura Adelmann
Society’s ultimate definition of “family” is lurking behind the debate over extending dental, healt...
For a few days every couple of years, they are big news, controversial topics, and the focus of heated debate. Then the ...
Dear ________[name of school administrator]:
Our child, [child’s name], is enrolled at [school name] for this aca...
Sounds like they’re getting very nervous
On January 22nd each year there are traditional prolife rallies at the state...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) - Thousands of pro-life activists gathered across the nation Jan. 22 to mark the anniversary of Ro...
by Kathy Fields
This year marks the 29th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion-on-demand...
“How will Democrats campaign against a president whose approval ratings are in the upper 80s? The answer: Steal the war ...
by Karena Tapsak
For twenty-year-old Jaime Rau of Eagan, making a pledge of sexual purity until marriage was not just...
Domestic Partners – Governor Ventura negotiated domestic partner benefits, e.g. marriage benefits for homosexual partn...
| January, 2002 |
by John Leo
US News and World Report
Conflict may erupt again next year, but for now the war over the poinsettias has ...
Minnesota Family Council is working to alert people across the state to the seriousness of the state employee contract i...
Separation of church and state - we've all heard about it, but what did the author mean when he wrote it?
It was 1802...
by Nancy Koster
If you pay taxes in Minnesota, you are helping to fund abortion on demand for women on public assistanc...
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has taken a courageous stand to defend its values. However, some Scout leaders from Minn...
by Senator John Marty
During the next few months, state lawmakers will tackle a two billion dollar budget deficit. Som...
by Paul Weyrich
Minnesota had only to look next door to Wisconsin to find a conservative governor in Tommy Thompson.
...
Editor’s Note: The following is a Pro-Family News interview with Wendell Anderson, who has counseled countless people st...
Minnesota Supreme Court has good chance of getting slapped down by U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court decided ...
Study finds prayer makes a difference
in women trying to conceive
NEW YORK, N.Y. (EP) -- A study reported in the Sept...
by Laura Adelmann
Teaching one politically correct worldview may soon be proven as the real goal of a 1996 licensure ...
It all began when San Francisco demanded that groups doing business with the city offer domestic partner benefits to hom...
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 29 that Juli Goins, a male-to-female transgender person, did not have a right ...
Many children who attend private schools want to play sports or join other extra-curricular groups at their local public...
You’ve heard about home schooling, haven’t you? You probably know someone who has been home-schooled. In this day an...
by Phil Rokke
America has recently experienced great, unfamiliar violence perpetrated in the name of Islam. As a nation...
| December, 2001 |
by Laura Adelmann
Using a pro-homosexual lifestyle training program, public schools are teaching kids to study, accep...
Since the printing of October’s Pro-Family News article on the exclusion of Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) from ...
Is Abercrombie & Fitch finally listening to complaints about its pornographic magazine, A&F Quarterly? Previous holiday...
The Minnesota Family Council hosted a lunch for MFC supporters with Steve Sviggum, Speaker of the Minnesota House. Svigg...
by Barb Anderson
Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the father of the sexual revolution, shook American culture to its foundations wi...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (EP) -- The Christian rock band Relient K is trying to sever its ties with controversial clothing retai...
by Laura Adelmann
Calling sexual orientation the "last bastion of discrimination," Susie Staudenmaier, a Dakota Count...
"IN GOD WE TRUST"
The motto was derived from the line "And this be our motto, 'In God is our trust,'" in the U.S. Natio...
“Merry Christmas!” Common words this time of year. But should you be careful where you say them? Recently we talked wit...
They avoided suspicion by doing renovations on their new business at night. When they opened their doors, the town of Ni...
“One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Many schools in Minnesota are participating in t...
Redesigned web site: We’ve made it easier for you to find the information you need on critical family issues by redesi...
by Lindy Beam
"Reading the Harry Potter books promotes investigation by children into the occult? Preposterous."
"T...
Just what is wrong with America's public schools?
This question was being bandied about the country two years ago, aft...
by Linda Picone
The letters have been coming to the Southwest Journal for years. No regular pattern, but often enough t...
by Frederica Matthewes-Green
There's a problem. The audience, a few hundred doctors and nurses, is clustered along conf...
| November, 2001 |
Christina Hoff Sommers’ book, “The War Against Boys,” is a fact-driven expose’ of a movement that intends to reinvent m...
The U.S. Census Bureau announced a decline in the numbers of working women with infant children. The rates fell from a ...
Q: What’s new about the case for marriage?
A: Maggie -- Most of the arguments for marriage over the last two decades...
September kicks off a new Billboard Blitz by PROLIFE Across AMERICA -- “The Billboard People” -- formerly known as PROLI...
In response to a complaint by the Catholic League, eBay, the most famous Internet auction site, has withdrawn an offensi...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (EP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court began its annual session Oct. 1 with a docket that includes a case invol...
Homosexuality is a hot topic in America. We read about it in our newspapers and magazines. We hear about it in televisio...
There's a great divide across the land when it comes to the issue of "separation of church and state." In the midst of t...
Throughout our communities, state, and nation, there are churches working hard to make a difference in the lives of peop...
Separation of church and state - we've all heard about it but what did the author mean when he wrote it?
It was 1802...
Over the past three years, health insurance premiums have risen 38 percent in Minnesota and increases are expected aga...
St. Louis, MO -- A physician who specializes in breast health asked a gathering of pro-life advocates Sunday to join a g...
Worldview Weekend kicked off Oct. 19 in Bloomington with Christian Apologist Josh McDowell improvising a new, impassio...
For the first time in the University of Minnesota's history, students elected a male homecoming queen. According to the ...
Following is a report by the North American Council on Adoptable Children on what can happen when people are made aware ...
| October, 2001 |
Across our state and nation, Christian students still face discrimination by school officials despite many recent victo...
The U.S. Supreme Court intended its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to settle the abortion controversy once and for all. But a...
A controversy continues over schools that want to treat a good portion of their young students with the drug Ritalin. T...
The close ties of the National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest teachers union, and the Democratic Par...
The attack on America began long before Sept. 11, 2001, said award-winning author and historian Catherine Millard, visit...
Disappointed at the absence of American history in his son Joseph’s third-grade public school curriculum, Plymouth resid...
Washington, D.C. (EP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to uphold a unanimous jury verdict protecting religious sp...
As a writer for the Pro-Family News, my latest assignment was to do a story called “Spotlight on the Church.” It was t...
by C. HASSELL BULLOCK
I have sometimes pondered the question, "Is it possible for a society to commit the sin against t...
What began more than a year ago with a student’s complaints about the University of Minnesota’s freshman orientation pro...
by Doug Trouten
The surprise music hit of the summer was a song called “Cuz I Got High” by the relatively unknown artis...
Parents want what's best for their children in all areas of their lives, and education is certainly of great concern.Tha...
Cheryl Eliason, Family Life Educator at the Minnesota Family Institute, helps mothers and daughters deepen their relatio...
| August, 2001 |
We're very sorry to report the death of Bob Heinrich, who passed away on August 18 after a hard struggle with leukemia.
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Tune in to hear Minnesota Family Council/Institute’s new daily two-minute commentary on radio stations