One month from today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case Conestoga Wood Specialties v Sebelius. Here are eight things you should know about the case: The Hahn Family, a Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Mennonite family, owns Conestoga Wood...
If you go to the website listed for the Collegeville Planned Parenthood clinic, you'll find this message: "The following error occurred while running this page...Health center information is unavailable at this time." That's because the clinic officially shut their...
2014 marks a special year for Pennsylvania Family Institute. With the support of families across Pennsylvania, we have been able to make a difference since 1989 -- 25 years of protecting life, marriage and religious freedom; of protecting the family so we can...
The New Year is barely 16 hours old, and already the Pennsylvania Family Institute team is at work advancing the cause of religious liberty and rights of conscience for you and all Americans. Today, Randy Wenger, Chief Counsel of PFI's Independence Law Center (ILC)...
The 'elephant in the room' that proponents of same-sex "marriage" try their best to hide is that redefining marriage to include same-sex couples will lay the foundation to legalizing marriage for polygamous relationships as well. Earlier this year Pennsylvania...
This weekend, Independence Law Center Chief Counsel Randy Wenger will appear in the third half hour on the Glen Meakem On The Weekend program with guest host Dr. Paul Kengor of Grove City College, with an update on the case, Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius,...
BACKGROUND: The owners of Conestoga Wood Specialties, the Hahns, are a practicing and believing Mennonite family. They desire to run the company, a wholesale manufacturer of custom wood kitchen cabinet parts, in a manner that reflects their sincerely held religious...
by Brandon McGinley On Tuesday of this week, I had an article published in the online journal Public Discourse arguing that "gender identity non-discrimination" legislation like Pennsylvania's HB/SB 300 will necessarily lead to a functional prohibition on sex...
“In an ideal world, we’d have no need for abortion.... I feel comfortable with the things I did and the decisions I made.” - Abortionist Kermit Gosnell, serving 3 life sentences for the murder of 3 born-alive babies. In the same year marked by the 40th anniversary...
By: Randy Wenger (Published in The Morning Call on August 6) Attorney General Kathleen Kane's decision to forgo defending Pennsylvania's Defense of Marriage Act has undermined the rule of law in Pennsylvania. There are plenty of political issues across...