This week, the Boy Scouts national office announced that “after a nearly two-year-long examination” by an 11-member panel commissioned by the chief scout executive, the Scouts will maintain their membership policy excluding homosexual scoutmasters and scouts from...
News reports today that the current total of 8.3 million voters is about a half-million lower than in 2008, and it's lower than in 2004. Do you know if your family, friends, fellow church members, or neighbors are registered? Click to read more... Pennsylvania...
by Michael Geer, President The release of the Freeh Report today regarding the Penn State- Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal brought to mind words spoken at a Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee hearing more than a decade ago. Those words, spoken by...
An Independence Day Reminder In the best known lines of our Declaration of Independence, are found the words: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among...
(Harrisburg, PA - June 28) - The Pennsylvania Family Institute finds today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the controversial federal healthcare law alarming and deeply wrong. The law is a threat to personal liberty, religious freedom and family...
What do you want to have your kids say about their summer? Would you be encouraged to hear this from them: "I cannot begin to describe all that God has done in me..." "Amazing!" "I was challenged to continue to grow in Christ and my God-given talents and...
Op-ed by Jennifer Marshall of the Heritage Foundation: Americans enjoy the freedom not only to worship according to the dictates of conscience but also to express and to live according to those beliefs as we engage in public life. Such a blessing is extraordinarily...
by Tom Shaheen With State Budget Facing Deadline, We May See More School Choice in Pennsylvania! As PA House and Senate leaders and Gov. Corbett hammer out a state budget with the June 30th deadline looming, we hear that there is a window of opportunity to expand...
The Pennsylvania Family Institute applauds the action yesterday of the Senate Education committee to pass Senate Bill 1134 by a 9-2 vote to protect religious child care centers from the heavy hand of government intrusion into their religious mission, while...
by Dan Bartkowiak "2...4...6...8...who do we appreciate!?!" Answer: Any elected offical supporting HB 2468. For kids, summer means vacation from school. For PFI, summer means we have the opportunity to award families with our EITC scholarships for the next school...