By defining sex to mean sexual orientation and gender identity, new regulations invite unintended consequences (HARRISBURG, PA) By a 3-2 vote, the unelected Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) voted today in favor of regulations that define sex in the...
Pennsylvania’s two-year legislative session (2021-2022) has wrapped up and there’s a lot that can be unpacked, with both significant victories along and a variety of challenges. Here’s a PA Family snapshot of the past session along with a look into the new session...
Independence Law Center has filed an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in another critical case for religious freedom and free speech rights throughout the nation. The case, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, began with founder Lorie Smith, a web designer and owner of...
A high school football coach in a lengthy legal battle made national headlines this week. As one headline puts it: How an unknown high school football coach landed in the center of a Supreme Court religious liberty case. Who is this coach? Was he really fired...
Randy Wenger, Chief Counsel for the Independence Law Center, was recently interviewed by Joe Watkins, pastor and former White House aide who now hosts the program “State of Independence” on Lighthouse TV, where he discussed his journey and what led to the founding...
Public Schools are not to be used for taxpayer funded political, sexual, or racist ideological indoctrination. But students, parents, and even educators in Public Schools across Pennsylvania have experienced the overt politicization of the classroom. Activists in...
Big-Tech Censorship Comes to the PA Governor’s Election (HARRISBURG, PA - Sunday, March 27, 2022) In a stunning and scandalous attack on a fair and free democratic process, today YouTube took down the recorded livestream video of Pennsylvania Family Institute’s...
By Thomas Shaheen - Vice President for Policy, PA Family Council Two Pennsylvania high-school girls were among those testifying at a hearing on August 4th before the PA House Education Committee regarding the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act; state legislation...
By Michael Geer, PA Family President On Friday, March 6, 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf signed a 90-day emergency disaster declaration, giving him very broad, sweeping powers over day-to-day life in Pennsylvania. This emergency declaration was in response to an impending...
Independence Law Center filed a brief in support of First Amendment freedoms. In a win for free speech, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a lower court ruling in order to protect a professor that had been punished for using a student’s...