From the testimony of Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Presented before the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform For...
From Jennifer Roback Morse at the Ruth Institute, some important facts about the "contraceptive mandate." It's much more than that, and it directly threatens our...
Bad news today for citizens, marriage. The Ninth Circuit voted 2-1 in favor of San Francisco federal court judge Vaughn Walker's controversial ruling in 2010 that Proposition 8 violates the 14th amendment of the US Constitution. The case is widely expected to be...
From LifeNews.com:Two Pennsylvania-based abortion businesses [Allentown and Pittsburgh] with ties to Steven Chase Brigham, the abortion practitioner charged with murder in the deaths of viable unborn children in a two-state operation aimed at avoiding late-term...
Today, Gov. Tom Corbett signed a new commonsense law that would regulate Pennsylvania's abortion clinics in the same way as ambulatory surgical facilities. The need for new regulations was brought to light by the tragic "house of horrors" case of the Kermit Gosnell...
Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal editors declared 2011 as The Year of School Choice. That was then; this in now. And this IS Pennsylvania, not the 13 states that advanced real education reform so far. As the legislative calendar in Harrisburg comes to a...
A Christmas Casino Poem By Bill Kearney, Philadelphia, PA Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house was barely enough food to feed a mouse. Our stockings had holes, chimney no heat, I waited in hope they’d return from the casino with something to...
Update on the Northmoreland Baptist Church Matter—And More! Thank you for your prayers for the Independence Law Center for the Northmoreland Baptist Church hearing in Wyoming County yesterday. The hearing went well, providing ample opportunity for the pastor of the...
Prayer Request from Pennsylvania Family Institute: INDEPENDENCE LAW CENTER IN COURT TODAY DEFENDING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY This morning Randall Wenger, Chief Counsel of our Independence Law Center, and Lindsey Hoban, an allied attorney with Ballard Spahr in...
"I believe very strongly that if the country gave each parent a voucher…several things would happen. Number one[,] schools would start marketing themselves like crazy to get students. Secondly, I think you’d see a lot of new schools starting…. I believe that they...