It's official! We have just announced that bestselling author and leading cultural commentator Eric Metaxas will be headlining our 2012 Friends of the Family Banquet! You'll recognize Eric as the new radio host of the late Chuck Colson's BreakPoint and the author...
(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...
by Brandon McGinley A poll released today by Public Policy Polling indicates that, despite President Obama's declaration of support for same-sex "marriage" and despite widespread efforts to stigmatize supporters of traditional marriage, only 35% of Pennsylvanians...
By Michael Geer This afternoon, a former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, a Democrat, will report to the Dauphin County Courthouse to begin serving a prison sentence for his conviction on corruption charges. He joins a Republican former speaker...
Marriage has a perfect batting average when it comes to state marriage amendments that provide the opportunity for citizens to have the ability to affirm marriage between a husband and wife. The citizens of North Carolina once again affirmed marriage and became the...
From Foxnews.com: Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in a television interview Monday morning, said unequivocally that he supports gay marriage. Asked if he thinks gay couples should be able to legally marry, he said: "Yes, I do." The statement comes a day after an...
By Emily Kreps The Independence Law Center, with assistance from attorney Lindsey Hoban of Ballard Spahr, obtained an important court victory on behalf of a small church in rural Northeastern Pennsylvania. In the case, Northmoreland Baptist Church v. Wyoming County...
Just got word this morning: our Independence Law Center, headed by attorney Randall Wenger, won the court case challenging the taxation of Northmoreland Baptist Church in NE PA. More to come...
by Michael Geer I was saddened to see the verdicts this week in the case against Sen. Jane Orie. It’s hard to know what to make of the lengthy jury deliberation, and the competing and conflicting testimony from aides to the Senator. And I certainly can’t make any...
Atheists are coming after us, and they’re using the courts to do it. It’s been happening for decades, and they scored the first victory in the conflict way back in 1963 right here in Pennsylvania, when atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair sued the Abington school district...