In one of his first acts as President, Barack Obama lifted a ban on the taxpayer funding of abortions done abroad. According to FOX News, ”Obama signed the executive order one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.”
That’s right. On January 22, [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Life, Family, and Social Issues'
Obama Funds Overseas Abortions With Taxpayer Money
January 25, 2009
Robert George: Obama “most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever”
October 16, 2008
In a fantastic article on the abortion issue in this year’s election, esteemed Princeton University professor Robert George lays out the case that “Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of the President of the United States.”
There is so much to learn in this article - that it is worth [...]
Is the Traditional Family a “Privatization Scheme”?
September 8, 2008
To provide some background on why it is that those on the far left hold such views about marriage, listen to a self-described “progressive” bring the implicit connection between the expansive state and the deconstruction of marriage out of the shadows. New York University Queer Studies Professor Lisa Duggan critiques the marriage promotion portion of [...]
Barack Obama’s Statist Quest to Reshape the Family
September 5, 2008
As I noted in my previous post, the family is where most Americans believe we ought to start because the family is where we all, in fact, do start. As noted in the recently republished book Family and Civilization, human experience points us in the direction of the family.
Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman notes that:
“No problem [...]
Barack Obama Versus the Traditional American Family
September 2, 2008
From my last few posts about Obama’s views on social issues, I pointed out that Obama’s high voltage voting record is obviously shocking. It raises weighty questions like, “why would kindergarteners need ‘sex education’?” “Why would someone allow newborns to be left to die?” and “Why would a politician who identifies as a Christian advocate [...]
Obama: Religion is “the art of the impossible.”
August 30, 2008
Obama’s views on social issues are often not in line with Christian teachings, but that has not stopped him from staking his own claim on such issues. In a supposed dispute with Christian leaders, Obama defends his anti-Christian views on abortion, same-sex unions, and other family-related issues.
“Democracy,” he writes, “demands that the religiously motivated translate [...]
Obama Attacks the Religous Right
August 28, 2008
Did Barack Obama look nervous to be at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Forum? There might be a reason he struggled to answer questions regarding when life begins, or what he believes the definition of marriage to be. It’s because his personal views are in direct contrast to traditional Christian beliefs.
Throughout his book, The Audacity of Hope, [...]
Obama: Government Should Provide Sex Education for Kindergarteners
August 25, 2008
At a Planned Parenthood conference in July 2007, Obama said that sex education for kindergarteners is “the right thing to do.” Obama believes that the state should be in the business of providing “age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools.” He would rather not leave this responsibility to a child’s family, even at that [...]
Obama: More pro-abortion than NARAL
August 23, 2008
Despite Obama’s efforts to publicly portray himself as a post-partisan, moderate bridge-builder, especially on social issues, his voting record illuminates the nature of his radical liberal beliefs. For example, as an Illinois state Senator, Obama voted against filtering pornography on elementary school library computers. In 2000, Obama voted “present” on a bill which would notify [...]