From our family to yours – Merry Christmas on behalf of the Kansas Family Voice of North Dakota. May the timeless message of our Savior’s birth fill your heart with hope, joy, peace, and love now and throughout the coming year. God bless, Mark Jorritsma President and Executive Director
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” –Jeremiah 29:11 Dear Friends: Less than three months ago, I left my job with the State of New Mexico to accept the Executive Director position with Kansas Family Voice
This Christmas season marks the end of a beginning. A little over a year ago, North Dakota Family Alliance became Kansas Family Voice of North Dakota. While our fundamental mission never changed – protecting pro-family and pro-life values in North Dakota – it marked an exciting beginning. Our organization launched with the vision of ensuring
Congress will likely decide this week whether to allow taxpayer funding for abortion in Obamacare, and your voice is needed to urge your senators and representative to vote against this scheme. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a pro-abortion Republican, last week demanded – as a condition of her supporting the Republican tax-cut bill – that
Neil Gorsuch isn’t the only conservative legal thinker who has been appointed to a judicial bench during the new administration. So far this year, 19 federal judges have been nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate. Many of these vacancies have been filled in the last several months. This acceleration in confirmations is
Kansas Family Voice is proud to work alongside Texas Values, one of our 40 state-based allies. In the only case of its kind, and in a major victory for Texas Values and Houston taxpayers, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the City of Houston’s request to review whether Houston taxpayers may challenge the city’s policy of
A few weeks ago, Kansas Family Voice was proud to partner with state ally Cornerstone Action of New Hampshire in hosting a Legislative Briefing and Gender Identity Forum centered around the hot-button issue of gender identity. Stephanie Curry, Manager of Public Policy for Kansas Family Voice, spoke to legislators and the public on how
By Stephanie Curry, Policy Manager He created them male and female and blessed them. Genesis 5:2 (NIV) First Woman Mayor! Julie Lemieux elected “only female mayor in Tres-Saint-Redempteur’s 137 year history.” Canadian headlines excitedly reported Julie’s “remarkable” accomplishment last month as the “first female mayor” in over a century. Yet, the sad reality is that
Dear Friends: In case you missed it, last week was a busy week in the news that featured several stories related to our core issues at Kansas Family Voice of New Mexico. Religious Freedom – U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Case of Christian Baker Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments
Imagine 1,400 high school students in one auditorium. Each is a member of a student council from across North Dakota. Ok, you can stop imagining. It happened a few days ago at the Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center in Bismarck. The three-day conference, hosted by the North Dakota Association of Student Councils, focused on leadership
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