By Eric Teetsel, President of Kansas Family Voice of Kansas Months before the 2018 legislative session, a coalition of groups came together and agreed on the need to pass legislation to protect faith-based adoption agencies in Kansas. Followers of Christ believe that God has adopted us as sons and daughters. “See what kind of love
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
by Stuart Shepard You won’t find this word in our nation’s founding document. You can search every Article, every Section. It’s a word that, given the historical context and how common it was in the late 1700s, you would expect to be in there. But it’s not. I was sitting in a packed classroom with
Last week, 30 up-and-coming policy leaders from around the nation converged on Colorado Springs for the second annual Statesmen Academy, sponsored by Family Policy Foundation. Most of this year’s Statesmen are new state legislators — serving their first or second term in office — while a few are planning to run in the near future.
Today I am writing to you from Colorado Springs where I am attending the annual Kansas Family Voice FPC conference – gathering of our allies from all across the nation. I am so excited to be here, reconnecting and exchanging ideas with my colleagues. As you may know, Kansas Family Voice serves as a uniter
The Minnesota Department of Education has just approved a transgender “toolkit” that will be distributed to all public and charter schools in the state. The toolkit, which was authored by a number of transgender and gay-rights activists, directs schools to stop referring to students with gender-specific pronouns like he, she, him or her. A decision
You may not know me, but I spent the 2017 legislative session as the newest legislator in Georgia. Elected in a special election, I am proud to represent District 54- which covers the Northwest corner of the state. Having never served in elected office, my great hope is that my intentions, convictions, and desires- to
Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana spoke on the House floor May 4th on the need to reform the Johnson Amendment, which limits the ability of faith-based non-profits and churches to engage in free speech and exercise religious freedom. Banks is a 2016 graduate of Family Policy Foundation’s Statesmen Academy. The program provides rigorous training by
Last July, Jim Banks attended Family Policy Foundation’s first Statesmen Academy as a state senator from Indiana. And a few weeks ago, as a freshman congressman, he took the speaker’s chair to preside over the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Banks is one of several Statesmen attendees who are already stepping up to defend the
U.S. Representative Jim Banks of Indiana spoke on the floor of the House recently congratulating fellow members on the passage of the “No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion” act. He also encouraged Congress to continue to press for more laws that protect preborn babies and their mothers. Banks was a 2016 graduate of the Statesmen Academy.
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