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WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land has joined two dozen other Christian and conservative leaders in urging Congress to pass legislation requiring a public vote before the District of Columbia issues marriage licenses to homosexual couples. The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and the others called on senators and representatives quickly to approve the

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, a leading pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, urges Members of Congress and other Americans who support the U.S. military to defend current law which holds that homosexuals are ineligible to serve in the U.S. armed forces.  During his first official State of the Union Address to the nation last night, President Obama

Debates about same-sex marriage and gay adoptions always include the argument that a child has the right to both a father and a mother. If that is true, why is a child usually deprived of that right when heterosexual couples divorce? It would seem that maintaining a father’s love and authority would be crucial when a child’s life is turned upside down by divorce. Yet, family courts routinely

In the last months of 2009, the advocates of traditional marriage have enjoyed some important victories in controversies where they were predicted to lose, or at least to end up in a very close race. The New York State Senate defeated same-sex marriage by a large margin after predictions that the vote would be very close. New Jersey scored another significant victory for traditional marriage.

Eagle Forum Executive Director Colleen Holmes will be a guest on a family values panel during the first annual Conservative Leadership Conference, at the Union League Club in New York City on Jan. 21-22. The conference will feature such notable leaders as Rich Lowry, Editor of the National Review; Kate O'Beirne, President of National Review Institute; Herb London, President of the Hudson

While the gay lobby gets most of the blame for the assault on marriage, the modern feminist movement has always been aggressively anti-marriage. When the movement marched onto the stage of the culture war in the early 1970s, they called themselves the women's liberation movement. Their buzz word was liberation, which specifically meant liberation from home, husband, family and children.The

The institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has been fundamental to America ever since the founding of our nation. When the famous French commentator Alexis de Toqueville traveled the United States in the early-19th century, he recognized the fact that respect for marriage is very American. He wrote: "There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is

If our government cannot define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, then it follows that we cannot have laws against same-sex marriage, and also that there can be no law against polygamy, a practice that is totally demeaning to women. The very first Platform adopted by the Republican Party, in 1856, condemned slavery and polygamy as the "twin relics of barbarism." The Republican

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, a leading conservative public policy advocacy organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, commends the 131 Republican Members of Congress who today opposed final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (FY 2010, H.R. 2647) Conference Report because of the liberal Majority's refusal to remove the highly controversial Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (H.R. 1913) language from the bill. Thirteen Democrats joined in opposing final passage.Read more

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today received the endorsement of Eagle Forum Founder Phyllis Schlafly for re-election in 2010.“More than just about any elected leader in our nation, Gov. Perry has fought and delivered on his promises to defend pro-life and pro-family values within the state of Texas,” said Phyllis Schlafly. “In a time where conservative ideals are increasingly under attack, Gov. Perry hasn’t backed away from working to implement policies that defend families, religious freedoms and life. I am proud to offer him my support in his re-election effort.”Read more