Posts Tagged Family Research Council
Politically connected S.C. Family Research Council affiliate wishing, watching for policy changes
When South Carolina’s legislative session resumes in January (just before the state hosts the “First in the South” Republican presidential debate), one of the state’s influential conservative policy organizations, the Palmetto Family Council (PFC), has a spate of policy and legislative items it hopes the Legislature will either approve More…
Occupiers draw the wrath of Family Research Council
Everybody has an opinion about Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Denver and the Occupy movement as a whole. And while well over half of all Americans approve of the multi-city protest, it certainly has it detractors as well.
Campaign to repeal Calif. LGBT-history law fails, battle not over
Stop SB 48, one of the leading committees trying to repeal a new California law that, starting next year, will require schools to teach historical contributions made by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered individuals and people with disabilities, has failed to repeal the law through a ballot referendum.
Paul takes VV straw; Bachmann, Rubio suggested as VP candidates
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was declared the winner of this year’s Values Voter Summit straw poll, taking 37 percent of the vote.
Glenn Beck says college should only be an option for those who can afford it
Glenn Beck, ardent supporter of the tea party movement, spent the majority of his speech at the Values Voter Summit Saturday attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Fischer condemns gays, Muslims; Romney condemns Fischer
As expected the American Family Association’s president, Bryan Fischer, delivered a Values Voter Summit speech rife with rhetoric some have called “unmitigated bigotry” and what presidential hopeful Mitt Romney indirectly called-out as “poisonous.”
“We should remember that decency and civility are values too,” Romney said at the end of More…
‘Morning in America’ host to Jeffress: ‘You did Rick Perry no good, sir’
Bill Bennett, radio host of “Morning in America,” censured Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress during his comments at Saturday’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., criticizing the pastor for statements he made against presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religion.
On Friday, Jeffress told TAI: “When the smoke clears it is going More…
At Values Voter Summit, controversial Texas pastor endorses Perry
UPDATED Oct. 8, with reaction from Planned Parenthood
Controversial Texas pastor Robert Jeffress introduced presidential candidate Rick Perry to the stage at this year’s Values Voter Summit, telling a jam-packed ballroom that the Texas governor deserves the presidency because he has a “strong commitment to biblical values.”
High-ranking GOPers promise continued anti-abortion push in 2012
House Speaker John Boehner told a crowd of thousands at the sixth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C., that giving birth to 12 boys and girls probably was not convenient for his mother. But she did it, one at a time.
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