Hot Issues
No Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Following President Obama's State of the Union promise, the Senate Armed Services Committee is considering acting to repeal the 1993 Eligibility Law, which states that homosexuals are not eligible for military service (more commonly known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell). Instead, it would be replaced by the radical "LGBT Law", which would forbid discrimination based on, "homosexuality or bisexuality, whether the orientation is real or perceived."
Studies of military culture and effectiveness demonstrate that repealing the law will result in loss of personnel and retention problems, damage to unit cohesion and readiness, the destruction of military culture--in short, it will cripple our All-Volunteer force. And at a time when we are at war, no less.
Military culture is not like civilian culture. This is why numerous legal challenges to the rule have failed. As a country, we place great trust in the men and women in our Armed Services at the same time that we demand considerable sacrifices. This is not an appropriate place for social engineering and political game-playing. There is no civil right to serve in the military, and the endless crusade in certain circles to repeal this prohibition on gays in the military seems concerned with everything but how such an action would be regarded by those who actually serve or what effect it would have on our national security.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will begin hearings on the issue on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Please contact your Senators (and the members of the Senate Committee) immediately to let them know that we must not repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Click Here to Ask Your Representatives in Congress to Oppose the Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Stop the Johnsen Nomination
Dawn Johnsen, President Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, is once again up for a confirmation vote before the Senate. Though opposition from Republican Senators (as well as a few moderate Democrats) had defeated Johnsen's earlier nomination, the President has re-nominated her and is urging Democrats to vote for her confirmation.
Johnsen, a former attorney for NARAL (one of the country's most radical pro-abortion groups), is on record for demonstrating a strong pro-abortion bias. She has compared pregnancy with slavery, called women, "fetal containers," and labelled pregnant women, "losers in the contraceptive lottery," Her hostility extends to those whole disagree with her, and she has compared pro-lifers to the Ku Klux Klan.
Someone with such a clear and pervasive pro-abortion bias has no place in a position that would have her writing legal opinions and providing counsel on some of the nation's thorniest legal issues. Please stand up for life and principle and contact your Senator today to tell him to oppose the Johnsen nomination!
Click Here to Ask Your Senator to Oppose the Johnsen Nomination!
Health Reform Must Protect Life
If there is a principle that defines us as a nation, it may very well come down to our willingness to defend society's most vulnerable . . . especially the unborn.
Speaker Pelosi has indicated that she intends to push the House to pass a version of the health reform bill that closely mirrors the Senate bill--including an abandonment of the restrictions on public funding of abortion that were a fundamental part of the House bill. The American people are strongly opposed to public funding of abortion. This is an issue that goes beyond party lines and speaks deeply to the values and principles that our nation was founded on.
We simply cannot allow health reform that promotes and provides abortion--especially at taxpayer expense. We must contact our representatives to demand that they support the inclusion of pro-life language (similar to the Stupak amendment) in any health reform proposal before the House.
Speaker Pelosi has indicated that she intends to push the House to pass a version of the health reform bill that closely mirrors the Senate bill--including an abandonment of the restrictions on public funding of abortion that were a fundamental part of the House bill. The American people are strongly opposed to public funding of abortion. This is an issue that goes beyond party lines and speaks deeply to the values and principles that our nation was founded on.
We simply cannot allow health reform that promotes and provides abortion--especially at taxpayer expense. We must contact our representatives to demand that they support the inclusion of pro-life language (similar to the Stupak amendment) in any health reform proposal before the House.
Click here to contact your Representative and ask him to support pro-life in the health reform bill!
Expel Jennings
As parents, we are faced with the knowledge that we must be able to trust the government and the schools to take the side of parents in protecting the innocence of our kids.
Unfortunately, President Obama has violated that trust by appointing Kevin Jennings, a man who has no respect for childhood innocence, to a key position in the United States Department of Education.
Kevin Jennings aggressively advocates using our schools to teach children—including young children—about homosexuality and homosexual practices. He is the author of a Foreword to a book called Queering Elementary Education, and as the former Director of GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educational Network), he supports a radical agenda that includes bringing sexual liberationist teachings into public schools.
Mr. Jennings has been appointed by the President as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Department of Education’s Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools. His supporters claim that he will only establish programs to combat bullying. If that were true, it would be a worthy cause. Bullying for any reason is is wrong, and schools should never tolerate it. But time and again, Mr. Jennings has used the cover of "bullying prevention" to enforce his radical positions on sex education. The idea that we need the “queering” of elementary education in order to teach children that bullying is wrong is as absurd as it is offensive.
Mr. Jennings' views are a matter of public record. It is nearly unfathomable that a president—any president—would appoint him to serve in the Department of Education. If you share our concern about protecting the innocence of children and the rights of parents and families, please join us in sending President Obama an unambiguous message: Kevin Jennings and his agenda have no place in our schools.
Click Here to Let Your Representatives Know That Jennings Must Go!
Transparency on the Release of the Lockerbie Bomber
US officials continue to block the release of transcripts detailing the communications between Scotland, the United Kingdom and the United States leading up to the release of the "Lockerbie bomber" Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. In response, the American Principles Project (APP) is leading the effort to demand full transparency in the affair.
We are calling for answers to basic questions such as: "What was the U.S. administration told about the planned release? What efforts, if any, did President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and other U.S. officials make to prevent this outrageous injustice?"
If President Obama and other administration officials made a strenuous effort to prevent the release of a mass murderer of Americans, transparency will reward them. We will be first in line in praising them and thanking them for their efforts. If the President and other officials did not make a strenuous effort, we the people have a right to know.
Click Here to encourage your representatives to demand transparency on the release of the Lockerbie Bomber!
Say "No" to Obamacare
The Obama administration and its supporters in Congress have crafted an ambitious health care reform bill in HR 3200 and the Senate's Affordable Health Choices Act. Unfortunately, the legislation as it currently stands threatens the life, health, and economic security of our country. Experts across the political spectrum agree that sustainable, adequate funding for the proposed initiatives does not yet exist, leaving us with a health care plan that will inevitably result in shortfalls, long waits for a doctor, and (eventually) rationed care. Combined with the broad, yet vague powers given to the Department of Health and Human Services to set standards of "health care quality" and "comparative effectiveness of treatment," the plan places us on the road to assisted suicide and involuntary euthanasia. In addition to threatening end-of-life care, the health care bills also target the defenseless unborn, as they provide for broad and unlimited public funding for abortion and may even force the creation of new abortion clinics.
Throughout the proposed legislation, power is given to Washington to control and direct significant elements of medical care--essentially creating a one-size-fits-all health care system that will allow a massive government bureaucracy to intrude on our health care decisions.
But this legislation reaches far beyond our own exam rooms and ERs and into our children's schools as well. The school-based health clinics outlined in the bill allow the administration to create massive funding for Planned Parenthood, allowing them access to our children to provide both abortion counselling and sex education services. The proposed legislation not only undermines our rights as patients, but as parents as well.
It is true that there is much that can be improved about our health care system. But we cannot reform it at the cost of our country's most fundamental principles.
For more on the need to stop Obama's health plan, read our latest articles here.
Throughout the proposed legislation, power is given to Washington to control and direct significant elements of medical care--essentially creating a one-size-fits-all health care system that will allow a massive government bureaucracy to intrude on our health care decisions.
But this legislation reaches far beyond our own exam rooms and ERs and into our children's schools as well. The school-based health clinics outlined in the bill allow the administration to create massive funding for Planned Parenthood, allowing them access to our children to provide both abortion counselling and sex education services. The proposed legislation not only undermines our rights as patients, but as parents as well.
It is true that there is much that can be improved about our health care system. But we cannot reform it at the cost of our country's most fundamental principles.
For more on the need to stop Obama's health plan, read our latest articles here.