Newly filed legislation on Beacon Hill would add a third sex designation on state-issued identification, such as drivers’ licenses. If Senator Karen Spilka of Ashland is successful in passing her bill, “X” will become a third option for sex, alongside “M” and “F”. Spilka claims, “It is the person’s identity, the person who has that […]
Thank you to all who joined us for our 26th Annual Fundraising Banquet this month. As always, it was a time of encouragement and refreshment with so many pro-family advocates from around the Commonwealth. Hugh Hewitt gave a powerful message, encouraging guests to stand for family values and to support organizations like MFI that act […]
Last week I attended a contentious meeting of the Westford School Committee. They were considering adopting a new transgender student policy. The content of that policy was, sadly, not surprising. It contained the usual mandate for biological boys to be given access to the girls’ locker room and play on girls-only varsity teams. It also […]
A year ago the Bathroom-Locker Room Law went into effect and many of the results we predicted have begun. On Christmas Eve of 2016, less than three months after it went into effect, a man entered a women’s room in a TJ Maxx store, and remained there for over a half an hour taking pictures […]
I’m down in D.C. at Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit today and tomorrow. President Trump will be speaking this morning and FRC has asked me to speak on a panel discussing pro-family work at the state level tomorrow afternoon. You can watch the livestream of most of the speakers here. As you can imagine, […]
Great news for religious liberty today! The Department of Justice released a 25-page memo for all executive departments and agencies outlining federal protections for religious liberty. In it, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the following powerful statement: “The free exercise of religion ‘is in its nature an unalienable right’ because the duty owed to one’s […]
When my younger son was in first grade, he came home and announced, very matter-of-factly, that “you can’t talk about God in school.” As you can imagine, he didn’t get that idea from me, and I quickly corrected him! Disturbingly, many teachers and school administrators don’t know what the law allows students to do or […]
This week’s legislative hearing on physician-assisted suicide was one of the strongest pro-life showings I’ve seen on Beacon Hill. Working with a broad coalition of both local and national activists on this issue, MFI helped ensure that opposition to assisted suicide had a large presence at the hearing. Nearly a dozen doctors testified against the […]
On Tuesday, I’ll be at the State House testifying against the imposition of Doctor Prescribed Suicide in Massachusetts. Two years ago, when this same noxious bill was being considered on Beacon Hill, I was introduced to the story of fellow Marine J.J. Hanson. He was diagnosed with the same aggressive form of brain cancer that […]
This past summer, MFI’s Michael King had the privilege of speaking at Camp Constitution, a local MA ministry working to enhance the understanding of our Judeo-Christian moral heritage. Last week, we learned that the City of Boston had denied an application by the camp to fly the Christian Flag on the City Hall Plaza flag […]