Religious Freedom

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BREAKING: State Can’t Discriminate Against Religious Schools!

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Finally, some good news from the Supreme Court this morning!  After horrible decisions over the past week (the definition of sex in federal non-discrimination law now includes sexual orientation and transgenderism and Louisiana was prevented from imposing even basic restrictions on abortion clinics) we received a huge win for religious liberty in the funding of […]

Reopening of the Church Webinar Follow Up

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Yesterday we held a webinar to help pastors and church leaders understand more about the process of reopening the church here in the Commonwealth.  We had over 170 pastors log on to this live event and would like to make the same information available to you.  We encourage you to share this with your network […]

BREAKING: MA Releases Guidelines for Church Reopening

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Churches in MA are now permitted to begin reopening at up to 40 percent of their building’s capacity.  In guidance released late last night, phase one of the state’s reopening plan removes the previous cap of ten people and now states that “places of worship shall limit occupancy to 40 percent of the building’s maximum […]

Persistent Threats to Parents and Church Reopening Update

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Yesterday, I had the privilege of joining several distinguished speakers at the webinar entitled, “Who Owns Our Children? Home Education in an Authoritarian Age.” This event was organized by Thomas More College in response to an anti-homeschooling summit scheduled to take place at Harvard Law School in June. Fortunately, the Harvard summit was canceled, but […]

Harvard Attacks Homeschoolers & Reopening the Churches

by mafamily

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” It has always been the belief of MFI that God gives parents a biblical charge to direct the education and upbringing of their children, and we […]

Defending Faith Family and Freedom During COVID-19

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Support Religious Schools At MFI, we strive to support the ability of all parents to educate their children as they deem best.  That’s why we fight hard against anti-parent state mandates like the Sex Ed bill and encouraged families to make the most out of the current situation of schooling at home.  We also strongly […]

Corona Effect On Churches

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As the Corona virus shut-down drags on, the threats to our religious liberties have increased alarmingly.  On Easter, multiple MA churches were told they could not hold even “drive in” services.  A number of local churches, on the other hand, were able to hold these types of parking lot, stay-in-your-car services with the appropriate social […]

Attend Pro-Family Lobby Day 2020

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Protecting the sanctity of life from conception to natural death has never been more crucial here in Massachusetts. For the past year, we’ve been sounding the alarm about the extreme ROE act now pending on Beacon Hill. This “Infanticide Act” would expand legal abortion through all nine months, make it possible for minors to get […]

Flawed Study Used by Sex Ed Mandate Supporters

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The recent passage of the Sex-Ed Mandate in the MA State Senate has renewed concerns over graphic sex ed curriculum already being taught in classrooms across the state. This legislation, if passed by the House and signed into law by Governor Baker, will mandate Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), a specific type of graphic sex ed […]

Bibles vs. Voodoo Dolls in MA Schools

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One of the most fulfilling parts of my job is assisting parents who contact the MFI office for help.  Often, they call because their son or daughter came home from school and they can’t believe what their child saw or heard that day in Sex Ed class.  We’ve been working with Massachusetts Informed Parents to […]