I’ve been fielding phone calls and emails over the past year from teachers and parents who are struggling to navigate the new speech codes being implemented at schools around the Commonwealth. Almost as soon as the first gender identity laws were passed in MA, our state board of education gained national attention for an 11-page […]
Dear Friend of the Family, After a sweltering end to the summer, it finally seems like fall is here. For many of us, that means back to school. One of the new challenges several parents have shared with me is their children being required to use the “preferred pronouns” of classmates in the throws of […]
This week, we learned that Christian baker Jack Philips is once again being sued by the Colorado Human Rights Commission. This time, it’s for declining to create an expressive blue-and-pink cake celebrating a lawyer’s transition from male to female. The lawyer contacted Jack’s shop to request that cake on the day the U.S. Supreme Court announced […]
Massachusetts Family Institute | News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Andrew Beckwith | andrew@mafamily.org | 781.569.0400 Monday, June 4, 2018 BOSTON – Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an historic ruling, striking down the State of Colorado’s decision against Jack Phillips. Though Jack served all customers, the State of Colorado punished Jack for declining to participate in a […]
Fourteen years ago yesterday, the first same-sex “marriage” was officiated here in Massachusetts, as a result of the Commonwealth’s highest court unilaterally imposing the redefinition of marriage in the Goodridge decision. Less than a decade later, 30 states had passed constitutional amendments defining marriage as exclusively the union of one man and one woman. This […]
We need your help to protect business owners from being targeted for their faith in Massachusetts. Two weeks ago, I told you about a new bill at the State House that would seriously attack religious freedom, putting the livelihoods of some Massachusetts business owners on the line. H.767 would prevent corporations from claiming certain religious […]
I trust you are making the best of this latest snow day and, if you’re reading this, that hopefully your power is back on. Our state legislature is not in session today because of the storm, but let me fill you in on a new bill that some of our representatives are pushing. House Bill […]
This story hit the news late last week, and Matt McDonald over at the New Boston Post has a good piece on it: “A Christian fellowship was put on probation last week for forcing a junior who served as an assistant Bible course officer to resign because she embraced homosexuality, according to The Harvard Crimson. The student […]
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 […]