A shout-out to those Wisconsin students and schools participating in the Day of Truth today! We’re praying that the Lord blesses your efforts as you speak the Truth in love to your classmates.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Milwaukee Planned Parenthood goes for the kill
If you haven’t seen it already, you need to watch this almost 5-minute video from Live Action Films. Live Action went undercover at the Milwaukee Planned Parenthood clinic and caught a Planned Parenthood employee telling a young girl she believed to be 6-8 weeks pregnant that her unborn baby was not a baby, just a fetus, with “no arms, no legs, no heart no head, no brain.” The employee tries to sell the girl an abortion, extrapolating on the cost and trouble of raising a baby and denying the preborn baby’s humanity. You have to see it for yourself.
When will our elected officials start paying attention to Planned Parenthood’s greedy, deceptive, illegal attack on the vulnerable and the unborn and defund the abortion giant?
Mourning the loss of a Pro-Family President
This week the Polish people and the entire world mourn the loss of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 others. Many have eulogized President Kacznski for his leadership of Poland. However, today I received a most interesting press release about this European national leader, highlighting an aspect of President Kaczynski’s leadership that is most definitely not being talked about in the mainstream media.
Wisconsin Family Action’s friends at The Howard Center and its World Congress of Families provide international leadership in the pro-family movement. Their biennial World Congress of Families features leaders from around the world who support and champion the natural family–married moms and dads and their biological or adopted children. In 2007, Congress IV was held in Warsaw, Poland, and President Kaczynski was a patron of the event because he was a champion of the natural family.
Larry Jacobs, Managing Director of World Congress of Families, says,
“‘President Kaczynski was one of the strongest pro-family leaders in Europe….Despite intense pressure from the European Union, he stood firm for the right to life. The late president also opposed the legalization of prostitution and the normalization of homosexuality.’”
During the Congress at Warsaw, when International Secretary Allan Carlson recognized President Kaczynski, the President responded by saying,
“I accept with satisfaction the kind words…about Poland as the bastion of strong faith and strong families in the increasingly laicizing Europe whose inhabitants are getting older.”
There’s no doubt in my mind that it is this strong pro-natural family leadership that resulted in the following observation in an Associated Press article today regarding the official national mourning for the Polish president:
“Polish television broadcast live images of mourners walking by the coffins. Many were families with children, parents and grandparents. Each coffin was flanked by a pair of soldiers, standing crisp and stonelike.” (Emphasis added.)
I can’t help but wonder if any of our current elected officials or candidates for office this fall are recognized in their own community, state or nation as being pro-family—outspokenly so, unashamedly so. President Kaczynski was beloved of his people. He understood that the country of Poland is only as strong as its natural families and worked to strengthen and protect them. What is true of Poland, is true for Wisconsin and the United States.
Changing Wisconsin—One Community at a Time
Wisconsin Family Council’s radio commentary, “Wisconsin Family Connection,” for the week of April 12, 2010:
It’s about this community organizing thing. Yes, I know Barack Obama and his “community organizing” background and ACORN with its nefarious operations now make everyone run for cover when anyone dares to even breathe those words. And that’s not good, because getting people informed, inspired and involved in their communities is American. It’s how we have made deep and long-lasting changes in America for most of our history. Real change always comes from the bottom up, one marriage, one family, one church, one community, one state at a time.
After Elections and Beyond Tea Parties
Spring Election is over and the big Madison Taxpayer Tea Party is just around the corner on Tax Day, Thursday, April 15. Did the Tea Parties make any difference in Tuesday’s election? Will the Tea Party next week, and other such events, make any difference in this fall’s elections? Looking back, it’s hard to know if they made a difference this past Tuesday, but we can ensure they make a difference in November. However, that difference will not happen unless Tea Party energy is converted into community action.
Wisconsin Family Action and its Changing Wisconsin – One Community At A Time seminars is a sure way to convert rally energy into community difference-making. Without people owning their own community and making a difference from the ground up, the Tea Party energy will surely dissipate. WFA’s Changing Wisconsin seminars are designed to give citizens the knowledge, the tools, and the leadership to ensure that they can indeed make a difference in this fall’s elections and beyond.
Not only are we offering this seminar, but we’re also offering an online forum (you’ll need to create a log-in for this interactive site) for grassroots to be involved with helpful hints and valuable resources and other ways you can get involved with people across the state.
Even if you’ve never been to a Tea Party, or if you’ve been to every one in the state, you can make a difference not only this fall, but for decades to come. Learn how you can become a part of changing Wisconsin one community at a time by contacting us at 866-849-2536 or info@wifamilyaction.org.
Vote Today! WFA PAC Endorsements
Today is Wisconsin’s Spring Non-Partisan Election. Polls are open today from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. across the state. To find your polling place or view a sample ballot (if available), click here to visit Wisconsin’s Voter Public Access.
Wisconsin Family Action PAC has endorsed three judicial candidates in today’s election (click here to view statements):
- Judge Ed Leineweber, District IV Court of Appeals candidate
- Judge Paul Reilly, District II Court of Appeals candidate
- Mark Gundrum, Waukesha County Circuit Court, Branch II
Wisconsin Family Action (WFA) PAC is a pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-life political action committee that is dedicated to strengthening and preserving marriage, family, life and liberty in Wisconsin.
- We believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman
- We believe that the traditional family unit is the best place for children as well as the foundational institution of society and should be promoted and protected.
- We believe that human life is sacred and that the right to life exists from conception to natural death.
- We believe in the constitutional freedom of religion and the free exercise of religion.
- We draw our values, beliefs and convictions from a biblical worldview based on Christian principles found in God’s Word.
In order to be considered for an endorsement, WFA PAC requires a candidate to complete a questionnaire and meet with PAC members for an interview. Using information gleaned from the questionnaire and interview (both of which are confidential), and our own in-depth research, the PAC members make a judicial endorsement based on the following criteria:
- Judicial Philosophy
- Judicial track record (if available)
- Political philosophy
- View on marriage and life
- Judicial temperament
- Personal life
For more information, visit our election website, www.yourwisconsinvote.org.
When a Bad Bill Becomes a Bad Law
This week’s radio commentary:
What happens when you cross liberal legislative leadership and a liberal executive office? Bad law. That’s what happens. Bad law that affects us all. We’ve been dealing with this bad combo and bad outcome here in Wisconsin now for nearly two years.
Honestly, the liberal legislative leadership and liberal governor have done a lot of damage in this latest legislative session; damage to an extent we’re only beginning to discover as bad bills become bad law. AB 458, the so-called “Healthy Youth Act,” or the “unhealthy youth act,” as we called it, is a perfect example.
State bill would drastically change elections
The State Legislature is fast-tracking a 72-page bill, (SB 640) that would, among other things, propose to create a statewide electronic database of voters to correspond with a national database.
1) The bill allows municipalities to set up satellite absentee ballot stations for early voting. These stations apparently could be done in college dorms, outside of bars, or other inappropriate locals.
2) The current open government practice of allowing any citizen to challenge individual ballots would end as monitoring of elections of statewide or national significance would be restricted to people who live within that polling district.
3) Permanent absentee ballot status would be established in which ballots would be sent to people who historically do not vote in low-turnout elections. Currently, permanent absentee ballot status is restricted to people who are confined because of age, physical illness, infirmity, or disabled infinitely making them unable to get to the polls.
4) University IDs could be offered as proof of residence for registration and voting.
5) The increased cost of processing and mailing out the additional absentee ballots is an unfunded mandate that local municipalities will not be able to absorb.
6) Local municipalities will be forced to hire speakers of a foreign language if at least 5% of the adults in their district are not English proficient.
7) The bill proposes to set up a statewide database of voters that the authors said they would hope to link up to a national database.
A Joint Committee on Elections held a public hearing for most of the day yesterday and the Senate Committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs is already taking executive action on the bill today: http://committeeschedule.legis.wisconsin.gov/files/HearingNotices/10-04-01-0945-2009SLAB-13789.html.
What You Can Do:
Contact the committee members and voice your opinion on this bill.
| Senator Spencer Coggs (Chair) |
| Senator Robert Wirch |
| Senator John Lehman |
| Senator Alan Lasee |
| Senator Glenn Grothman |
