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Religious Freedom in Lawrence

This past Friday, MFI’s allies at Liberty Counsel won a victory in Massachusetts for religious freedom.  President Anita Staver had sought to hold a lecture on American history from a religious viewpoint in a meeting room of the Lawrence Public

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Jonathan in the lions’ den…

We got the call yesterday afternoon.  WGBH TV wanted us to join a panel discussion on the Planned Parenthood videos… in one hour.  I was meeting with a pastor up on the North Shore, so there was no way I could get

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Oppose the 2015 Sexual Orientation Counseling Ban

Dear Friend of the Family, You need to know about a new bill being discussed at the State House this week.  HB97, sponsored by Representative Kay Khan, would restrict the rights of minors with unwanted same-sex attractions to seek out their treatment

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What Planned Parenthood doesn’t want you to see…

It was just a few weeks ago that I wrote to you about Planned Parenthood’s disturbing sex ed curriculum and their plan to use it in every school in Massachusetts to “teach children about their bodies.”  This week, we learned that Planned

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First Comes (Gay) Marriage, Then… (Our) Children

MFI continues to analyze last week’s Supreme Court decision to radically redefine the notion of marriage and the many implications that flow from it.  On Friday, I wrote to you mainly about the increasing threat to religious liberty.  Today, I

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What does the marriage decision mean for us?

As the leading organization that has worked for over twenty years to strengthen families in the Commonwealth, we at Massachusetts Family Institute find today’s decision by the Supreme Court profoundly disappointing. There is overwhelming evidence that children do best and

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