Articles by Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins heads the Family Research Council. This article is excerpted from the Washington Update that he compiles for the FRC.
Perspectives

States of Denial

An AP story about the growing number of states walking away from federal abstinence funding is being hailed by some as a death knell for the abstinence movement.

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NEA Dues & Don’ts

The 2008 National Education Association (NEA) conference is expected to focus more on the nation’s political season than on the well-being of American students.

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Promiscuity Leads the Pact

Rumors of a high school pregnancy pact are stealing headlines in America’s largest newspapers and prompting more parents to question what public education is teaching their children about sex.

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Homeschooling Gestapo Strikes Again

German courts have repeatedly upheld homeschooling as a form of “child abuse,” a conclusion echoing that of a California court last February.

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Philadelphia Freedom

Eight days shy of the eviction deadline imposed by the city of Philadelphia, the Cradle of Liberty Boy Scout Council is striking back.

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Unholy Toledo

As an incident in Toledo, Ohio unfolds, it seems that civil rights may not be as secure as most Americans think.

College Prep

Happy Shirts

To protest his school’s “Day of Silence” in 2007, Alexander Neuxoll countered the pro-homosexual celebration with a T-shirt that read, “Be Happy, Not Gay.”

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Silent-No-More Minority

Far from the 8-10 percent figures that some cite, the number of homosexuals in America is only 2.9 percent of the 18 and older population, according to researchers from Hunter College.

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Separate Sports & State

A three-judge panel sided with a New Jersey school board which argued that a football coach cannot kneel and bow his head during student-led prayers.

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Divorce Deconstructed

If you’re wondering where this year’s tax dollars are going, a new study from Georgia State University suggests that at least $112 billion of them are covering the costs of American divorce and out-of-wedlock births.