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.
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Total Recall

Arguably the most devastating anti-family bill ever passed in California, SB 777 requires all curricula–even that of private schools–to treat homosexuality and heterosexuality “equally.”

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Abstinence Education Vetoed

November 13~

Creating a virtual monopoly for Planned Parenthood, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) confirmed yesterday that he is eliminating state matching funds for abstinence education.

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Training Derailed in Delaware

One week after an education watchdog group blew the whistle on a controversial “diversity training” program at the University of Delaware, school officials have announced that the program has been halted.

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University of Delaware Reeducation

With precision that would make the KGB jealous, the University of Delaware has been engaged in re-educating students through a campus diversity program that takes indoctrination to a whole new level.

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Reading, Writing and Birth Control?

At Portland, Maine’s King Middle School, a trip to the school clinic could mean more than just an aspirin or a bandage. School officials are discussing the idea of offering contraception to middle school children as young as 11 years old.

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Promoting Marriage at Harvard?

Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush’s chief domestic policy advisor, gave a speech at Harvard
University
on Friday that spoke to the futility of trying to solve the economic gap without first addressing America’s family crisis.

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Mahmoud at Morningside Heights

Monday’s Columbia University reception for Iran’s dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not “the great thing about America.”

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Savannah State Censorship

At Savannah State University, a student group called Commissioned II Love was expelled last year as an official organization for “practices that are not unlike [that] of a cult.”

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First Amendment Flush

In a bizarre case at Pace University, former student Stanislav Shmulevich has been accused of taking two copies of the Koran from a “meditation room” and throwing them in toilets.

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Academic Freedom for Gideons

Officials in Key Largo, Florida were apparently living by the old adage of “going the extra mile”(Matthew 5:41). In January, two Gideons were arrested for distributing Bibles on a public sidewalk outside a local elementary school.

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Reading, Writing, and Ramadan

While some American schools are rushing to ban “Christmas” parties and Bible clubs, others are going out of their way to promote prayer in schools.