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ProLifeCon 2012 is here!

Jared Bridges — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:19 +0000

It’s March for Life day here in the nation’s capital, and FRC’s ProLifeCon is at hand. You can watch it all below:

Follow the conversation live on Twitter: #ProLifeCon.

Here’s the schedule:

8:30 – 8:35 a.m.: Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
8:35 – 8:40 a.m.: Jill Stanek, JillStanek.com
8:40 – 9:05 a.m.: Michael Clancy, Photographer, “Hand of Hope” photo
Julie and Samuel Armas, Subjects of the photo
9:05 – 9:20 a.m.: Gerard Nadal, Blogger, Coming Home
9:20 – 9:35 a.m.: Lila Rose, President, LiveAction
9:35 – 9:50 a.m.: Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer, The Radiance Foundation
9:50 – 10:00 a.m.: Intermission: ‘I’m Pro-Life Because’ photo montage
10:00 – 10:20 a.m.: Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.)
10:20 – 10:40 a.m.: Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.)
10:40 – 10:55 a.m.: Collin Raye, Spokesman, Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network
10:55 – 11:10 a.m.: Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director, Students for Life of America
11:10 – 11:25 a.m.: Jeanne Monahan, Director, Center for Human Dignity, Family Research Council, Karen Snuffer, Executive Director, CareNet Pregnancy Resource Centers: Manassas, Woodbridge, and Warrenton
11:25 – 11:30 a.m.: Tom McClusky, Senior Vice President, FRC Action

Special thanks to our cosponsoring bloggers:

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Does U.S. Foreign Policy Matter for Religious Freedom?

Jared Bridges — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:56 +0000

Yesterday here at FRC headquarters, a sobering panel of religious freedom & foreign policy experts looked at the past, current, and potential impact of U.S. foreign policy upon religious freedom around the world.

Watch the panel below, or visit the event page for audio and embed code.

Participants included:

Elyse Anderson, Foreign Policy Director for Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.)
Ann Buwalda, Executive Director, Jubilee Campaign
Dr. Thomas Farr, first Director of the State Department’s office of international religious freedom and Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Emmanuel Ogebe, Nigerian attorney and human rights leader
Tina Ramirez, Director of International and Government Relations, The Becket Fund

Planned Parenthood talks child prostitution with LiveAction

Jared Bridges — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:23:42 +0000

In an explosive new, not-quite-Oprah-style interview with LiveAction‘s undercover investigators, a Planned Parenthood clinic worker reveals her clinic’s wide range of services:

Watch ProLifeCon Live This Morning

Jared Bridges — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:57:24 +0000

We’ve got a great lineup of speakers this morning for ProLifeCon, FRC’s Pro-Life Conference designed to educate bloggers and social media users on the cutting edge of the pro-life movement and to equip them to take action. You can watch the live stream from 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. EST, and follow the Twitter stream using the hashtag #ProLifeCon. An archived webcast will be made available a few hours after the event concludes. Schedule is below:

8:30 – 8:35 a.m. emcee Jill Stanek: Welcome & Introduction
8:35 – 8:50 a.m. Abby Johnson (Author, Unplanned)
8:50 – 9:05 a.m. Lila Rose (Live Action)
9:05 – 9:25 a.m. Panel: Taking the Pro-Life Message to Urban Audiences Online: Dean Nelson (Care Net) & Ryan Scott Bomberger (The Radiance Foundation)
9:25 – 9:35 a.m. Michael J. New, Ph.D.
9:35 – 9:50 a.m. Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.)
9:50 – 10:05 a.m. Special Announcements
10:05 – 10:15 a.m. Tony Perkins (Family Research Council)
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Terrence McKeegan (C-FAM)
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life)
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Jeanne Monahan (Family Research Council)
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. David Bereit (40 Days for Life)
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

If you want to embed the live feed into your own blog, use the code found here.

Show ProLifeCon on your blog

Jared Bridges — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:06:22 +0000

If you’d like to display Monday morning’s live feed (8:30 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. EST) of ProLifeCon on your blog or website, paste the embed code below into your site. (We’ll start the webcast about 10 minutes before the event, so before then you won’t get much):

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Upsetting the Apple Cart

Jared Bridges — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:07:39 +0000

In a Breakpoint commentary, Chuck Colson’s comments on the recent attacks upon FRC by the SPLC, along with Apple’s pulling of the Manhattan Declaration app from the iTunes store:

Some in the gay community aren’t angry at the signers of the Manhattan Declaration because we hate them—we don’t! I’ve cradled many prisoners dying of AIDS in my arms. They’re angry at us because we disagree with them. But civil, open discourse is what keeps our society free. We can air our disagreements in public. That’s what democracy is all about. And it’s tragic that a leading culture-shaper like Apple would suppress that kind of discussion.

Listen to the full commentary…

Press Conference on DADT

Jared Bridges — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:09:37 +0000

Watch the archive webcast below:

WASHINGTON, D.C. –

WHAT: News Conference of organizational leaders and military experts in support of the current law on homosexuality in the military, commonly referred to as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The speakers will discuss the release of the report by the Pentagon’s Comprehensive Review Working Group (CRWG) on the issue of open homosexuality in the military as well a new survey showing 63 percent of military families oppose overturning the current law. An amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that would turn military medical facilities into abortion clinics will also be discussed.

WHO:

* Tony Perkins, Marine Corps Veteran and President, Family Research Council
* Retired Colonel Dick Black
* Lt. Colonel Bob Maginnis, FRC’s Senior Fellow for National Security
* John Hagan, former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
* Frank Gaffney, President, Center for Security Policy
* Elaine Donnelly, President, Center for Military Readiness
* Rep. John Fleming, M.D. (R-La.), former Lieutenant Commander of the Navy
* Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO, Americans United for Life

Obamacare: Is the Individual Mandate Constitutional?

Jared Bridges — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:21:54 +0000

If you’re interested in a legal presentation on what’s wrong with Obamacare, FRC’s own Ken Klukowski delivered a lecture to The Federalist Society of Syracuse University — which is now online in four parts:

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Is There a War Between Social and Economic Conservatives?

Jared Bridges — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:56:59 +0000

Below is video for panel held today at FRC headquarters with Ross Douthat, Lawrence Reed, and Bob Patterson:

Below is the lowdown, and you can find embed code for the video and an audio download here:

Are social and economic conservatism at odds? According to political journalists Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith, … the battles over morality-based cultural issues such as gay rights, abortion and illegal drugs that did so much to drive the conservative movement and dominated the political conversation for more than 30 years have abated, giving way not just to broad economic anxiety but to a new set of emotionally charged issues. (Politico, August 20, 2010 )

Are they right? To answer that question, Family Research Council is hosting an important symposium on the relationship between economic and social conservatism featuring three of the nation’s leading observers of the political scene.

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, formerly a senior editor at The Atlantic, has written extensively about religion, family, and public life. Douthat is the co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008).

Lawrence Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education and formerly led the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Under his leadership, the Mackinac Center emerged as the largest and one of the most effective and prolific of over 40 state-based free market-oriented think tanks in the country.

Bob Patterson is a adjunct research fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society of Rockford, Ill. and editor of The Family in America, which recently published his important article, “Fiscal Conservatism is Not Enough: What Social Conservatives Offer the Party of Lincoln.”

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Press Conference with Bishop Harry Jackson

Jared Bridges — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:54:35 +0000

Below is video of Bishop Harry Jackson’s press conference hosted yesterday (September 20, 2010) at FRC Headquarters in Washington, D.C.:

Participants:

Bishop Harry Jackson, Chairman, High Impact Leadership Coalition

Pastor Aubrey Shines, Tampa, FL

Pastor Christopher Brooks, Detroit, MI

Bishop Leon Benjamin, Richmond, VA

Reverend Dean Nelson, Washington, DC

Austin Nimocks, Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund

Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council