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WORLD CONGRESS OF FAMILIES LEADERSHIP MEMO…UK and Australia Marriage, Religious Freedom, Margaret Sanger

World Congress of Families Leadership Memo

Australia Postal Vote and Lessons from Gay Marriage in the UK, US Dept of Justice Joins Pro-Family Groups Defending Religious Freedom in Christian baker case, WCF Launches Petition to Remove Margaret Sanger Statue

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The Impacts of Gay ‘Marriage’ in the UK – A Cautionary Note for Australians

Recently, Australians began receiving postal ballots asking if they want to change the definition of marriage to include same-sex partners. Although the vote is non-binding, if a majority approves the move, the Australian Parliament is expected to re-write the nation’s marriage laws.

As a report out of the United Kingdom (“What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage”) discloses, SSM has had profound and far-reaching impact on British culture.

David Sergeant, the Wentworth Report’s author, notes: “Transport for London have prohibited the use of ‘heteronormative’ words, such as ladies and gentlemen. Meanwhile, universities across the nation are threatening to ‘mark down’ students who continue to use the words ‘he’ and ‘she.’ Instead ‘gender neutral pronouns’ such as ‘ze,’ must be uniformly applied.” And the 62,000 volunteers of the National Trust have been ordered to wear LGBT rainbow badges.

Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of the Bow Group think tank, charges: “Same-sex marriage was promoted in the UK, as an issue of supposed tolerance and equality. What we have seen, is the most unequal and intolerant outcomes of any political issue in recent history.” Harris-Quinney spoke at World Congress of Families VI (Madrid 2012).

The motto of Stonewall, the U.K.’s largest LGBT group (in the forefront of the drive for gender-fluidity) is “Acceptance without exception.” British author George Orwell would have known exactly what’s going on here.

The British experience is a cautionary note for Australians contemplating a great leap into the abysss. Read the Wentworth Report.

Read more about the Australian Christian Lobby, a World Congress of Families Partner which is a member of the Coalition for Marriage in Australia that is actively opposing changing the Marriage Law.

US Department of Justice Files Brief in Christian Baker Case Joining ADF, NOM, and WCF Partners to Protect Religious Freedom

Consistent with one of the president’s campaign promises to fight for religious freedom in America, the Trump Justice Department filed a brief in a case before the United States Supreme Court (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission) defending the right of a Christian baker to refuse to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

The U.S. Supreme Court has received at least 45 friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the freedom of a Colorado cake artist to decline to create custom artistic expression that celebrates events in conflict with his faith. The briefs filed in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission include support from the U.S. Department of Justice, 479 creative professionals, 20 states, 86 members of Congress, and a variety of legal experts, civil rights advocates, and religious groups.

Last month, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Jack Phillips and his family business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, filed their opening brief in the case, which the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear after the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a state law could force him to create custom artistic expression contrary to his faith. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Mr. Phillips without charge and is a World Congress of Families Partner.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled that baker Jack Phillips violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to participate in a ceremony that went against his deeply held beliefs. Lower federal courts upheld the decision which is now before SCOTUS.

In his brief, acting Solicitor General Jeffery B. Wall argued: “When Phillips designs and creates a wedding cake for a specific couple and a specific wedding, he plays an active role in enabling that ritual and he associates himself with the celebratory message conveyed … Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights.” The Southern Poverty Law Center is probably considering listing DOJ as a hate group.

The National Organization for Marriage (a World Congress of Families Partner) has also filed brief with the United Stated Supreme Court in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, urging SCOTUS to protect people of faith from governmental discrimination because of their belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.

You can read the NOM brief here.

NOM views the Masterpiece Cakeshop case as one of the most important cases of our lifetimes, and certainly the most important case to come before the Supreme Court since they illegitimately redefined marriage with their anti-constitutional, wrongly-decided ruling in Obergefell v Hodges two years ago. If they issue the proper ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which many court observers believe is a good possibility, then we can put a big dent in attempts by LGBT extremists and the homosexual lobby to persecute and punish people of faith for refusing to participate in the lie of same-sex ‘marriage.’ Brian Brown is the president of both World Congress of Families and NOM.

The goal of same-sex marriage and LGBT anti-discrimination laws is to compel affirmation of the agenda of sexual radicals. Read more about the Department of Justice brief here.

World Congress of Families and Freedoms Journal Institute Launch Petition Demanding Removal of Margaret Sanger Statue from Smithsonian

World Congress of Families and Freedom’s Journal Institute For the Study of Faith and Public Policy have partnered to create a new on-line petition in partnership with African American leaders and pastors from to demand once again the removal of a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from the Smithsonian’s “Struggle for Justice” National Portrait Gallery exhibit.

Margaret Sanger was a “white nationalist” sympathizer who even spoke at a Klu Klux Klan meeting in Silver Lake, New Jersey in 1926. Sanger described the KKK and her experience this way, “Always to me an aroused group was a good group, so I accepted the invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…(snopes.com – Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography).”

Sanger was a seminal figure in the legalization of abortion in the United States and abroad. More than 19 million African American babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. The slaughter continues at the rate of 900 a day, on average.

And that’s precisely what Margaret Sanger, a white supremacist wanted.

Sanger was a proponent of eugenics – the idea that the population of what she considered “inferior races” should be held down, so that “superior races” (whites, especially Northern Europeans) would be dominant.

To that end, the mother of population control spoke at a Ku Klux Klan meeting and also communicated with supporters of Adolf Hitler. Today, 70% of Planned Parenthood clinics (where most abortions are performed in the United States) are located in black and Hispanic areas.

Dr. Eric Wallace, President and Founder of Freedom’s Journal Institute and the Black Conservative Summit decried the impact of Margaret Sanger, “Worse still, Planned Parenthood (and the abortion lobby in general) has targeted the black community “for demise” since the days when its racist founder Margaret Sanger led the organization. Planned Parenthood continues to commit genocide against black babies.”

Please sign the World Congress of Families and Freedoms Journal Institute petition and help us to circulate it.

PETITION LETTER

To: Donald J. Trump, President of the United States

Dear President Trump,

We demand the immediate removal of the statue of KKK Speaker, White Nationalist sympathizer, and Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger from the Smithsonian Institution’s “Struggle for Justice” display. Sanger’s “struggle” was for eugenics, racism, discrimination against handicapped children, and black genocide.

Margaret Sanger was a “white nationalist” sympathizer who spoke at a Klu Klux Klan meeting in Silver Lake, New Jersey in 1926. Sanger described the KKK and her experience this way, “Always to me an aroused group was a good group, so I accepted the invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…(snopes.com – Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography).”

Much has been made of the “offensiveness” of statues of Confederate leaders on display in some public parks. The Civil War and slavery in America ended 152 years ago. Sanger’s evil legacy lives on.

African American leader Star Parker explains: “Margaret Sanger was a racist who wanted to end the black population through birth control and abortion.” Sanger believed that parents with “inferior genes” (by which she meant non-white), should be encouraged not to have children. If that didn’t work, force should be used.”

Bad enough that Sanger’s bust should be on display at the Smithsonian. To make her part of an exhibit called the “Struggle for Justice” is intolerable.

The Smithsonian Institution is funded with our tax dollars. Citizens of other nations (especially in Africa) are also outraged.

We demand the removal of the Sanger bust forthwith. Like racism and eugenics, it should be consigned to the scrapheap of history, not honored as part of a noble “Struggle for Justice.”

Bad enough that Sanger’s bust should be on display at the Smithsonian. To make her part of an exhibit called the “Struggle for Justice” is intolerable.

The Smithsonian Institution is funded with our tax dollars. Citizens of other nations (especially in Africa) are also outraged.

We demand the removal of the Sanger bust forthwith. Like racism and eugenics, it should be consigned to the scrapheap of history, not honored as part of a noble “Struggle for Justice.”

Please go here now to sign the CitizenGo Petition sponsored by World Congress of Families and Freedoms Journal Institute.

Freedom’s Journal Institute for the Study of Faith and Public Policy is a World Congress of Families Partner.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

September 26, 2017, LAND CENTER LECTURE – Dr. Allan Carlson speaking on The Shining Future of the American Family [!?]: A Historical Speculation, Land Center, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, Texas, 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m., Free Lunch, More information…
September 29 – October 1, 2017 – Joint Conference with the American College of Pediatricians and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetrician and Gynecologists at The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Trinity International University Campus in Deerfield, Illinois. More information…
October 1, 2017 – Life Chain in the US and Canada. More information..
October 6-7, 2017 — Dialogue of Civilization, Rhodes, Greece. More information…
October 13-15, 2017 — Values Voter Summit, Washington, D.C. More information…
November 16-18, 2017 — WCF Caribbean Regional Conference, St. Lucia, Contact information…
November 28-30, 2017 — African Regional Conference, Malawi , Contact information…
January 1, 2018 — Celebrate “Year of Families” Budapest, Hungary, Read more…
February 2, 2018 — Movieguide’s Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala & Report to the Entertainment Industry. Read more…
May 11-12, 2018 — WCF Family Forum, Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and Dona Isabel, Duchess of Braganza, Contact information…
May 15-19, 2018 — Global Home Education Conference, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, More information…