from Washington Update, Family Research Council

If there’s one subject giving Massachusetts schools trouble, it’s anatomy! The state’s Department of Education shocked everyone last week with new directives that completely abolish traditional gender roles, gender-based bathrooms and clothing, and even gender-specific sports in public schools.… Read the rest

Prepared by Paul Smith, Executive Director, Citizen Impact
Updated March 5

CURRENT ISSUES:

Race to the Top/Common Core
SB 167 (pertaining to common core curriculum, and nullifying any commitments relating to the federal Race to the Top program) did not get a vote in committee, so is stalled, but not dead.… Read the rest

By Rep. J. Randy Forbes
(Click here to read article at Washington Times site)

Catholic adoption agencies have been forced to close their doors in Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., because their religious beliefs about marriage were deemed unacceptable by their jurisdictions.… Read the rest

By Sue Ella Deadwyler of Georgia Insight

“Pathological gambling is extremely incapacitating and results in failure to maintain solvency or provide basic support for one’s family.” – American Psychiatric Association

When gambling expands, government expands.
More police are hired to investigate and prosecute increased crime; more judges and
courts are needed to investigate and prosecute gambling addicts’ crimes; more welfare
programs are needed to support gambling-related poverty; more agencies are created to
monitor and regulate gambling; more medical services are needed to treat diseases of
addicted gamblers; and more laws are needed to control crime and money launderers.… Read the rest

By Lindsey M. Burke

Published December 27, 2012 | FoxNews.com

A war of words is brewing. But this one doesn’t involve slinging insults. It’s a battle over what forms of writing – novels, poems, and non-fiction – will define English instruction for millions of American schoolchildren in the years to come.… Read the rest