Governor Walker Signs National Marriage Week Proclamation

Via Wisconsin Family Action:


Madison – “We are thrilled to see Wisconsin recognizing the importance of marriage to the men, women and children of our great state,” said Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Council.  “Governor Scott Walker’s National Marriage Week Proclamation is a strong statement about how the governor views marriage and its importance to his overall agenda.”

National Marriage Week USA, which takes place February 7-14, 2011, is part of an international effort that is beginning to gain momentum around the country as more and more people realize how crucial healthy marriages are to society.  Wisconsin joins other states as well as several European Countries and Australia to recognize and promote marriage as a great social and public good for individuals and communities.
Governor Walker’s proclamation states, in part, “…A healthy, loving marriage… provides irreplaceable personal happiness and creates the safest place for children to flourish and to enjoy the full emotional, moral, educational and financial benefits of both parents….”
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“As Governor Walker recognizes in his proclamation,” said Appling, “the breakdown of marriage takes a great emotional, physical and financial toll on the well-being of the family.  There’s no denying that family breakdown takes a great toll on the financial well-being of the state, as well.  That Wisconsin’s governor recognizes the foundational role marriages plays in our society and economy gives us great hope for his agenda to rebuild Wisconsin’s economy.”  

To find out more about National Marriage Week visit http://www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/.  Click here to read Governor Scott Walker’s National Marriage Week Proclamation.

National Day of Prayer at STATE CAPITOL TOMORROW - Plan to attend!

From Wisconsin Family Council:

Come join us this Thursday, May 6, from 12-1 p.m. at the King Street entrance of the State Capitol for the National Day of Prayer! Wisconsin Family Council is working with the National Day of Prayer Task Force state coordinator to facilitate a time for Christians to gather in Madison to pray for our state, nation, families, churches, communities, culture and military. In response to the message we sent out yesterday, several Wisconsin pilots are taking part inPrayerFlight and at least one will be flying over the Capitol during our event, praying for our capital city and our state from the air.

It seems that the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation will be protesting at the Capitol on Thursday. FFRF is the atheist organization that won the federal lawsuit ruling that the federal National Day of Prayer statute is unconstitutional, a ruling handed down by a federal judge located in Madison. Let's make sure that our American heritage of prayer is upheld at the State Capitol tomorrow with a good showing of people who are committed to praying for our nation!

"Un"Healthy Youth Act, AB458, kills FREEDOM

Julaine Appling of Wisconsin Family Voice writes -

Fast-tracking legislation is starting early this session in our state legislature.

Take for instance, Assembly Bill 458 (AB 458) introduced this past Wednesday, 9/30, and scheduled for a public hearing in the Assembly’s Education committee this coming Tuesday, 10/6, at 9:00 a.m. Normally this type of “quick and dirty” bill handling doesn’t happen until February or so. Apparently, all bets are off in this Democratically-controlled legislature. Obviously, it’s “taxpayer/concerned citizen beware.”

AB 458, erroneously called the “Healthy Youth Act,” is a very thinly veiled attempt to do away with abstinence-centered Human Growth and Development programs in Wisconsin’s schools. Basically, even if the committee that proposes the curriculum wants to have an abstinence-centered program and recommends such to the school board, they can’t have it. AB 458 would make it illegal.

This “Un-Healthy Youth Act” requires that if a school district opts to have a Human Growth and Development program ( it’s still voluntary in WI), the program must include “medically accurate information” on such topics as “gender stereotypes,” “the health benefits, side effects, and proper use of contraceptives and barrier methods” approved by the FDA (which, of course, includes the euphemistically named “Plan B” emergency contraception). To be fair the law also requires that “the benefits of and reasons for abstaining from sexual activity” must be covered–along with all of the other “comprehensive sex ed” topics.

This proposal also requires that the program a school implements use “instructional methods and materials that do not promote bias against pupils of any race, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnic or cultural background or against sexually active pupils or children with disabilities.”

So, once again, by getting “sexual orientation” included in the above list, the homosexual advocates have prevailed. They have prevented schools from telling the truth about the dangers inherent in sexual activity with persons of the same sex. That right there makes this bill ”unhealthy” for youth.

I’m starting to feel a Rep. Joe Wilson moment coming on. I want to shout, “You lie!”

Cap all this off with a provision that will allow Planned Parenthood-WI or other so-called “family planning groups” to show up and, if a school district wants to, provide all the instruction in this program to all the students. Suppose they’ll refer the students to PPWI’s “Teen Wire” or “Go Ask Alice“? (Caution: if you click on any of the sites linked on the Planned Parenthood “teen page,” be prepared to be offended.)

Yep, “Healthy Youth Act.” You betcha. Wanna buy the “Bridge to Nowhere”?