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Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

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How NY’s Prop 1 impacts Religious Groups and Churches

Reforming Divorce Laws in PA

“Do No Harm” Report Highlights the Dangers of so-called “Gender-affirming” Care

Why Millions of Christians plan to Sit Out the 2024 Election

 

New York Families Foundation & New York Families ActionChristian watchdogs Jason McGuire with New York Families and Michael Geer with the Pennsylvania Family Institute discuss the weighty issues in the news — from Albany to Harrisburg to the ballot box to your hometown.

Both organizations offer issues-based voter guides and “how to register to vote” information on their websites.

 

 

 

“Capital Connection” with Bob Price airs on the radio and our live streams during the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report each Friday. Listen, download or share these conversations anytime, from the “Family Life News” podcast feed.
Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care” – 10/17/24

Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care” – 10/17/24

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Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care”

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview

A national health-care watchdog group is out with new statistics on the number of so-called “gender transition” procedures being done at children’s hospitals. Do No Harm analyzed public insurance records to compile the number of children and teens who were treated using hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical procedures on sexual body parts. The organization also analyzed the amount of money paid by insurance companies to cover those costs. (Public funds such as Medicaid and state and federal government grants are also used for such purposes.)

Beth Serio of Do No Harm told us nearly 2,000 underage minors in New York and Pennsylvania were recipients of such procedures in the most recent reporting period. She talks about the exponential growth in this trend, the financial and philosophical motivations for medical providers and hospitals to recommend “gender affirming care”, and the complications which can result for patients and for the society.

Three PA/NY hospital systems are listed in their national Top Ten List for millions of dollars raked in to perform sex change treatments for minors: Mount Sinai, New York University, and Penn Medicine. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, with 122 such patients, by far tops the list of providers described as what DNH describes as the “Dirty Dozen” in the United States.

These links provide more information about Do No Harm, which takes its name from the millenia-old medical motto:

 

 

 

 

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Issues in Education – 10/14/24

Issues in Education – 10/14/24

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“Issues in Education”

Retired school principal and superintendent Ralph Kerr joins us for the Monday Family Life News Feature “Issues in Education”.

This week:

  • Teacher shortages, already significant, are magnified by the number of immigrant children who entered the U.S. in recent years
  • School districts are hamstrung by the multiple languages spoken by their young newcomers, many of whom are not (yet) proficient in English
  • Whether public schools and parochial schools should compete together or have separate leagues and championships — That debate is renewed again
  • How will public schools be affected, depending on whether a majority of New York voters approve or vote against Proposition One on this fall’s ballots

 

 

Dr. Ralph Kerr founded the Teaching and Learning Institute, based in Houghton, NY.  TLI has its mission to influence Pennsylvania’s and New York’s public schools with increased involvement by people traditional family values and Judeo-Christian beliefs.

 

 

 

 

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Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues – 9/27/24

Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues – 9/27/24

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Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues

It’s our weekly Family Life News cultural/political/social roundtable, for the week of 9/27/2024

It’s “Capital Connection”, the Friday news feature from Family Life News.  Noon Report anchor Bob Price guides our ten-minute conversation, digging into the issues in our two states — and far beyond.

Christian advocates Jason McGuire and Michael Gere have commentary from the two capital cities on these major issues in the news:

  • NY’s regents pause consideration on policies for transgender inclusion in girls scholastic sports, but will such rules be back after the election?
  • Do voters realize that Proposition One may enshrine such gender diversity in the New York Constitution? What will the “Equal Rights Amendment” do to women’s rights, parental rights, and parental notifications about counseling and medical treatments for their children?
  • Thousands gathered in Harrisburg this week. What is happening in the battle over abortion regulations?
  • What do our watchdogs see as trends in legislative priorities this fall, swings in the 2024 election, and voters’ confidence in how the ballots are distributed and counted?

 

 

 

Our guests on most editions of “Capital Connection” are Jason McGuire, the executive director of the New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action, and Michael Geer, the president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

 

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Issues in Education – Regional Consolidation, Politics in the Classroom, more – 9/23/24

Issues in Education – Regional Consolidation, Politics in the Classroom, more – 9/23/24

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“Issues in Education” is a Monday News Feature from Family Life.

This episode includes commentary from former superintendent and current educational strategist Ralph Kerr on significant issues facing families, teachers, school boards and communities:

  • Beyond Civics courses, what roles do schools play in shaping discussions of campaigns and candidates? How should parents monitor election conversations which may happen at schools?
  • New York State education leaders are surveying every public school district, asking how they are serving their students. One outcome might be recommendations for “regionalization” in many places — cooperation between schools, and perhaps more consolidations of elementaries, high schools, or even entire districts. Population shifts and budget imbalances are a big reason why.
  • The State Board of Regents (which oversees most of the education in New York) removed from this month’s agenda a proposed rule which would have mandated that students could cross gender lines for sports, in high schools, middle schools and elementary programs.

Dr. Kerr offers his vantage point on these Issues in Education.
Riley Gaines – Approaches to Women’s Sports (NCAA, NAIA, and Public Action) – 9/16/24

Riley Gaines – Approaches to Women’s Sports (NCAA, NAIA, and Public Action) – 9/16/24

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Riley Gaines – Approaches to Women’s Sports (NCAA, NAIA, and Public Action)

This autumn marks a new chapter in the debates on transgendered athletes in sports for college students, teens and younger children.

With this new academic year, two major oversight organizations deal with collegiate sports will handle the question differently. The NCAA across all three of its divisions will support student-athletes who were born male to be active with women’s sports, women’s records and women’s scholarships. The NAIA which regulates sports for more than 250 smaller and mid-sized schools is going the other direction, with athletes playing either the male or female sports which matches their genetic makeup.

Riley Gaines, a former championship collegiate swimmer is now an advocate for fairness, privacy and safety surrounding transgender policies. She not only is a commentator for Outkick.com, she is a litigant in Title IX lawsuits against the NCAA. In this special Family Life Interview, she says she one significant change over the past year has been the level of public advocacy for protecting women and girls.

Archives of our Family Life interviews with former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines:

  • The Politics of Protecting Female Athletes (full 10-minute interview):  FLN 5/31/2024
  • Title IX, and a majority opinion on fairness which crosses all political stances:  FLN 5/29/2024
  • How Riley Gaines’ vocational calling began, as an advocate for women and girls:  FLN 10/31/2023

Also on the issue of gender, education and politics, Family Life aired a related interview 9/16/2024 with Shena Rossettie of the Twin Tiers Family Forum.

 

 

Riley Gaines testifying recently about her interactions with the NCAA and with a university president:

https://vimeo.com/1000850865#t=1h20m51s Georgia Senate Special Committee

vimeo.com/1000850865#t=1h20m51s
Transgender Athletes & Female Sports – An Update from PA

Transgender Athletes & Female Sports – An Update from PA

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Transgender Athletes & Female Sports – An Update from Pennsylvania’s State Capitol

An extended Family Life interview with State Representative Valerie Gaydos, who represents District 44 in Western Pennsylvania.

A former college athlete herself, Rep. Gaydos emphasizes fairness and safety as valid reasons to limit girls’ and women’s sports to those who were born female

 

        Family Life News Producer Greg Gillispie spoke with her at the recent Pennsylvania Family Institute event in Moon Township.
Capital Connection – 6/07/24

Capital Connection – 6/07/24

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Family Life’s “Capital Connection” – 5/07/24

NY:  Safe 4 Kids Act

PA:  Saving Women’s Sports, locally and nationally

What to Watch for at the U-S Supreme Court this month

 

Christian watchdogs Jason McGuire and Michael Geer “weigh in” on the “weighty” issues in the news from Albany and Harrisburg

 

  

Riley Gaines, Title IX, and the Politics of Protecting Female Athletes – 5/31/24 – Capital Connection

Riley Gaines, Title IX, and the Politics of Protecting Female Athletes – 5/31/24 – Capital Connection

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Riley Gaines, Title IX, and the Politics of Protecting Female Athletes

A special edition of Capital Connection- 5/31/24

 

 

Women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines says even though majorities of Americans want to protect girls’ locker rooms, female sports records, and women’s teams — regardless of politic party affiliation.

In this conversation, Gaines talks about the ways that Democratic politicians have “failed in their most basic duties”. She faults the Biden administration for unilaterally rewriting the Title IX civil rights legislation which had opened opportunities for girls and women in education and athletics for more than half a century.

Greg Gillispie also asked her about the disparities which start this fall, between how the NCAA and NAIA will deal with participation by athletes who were born male.

 

You can listen to Part One of our exclusive interview with Riley Gaines on the May 29 Family Life News Podcast.

 

More information about the Riley Gaines presentation in Cranberry Township (Friday, May 31) is available from the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

After her successful career as an SEC swimmer at the University of Kentucky, Gaines was brought on as a columnist and commentator for the news site Outkick.com.

 

- - - - Family Life News has reached out to the White House Communications Office and to New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, seeking any response they may have to what Riley Gaines told us in this interview. If/when we hear back, you will hear from them.

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