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Capital Connection – 11/15/24

Capital Connection – 11/15/24

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Election Aftermath: What kind of Government will result from last week’s vote in NY and PA ?

How “Christians Engaged” helped Influence the vote

NY’s Prop 1’s impact for religious organizations, women’s/girls’ sports, and more

 

Family Life’s Capital Connection connects you each Friday with a pair of Christian watchdogs from the state capitals of Albany and Harrisburg. This week, our guests are Jason McGuire of the New York Families Foundation and Dan Bartkowiak from the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

  

Capital Connection: The Post-Election Implications – 11/08/24

Capital Connection: The Post-Election Implications – 11/08/24

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Family Life’s “Capital Connection”

Implications and Effects of Election 2024

Our Christian watchdogs in the state capitals of Pennsylvania and New York are back to recap the biggest stories of Election 2024. This is our weekly roundtable for commentary and analysis with Jason McGuire in Albany and Michael Geer in Harrisburg.

Family Life Noon Report anchor Bob Price guides this discussion,  reviewing election results from early voting, ballots cast on November 5, and the decisions still pending as the week ends:

  • The significance of the “red wave” in presidential and congressional voting
  • How voters in our two states chose their legislative leaders, statewide and national
  • Did voters who are Christian turn out better than expected?
  • Amendment One passes in NY, and other states decide abortion-related ballot issues
  • Trends from this week which will carry over into the new year

 

Michael Geer (president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute) and Jason McGuire (executive director of the New York Family Foundation and New York Family Action) were also on the air with us election night for analysis of the news as it was happening.  You can listen to or share those special reports from these two Family Life News podcasts:
Vote Maximizer – Where the most voters have the most influence – 10/30/24

Vote Maximizer – Where the most voters have the most influence – 10/30/24

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Vote Maximizer – Where the most voters have the most influence

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview – 10/30/2024

The developer of a web-based tool to evaluate action plans based on political polls and populations says control of Congress runs through Pennsylvania and New York again this year:

Dr. Sam Wang and his team created the “Vote Maximizer” website which shows statewide and national trends to measure how and where individuals and groups have the largest influence on government through their votes and other political activities.

VoteMaximizer.org shows several Pennsylvania counties where an individual voter has the most influence on their state government: Centre, Erie, Mercer, Luzerne, Lackawanna and Allegheny. The biggest influence this year for New York voters is on some Congressional seats from Syracuse and Utica toward New York City, including Districts 19 and 22.

 

 

Sam Wang is an Ivy League professor, as well as the founding director of the Electoral Innovation Lab. Princeton University’s Neuroscience Lab is named after him.

Their website is VoteMaximizer.org.  An introductory video is here.

He has an interest in improving the government through the ways voting districts are mapped. He gave a TED Talk this fall on “Using Math to Repair Democracy”.

 

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Issues in Education – 10/28/24

Issues in Education – 10/28/24

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Indoctrination versus Education when it comes to Talking Politics at School

 

Recently, the “League of Women Voters” put on high school assemblies in NY encouraging students to vote “yes” on Prop 1.  Dr. Ralph Kerr with the “Teaching and Learning Institute” says that crosses a line between teaching students “how” to think and not “what” to think.  He discusses more this controversy in the latest installment of “Issues in Education” from Family Life News

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10/28/2024
Should Pastors talk about Politics from the Pulpit ?

Should Pastors talk about Politics from the Pulpit ?

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Should Pastors talk about Politics from the Pulpit ?  If so, how and why ?

Paul Batura, editor-in-chief of “Daily Citizen”, weighs in on how much church leaders should discuss elections in our houses of worship.

This interview was included in the Family Life Noon Report on October 24, 2024.

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Paul Batura is a best-selling author, essayist and consultant on faith and values, cultural debates, and family matters. He says his mission while leading the online news source Daily Citizen is to “help Christians analyze the news and current cultural issues through the principles of truth, moral objectivity and inherent, innate natural rights.”  He also has hosted dozens of podcasts in a series “What a Life! Lessons from Legends”, gleaning wisdom from a full range of Christian leaders and influential celebrities.

His recent post on Daily Citizen: “Think Critically. Vote Biblically”

  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-a-life/id1656061243

 

 

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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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When you disagree politically with someone – a Christian counselor’s recommendations – 10/14/24

When you disagree politically with someone – a Christian counselor’s recommendations – 10/14/24

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Many families, workplaces and friendship are suffering under election-induced stresses

However, today’s Newsmaker Interview on Family Life News says politically-active Christians have a key role to play in shaping that tone

The political climate has become so divided, many people are fearful of talking about campaigns and candidates with friends and co-workers.

We sought advice on how Christians can handle election-based conversations.

Focus on the Family counselor Joannie DeBrito says it can be okay to disagree, agreeably. However, if someone only wants to argue about politics, it’s helpful to just step away.

She uses practical examples of how to maintain both a faithful Christian witness and productive relationships, with friends and relatives you may have on “both sides of the aisle”. She also gives helpful references from Scripture.

Dr. Joannie DeBrito is a coach at Hope Restored Aftercare and a columnist and consultant with Focus on the Family.  She has 30+ years experience as a therapist and counselor.

Listen for our earlier conversation with her, on parallel topics:  May 24, 2024

Here are links to her work at Hope Restored and Focus. Information about the resources from Focus on the Family she mentions is available from 855-771-HELP (4357) or FocusOnTheFamily.com

Some of her columns and blogs about marriage, parenting and family matters can be found here and here.

 

 

 

When you disagree politically with someone - a Christian counselor's recommendations - 10/14/24
Vote Your Faith – Millions of Christians will sit out this fall’s elections

Vote Your Faith – Millions of Christians will sit out this fall’s elections

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Millions of Christians not planning to vote this November, could shape election

The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University study found that approximately 104 million people under the “people of faith” umbrella are not expected to vote this election, including 41 million Christians and 32 million of whom regularly go to church.

Read: Details of this latest research — and its implications.

 

 

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Here is a Family Life Newsmaker Interview on the question of why so many people of faith sit out, letting others determine the directions of their government and their culture:

 

 

 

 

A Christian leader, named Chris Leader, is on a 100-day countdown to encourage evangelical Christians to register to vote this fall.

The “separation of church and state” isn’t in the U.S. Constitution, not in that form anyway.  But Chris Leader says many people of faith separate themselves from political and social involvement. His effort “Vote Your Faith” is trying to change that.

In this conversation with Family Life’s Greg Gillispie, Leader explains how some Christians are being intimidated, so they avoid voting, politicking, or even speaking out on the issues in the nation and in the local community. He points to Biblical motivation to get registered, plus how a better turnout of Christian voters could quickly solve many of the current problems in our culture.

Vote Your Faith offers inspiration, resources and tools to help improve the ratio of faithful Christians who participate in campaigns and elections. (Some surveys show that 25 to 33 percent of evangelicals stay away from the polls on Election Day).

 

 

As of the date of this Family Life Newsmaker Interview (9/05/2024), Chris Leader was about one-third of the way through his 100 Day Countdown to November 5th . He posts a new commentary each day.

Here are links to those (soon to be) 100 commentaries and the Vote Your Faith website.

 

 

 

 

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