by SrDeniseSickinger | Sep 23, 2023 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Children, Choose Life, Events / Calendar
Dear Friend, Election season begins this Saturday! The New Jersey Family Policy Center has developed the primary resource to equip you in educating your church community, pastor, and family on where the candidates stand on crucial policy positions that reflect proposed or recently passed state legislation. Our team worked throughout the summer gathering data based upon incumbent voting records, bill sponsorships, candidate questionaries, and candidate interviews. We are pleased to make available to you, and social conservatives around the state, a fact-based, policy-oriented Voter Guide for the 2023 State Legislative election. Please share it with others through text, email, and social media! The voter guides for each district are located on our website directly under “Important 2023 Election Dates”. If you do not know what district you live in, there is a link to the 2023-2030 state legislative map that will assist you. 2023 Elections Page and Voter Guide According to Monmouth University polls, 78% of all New Jerseyans want parents notified of their child’s social and emotional well-being – including gender identity. 77% do not want gender identity taught in elementary school. 64% want regulations on abortion. Clearly, the policies that we advocate for are supported by the majority of New Jersey...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Sep 23, 2023 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Choose Life, Choose to Love, Courage, Faith
Join us and other coalition partners to demand legislators STOP voting for Anti-Child, Anti-Parent, and Anti-Life legislation. Click here to email us that you will be attending one of the protests. We can send you more details and answer specific questions (parking, signs, rules, etc…) Serving the families of New Jersey, The NJFPC...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jul 27, 2023 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Children, Choose Life, Choose to Love, Courage of the Truth, Parenting, Teens and Young Adults
Annual Family Policy Council Alliance conference “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” Romans 12:12 Dear Denise Ann, I just returned from the Family Policy Counsel Alliance gathering this past Saturday and it was very encouraging to hear what the other states are doing and ultimately, what God is doing in our country. I bring good news that there is hope for New Jersey! To be honest, at times I was jealous of those 17 States that passed a “Help Not Harm” bill that applies to minors and prohibits doctors or anyone from blocking healthy puberty, prescribing cross-sex hormones, or performing surgery to modify a child’s body to appear more like the opposite sex. Conversations with other Family Policy leaders were valuable as we shared our challenges as well as our successes. I was able to tout our Motion to Intervene against Governor Murphy and Attorney General Matt Platkin who are suing NJ school boards that wish to inform parents of their children’s emotional, mental, and physical health issues. As Christians, we often relate to different biblical characters during the different seasons of our lives. Recently, I have been reading the book of Nehemiah, a man...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Dec 2, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Children, Choose Life, Choose to Love, Proclaiming Christ, Sacredness of All Life, Teens and Young Adults
VATICAN DICASTERY DISABILITY VATICAN The #IamChurch campaign for persons with disabilities begins from 6 December with a series of video testimonies of Christians living with disabilities. By Benedict Mayaki, SJ The Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life announced the launch on Monday of a campaign dedicated to persons living with disabilities. Tagged #IamChurch, the campaign, which begins on 6 December, will consist of five videos containing the testimonies of Christians living with disabilities from different parts of the world who recount their experience of faith and affirm, “I am Church!” “I am Church” through Baptism In his message to persons with disabilities on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to them, Pope Francis noted that Baptism gives each one of us, “without exclusion or discrimination, the possibility of exclaiming, ‘I am Church!'” Echoing the Pope’s words, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life launched the videos, which will be released weekly, with the aim of highlighting the contribution that persons with disabilities offer to the ecclesial community on a daily basis. The videos will illustrate the work of evangelization carried out by some young deaf persons in Mexico, of a monastery in France where several nuns with...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Feb 25, 2021 | a current event, Children, Choose Life
US Bishops: Equality Act discriminates against people of faith and threatens unborn life In a letter to Congress, several committee chairmen of the US Bishops’ Conference have expressed their opposition to proposed legislation, warning that it poses legal and social threats to citizens. By Vatican News staff writer Five US Bishop committee chairmen have expressed their opposition to the recent reintroduction of the Equality Act (H. R. 5), scheduled to be voted upon by the House of Representatives in coming days. In a letter jointly signed by the chairs of the USCCB committees on Religious Liberty, Pro-Life, Marriage, Catholic Education and Domestic Justice, they highlight threats posed by the proposed law to both people of faith and of no faith, to the right of freedom of speech, as well as to faith-based charities and health-care workers with conscience objections, among others. Gender discrimination, abortion and the Equality Act The Bishops warned that the Equality Act, while purporting to protect people experiencing same-sex attraction or gender discordance from discrimination, rather represents an imposition by Congress “of novel and divisive viewpoints regarding ‘gender’ on individuals and organizations;” including dismissing sexual difference and falsely presenting “gender” as a social construct. Re-echoing Pope...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Nov 2, 2020 | Children, Choose Life, Compassion, Sacredness of All Life
Save Babies in NJ from Gov. Murphy’s Abortion Sentence Your help is needed immediately to stop the Reproductive Freedom Act, the most radical abortion bill ever proposed in this state. NJ already holds the infamous status of the most unsafe state in the nation for a baby in the womb, as abortion facilities outnumber pro-life pregnancy centers, 50 -37. As the life movement continues to win the public debate regarding protections for babies in the womb, Gov. Murphy, Sen. Loretta Weinberg, Sen. Linda Greenstein and 14 Assembly members have put forth a bill that would seal the fate of the unborn for decades to come in our state. Currently, NJ has no restrictions on abortion. Any abortion regulations that passed the legislative process in previous decades were found to be unconstitutional by activist judges in our state. Therefore, our abortion laws reflect those of Communist China and North Korea. The Reproductive Freedom Act will now codify into law the extreme anti-life policies practiced in only a handful of nations. This includes: Babies can be aborted up to the point of birth. Pregnant teenage moms can abort their children without the abortionist or school officials ever notifying parents....
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