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On Monday's edition of "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins," Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) will be on the show to talk about Benghazi.  Ken Klukowski, Director, Center for Religious Liberty at FRC, will be on the show to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear the case, Town of Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway.

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FCC Seeks to Allow Nudity and Profanity During 'Family Hour'

The ­­­­Federal Communication Commission ("FCC" or "the Commission") has announced that it is seeking public comment on a proposal that seeks to relax its regulations that enforce the broadcast decency laws enacted by Congress.  Under the new proposal and new FCC practices, the Commission would focus its enforcement resources only on "egregious" cases of broadcast indecency. 

Apparently, the Commission would like to allow "fleeting" uses of the most profane language.  It would also like to allow instances of "isolated (non-sexual) nudity."  One can only imagine where this would go.

The FCC's effort to weaken the indecency standards is especially incomprehensible.  It is doing this even after the United States Supreme Court examined its indecency rules and declined to strike them down.  In fact, Chief Justice Roberts told broadcasters that they were now on notice that the standards in place could be enforced.  Furthermore, the Commission has dismissed thousands of complaints that were "stale" only because the FCC failed to act on them in a timely manner.

The networks have been in a race to the bottom for years, trying to outdo each other in "shock value" as they seek higher ratings and more money.  If you give them an inch and they will take a mile. If ... (more)

Stem Cells, Cloning and Human Embryos: Understanding the Ethics and Opportunity of Scientific Research

Scientists in Oregon recently announced that they had created cloned human life, and then destroyed that life to extract embryonic stem cells. They used the same technique that had created Dolly the cloned sheep, but modified the process, because this time they were using human eggs and human cells.

Some will celebrate this news. But however sophisticated or well-intended the research, human cloning opens the door to a brave--but highly dangerous new world. It also subjects young women to enormous health risks and turns them a biotech commodity and target for exploitation.

But there is another way. Scientists have researched and used ethical stem cell alternatives to help heal patients. Adult stem cells do not require the destruction of human life but are currently healing over 60,000 people each year. To find out more about the science and ethics of stem cell research, download our new brochure at frc.org/stemcells.

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The Gosnell Case Was About Abortion

by Rob Schwarzwalder

Rob Schwarzwalder is Senior Vice President at Family Research Council. This article appeared in Religion Today on May 20, 2013. So, now we're hearing the fevered denials and sometimes desperate counterattacks of abortion advocates concerning the Gosnell trial. They claim he used unsanitized instruments, unqualified aides, etc. Here is a modest sampling of the kind of protests I'm describing: "This was not a case about the morality of legal, late-term abortion," writes TIME's Kate Pickert and Adam Sorensen. "Gosnell's trial was about ... (more)

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Catholic Scouts Won't Go Gay

by Cathy Ruse

Cathy Ruse is Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at Family Research Council. This article appeared in RealClearReligion on May 17, 2013. Open homosexuality in Catholic Boy Scout troops? Don't count on it. Next week, delegates from the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America will gather in Grapevine, Texas to vote on whether to change the long-standing membership policy against "open and avowed" homosexuality on the part of youth members of the Boy Scouts. On Wednesday the National Catholic Committee on Scouting (NCCS) released a ... (more)

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Supreme Court to Hear Historic Religious Liberty Case

by Ken Klukowski

Ken Klukowski is Director, Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council. This article appeared on Breitbart.com, May 20, 2013. On Monday, the Supreme Court granted review in what could be the biggest religious liberty victory for Americans of faith in decades. The case is Town of Greece v. Galloway. The town of Greece, New York, begins its town board meetings with an opening prayer. It allows any citizen to sign up to offer the prayer on a first-come, first-served basis. Any town citizen may do so regardless of their faith, ... (more)