Family Research Council

by Chris Gacek

March 04, 2019: We Americans now disagree over the construction of a border wall to be placed between the United States and Mexico. In the first week of her Speakership, Nancy Pelosi declared that such a wall would be "an immorality." She does not appear to be alone in that assessment. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) compared such a wall to the Berlin Wall while calling it a "moral abomination."

by Chris Gacek and Travis Weber

March 02, 2017: During the presidential campaign, President Trump produced a list of 21 potential nominees for Justice Scalia's vacant seat on the Supreme Court. We are pleased that he nominated a great candidate off that list -- Judge Neil Gorsuch.

by Mr. Christopher M. Gacek, J.D., Ph.D. and Mr. Travis Weber

December 16, 2016: Since the founding of this Republic 240 years ago, it has been understood that first and foremost governments are put in place to secure the inalienable rights bestowed upon us by God, our Creator.

by Chris Gacek

February 29, 2016: The untimely passing of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has launched an intense political debate. Essentially, the two positions are that the Senate should consider any nomination sent to it by President Barack Obama or that it should wait to consider a nomination from the next President who will have received a fresh mandate from the American people in the November 2016 election.

by Chris Gacek

April 20, 2015: On April 28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges and three other appeals in key marriage cases.

by Chris Gacek

August 03, 2014: Same-sex marriage is a novel concept that is not as old as Google or Facebook, yet it is leading some courts to re-imagine the rights endowed by the U.S. Constitution and re-write human history.

by Chris Gacek

April 11, 2014: Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, seated in Denver, heard oral arguments on a very significant case in the national debate over the definition of marriage. That case, Kitchen v. Herbert, was an appeal of Judge Robert Shelby's district court's decision striking down Utah's marriage amendment and related statutes.

by Chris Gacek

July 05, 2013: Since the approval of the mifepristone regimen by the FDA in 2000, FRC staff have closely studied the adverse effects of this abortion regimen releasing one such report in May 2012.

by Chris Gacek

March 28, 2013: During this week's oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys and justices will consider not just specific laws, but the ultimate question of whether the Supreme Court should redefine marriage in America.

by Chris Gacek

March 04, 2013: Should Proposition 8 be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case it now has before it, Hollingsworth v. Perry?