The 2008 legislative session has turned out to be another aggressive assault on children, marriage, family, life and the family budget. Some of the most offensive legislation includes:

“Baby selling” and “designer babies” raise the specter of new eugenics

Unhealthy sex education returns like a virus that won't go away

Gov’t employee benefits bill to balkanize family at taxpayers expense

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MFC/MFI President Tom Prichard fighting to protect marriage, family and children at a committee hearing at the State Capitol.

“Baby selling” and “designer babies” raise the specter of new eugenics
Ignoring the best interests of child, mother and family, two bills are making their way through the legislature. The bills, HF 3448 (Tingelstad) and SF 2965 (Higgins) authorize gestational carrier agreement to legalize baby selling. The bills would also eliminate the use of the word “father” and spousal terminology (husband, wife) and open the door for legal recognition of same-sex partnerships.

Unhealthy sex education returns like a virus
The bill, deceptively named Responsible Family Life and Sexuality Education Programs, (HF 0615) imposes a statewide mandate to teach comprehensive sex education, every year, to children grades 7 through 12. Comprehensive sex education gives lip service to abstinence education while promoting condoms, dental dams and contraceptive use. The curricula also encourage alternative sexual lifestyles and unhealthy behaviors such as anal sex and anal-oral sex.

Gov’t employee benefits bill to balkanize family at taxpayers expense
A deceptive bill “relating to local government; modifying the definition of 'dependent' for purposes of group benefits for local government officers and employees;” deviously attacks your pocketbook and undermines marriage and family in ways that only a Balkan dictator could love:

SF 960 increases the cost of government employee benefits, at taxpayers’ expense, by making thousands of unmarried adult children of employees eligible for dependent coverage – even if they aren’t actually dependent!
Balkanizes the definition of the family by allowing government units (counties, cities, school districts, etc.) to decide for themselves who qualifies as a “dependent”.
Forces taxpayer funding of benefits for same-sex partners, which many government units have already promised to adopt as soon as they are authorized by this bill.

Irresponsible legislation like this creates a gut reaction. You know the feeling - the helplessness caused by sex education classes designed to encourage and reward your child or grandchild to reject what you teach them at home. The disgust for legislation that authorizes the selling of babies for profit.
And, the relentless squeeze on your family budget to pay for domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.

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