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The Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act (S. 204) was introduced earlier this year by U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and James Lankford (R-OK), and in the U.S. House (H.R. 650) by Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC). This proposed legislation aims to affirm and protect...

S. 1671, introduced by U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R ) would clarify the definition of illegal pornography, known as obscenity, which is accessible online to anyone of any age.Our children, having access at the click of a mouse to the most vile pornographic images, are being...

Scripture tells us that every person is created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), and thus each life holds immeasurable value. Moreover, the command "Thou Shall Not Kill" (Ex. 20:13) affirms the sanctity of human life. Christians must speak out!At its April 2025 annual...

Some Illinois lawmakers are pushing to legalize online gambling as a way to generate new tax revenue for the state. If passed, the legislation would make gambling accessible not just on computers and tablets, but also on smartphones—essentially putting a casino in every...

Urge your state representative to oppose physician-assisted suicide legislation - HB 1328!The fact that some lawmakers approve of giving lethal drugs to another person to end their life testifies to the depraved thinking in the Illinois General Assembly.God alone determines...

Chemical abortions make up over half of all abortions in the U.S. (60% to 80%), not only aborting thousands of unborn children every year but putting thousands of women at serious medical risk. A recent groundbreaking study reveals that one in 10 women taking the abortion...

SB 1560 has passed the Senate and a House committee. Rep. Linsdey LaPointe (D) is the house sponsor. It requires the Illinois State Board of Education to implement universal mental health screening in schools in grades 3 through 12 at least once a...

Send your state representative a message urging him/her to pass The Riley Gaines Act (HB 4027). You may even want to encourage your representative to co-sponsor this legislation. It is time to put an end to the transgender ideology that claims that a person's gender...

The federal government should reject diversity, equity, and inclusion across the board and follow through on President Donald Trump’s executive order dismantling DEI in both government and the private sector.America should return to a system of meritocracy where individuals...

HB 1073 - Patrick Joyce (D) is the senate sponsor: The bill passed out of the House. It requires college students to provide proof of 3 or more doses of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccines not more than 10 years prior to enrollment.Urge your state senator...

HB 3247 mandates free public school for illegal immigrant children through the 12th grade. Prohibits public schools from cooperating with federal immigration officers. It allows for civil lawsuits brought to the courts by illegal aliens against schools that do not comply...

HB 1411 is a bullying prevention bill that requires public schools to develop policies and hand-out materials that are age and developmentally appropriate for students and not loaded down with LGBTQ+ propaganda. 

HB 3709 - Celina Villanueva (D) - senate sponsor:  Mandates that public colleges and universities provide student access to healthcare professionals who prescribe contraception and abortion pills; allows university pharmacies to dispense contraception and abortion...

SB 181 - Chapin Rose (R ): requires voter ID or photo ID to register to vote, changes the time frame to be able to register to vote from the day of the election to 7 days prior, provides tracking of all printed ballots, removes permanent vote by mail status and other...

SB 280 - Sally Turner (R ): : increases the penalties for selling fentanyl to a Class X felony.Urge your state senator to SUPPORT SB 280 if it passes out of the subcommittee.

SB 1772 - Kimberly Lightford (D): allows counties and municipalities to be issued a temporary event license to sell and consume marijuana on site and sell cannabis paraphernalia. It has had its deadline extended and has been assigned to a subcommittee. 

HB 2927 has passed in the Illinois House and has moved over to the Senate. It suspends history taught in schools for the 2025-2026 school year. The 2026-2027 school year textbooks will re-frame history with the inclusion of “diverse perspectives, contrary...

HB 2589 - Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D): Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Provides that, upon request, a pharmacist shall (rather than may) sell up to 100 sterile hypodermic syringes or needles to a person who is at least 18 years of age. 

HB 2679 - Rep. Margaret Croke (D): Protects abortion clinics that she considers "vital public facilities" from "terrorist acts" by amending the Criminal Code of 2012, making it a Class X felony to cause harm to an “entity providing reproductive health care.”Why is she...

HB 3637 - Senator Karina Villa (D) is the senate sponsor.  It passed out of the House and a Senate Committee and could be called for a vote in the Senate any day .  It amends numerous health care laws. Prohibits the Illinois Department of Health from taking...

HB 2973 - Rep. Nicholas Smith (D): Amends the School Code. Teacher evaluation ratings on record as "unsatisfactory" will be considered "ineffective," while "excellent," "proficient," or "needs improvement" will be considered "effective."

HB 1374 - Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D): Requires doctors performing health exams on children be required to question the child on the safe storage of firearms practices within the home.Urge your state rep to oppose HB 1374 if it passes out of committee.

HB 1398 - Rep. Maura Hirschauer (D): Requires the Illinois Department of Public Health to ensure that doctors performing health exams on children be required to question the child on the safe storage of firearms practices within the home.Urge your state rep to oppose HB...

HB 1269 - Rep. John Cabello (R ): Requires parental permission before a student under 18 can participate in a self-report survey that may ask and reveal personal, protected information. Also requires the school to allow the parent to review the questions to be asked...

HB 3489 - Rachel Ventura (D) -senate sponsor: Redefines the “practice of pharmacy” so that a pharmacist can assess and consult with a patient for the purpose of dispensing emergency contraception, otherwise known as the morning after pill, an abortifacient.The pill prevents...

Send a message to your U.S. Representative to urge him/her to co-sponsor H.R. 260. It is shocking to learn how millions of our tax dollars are being used to support sworn enemies of the United States. It is alarming to hear that millions are going to the Taliban every week...

HB 1302 - Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D): favors criminals over victims and ties the hands of police officers. It amends four sections of the Illinois' Criminal Code.It repeals the 7-day retail theft notification requirement, thereby stripping the ability of retailers to prepare...

HB 1708 should be called The Election Fraud Bill. It's bad in a number of ways.The bill allows election authorities to print/mail "Special Write-in Vote by Mail Voter's Blank Ballots" if they run out of regular mail-in-ballots for a federal election. It also creates a...

Would allow ranked choice voting for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer. In ranked choice voting, voters rank candidates in order of preference: first, second, third, and so on, instead of...

HB 2763 - Rep. Nabeela Syed (D): Certain applications processed by the Secretary of State shall also serve as applications to apply for permanent vote by mail ballot status.Another bill that increases the chances of cheating during the elections in Illinois. OPPOSE

HB 2400 classifies aggravated criminal sexual assault as a Class X felony for which 5 years shall be added to the term of imprisonment and predatory criminal sexual assault of a child as a Class X felony with a minimum term of imprisonment of 11 (rather than 6) years.

HB 1333 - Rep. Paul Jacobs (R ): Repeals the Reproductive Health Act and creates a number of Pro-Life Acts including provisions defining "viability" to include when, in the medical judgment of the attending physician based on the particular facts of the case before the...

HB 2381 - Rep. Laura Faver Dias (D): Requires 4 hours of LGBTQ+ inclusivity training (indoctrination) for all school board members. Urge your state rep to vote NO if it passes out of committee.

HB 2960 - Rep. Laura Faver Dias (D): Requires public school health education courses to include instruction in mental health and keeps pupil's health or mental health information confidential from anyone including parents.The bill states that students would be given...

HB 1083 - Sara Feigenholtz (D): changes genderspecific references to gender neutral descriptions in the Religious Freedom Protecting Act, the Civil Unions Act, and the Rights of Married Persons Act. Urge your state rep to oppose HB 1083. There are, and will always be,...

HB 2493 - Rep. Nicole Grasse (D): Allows people to get married over a Zoom call. Gives a whole new concept to "shotgun" weddings. Marriages should be celebrated and honored, not casually done over a Zoom call.  Urge your state rep to oppose HB 2493 if it passes...

HB 3049 - Allows parties to marry themselves without any officiant. This damages the solemnization of marriage and makes a mockery of this God-created institution that is critical to a healthy and stable society.

HB 2343 - Rep. Marcus Evans (D): Provides state loans and grants for "social equity applicants" to open cannabis shops. It also allows for "loan forgiveness.""Social Equity Applicants" are those that have previously been arrested or convicted for violating the Cannabis...

HB 2706 - Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez (D): Reinforces Illinois as a sanctuary state by: prohibiting law enforcement from retaining immigration status or place of birth of any individual; prohibiting law enforcement from giving immigration agents any information whatsoever...

HB 2992 - Rep. Theresa May (D): Creates the Healing Opportunities through Psilocybin Equity Pilot Program Act. Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic found in a certain variety of mushrooms. It produces hallucinations. Notice the name of the bill. It's straight out of the...

HB 2904 - Rep. Dagmara Avelar (D): Creates the Health Care Transparency Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall identify reproductive health care services (abortion), LGBTQ health care services, and end-of-life (assisted suicide) health care services and...

SB 42 - Curtis Tarver (D) - House sponsor: Prohibits law enforcement from stopping and inspecting a car based on the odor of cannabis and removes the requirement of storing cannabis in an odor-proof container during transportation. This will put more intoxicated...

In Washington D.C., Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) has sponsored H.R. 629, the Ending Chemical Abortions Act of 2025. It currently has 20 co-sponsors.According to the Guttmacher Institute, chemical abortions now account for 63% of all abortions. This federal legislation...

Continue to Oppose HB 2827!Terra Costa Howard (D) and anti-family forces are out to get and ruin families by requiring homeschool parents to register their children, provide proof of immunizations, and provide the curriculum they will use to make sure it meets their...

Send a message to your state lawmakers in the Illinois House and Illinois Senate. Ask them to uphold basic standards for sexual morality and not further contribute to the coarsening of our culture. Ask them to reject policies that foster broken families, and community...

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is an important bill which would require schools to follow the true intent of Title IX to ensure the integrity of sports. To pretend that there are no biological or physiological differences between male and female is simply...

In August, the Inspector General of Homeland Security released a report that outlines his office’s findings about the handling of unaccompanied minor children (not yet 18) who were apprehended at the border.Homeland Security has lost track of 323,000 of them! They are...