Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

This evening, I asked Lt. Gov Skillman about any potential return of the marriage amendment here in Indiana in the wake of the California Supreme Court overruling a voter referendum. Lt. Gov Skillman referred me to Governor Daniels statement made last Friday. The Lt. Gov’s staff was kind enough to pass along the audio of that statement and I’m passing it along to you.

The marriage amendment is covered in two places . It starts at 4:37 goes for a bit, then picks up again at 6:15.

 

 Governor Daniels Media Availability From 5/16/08 [24:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

…you were thinking I was going to say “and all heck breaks loose” or “nothing really happens”.  Well, I guess one might think it’s a combination of both.

But the one thing that caught my eye wasn’t what happened in Indiana, but what happened in California.  As you probably have heard by now (and if you haven’t, where the heck have you been?!) the California Supreme Court struck down their voter approved state gay marriage ban.

Plenty of people have reason to be upset about this and for different reasons.  But I’m going to tell you why I am.

(Read more after the leap) (more…)

We at Hoosier Access ask that you keep the John Borttoff family in your prayers. John Borttoff is one of three candidates running against Baron Hill in the 9th Congressional Democrat primary. Word is out today that his 4 year old daughter was struck and killed by a car.

From the WLFI website:

JASPER, Ind. (AP) - The 4-year-old daughter of a southern Indiana congressional candidate was struck by a car and killed in a department store parking lot, police said.

Demiah S. Bottorff is the daughter of John Bottorff, 1 of 3 challengers to incumbent Democratic Rep. Baron Hill in the May 6 primary.

Jasper police say she was with her mother and three siblings in the parking lot of a Kmart Tuesday afternoon when she was struck by a car. The Dubois County Coroner said she died at a hospital of head injuries sustained in the accident.

Police say the driver of the car, 89-year-old Jerome H. Klein, apparently became confused and stepped on the car’s accelerator instead of the brake pedal.

No charges have been filed, but police are continuing to investigate.

Please keep the Borttoff’s in your thoughts and prayers.

[This is a guest post from fellow Indiana Leadership Forum classmate and Director of Operations and Public Policy for the Indiana Family Institute, Ryan McCann. I asked him to write about the last week’s California’s Court of Appeals ruling on Homeschooling and how it could affect Indiana.]

Big Brother liberalism strikes in California…is Indiana next?

For years conservatives (including yours truly…here, here and here) have been sounding the alarm against the significant and growing problem of judicial activism. Liberalism infested and conquered most law schools many decades ago. However, until more recently the spawn of this corruption of the legal profession at least attempted to hide their ideological bias behind the tricky “penumbra” they keep magically finding in the Constitution.

However, in more recent history, marriage, property rights, religious liberty and now parental rights (to name only a few) have taken serious frontal assaults from a few black-robed tyrants. Most recently the California Court of Appeals ruled that parents have no legal right to home-school their children.

For those of you keeping score at home, the liberal ideology dominates much of American culture today including: the mainstream media (for example: CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, most major newspapers…ring any bells?), the education system (Last time I checked the teachers unions were still a bastion of liberalism and they run much of the public school system. To make matters much worse, many colleges and universities have crusty Marxists from the 60’s entrenched in power), government bureaucracy (need I explain…really?), the courts, much of corporate America (Bill Gates, Tim Gil, etc.), even the church is threatened (only 50% of pastors have a biblical worldview according to George Barna).

Conservatives still have a fighting chance in some areas of public influence, but our last best hope is in the home. Conservatives don’t abort their babies and they teach their children the Truth. That is a threat to liberalism. Given this reality, is it any surprise that the home and parental rights are targeted? Will liberals be content with crushing parental rights in California? Were they content to declare sodomy a constitutional right in only one state? Were they happy to allow babies to be murdered within their mother’s wombs in only one state? Be vigilant Indiana.

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson

Hat tip - One News Now