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2010 VISION: CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH, CHALLENGING THE CULTURE
TONIGHT! Just a few seats left—join us!
Thursday, Oct. 10 - Hudson (Pizza Ranch, Stillwater, MN)
Tuesday, Oct. 15 - West Bend (Pizza Ranch) with
Special Guest WI Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly
Thursday, Oct. 17 - Kenosha (Golden Corral)
Thursday, Oct. 24 - Waukesha (Machine Shed)
Thursday, Nov. 7 - Elkhorn (Pizza Ranch) with
Special Guest WI Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly
Click HERE for more information and to 
reserve your place today!
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VETERAN'S DAY
November 11, 2019

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PARTNER WITH US!
It is the mission of Wisconsin Family Action to advance Judeo-Christian principles and values in Wisconsin by strengthening, preserving, and
promoting marriage, family, life and religious liberty. Our vision is a Wisconsin where God is honored, families thrive, human life is cherished
and religious freedom flourishes.

CLICK here to invest in your family, faith, freedom and future!
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LEAVING A LEGACY

Because of our desire to serve and help families, our ministry is making resources available that can be useful in creating a wise giving plan.
Click HERE for more information on how you can significantly impact the Kingdom while strengthening and building families.

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Wisconsin's Cultural Indicators 2019

Click HERE to read more
Wisconsin's Cultural Indicators, 2019 Edition is
now available online HERE or
by contacting our office
at 608-268-5074
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Get To Know Your Elected Officials

Wisconsin's NEW 2019-2020
Legislative Directory
Now available for download
Click HERE to find out who your state and federal legislators are, along with their contact information.

Establish a relationship; let them know you are informed, interested, and involved.

The LGBT Agenda: You, President Trump & 19 Candidates for President 

Tonight CNN and the Human Rights Campaign are hosting a live Town Hall featuring nine of the Democratic presidential candidates. The candidates are Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar and Julian Castro. The title for tonight’s event is “Power of Our Pride” and will center entirely on the LGBT agenda. This is the first time in history such a presidential event has taken place focused on just this one issue.  The candidates will be asked how they plan to advance the LGBT agenda.
 
This is an unprecedented event and is an indicator of how aggressive the LGBT movement has become in our country. To his credit, President Trump has taken significant action to restore common sense, correct interpretation of federal laws, religious freedom, and parental rights, all of which have been threatened and even harmed by the advancement of the LGBT agenda. 

READ MORE HERE

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Tom Rost: Standing Up for All of Us
A Personal Reflection on a Critical Religious Freedom Case
by Julaine Appling, WFA President

"I hadn’t thought about the Rost family for a long time—since Casey came to visit my dad in late 2003 just before dad passed away.  And then sometime last year a lawsuit involving a Christian funeral home owner in Detroit caught my attention—and all these memories came together as I realized that it was Tom Rost, now owner of Harris Funeral Homes, who was being targeted by the LGBTQ crowd and who was standing up for what he believed. While I was surprised this was someone I knew, I wasn’t surprised Tom Rost was appropriately defending himself and his rights—on behalf of all of us.

"On Tuesday, October 8, Tom’s case was argued before the US Supreme Court—and it is a very significant case. In fact, our organization is part of a friend-of-the-court brief in this case, supporting Tom and his funeral home." 

This case will dramatically impact privacy and safety protections for women and girls in the decades to come.

• Will employers be forced to accommodate cross-dressing biological men in defiance of their corporate codes of conduct? 
• Will a biological male who claims to be "transgender" be allowed to use locker rooms, bathrooms, and private changing areas alongside biological women?
• Will high school girls lose sports scholarships to high school boys who claim to be "transgender?"

Read the rest of the transcript from this week's Wisconsin Family Connection HERE. Read the full transcript of Tuesday's arguments before the Supreme Court HERE.
Read more about this case from Alliance Defending Freedom HERE.
Read the proceedings and orders for R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission HERE. Bookmark this page to follow along.

DID YOU KNOW? Earlier this week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases asking it to decide whether the definition of sex in U.S. law includes sexual orientation and gender identity. At issue is the meaning of the word “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the primary federal law prohibiting discrimination in employment.

The cases were brought by a gay child welfare services coordinator and a gay skydiving instructor in the first argument, and, in the second argument, a male funeral home director who was fired after announcing he was transitioning to become a woman. The justices will take the next several months to wrestle with the questions in these cases and likely issue rulings by the end of June.

To learn more about these oral arguments and how each judge responded, click HERE.

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Supreme Court to Hear Case That Will Determine Fate of Wisconsin Law
Regarding Abortion Providers

The Supreme Court agreed last Friday, October 4, to hear a challenge to a Louisiana law that its opponents say would leave the state with only one doctor in a single clinic authorized to provide abortions.

The case is the court’s first on abortion since President Trump’s appointments of Gorsuch and Kavenaugh, two justices who shifted the court to the right, and the court’s ruling, expected in June, could thrust the abortion issue into the center of the presidential campaign.

The Louisiana law, which was enacted in 2014, requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. Only one doctor in Louisiana has been able to meet the requirement, the law’s challengers say.
The mainstream news says, “The case is very likely to yield an unusually telling decision, reshaping the constitutional principles governing abortion rights, because in 2016, the court struck down an essentially identical Texas law.”
 
This has bearing on us right here. Several years ago our legislature passed and Governor Walker signed into law a bill that does the exact same thing as the Louisiana law in question: requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortions are being performed. That law was immediately challenged by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and it has been hung up in the courts and never actually enacted or enforced.  Whatever the US Supreme Court decides will pretty well determine the fate of our Wisconsin law.
 

Wisconsin Family Action is your strong voice in your community, in the legislature and beyond for marriage, family, life and religious freedom. Click HERE to partner with us in our critical work in The Badger State! 

Special Guest at West Bend and Elkhorn Events!

Wisconsin Family Council is excited to announce special guest Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly (photo, left) will be joining us for two of our upcoming 2020 Vision events. Justice Kelly will be with us in West Bend this coming Tuesday, October 15 (Pizza Ranch) and in Elkhorn on Thursday, November 7(Pizza Ranch), Justice Kelly is a conservative who has served as a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice since 2016. He was appointed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to fill the unexpired term of David Prosser. He will be on the spring 2020 ballot running to retain his seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Space is limited for these events. You don’t want to miss hearing Justice Dan Kelly talk about the importance of the courts and the judicial branch, as well as the importance of justices and judges on those courts. Click HERE to place your reservation today!

Photo credit: wicourts.gov

IN THE MEDIA

WEEKLY RADIO COMMENTARY. "WISCONSIN FAMILY CONNECTION" -  Airing this week on over 20 stations statewide. Listen to "Tom Rost: Standing Up for All of Us"  HERE. Subscribe to our podcasts HERE! 

ARCHIVED:
Week of September 30, 2019 - What's the Difference: Socialism, Communism, Capitalism?
Week of September 23, 2019 - Marriage: It's Not About Your Happiness

"WISCONSIN FAMILY MINUTE" - A daily program for Christian radio stations! Click HERE for our daily program; listen or download! Click HERE to subscribe to your Wisconsin Family Minute podcasts! Find your local station HERE. If the Christian radio station you listen to isn't carrying "Wisconsin Family Minute," please encourage them to do so.  Contact us at 866-849-2536 or [email protected]. 

--WFA's president Julaine Appling is available to speak to your group, church, school, civic organization, and other events. Call 866-849-2536 to schedule.

--Dave Lingle, Wisconsin Family Council's Director of Church Relations, is available to speak in churches. Call 920-342-1928 for more information.