Muddling Toward Maturity Blog: The Social Conservative Review: The Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News -- August 20, 2012

The Family Research Council does superb work in assembling these articles. For previous issues of the Social Conservative Review, click here. The items below are found here.

Educational Freedom and Reform
Homeschooling

"Prosecutor Agrees "No Educational Neglect Transpiring"," Home School Legal Defense Association
"Teach Your Children Well," The Wall Street Journal
"Homeschoolers, Christian Schools Concerned About 'Race to the Top' Standards," The Christian Post

Legislation and Policy Proposals

"When Policymakers Attack: Two Key Lessons," Education Week
"From teacher education to student progress: Teacher quality since NCLB," American Enterprise Institute
"Back to School: Education Reform in North Carolina," The Heritage Foundation
"Back to school: How to measure a good teacher," Christian Science Monitor
"Education and Incentives," The Acton Institute
"School choice surge," WORLD Magazine

College Debt

"For Unpaid College Loans, Feds Dock Social Security," SmartMoney
"It Can Happen Here," NewGeography.com
"Scared Away from College by the Fear of Debt," St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Government Reform
Regulation

"Son of Internet Sales Tax," The Cloakroom
"The Crisis of Liberalism," Claremont Review of Books
"Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on the Moral Case for Capitalism," Reason.com

Waste/Fraud/Abuse

"Obama's Off Key Farm Subsidies Pitch," Commentary Magazine
"Is the Budget Coast Clear for State and Local Governments?," RealClearMarkets
"The Real 'Stimulus' Record," The Wall Street Journal

Health Care
Abstinence

"Young women's sexuality needs rescuing," Family Research Council
"Tebow and Lolo Shouldn't Apologize," Fox News
"Evangelicals, Premarital Sexual Ethics, and My Grocery List," First Things

Conscience Protection

"Amnesty International decries conscience clauses, Catholic bishops' ethical directives," Catholic Culture
"Conscience in the Shadow of the State," Human Events

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

"More Mediscare," The Weekly Standard
"How the Affordable Care Act reduces our liberty," Forbes.com
"The Power to Destroy," The Public Discourse
"Why Obamacare is Wrong for Women," The Galen Institute
"Curing the Physician Shortage: Systemic Change to Breed the Doctors We Need," The Atlantic

Homosexuality

"An Obscenity and a Headline Can't Discredit Study of Homosexual Parents," Family Research Council
"Black pastor: gay marriage wedge issue," ABP News
"Rasmussen: 61% Still Hold Favorable View of Chick-fil-A," Newsmax
"Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Ramps Up Pressure for Special LGBT Rights," C-FAM

Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion

"Remembering Nellie Gray, America's Pro-Life Sweetheart," Family Research Council
"Abortion-rights groups absent on pain laws," The Politico
"Pro-Abortion Rally Promises Thousands to Combat "War on Women"," LifeNews.com
"Amnesty International Uses Maternal Deaths to Push for Unrestricted Abortion," C-FAM
"Mother Jones Misinforms, Rationalizes It," National Review Online
"Fetal Pain and the Pro-life Strategy," The Catholic Thing
"Undue influence," WORLD Magazine
"Ban on Abortions in DC After 20 Weeks Protects Women's Health," LifeNews.com
"Dr. Day Gardner on abortionist's 'ugly black babies' remark: she's heard it before," LifeSiteNews.com

Bioethics and Biotechnology

"The FDA wants to regulate your cells," American Enterprise Institute
"Missouri 'Right to Pray' Law Could Limit Teaching Evolution," Science Magazine
"Christie vetoes bill that would have eased tough rules for gestational surrogates," nj.com

Euthanasia and End of Life Issues

"Bored Immortals Can Commit Suicide," Secondhand Smoke
"British NHS May Give Hospitals Money to Procure Organ Donations," LifeNews.com

Stem Cell Research
To read about the latest advances in ethical adult stem cell research, keep up with leading-edge reports from FRC's Dr. David Prentice, click here.

"What Can We Learn from the Stem Cell Debates?," The Public Discourse
"Stem cells thrive on superficial relationships," Physorg.com
"Nerve Cell Transplant Clinical Trial for Spinal Cord Injury Approved," Secondhand Smoke

Human Trafficking

"Obama Waives Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers," Turtle Bay and Beyond
"Greening the Map: Improving America's Human Trafficking Laws," The Polaris Project

Women's Health

"Marketing Natural Family Planning: promoting persons over industry," LifeSiteNews.com
"Hey Girl: Anti-Lifers Use Adorable Internet Meme to Spread Lies, Propaganda," LiveAction

Marriage and Family
Adoption

"Our Triune God & The Pastor: Adoption Conference," Patheos
"One Baby, Two Moms: a Rise in Open Adoptions," The Wall Street Journal

Family Economics

"What's In a Recovery?," The Center for Vision and Values
"The Market Is an Ecosystem," Values and Capitalism
"Married men likely to make more money than those who divorce," The Deseret News
"Economic Lessons from American History," Imprimis
"The Rich Don't Make Us Poor," The Acton Institute

Family Structure

"Saving Kids Means Saving Families," Family Research Council
"Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer and the Nature of Women's Work," Her.meneutics
"Calif. Senator Says Bill's Point is to 'Attack Parental Rights'," CitizenLink
"Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children's View," The Public Discourse
"NYT on "Gender-Creative" Children," National Review Online
"Americans Still See Marriage as Between a Man and Woman," U.S. News & World Report

Media
Pornography

"Porn: Another Executive Branch Security Problem," Family Research Council
"Facebook is ##1 place to buy and sell people, porn and child pornography," PornHarms.com

Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty

""Is Religious Freedom Necessary for Other Freedoms to Flourish?"," Family Research Council
"Miami school board won't evict church," ABP News
"Ad Says Obama Waging 'War on Religion'," The Wall Street Journal
"Do Entrepreneurs Have a Right to Religious Liberty?," The Acton Institute
"Atheist Group Demands NY School District Remove Songs Mentioning God From Curriculum," The Christian Post

Religion in America
Check out Dr. Kenyn Cureton's feature on Watchmen Pastors called "The Lost Episodes," featuring how religion has had an impact on our Founding Fathers.