Muddling Toward Maturity Blog: The Social Conservative Review: The Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News -- August 30, 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

"Homeschooling becomes more mainstream," KPRC Houston
"Control vs. trust for a homeschooling mom," WORLD Magazine
"Family's Homeschool Rights Defended," HSLDA

Legislation and Policy Proposals

"School of Hard Knocks," New York Times
"Big-City Districts Bail on Teacher-Incentive Grants," Education Week
"Back to School: How Can We Truly Help Minority Students?," The Heritage Foundation
"Undisciplined," City Journal
"What Americans said about the public schools," Phi Delta Kappan
"America May Have Too Many College Graduates," The Atlantic
"Schools respond to competition ," American Enterprise Institute

College Debt

"Growth, Not Gifts! A Solution to Student Loans," The Center for Vision and Values
"Student-Loan Debt and the Future of Seminaries," The Wall Street Journal
"5 Reasons the Student Loan Crisis is Nothing Like the Mortgage Crisis," Forbes
"Chadwick: Student Loans Are an Economic Cancer," CNBC

Government Reform
Regulation

"Raining Nonsense during a Drought," The American
"You Didn't Kill That Business On Your Own," The Acton Institute
"Free the food trucks," DoubleThink
"The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One," The Wall Street Journal

Waste/Fraud/Abuse

"Obama's Budget to Add $4.4 Trillion to Debt in Next Four Years," The Weekly Standard
"Why government needs a diet," The Washington Post
"Denver company has city award rescinded for bucking Obama health law," The Washington Times

Health Care
Abstinence

"Clovis schools sued over its sex education program," The Sacramento Bee
"Tim Tebow, Mormon singles target chastity and abstinence in New York City," The Deseret News

Conscience Protection

"More Evangelical Colleges Rise to Oppose Obama Anti-Conscience Mandate," Family Research Council
"State Orthodoxy and the Conscience," Family Research Council
"Conscience Cause," Touchstone Magazine

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

"Baptists vs. Obama's HHS," The Acton Institute
"Debunking Medicare Reform Myths," The Heritage Foundation
"Mediscare, Mediscaid, and Block Grants," The Library of Law and Liberty
"Entitlement Reforms," National Review Online
"The Real Tragedy Of ObamaCare Has Yet To Be Felt By The Poor," Forbes
"Fatal decisions: The 'death panel' issue isn't dying," WORLD Magazine

Homosexuality

"Downward," The Patriot Post
"Gay Marriage and Freedom of Expression," Hunter Baker
"Why does the same-sex marriage debate seem so futile?," MercatorNet.com
"So what's the problem in Maryland pews?," GetReligion.org
"Minn. Marriage Amendment Language Now Set," OneNewsNow

Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion

"Reflections on Rape and Abortion," The Catholic Thing
"Media Coverage Lacking Until it Shows What Abortion Really Is," LifeNews.com
"Women who cried wolf -- the illegitimate rape claim behind Roe v Wade," LifeSiteNews.com
"Poll: most Americans want some restrictions on abortion," LifeSiteNews.com
"Abortion on Demand Democrats," Secondhand Smoke
"No We Can't," Touchstone Magazine
"Obama ads' focus on abortion is unprecedented," Baptist Press
"A life unworthy to be discussed?," MercatorNet.com
"Court Says Texas Can Ban Medicaid Funds To Planned Parenthood -- For Now," Christianity Today
"Botching the abortion debate," Human Events
"Fifth Circuit Issues Two Life-Saving Decisions In One Week," Alliance Defending Freedom
"Sex Selection Abortion: A Worldwide and U.S. Problem," Charlotte Lozier Institute

Bioethics and Biotechnology

"New method helps researchers decode genomes," Physorg.com
"Glimmer of a Silver Lining in Latest Alzheimer's Trial," Science
"Readers Digest Pushes Eugenics," Secondhand Smoke

Euthanasia and End of Life Issues

"Getting Dignity Right," The Public Discourse
"Worrying About "Our Neurotic Fear of Suffering"," Secondhand Smoke

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.

"Stem cells: A culture war gone quiet," Salon
"FDA Approves Adult Stem Cell Trial for People With Autism," LifeNews.com
"Stem cells can become anything -- but not without this protein," Physorg.com
"A Legal Win for Stem Cell Research, but Case May Not Be Over," Science
"Stem cell therapy shows promise in repairing stress urinary incontinence," Medical XPress

Human Trafficking

"Arms, drugs, and human trafficking: What does the future hold for northern Mali?," Christian Science Monitor
"Baking Toward Freedom: How One Woman is Changing the World From Her Kitchen," Shared Hope International

Women's Health

"In Vitro Fertilization: The Human Cost," Crisis Magazine
"Texas can ban Planned Parenthood from Women's Health Program," Pegasus News

Marriage and Family
Adoption

"Officials say Florida's moving faster in finding good adoption match-ups for foster kids," The Palm Beach Post
"Five Verses on Adoption," Challies.com

Family Economics

"U.S. Incomes Fell More In Recovery, Sentier Says," Bloomberg
"Solidarity and the Welfare State," The American Catholic
"Are Free Markets Compatible with the Bible?," Economics for Everybody
"The Economic Principles of America's Founders: Property Rights, Free Markets, and Sound Money," The Heritage Foundation
"Was Robin Hood a Just Character?," Values & Capitalism

Family Structure

"Civil unions and true marriage," WORLD Magazine
"Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary," The Atlantic
"Nine Ways the Gospel Transforms Marriage," Desiring God
"Date Your Wife: Men Have Responsibility and Power," Crosswalk
"Science: Marriage Makes Women Drink," National Review Online

Media
Pornography

"Republican Party Platform Change Targets Illegal Adult Pornography," PornHarms.com
"GOP platform calls for crackdown on 'all forms' of pornography," The Daily Caller

Internet

"Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, PC?," The American
"Jurors Grappled With Complex Patent Issues in $1B Apple vs. Samsung Trial," The FedSoc Blog
"Vacating the Internet," Challies.com

Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty

"Obama's War on Religious Freedom," The Catholic Thing
"Back to Things That Matter: Actual Violations of Religious Liberty," National Review Online
"Professor Fired from Atlanta Seminary Over Evangelical Beliefs?," Christianity Today
"Christians victims of rising 'hostility' from gov't and secular groups, report says," Fox News
"Running The Race - Hercules Holds Firm To Religious Beliefs," Alliance Defending Freedom

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.