Muddling Toward Maturity Blog: The Social Conservative Review: The Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News -- November 29, 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

""Come Peacefully Now or by Force Later"," Home School Legal Defense Association
"Kenya To Outlaw Homeschooling?," OneNewsNow
"Home-schooling pioneer Susan Wise Bauer is well-versed in controversy," The Washington Post

Legislation and Policy Proposals

"Court: Schools Can't Sue Parents of Disabled Children over Religious Vouchers," Christianity Today
"Americans Are Proud of U.S. Colleges but Not of Their Direction," The Chronicle of Higher Education
"New Graduation Rate Data Show Large Achievement Gaps," Education Week
"Evaluating Teachers AND Administrators," Education Next
"The Case for Educational Pluralism," First Things

College Debt

"Children's Education, but Parents' Crushing Loans," New York Times
"Student Loan Debt is a Losing Gamble for Many Central Valley Students," Modesto Bee

Government Reform
Regulation

"Here Comes the Regulatory Flood," The Wall Street Journal
"Let's Raise Taxes on the Middle Class," The American
"Does government need to grow?," American Enterprise Institute

Waste/Fraud/Abuse

"How to Approach the 'Fiscal Cliff'," National Review Online
"Heat without Light," The American

Health Care
Abstinence

"Young Blood and Good News: A Report from the Sex Wars in Princeton, NJ," The American Thinker
"Bishop: Abstinence, fidelity sure ways to avoid HIV," GMA News
"'Two and a Half Men' star chooses sexual purity over $350,000 weekly salary," LifeSiteNews.com

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

"What do the Waiters at Red Lobster and Some Adjunct Profs Have in Common? Obamacare.," Family Research Council
"Another Victory for Challengers of HHS Mandate," National Review Online
"Tightening the Noose: Hobby Lobby vs. Sebelius," Economics for Everybody
"Three More States Approve Ballot Initiatives to Block Health Care Mandate," The Galen Institute
"Massive Fines and Growing Anxieties: The HHS Mandate," The Acton Institute

Homosexuality

"The Irony of the November 2012 Marriage Votes," Family Research Council
"The Wisdom of Upholding Tradition," The Wall Street Journal
"The Marriage Debate and the History of Homosexuality," National Review Online
"National Post-Election Survey Reveals Widespread Support for Defining Marriage as the Union of One Man and One Woman," National Organization for Marriage
"What the latest poll on same-sex marriage really says," The Iona Institute

Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion

"Chinese study shows abortion increases breast cancer risk," Family Research Council
"How Obama's 'Life of Julia' Prevailed," The Wall Street Journal
"US abortions drop 5 percent during recession; more birth control, bad economy likely causes," Associated Press
"Michigan Republicans trying to pass law that would give tax breaks (i.e. personhood) to fetuses," God Discussion
"Media misleads on reasons behind abortion decline," LifeSiteNews.com
"Potentiality Rightly Understood," The Public Discourse
"Disabilities group opposes UN treaty," WORLD Magazine
"How Many Women Have Pro-Life Laws Saved?," First Things
"Planned Parenthood: A Rose by Any Other Name...?," Alliance Defending Freedom

Bioethics and Biotechnology

"Bioethicists Say Researchers Should Advocate for Use of Newborn Screening Samples," GenomeWeb
"UPenn offers new queer bioethics course," CampusReform.org
"AI Might Emulate the Brain But Never the Mind," National Review Online

Euthanasia and End of Life Issues

"Enlightened Death: The Argument for Assisted Suicide," Family Research Council
"One-sided reports in Canada and the UK ignore data concerning euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands," National Right to Life

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.

"Remembering Pioneers in Patient Treatments," Family Research Council
"Paralyzed Dogs Walk Again," National Review Online
"Transposable elements reveal a stem cell specific class of long noncoding RNAs," Phys.org
"Adult Stem Cell Research Pioneers Deserve More Attention," LifeNews.com

Human Trafficking

"Nigerian Sex Trafficking Victims Abandoned," Voice of America
"Christian Workers Save Trafficked Girls in India," Patheos
"An Escape From Sex Slavery," Newsweek

Marriage and Family
Adoption

"With adoption, it's not who you are - it's how you parent," The Guardian
"National Adoption Month raises awareness," Fox News
"Social media now playing a role in adoptions," News4Jax.com

Family Economics

"Is Capitalism Over?," Family Research Council
"Blasted Twinkie Killers!," The Center for Vision and Values
"Lenders and Spenders: Confronting the Political Reality of Debt," The American
"It's Not Just the Economy's Fault," Values & Capitalism
"Stability and "Creative Destruction" in the Home and Economy," Mere Orthodoxy
"Family's economic situation influences brain function in children," MedicalXpress

Family Structure

"Better Bystanders or Moral Courage?," Family Research Council
"The Blessing of Children," The New Atlantis
"Opting Out of Parenthood, With Finances in Mind," New York Times
"The Disappearing-Family Problem," The Weekly Standard
"The Future of Marriage: Why "The Inevitable" Is Not Inevitable," The Public Discourse
"The Abolition of Man-and-Woman: On Marriage, Grammar, and Legal Strategy," The Public Discourse
"The chemistry of marriage," WORLD Magazine
"FactChecker: Who Really Started the Family 'Culture War'?," The Gospel Coalition

Media
Pornography

"Appalachian State Chancellor Defends Discipline of Professor Who Showed Film About Porn," The Chronicle of Higher Education
"My porn addiction," LifeSiteNews.com

Internet

"Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)," The Atlantic
"Social Media in Warfare: The New Battleground," The Heritage Foundation

Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty

"UK Catholics might lose charitable status for not offering communion to everyone," LifeSiteNews.com
"Religious Freedom, Persecution Of The Church, And Martyrdom," Papal Nuncio
"The Naked Private Square," The Acton Institute
"At EU, Faithful Christians Need Not Apply?," First Things
"Supreme Court Says No to Hypersecularist Attack on Religious Freedom," The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
"Judge Denies Request for Nativity Displays in Santa Monica," The FedSoc Blog
"Montana Denies Tuition Benefits To Religious Preschoolers," 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.