AFA of PA Week in Review
AFA of PA encourages Christians, through education, to become involved in pro-family issues in their community, state and the nation. This is some of what has been going on in the Commonwealth and the nation.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
“The grateful Pilgrims therefore declared a three-day feast in December 1621 to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends – America’s first Thanksgiving Festival. Ninety Wampanoag Indians joined the fifty Pilgrims for three days of feasting (which included shellfish, lobsters, turkey, corn bread, berries, deer, and other foods), of play (the young Pilgrim and Wampanoag men engaged in races, wrestling matches, and athletic events), and of prayer. This celebration and its accompanying activities were the origin of the holiday that Americans now celebrate each November.”
Read MoreAFA of PA Week in Review
AFA of PA encourages Christians, through education, to become involved in pro-family issues in their community, state and the nation. This is some of what has been going on in the Commonwealth and the nation.
Read MoreAction Alert – Act Quickly to Keep Gambling out of Your Backyard!
The end of October saw the biggest gambling expansion in Pennsylvania signed into law. The expansion makes Pennsylvania the Nevada of the east and will only create more problems down the road! We now have online gambling, gambling at airports, video gaming terminals at truck stops, mini casinos , etc. etc. However, the law does allow local municipalities to opt out of allowing mini-casinos and certain counties can opt out VGTs in truck stops. But they only have until the end of the year to pass resolutions and get them to Harrisburg!
Read MoreAction Alert – Stop Taxpayer Funding of Sex Change Operations for Children
HB 1388 is the bill to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program or CHIP. In the Senate an amendment was added that would prohibit the use of tax dollars for so-called sex reassignment surgeries for children in the program. The bill passed in the senate by a vote of 37-13 and it is now in the House. LGBT activists are pressuring House leadership to remove the amendment from the final bill.
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