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David Barton
Founder and President, WallBuilders
- America: A Christian Nation
- The Rights of Conscience
- The Founding Fathers on Spending and Debt
- Textbooks: Deconstructionism & Post-structuralism
- Jewish & Christian Cooperation in Early America
WallBuilders is an organization dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the moral, religious, and constitutional foundations. David will have four presentations during the conference, including “God and the Constitution,” documenting the many clauses showing the Christian construction of the Constitution; “The Founding Fathers on Spending & Debt,” examining their views on issues such as stimulus and bailout bills; “The Rights of Conscience,” presenting the historic views on the topic and why the president’s attempted repeal of that right threatens the entire fabric of the nation; and “Marriage & No-Fault Divorce,” showing both historical and Biblical positions on the subject.
David FrenchAlliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom Protecting Students' Rights on Liberal Campuses
David French is senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (one of the nation’s premier constitutional rights legal groups) and director of the ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom. He has led ADF’s efforts to restore the marketplace of ideas to university campuses, concentrating especially on religious freedom issues. David has litigated several high profile university cases, including challenges to speech codes and coerced indoctrination on campus. He will provide updates on recent legislative efforts to protect students’ rights and give recommendations on what states can do to protect the rights of conservative students on what too often are liberal and often hostile public university campuses.
Maggie GallagherPresident, National Organization for Marriage The Case for Marriage
Maggie is a nationally-syndicated columnist and a national leader in research and public education on ways that law and public policy can strengthen marriage as a social institution. She is also the author of three books on marriage, including most recently The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially. As a leading intellectual voice in the traditional marriage movement, National Journal named her to the 2004 list of the most influential people in the same-sex marriage debate. She is currently assisting several states in implementing new legislative measures to strengthen marriage.
Kim KoppelmanState Representative, North Dakota
Immediate Past President of Council of State Governments Limiting Government Regulations
Kim, who has served in the North Dakota House of Representatives since 1994, is a regularly featured speaker at national meetings, conferences, and academies as well as a guest lecturer at colleges and universities on government, public policy, media, and the legislative process and president of an award-winning advertising, public relations, and marketing firm. As CSG Chairman last year, he organized the first national Interbranch Summit of the States, focusing upon the roles and relationships among the three branches of government. As a freshman legislator, in 1995, Rep. Koppelman sponsored sweeping regulatory reform legislation, which the Chairman of North Dakota's Legislative Council called the most important legislation passed that session. He will share ways legislators can limit burdensome government regulations, while actually improving their relationship with other branches of state government.
Rabbi Daniel LapinAmerican Alliance of Jews and Christians A Biblical View of Socialism & Ethical Capitalism
Daniel, a gifted communicator and ardent advocate for faith, family & fortune, is a Jewish community leader, national broadcaster, scholar, speaker and best-selling author. In 2007, Newsweek listed him as one of America’s fifty most influential rabbis. He heads the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, a non-profit organization working to advance our nation toward the traditional Judeo-Christian values that defined America’s creation and became the blueprint for her greatness. Daniel’s clear presentation shows why Socialism is not Biblical but ethical free-market Capitalism is.
Joan LindseyLindsey Communications Media Training
Formerly vice president of Media Communications for one of the nation's largest and most successful distributors of Pepsi Cola products, Joan is now founder and president of a media/marketing consulting and communications training organization dedicated to equipping key conservatives and Christian leaders. Joan will be available throughout the conference for one on one training sessions as a part of your registration. If you prefer to schedule your session early on Thursday to avoid missing another session, please register ASAP for your session.
Greg LukianoffPresident, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Protecting Students' Rights on Liberal Campuses
Greg is the current president and former director of legal and public advocacy at FIRE – a group that defends individual rights at America’s colleges and universities, especially the rights of freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience. Too often, colleges and universities deny students and faculty their voices, their fundamental rights, and even their individual humanity, instead subjecting them to the indoctrination of radical political orthodoxies, to legal inequality, and to intrusion into private conscience. Greg will address the threats to these rights that currently exist on our campuses and the means that state legislatures can use to help preserve those rights.
Kenneth MarcusDennis Ybarra
Institute for Jewish & Community Research The Islamization of American Textbooks
Kenneth is the Director, and Dennis is a Research Associate, of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research’s Initiative to Combat Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism in America’s Education Systems.
They have documented the revisionism that has occurred in schools relative to the inclusion of inaccurate Islamic propaganda and the denigration of Judeo-Christian history in American history textbooks. They will also present ways that legislators can help ensure accuracy in the classroom, with a proper presentation of American faith and values. Kenneth publishes and speaks widely in the areas of constitutional, civil rights, and education law, and religious discrimination, and Dennis is the coauthor of The Trouble With Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion, an examination of the anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism that saturate elementary and secondary school social studies learning materials in America’s public schools.
Bob McEwen Former Congressman Conservative Economic Principles
Congressman McEwen reveals why some cities prosper while others are in a state of collapse – why some states are robust and growing while others are in deficit and decline – why some nations are rich and vibrantly full of innovation while others export poverty and refugees. When Bob is finished, all will be able to explain the simple formula that has made America the envy of the world.
Mike McManusPresident & Co-Chair, Marriage Savers Strengthening Marriage
Mike is founder of Marriage Savers, an organization that helps communities cut their divorce and cohabitation rates and raise their marriage rates. They have helped hundreds of cities adopt a Community Marriage Policy, and according to a study by the Institute for Research & Evaluation, in the first 114 cities with a Community Marriage Policy, divorce rates dropped significantly, having saved from 30,000 to 50,000 marriages by 2001. Six years later and with 100 more CMP cities, an estimated 100,000 divorces have been averted. Mike, who has authored numerous books, including his latest, How To Cut America's Divorce Rate in Half, will share specific measures that states can enact to help strengthen marriage and reduce divorce.
Nikolas T. Nikas, Esq.President & General Counsel, Bioethics Defense Fund Conscience Protection and Sanctity of Life
Since 1992, Nik has directed national legal strategy on the issues of human cloning/embryonic stem cell research, abortion and end-of-life issues. His areas of expertise include legislation, litigation, and public education. He impacts legislative strategy by drafting life-protective model legislation and by consulting with legislators in all 50 states and Congress. He also testifies in legislative committees on the constitutionality of bioethics legislation. In addition to updating us on the legal status of life issues, he will specifically address the issue of health care rights of conscience and ways that they may be preserved against the current federal efforts to remove those rights.
Gary PalmerPresident, Alabama Policy Institute Consent Decrees
Gary Palmer directs the Alabama Policy Institute, a research and education organization dedicated to the preservation of free markets, limited government, and strong families, all of which are indispensable to a prosperous society. Gary has documented the adverse effects on constitutional rights of consent decrees – a legal procedure whereby a defendant agrees to cease his activities in exchange for the charges against him being dropped. This process is often used to extort from individuals an agreement to desist from constitutional activities in order to avoid the extended and expensive process of defending those constitutional rights against a plethora of government attorneys and unlimited resources. Gary will present ways that state legislatures can help preserve the constitutional rights of individuals by limiting the use of consent decrees.
John StembergerPresident & General Counsel, Florida Family Policy Council Strengthening Marriage Through Divorce Reform
John is President of the Florida Family Policy Council and was State Chairman of the Florida4Marriage.org campaign that successfully amended the state constitution to define marriage between one man and one woman. He is also behind the “Florida Judicial Accountability Project,” having filed a federal lawsuit against the Florida Bar and Judicial Qualifications Commission to strike down Florida's gag order which prohibits judicial candidates from addressing issues during their elective campaigns. His effort in this area reflects not only current decisions by the U. S. Supreme Court allowing judicial candidates to address those issues but also comports with the precedent of other states that have already abolished that antiquated judicial policy. Currently, John has partnered with Mike McManus and Marriage Savers to enact state legislative policies that reduce divorce and strengthen marriage.
Tim BrooksApplied Life Ministries Devotional Messages
Tim Brooks is Senior Pastor of Christian Ministries Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he also heads a Bible College and a massive summer youth camp. Raised on a ranch and working hard his entire life, during the inspirational evening sessions Tim will present Biblical lessons that are practical, humorous, and uplifting.
David GrotheGrothe Ministries Inspirational Music
National recording artist Dave Grothe will provide inspirational and patriotic music during conference dinners and will also lead the Sunday morning devotional service.
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