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Pence: WH Still Weighing Jerusalem Embassy Move

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Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday the White House continues to give “serious consideration” to moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

And President Donald Trump is “personally committed to resolving the Israeli and Palestinian conflict” and is “making valuable progress” toward that goal, Pence said at an Israeli Independence Day commemoration.

Like most countries, the United States maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv because Israelis and Palestinians have competing claims to Jerusalem. Israel considers Jerusalem its undivided capital but Palestinians seek east Jerusalem for the capital of a future state. (Read more from “Pence: WH Still Weighing Jerusalem Embassy Move” HERE)

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The Leftist Attacks on Pence’s Moral Guidelines Are a Denial of Human Nature

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The left’s bizarre and almost hysterical reaction to Vice President Pence’s marital guidelines is not only off point. It misses the most essential point of all. Namely, that it’s Pence’s high esteem for women — and for the most important woman in his life, his own wife — that fuels his moral choices. At the same time, the leftist response reveals a glaring lack of self-awareness.

Uproar Over Pence’s Personal Rule

The uproar began last week when the Washington Post published Ashley Parker’s article, “Karen Pence is the vice president’s ‘prayer warrior,’ gut check and shield.”

The title of this article points to the key role Karen Pence plays in her husband’s life. You might think that would draw praise from feminists and leftists. But no. The article drew rabid responses, including Laura Chapin’s call at US News to “lock him up” (seriously).

Most of the criticism focused on one revelation. “In 2002,” Parker wrote, “Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.”

Chapin, a Democratic strategist, responded with this rant:

Then lock him up. Because if your only concept of women is whether you want to have sex with them, something is seriously wrong with you. It presumes women exist only in terms of how men define and perceive them, without autonomy or self-determination. Women exist solely for procreation, which is to be determined and directed by men.

Memo to Mike Pence and the other right-wing men: Women come in more categories than prey and invisible. And none of them want to have sex with you.

Still breathing fire, she concluded her article with this: “Whether Pence is in a room with a single woman is silly but irrelevant. What matters is the millions of American women, and women abroad, to whom his retrograde beliefs and policies pose a threat.” (She was also referring here to the fact that “Pence broke a tie in the Senate to OK legislation allowing states to bar Planned Parenthood from getting public health grants.”)

The Criticism Kept Coming

Not to be outdone, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal tweeted, “The calling card of all religious fundamentalism: terror of women.” He referenced the tweet of Danish journalist Martin Burcharth: “How differrent [sic] is VP from Orthodox Muslim men? Mike Pence doesn’t eat alone with women.”

On my own Twitter feed, Susan wrote, “Christians will criticize Muslim women for wearing hijabs, but Pence would exclude their presence altogether. That oppression is OK though.”

Over at Vox, attorney Joanna L. Grossman opined that “the practice described by Pence in that 2002 interview is clearly illegal when practiced by a boss in an employment setting, and deeply damaging to women’s employment opportunities.”

Also at Vox, in more moderate tones, a female, evangelical university professor suggested that “good character is better than strict rules,” as if the two had to be in conflict. To the contrary, good character often results in strict rules, although strict rules alone hardly produce good character.

In truth, Mike Pence is exercising good, old-fashioned common sense that is all too rare these days.

Human Beings Get Tempted

Pence sees that it’s easy for human beings to fall into temptation. He made clear that he’s seen all too many marriages destroyed during his years in politics. He said:

I’ve lost more elections than I’ve won. I’ve seen friends lose their families. I’d rather lose an election. … Little old ladies come and say, ‘Honey, whatever you need to do, keep your family together.’”

What happens when you spend more time with a woman other than your wife? What happens when you share your victories and sorrows with someone other than your spouse? What happens when you put in late hours together, behind closed doors, leaning on one other for support? (One of Pence’s guidelines was never to work late alone with a female aid.)

The reality is that many, if not most affairs, begin with an emotional attachment rather than a physical attachment.

And let’s remember that Pence is not just protecting himself and his wife Karen. He’s also protecting the women who work for him. Some might grow attached to him and fall into the same dangerous cycle. (If I recall, President Clinton had a bit of a problem with one of his female interns.)

And just imagine what could happen if Pence was accused of sexual impropriety. As one of my Twitter followers observed, “The same liberals would be quick to judge and condemn him if he were to be involved in a sexual act outside of his marriage.”

Looking in the Mirror is Painful

Given all of this, why do so many on the left object to Pence’s rules? Are marriages so solid that safeguards aren’t needed? Is there a need to increase adultery in America? Should we declare war on fidelity?

As Frank Camp wrote on the Daily Wire:

Elected officials in Washington, D.C. are just as flawed as any other human being. Additionally, men and women in positions of power are more frequently the target of unwanted advances, unsubstantiated accusations, and tabloid speculation. Given the environment in which elected officials live, the limitations Pence applies to himself are admirable and prudent.

Camp is right. I for one am glad to have guard rails on the sides of mountainous roads. Or, for that matter, concrete medians in the center of a six-lane highways). And the most conscientious drivers are the first to put on their seat belts. As the old adage goes, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Or, in the words of the apostle Paul, “Let him who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall” (1 Corinthians 10:12).

That’s just what Mike Pence has done. He knows that overconfidence can kill. Many on the left, perhaps in denial of human sin, must concoct a different story for Pence’s guidelines. Ironically, in so doing, they reveal an aspect of our fallen nature, namely, our tendency to deceive ourselves about who we really are.

Sometimes it’s hard to look in the mirror. (For more from the author of “The Leftist Attacks on Pence’s Moral Guidelines Are a Denial of Human Nature” please click HERE)

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Ladies, Would You Rather Be Married to Mike Pence, or Anthony Weiner?

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The latest batch of manufactured outrage on the left has been produced by the Mike and Karen Pence profile that revealed some tools Mike uses to live out his marital vow of faithfulness. As Anika Smith wrote here at The Stream:

Mike and Karen Pence abide by a version of the Billy Graham Rule. In a 2002 interview, then- congressman Pence said he doesn’t drink without his wife present, nor does he dine alone with other women.

This common-sense rule stands out in a town like DC, where many, many marriages have fallen apart because of affairs.

As Smith’s piece pointed out, feminists on social media looked for ways to cast the Pences’ mutually agreed upon rule for their marriage as dehumanizing for women. Or something.

It amazes me that the same secular relativists who will defend any sexual fetish will presume to remark on the details of a marriage. Aren’t both of the Pences “consenting adults”? If fidelity is their kink, who are we to judge?

And wasn’t it just five minutes ago that the same feminists were outraged that Donald Trump did not take steps to be faithful to his pre-Melania wives? That he acted and talked like a “player”? Morality changes so quickly on the left that it’s difficult to keep up.

Take the Survey, Girls

In fact, it’s really hard to believe that any woman who has ever been in love with a man genuinely objects to the Pence Plan. To test that out, I created a little Twitter poll, which appears below:

Women want men to be more like:

Mike Pence
Anthony Weiner
Bill Clinton
Bruce Jenner
— John Zmirak (@JZmirak) March 30, 2017

Any woman who actually felt “triggered” when she read about the Pences owes the rest of us her answer.

Of course, the response I expect instead is the typical feminist “audible eyeroll.” Then a lengthy and testy insistence that those aren’t the only options. Who am I to say that women need to pick among those four alternatives? “There you go again, limiting women’s options and depriving them of agency … just like you want to limit their reproductive health care options!”

The proper response to that, of course, is the line I’ve used before on college campuses: “Oh, I’m not really pro-life. I’m anti-choice. Life is cheap, and they’re only babies. I just want to restrict women’s reproductive health care options.” That ends the conversation, every time.

If I worked at a godless or a Jesuit college, or a big, timid corporation, I might expect to be summoned to Human Resources with a complaint from a nameless female co-worker that my Twitter poll made her feel “unsafe.”

There is No Fifth Option

The truth is that those four choices are exhaustive. You have to pick one. Just so, each man must pick which road he will travel down. In the moral life nothing is fixed. You are always in motion toward goodness and health or sin and sickness, till your last dying breath.

Mike Pence has clearly taken the measure of himself, and determined what he needs to do to keep his sexuality within the bonds of a loving marriage. For a handsome fellow in a position of power, his rules seem sane and sensible. They bespeak a man who knows the reality of temptation, who loves his wife and their marriage enough to take the simplest steps to protect them.

Male sexuality is a real thing, with a genuine shape that differs from the feminine variety. (Though both sexes clearly cheat, and women must stay on guard as well, as Chelen Vicari sagely notes.) The male sex drive is a force of nature, made strong for good biological reasons, and tainted (like everything else) by the Fall. Like anger, ambition, acquisitiveness, or any other drive it must be controlled. Or it controls us.

Or You Could Marry Bill Clinton

Which brings us to Option B, Bill Clinton. Are the women who mock the Pences for their marital plan ready to talk about Bill and Hillary’s arrangement? You know, where Bill cheats with weaker, poorer women, then bullies and blackmails them into silence with his wife’s sullen consent and active support?

I bring this up not solely to mock and humiliate the Clintons on a deeply personal issue. Bill Clinton could be the picture in the dictionary next to “Piggish Male Behavior.”

If a powerful man (like the governor of a state, or a vice president) wants to treat women this way, he will not be short of takers. But lesser men can get away with it too — as the tens of millions of single moms in America could testify. The generation of fatherless kids who are growing up today would back them up.

As grateful as they were that Bill was solidly pro-abortion, I don’t think most feminists would choose the Clinton option.

Carlos Danger Signals

Am I saying that if a man doesn’t take steps like Mike Pence, he will end up acting like Bill Clinton? No.

He could act like Anthony Weiner — humiliating a young and beautiful wife by dragging his sex drive through the bottomless online sewers of pornography and “sexting.”

There is plenty a man can get away with and get addicted to online without ever meeting a stranger in the flesh. I don’t think I need to spell this out, or to point out how damaging that can be to a healthy marriage. Skeptics can ask poor Huma.

So feminists won’t pick Weiner.

Pray for Bruce Jenner. Don’t Imitate Him, Even a Little

If they’re true to their theories, feminists would surely choose Bruce Jenner. Set aside the mental illness which drives the poor man to such gross extremes as dosing himself with dangerous drugs, humiliating his children and camping around in drag.

What feminists really claim to want from men is a milder version of Jenner: Someone who suppresses, beats down, and denies what it means to be a man. Who internalizes the guilt that feminism sprays men with like a firehose. And yet who (like Jenner) is somehow still attracted to women. A tame man, a damaged man, a man who is no threat at all.

At least that’s what feminists think they want. In fact, they’re probably secretly more attracted to Clinton. They’d be better off with Pence. What they’ll end up with is Weiner.

Who said that there’s no justice in the world? (For more from the author of “Ladies, Would You Rather Be Married to Mike Pence, or Anthony Weiner?” please click HERE)

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Murkowski Votes to Force States to Continue Planned Parenthood Funding, VP Pence Breaks Tie Vote

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Vice President Mike Pence voted to allow states to defund Planned Parenthood Thursday. His vote tipped a divided Senate.

Passed in the House last month, the bill overturns part of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate. The former rule prevented states from defunding abortion clinics.

States are now free to opt out of funding services of Title X of the Public Health Service Act. Title X focuses only on family planning.

Republicans are using the Congressional Review Act to overturn the HHS rule. It allows a new Congress to overturn last-minute actions of the previous administration. The Obama administration passed the HHS rule in December 2016. As The Atlantic reported, it was a “last-ditch attempt to protect Planned Parenthood.”

The Senate needed Pence’s vote since two republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, voted to keep the rule. Two independents and every Democratic senator also voted to keep the rule.

The Associated Press reported that a final vote could happen later Thursday. Pence will likely have to break the tie again.

Editor’s Note: A second vote was held. An ailing Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) obtained permission from his doctor to return to Washington for one day. Isakson cast his vote to deny federal funding to abortion providers. The legislation was sent to President Trump, who is expected to sign it.

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Pence’s AOL Account Is Not the Same as Hillary’s Emails – Here’s Why

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Democrats are seizing on a new report that Vice President Mike Pence used an AOL account to conduct state business while he was governor of Indiana . . .

The hashtag #PenceEmails is trending on social media this morning, with critics calling out Pence’s own “Email-Gate.”

The critics argue Pence did the same thing as Hillary Clinton after he and President Trump strongly criticized her last year for using a private email server while she was secretary of state.

But as Ed Henry pointed out today, the two situations are not the same.

Henry pointed out that the scandal involving Clinton was over her mishandling of classified information on the server, which is not the case with Pence. (Read more from “Pence’s AOL Account Is Not the Same as Hillary’s Emails – Here’s Why” HERE)

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Pence Highlights Administration’s Commitment to School Choice in Meeting With Black College Leaders

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Vice President Mike Pence stressed to a group of college administrators that the Trump administration is committed to greater education choice for elementary and high school students.

The vice president spoke Monday at the White House Historically Black Colleges and Universities 2017 Listening Session at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, near the White House. The bulk of his remarks were about the contributions of the more than 100 HBCUs in 19 states, and the administration’s desire to partner with the schools.

With Education Secretary Betsy DeVos attending, Pence also stressed the importance of improving education in a child’s early years.

“Secretary DeVos is dedicated to expanding opportunities through educational choice all across this country, ensuring that whether it’s a public school, a public charter school, or even a private school, that parents on an increasing basis are able to choose for their young children the school regardless of their income and area code,” Pence said.

Research has shown education choice to be particularly helpful to minority communities.

A Harvard study of New York City found minority students with scholarships “to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor’s degree.”

A Department of Education study of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program found participants had a 21 percentage point increase in graduation rates.

The Trump administration could be moving away from the policies of the Obama administration, which sought to defund the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, said Lindsey Burke, director of education policy studies at The Heritage Foundation.

Though, Burke added, the federal government is fairly limited in what it can do on the issue, aside from President Donald Trump, DeVos, and others using the bully pulpit to promote choice. The exception for a direct impact is the D.C. program, which is funded through Congress.

“Trump could do a lot as a sign of support and expand school choice in a big way by transitioning D.C. to an all choice system,” Burke told The Daily Signal.

During his first week in office, Trump issued a proclamation marking National School Choice Week, which said:

With a renewed commitment to expanding school choice for our children, we can truly make a great education possible for every child in America.

I commend our nation’s students, parents, teachers, and school leaders for their commitment to quality, effective education, and I call on states and communities to support effective education and school choice for every child in America.

As our country celebrates National School Choice Week, I encourage parents to evaluate the educational opportunities available for their children. I also encourage state lawmakers and federal lawmakers to expand school choice for millions of additional students.

(For more from the author of “Pence Highlights Administration’s Commitment to School Choice in Meeting With Black College Leaders” please click HERE)

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Pence Vows to End ‘Obamacare Nightmare’

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Vice President Mike Pence attempted to assure conservative activists on Thursday that Obamacare is on its way out.

“Let me assure you,” Pence said at the annual Conservative Action Political Conference, or CPAC. “America’s Obamacare nightmare is about to end.”

As plans to repeal and replace Obamacare remain in limbo, Pence made the issue centerfold in his keynote address at CPAC, the largest annual gathering of conservatives. Pence promised to repeal Obamacare, “eliminating its mandates, its taxes, and its intrusion into your business and into your lives,” saying Obamacare would be “replaced with something that actually works.”

“Despite the best efforts of liberal activists in town halls around the country,” Pence added, “The American people know better. Obamacare has failed and Obamacare must go.”

“This failed law is crippling the American economy and crushing the American people.”

Adding fuel to the fire, Pence referred to the “promises liberals made about Obamacare” as “fake news.”

“Remember they told us the cost of insurance would go down. They told us if you liked your doctor, you could keep [him]. They told us if you liked your health plan, you could keep it.”

“Now we all know the truth. Today Americans are paying $3,000 more a year on average for their health insurance. Last year, premiums skyrocketed by a stunning 25 percent. Millions have lost their plans and lost their doctors. Higher costs. Fewer choices. Worse care. That’s Obamacare.”

He also said the Affordable Care Act was a “job killer.”

Discussing replacing Obamacare, Pence was dismissive of “all the fearmongering from the left,” and said there would be “an orderly transition to a better health care system that finally puts the American people first.”

He detailed what he and President Donald Trump would do to ensure all Americans had “access to quality and affordable health care insurance, which is why we’re designing a better law that lowers the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government.”

Pence continued:

We’re going to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines, the way you buy your life insurance, the way you buy your car insurance.

We’re going to make sure that Americans with preexisting conditions have access to health insurance and the security they need, and we’re going to give states the freedom and flexibility to take care of the least fortunate in the best way that will work in their state and in their community.

It was Pence’s ninth time addressing CPAC, but his first time doing so as vice president. CPAC, the largest annual national gathering of conservative activists, runs from Wednesday to Saturday at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington.

Pence spoke about Trump’s “historic” victory, noting he won 30 of 50 states, and saying that “the media, the elites, the insiders, everybody else who profits off preserving the status quo,” had “dismissed our president every step of the way.”

“In dismissing him, they also dismissed millions of the hard-working forgotten men and women who make this country great,” Pence said. “And worse yet, they’re still trying to dismiss him. They’re still trying to dismiss all of us.”

“What they should have learned on Election Day is this is not a government of the elites, by the media, or for the establishment. What Nov. 8th showed, even if they didn’t listen, is that this is still government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

But he also cautioned the “fight didn’t end” on Election Day, saying “the harder work, the most important work, now lies ahead.”

In addition to repealing and replacing Obamacare, Pence highlighted several additional top agenda items under the Trump administration. These included rescinding “unconstitutional executive orders signed by Barack Obama,” rolling back “job-killing regulations,” strengthening the military, and reducing taxes. He said under Trump, “no state will ever be forced to adopt the Common Core [standards],” and highlighted the administration’s approach to Israel, “our most cherished ally.”

“Israel’s fight is our fight. Her cause is our cause. Her values are our values.”

The vice president also highlighted the top figures in the Trump administration. Mentioning Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Housing secretary pick Ben Carson, Pence said “This is the A team.”

“President Trump has assembled the strongest conservative cabinet in my lifetime, bar none,” Pence said.

Pence told conservatives they have a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to accomplish this agenda. “My friends, this is our time. This is the chance we worked so long to see.”

In order to accomplish all this, Pence said, “We got to mobilize. We got to march forward as if it’s the most important time in the history of our movement, because it is.”

He called on young conservatives “use social media to fight back.”

And pray.

“More than anything,” Pence concluded, “Trump and I need your prayers.” (For more from the author of “Pence Vows to End ‘Obamacare Nightmare'” please click HERE)

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Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to increase federal involvement in state and local election systems by designating them as “critical infrastructure” for national security.

Members of the National Association of Secretaries of State voted Saturday at their winter meeting to oppose the designation. They are asking President Donald Trump to overturn it.

Former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was also Trump’s vice presidential-elect during much of the period covered by the DHS scans of the Indiana system.

Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, the incoming president of the association, told The DCNF Tuesday that, “we know that between November 1 and December 16 we were scanned with about 14,800 scans, nearly 15,000 different times.” (Read more from “Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor” HERE)

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For the Dignity and Worth of Every Person

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Forgive me, as I’m feeling dizzy and disoriented by the events of the last week.

On Friday I heard Vice President Mike Pence give a beautiful speech at the March For Life, inspiring pro-lifers with the hope that “life is winning” and painting an image of the movement as one for compassion and gentleness:

But as it is written, ‘Let your gentleness be evident to all.’ Let this movement be known for love, not anger. Let this movement be known for compassion, not confrontation. When it comes to matters of the heart, there is nothing stronger than gentleness.

I believe that we will continue to win the hearts and minds of the rising generation if our hearts first break for young mothers and their unborn children, and if we each of us do all we can to meet them where they are, with generosity, not judgment.

To heal our land and restore a culture of life we must continue to be a movement that embraces all, cares for all, and shows respect for the dignity and worth of every person.

Every person there knew the sincerity of the Vice President’s words. I spoke with many Trump supporters that day, but also with Trump skeptics who were nonetheless encouraged by Pence’s speech. The pro-life movement is about caring for the least of these, the most vulnerable members of society, those orphaned and widowed by a culture of convenience. Hearing gentleness and compassion championed as the way forward was a fulfilling moment for those of us who have been working with joy for the right to life.

It’s that same joy, compassion and gentleness that I find in my friends who not only march for life every year and volunteer in pregnancy centers but work for persecuted Christians and refugees. As the Vice President says, in the movement for life we “embrace all, care for all, and show respect for the dignity and worth of every person.”

This is why I was not surprised when the same friends who marched with me on Friday asked me to join them at the Dulles airport on Saturday to support the people detained under President Trump’s travel ban.

To Dulles, With Love

We were alerted to the situation not by a hysterical liberal media (that came later) but by a friend (we’ll call him Alex) who was recently granted asylee status. His lawyers were the same lawyers working on behalf of the detainees, and Alex was asked to come and translate the legal documents for them.

Often when I talk about the importance of standing up for the preborn, I get asked about how I got started caring about the issue. For many of us in the pro-life movement, there is a story about how abortion has affected us, about people we have loved and loss we have experienced. One of the reasons the younger generation is more pro-life is that we have lived our lives in a post-Roe world: We see and know the consequences of abortion. We also are confronted with the humanity of the child in the womb with the advent of the sonogram and the definitive moment of the heartbeat.

Philosopher J. Budziszewski says there are some things we can’t not know, foundational principles of right and wrong that are written on every human heart. The worth and dignity of every human life, as Vice President Pence said, is one of those things.

Honoring the worth and dignity of every human life involves welcoming the immigrant even as we secure American borders and keep people safe. I would never argue that we should stop screening altogether, and my bleeding-heart conservatism is thankful for the measures that keep Americans safe. But when I learned that a Syrian Christian family who made it to the Philadelphia airport only to be turned around and sent back, I wept. When Alex asked me and my friends to come to the airport and support the people being detained, I went.

Knowing Alex means I know someone who has survived persecution and who has endured more than I can imagine, first putting his life on the line as a military interpreter for the sake of American troops in Iraq, then losing his home and his family for the sake of Jesus Christ.

On Saturday, our tribe of evangelical and Catholic friends prayed as we heard that Customs and Border Protection (CPB) was defying the federal court order to allow the detained travelers (including some green card holders) to see their lawyers. We watched and waited as a few were released and reunited with their families, the numbers slowly moving from 60 detained to 22.

On Sunday we went back home for church and rest and prayer, and Alex was asked to return to Dulles to do more translation work. Then his lawyer called him in a panic, telling him to stay away because of the risk that non-US citizens would be arrested and the complications this could cause Alex’s immigration status.

My friend, who has given America much, is not the only one. The executive order is so broad that it threatens other military interpreters who would otherwise be finding refuge in the nation they have served. Because this executive order is sloppy and not well implemented, we have confusion and chaos that will likely and needlessly cost human lives as refugees are sent back to face persecution, starvation and possible assassination.

I am grateful to God for the witness of Vice President Pence at the March For Life, and I take him at his word: We should be known for our gentleness and the value we place on every human life. May God help us make this a reality, not only for those vulnerable in the womb, but also for those vulnerable on our borders. (For more from the author of “For the Dignity and Worth of Every Person” please click HERE)

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At March for Life, Pence Pledges Restoration of ‘Culture of Life’ in US

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“Life is winning again in America.”

That was the message Vice President Mike Pence told the thousands gathered for the March for Life in Washington, D.C., Friday.

“Along with you, we will not grow weary, we will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America for ourselves and our posterity,” Pence said.

The vice president, who was introduced by the nation’s second lady, Karen Pence, made history Friday as the first vice president to attend and address the March for Life, which has been held annually since 1974.

“I am deeply humbled to be the first vice president of the United States to ever have the privilege to attend this historic event,” he said.

He also spoke of the Trump administration’s plan for achieving pro-life victories.

“On Monday, President [Donald] Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy to prevent foreign aid from funding organizations that provide or promote abortions worldwide,” Pence said, adding that “this administration will work with the Congress to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers.”

He also pledged that Trump’s Supreme Court pick would “uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution in the tradition of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia.”

In his remarks, Pence cited the Founding Fathers, saying: “More than 240 years ago, our Founders wrote words that have echoed through the ages. They declared these truths to be self-evident: that we are, all of us, endowed by our creator, with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Alluding to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, Pence added, “Forty-four years ago, our Supreme Court turned away from the first of these timeless ideas.”

Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager turned presidential counselor, kicked off the event by reassuring the attendees that the new administration hears them, saying, “Steps away from here, in the White House, a president and a vice president sit at their desks and make decisions for a nation. As they sit there, they stand here with you.”

“This is a new day, a new dawn for life,” Conway said. She closed her speech with a note of encouragement, saying, “We hear you, see you, we respect you, and we look forward to working with you.” (For more from the author of “At March for Life, Pence Pledges Restoration of ‘Culture of Life’ in US” please click HERE)

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