WFA: Time to send a pro-family thank you to Governor Walker

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the questionably named "United Wisconsin" filed their recall petition just after midnight today and will begin attempting to collect 540,000 signatures to recall Governor Walker. Newspapers, TV stations and more will be covering this effort, and the liberals will claim that all of Wisconsin is opposed to the Governor.

Wisconsin Family Action thinks It's time to send a THANK YOU to Governor Walker for his pro-family stances:

• Thank you for proclaiming February 7th - 14th National Marriage Week!
• Thank you for defunding Planned Parenthood!
• Thank you for supporting abstinence education!
• Thank you for giving families more educational options!

We can let people know that tens of thousands of Wisconsin families want to thank Governor Walker through an inexpensive but effective tool: a GIANT THANK YOU card!

Wisconsin Family Action

Well we didn't "defund" Planned Parenthood but definitely took a step in the right direction.

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Gov. Walker says Capitol evergreen is a Christmas, not holiday, tree

Gov. Walker said Monday that the evergreen decorated with ornaments and adorned with a star in the center of Wisconsin's Capitol Rotunda is a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree as it's been called for the past 25 years.

The roughly 30-foot-tall tree was called a Christmas tree from the first display in 1916 until 1985. That's when politicians bowed to concerns about government endorsing religion and started referring to it as a holiday tree.

The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has opposed the term Christmas tree, saying it offends nonreligious people and amounts to a government endorsement of Christianity.

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They are upset because Christians are celebrating a Christian holiday...  I don't get upset when they celebrate the Chinese Revolution, Earth Day, Bastille Day, Darwin Day, or of course their biggest holiday on April 1st. 

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MacIver: It's Working!

AFL-CIO Trumka: Wisconsin Governor ‘Lucifer,’ Will Support a Recall

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (AP Photo)

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that his union coalition would participate in a planned recall campaign targeting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) – a man Trumka referred to as “Lucifer.”

“Would I support going after Lucifer?” Trumka said, after being asked if he would support a recall of Walker. “Let me think about that. That's a tough one. Of course we’re gonna' be there.”

“I mean, the guy has overreached, he’s been a bad governor,” said Trumka. “He tried to use a contrived deficit to take people out.”

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Wouldn't invoking a religious figure get most kids kicked out of a public school?

UW Badger Catholic and embryonic stem-cell research

Two opponents of embryonic stem cell research expressed enthusiasm for a recent UW discovery of highly functional stem cells that do not require embryonic cells to function.

Justin Brumbaugh, a UW-Madison graduate student who helped lead the study, said the stem cells, called induced pluripotent cells, do not require embryos or fetal cells but have the same capabilities as embryonic stem cells.

Nico Fassino, chair of Badger Catholic, said he strongly opposes embryonic stem-cell research, but applauds scientists' efforts to create an alternative that does not "take advantage of defenseless persons."

"I think that's a really beautiful scientific breakthrough," Fassino said. "I really hope they're able to apply this to … the medical field, so this has a wide and positive impact on curing a lot of the ailments that embryonic stem-cell research is currently aimed at."

According to Fassino, the Catholic reservation toward embryonic stem-cell research does not come from an inherent dislike for scientific progress but from the belief that every human life begins at conception, making the destruction of embryos for science murder in their eyes.

"[The study] demonstrates that nature will find a way," said Matt Sande, Director of Legislation at Pro-Life Wisconsin. "There's always an ethical way to achieve a medical and scientific way if we are diligent and patient."

During his campaign, Gov. Scott Walker did not take a decisive stance for or against stem cell-research as a whole, but did firmly oppose research involving embryonic stem cells.

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Arch. Milwaukee contacted to cancel Walker school visit

The principal of a Catholic school in Milwaukee is telling people to “start acting like adults.” That’s after somebody super-glued the front doors at Messmer Preparatory School, the night before Governor Scott Walker is scheduled to read to third graders at the school this afternoon. The school’s principal, Brother Bob Smith, said he called Milwaukee Police to report the vandalism, and ask for adequate security for today’s visit by the Republican Walker. Smith told W-T-M-J Radio that a woman urged parents to bring noisemakers to Walker’s visit this afternoon – and she warned them to quote, “get ready for a riot.” The principal also said somebody called the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese to order Messmer to cancel Walker’s reading lesson – and officials said they couldn’t stop it because Messmer does not rely on the church for its funding.  [probably a good thing] Brother Smith said the governor’s visit has nothing to do with the main reason for the protests – the virtual elimination of public union bargaining privileges. The principal said it’s “flat-out wrong” to make something political when it isn’t. And he said the third graders would have no clue about the reason for the protests.

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