Arkansas’ Congressmen, Senators Receive High Marks on FRC Action Report Card

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Above: U.S. Sen. John Boozman (left) receives FRC Action’s True Blue Award from the organization’s President, Tony Perkins (right).

On Thursday, FRC Action issued a news release highlighting its 2020 and 2021 scorecards for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

FRC Action is the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. The organization recently endorsed a religious freedom amendment that is on the ballot in Arkansas this November.

FRC Action’s scorecards show that Arkansas’ congressional delegation received high marks from the organization both years.

In 2020, Arkansas Congressmen Rick Crawford, French Hill, Bruce Westerman, and Steve Womack all received perfect scores; Arkansas’ U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton received perfect scores as well.

In 2021, Congressman Rick Crawford received a score of 92 out of 100; Congressman Hill received a 92; Congressman Westerman received a 96; and Congressman Womack received a 92. U.S. Senators Boozman and Cotton received 100’s.

Family Council regularly monitors legislative news related to Arkansas’ congressional delegation.

In December, we reported that all four congressmen and both senators from Arkansas received 0’s on Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s scorecard.

You can download FRC Action’s 2020 scorecard here.

You can download FRC Action’s 2021 scorecard here.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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Redemption Even in War

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During World War II, Jewish teenager Fania Rosenfield lost nearly her entire family to the Nazis. She somehow managed to escape the slaughter happening in her town and find refuge for two years with a Ukrainian family before settling in Israel to begin a new life. 

Fania repeatedly told the story of the brave Ukrainian family who saved her to her children and grandchildren. And, a few weeks ago when the Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent, Fania’s granddaughter made a choice to reach out to the family who had saved her grandmother. Now, two young cousins from that Ukrainian family have fled to Israel and are safe with Fania’s family.

In the utter darkness of wartime, such as we’re now witnessing in Ukraine, we wonder why a good God would allow such evil. Stories like this, of families transcending national, political, ethnic, and generational lines to sacrificially love others, remind us to thank God for allowing such beauty in the world. 

Copyright 2024 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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A Reminder to “Live Not by Lies”

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On February 12, 1974, Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested. That same day, he released a short essay titled, “Live Not by Lies.”

Besides being a political dissident, Solzhenitsyn was a Christian, a teacher, a thought-provoking intellectual, an author, a Nobel laureate, and a survivor of the gulag.

The day after his arrest, Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the West. In the following years, he received the prestigious Templeton Prize and delivered the commencement address at Harvard.

In 1983 Solzhenitsyn famously wrote that Russia’s trouble stemmed from the fact that “men have forgotten God.”

In an era when it’s difficult to know what’s true and what’s false, Solzhenitsyn’s 1974 essay “Live Not by Lies” is still a timeless reminder that free men and women should not participate lies.

In it, Solzhenitsyn writes that a man who does not live by lies is one who:

Will not write, sign, nor publish in any way, a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth;

Will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of educator, canvasser, teacher, actor;

Will not in painting, sculpture, photograph, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it;

Will not cite in writing or in speech a single “guiding” quote for gratification, insurance, for his success at work, unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely;

Will not be forced to a demonstration or a rally if it runs counter to his desire and his will; will not take up and raise a banner or slogan in which he does not fully believe;

Will not raise a hand in vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support; will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems dubious or unworthy;

Will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place;

Will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda;

Will not subscribe to, nor buy in retail, a newspaper or journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.

You can read the entire essay “Live Not by Lies” SolzhenitsynCenter.org and you can hear it read below.

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