Our wonderful Treasurer, a CPA, is moving into a new season of her life, so we need to identify someone who is WILLING and QUALIFIED to help us out.
We have Tennessee Eagle Forum, a 501(c )(4); and Tennessee Eagle Forum Foundation, a 501 ( c)(3).
We need someone who KNOWS how to accurately keep the books for both organizations, file the necessary paperwork with the state and with the IRS, etc., and whatever else that will keep everything running smoothly.
Our present Treasurer would be available to walk this person through the details of what is needed.
If this person is YOU, or if you know someone who might be interested, PLEASE email me. We must get this taken care of as soon as we can.
Thank you so very much
Super Bowl Champ Harrison Butker Is Right: Getting Married And Having Kids Is How To Save The World
Until Christ comes again, marital and familial ties offer our best hope for making the world we leave behind a good and lovely one.
In a commencement address at Georgia Tech over the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker left graduates with “one controversial antidote that I believe will have a lasting impact for generations to come.”
“Get married and start a family,” the two-time Super Bowl champ told the crowd. “I don’t care if you have a successful career. … In the end, no matter how much money you attain, none of it will matter if you are alone and devoid of purpose.”
Butker’s advice is on target, but few young people today are following it. Fewer than half of U.S. households are comprised of married couples (and the majority of those are households without children). In 2018, more than a third of Americans between the ages of 25 and 50 had never been married, and a quarter of young people may never marry in their lives.
Further, nearly 1 in 5 adults aged 55-64 in 2018 was childless. In a Pew survey, nearly half (44 percent) of “non-parents ages 18 to 49” said they weren’t likely to have kids. By far the most common reason they gave for not planning to have children is they “just don’t want to.”
Unsurprisingly, the decision to ditch marriage and parenthood to instead “keep options open” and chase the ever-elusive duo of “self-love” and self-indulgence isn’t working out well, for lonely individuals or for the country. As Butker noted, “our culture is suffering. … Anyone with eyes can see that something is off.”
“Sadly, we are encouraged to live our lives for ourselves, to move from one thing to another with no long-term commitment,” he continued. “To have loyalty for nothing but ourselves and sacrifice only when it suits our own interests. This loneliness is rooted in the lies being sold about self-dependence and prioritizing our career over important relationships.”
Of course, some individuals who may even yearn for a spouse and children are called to serve in other ways, and people in any stage of life, from preteen to widower, may enjoy equally loving, meaningful, and rewarding relationships as friends, aunts and uncles, siblings, and loving children. (This is one of the many blessings a church family provides for Christians.) But to marry and have children is a calling for which, as human beings, we have been designed since the beginning.
Marriages and families offer purpose: practically, teleologically, and even as a reflection of the greater purpose for which we are all created. From cultivating a home to materially providing for dependents to planning for the future, families help provide a very basic reason to get out of bed every morning. Our work derives more meaning when we return home to our loved ones, not just a frozen pizza and a television screen. The roles of husband, wife, father, and mother, to those blessed enough to inhabit them, fulfill our innate need for telos better than flashy careers or lifestyles. And by providing opportunities to love and serve others — even participating in the two greatest mortal reflections of God’s sacrificial and fatherly love for His people — marriages and families allow us to live as we were created, in the image of God.
They also make us better people. We may learn selflessness, patience, communication skills, teamwork, and humility. And they can make us happier; Butker, a father of two, insisted that none of his football successes “mean anything compared to the happiness I have found in my marriage and in starting a family.”
Families especially influence each generation’s obligations and attachments to the future. Parents naturally have more incentive to conserve society for the benefit and betterment of their posterity. They have a personal stake in the future as well as a heightened sense of responsibility to it.
The Epidemic Of Fatherless Boys Is Unraveling Our Society
New report finds that boys who have an absent father are less likely to graduate college, more likely to idle in their 20s, and more likely to go to jail.
Roland Warren, the former head of the National Fatherhood Initiative, when delivering the eulogy for his late father, said about the distant relationship he had with him as a child, “I was a little boy with a hole in my soul in the shape of my dad with unhealed wounds from years of feeling neglected and less than worthy.”
A recent research brief by Brad Wilcox and his colleagues at the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) on how the lack of an involved father impacts boys verifies the effects of that “dad-shaped” hole on boys.
In the brief, Wilcox reports that the percentage of boys living in homes without a biological father has almost doubled since 1960 – from 17 percent to 32 percent – resulting in an estimated 12 million boys growing up without a biological dad.
Wilcox writes, “Lacking the day-to-day involvement, guidance, and positive example of their father in the home, and the financial advantages associated with having him in the household, these boys are more likely to act up, lash out, flounder in school, and fail at work as they move into adolescence and adulthood.”
Thus, it quickly becomes evident how big that dad-sized hole can be and that hole can have lifelong implications, and often determines whether a boy will be a success or failure in life.
For example, Wilcox and his colleagues report that 35 percent of boys with a present biological father obtain a college degree, compared to just 14 percent of boys who do not have a present biological father.
While obtaining a college degree is not the only way to avoid poverty, a certain level of educational attainment is required if one wants to avoid poverty. But, according to the report, many fatherless boys are even struggling to achieve the most minimal level of educational attainment – a high school degree – which allows them to enter equipped for the workforce.
These young men are directionless, or as Wilcox and his colleagues write, “The daily life of these men is often marked by hours in front of a screen, vaping, smoking marijuana, or under the influence of some other kind of substance.” They are not contributors, but instead bystanders.
Secondly, our society plays a tragic price. According to the IFS brief, young men who grew up without a biological father are nearly twice as likely to be idle compared to those who grew up with an actively involved dad. In addition, they have significant anger issues which leads to legal problems as fatherless boys are about twice as likely to have spent some time in jail before they reach the age of 30.
It is not a coincidence that the tragedies of Columbine, Sandy Hook, Buffalo, and Uvalde are all tied to angry young men.
Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) recently worked with former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines to publish an opinion piece advocating for advancing the Women’s Bill of Rights (WBOR).
Introduced by U.S. Representative Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-08), the WBOR would “protect biological sex as a distinct legal category.”
Lesko’s WBOR does not create any special rights or replace the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution for women. Instead, it would “codify the common public understanding of sex-based terms and enshrine in law current court precedent regarding single-sex spaces,” meaning terms like “women” and “men” would legally accord with biological sex, not gender identity.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti Joins Bipartisan Group of Attorneys General in Urging Congress to Pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
In addition to causing drowsiness and amnesia, xylazine, a non-opioids veterinary tranquilizer, can lead to dangerously low blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration rate, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which adds, “people exposed to xylazine often knowingly or unknowingly used it in combination with other drugs, particularly illicit fentanyl.”
The drug is commonly referred to as “tranq” or “zombie drug” on the streets, NIDA notes.
The Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (H.R.1839) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in March by California Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19). If enacted, the bill would:
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