The Family Beacon

The 2025 legislative session brought unique opportunities for the MFC team to win for life, family, and religious freedom. Rebecca Delahunt shares how the progressive trifecta broke, how we engaged on more issues than ever before, and what wins we saw. Tune in to learn about the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, protections for babies born alive after botched abortions, funding for pregnancy resource centers, girls' sports and more. Get the facts, stand for truth!

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recently released its second draft of new Health Education Standards. The Sexual Health portion includes required student learning expectations that violate related laws and are developmentally inappropriate. Doug Wardlow, True North Legal’s new Director of Litigation, and Rebecca Delahunt, Director of Public Policy at MFC join Grace on the podcast to discuss this issue and how you can take action.

Learn more and take action: https://www.mfc.org/healthbenchmarks25

With the special session in St. Paul finally over, we can give you final updates on what passed and what didn’t during 2025. Plus, we update you on an important new brief True North Legal has filed at the Supreme Court, and a revealing new interview with Rep. Angie Craig. Finally, tune in for a farewell message from Moses Bratrud, who is moving on to new opportunities! The end of one era of the Family Beacon podcast, and the beginning of something new!

This week, the legislative session is over, but they’ll be back for a special session! And, I discuss a critical new case filed by True North Legal and Alliance Defending Freedom. Finally, we talk about the presidential ambitions of three Minnesotans: Dean Phillips, Amy Klobuchar, and Tim Walz.

The Family Beacon podcast returns with big news from the State Capitol as the end of the session approaches! Becca Delahunt joins Moses Bratrud with critical updates about life, family, and religious freedom issues in Minnesota. We discuss:Cuts to aid for nonpublic school studentsMobile sports gamblingHomeschooling restrictionsVaccine exemption removal - big update!And much, much more!Becca also discusses Minnesota Family Council’s 2025 Annual Dinner this past week and we encourage supporters to take advantage of our $250,000 matching challenge and make a gift to support our work before June 1. Go to mfc.org/donate - every contribution helps!

Reuploading this great conversation due to an audio error when it was first recorded. Enjoy

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Director of Public Policy Rebecca Delahunt guest hosts the first episode of season five, joined by special guest Jennifer Lahl of the Center for Bioethics & Culture. As a renowned bioethics expert, Jennifer shares about the often overlooked harms that gestational surrogacy poses to unborn children and their mothers along with other grave bioethical concerns. Get the facts, stand for truth!

This week marked a critical deadline for legislation at the State Capitol in St. Paul, and Policy Director Becca Delahunt joins us this week to update us on the bills we’ve been following this legislative session, and tells us what will happen as the Legislature enters its final, busiest stage.

WATCH: Becca testifies against the ERA: https://youtu.be/vF-lKvbm0DY

WATCH: Renee Carlson of True North Legal testifies on the ERA: https://youtu.be/kLtfzg45oNo

UPDATED: Our bill tracker has now been updated so you can track some of the bills that matter most: mfc.org/billtracker.

Minnesota Family Council stands against the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, a bill that would, among other things, create constitutional protection for every individual to "self-identify" according to their own "gender identity or gender expression."A 10 Commandments display at the Capitol was vandalized this week. Plus, we dive into an issue that affects every family, church, and future generation: Artificial Intelligence. What impact will AI have on our families and our souls? Get the facts, stand for truth.

UPDATE: The ERA legislation did NOT pass out of committee on Thursday.

Your hosts discuss how while new numbers show that homeschooling has reached an all-time high in Minnesota, Governor Walz wants to slash funding for private schools and homeschoolers. Plus, there’s a new Ten Commandments display at our State Capitol that is, thankfully, much better than the Satanist display erected around Christmas. Get the facts, stand for truth!

Renee Carlson of True North Legal joins the Family Beacon to give a high-level overview of the girls' sports issue. Your hosts break down the top arguments used by the opposition, and Renee helps us understand how to respond to these myths with winsomeness, giving us the facts so that we can stand for truth on this crucial issue.