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The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is a Christian organization based in Carol Stream, Illinois. Founded in 1990, its stated mission is "upholding and re-affirming marriage, family, life and liberty in Illinois", and it is affiliated with the American Family Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】About )〕 The organization's legislative arm is the 501(c)(4) lobbying group Illinois Family Action, founded in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】About )〕 The organization's executive director is David E. Smith, who in 2006, succeeded Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. IFI is a vocal opponent of abortion, separation of church and state, "activist judges", the "marriage penalty", civil unions, same-sex marriage, gambling and drug legalization.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Issues We Follow )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】Homosexuality )〕 In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated IFI as an anti-gay hate group on the grounds that the organization is primarily "focused on attacking gay people and homosexuality in general".〔〔 ==History== The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) was founded by former Illinois State Representative Penny Pullen as a nonprofit corporation on March 28, 1990, in Tinley Park, Illinois.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cyberdriveillinois.com )〕 Pullen, whom President Ronald Reagan had appointed to the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic in 1987, served as IFI's first executive director starting on January 14, 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lifeadvocacy.com/penny.html )〕 IFI was founded as "an educational and grassroots action resource for public policy issues that affect Illinois citizens and their families". IFI is affiliated with organizations including Liberty Counsel, the American Family Association (AFA), and Alliance Defense Fund. IFI's executive director, David E. Smith, has been involved with the organization since March 2004.〔〔 In 2003, Peter LaBarbera was named head of the Focus on the Family affiliate, Illinois Family Institute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/65149762.html )〕 LaBarbera previously worked at Concerned Women for America, and was the editor of an anti-gay journal called ''The Lambda Report on Homosexual Activism''. In 2006, Illinois Family Institute organized a drive to collect 345,199 signatures on petitions for "Protect Marriage Illinois", a proposed referendum to amend the Illinois constitution to declare that "marriage between a man and a woman is the only legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State". The same year, LaBarbera called for the repeal of legislation prohibiting discrimination against gays. He called homosexuality "disgusting" and expressed the "need to find ways to bring back shame to those practicing homosexual behavior". Later that year, LaBarbera left IFI to return to a group he founded in 1996, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), which claims to be "dedicated to confronting the homosexual activist agenda" and is also designated as an anti-gay hate group by the SPLC.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://americansfortruth.com/about/ )〕〔 In August 2006, David E. Smith succeeded LaBarbera as IFI's Executive Director after having joined IFI in 2004 as a Senior Policy Analyst.〔 Laurie Higgins joined IFI as cultural analyst and Kathy Valente joined as Director of operations in 2008. Higgins previously worked for Deerfield High School's writing center. Valente was the state director for Concerned Women for America for four years prior to joining IFI.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Laurie Higgins IFI Cultural Anaylst )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kathy Valente IFI Director of Operations )〕 In 2010, after Jim Daly of Focus on the Family announced plans to "cultivate a less severe image", IFI's Laurie Higgins responded "If the family is FOF's mission, then they better figure out how to stop the pro-homosexual juggernaut--nicely, of course--because soon every child from kindergarten through high school will be taught about 'diverse family structures' and Heather's two nice mommies". In 2012, IFI called for parents to remove their children from classrooms led by teachers who support LGBT related instruction. In their document, ''Challenge Teachers, Not Books'', they encouraged parents to "object to teachers rather than texts", offering suggestions for parents who are "fed up with the subtle and not so subtle messages that activist teachers of a liberal bent work into their classroom teaching through their classroom comments, curricular materials... and even their desks and classroom displays".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Illinois Family Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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