We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.