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Speaker Biographies
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Joseph Farah |
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JOSEPH FARAH is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the world's leading independent news site. Mr. Farah's columns, distributed by Creators Syndicate, are eagerly sought out by millions of people each month. He pens a weekly commentary for the Jerusalem Post, and has also written for The Wall Street Journal, National Review, TV Guide, Reason, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and a host of other national, international and regional publications.
Mr. Farah is the co-author, with U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo, of This Land is Our Land (1996), and collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on the No. 1 New York Times best-seller See, I Told You So (1994).
Mr. Farah's role as founder of the Western Journalism Center won him the Washington Times Foundation's National Service Award in 1996. Two years earlier, in 1994, he was honored by the American-Swiss Foundation as one of 20 "Young Leaders" who traveled to Europe for discussions with their distinguished counterparts abroad.
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MICHAEL FARRIS is the founding President of Patrick Henry College. He was named one of the most significant 100 "Faces of the Century" in education by Education Week newsmagazine. Dr. Farris is also a Professor of Government at PHC, teaching constitutional law. He has argued constitutional cases in the United States Supreme Court, six in the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, and in the appellate courts of twelve different states. He has been one of the leading social conservative activists on Capitol Hill for nearly twenty years.
Dr. Farris received his Juris Doctorate and was an honors graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington, where he won the Linden Cup Moot Court Competition and was the Articles Editor of the Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude from Western Washington University (formerly Western Washington State College) with a degree in political science.
Michael and Vickie Farris have been married since 1971 and have ten children. They have been home schooling since 1982, which led Dr. Farris to found the Home School Legal Defense Association in 1983. He served as HSLDA's president from 1983-2000. He continues as HSLDA's Chairman and General Counsel, a part-time role that allows him to devote the bulk of his time to Patrick Henry College.
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Dr. F. Earle Fox |
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F. EARLE FOX, D.Phil. is an Episcopal priest, counselor, teacher, and author. Dr. Fox earned his BA in Philosophy from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and M.Div. from the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York. He received a D.Phil. on the relation between science and theology from Oxford University in l964.
Since 1989 Dr. Fox has been involved with EXODUS. From December 1998, for two and a half years, he was director of Transformation Christian Ministries, an Exodus referral ministry, in the Washington, DC, metro area.
Dr. Fox returned to Emmaus Ministries in 2001 to finish writing Homosexuality: Good & Right in the Eyes of God? The Wedding of Truth to Compassion and Reason to Revelation. He also teaches a seminar, The Biblical Agenda for Human Sexuality, to churches and others interested on how to reach out to homosexual persons, and how to deal with the "gay" agenda in the public arena. Dr. Fox is president of Emmaus Ministries and webmaster of the Road to Emmaus website.
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MARSHALL FRITZ is President of the Alliance for the Separation of School &State in Fresno, California. He founded the tax-exempt educational organization in 1994. He is a leading spokesman on how ending state, federal, and local government involvement in K-12 schools is the gateway to "Honest Education."
Prior to founding the Alliance, Marshall was president of the unaccredited Pioneer Christian Academy. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Educational Leadership, Current Thoughts and Trends, and Family Voice. He is the publisher of The Education Liberator, The School Liberator, and the lead author of the "Proclamation for the Separation of School and State."
Marshall was born in California in 1943 and earned a B.A. from California State University Fullerton in 1964. He and his wife, Joan, have four grown children and ten grandchildren.
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