Joseph Backholm is senior fellow for Biblical worldview and strategic engagement at the Family Research Council. Previously, he served as a legislative attorney and spent 10 years as the president and general counsel of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. He also served as legal counsel and director of What Would You Say? at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview where he developed and launched a YouTube channel of the same name. His YouTube life began when he identified as a 6-foot-5 Chinese woman in a series of YouTube videos exploring the logic of gender identity. He and his wife Brook have four children.
Joseph Backholm | It turns out that a worldview built on perpetual outrage isn’t healthy
Joseph Backholm | What will it take for other young Americans to learn the same?
Joseph Backholm | Why Planned Parenthood is building its transgender business
Joseph Backholm | Creating a pro-life culture requires reforming our culture’s deceptive view of sex
Joseph Backholm | Credentials don’t reassure parents as schools seek to radicalize children
Joseph Backholm | The urgency of protecting children from pornography far outweighs any risks of a new Louisiana law
Joseph Backholm | For the left, those who oppose abortion can never do anything commendable
Joseph Backholm | Gov. Newsom’s case for his version of freedom falls flat
Joseph Backholm | But Election Day also revealed a country drifting apart
Joseph Backholm | What should we think of President Biden’s marijuana pardons?
