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1. NC VALUES: Our "Fairness
in
Women's Sports"
bill
passes
NC House and Senate with bipartisan
support
We had a very busy week at the NC General Assembly!
For three years, NC Values has been working on legislation
that
would
protect school girls from being forced to compete
in
sports
against transgenders
who are biological
males.
This week the NC House and Senate passed a "Fairness in Women's
Sports" bill. However,
the
bills
passed
disagree on whether
to
include colleges.
We now wait to see whose bill they reconcile
towards.
Per WRAL: “North Carolina lawmakers this
week passed different versions of a bill to ban transgender women from
playing girls' sports in the state.
2. FOX NEWS: McCarthy
celebrates House passage
of
bill
protecting women’s
sports, says vote fulfills
GOP
promise
3. NEWS & OBSERVER: NC Republicans
are coalescing around a 12-week abortion ban, House speaker
says
"North Carolina House Speaker Tim
Moore said Thursday he believes Republicans in the House and Senate
are “really close” to reaching a consensus on what new abortion
restrictions should look like.
GOP lawmakers have been holding talks within their caucuses for
months, and two proposals in particular had emerged as primary
contenders: a 12-week ban that would prohibit abortions near the end
of the first trimester, and a more restrictive ban that would only
allow abortions up until around six weeks. On Thursday, however, Moore
said that House Republicans had coalesced around a consensus position
of banning abortion after 12 weeks, and effectively ruled out further
consideration of a six-week ban."
Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article274540686.html
4. FOX NEWS: Riley Gaines rips Biden admin as Lia Thomas expresses
support for Title IX changes
5. ABC 11: NC Republicans file bill to place restrictions
on
drag performances
"Tami Fitzgerald, Executive
Director of NC Values Coalition, supports
both
pieces
of
legislation, and pushed back on concerns
that
HB
673
would
infringe on adults rights of free expression.
'We're talking about children.
And
if
adults
want
to
go
and
see adult performances, drag queen performances, strip clubs, they have that right to do so. But we should not be inflicting
these types of performances on children,'
said
Fitzgerald."
Read more: https://abc11.com/drag-show-nc-bill-law-what-is-a/13150459/
WEEKLY PRAYER: FREEDOM
LORD, you have blessed us with a spiritual liberty that is so
wonderful and beyond description, that it can only be understood
through experiencing a life-giving relationship with Christ. However,
we also recognize that in your grace, you have blessed our country
with a political liberty that enables us to openly proclaim the
experience of a life lived in the freedom of the Gospel.
LORD, as individuals and as a nation, may we never take the
inalienable right of religious freedom for granted. Right now our
country has faced a rapid increase in the number of attacks made
against this cherished right. We have seen groups across our public
arena increase in boldness and frequency their smears against
religious liberty. They claim it is bigotry, when we know it is the
security of the greatest of all possible loves.
Be with your people and our country as it continues to protect
the constitutional right protected by our nation’s Founders. Be with
legislators and the Supreme Court, as they determine through their
actions the protection of this particular and fundamental
freedom.
“It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep
standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.”
(Galatians 5:1)
“For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn
your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
one another.” (Galatians 5:13)
“Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for
evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.” (1 Peter 2:16)
Amen
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Sincerely,
Tami & Team
NC Values
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