Monique Duson: ‘Biblically Faithful and Sane Conversations on Race, Justice and Unity’







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Monique Duson: ‘Biblically Faithful and Sane Conversations on Race, Justice and Unity’

By: Jeff Johnston


Monique Duson remembers standing on a street corner as a young girl in 1992, in South-Central Los Angeles, watching her neighborhood burn.

Rioting was sparked by the not guilty verdict for the police officers involved in the widely-televised arrest and beating of Rodney King. The riots were also driven by anger over the suspended sentence and $500 fine for the shooter of a 15-year-old girl, Latasha Harlins. The riots led to 63 deaths, almost 2,400 people injured, 12,000 arrests, and property damage estimated at over $1 billion.

Growing up in a black neighborhood, Duson learned and believed “that all white people were racist, that racism would end when white people saw the benefit of ending it, and that racism was America’s biggest problem.” She also accepted that racism “was ordinary, not the exception, embedded into the fabric of our nation” — core tenets of critical race theory (CRT).

The Daily Citizen spoke with Duson, who came to Focus on the Family for Lighthouse Voices, an ongoing lecture series on pressing issues in the culture.


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North Dakota Governor Signs Bill Into Law Banning Nearly All Abortions




By: Zachary Mettler






North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law prohibiting nearly all abortions in the state. Gov. Burgum signed the bill (SB 2150) on Monday, April 24, 2023, making abortion illegal in the state. The bill provides for exceptions in cases of rape or incest if the preborn child is six-weeks old or less, or to save the life of the mother.

The North Dakota House of Representatives passed the bill on April 17 in a 76-14 vote. The state Senate subsequently approved the bill by an overwhelming margin in a 42-5 vote on April 19. “This bill clarifies and refines existing state law … and reaffirms North Dakota as a pro-life state,” Gov. Burgum said in a statement.

North Dakota has a trigger law which prohibits abortion in the state and was intended to take effect following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. However, the ban is currently blocked after being challenged in court.

Red River Women’s Clinic is fighting North Dakota’s trigger law and was the only abortion clinic in Minnesota for two decades, until moving to Moorhead, Minnesota following the overturning of Roe.

On March 16 the North Dakota Supreme Court upheld a preliminary injunction against the trigger law. Importantly, the court noted that the “regulation of abortion is within the authority of the legislature under the North Dakota Constitution.”







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Catholic Health Clinic Claims New Colorado Abortion Law Violates Freedom of Religious Expression and Speech




By: Nicole Hunt






This week the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado heard arguments in a case challenging the legality of a recently passed law prohibiting abortion pill reversal as treatment for women who begin a chemical abortion but have a change of heart and wish to save their babies from abortion.

The abortion lobby, intent on taking choice away from women, fast-tracked a bill that prohibits Colorado doctors from prescribing progesterone to women who begin a chemical abortion and come to regret their decision.

A chemical abortion, or medication abortion, is a two-step process. The first pill, mifepristone, prohibits a baby’s further development and eventually kills it. The second pill, misoprostol, expels the baby from the mother’s body.

Women who begin a chemical abortion but change their minds within 72 hours of taking the first pill may be able to reverse the abortion with a treatment of progesterone. The same medication has been given for decades to women who wish to become pregnant or have high risk pregnancies.

Abortion pill reversal has a success rate of 64%. Within days of the new Colorado law being signed into law, Bella Health and Wellness, a Catholic health clinic in Colorado that offers abortion pill reversal treatment, filed a lawsuit claiming the new law violates their freedom of speech and religious expression.







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Tucker Carlson, a Divided City, and a Culture’s Hunger for Boldness




By: Paul Batura





The announced departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News caught most everyone off guard on Monday morning, and understandably so. Highly rated hosts don’t tend to leave networks very often. For the first quarter of 2023, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was the second-most-watched show in Cable News, landing only slightly behind “The Five.” For the month of March, though, his last full month on the network, Carlson enjoyed the most viewers of any other cable news program. He’s regularly been number one for years.

The Fox News statement explaining the parting was simple and succinct:

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the network announced.

There’s lots of speculation surrounding the shakeup, from fallout over the Dominion settlement to a list of personal and professional controversies and accusations attached to the popular host. Time will bear out the facts from the fiction.

Carlson’s exit will unsettle his fans, but a larger question is why was "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and its host able to garner such a large audience night after night, month over month?

Without endorsing or lionizing the California-born pundit, it would seem the host was taking some positions and saying things most other commentators in mainstream media were not.







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Georgia School District Reinstates Teacher Fired for Questioning Picture Book With Same-Sex Couples




By: Jeff Johnston






Lindsey Barr was a substitute teacher in Bryan County Schools, Georgia, where her children attend McAllister Elementary. When she found the school librarian planned to read the picture book All Are Welcome to students — including her own children — Barr was concerned and expressed her thoughts to the principal.

For this, she was fired.

After Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney’s filed a lawsuit against the school and district, the school agreed to a settlement with Barr. ADF announced:

“Officials at McAllister Elementary and Bryan County Schools have agreed to reinstate her, pay $181,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees, and publicly expressed regret after violating her constitutionally protected freedoms.”

The book describes a day in the life of school children, from the morning bell through learning, lunch and recess, to the end of the school day, along with an emphasis on diversity and with the repeated refrain, “All are welcome here.” The book also depicts several same-sex couples with their children, and, according to ADF Senior Counsel Philp A. Sechler:

“Lindsey spoke out as a Christian, a mother, and a private citizen on an important issue — namely, the content and age-appropriateness of a picture book that the school planned to read to her kids and other elementary-aged children that conflicted with her family’s values and faith. Yet school officials immediately retaliated against her for expressing those views and fired her from a job at which she excelled.”







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