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Podcast: MN Bill Requires Period Products For Boys Bathrooms

Recently, Governor Walz signed the Education Finance Bill which includes a provision requiring period products such as pads and tampons to be put in boys’ bathrooms in Minnesota public school. Apparently there’s some confusion about this so let’s be clear: boys can’t have periods. Plus, Grace shares how a senior doctor at Children’s Minnesota equated dangerous transgender treatments for kids to diabetes and cancer care. Moses gives you both sides of the story on former President Trump’s indictment and both hosts discuss Mayo’s retaliation against a doctor who refused to bow down to “prescribed messaging” on trans athletes. Get the facts, stand for truth!

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WATCH: Grace Evans Shares How To Discuss "Pride Month" With Your Kids

Cohost of The Family Beacon Podcast explains how we can discuss the phenomenon of "Pride Month" with our young kids & teens.

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Land of 10,000 Blessings: Why Minnesota is Worth Fighting For

By Curtis Ferrin - Minnesota Family Council's 40th Anniversary Intern

Like many of you, I have been dismayed by what has taken place in our great state over the last year. After securing a “trifecta” in the previous election, progressives pushed through the most radical legislation our state has ever seen. This included the passage of the PRO Act and other anti-life policies found in the Health and Human Services Omnibus Bill, making Minnesota abortion laws arguably the most extreme in the nation. Then came the Kidnapping Bill and the “Take Pride Act,” a set of policies encouraging gender confusion and mutilation among our children as well as removing protections against people who seek to harm them. This only scratches the surface the progressive experiment in Minnesota, which even drew praise from former President Barack Obama in a recent Twitter thread.

This legislative session clearly showed that “progressive” values are actively hostile toward the most vulnerable among us: our children. It’s hard to overstate how demoralizing and dispiriting that is for many Minnesotans. You and I have heard that flocks of Minnesotans are fleeing for more conservative states, and maybe you’re wanting to join them. In 2022 alone, 19,400 Minnesotans left the state, the largest number in decades. I certainly understand why many are voting with their feet. Minnesota is becoming a less friendly place to raise a family, run a business, or simply live out our values, and more conservative states seem to offer an easier environment to do all three. To many, Minnesota’s future seems bleak and is beginning to resemble California or Illinois more than what they once knew the North Star state to be.

But hear this: Minnesota is not California. Some of our opponents want conservative Minnesotans to lose all hope, to give into fear, to give up, to retreat, to think they’ve won. As the heat turns up, they’d like nothing more than for us to run for the hills. By draining Minnesota of its conservative and Christian voters, they would get closer to achieving their vision for a new, nightmarish version of Minnesota. But that’s the thing—they haven’t reached their goal.

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Get Ready: Minnesota Family Council's 40th Anniversary Annual Dinner

Pre-Register Today!

Join us on Friday, September 8th in Bloomington for our 40th Anniversary Dinner: PRAY, LEAD, WIN. Though at the moment we see darkness all around us in our society, we know that when we PRAY, God will give us what it takes to LEAD - and when we LEAD with boldness in our culture, by God’s grace, we WIN. We’re thrilled to welcome keynote speaker SENATOR JAMES LANKFORD (R-OK), who is one of our nation’s foremost proponents of biblical citizenship. Senator Lankford will speak about fighting for life, family, and religious freedom at the highest levels of politics and beyond!

Pre-register now to be the first to be notified when tickets go on sale! Contact Cheryl at 612.789.8811 x 202 or [email protected] with any questions about tickets, sponsorship, or our ministry partners program.

Washington Stand: Most Americans Say Transgenderism is ‘Morally Wrong’: Gallup

By Ben Johnson - Washington Stand

The American public is increasingly rejecting the LGBTQ agenda, as a series of new polls show a growing majority of Americans agree that attempting to change your gender is “morally wrong,” that only two genders exist, and that women should not be forced to compete against men in sports.

A total of 55% of Americans believe “changing one’s gender” is immoral — up four points from 2021, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. Only registered Democrats became more likely over the last two years to consider transgender identity morally acceptable.

The poll “contains encouraging news for those who believe in an objective moral order and common sense,” David Closson, director of the Center for Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.