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1. NC VALUES: Early voting is
officially underway
We wanted to make sure you were aware
that YESTERDAY (February 13th) was the first day of early
voting!
In order to simplify your voting experience, we have
two tools we wanted you to check out:
- NC Values Find My Voting Site App: We've created an app on our
website that allows you to enter your registered voting address, and
find the early or election day voting site nearest you on Google maps.
In addition to voting dates and hours, the tool will also give you
information on your ballot's candidates, as well as other helpful
voting resources.
- NC Values Sponsored iVoterGuide: For this NC primary election,
we've sponsored the independent 3rd-party iVoterGuide's NC Republican
Primary Voter Guide. The guide uses a combination of donation history,
questionnaires, background analysis, and panel review to determine a
candidate's affinity with your values. Simply enter your zip code and
get the iVoterGuide rankings on candidates specific to your
ballot.
2. ABC11: Students' families sue to
block transgender athletes from girls sports at Connecticut high
schools
"The families of three female high school runners filed a federal
lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut
from participating in girls sports.
Selina Soule, a senior at
Glastonbury High School, Chelsea Mitchell, a senior at Canton High
School and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury High School are
represented by the conservative nonprofit organization Alliance
Defending Freedom. They argue that allowing athletes with male anatomy
to compete has deprived them of track titles and scholarship
opportunities."
3.
NATIONAL REVIEW: Understanding why religious conservatives would vote
for Trump
"In January 2021, someone will take the presidential oath of
office, and religious conservatives will undoubtedly play a crucial
role in whom it will be. Their influence will be the focus of an
untold number of postmortems, of the type they’ve been accustomed to
hearing since 2016, when the notorious “81 percent” of evangelicals
voted for the unlikeliest of candidates: Donald Trump. There are two
competing interpretations of Trump’s enthusiastic support from
religious conservatives: that it is a lesser-of-two-evils transaction
based on self-interest, or that it shows a voting bloc compromised by
every form of democratic vice, whether racism, nativism, or
nationalism."
4. MRS AMERICA: Top ten
reasons to oppose the equal rights amendment
10 Reasons to oppose the Equal Rights
Amendment: 1. The vague, poorly written language of the ERA
does not allow any distinction to be made between men and women – even
when it makes sense to do so based on their biological
differences. 2. The ERA would be used to overturn all
restrictions on abortion (including the partial birth abortion ban,
3rd-trimester abortion ban and parental notice of minors seeking an
abortion). 3. The ERA would be used to mandate taxpayer funding
of elective Medicaid abortions. 4. The ERA would overturn laws
and practices that benefit women because they would be viewed as
showing preferential treatment to women. 5. ERA would impact
the privacy and safety of women and girls by removing gender
designations for bathrooms, locker rooms, jails and hospital
rooms. 6. The ERA will not give women any more rights than they
currently have. 7. ERA won’t erase the gender wage
gap. 8. The ERA would also transfer large amounts of
legislative power from the states to Congress creating a greater
imbalance of power and placing sensitive issues under the less
responsive federal government. 9. It’s clear that ERA sponsors
intended for the ERA to overturn all restrictions on
abortion. 10. The accepted time limit for ratification of
Constitutional amendments is 7 years. Yesterday, the House of
Representatives voted to lift the 1982 deadline for ratification of
the ERA by the States, and several lawsuits have been filed over its
eligibility because of the deadline. Click
here to learn more.
5. SBA LIST: National Pro-life group
announces 2020 campaign plan in North Carolina; Tami Fitzgerald to
serve as SBA List state chairwoman
Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) and its
partner super PAC, Women Speak Out PAC, announced plans for the 2020
Campaign in North Carolina at press conferences in Raleigh and
Greensboro. The comprehensive effort to re-elect President Trump and
Senator Thom Tillis will include boots on the ground, voter contact
mail, phone calls, and paid advertising. The campaign is part of the
organization’s overall $52 million budget for the 2019-2020 cycle.
Our NC Values executive director, Tami
Fitzgerald, will be serving as the SBA List state chairwoman.
WEEKLY PRAYER: LIBERTY
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.
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)
"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,
North Carolina Values Coalition
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