Focus on the Family’s New Strategy for Post-Roe America
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Focus on the Family’s New Strategy for Post-Roe America
By: Nicole Hunt
Since Roe’s reversal just over one year ago, Focus on the Family has been planning and executing a new strategy for engagement in post-Roe America. The heart of this new chapter at Focus is about collaboration, cultural engagement and comprehensive services for mothers, babies, and families.
Central to this new plan is the creation of a national database to help moms in unplanned pregnancies find comprehensive resources to meet their needs.
The national database will include information on medical care, housing, education, counseling, parenting, adoption, pregnancy help organizations, maternity centers, clothing programs, job readiness training and more.
On September 15, 2023, the national database will go live with information gathered for six states including Florida, California, Colorado, Texas, Virginia and Illinois.
Phase two is expected to roll out by the end of 2023 and will incorporate an additional 12 states, including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, New Mexico, Georgia, Maryland and Ohio.
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In Praise of Being a Fuddy-Duddy Dad
By: Paul Batura
Popular culture has long valued the hipster — the trendy character who embraces what is new and rejects what is old.
From the billions of dollars spent on Madison Avenue convincing people to buy what they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress folks they don’t know — to the billions spent on cosmetics and plastic surgery to try and help the old look young, there is an endless draw to the bright and shiny.
There’s nothing wrong with keeping up with some trends, of course. Resistance can be futile and even downright embarrassing. Consider The New York Times’ reaction to news of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight in 1903:
“The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years.”
Six years later, The Washington Post wasn’t any more optimistic or open to the feasibility of flight:
“There will never be such a thing as commercial aerial freighters. Freight will continue to drag its slow weight across the patient earth.”
So, in many ways, we must evolve with the times — but only so far.
Social conservatives are often mocked and maligned and accused of being stodgy and uncompromising. In fact, the first printed reference to the term “Fuddy-Duddy” dates back to 1889 and a minister named Hamilton Smith.
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Landmark Victory for Free Speech at the U.S. Supreme Court
By: Nicole Hunt
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court released a much-anticipated opinion affirming that the First Amendment protects Americans from government-coerced speech.
Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion in a 6-3 decision against the state of Colorado and in favor of free speech. Gorsuch was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
The case is known as 303 Creative v. Elenis.
As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, Lorie Smith is a Christian graphic artist and website designer from Colorado with her own design business. Smith sued to challenge a Colorado law that would force her to use her artistic talents to convey messages that violate her beliefs about marriage. The same anti-discrimination law is still being used against Jack Phillips — the Colorado baker.
In 2021, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Smith holding that Colorado could compel her to use her to create websites promoting messages that contradict her beliefs about marriage. She appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The question presented to the Supreme Court was whether the state of Colorado can compel artistic speech in violation of one’s deeply held beliefs under the U.S. Constitution. The Court answered that question with a resounding no.
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Atheists Are More Political Than Other Religious Groups
By: John Stonestreet
According to political scientist Ryan Burge, the group of people in American society most likely to be highly engaged in political action are not evangelicals, as we’ve been led to believe. They are in fact atheists. “Let me put it plainly,” Burge wrote, “atheists are the most politically active group in American politics today, and the Democrats (and some Republicans) ignore them at their own peril.”
In a slew of indicators — from actions as simple as putting up a yard sign, to the more proactive of attending a protest march — atheists not only outdid their evangelical neighbors but, in most cases, were the most likely group to put money and time toward partisan activities.
Given the common perception that the religiously minded are most prone to political action, we’d be justified to ask just how this false narrative came to be taken for granted. However, an even more interesting question is why so many atheists live ultra concerned about truth and justice in political matters, given that their worldview commits them to a world without ultimate grounding for either? If the world is nothing more than ever-shifting arrangements of atoms, quarks, and leptons, why would we direct any passion toward the political realm?
At least part of the answer is what might be called “the Ricky Gervais solution.” Gervais is the acerbic British comedian known for both skewering Hollywood elites and insisting on atheism in film, television, and real life. In a scene from one of his shows, his character is accosted by a stereotypically dim-witted believer who cannot fathom that someone would not believe in an afterlife.
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Firefighter Adopts Newborn He Rescued from Safe Baby Box: ‘She is Very Loved’
By: Zachary Mettler
A firefighter who rescued a newborn baby girl from a Safe Haven Baby Box in Florida has chosen to adopt her into his family.
According to Live Action, the infant was surrendered on January 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida, and left in a fire station’s Safe Haven Baby Box.
The box is a temperature controlled, monitored box where parents can safely, anonymously and legally surrender their infant. When an infant is placed in the box, an alarm sounds to alert the fire station.
The firefighter, who wants to remain anonymous, told Today that when he was first called to the box, he thought it was a false alarm. He opened the box to find a healthy baby girl wrapped in a pink blanket, who has now become his daughter, Zoey. The firefighter and his wife had been trying for 10 years to conceive a child, but with no success.
“She had a little bottle with her and she was just chilling,” he recalls. “I picked her up and held her. We locked eyes, and that was it. I’ve loved her ever since that moment.”
According to one federal study, over 22,000 newborn babies are left in hospitals every year by parents who don’t want to or can’t care for their children. And according to the National Safe Haven Alliance, 31 babies were illegally abandoned in 2021 and were found in dumpsters, backpacks or other dangerous locations. Dozens of Safe Haven Baby Boxes have been installed since 2016.
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