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.

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.

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.