Protect Women Ohio Launches $5.5 Million Ad Buy to Support Issue 1 in Final Week
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Protect Women Ohio Launches $5.5 Million Ad Buy to Support Issue 1 in Final Week
By: Zachary Mettler
The pro-family group Protect Women Ohio (PWO) has launched a $5.5 million ad buy in support of Issue 1 in the final week before the state’s August 8 election.
If Issue 1 passes, it will raise the threshold needed to amend the state’s constitution from 50% to 60%.
The organization describes itself as a pro-parent, pro-woman, pro-life coalition made up of concerned family leaders, parents, health and medical experts, and faith leaders in Ohio.
PWO has launched the ads “to protect Ohio’s constitution from out-of-state special interest groups.”
The ad buy includes $4.5 million for two new statewide television ads that will run on broadcast, cable and satellite and an additional $1 million for statewide radio and targeted digital advertisements.
This is the second round of advertising PWO has purchased.
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A Gerontocracy in Washington? Are Men and Women Ever Too Old for Public Service?
By: Paul Batura
It all happened so quickly.
The elderly congressman of Massachusetts, two years removed from a debilitating stroke that left him partially paralyzed, rose slowly to his feet to answer a question from the Speaker. Crowded inside the United States Capitol’s House chamber, the representative suddenly convulsed and then stumbled, eliciting a loud gasp from those gathered. The octogenarian then fell back into the arms of his colleague, Ohio Rep. David Fisher. A reporter who was there that day wrote, “His face [was] covered with a deathlike pallor, [and] water streamed from his eyes and nose.”
Another unfortunate incident in a recent string of health emergencies related to aging Washington leadership?
Not quite.
It was on February 21, 1848, that John Quincy Adams, 80, suffered a major and ultimately fatal stroke on the House floor. As you’ll remember from your history classes, the former president happily served in the House of Representatives for nearly 17 years after he lost his bid for reelection as president in 1829.
At the time, the life expectancy of a male in the United States hovered just above 38 years of age. When Rep. Adams returned to the House following his first stroke in 1846, fellow members stood and cheered. That the former president was still alive at all at 78, let alone actively serving in elected office with a disability, was something of an absolute marvel.
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Florida’s African American History Curriculum Sparks Outrage — Here’s What’s Really Being Taught
By: Emily Washburn
The Florida Board of Education released revised standards for the state’s K-12 African American History curriculum, prompting outrage across the nation. But critics don’t seem to have a problem with the whole 21-page document — just a select few lines. Here is an in-depth look at passages causing the controversy, what people are saying and what you won’t hear from the media:
(SS.68.AA.2.3) “Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation).”
Benchmark Clarification 1: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
(SS.912.AA.2.8) “Examine the range and variety of specialized roles performed by slaves.”
Benchmark Clarification 1: “Instruction includes the trades of slaves (e.g., musicians, healers, blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, weavers, tailors, sawyers, hostlers, silversmiths, wheelwrights, wigmakers, milliners, painters, coopers).”
Most of the criticism leveled at the standards reference Benchmark Clarification 1 of SS.68.AA.2.3. Some critics argue this amounts to, “teaching middle schoolers that enslaved people benefited from slavery.” In a recent opinion piece, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson expounds on this point, arguing slaves couldn’t benefit from their skills because their labor belonged to their oppressors.
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Texas Professor — Fired for Stating Sex is Determined by Chromosomes — Files Discrimination Charge
By: Jeff Johnston
First Liberty filed a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against St. Philip’s College on behalf of a biology professor who was fired — for teaching basic biology.
For 19 years, Dr. Johnson Varkey taught Human Anatomy and Physiology as an adjunct professor at the college in San Antonio, Texas. In November 2022, he explained to students that sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y.
Four students were upset by this, walked out of the course and complained to the administration about Dr. Varkey.
So, St. Philip’s fired him.
Here’s what Varkey says he taught that so offended some students:
“During my lecture on the human reproductive system, I stated that human sex is determined by chromosomes X and Y, and that reproduction must occur between a male and a female to continue the human species.
“I also explained that when a sperm (which has 23 chromosomes) joins with an egg (which also has 23 chromosomes), a zygote (which has 46 chromosomes) is formed, and it begins to divide, and after 38 weeks a baby is born.
“Because no information is added or deleted in those 38 weeks, life starts when the zygote begins to divide, not when the baby is born.”
Basic biology, right?
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An Ancient Christian’s Advice to the Modern Church: ‘Be Citizens of Heaven’
By: Zachary Mettler
The writer of Ecclesiastes states that “there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9, ESV).
Bon Jovi expressed this idea lyrically, “The more things change the more they stay the same.”
Modern Christians can easily feel the anxiety and turbulence of our modern times is unprecedented and unique. A quick read through early Christian history shows this just isn’t the case.
Consider the Epistle to Diognetus, for example.
This early apologetic work is believed to have been written perhaps as early as 130 AD, just a generation or two removed from apostolic times.
It may be one of the earliest known noncanonical Christian writings.
Although the letter was most likely written early in the history of the church, the earliest existing copy was found in a manuscript from the 13th or 14th century and published in 1592. That copy was subsequently destroyed in a fire.
In fact, some historians originally attributed the letter to one “Apollos,” the acquaintance of the Apostle Paul mentioned in Acts. This attribution has since been called into question, and it remains officially anonymous.
As its title suggests, the letter was written to “Diognetus,” whom some historians identify as the tutor of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who the author says deeply desires to learn how Christians worship God.
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