1. NC VALUES: Help needed with our standards
We need your help. Bureaucrats are
attempting to change N.C. law which requires the teaching of
abstinence-based sex education. The law specifically requires that
“abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage be taught as
an expected standard of behavior for all school-aged
children.”
The NC Board of Education is in the
process of revising the standards for health education. Standards are the educational
goals required to be achieved in each course.
Draft 1 of those standards does not
follow NC’s law requiring that sexual abstinence outside of marriage
be taught as an expected standard of behavior. In fact, it doesn’t
mention marriage at all!
Rather, the standards reflect the teaching of
comprehensive sex education.
As you may know, most comprehensive sex education is either
written or endorsed by Planned Parenthood.
This
is where you come in. We need a couple hundred of you who have the
time and are able to help us with a big ask below.
Read more: https://ncvalues.org/help-needed-with-our-standards/
2. NEWS & OBSERVER: NC schools want
delay in enacting ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights.’ Will they get more
time?
"Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of
the N.C. Values Coalition, said delaying implementation only deprives
parents of their legal rights.
'Every school district in North Carolina
has an attorney who can read and interpret the Parents’ Bill of Rights
in order to implement the law,' Fitzgerald said in a statement. 'Much
of the law is common sense, for instance not offering sexually graphic
and gender confusing materials to children in kindergarten through
fourth grade. A delay in implementing the law only gives activists
room to create policies and advise school districts how to skirt the
law. We encourage the General Assembly to stand strong on the
effective date of the Parents’ Bill of Rights, which is desperately
needed to protect parents and school children from
indoctrination.'"
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article279023364.html
3. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Mark Harris
announces bid for Congress
"Former congressional candidate, Pastor
Mark Harris, a Republican, announced Tuesday morning that he will make
a third try for Congress, despite the controversial 2018 election that
saw Harris’ victory overturned due to allegations of ballot fraud. The
announcement follows sitting Congressman Dan Bishop’s announcement
that he will not run for his seat again, seeking instead to be elected
North Carolina’s attorney general in 2024.
'After seeing first hand the manufactured
scandal that resulted in the Democrat controlled State Board of
Elections not certifying our victory in 2018, I am one of the few
people who truly understands the extremes Democrats will go to in
order to advance their woke, leftist agenda,' Harris stated in the
announcement."
Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/mark-harris-announces-bid-for-congress/
4. NORTH STATE JOURNAL: Cooper courts
controversy naming Riggs new justice
"Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper defied
convention once again in naming a Supreme Court Justice, elevating
Court of Appeals judge Allison Riggs to the North Carolina Supreme
Court.
Riggs, whose only professional experience
prior to being named to the Court of Appeals was working as a
litigator with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, will be the
youngest female justice in state history.
Riggs will fill the vacancy created by
Justice Michael Morgan’s resignation earlier this month. Morgan
has openly talked of a run for governor in 2024."
Read more: https://nsjonline.com/article/2023/09/cooper-courts-controversy-naming-riggs-new-justice/
5. CAROLINA JOURNAL: School choice
states have lower increases in private school tuition
"A new study from the Heritage Foundation
finds that states with expansive school choice have lower
private-school tuition rate increases than states without school
choice.
The results fly in the face of common
arguments from foes of school choice that offerings like North
Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program will make private schools
even more unaffordable."
Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/study-school-choice-states-have-lower-increases-in-private-school-tuition/
WEEKLY PRAYER: FREEDOM
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.
LORD, as individuals and as a nation, may
we never take the inalienable right of religious freedom for granted.
Right now our country has faced a rapid increase in the number of
attacks made against this cherished right. We have seen groups across
our public arena increase in boldness and frequency their smears
against religious liberty. They claim it is bigotry, when we know it
is the security of the greatest of all possible loves.
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)
“For you were called to freedom,
brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the
flesh, but through love serve one another.” (Galatians 5:13)
“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
Will you chip in $100, $50, $25, or even $10 to help
the NC Values Coalition continue to fight for your rights? You can
donate by clicking here.
Sincerely,
Tami & Team
NC Values
