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Podcast: Gen Z Support for Same-Sex "Marriage" Plummets |
Moses is back! Your hosts highlight Renee Carlson of True North Legal joining MOMS, Mothers Offering Maternal Support, during oral arguments over MOMS’ right to intervene in a case defending parents’ rights to defend the best interests of their children. Grace discusses the tragic death of UK baby Indi Gregory who was taken off life support by a hospital against the wishes of her parents. Moses breaks down recent polling that shows Gen Z support for same-sex “marriage” plummeting. Why is this the case? Tune in to find out. Get the facts, stand for truth!
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Renee Carlson of True North Legal Supports Parental Rights Group
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This Wednesday, November 15th, Renee Carlson of True North Legal joined MOMS, Mothers Offering Maternal Support, and their attorney Teresa Collett during oral arguments over MOMS’ right to intervene in a case defending parents’ rights to defend the best interests of their children. Learn more here. Click here to read the full article on Alpha News.
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Washington Stand: Gen Z’s Support for Same-Sex Marriage Falls Precipitously |
Via Washington Stand
Gen Z is said to be the most LGBTQ generation in American history, but a new poll shows young people’s support for a pillar of the sexual revolution has fallen precipitously.
Gen Z’s support for same-sex marriage has plummeted by 11 percentage points in two years, according to a new survey released last Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life. “At one time, the issue of same-sex marriage sharply divided Americans by age, with younger adults expressing the most intense support and older Americans far more opposed,” states the survey. “There is some indication that this generational gap is contracting, with Gen Z adults expressing lower support for same-sex marriage than they once did.”
Gen Z now supports same-sex marriage by a 69% margin, but “[a]s recently as 2021, eight in 10 (80 percent) Gen Z adults reported supporting same-sex marriage,” the poll notes. “There is no evidence of a similar drop among any other generation.”
America’s youngest generation, Gen Z is defined as those born since 1997. The Supreme Court discovered the “right” to same-sex marriage in the Constitution only in 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision. Gen Z would be the generation most likely to have been raised by a same-sex married couple. |
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Colson Center: Jerusalem Pastor Speaks on War With Hamas |
Via Colson Center
Recently on the Upstream podcast, my colleague Shane Morris sat down with David Pileggi, the rector of Christ Church in Jerusalem. His work there involves helping Palestinian children through increased access to hospital care and combating trafficking. He also educates Christians about the Jewish context of their faith. Fr. Pileggi has served as an Anglican minister in Jerusalem for over 40 years.
From that perspective, he thinks that the most important aspect of the Israeli-Hamas conflict is missed by many in the West.
Probably at its heart there is a religious underpinning that most secular people in the West don’t understand because many Westerners, especially Western elites, can’t take religion seriously. And so, they focus on land, or refugees, or human rights, etc., etc. And I don’t want to deny that any of these are important, especially to the Palestinians. But there’s something a lot deeper that’s going on.
In general, shaped by a secular vision of life and the world, Westerners tend to underestimate the significance of religion. In particular, Westerners fail to understand how committed Islamists are to their vision of life and the world, especially considering Islam’s most significant rival religions: |
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