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Dear Friend, Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your friends and church families.
1. NC VALUES: 🗳️ Here's your Voter’s GuideEarlier this week we're excited to share with you the release of our 2024 primary election's Voter Guide. As in years past, we have partnered with iVoterGuide to bring you this important information on candidates who have contested primaries. Our partner, iVoterGuide conducts extensive research on candidates including voting records, donation history, endorsements, website and social media sites, public statements, and a candidate questionnaire to bring you the only digitally based Voter Guide in the state rating candidates for North Carolina primary elections from a Biblical pro-values worldview. To check out the iVoterGuide and lookup your ballot, click here. Read more: https://ncvalues.org/heres-your-2024-primary-election-ivoterguide/
2. SAVE THE DATE: Upcoming NC Values hosted Lt. Governor Candidates Forum, voter registration deadline, and moreAt NC Values, we offer you a variety of opportunities to benefit
from our political and legal insights, cutting edge technology, and a
vast network of clergy and citizens across the state to help you
prayerfully select the best candidates who will honor life, family,
and religious freedom. We then advance legislation that will support
your values in the laws of our state, so that our culture reflects
Biblical values. From our 2024 Primary Election Voter’s Toolkit, to the recently released iVoterGuide, to our select endorsements and our Legislative Scorecard, we’ve assembled a number of tools to make an impact and help pro-values conservatives get elected. That’s why we’re excited to share with you something new we’ll be doing this year: a Lt. Governor candidate forum. In a race with over a dozen contenders, we invited select candidates to answer our questions to give voters more information. On Thursday, February 15th (the first day of one-stop early voting), at 7pm we’ll be streaming our Lt. Governor candidate forum at ncvalues.org/live, and across our social platforms. Finally, we wanted to remind you that today, February 9th, at 5pm is the deadline to register to vote before the start of one-stop voting. While you can still register to vote in-person during one-stop early voting, we highly recommend you already complete voter registration if you are unregistered and planning on voting in the primary. Click here to learn more about registering to vote. Read more: https://ncvalues.org/vote/
 3. NEWS & OBSERVER: With new rules, record number of NC families applying for private school vouchers"North Carolina families are applying at a record-setting pace for state funding to help them pay for the cost of attending a K-12 private school. The application period opened Thursday under new rules that allow any North Carolina family to apply for a private school voucher. As of Monday afternoon, there have been 31,603 completed Opportunity Scholarship applications, according to Kathy Hastings, a spokesperson for the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority." Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article285104307.html If you’re interested in applying for the scholarship, check out our guide here.
4. NY TIMES: As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do."At no point during her medical or surgical transition, Powell says, did anyone ask her about the reasons behind her gender dysphoria or her depression. At no point was she asked about her sexual orientation. And at no point was she asked about any previous trauma, and so neither the therapists nor the doctors ever learned that she’d been sexually abused as a child. 'I wish there had been more open conversations,' Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. 'But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.'" Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html
5. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Stein, lawmakers square off again in abortion pill lawsuit filings"Lawyers representing state Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, intervened in the federal suit to defend North Carolina’s law. 'The States have long worked in tandem with the federal Food and Drug Administration to protect American consumers from dangerous drugs,” legislative lawyers wrote Monday. 'Mifepristone is a drug with known serious risks. For this reason, its FDA approval is subject to minimum safety requirements to ensure safe use.' 'North Carolina has chosen to protect the health and safety of its citizens by enacting additional safety measures above the federal floor set by the FDA,' lawmakers’ brief continued. 'These requirements are consistent with Congress’s health and safety objectives.'" Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/stein-lawmakers-square-off-again-in-abortion-pill-lawsuit-filings/
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