2. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Senate and House budgets align on major
funding but differ on salary increases
"The Senate unveiled its proposed budget
Thursday morning with the first floor vote on the schedule for next
Monday night. The move comes as the House passed its own budget draft
in a 68-36 vote during a third reading on Thursday morning. At 46
pages, the Senate’s proposal is much shorter than the House’s 271-page
budget. Senate leaders indicated the draft outlines essential funding
priorities in an effort to ensure progress between the two chambers.
"
Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/senate-and-house-budgets-align-on-major-funding-but-differ-on-salary-increases/
3. NC VALUES: 📋 Funding the Opportunity
Scholarship
Currently, 1,722 of you have answered our
request to use our click-to-contact tool below to contact the NC
General Assembly. Would you help us increase the volume even further
by taking a minute to click to contact your NC Senator, and ask them
to pass a pro-family budget by June 30th that fully funds waitlisted
Opportunity Scholarship families and gives parents the right to
challenge obscene books in schools?
📢 If you believe every child deserves an
opportunity to pursue an education free from woke indoctrination, and
support funding these waiting families, would you consider using the
time-saving click-to-contact campaign?
Read more: https://ncvalues.org/choose-school/
4. BLOOMBERG LAW: Transgender Health
Rule Lawsuits Piling Up Against Biden HHS
"Transgender health-care protections from
the Biden administration are facing a wave of courtroom attacks from
conservative states and groups looking to unwind legal protections on
gender-affirming care. Eighteen states, a children’s health clinic,
the Catholic Medical Association, and the conservative legal group
that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are suing the administration to block
a rule prohibiting health-care discrimination based on sexual
orientation or identity."
Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/transgender-health-rule-lawsuits-piling-up-against-biden-hhs
5. DAILY SIGNAL: German Study: Vast
Majority of People Will Grow Out of Transgenderism Within 5 Years
"A massive, yearslong study shows the
overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will
grow out of the diagnosis within five years. A similar supermajority
of trans-identifying people suffered from at least one other
psychological condition, found researchers, who tracked all children
and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year
period."
Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/15/german-study-vast-majority-of-people-will-grow-out-of-transgenderism-within-5-years/
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
