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In Minnesota and Beyond, the Tragic Consequences of Not Following the Law
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In Minnesota and Beyond, the Tragic Consequences of Not Following the Law
By: Paul Batura
Americans can be forgiven for being at once exhausted, outraged and heartbroken over the ongoing dysfunction in Minneapolis.
The deaths of two activists — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — have poured metaphorical gas on a cultural firestorm that didn’t start in the Twin Cities but instead can be traced back to an evolving acceptance of lawlessness with very tragic consequences.
According to both the Pew Research Center and the Department of Homeland Security, well over 11 million individuals were illegally residing in the United States as of 2022. Many have suggested that number is now exponentially higher after years of a porous Southern Border.
Illegal immigration has been an ongoing concern for the past century, though some decades have been far more problematic than others. Prior to the 1970s, and 80s, it’s estimated America absorbed between 500,000 and one million illegal entries per decade. That jumped to 2.5 million in the 1970s and 3.5 million in the 1980s.
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More Hospitals Stop Mutilation of Sexually Confused Children
By: Jeff Johnston
More hospitals and health systems announced they are stopping the chemical and surgical mutilation of children with sexual identity confusion.
Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, Lurie Children’s Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Children’s Hospital and UW Health in Wisconsin said they would no longer offer puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries to minors.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported an announcement from Children’s Hospital Wisconsin:
“We strongly believe everyone, including LGBTQ+ kids, should be treated with the support, respect, dignity and compassion they deserve. We are communicating to patients that due to escalating legal and federal regulatory risk facing systems and providers across the nation, we are currently unable to provide gender affirming pharmacologic care.”
In San Diego, the local NBC affiliate reported that Rady Children’s was “under federal investigation by the Health and Human Services’ Inspector General.”
The outlet reported that a fifteen-year-old girl named Evelyn, who identifies as “nonbinary” and goes by the name “Enfys,” was scheduled for a double mastectomy at the children’s hospital, but the shutdown protected her from this body-mutilating surgery.
For now, at least, this teenage girl, caught in “transgender” ideology, will not have perfectly healthy organs cut off.
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America Controls TikTok Now — But Is It Really Safe?
By: Emily Washburn
TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, relinquished control of American TikTok to the U.S. late last week.
The transaction staves off the looming TikTok ban without sacrificing national security. The platform itself, however, remains as dangerous for America’s 170 million users as ever.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture, an American-controlled company, took over the American divisions of TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and several other ByteDance apps on Thursday, January 22.
American investors own 50% of the new company. ByteDance retains 19.9% ownership and the remaining 30% belongs to ByteDance investors.
American control of the joint venture solves three national security threats caused by Chinese ownership of ByteDance.
First and foremost, American users’ data will be hosted on U.S.-based servers and protected by U.S. cybersecurity companies.
TikTok always claimed to keep the extensive data it collected on Americans secure. But Chinese law requires companies like ByteDance make their data available to the government.
A congressional investigatory committee determined Chinese officials had mined Americans’ TikTok data on multiple occasions.
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Children’s Rights Should Always Come Before Adults’ Desires
By: Paul Batura
Katy Faust, founder of the non-profit organization “Them Before Us,” believes every child deserves a mother and a father.
So does Focus on the Family President Jim Daly, Southern Seminary President Dr. Albert Mohler, Colson Center President John Stonestreet, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, LiveAction Founder and President Lila Rose, the Heritage Foundation’s Delano Squires, and popular podcasters Allie Beth Stuckey, Michael Knowles and Josh Hammer.
That’s why they’re all supporting Katy Faust’s “Greater Than Movement” — a broad coalition of “parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens” willing to actively lobby for public policy that supports the ideal of every child enjoying what culture for multi-millennia has taken as obvious — that no child should be deliberately prevented from having a mom and dad.
In a video featured on the new coalition’s website, Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly states, “When you look at social science, it says beyond a shadow of a doubt that children that grow up in a loving, two-parent, biological home, with a mom and dad, those children will do best.”
In that same video, Lila Rose calls the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, which legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states, a ruling that “created inequality for children.”
Dr. Albert Mohler warns, “You redefine marriage, you have just destroyed the house. You can put together a new house and claim it’s the same. Children will know the difference. It harms children in virtually every way imaginable.”
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New York Ends Fight to Force Nuns to Pay for Abortions
By: Zachary Mettler
The state of New York has spent a decade attempting to force nuns and other religious ministries to cover the cost of abortions. But no longer.
In 2017, New York created a statewide abortion mandate requiring employers to cover abortifacients and even surgical abortions in their health plans.
According to Becket, a religious freedom legal firm, New York initially planned to respect conscience rights by exempting employers with religious objections. But under pressure from abortion activists, the state greatly narrowed the exemption to protect only religious organizations that “primarily employ and serve people of their own faith.”
“For nearly a decade, New York bureaucrats tried to strong-arm nuns into paying for abortions because they serve all those in need,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket and an attorney for the religious groups.
“At long last, the state has given up its disgraceful campaign,” Windham added. “This victory confirms that the government cannot punish religious ministries for living out their faith by serving everyone.”
A coalition of religious groups from a variety of streams of Christian faith sued New York “arguing that the law forced them to violate their deeply held religious beliefs about the sanctity of life,” Becket notes. “The groups include Roman Catholic dioceses, an order of goat-herding Anglican nuns, Baptist and Lutheran churches, and Catholic ministries.”
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In Minnesota and Beyond, the Tragic Consequences of Not Following the Law
By: Paul Batura
Americans can be forgiven for being at once exhausted, outraged and heartbroken over the ongoing dysfunction in Minneapolis.
The deaths of two activists — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — have poured metaphorical gas on a cultural firestorm that didn’t start in the Twin Cities but instead can be traced back to an evolving acceptance of lawlessness with very tragic consequences.
According to both the Pew Research Center and the Department of Homeland Security, well over 11 million individuals were illegally residing in the United States as of 2022. Many have suggested that number is now exponentially higher after years of a porous Southern Border.
Illegal immigration has been an ongoing concern for the past century, though some decades have been far more problematic than others. Prior to the 1970s, and 80s, it’s estimated America absorbed between 500,000 and one million illegal entries per decade. That jumped to 2.5 million in the 1970s and 3.5 million in the 1980s.
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Youtube !
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More Hospitals Stop Mutilation of Sexually Confused Children
By: Jeff Johnston
More hospitals and health systems announced they are stopping the chemical and surgical mutilation of children with sexual identity confusion.
Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, Lurie Children’s Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Children’s Hospital and UW Health in Wisconsin said they would no longer offer puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries to minors.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported an announcement from Children’s Hospital Wisconsin:
“We strongly believe everyone, including LGBTQ+ kids, should be treated with the support, respect, dignity and compassion they deserve. We are communicating to patients that due to escalating legal and federal regulatory risk facing systems and providers across the nation, we are currently unable to provide gender affirming pharmacologic care.”
In San Diego, the local NBC affiliate reported that Rady Children’s was “under federal investigation by the Health and Human Services’ Inspector General.”
The outlet reported that a fifteen-year-old girl named Evelyn, who identifies as “nonbinary” and goes by the name “Enfys,” was scheduled for a double mastectomy at the children’s hospital, but the shutdown protected her from this body-mutilating surgery.
For now, at least, this teenage girl, caught in “transgender” ideology, will not have perfectly healthy organs cut off.
[link removed]
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America Controls TikTok Now — But Is It Really Safe?
By: Emily Washburn
TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, relinquished control of American TikTok to the U.S. late last week.
The transaction staves off the looming TikTok ban without sacrificing national security. The platform itself, however, remains as dangerous for America’s 170 million users as ever.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture, an American-controlled company, took over the American divisions of TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and several other ByteDance apps on Thursday, January 22.
American investors own 50% of the new company. ByteDance retains 19.9% ownership and the remaining 30% belongs to ByteDance investors.
American control of the joint venture solves three national security threats caused by Chinese ownership of ByteDance.
First and foremost, American users’ data will be hosted on U.S.-based servers and protected by U.S. cybersecurity companies.
TikTok always claimed to keep the extensive data it collected on Americans secure. But Chinese law requires companies like ByteDance make their data available to the government.
A congressional investigatory committee determined Chinese officials had mined Americans’ TikTok data on multiple occasions.
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Children’s Rights Should Always Come Before Adults’ Desires
By: Paul Batura
Katy Faust, founder of the non-profit organization “Them Before Us,” believes every child deserves a mother and a father.
So does Focus on the Family President Jim Daly, Southern Seminary President Dr. Albert Mohler, Colson Center President John Stonestreet, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, LiveAction Founder and President Lila Rose, the Heritage Foundation’s Delano Squires, and popular podcasters Allie Beth Stuckey, Michael Knowles and Josh Hammer.
That’s why they’re all supporting Katy Faust’s “Greater Than Movement” — a broad coalition of “parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens” willing to actively lobby for public policy that supports the ideal of every child enjoying what culture for multi-millennia has taken as obvious — that no child should be deliberately prevented from having a mom and dad.
In a video featured on the new coalition’s website, Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly states, “When you look at social science, it says beyond a shadow of a doubt that children that grow up in a loving, two-parent, biological home, with a mom and dad, those children will do best.”
In that same video, Lila Rose calls the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, which legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states, a ruling that “created inequality for children.”
Dr. Albert Mohler warns, “You redefine marriage, you have just destroyed the house. You can put together a new house and claim it’s the same. Children will know the difference. It harms children in virtually every way imaginable.”
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New York Ends Fight to Force Nuns to Pay for Abortions
By: Zachary Mettler
The state of New York has spent a decade attempting to force nuns and other religious ministries to cover the cost of abortions. But no longer.
In 2017, New York created a statewide abortion mandate requiring employers to cover abortifacients and even surgical abortions in their health plans.
According to Becket, a religious freedom legal firm, New York initially planned to respect conscience rights by exempting employers with religious objections. But under pressure from abortion activists, the state greatly narrowed the exemption to protect only religious organizations that “primarily employ and serve people of their own faith.”
“For nearly a decade, New York bureaucrats tried to strong-arm nuns into paying for abortions because they serve all those in need,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket and an attorney for the religious groups.
“At long last, the state has given up its disgraceful campaign,” Windham added. “This victory confirms that the government cannot punish religious ministries for living out their faith by serving everyone.”
A coalition of religious groups from a variety of streams of Christian faith sued New York “arguing that the law forced them to violate their deeply held religious beliefs about the sanctity of life,” Becket notes. “The groups include Roman Catholic dioceses, an order of goat-herding Anglican nuns, Baptist and Lutheran churches, and Catholic ministries.”
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