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Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five
articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your
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1. NC VALUES: NC Values Endorses
E.C. Sykes for Secretary of State. Watch our NC Values Voice interview
with E.C. Sykes at ncvalues.org/voice
Join us this week for another episode of “The NC Values Voice”, a
weekly 30-minute interview by Executive Director, Tami Fitzgerald,
with a special guest. The NC Values Voice will be aired on Facebook
Live every Wednesday night at 7:30pm. Our goal is to inform and
motivate our statewide coalition members with current, relevant
information.
On this week's program, we welcomed E.C. Sykes, Republican
candidate for NC Secretary of State. E.C. Sykes discussed his
successful background in business, and why he believes he is uniquely
qualified to remove the barriers to economic growth, foster job
creation, and improve the business environment as our next Secretary
of State.
2. THE FEDERALIST: If Teachers
Unions Really Cared About Kids They’d Be Demanding Schools
Open
"Politicizing
public school instruction marks a disturbing new development that
jeopardizes the welfare of kids. Our children need to go to
school."
3. HERITAGE: Virtual Event:
Protecting Children in Education Summit
International and domestic activists have increased their efforts
to introduce graphic sex education curricula, sexual orientation and
gender identity ideology, and promotion of abortion in public schools.
Last year, the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act, which
could pave the way for the imposition of similar curriculum at the
national level—forcing its implementation in every state.
Join us for a virtual summit on Protecting Children in Education.
Expert panels will discuss opposing the sexualization of children
through laws and policies that impose medically unsound comprehensive
sexuality education and sexual orientation and gender identity
curriculum in schools. Click here to view the agenda and register for this
event.
4. STUDY FINDS: 4 In 5 Parents
Considering Homeschooling Kids This Fall
If you're a parent of school aged children, what have you been
considering?
"New survey shows that 82% of parents are more worried about
sending kids back to school than ever before. A quarter say they
absolutely will not allow their children in a classroom."
5. WSJ: School-Opening
Extortion
"For most Americans the coronavirus is a scourge. But teachers
unions seem to think it’s also an opportunity—to squeeze more money
from taxpayers and put their private and public charter school
competition out of business. That’s the only way to read the
extraordinary effort by national and local union leaders to keep their
members from returning to the classroom.
Last week Randi Weingarten, leader of the powerful American
Federation of Teachers, declared support for 'safety strikes' if local
unions deem insufficient the steps..."
WEEKLY PRAYER: LIFE
LORD, we recognize that you are Sovereign over all creation. We
recognize you made man from the dust, and in your mercy crowned
creation with man and woman made in your image. What a wonder it is
that you would bestow upon us this blessing and
responsibility!
We pray LORD that we would not take this for granted. We pray
that both this great responsibility, and this great dignity, may
motivate us to love you more, love our neighbor more, and love
ourselves more
LORD, may we as a culture truly see and believe that children
are a blessing from the LORD—born or unborn; able
or disabled. All children should have an opportunity to
experience the liberty of life.
"At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, 'Who,
then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' He called a little
child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: 'Truly I
tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will
never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly
position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And
whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. If anyone
causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it
would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their
neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.'" (Matthew
18:1-6)
Amen
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Sincerely,
North Carolina Values Coalition
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