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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: We endorse Baker for NC House 82 & Nichols for NC Senate 37. Watch our latest episode of the voice to learn why.Join us every 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 is 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 two amazing women who we expect to be real leaders in their caucuses as well as champions for North Carolina values. It is with high honor that the North Carolina Values Coalition endorses Dr. Kristin Baker for House District 82 and Sonja Nichols for Senate District 37. We hope you'll tune in to hear from these ladies and why we endorse them on this week's episode of The Voice. Watch live and past episodes at: www.ncvalues.org/voice or www.facebook.com/ncvalues/live
 2. NC VALUES: Special rebroadcast of the Carolina Values Summit 2020 on 9/27 at 7pmJoin us for a special rebroadcast at 7pm on 9/27 of the Carolina
Values Summit 2020, a ground-breaking online summit for Christian
leaders featuring an impressive lineup of speakers who will equip you
to resist growing attacks on religious freedom.
 
3. TYLER BROOKS: The Court of Appeals has reinstated the Voter ID Amendment. Check out this case analysis and NC Values' Amicus Brief.
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeals
released its opinion in NC State Conference of the NAACP v.
Moore, reversing the trial court. In the principal opinion for
the Court, Judge Chris Dillon explained, “[T]he overwhelming, if not
universal, authority compels our conclusion that the superior court
here erred in declaring that the members of our General Assembly duly
elected in 2016 lacked authority to pass bills proposing amendments
for the people’s consideration, a power expressly granted to our
legislative branch by our state constitution.” After discussing the weaknesses
in the arguments made by the liberal groups, Judge Dillon concluded by
saying, “It is simply beyond [a court’s] power to thwart the otherwise
lawful exercise of constitutional power by our legislative branch to
pass bills proposing [constitutional] amendments.”
Judge Chris Dillon, who wrote the opinion for the majority that reinstates Voter ID is running for re-election to the Court of Appeals this year. Remember Chris Dillon when you vote! The NC Values Coalition was the only organization to file an Amicus Brief on behalf of Berger, Moore, and North Carolina Voters. If you're interested in reading the Amicus Brief that was filed in the NCAAP v. Berger Moore NC Voter ID case, click here. Note: Unfortunately, this ruling is too late to affect this election, because absentee balloting has already begun. 
4. NC VALUES: iVoterGuide and NC Values election toolkit now availableWe exist because Biblical values transform culture. Our primary
purpose is to help you elect godly leaders to office so they will
advance your Biblical values.
At NC Values, we've organized a number of election tools to help
you save time at the polls and support pro-life, pro-family, and
pro-religious liberty candidates.
Click
here to visit our 2020 voter toolkit to get election information,
review our legislative
scorecard, see our 2020
candidate endorsements, and access the iVoterGuide
to find out which candidates on your ballot share your values.
5. CIVITAS: North Carolina Legislative Democrats pledge to defund police"Forty-Seven Democratic members of the state House and candidates
running to join the Democratic caucus have signed a pledge to defund
the police, restrict the ability of law enforcement to obtain basic
protective equipment and strip citizens of Second Amendment rights
with no due process.
The pledge includes ending cash bail and the assignment of court
fees and costs, one which would return some dangerous criminals back
to the streets, the other which would further defund the police by
eliminating revenue for police training and police retirement. Eight
Democratic state Senate members and candidates also signed the pledge.
While not all current Democrat house members signed the pledge, if all
47 of the pledge signers were elected, they would represent 85% of the
current 55 Democrat members of the state House."
You can see which Democrats have signed the anti-law and order pledge here.
 WEEKLY PRAYER: LIBERTYLORD, 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)
Sincerely, North Carolina Values Coalition
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