Many of us cringed when we saw Christian symbols and signs inside the Capitol melee of January 6th.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Are Evangelicals Christian Nationalists?

By: Jim Daly

Earlier this week, USA Today published a provocative editorial titled, “Christian nationalism is a threat, and not just from Capitol attackers invoking Jesus.” 
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), our guest on Thursday's broadcast, was singled out by the essayist and falsely accused of being one of those dangerous individuals who uses his faith for political purposes.  

It’s true the senator is a devout believer in Jesus Christ and a strong defender of his country – but that doesn’t make him a religious nationalist – that is, someone who fuses his love of God with his country in idolatrous fashion. 

Many of us cringed when we saw Christian symbols and signs inside the Capitol melee of January 6th. It seems some individuals even invoked Jesus as justification for violence. It was a corruption of the faith. Senator Hawley has repeatedly denounced the mayhem that cost lives. 

But words mean things, and lately, many on the left have been affixing the “Christian nationalist” label to people like Senator Hawley. They’ve been aggressively exploiting that horrific January 6th attack and lumping all conservative Christians into one faction. 
Why? 

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U.S. Catholic Bishops Blast Biden’s Pro-Abortion Executive Orders: ‘Promotes the Destruction of Human Lives’
By: Zachary Mettler

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) blasted President Joe Biden’s recent executive orders funding abortions overseas and reinstating Title X funding for Planned Parenthood. In two separately released statements on the different orders, the USCCB slammed Biden’s orders as, “antithetical to reason,” violating “human dignity” and “incompatible with Catholic teaching.”

President Biden’s recently issued executive orders will have a far-reaching impact on abortion policy in the U.S. and around the globe, even though he is a self-described Catholic.

One of President Biden’s orders rescinded the Mexico City Policy, which ensured that taxpayer dollars did not fund abortions overseas. A second order began the process of reinstating $60 million of Title X taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. Former President Donald Trump had issued a rule that led to Planned Parenthood leaving the Title X program, while Biden’s order undoes Trump’s rule.
NYU Releases Study
NYU Releases Study Claiming there is No Censorship of Conservative Voices on Social Media. It’s Wrong.
By: Brittany Raymer

New York University, one of the top ranked journalism institutions in the country, recently released a report that proudly proclaims that conservative concerns over social media censorship are “unfounded.”

Entitled “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives,” the study investigates how the January 6 breach of the Capitol Building was influenced by claims that social media companies censor information from conservative voices. Needless to say, the study, which came out of a liberal university and was funded by liberal businesses, found no fault with social media companies or media outlets.

It appears that the study mostly blames the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump.

“This accusation—that social media platforms suppress conservatives— riles a Republican base that has long distrusted the mainstream media and is prone to seeing public events as being shaped by murky liberal plots,” the study states. This isn’t entirely true.
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Nativity Scene Legal Victory for Indiana Courthouse
By: Bruce Hausknecht

A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a Nativity scene display on the lawn of an Indiana courthouse at Christmas, underscoring an increasingly conservative shift in the nation’s jurisprudence on the issue of religion – at least where religious displays are concerned. And that shift can be traced not only to the addition of conservative justices to the nation’s highest court, but also to a larger trend, joined by conservatives and liberals on the bench, toward respecting the nation’s history and traditions while rejecting culture war legal brawls initiated by militant atheists.

In Woodring v. Jackson County, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago overturned a lower court decision finding a Christmas display in Jackson County, Indiana, unconstitutional that included a Nativity scene along with various secular decorations and displays of the season. The appeals court decided that a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision in American Legion v. American Humanist Association changed the way lower courts are required to analyze First Amendment challenges to passive displays that include religious elements.
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The 1921 Massacre on Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma
By: Glenn T. Stanton

If you were asked whether it is a part of American history that citizens of a mid-Western town took to the air with scores of airplanes to intentionally fire-bomb the homes and businesses of their fellow citizens, leveling a whole neighborhood and killing hundreds, would you believe that ever happened? Its sounds like a very odd question. Of course, such an atrocity could never happen in America. But remarkably it did, and dramatically so. In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921.

On last Friday’s Focus on the Family broadcast, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford made reference to this historic incident, known as the horrific 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. It was one of the largest and most violent attacks on African-American citizens in our nation’s history, a little known part of American Black History. In fact, this year marks the massacre’s centennial and all Americans should know about it.
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