Don’t be fooled by the title of “The Equality Act.” It’s not what it sounds like.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Three Things Every Family Needs to Know

Three Things Every Family Needs to Know About What’s Happening in Washington D.C.

By: Jim Daly

President Biden’s administration is just over one month old, but there are many developments since Inauguration Day of interest and relevance to the family and the issues we as believers at Focus on the Family care deeply about.

Congress is expected to begin debate this week on H.R. 5 – otherwise known as, “The Equality Act.” The legislation would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”

Don’t be fooled by the title of the bill. It’s not what it sounds like. I’m reminded of what the English writer C.S. Lewis wrote in 1944:

“The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest of human emotions. The noble source is the desire for fair play. But the other source is the hatred of superiority.” 

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Big Tech’s Censorship
Congressmen File Resolution Condemning Big Tech’s Censorship of ‘The Daily Citizen’
By: Zachary Mettler

On Tuesday, several congressmen filed a new resolution condemning the “leftwing bias by Big Tech censorship.” The resolution denounced Twitter’s recent censorship of The Daily Citizen, along with other recent examples of Facebook, Google and Amazon silencing conservative voices.

The resolution was filed by three congressmen: Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind. and Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-N.M.

In addition to decrying Twitter’s censorship of The Daily Citizen for correctly identifying Dr. Rachel Levine as a biological male, the resolution highlights Twitter’s censorship of The New York Post, President Trump, the Trump War Room, Catholic World Report, Mike Lindell and General Mike Flynn along with Apple, Amazon and Google’s de-platforming of the social media application Parler.

“Twitter banned conservative group Focus on the Family’s news website, The Daily Citizen, from its platform for stating the biological sex of Rachel Levine,” the resolution notes.
Black National Anthem
The Conservative Origins of the Black National Anthem
By: Glenn T. Stanton

It didn’t start out as the Black National Anthem which was sung last year before a number of National Football League games, as well as sung by Alicia Keys in this month’s Super Bowl game. It was merely a lovely piece of poetry, written and set to music by two African-American brothers from Jacksonville, Florida at the turn of the previous century.

It was to be “sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children” in 1900 to celebrate the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s 91st birthday and the auspicious visit of Booker T. Washington to the Stanton School, the first and largest public school for African-American students in Florida. That was the way this famous song was described by its author James Weldon Johnson in his wonderful collected works of poetry. He explains that over time it became “popularly known as the Negro National Hymn” simply because students from that day went to other schools and taught the song to classmates. Others became teachers themselves and taught it to their students throughout the nation over the decades. Johnson recounts for his readers that “the lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children.” It might not be well known to all Americans, but its tune and beginning lines are written in the souls and minds of millions of black Americans.
Heroin Use
Columbia Professor Admits Heroin Use, Encourages Others to do the Same in New Book
By: Brittany Raymer

Dr. Carl Hart, the former chair of Columbia University’s psychology department who studies the effects of drug use, recently admitted to frequently using heroin and argues that the government should decriminalize all illegal drugs. In his recently released book, he wrote “I am an unapologetic drug user. I take drugs as part of my pursuit of happiness, and they work. I am a happier and better person because of them.”

Perhaps Dr. Hart has been a bit too indulgent of his study material.

Throughout the United States, there have been far too many stories about parents who passed out from drug use with their child in the back seat of the car. In one situation, the child found was only three weeks old and in another situation, a child found in filthy clothes was old enough to tell officers that she had not eaten for a day or had a shower in days.

This is the reality many families deal with on a daily basis.
Promise to America
‘Promise to America’s Children’ – Join the Movement to Protect Children
By: Jeff Johnston

A coalition of nonprofit organizations has launched a “Promise to America’s Children.” Concerned parents and policy makers are encouraged to sign on to the pledge, promising to protect children’s health, safety and relationships.

The movement was organized by The Heritage Foundation, Family Policy Alliance and Alliance Defending Freedom over concerns that “American children are increasingly targeted for adults’ sexual messages, images, and themes, and this is happening at younger ages.” Focus on the Family signed on to the pledge as a national partner, along with dozens of other state and national groups, including Focus-affiliated Family Policy Councils.

The alliance’s website says, “Children are among our most precious gifts, and they deserve to be protected in the whole of their persons – mind, body and heart.” The alliance has created a promise for parents and a promise for policy makers.
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