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1. DAILY CALLER: North Carolina
introduces bill banning biological males from women’s
sports
"The North Carolina legislature has introduced a bill
that would ban biological males from women’s sports.
The Save Women’s Sports Act, filed Monday by North
Carolina state Reps. Mark Brody, Pat McElraft, Diane Wheatley and
Jimmy Dixon, seeks to ensure that 'women are not forced to compete
against men playing on women’s sports teams.'"
2. TAKE ACTION: The Save Women’s
Sports Act (HB358)
Earlier this week, North Carolina became the 30th state
to file the Save Women’s Sports Act. On Tuesday, a coalition of
Representatives and leaders announced the official filing of House
Bill 358, which ensures all female athletes can continue to compete on
a fair playing field.
Among HB358's sponsors are Rep. Mark Brody, Rep Pat
McElraft, Rep. Jimmy Dixon, and Rep. Diane Wheatley. At the event,
primary sponsor of HB358, Rep. Mark Brody, stated:
“In North Carolina,
girls deserve to again compete on a level playing field. Instances of
males competing in women’s sports exemplify the immediate need to act
before fair competition and women’s athletic opportunities are
destroyed. The Save Women’s Sports Act is the solution which ensures
that all female athletes will be assured a level playing field to
compete and win.”
According to Beth Stelzer, the founder of Save Women’s
Sports, and speaker at the press press conference:
“Regardless of how an
athlete identifies, a recent Duke University study demonstrates male
athletes perform 10% to 20% better than comparably fit and trained
female athletes. Science tells us that an influx of hormones does not
reverse the biological male’s larger hearts and lungs, denser bones,
and stronger muscles. I have witnessed it firsthand in my amateur
powerlifting competitions.”
The Save Women’s Sports Act is about protecting and
increasing opportunities by maintaining fair play. To learn more about
the movement to Save Women’s Sports, check out some of these related
stories:
- LAUNCH PRESS EVENT:
- NCVC PRESS RELEASE:
- NCVC CAMPAIGN:
- NCVC THE VOICE:
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3. THE FEDERALIST: If The GOP’s
Business Wing Wants Low Taxes They’d Better Stop Sabotaging Social
Conservatives
"The Chamber of Commerce wing of the Republican Party
needs to stop stabbing the rest of us in the back. To take the latest
example from here in flyover country, Missouri GOP megadonor David
Humphreys tried to scuttle our state’s new abortion restrictions.
Humphreys, who has been a GOP kingmaker in this state, waited until
the last minute, then launched a pressure campaign urging Gov. Mike
Parson to kill the bill.
Thankfully, Parson stood firm and signed the
legislation, which Missouri Republicans strongly support. Humphreys
and his cronies may have the cash, and he’s threatened to finance a
ballot initiative to overturn our new law, but pro-life conservatives
have the votes in Missouri—and nationwide. Regulatory reform and
lowering the tax rate on capital gains do not bring GOP voters to the
polls; protecting babies does.
Even though the business wing of the GOP needs social
conservatives, Humphreys’ attempted sabotage is only the latest
instance of many business Republicans trying to shiv their coalition
partners. Across the country, from Indiana to Georgia to Texas,
business interests that are in the GOP for the Benjamins have fought
against legislation favored by social conservatives, especially
protections for religious liberty and human life in utero."
4. LIFE NEWS: USA Today Says
Christian Values are “Archaic” Wants Christian School Oral Roberts
Banned
"Attacking the values of Christian universities is now
an annual rite and ritual of March Madness media coverage. With
“archaic” rules that are wildly out of touch with modern society, Oral
Roberts University (ORU) is called out for banning by USA Today’s For
The Win publication.
Oral Roberts, which has already upset Ohio State and
Florida, is definitely not the feel-good March Madness story we need,
writes Hemal Jhaveri, the “race and inclusion editor.” (Yeah, that’s a
job, apparently.) She admits the evangelical university from Tulsa is
a fan favorite as an underdog, but she detests its strict student
requirements. ORU’s “deeply bigoted anti-LGBTQ+ polices can’t and
shouldn’t be ignored,” Jhaveri writes in a despicable screed. (In
above photo, Coach Paul Mills and team prepare for prayer after
beating Florida)."
5. THE CHRISTIAN POST: Canadian
father jailed after publicly objecting to minor daughter taking
testosterone
"A father who has long objected to his minor daughter
taking testosterone as part of an experimental gender transition has
been jailed in British Columbia for contempt of court."
"The father discovered that his daughter’s school had
been showing gender identity education materials called SOGI 123, The
Post Millennial reported Tuesday."
"She can never go back to being a girl in the healthy
body that she should have had. She’s going to forever have a lower
voice. She’ll forever have to shave because of facial hair. She won’t
be able to have children…”
Hoogland stated that sometimes he wants to 'scream so
that other parents and people will… jump in, understand what’s going
on.'
'There’s a child — and not only mine — but in my case,
my child out there having her life ruined,' he said."
WEEKLY PRAYER: OFFICIALS
LORD, you also have instructed us to pray for our governing
officials, and we come to you in the spirit of this petition. We pray
for our national government and its executive, legislative, and
judicial servants. May they indeed be servants unto the people, and
govern in a manner that protects liberty and virtue. In the same
spirit, we pray for public servants across our state and local
governments. May they all heed your mandate in Romans 13:4 to be in
positions of authority as "God's servant" and for the "good" of the
public. They govern in what we confess are difficult times. Between
the COVID-19 pandemic, the civic unrest, the hostile political
climate, and the opposition of international opponents such as China,
they are much in need of your incalculable wisdom. May they plead with
you to give it to them, and may your grace respond in
kind.
Protect we, the People, from this virus, and help quicken
our social, physical, emotional, and economic recovery.
Amen
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