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.
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1. NC VALUES: Pray for True Conservative
Leaders in NC
During this legislative session, NC Values Coalition has been
at the forefront of legislation that protects Life, Religious Liberty,
and Family Values. It's been our honor to work with leaders such as
the "Save Women's Sports" bill sponsors Representatives Mark Brody,
Pat McElraft, Jimmy Dixon and Diane Wheatley. These legislators
bravely worked to protect women and girls in our state from unfair
competition in sports. Please join us in thanking them for their
courage and true leadership on issues like this that are difficult and
often face media blackout.
Today, the Speaker of the House, Rep. Tim
Moore, announced to the press that he has killed the Save Women’s
Sports bill—House Bill 358. This bill would prohibit biological males
who identify as female from participating on girls’ and women’s sports
teams in middle school, high school, and college. More than
three-fourths of North Carolinians agree that allowing biological
males to compete in women’s sports is unfair. Although we were
the 30th out of 32 states to file similar legislation, our leadership
still seems to think that no problem truly exists.
Girls deserve equal opportunities to
experience the thrill of victory. Allowing males to compete in girls’
sports disadvantages girls and destroys their athletic
opportunity.
2. LIFE NEWS: Arizona Governor
Doug Ducey Signs Bill Banning Abortions on Babies With Down
Syndrome
"Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has signed
into law a pro-life bill that would ban discriminatory abortions on
unborn babies with genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome."
If you would like to contact your
representatives and ask them to support a similar bill in North
Carolina—the Human Life Non-Discrimination Act HB 453—visit www.ncvalues.org/life
3. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Cooper in
letter urges businesses to speak out against election
laws
"Gov. Roy Cooper is leading a nationwide
effort in cooperation with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to encourage
business leaders to publicly oppose states that pass election-reform
laws."
"N.C. Republican lawmakers and
good-government advocates were quick to denounce the step by
Cooper.
'Bullying businesses to oppose policies
like voter ID, which North Carolinians amended their constitution to
require, is wrong,' said Sen. Warren Daniel, R-Avery. 'Politicizing
everything in society is divisive and the governor should be ashamed
of himself.'”
4. DAILY WIRE: Biden Moves To Force
Doctors To Perform Transgender Surgeries Against Objections
"President Joe Biden on Tuesday filed an appeal seeking to force
doctors and hospitals to perform potentially harmful
transgender-related procedures and surgeries even if they hold
objections.
As outlined by BECKET Law’s Luke Goodrich, a court in January
struck down the administration’s move to punish doctors who don’t
perform transgender-related procedures for supposed “sex
discrimination.” Biden on Tuesday officially appealed the ruling."
5. ABC 11: Apple unveils $1B
investment to build east coast hub in Research Triangle create at
least 3000 jobs
"Apple unveiled plans to build a campus and engineering hub in the
Research Triangle, committing more than $1 billion in investments and
creating at least 3,000 new jobs for the area.”
In Apple effect
is already making itself felt in North Carolina politics, as evident
in Governor
Roy Cooper’s response to the news:
“As Apple CEO Tim Cook told me on
Saturday with this announcement, Apple is showing that they're just
not creating jobs and building a new campus. They want to be a
committed partner with our state for the long term. I told him that we
look forward to that partnership. He also said diversity and inclusion
was critical and that the repeal of HB two and the sunset of HB 142
was important in their decision” (Gov. Roy Cooper)
WEEKLY PRAYER: LEADERS
LORD, we worship a mighty God who has the power to change
hearts and minds. We lean on you as we continue to fight for the
values we hold dear.
Give our leaders Your wisdom—and courage
to live it out.
Amen.
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Sincerely,
North Carolina Values Coalition
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