California Can’t Close Private Schools over COVID, 9th Circuit Rules







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California Can’t Close Private Schools over COVID, 9th Circuit Rules



By: Bruce Hausknecht



California's attempt to close both public as well as private schools, including religious ones, during the COVID-19 pandemic generated a constitutional legal challenge by parents worried that their children's education was suffering due to the lack of in-person education. As it turned out, the parents of private school students
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won a legal round at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, while the parents of public-school students lost.

In March 2020 Governor Newsom issued an executive order requiring people to stay in their homes, with few exceptions. That resulted in state public health officials mandating distance learning for both public and private schools for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year. As the months passed, California officials issued further public health orders outlining "tiers" of restrictions depending on the COVID-19 infection situation at any given time. Those orders effectively kept all public and private schools in the state closed to in-person learning that fall.

Brought by several parents of public-school children and several with private-school children, including those attending Christian schools, the lawsuit challenged the state's right to close public and private schools on constitutional grounds. At the federal district court level, their claims were rejected.


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Read to Your Children About the Birds and the Elephants




By: Jeff Johnston





For years now, LGBT activists and their allies have been pushing out children's books that confuse and sexualize children by teaching them that "love makes a family" and that children can choose whatever "gender identity" they wish – discarding their male or female bodily sex.

Now, a children's book,
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Elephants are Not Birds, by conservative activist Ashley St. Clair, is countering that trend. From the new, conservative publishing house Brave Books, the picture book features a singing elephant named Kevin and a vulture named Culture, who tries to convince Kevin that with a few cosmetic changes – some feathers and a paper beak – he can be a bird, too.

Of course, that plan flops, as does Kevin, who finally appreciates that elephants and birds are different – and that's a good thing. St. Clair told
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The Daily Mail that Kevin "realizes he's better the way he was made and he can like to sing and still be an elephant."






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Dr. Leana Wen Releases Book, Exposes Planned Parenthood’s Obsession with Abortion




By: Brittany Raymer





The former president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen, has released a new memoir entitled "
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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health ." While Dr. Wen shares more about her personal story, she also provides insight into what it was like to work for Planned Parenthood and its obsession with abortion.

In 2018, Dr. Leana Wen took over for Cecile Richards as the head of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business. However, Wen quickly rankled feathers as she wanted the organization to do something it hasn't done in years, focus on providing health care to low-income communities.

As it turned out, the board and many employees weren't interested in trying to help people achieve better health.






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Faith and Family are ‘Things Worth Dying For’






By: Zachary Mettler






The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront of millions of minds something most people don't like to consider: death. Lockdowns, facemasks, vaccines, social distancing and church closures all served, ostensibly, as an attempt to prevent people from dying from a deadly virus.

The hundreds of thousands of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the United States is a great tragedy. And yet, every life-saving measure, procedure, therapeutic or vaccine given within the last year and a half really isn't "life-saving." In actuality, these things are only "death-delaying." We will all die someday.

In his most recent
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book Things Worth Dying For, Archbishop Emeritus Charles J. Chaput examines those things that are worth dying for.





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Increased Loneliness Causes Older Adults to Turn to Opioids, Prescription Drugs at Higher Rates



By: Kennedy Unthank





Data collected by researchers from the University of California , San Francisco shows that the lonelier older adults are, the more likely they will use prescription painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs and powerful opioids.

The
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study surveyed six thousand seniors who lived independently, with 53% considering themselves not lonely, 40% were moderately lonely and 7% were highly lonely. The researchers noticed a positive correlation between the level of loneliness and the use of prescription drugs such as Valium, Xanax, BuSpar and Ambien.

"Loneliness was associated with higher pain medication use, including use of opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and more than twice the frequency of use of antidepressants, sleep medications, and benzodiazepines," the study explained.







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