Focus on the Family President Jim Daly Hails Supreme Court Decision Blocking Mandate for Large Employers

By: Jim Daly

Today’s decision blocking the Biden administration’s sweeping mandate is a victory for freedom and a resounding defeat of egregious and intrusive government overreach. No administration or federal agency should be permitted to force employers and employees to violate their deeply held convictions or burden them with onerous and intrusive unconstitutional edicts. We applaud the Supreme Court’s principled ruling, and all indications suggest this stay will be permanent. As we approach the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 scourge, we pray for an end to this awful global pandemic and ask God to have mercy on a world weary and eager for a return to normalcy.

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New University-Based Research Reveals Parents Are Most Influential in Leading Kids to Christ … With No Close Competitor

By: The Daily Citizen

Professor Christian Smith from the University of Notre Dame is one of the world’s most experienced and respected sociologists of religion studying how faith is passed down to our children. Smith and his team of researchers have just released a new book, Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Oxford University Press), detailing how parents, by far, are the most successful and influential player in their kids adopting the Christian faith compared to any other influence.

Their findings rest on empirical evidence from more than 230 personal interviews conducted by their team, as well as research from three nationally representative, academically robust data sets. In the book’s introduction, Smith and team confidently assert, “Some readers might be surprised to know that the single most powerful causal influence on the religious lives of American teenagers and young adults is the religious lives of their parents.” In staccato fashion, they add, “Not their peers, not the media, not their youth group leaders or clergy, not their religious schoolteachers.”

Male Swimmer Wins Two More Women’s Races – Then Loses to a Female Who Identifies as Male

By: Jeff Johnston

Confused much? We were, too, when we first read the headlines. Here’s the story.

Will Thomas, who now believes he’s a woman named Lia Thomas, was born male and competed for the University of Pennsylvania men’s swimming team for three years. After taking a year off to go on testosterone suppressants and, presumably, female hormones, Thomas began competing for the women’s team.

Thomas won races against other Ivy League schools, taking victories over real, biological women.

This last weekend, Thomas won two more victories, this time against Dartmouth and Yale, winning the women’s 200-yard freestyle and the women’s 500-yard freestyle. Again, the swimmer took spots on the team and victories from real, biological women.

But “Iszac” Henig, born female but now identifying as male, beat Thomas in the women’s 100-yard freestyle. Thomas placed fifth. Her team also won the 400-yard freestyle relay, with Thomas anchoring the third place UPenn team.

Justice Sotomayor’s Inaccurate COVID-19 Claims Hurts the Court’s Legitimacy

By: Zachary Mettler

Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The ETS forces employers with 100 or more employees to require their workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or mask while at work and undergo weekly testing.

Starting Monday, Jan. 10, OSHA has begun enforcing the masking requirement, but will not issue citations for noncompliance with the testing portion of the ETS until February 9.

Following oral arguments, the average American can only wait and see when and how the nine justices decide to rule. Estimates for when the court may issue a decision range from a few days to a few weeks.

But one of the main, and surprising, takeaways from Friday’s arguments was how ignorant one particular justice seemed to be about basic data regarding COVID-19. That was Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Justice Sotomayor, 67, was nominated to the high court by former President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and, after being confirmed 68-31 by the U.S. Senate, was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on August 8, 2009.

Supreme Court to Hear Christian Flag Controversy

By: Bruce Hausknecht

A city that allows groups to host rallies and even raise flags commemorating those events on public property can’t prohibit a Christian flag, a civic group with a religious emphasis will argue to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 18. This important First Amendment case pits free speech and religious freedom rights of individuals and organizations against a local government’s position that it is avoiding constitutional problems by prohibiting the flag.

The dispute started innocently enough. The City of Boston allows civic groups to utilize the City Hall Plaza to hold public events. The plaza contains three flagpoles, the first of which is used to fly the American and POW/MIA flags. The Massachusetts state flag flies on the second, and the Boston city flag usually flies on the third.

The city has allowed civic groups to fly their own special flags on that third flagpole. In fact, from 2005 through June 2017, the city approved 284 flag raising events without a single denial.

That is, until Harold Shurtleff, the director of Camp Constitution, applied to use the plaza in September 2017 to commemorate Constitution Day, the day we celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787. When Shurtleff applied to the city to allow him to raise Camp Constitution’s flag, which is the Christian flag, his request was denied.

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