Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb vetoed a bill that would have protected girls and women’s sports from males who “transition” to live as if they were female.
HB 1041 would have amended the state’s education code to include the following:

“A male, based on a student’s biological sex at birth in accordance with the student’s genetics and reproductive biology, may not participate on an athletic team or sport designated under this section as being a female, women’s, or girls’ athletic team or sport.”

The measure was passed by the Indiana House, 66 to 30, and by the Senate, 32 to 18.

In a letter explaining his move, the governor said that protecting the integrity and fairness of women’s sports was “a worthy cause for sure,” but he cited concerns with the legislation. He said the measure’s grievance provisions – for girls harmed by boys participating in girls sports – would be difficult to maintain consistently and fairly.

The state of Michigan has agreed to settle a religious freedom discrimination lawsuit brought by Catholic Charities West Michigan in 2019 over the state’s attempt to force it to place children with same-sex couples, contrary to the agency’s religious beliefs about marriage and the need of children for a married mom and dad.

As part of the settlement, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will allow the agency to continue placing children only with a married mom and dad, and the department has agreed to pay Catholic Charities $250,000 to cover its attorneys’ fees spent in the case.

This is now the second case this year to be settled in favor of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies in Michigan, following a settlement between the state and St. Vincent Catholic Charities in Buck v. Gordon.

Both settlements can be attributed to last year’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Fulton v. Philadelphia, which upheld the right of a Philadelphia Catholic foster care agency to be free from the city’s religious discrimination for choosing to place children only with a married mom and dad.

At the precise moment of his arrest and exile from Soviet Russia in 1974, the celebrated literary dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn released a document that was as powerful as it was brief: Live Not By Lies.

At the precise moment when so many are speaking plain truth today – saying 2+2=4 – and getting kicked off popular social media platforms for doing so, Solzhenitsyn’s words are deeply relevant and essential.

It was the great novelist’s simple and profound answer for how his people could resist the soul-crushing tyranny under which they lived. It is our answer today as well.

Communist ideology re-fashioned basic reality in a way the masses knew to be false, giving established words new meaning for political and ideological purposes. Dissent from the new order was not tolerated. Citizens were required, through excruciating political, economic, and ideological pressure, to speak and give assent to a carefully constructed, but wholly false reality. The people wrongly believed they controlled no real levers of power.

Does this sound like anything you recognize in culture today?