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. YOU’RE INVITED: Join us at next
week’s Mama Bear Workshops, featuring Katie Gorka.
If you're a concerned parent or
coalition member interested in learning the scope and scale of
classroom indoctrination, and learning how you can shield our students
from indoctrination with harmful materials, we invite you to attend
one of next week's events! In addition to meeting like-minded Mama and
Papa Bears, we are also honored to be featuring a keynote speaker who
knows a thing or two about protecting parental rights.
Meet Mama Bear, Katie
Gorka.
2. THE DAILY SIGNAL: Leaked Videos
Expose Disney’s ‘Not-At-All-Secret Gay Agenda’
"'Executives have empowered activists within the company and
now seem unable to resist their demands,' Rufo wrote. In one video,
Karey Burke, president of Disney General Entertainment, said she aims
to have at least half of the characters in upcoming stories identify
as LGBT or racial minorities. 'We have many, many, many LGBTQIA
characters in our stories, and yet, we don’t have enough leads and
narrative in which gay characters just get to be characters and not
have to be about gay stories,' Burke said."
3. FOX NEWS: Florida's DeSantis
signs Parental Rights in Education bill, hits back at Hollywood
critics
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a parental
rights bill that bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on
"sexual orientation" or "gender identity" in kindergarten through
third grade. ‘In Florida, we not only know that parents have a right
to be involved, we insist that parents have a right to be involved,’
DeSantis said at a press conference at the Classical Preparatory
School in Spring Hill, Florida.”
4. NORTH STATE JOURNAL: NC Values
Coalition poll shows Budd leading Senate primary
A poll
of Republican primary voters commissioned by the NC Values Coalition
gives three-term U.S. Rep. Ted Budd the edge over former Gov. Pat
McCrory and former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker in the May 17 Republican U.S.
Senate primary.
The poll of 504
respondents gave Budd the edge with 32% of the vote, McCrory at 29%
and Walker at 12%.
Voters were more decisive with Republican North Carolina U.S.
Senate picks, with 75 percent of those polled citing their choice.
Ted Budd takes the lead at 32 percent over Pat McCrory who had
29 percent. Mark Walker trails at 12 percent.
5. FOX NEWS: Biden
administration endorses transgender youth sex-change operations, 'top
surgery,' hormone therapy
"President Biden's administration has released a series of
documents encouraging gender-reassignment surgery and hormone
treatments for minors.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Population
Affairs released a document Thursday titled 'Gender Affirming Care and
Young People.' The same day, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration's National Child Traumatic Stress Network –
another subset of the HHS – released a parallel document titled,
'Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care.'
The HHS documents describe what it calls appropriate treatments for
transgender adolescents, including: ''Top' surgery – to create
male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts;' and "'Bottom' surgery –
surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or
other procedures.'"
WEEKLY PRAYER: UKRAINE
Lord Jesus, you are the Prince of Peace. How you care for your
sheep. How you love the widowed and the orphaned! How you condemn the
one who violently widows and orphans!
No principality on earth
could bring about the Shalom of the Kingdom. For no principal could
come down on a cloud, as you one day will. Furthermore, when their
attempts at peacemaking come at the destructive end of the sword, the
scars are the very antithesis of peace.
We love peace, Lord
Jesus. Is it not the very thing we desire most in our hearts? That we
have peace in our lives. Peace from self doubts. Peace from violent
aggressors. Peace from the price of our sin.
We pray for the
peace of Ukraine. We pray for their protection and resilience. We pray
that Ukraine be victorious against the aggressor, that violent bully
named Putin.
What a tragedy before your eyes, Prince Jesus. To
see countries that call one another "brothers," recreate the episode
with Russia as Cain, and Ukraine as Abel.
We pray for the
peace and the people of Ukraine. May our hearts mourn for them, and
our nation help as is most wise and prudent.
"For to
us a child is born, to us a
son is given, and the
government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be
called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)
Amen
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Sincerely,
North Carolina Values Coalition
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