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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. 
1. NEWS & OBSERVER:
Will NC schools limit LGBTQ discussion? It rests on this year’s
legislative elections.
“‘If the Republicans have the votes to override a
veto, this will be one of their top priorities,’ Tami Fitzgerald,
executive director of the N.C. Values Coalition, said in an interview.
‘I encourage parents to go out and vote for people who believe they
have the right to determine the education for their children and not
the activists in schools.’”
  2. NC VALUES: 🚪 Over 345,000 doors knocked by SBA Pro-Life AmericaIt is especially important this year for pro-life voters to vote
for pro-life candidates. Any pro-life legislation passed by the
General Assembly is dead on arrival once it reaches Governor Cooper’s
desk. That's why we need to elect a pro-life veto-proof majority in
the General Assembly this year.
3. CAROLINA JOURNAL:
Cooper signs $27.9 billion budget into law
"Gov. Roy Cooper signed the state’s $27.9 billion General
Fund budget into law Monday afternoon. He had until the end of the day
to either sign it, let it become law on its own, or veto
it."
The budget also included $2,585,000 in non-recurring funding for ten pregnancy care centers. The appropriation will be made directly to the following pregnancy care centers:
4. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Opportunity Scholarships get a boost in new N.C. budget"The revised budget being considered this week by the North Carolina General Assembly would increase funding for the Opportunity Scholarship Program and raise income thresholds needed to qualify. The budget puts an extra $56 million into the reserve fund for the scholarships, which are designed to give low- and moderate-income families the opportunity to leave their locally zoned public school and attend a private school that is a better fit for their children. The spending plan also raises the income limit to qualify from 175% of the federal free- and reduced- lunch program amount to 200%. The change means that a family of four could qualify for the scholarship earning up to $102,676 per year, while the previous upper limit was $89,842."
5. SBA PRO-LIFE AMERICA:
Majority of Voters Oppose Democrats’ Extreme Abortion
Agenda
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America slammed Democrats’ extreme abortion agenda including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call for another vote on H.R. 8296, the Women’s Health Protection Act, legislation better known as the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act. New national polling conducted by this month by OnMessage Inc. and released today by SBA Pro-Life America finds the bill’s provisions are deeply unpopular:
Reflecting on the poll, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser offered the following comment: “Pro-abortion Democrats are dramatically
out of touch with a majority of Americans who reject abortion
extremism. Already in this new Dobbs era, more than a dozen
states have implemented life-saving protections for unborn children
and their mothers. Yet Democrats and the abortion industry are
spreading fear and lies about the Dobbs decision to push
their unpopular, unsafe agenda – including the deceptively named
Women’s Health Protection Act. This legislation, which has already
failed three times, would enshrine a virtually unlimited ‘right’ to
abortion in federal law and block new and existing pro-life
laws."
 WEEKLY PRAYER: LIBERTYLORD, you have blessed us with a spiritual liberty that is so wonderful and beyond description, that it can only be understood through experiencing a life-giving relationship with Christ. However, we also recognize that in your grace, you have blessed our country with a political liberty that enables us to openly proclaim the experience of a life lived in the freedom of the Gospel. LORD, as individuals and as a nation, may we never take the inalienable right of religious freedom for granted. Right now our country has faced a rapid increase in the number of attacks made against this cherished right. We have seen groups across our public arena increase in boldness and frequency their smears against religious liberty. They claim it is bigotry, when we know it is the security of the greatest of all possible loves. Be with your people and our country as it continues to protect the constitutional right protected by our nation's Founders. Be with legislators and the Supreme Court, as they determine through their actions the protection of this particular and fundamental freedom. “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1) "For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." (Galatians 5:13) "Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God." (1 Peter 2:16)
Sincerely, North Carolina Values Coalition
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