Jim Daly’s Statement on Senate Passage of Same-Sex Marriage Bill







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Jim Daly’s Statement on Senate Passage of Same-Sex Marriage Bill

By: Jim Daly




The United States Senate’s passage of H.R. 8404, the deceptively titled “Respect for Marriage Act,” is a blow to religious freedom and should it become law, which now seems more likely than not, threatens to further undermine the very fragile foundation of the family.


In opposing this misguided legislation, social conservatives put up a valiant effort. We’re grateful for friends of the family in the Senate, especially Senators Lee, Lankford and Rubio. Each of them offered amendments intended to protect the deeply held religious convictions of organizations like Focus on the Family. Sadly, all of them were defeated. Our coalition partners, including Alliance Defending Freedom, helped rally supporters far and wide. We applaud their principled effort.


The health of our nation is predicated on the health of its families. It’s inconceivable why a majority of our leaders would deliberately vote to erode the very institution that holds the answer to a thriving country and culture. Children desperately need mothers and fathers, and today’s vote seriously undercuts and ignores what should be a top legislative priority.


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Operation Christmas Child Sending 200 Millionth Shoe Box to Child in Ukraine



By: Jeff Johnston







Eleven-year-old Elizabeth Groff received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox when she was living in an orphanage in Ukraine. After being adopted and growing up in America, she’s taking the ministry’s 200 millionth box to a child in Ukraine.


As she told Fox News, that simple box of gifts showed her Jesus’ love and gave her hope.


Groff described her feelings as she was left all alone in the orphanage:


“In that moment, I felt hopeless. I felt lost. I felt alone, and I just hit rock bottom.


And that is where Jesus met me. He didn’t leave me there. He showed me that He loved and cared for me – through a simple gift. A shoebox. When I opened my box, it was filled with so many different toys. But the one thing I remembered the most was a shiny yo-yo.


To me, that yo-yo represented hope. To me, it represented love and care. Someone cared enough to send a gift box, and I instantly felt Jesus’ love.”


In 2007, when she was 13, Groff was adopted in 2007 by an American family – who packed Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse. Her new family was getting ready to pack five boxes, but hearing Groff’s story, they ended up working with friends and family members to pack 150 boxes.






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Leftists Angry at Tim Allen for Defending Christmas in ‘The Santa Clauses’



By: Zachary Mettler







Online leftist Twitter warriors are up in arms over a joke made by Tim Allen in the new Disney+ series The Santa Clauses. They’re furious at the well-known, moderately conservative actor for, of all things, defending the phrase “Merry Christmas.”


The new six-part miniseries serves as a sequel to the 2006 movie The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, which was the third installment in The Santa Clause franchise.


The first installment, The Santa Clause, hit the theaters in 1994 and instantly became a Christmas classic, earning $190 million at the box office.


Tim Allen, who reprises his role as Scott Calvin and Santa Claus in the series, hasn’t been silent about his political beliefs. He one of the very few (at least somewhat) conservative actors in Hollywood – a species of actor that’s critically endangered. In a brief scene in the new series, Santa Claus (Tim Allen) jokes that “Saying ‘Merry Christmas to all’ has suddenly become problematic.”


That’s it. That’s the entire joke. But somehow, that was even too much for some to handle. Seemingly proving Santa’s point, many leftists have had an angered reaction to the joke.


Many other users acted like there has been no concerted effort in recent decades to phase out the phrase “Merry Christmas” in favor of other, supposedly more inclusive well-wishes.
Except there has been.






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Charles Schulz @ 100: Frozen in Time, Not Woke and Oh So Wonderful




By: Paul Batura






“That’s a lot of Snoopy!”


So said Alex, our ten-year-old, this past Saturday as he began his morning dive into the comics of our local newspaper.


Yes, we still receive a physical newspaper – and yes, some children do still read portions of it.


Alex was reacting to the Centennial Celebration of Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz, who was born on November 26, 1922. In homage to the late, bespectacled cartoonist, many artists slyly slipped in references and illustrations related to Charlie Brown and the gang in their own strips.


When Schulz died of colon cancer back in 2000 at the age of 77, the introverted artist was hailed as someone who deftly captured the fun and foibles of life, and especially the frustrations and uniqueness of childhood. By design, no adults ever appeared in the comic strip. In television specials, several of which remain holiday classics, adult voices are represented by the drone of trombones. In fact, Schulz insisted on using real kids to voice the various children’s characters.


Charles Schulz insisted that nobody else would draw his strip after he died, a pledge his family has kept for the last twenty-two years. But so voluminous and productive was the artist for over a half-century that Peanuts continues to appear each and every day.





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Wyoming Rescue Mission Fights for Right to Hire Christian Employees – and Wins



By: Bruce Hausknecht







A shocking government edict that a Christian-run homeless shelter in Casper, Wyoming, must hire an admitted atheist as an employee has been resolved in favor of the Christian organization.


The Wyoming Rescue Mission serves the needy residents of Casper through its homeless shelter, clothing voucher service, faith-based recovery programs and life-rebuilding assistance.


In 2020, an applicant responding to an employment advertisement from the rescue mission truthfully admitted that he was a person of “no faith.” When the rescue mission declined to offer him a position because he was not of the Christian faith, the applicant complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Wyoming equivalent, the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services.


When the two regulatory agencies informed the rescue mission it could only require its “ministers” – which the government bureaucrats defined as leaders of the organization – to be Christians, the rescue mission asked the government entities to reconsider, and argued their position unsuccessfully for months.


Finally, this past September the rescue mission sued the agencies with help from attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The legal Complaint filed in a Wyoming federal court asserted the agencies had seriously misread federal employment law – known as Title VII – as well as past U.S. Supreme Court decisions on religious hiring and the First Amendment.







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