Plus: Kansas Law School Silent After Diversity Committee Demonizes Christian Law Firm, Spurring Top State Judge to Resign
December 6 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court yesterday heard the case of a website designer who doesn't want to be forced to make wedding websites for same-sex couples. Mary Margaret Olohan has an exclusive interview with the plaintiff. In Indiana, teachers and counselors object to a “gender support” policy that keeps parents in the dark, Tony Kinnett writes. On the podcast, Virginia Allen delves into revelations in Elon Musk’s “Twitter files.” Plus: Tyler O’Neil on a university diversity panel’s intolerance for Christian beliefs, and Josh Hammer assesses Donald Trump’s role in the GOP. On this date in 1961, Syracuse running back Ernie Davis becomes the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy—college football's top award for individuals. Sadly, Davis will die of leukemia at age 23 in May 1963.
An Indiana high school counselor emailed teachers that a student had changed genders, provided new pronouns, and said teachers should not inform the student’s parents because they were “not supportive.”
The state Supreme Court justice noted in his resignation letter that "the email, by implication, accused the student leaders of the KU Law Federalist Society of facilitating hate speech."
"The state of Colorado is censoring and compelling my speech and forcing me to create custom artwork, custom expression, that goes against the core of who I am and what I believe," says Lorie Smith.
Rep. Michelle Fischbach has introduced the Child Care Choices Act, which makes it easier for young mothers to find home-based, family-based, and faith-based options for child car
