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1. FOX NEWS: North
Carolina attorney general won't defend state restrictions on
dispensing abortion pills
“North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein won't defend state
restrictions on dispensing abortion pills that are being challenged in
a lawsuit and instead will argue the restrictions are preempted by
federal regulations protecting access to the pills, Stein's office
said Monday.”
Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/north-carolina-attorney-general-wont-defend-state-decision-dispensing-abortion-pills
2. NORTH STATE
JOURNAL: Another Parents’ Bill of Rights may be filed in the House
“In an interview with North State
Journal on Monday, House Education Committee Chair Rep. John Torbett
(R-Gaston) indicated that the House will have some additions to the
Senate Bill 49, the Parent’s Bill of Rights. Senate Bill 49 seeks to
increase transparency for parents in a number of areas such as the
well-being of students and curriculum. It also bars teaching
controversial gender ideology and sexuality topics in Kindergarten
through fourth grade. Similar to last session’s Parents’ Bill of
Rights, the bill appears to be in a time-out in a House committee,
however, that may be because the House has designs on a bill of its
own according to Torbett, who discussed some possible changes in its
own version of the bill or may submit it as a companion bill the
existing Senate version.”
Read more: https://nsjonline.com/article/2023/02/another-parents-bill-of-rights-may-be-filed-in-the-house/
3. WASHINGTON EXAMINER:
Former employee blows the whistle on transgender clinic: 'Morally and
medically appalling'
4. CAROLINA JOURNAL: New
generation of leaders at UNC values thought
diversity
“The morning after Donald Trump was elected president, I was
sitting in the office of Carol Folt, the then-chancellor of UNC-Chapel
Hill, along with the school’s top academic officer, Provost Jim Dean,
to discuss my concern that UNC had fostered an oppressive monoculture
that was undermining critical thinking on campus. The timing was
serendipitous, as we did not yet realize the magnitude of the meltdown
occurring on campus as we spoke — professors were cancelling classes,
postponing exams and otherwise coddling students suffering from
‘severe emotional distress.’ In many cases it was the professors who
were the ones incapacitated by the election outcome.”
Read more: https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/new-generation-of-leaders-at-unc-values-thought-diversity/
5. CHARLOTTE AT SIX: Gay-Book
Session Upsets Some CMS Parents
WEEKLY PRAYER: FREEDOM
LORD, 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)
Amen
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Sincerely,
Tami & Team
NC Values
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