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The New Republic reports: Oklahoma’s far-right superintendent of public instruction thinks that schools should teach students about the Tulsa race massacre, so long as teachers don’t actually acknowledge that the white supremacist attack was about race. Walters held a public forum Thursday night, during which someone asked him how teaching about the Tulsa race massacre doesn’t violate his ban on …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: In the days of Noah, Genesis 6:5 tells us, “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” We read in Genesis 6:11 that “the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with …

Via press release from Alliance Defending Freedom: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic opinion protecting the free speech rights of all Americans, commentators and activists have propagated false information about 303 Creative v. Elenis. It’s time to set the record straight. “This desperate attempt to malign ADF, our client, and a critical ruling affirming all Americans’ free …

From the Kansas City Star editorial board: Maybe it’s time for Josh Hawley to get out of the history business. Missouri’s senior senator on Tuesday decided to celebrate July 4 with another bit of online trolling. He took to Twitter to celebrate that great American patriot Patrick Henry. His tweet took the form of a quote. The problem? Henry never …

Media Matters has the transcript: DeSantis is being pilloried, not just by the libs, but by the squishes on the right for an ad that people are saying is homophobic. We’re not gonna tolerate this rainbow pride stuff anymore. I think it’s a great ad. One, because it’s funny. It’s a self-aware ad. I don’t think anybody really believes that …

The New Republic reports: North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson thinks that dictators such as Hitler and Mao are being taken out of context, and their work is worth reconsidering. Robinson was one of the speakers at the second annual summit for Moms for Liberty. “And here’s the thing,” Robinson said during his speech on Sunday. “Whether you’re talking about …

“I’m told the libs are major triggered by the connection between the Bible and the American Founding. For example: ‘The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission on earth.’ – John Quincy Adams.” – Sen. Josh Hawley, after being ridiculed for a fake quote he attributed to Patrick Henry in a tweet …

Yahoo News reports: Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is under fire for a Fourth of July tweet that managed to include both a false claim and a false quote. Hawley tweeted a quote he claimed to be from Founding Father Patrick Henry saying the United States was founded “on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Just one problem: Henry ― a slave …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: Today we celebrate America’s national independence. It’s not about celebrating the “Fourth of July,” it’s about honoring the wisdom and courage displayed by our founders in first declaring our independence from Britain and then fighting for eight years to secure it. What makes America unique, exceptional, is that we are the only …

Posted this morning to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Happy Independence Day! The freedoms we enjoy have come at a high cost—and it’s something we should thank God for every day. Did you know that one of our nation’s most famous symbols of liberty is engraved with a verse from the Word of God? The inscription at the top of the …

NBC News reports: Last week, a local Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty attracted attention for quoting Adolf Hitler in its newsletter. After the local paper reported the story, the group added additional “context” but kept the quote. Eventually, after facing even more scrutiny, the organization removed the quote and apologized in a statement posted to its Facebook group. That, …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Although LGBT activists once went into hysterics at the suggestion of homosexuality inevitably being pushed on children, now that the movement is firmly entrenched in American society, they retroactively admit they were always coming for your children — they just don’t want parents to be up in arms over the fact. A recent …

The Christian Post reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is standing her ground by refusing to remove a chalk-drawn cross from the entrance to the governor’s mansion after Americans United for the Separation of Church and State demanded its removal, claiming it violates the U.S. Constitution. The uproar began on Monday after Sanders shared a photograph of her three children …

“What should our strategy be now that we’re getting these precedents? I think we have to flood the zone. I think we have to find good complaints, and this is why First Liberty is so important, everybody. “It’s FirstLiberty.org, I do a lot of different things with them, we do a lot of events together. They are on the cutting …

The New Republic reports: Representing the plaintiff—303 Creative, a small business run by a Colorado woman named Lorie Smith—is Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a group whose founder dubbed it a “Christian legal army,” with a long history of opposing civil rights protections for LGBTQ people. But unlike the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which at least involved real customers wanting a real …

The Guardian reports: The suit centers on Lorie Smith, a website designer who does not want to provide her services for gay weddings because of her religious objections. In 2016, she says, a gay man named Stewart requested her services for help with his upcoming wedding. “We are getting married early next year and would love some design work done …

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: Two protesters offended by a Pride exhibit at the Rancho Peñasquitos Library have checked out nearly all the books in the display and vowed to keep them until the library eliminates what they call “inappropriate content” for children. The anti-gay protest is the latest example of a growing national backlash against Pride exhibits, which experts …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: Because he is doing so much kingdom damage to the enemy, Satan is throwing quite a bit of chaos into Sean Feucht’s life right now. The latest incident for the renowned evangelist came this past week when Feucht’s priceless 1967 Ghallager guitar and black case was stolen from his car on Tuesday in …

Via email from the Family Research Council: Biden’s Health Department is being weaponized to promote homosexuality and the transgender agenda. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra launched the department’s “Pride Summit” on Monday, stressing the importance of normalizing the LGBT agenda. He quipped, “Supporting the LGBTQI+ community is a top priority for me and HHS. Equity runs at …

Media Matters reports: Head of the anti-trans organization American Principles Project Terry Schilling appeared on an episode of Timcast IRL where he compared no-fault divorce in the United States to “the dissolution of marriage and the abolition of family in the Soviet Union.” The movement against no-fault divorce was reestablished as a right-wing project following the Supreme Court decision overturning …