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Idaho Gov Signs Nation’s First “Abortion Trafficking” Bill

Boise Public Radio reports: Idaho is poised to become the first state in the country to make it a crime to help a minor get an abortion without their parent’s consent after Gov. Brad Little signed the bill into law Wednesday. That’s according to Planned Parenthood, the pro-abortion rights group which has said it intends to challenge the law. Barring …

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Texas Senate Passes Bill To Defund Pro-Drag Libraries

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas Senate on Wednesday approved two bills aimed at restricting drag performances that children attend or see. One of them, Senate Bill 1601, would defund public libraries where drag queens are allowed to read to children. The other, Senate Bill 12, bars kids from drag shows if the performances are overly lewd and lascivious. SB …

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Hate Group Celebrates Criminal Probe Into Disney

Posted to the FRC’s Washington Stand blog: What DeSantis didn’t know is that on February 8, Disney officials had met and signed a hush-hush agreement that stripped Florida of its powers before the new board even convened. Under this clandestine document, all decisions would be rerouted through Disney, neutering the GOP of its oversight. In a letter to the state’s …

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Florida Moves Closer To Criminalizing Drag Shows

Florida Politics reports: Titled “Protection of Children,” the bill (SB 1438) would authorize state government officials within the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to suspend or revoke the liquor license of any hotel, motel, restaurant, bar or similar establishment that knowingly admits minors to a live, adult performance. That includes “lewd conduct, or the lewd exposure of prosthetic …

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Catholic Site Fires Writer After DOJ Arrests Him For Anti-LGBTQ Death Threats To Human Rights Campaign

The Washington Post reports: A Maryland man has been charged by federal authorities with making threats of violence to a D.C.-based LGBTQ organization in a voice mail left on March 28, a day after the mass killing at a school in Nashville. Since the shooting, which left six people dead, conservative commentators and Republican politicians have exploited reports over the …

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Florida Senate Passes Near-Total Ban On Abortions

The Associated Press reports: The Florida Senate on Monday approved a bill to ban abortions after six weeks, a measure supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis as the Republican prepares to launch his expected presidential candidacy. The proposal must still be approved by the House before it reaches the governor’s desk. Florida currently prohibits abortions after 15 weeks. A six-week ban …

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DOJ Appeals Ruling Striking Down PrEP Coverage

Axios reports: The Justice Department on Friday appealed a federal judge’s decision to invalidate the Affordable Care Act requirement for free coverage of specified preventive health services. The move kicks off a legal process that could wind up at the Supreme Court and has financial implications for some 150 million Americans on employer-sponsored health plans. The appeal to the 5th …

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Trump Judge Blocks Tennessee Ban On Drag Shows

Reuters reports: A federal judge in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday temporarily blocked a law restricting drag performances in public from going into effect, saying it was likely “vague and overly-broad” in its restriction of speech. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee [photo], a Republican, in February, had signed the bill passed by the state’s legislature that was meant to go into effect …

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One Million Moms Vs “Bent Manhood” Ads [VIDEO]

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: The newest XIAFLEX commercial is inappropriate for obvious reasons, including airing when children are likely watching television. XIAFLEX is a prescription medicine used to treat adult men with a bend in an erection caused by scar tissue. As such, many families find this extremely graphic commercial offensive and embarrassing because the ad …

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Graham: Trump Indictment Means Jesus Hates America

Posted today to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: It’s a shameful day for America as former President Donald J. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. The Democrats have weaponized the legal system for their political gain while ignoring the current Administration’s faults and deficiencies. There’s only One who can save this country, and that is God and God alone. …

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Idaho GOP Votes To Criminalize “Abortion Trafficking”

Axios reports: The Idaho legislature on Thursday evening passed the nation’s first law that makes it illegal for minors to travel out-of-state to get an abortion without parental consent. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk. This is the first time that a state has put a law on the books that restricts its residents from interstate travel for …

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Boebert: Let’s Not “Nitpick What The Bible Says” About My Teenage Son Knocking Up His Underage Girlfriend

“Obviously, I’m a Christian, and there are standards that we like to uphold, but none of us do it perfectly. One of the biggest things that I look to is ‘him who knows to do right and doesn’t, it’s sin.’ “And I mean, there’s things all throughout the week that I know is right to do. And sometimes, I don’t …

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Texas Judge Strikes Down Insurance Coverage For PrEP

Axios reports: A federal judge in Texas ruled Thursday that employers can’t be required to cover specified preventive health care services under the Affordable Care Act. The ruling has major implications for the more than 150 million Americans on employer-sponsored health plans and could put millions on the hook financially for cancer screenings, immunizations, contraception and other high-value services. The …

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ND Reps Vote Against Free Lunches For Poor Students

Bismarck’s NBC affiliate reports: Nearly everyone agrees: no child should go hungry. But who’s responsible for feeding them when they’re at school? That’s the question lawmakers are trying to answer this week. The state has a budget of about $18.5 billion. How much of that will go toward school lunches for poor families? It looks like the answer to that …

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Republican AGs Lose Anti-LGBTQ Food Stamps Case

Bloomberg News reports: A Biden administration rule barring states from discriminating against poor LGBTQ people in the distribution of food stamps and other nutrition assistance programs survived a legal challenge by almost two dozen Republican-led states. The lawsuit filed in July exaggerated the impact that the federal regulation would have on religious freedom, and improperly tied the new rule to …

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Protesters Arrested As Kentucky Republicans Vote To Override Gov’s Veto Of Anti-Trans/Don’t Say Gay Bill

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: Heavy fog blanketed Kentucky’s state Capitol Wednesday morning, at points so dense it rendered the Capitol building invisible. But the fuzzy outlines of people standing in throngs outside the Capitol and gathering in clumps in the parking garage could not be erased. Hundreds of LGBTQ+ youths and their allies, young and old, protested as a last-ditch …

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Leading Christian Extremist Cheers Brutal Uganda Bill

“There are a lot of Christians in the world, but there’s only a handful of countries that actually still pass laws reflecting Christian teachings. One of those countries though is the central African nation of Uganda. “Uganda’s legislature just approved a new law; that law criminalizes gay marriage and the homosexual lifestyle and imposes the death penalty for pedophiles. “Yes, …

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Lawsuit: Megachurch Forces Staff To Tithe Or Be Fired

The Christian Post reports: Churchome, the Washington state megachurch led by Judah Smith and his wife Chelsea, has been slapped with a class action lawsuit for allegedly imposing a tithing policy on employees, in violation of state law, that requires them to give back no less than 10% of their gross earnings to the church or face disciplinary action, including …

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Dr. Demon Semen: Drag Opens Up “Portal” To Demons

“We are fighting a spiritual battle and they are coming at us in all facets. When it is drag queens being shown to our children at three years of age and people think it’s cute or they are just trying to make them grow up and not hate drag queens, it’s a deeper battle than that. “It’s an access – …

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Notorious Texas GOP Anti-LGBTQ Activist Testifies He Knew About Molestation Claims Against Baptist Leader

The Texas Tribune reports: In 2016, former Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfill received an urgent warning about Paul Pressler, his longtime law partner and a Southern Baptist leader. In an email, a 25-year-old attorney from Woodfill’s Houston firm said he’d recently gone to lunch with Pressler, who told him “lewd stories about being naked on beaches with young men” …

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