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“I believe Jesus Christ is savior. I believe that Jesus Christ, um, is the way to heaven. I mean, these are my beliefs I’ve had my entire life. So I understand feeling that way as a Christian. But we gotta be bold. The anecdote to darkness is light. And the anecdote to a really grim future is filling the world …

The Mississippi Free Press reports: Robert Foster, a former Mississippi House lawmaker who lost a 2019 bid for governor, is using his social-media platform to call for the execution of political foes who support the rights of transgender people. Foster, who runs Cedar Hill Farm, an agritourism business in DeSoto County, Miss., served as a state representative from 2016 until …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: During an impassioned hourlong debate, the Utah House of Representatives on Friday voted to override Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of a controversial bill that would bar transgender girls from participating in school sports matching their gender identities. The House voted 56-18 in favor of the override, with Democrats and two Republicans voting against it. State …

Just in via press release: Last night, Family Research Council Action, the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council, filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas over the federal mask mandate on all airplanes. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of FRC Action, two FRC Action members who live in …

Posted just now to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Where are we going as a nation when a nominee for our highest court will not define what a woman is? When USA Today names a biological man as a ‘Woman of the Year’? And when biological males are allowed to participate in women’s high school and college athletic programs and take …

Via email from the hate group leader Tony Perkins: Not too long ago, there was at least this understanding about hot-button issues: there are good people on both sides. Now, thanks to the woke hijacking of America’s towers of business, tech, sports, education, and entertainment, those days are long gone. Anyone who disagrees with the Left now is not only …

The Christian Post reports: Less than two weeks after Reed Bogard abruptly resigned as lead pastor of the now-defunct Hillsong Dallas church in January 2021, an internal investigation commissioned by Hillsong Global showed that the married father of three was accused of rape by a junior female staff member with whom he had a monthslong sexual affair while serving at …

Axios reports: The Arizona House on Thursday voted to approve a bill that would effectively ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, approved by Arizona’s Senate last month, resembles a Mississippi abortion ban under review by the Supreme Court, which could overturn Roe v. Wade. Details: Arizona’s SB 1164 states that any health professional who performs an abortion …

The Hill reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said in a letter to the Austin Independent School District (AISD) this week that its Pride Week was “breaking state law.” Paxton wrote Tuesday that by hosting pride week, the district “has, at best undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent. Or, worse [the] district is cynically …

The Christian Post reports: A new report released Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute shows that despite the proven benefits of belonging to a faith community, Americans are increasingly leaving organized religion with each subsequent generation and the majority aren’t coming back. Generation Z, born in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is now the least religious generation yet, with …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: It’s not every day that a politician has the chance to be a hero in one of the most high-profile debates in the country. And it’s also not every day that a leader turns the chance down. This week, it happened twice. To the shock of Indiana and Utah voters, their governors …

Politico reports: This past Friday afternoon over lunch, a group of evangelical leaders met with former President Donald Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting, organized by Trump’s informal spiritual adviser and televangelist Paula White-Cain, was described by Trump advisers as a routine drop-in visit for the former president who has opened up his private …

The Texas Tribune reports: In early January, a day before students returned from winter break, Jeremy Glenn, the superintendent of the Granbury Independent School District in North Texas, told a group of librarians he’d summoned to a district meeting room that he needed to speak from his heart. “I want to talk about our community,” Glenn said, according to a …

CBS News reports: Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas statute, banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allowing the law to be enforced through civil lawsuits to avoid constitutional court challenges. Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law the measure that allows people who would have been family members …

Axios reports: North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson “paid” for the abortion of his “unborn child in 1989,” according to his personal Facebook comments from 2012. Robinson has surged to the front of the list of prospective GOP candidates for governor in 2024, while repeatedly emphasizing his opposition to abortion as a speaker at anti-abortion rallies and other political …

“God chose me for a reason. I didn’t lose. I won. Now you’ve just gone and made me more dangerous. I went into the lion’s den and those hyenas thought they were gonna eat me up, but guess what? They fed me, they fed me good. “I now know your strategies. I know what you think. I know what you’re …

The Insider reports: Brian Houston, the founder of the Australia-based Hillsong megachurch and also one of its pastors, has resigned following the church’s revelations that he behaved inappropriately with two women. “Pastor Brian Houston has resigned as Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church and the board has accepted his resignation,” said the church’s board. The first incident in 2013 involved …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: It doesn’t take a whole lot of moral courage to protect girls’ sports in the middle of a nationwide controversy. But apparently, it takes a lot more than Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb (R) has. As every Republican should have learned from Governor Kristi Noem (R-S.D.), the fastest way to become a pariah …

The Indianapolis Star reports: Sen. Mike Braun said during a media call Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage decades ago. That decision should have been left to individual states, as he sees it. Braun was asked about the landmark Loving v. Virginia court case after he explained he thought abortion rights questions should have …

Kevin Davis reports at Only Sky: Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is at it again, this time providing Ukrainian children with something they already have an abundance of – fear. It’s no revelation that CEF, who runs the predatory Good News Clubs in schools and churches across the US and abroad, takes advantage of every opportunity to proselytize to children and …