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Raw Story reports: An Oklahoma lawmaker has introduced a bill that would give any parent the power to ban books in school districts. The legislation also empowers parents to collect at least $10,000 for each day a book is not removed. State Sen. Rob Standridge (R) introduced Senate Bill 1142, which would allow parents to request that a book be …

The Christian Post reports: The Satanic Temple of Illinois displayed a sculpture of an infant version of Baphomet in the state Capitol rotunda in Springfield Tuesday, which can be seen as “just another very sad attempt” by the devil to destroy Christmas, Graham told Fox News today. “King Herod sent his troops to Bethlehem to hunt for the baby Jesus …

The BBC reports: A Russian court has jailed for 21 years a former Orthodox priest, said to have adopted 70 children, for a string of child abuse offences. Nikolai Stremsky was convicted of raping several children and other violent acts in his parish in the Urals in south-west Russia. Stremsky was reputed to have Russia’s largest family and was decorated …

The Insider reports: North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn and his wife Cristina Bayardelle Cawthorn are divorcing after being married for slightly less than a year, with the GOP congressman citing a change in his lifestyle after his election. Cawthorn, 26, said that he and his wife had run into “irreconcilable differences,” in a statement tweeted Wednesday. Cawthorn and Bayardelle were …

“I think you should home school. I was home schooled all the way through. I am proudly a college dropout. Unless you are becoming a doctor or lawyer or engineer, I highly encourage you to drop out.” – Christian nationalist GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn, speaking yesterday at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA conference. Madison Cawthorn today to an audience of …

The Christian Post reports: Christian organizations have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate following an appeals court decision last Friday allowing the employer mandate to take effect. The First Liberty Institute filed an emergency application for stay with the nation’s high court on behalf of multiple faith-based organizations, arguing …

“We, patriotic Americans, were born for such a time as this. We’re going to face some dark times as a nation. I genuinely believe that. “I think we have an opportunity in the next four to six years to prevent kinetic force — countryman on countryman — from ever meeting. “Although I have no doubt we would be victorious if …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Sadly, the caustic nature of American politics has some Christians concluding that followers of Jesus shouldn’t be involved in government or policy. And that’s exactly what the far Left would have us think. I’m thankful for partners like you who understand that political engagement is a part of fulfilling the biblical command …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Thank you Senator Joe Manchin for putting the American people first. My prayer is that God will bless and strengthen you. Because of your stand, America will have a better Christmas and new year. Senator Manchin said that when he first joined the Senate in 2011, he will never forget being in a meeting …

The Christian Post reports: South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has introduced a bill that would allow students in public schools to pray every morning at school if they so choose despite pushback from secular groups to similar bills in other states. On Monday, Noem released the text of legislation that would “require a moment of silence in schools to …

The Texas Tribune reports: When the Llano County Library shuts down for three days this week, starting Tuesday, it won’t be for the holidays. Instead, a group of six librarians in this small Central Texas county will be conducting a “thorough review” of every children’s book in the library, at the behest of the Llano County Commissioners Court. “I think …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: Prevented from speaking to one another, inmates at an internment camp howl like monkeys, alerting others to approaching guards. This isn’t a WWII history lesson—it’s happening right now in Australia’s “COVID camps.” Meanwhile, the CDC has published its own plan for similar forced isolation camps here in America. In April 2020, we …

Metro Weekly reports: Jeffrey McCall, the founder of “ex-gay” group Freedom March, has confessed to having multiple hookups with men since last year. McCall claims to have lived as a gay male sex worker, and then as a transgender woman named Scarlett, before renouncing his sexuality and gender identity and founding Freedom March. But in a post last month on …

From New York Attorney General Letitia James: New York Attorney General Letitia James scored a statewide victory supporting the LGBTQ+ community after a federal court dismissed a case brought by an Elmira wedding photographer, who sought to discriminate against LGBTQ+ couples. The wedding photographer, Emilee Carpenter, filed a lawsuit against the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the state Division …

Dallas’s NBC News affiliate reports: While in town to discuss his political history at the American Airlines Center on Sunday, First Baptist Dallas says former President Donald Trump will also attend a special Christmas-themed worship service. Trump, who is expected to “provide a Christmas greeting at the end of the service,” was invited to the service by Senior Pastor Dr. …

The Christian Defense Coalition’s Patrick Mahoney: The ‘People’s House,’ as the US Capitol Building is so rightly called, must be a place where all Americans should be afforded the right to come and peacefully celebrate and express their First Amendment Rights. That is why it was so troubling when I read the official guidelines for ornaments on the 2021 U.S. …

From hate group leader Tony Perkins: Speaker Pelosi’s January 6th Select Committee is not about protecting the rule of law or preserving the integrity of the Republic. If so, she would have responded to the numerous violent and deadly mob attacks that rolled from city to city in the summer of 2020, including Washington D.C. The contempt vote is nothing …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: Radicals in the media, large corporations and big government want to make Christians discredited, unemployed or even imprisoned. Pastors and churches have faced unprecedented persecution due to COVID-19 shutdowns. Preachers were criminally charged and arrested. Churchgoers were put on the equivalent of 14-day house arrest for attending Easter Sunday services. Churches face …

The Associated Press reports: A former city council member and a retired U.S. Navy captain are headed toward a runoff for the Republican nomination for an Arkansas state Senate seat, beating out candidates in a special primary that included “19 Kids and Counting” father Jim Bob Duggar. The poll results from Tuesday’s election show that Colby Fulfer, who is chief …

Religion News Service reports: A former employee of Christian finance guru Dave Ramsey is suing his former boss for religious discrimination, claiming he was fired for putting his faith in science and not prayer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawyers for Brad Amos filed a complaint Monday (Dec. 13) in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging there …