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Fox News, of course, is leading the charge: The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris has sparked international outrage with drag-queen themed imagery of religious and historical figures. One new display on Friday showed what appear to be numerous performers, including drag queens and a large woman in an aureole halo crown, parodying “The Last Supper,” a universally recognizable painting …

Courthouse News reports: A recently enacted law requiring Idaho schools and libraries to remove materials that are “harmful” to minors infringes on the First Amendment rights of private entities, a group of private schools, privately-funded libraries, parents and schoolchildren say in a Thursday lawsuit. House Bill 710 — which took effect July 1 after Governor Brad Little [photo] signed it …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced he is suing the Biden administration over a federal contraception program that provides teens birth control without requiring parental consent. The Title X program has long been the only way minors in Texas can access confidential contraception, but since a court ruling in 2022, Texas providers have been …

Via press release published by Christian Newswire: In assessing her candidacy for president of the United States, it is instructive to consider the positions taken by Vice President Kamala Harris on several issues of interest to Catholics. Harris is so happy to see two people of the same sex “marry” that she actually performed “marriages” between gay couples in 2004. …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: The news that Snoop Dogg, an American rapper, will be carrying the Olympic torch just before the start of the opening ceremony this weekend is something many aren’t too happy about. But stirring far more controversy than that of Mr. Dogg are the three French drag queens who carried the torch last week …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Wild Willies offends conservative parents in its newest commercial, “Ready to Become a Panty Dropper.” The company sells men’s beard grooming products, but its current advertising takes an unnecessary and inappropriate approach. At first, this men’s grooming commercial shows a wife saying, “My husband’s a panty dropper.” When she and her husband …

From the Justice Department: An Ohio man was sentenced today for threatening to destroy a reproductive health services facility in Columbus, Ohio, and for conspiring to commit money laundering. Mohamed Waes, 33, was sentenced to 66 months in prison, three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $273,982.08 in restitution. “This defendant threatened to burn down a reproductive …

The Texas Tribune reports: The Lubbock City Council on Tuesday voted to strip funding from a popular free monthly arts walk, after a council member suggested the event promoted a drag show. The 5-2 vote strips the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts of $30,000 of tax dollars collected from hotel stays. David Glasheen, the council member who proposed …

Media Matters has the transcript:  MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): So they’re gonna try to paint Kamala as untouchable, you can’t criticize her at all. And they’re gonna use J.D. Vance as a foil. These are the two now young candidates in the race and Kamala is a brave, beautiful, wonderful woman of color. And JD, he’s the worst of the worst. …

From the Justice Department: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BEVELYN BEATTY WILLIAMS was sentenced to 41 months in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (the “FACE Act”) in June 2020 in connection with her interference, including by threats and force, with individuals seeking to …

“Having children gives you a stake in the future of the country that those without children simply don’t have. OK? That’s not a moral judgment, it’s just a fact. You have more invested in the future of the country when you have children who will be living in it.  “When you have kids, your bloodline, a piece of you, the …

The Christian Post reports: Pastor Steven Furtick’s multi-campus Elevation Church, headquartered in North Carolina, collected more than $108 million in tithes and offerings in 2023, as in-person church attendance soared to more than 17,000 worshipers weekly with three new campuses, according to the megachurch’s 2023 annual report. The church, which withdrew its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention last summer, …

First, a Jewish Insider report from earlier today: Social media personality and Holocaust minimiser Candace Owens has been booked to appear at a Trump campaign fundraiser later this week. The Donald Trump supporter and former Daily Wire contributor is set to speak at a VIP fundraiser with the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. The event, sponsored by a cryptocurrency …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: Liberty Counsel filed its Opening Brief of an appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ermold v. Davis requesting to overturn the jury verdict on behalf of former Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis. In the case, Liberty Counsel argues for religious freedom with the goal to overturn the 2015 …

“You traded one problem for another. You traded senility — or someone who is senile — for someone who is radical. You traded somebody who is — who you feel bad for, to someone who is deeply unlikable. “Kamala Harris is two of the worst things that you could be in politics — she is unlikable and she is radical. …

Newsweek reports: Republicans will challenge Democrats’ right to switch Joe Biden for Kamala Harris, House speaker, Mike Johnson, confirmed on Sunday. The Heritage Foundation conservative think tank has said it has reserved millions of dollars to a nationwide challenge. The executive director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, Mike Howell, told Newsweek that the difficulty of replacing a candidate varies …

“It’s like those flames represented the flames of Hell, and they were destroying the truth that I had banked my life and eternity on. This last Friday night, it looked like the gates of Hell were prevailing, that Satan was going to win. “That was Friday night, but ladies and gentlemen, it is Sunday morning. It is a day of …

Law & Crime reports: A controversial new law in Louisiana requiring schools to have a poster of the Ten Commandments in every classroom will not be in effect when students return next month, giving a federal judge time to weigh the constitutionality of the measure. U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana John deGravelles on Friday approved …

“Last Saturday, the world witnessed on live television an assassination attempt against a former U.S. president. It was 6:11 p.m. when the first shot was fired and a bullet grazed the ear of Donald Trump. “Thankfully, God spared the nation from the catastrophe of an assassinated presidential candidate and spared Trump’s life. “Already, the image of the former president standing …

From the publisher of Baptist News: To understand the insidious nature of Christian nationalism, look no further than Franklin Graham’s appearance at the Republican National Convention last night. Graham already has demonstrated he knows no shame in endorsing, blessing and lionizing the most corrupt president in American history, yet people continue to send his nonprofits millions of dollars, enriching him …