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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Hill reports: The results of an NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, released Wednesday, show 58 percent of respondents said they oppose laws restricting the performances, while 39 percent said they support them. Democrats are the most likely to oppose such laws, with almost three-quarters of them saying they are opposed, but 57 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans also …

“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, …

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 …

The Washington Post reports: A little-known conservative activist group led by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, collected nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations to wage a cultural battle against the left over three years, a Washington Post investigation found. The previously unreported donations to the fledgling group Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty were channeled through …

Raw Story reports: In the immediate aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville that left at least seven people dead including three children, Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed Joe Biden, Democrats, and gun control advocates. Greene blamed gun free school zone laws that passed in the 1990s when Biden served in the Senate, in particular, for Monday’s shooting. “Joe Biden’s gun …

“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 – …

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” …

The Tennessean reports: Facing increasing pressure from neighbors over church services and property expansion at Global Vision Bible Church, a local battle with Pastor Greg Locke’s church escalated with a new lawsuit from Wilson County. The county based its case on construction and stormwater zoning violations, narrowly tailoring it to avoid a fight over protections for religious practice. Wilson County …

The Associated Press reports: The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign. Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her. Confusing art …