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The Christian Post reports: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is standing her ground by refusing to remove a chalk-drawn cross from the entrance to the governor’s mansion after Americans United for the Separation of Church and State demanded its removal, claiming it violates the U.S. Constitution. The uproar began on Monday after Sanders shared a photograph of her three children …

Newsweek reports: Protesters on Friday lined the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as former President Donald Trump arrived to speak at a conference hosted by the conservative group Moms for Liberty. Videos shared to Twitter by freelance journalist Oliya Scootercaster show swarms of protesters holding signs and chanting “Lock him up” as the former president’s motorcade drove up to the political …

The New Republic reports: Representing the plaintiff—303 Creative, a small business run by a Colorado woman named Lorie Smith—is Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a group whose founder dubbed it a “Christian legal army,” with a long history of opposing civil rights protections for LGBTQ people. But unlike the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which at least involved real customers wanting a real …

The Guardian reports: The suit centers on Lorie Smith, a website designer who does not want to provide her services for gay weddings because of her religious objections. In 2016, she says, a gay man named Stewart requested her services for help with his upcoming wedding. “We are getting married early next year and would love some design work done …

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: Two protesters offended by a Pride exhibit at the Rancho Peñasquitos Library have checked out nearly all the books in the display and vowed to keep them until the library eliminates what they call “inappropriate content” for children. The anti-gay protest is the latest example of a growing national backlash against Pride exhibits, which experts …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: Because he is doing so much kingdom damage to the enemy, Satan is throwing quite a bit of chaos into Sean Feucht’s life right now. The latest incident for the renowned evangelist came this past week when Feucht’s priceless 1967 Ghallager guitar and black case was stolen from his car on Tuesday in …

Via email from the Family Research Council: Biden’s Health Department is being weaponized to promote homosexuality and the transgender agenda. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra launched the department’s “Pride Summit” on Monday, stressing the importance of normalizing the LGBT agenda. He quipped, “Supporting the LGBTQI+ community is a top priority for me and HHS. Equity runs at …

Media Matters reports: Head of the anti-trans organization American Principles Project Terry Schilling appeared on an episode of Timcast IRL where he compared no-fault divorce in the United States to “the dissolution of marriage and the abolition of family in the Soviet Union.” The movement against no-fault divorce was reestablished as a right-wing project following the Supreme Court decision overturning …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding prayer in schools, crosses erected on public lands, and flying Christian flags on public buildings, right-wing activists intend to “go on offense” by pushing Christian nationalist policies at all levels of government and society. Among those leading the charge is Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty, …

“My counter-proposal is that we ban that evil Pride flag from every public space forever. We could do it. We ban all sorts of flags from public spaces – Nazi flags, hammer and sickle flags. Would not be that hard at all. And you might say, that’s extreme. But is it more extreme than turning Pride day into Pride week …

Hartford’s CBS affiliate reports: Police are looking into a potential hate crime after two people disrupted a church service that was celebrating Pride Month. It happened Sunday at a church in Enfield. Pastor Greg Gray of the Enfield Congregational United Church of Christ was in the middle of a sermon during a Pride service at the church when two men …

Charisma News founder Stephen Strang writes: Just look at what has been happening with major retailers like Target, Kohls and Bud Light. They have not only shoved down the LGBTQ agenda onto adults, but they have pushed these monstrous views onto children and infants. This agenda goes far beyond a cultural phenomenon and has direct spiritual implications as there is …

The Christian Post reports: Ruben Israel, a well-known traveling street preacher who made headlines by pursuing and winning a free speech lawsuit after an altercation with Muslim protesters in Michigan, has died suddenly. On his official Facebook page, Israel’s family announced Sunday that the Los Angeles, California native unexpectedly died last Saturday at 5 a.m. but did not disclose the …

The Guardian reports: Speaking one year since the US Supreme Court removed the federal right to abortion, Mike Pence said candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should stand firm on the electorally unpopular issue and take a hard line on bringing in national limits. “For me, for our campaign, we’re going to stand where we’ve always stood, and that …

“Using federal law and section 212-F of the Immigration and Nationality Act, I will order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists. Those who come to and join our country must love our country. We want them to love our country. We don’t want them when they want to destroy our country. Welcome to America, we …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump called two indictments he’s received in two separate probes a “great badge of courage” on Saturday during a Faith & Freedom Coalition event. “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxist, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it a great badge of courage,” said Trump, who spoke to a crowd at the Faith & …

Tulsa World reports: Faith advisers want State Superintendent Ryan Walters to “enforce” a daily full minute of silence in schools, mandate the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom and add a Western Civilization course to high school graduation requirements. The recommendations echo Walters’ own headline-making campaign call in 2022 for every Oklahoma history teacher to be trained in …

“I’m running because he’s let us down. He has let us down because he’s unwilling, he’s unwilling to take responsibility for any of the mistakes that were made and any of the faults that he has and any of the things that he’s done. And that is not leadership, everybody. That is a failure of leadership. You can boo all …

“Do you get your best in life, do you get excellence, if you care about things that don’t matter? This person tragically passes away – the CEO of OceanGate – and he says that he was choosing and selecting his personnel based on not wanting to have fifty-year-old white guys. Then you could make the argument, albeit rather cruel and …

The Indianapolis Star reports: The Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national organization recently listed as an “extremist group” by a civil rights watchdog, apologized Thursday morning after it launched a newsletter called “The Parent Brigade” Wednesday that featured a quote from Adolf Hitler on its front cover. The quote in the newsletter drew condemnation on social media …