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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

The Indian government opposes recognising same-sex marriages, it said in a filing to the Supreme Court on Sunday, urging the court to reject challenges to the current legal framework lodged by LGBT couples. The Ministry of Law believes that while there may be various forms of relationships in society, the legal recognition of marriage is for heterosexual relationships and the state has a legitimate interest in maintaining this, according to the filing seen by Reuters, which has not been made public. "Living together as partners and having sexual relationship by same sex individuals ... is not comparable with the Indian...

On March 8, 2023, an organization called UNAIDS (which apparently represents the U.N.’s efforts to fight AIDS), came together with The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to officially launch a new set of ‘expert jurist legal principles to guide the application of international human rights law to criminal law.’ In other words, these groups are launching something called the ‘8 March Principles.’ However, for some reason, the document just got attention in the last few days, and … oh boy: The United Nations issued this report calling on member...

There is a conspiracy happening right now that is so insidious, so horrific, that it will boggle your imagination. People have died, are dying, and have been grievously wounded after receiving the COVID vaccine from drug makers like Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, the media is aware of it, and with one voice have agreed to remain silent about it. Meet Lisa Shaw, she has the words ‘AstraZeneca’ in the ’cause of death’ box on her state-issued certificate of decease. She’s not alone, there are many more just like her. Go ahead and give me another suspension for posting this, Facebook,...

Mahesh had given false information regarding the “blowing up of the PM" on Independence Day to the police on July 19, 2005. Delhi 17 years after an FIR was registered against him, a Delhi court has acquitted a man accused of giving false information to police over a phone call regarding the “blowing up” of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that the prosecution has not been able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. According to the prosecution, Mahesh had dialled the police emergency number 100 from the PCO booth and given false information regarding the “blowing...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ K-Pow!” (April 7, 2023) – Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Aircraft Handling) 1st Class Paul Salame, from Detroit, assigned to amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7) applies a mechanical advantage control hold during a non-lethal weapons certification April 7. Tripoli is an America-class amphibious assault carrier homeported in San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maci Sternod) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Wow! Beautiful! U.S. Air...

A Virginia animal shelter is seeking a new home for a strikingly corpulent cat weighing in at a staggering 40.3 pounds. Richmond Animal Care and Control said Patches the cat is on a special diet and exercise plan to help him come down to a healthier weight. "Did you wake up today and say, 'Let's adopt the largest cat anyone has ever seen?' If so, we have the cat for you," RACC said in a Facebook post. Veterinarians say the average domestic cat weighs about 10 pounds, although that number can vary by breed. The RACC said portly Patches is...

The commercial depicts a woman with unwanted facial hair...a mustache. Instead of ordering a hair removal product from Amazon Prime, she has visions of her looking like the late rock star Freddie Mercury and she orders a flashy leather jacket so she can imitate Mercury. I've long gotten rid of my TV at home. I feel like I've been in some kind of cave or shelter or something. Rant /off. FReep /on.

A federal judge rejected an effort by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to block a Congressional subpoena of a former prosecutor for that office who had worked on an investigation into former President Donald Trump. Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ruled that she has no standing to block the subpoena, writing that the House Judiciary Committee has claimed to have legitimate legislative purposes for its inquiry. The committee and its Republican chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, have aggressively confronted Bragg in the weeks since Trump was indicted in Manhattan. The Judiciary Committee says it is conducting its investigation in support of possible...

During a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hearing Wednesday, Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a former congresswoman from New Mexico, burst into tears while talking about “climate change.”She said, “All of this is because climate change is the crisis of our lifetime!” claiming weather events were responsible for changes in temperature. “We can’t continue to be a one-industry country, referring to oil, gas, and coal.WATCH: https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1648751050810355716 Also during the hearing, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN), chair of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, rebuked Haaland about the administration’s decision to ban new mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness....

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs shot down two proposals aimed at improving student safety and protecting the rights of law-abiding residents on Tuesday, breaking out her veto pen and calling on the Republican-controlled legislature to start passing gun control bills instead. HB 2332 would have set up a firearms safety education program for students in grades 6-12, while SB 1331 would have allowed Arizonans with concealed carry licenses to lawfully bring their firearms on campus. In her veto letter, Hobbs claimed that “Mandatory firearm safety training in school is not the solution to gun violence prevention,” adding that the proposed course...

The anguished father spoke at the courthouse where the man accused of killing Kaylin Gillis, Kevin Monahan, was denied bail by a judge. Monahan, 65, appeared in court with a jacket, tie and shackles. He answered questions from the judge, but mostly sat quietly. Gillis, her boyfriend Blake Walsh and their friends got lost while going to another friend’s nearby house. They were driving two cars and a motorcycle when they turned into Monahan’s long, dirt driveway in the town of Hebron, near the Vermont border. As they realized the mistake and turned around, Monahan fired with a shotgun...

CNN — House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green barred GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from speaking further in a hearing after she called Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” – a stunning example of how Greene’s extreme rhetoric led even members of her own party to shut her down, creating tensions inside the House GOP. Greene, a Georgia Republican, began her time during Wednesday’s hearing by going after Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, who had shown an Instagram photo of her calling to defund the FBI. Greene brought up an incident from several years ago, when...

A Colorado House committee on Wednesday began an estimated 12 hours of testimony from approximately 500 witnesses who registered to testify on a bill that would ban the sale of so-called assault weapons in the state. House Bill 23-1230 would prohibit the manufacturing, importing, purchasing, selling or transferring ownership of an assault weapon. It also would prohibit a person from possessing a rapid-fire trigger activator. Individuals, gun show vendors and licensed firearms dealers would face civil penalties for violating the law. The bill also would make it a misdemeanor offense to possess, manufacture, import, purchase, sell, offer to sell or...

Six members of a private militia group who claimed their constitutional rights were violated when they were arrested after a protest turned violent at Tiguex Park in June 2020 will receive $300,000 to drop three lawsuits they filed against the city of Albuquerque, its top officials and Albuquerque police. The city agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the group in 2021 as well as two other lawsuits alleging the city failed to turn over public records about the incident in violation of the state Inspection of Public Records Act. Still pending at the time of the...

Mississippi’s public colleges and universities have until Thursday to send an accounting of their spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to the state. The request comes from an Apr. 6 email sent by the Office of the State Auditor to the eight schools in the Institutions of Higher Learning (IHE). In her email, Laura Gray of the office’s Government Accountability Division calls the probe “a performance review” of DEI programs. The Sun Herald recently shared a copy of the email sent to Delta State University in Cleveland and writes that the office made its request based on a similar...

I know I'm going to open myself up to ridicule, but I'm running out of things to try.A little history,.....I had an account that was used for miscellaneous posts about politics and opinion for years, but decided to posts my home Bible Studies to You Tube without mixing them with the other political and opinion posts. So, I made another account and wrote the login and password in my password book. I stayed logged in for over a year to post 157 video's on Bible study. I have since logged out and logged back into my generic account for a...

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he supports a proposal from Reps. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) that would authorize the use of military force against Mexican drug cartels to target the criminal enterprises and dismantle them. “I would do that,” Trump said when asked about the congressmen’s Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) legislation that they have recently proposed.

Did a Rssian precision strike supposedly destroyed an underground "NATO command center" in Ukraine earlier this month, with "dozens" of Western officers and military personnel purportedly killed in the "Kinzhal" (or "Dagger) missile attack. At least, that is the claim circulating on some social media channels, including those known for spreading pro-Kremlin talking points and Russian propaganda. In some cases the claim was supported by a photo of the supposed strike site, showing large-scale devastation and a burned-down building.

The city council in Kyiv, Ukraine supported and planned to vote in favor of naming a street after a notorious Nazi collaborator last week, but the mayor, Vitali Klitschko, stopped the vote after an unscheduled meeting with Israel's ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, reported The New York Sun.Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine. It is the most populous city in the country and is the seat of government. The Kyiv City Council passed a motion on Apr. 11 to name a street after Volodymyr Kubiyovych, "who during the Holocaust was heavily involved in the formation of the Waffen-SS Galizien, a...