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The group opted to cancel its parade and institute a minimum age limit for its ‘Pridefest’ out of concern over the impacts of a Florida law that would ban indecent shows for kids.PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Event organizers in a Florida city scrapped plans for a gay “pride” parade this weekend after the GOP-led Florida House of Representatives sent a bill to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk that would ban drag shows and other sexually explicit performances in venues where children are present. The move comes as DeSantis, who is expected to sign the measure into law, continues...

A 41-year-old Georgia mother of seven young children has been rejected as a candidate for a kidney transplant by Emory Healthcare Inc., even though she’s on dialysis and potentially facing death. The reason? The woman, who has already had COVID-19, refused to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on religious and medical grounds. The woman, who will be referred to as Jane Doe to protect her privacy, was referred to Atlanta-based Emory by her nephrologist after suddenly developing end-stage kidney disease, according to Liberty Counsel (LC), a national nonprofit legal organization that’s assisting Doe. The seriousness of Doe’s condition necessitates her undergoing...

An Oregon woman filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s Department of Human Services after she was denied the opportunity to adopt a child because she refused to express support for gender ideology and homosexuality. The woman, Jessica Bates, filed an application to become certified to adopt a child from the Oregon foster care system. However, to obtain the certification, a person must agree to “respect, accept and support the … sexual orientation, gender identity [and] gender expression … of a child or young adult” who is placed in the home, according to the state’s policy. Although Bates promised to...

American Federation of Teachers comrade-in-chief Randi Weingarten recently asserted in a national newspaper that “Republicans are destroying our public schools. Teachers and parents must fight back.” Talk about pots and kettles. With a rogue person like Weingarten, it’s always about hyper-partisan politics and a faux “fight,” not the children or public education at large. She clearly will never apologize for the incalculable damage she and her allies did to vulnerable children in recent years with lies and will continue destroying them. Weingarten deems anyone who dissents an “extremist,” wishing to put “their political vendettas and ideologies ahead of children’s education....

Information and news about Father Xie Tianming of Baoding Diocese in Hebei province are extremely limitedA Catholic priest in China who went missing recently has reportedly joined the state-sanctioned church and is now undergoing the compulsory process of “political indoctrination” as a part of the joining process, says a rights group. Father Xie Tianming of Baoding Diocese in Hebei province was taken to an undisclosed location by authorities on April 10 for “political re-education” after he agreed to join the state-controlled church, ChinaAid reported on April 19. The re-education process includes long-term supervision by authorities until the clerics prove that...

Monument to Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi: Abrahamic Family House and Vatican IIhis is an expanded version of an article that first appeared in the April 2023 Edition of Catholic Family News (click HERE to subscribe; current subscribers can access the E-Edition by following the instructions posted HERE).Opening of the Abrahamic Family HouseFour years after Pope Francis signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together (Feb. 4, 2019) with Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the so-called “Abrahamic Family House” campus opened in Abu Dhabi (Feb. 16, 2023), the capital of the United Arab Emirates and the city...

The president reacted to the concerts of saucepans that have accompanied each trip of ministers for a week. According to him, disagreements must be expressed "in a purely democratic and respectful framework." After a trip to Loir-et-Cher where demonstrators were again waiting for the president with pans to protest against the pension reform Emmanuel Macron judged that it was not a "great sign of democratic life." "I never thought that covering the voice of the other with sound with utensils was a wonderful sign of democratic life," the president said...

Cernovich @Cernovich Whistleblower to tell House that US govt is 'middleman' in multi-billion dollar migrant child trafficking op foxnews.com Whistleblower to tell House that US govt is 'middleman' in multi-billion dollar migrant child... 7:57 PM · Apr 25, 2023

A transgender woman has sued Maryland’s corrections department in federal court, alleging she was improperly housed with male inmates while jailed for three months in 2021 and 2022 – and was sexually assaulted and denied hormone treatment during that time. The suit also alleges the plaintiff, Chelsea Gilliam, then was transferred to a different facility but improperly placed in solitary confinement there for about three months because of her gender identity. The lawsuit, filed this week in US District Court in Maryland against the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, alleges the department violated Gilliam’s constitutional rights by...

he group is in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in hopes of reaching Mexico City, where they plan to pressure government officials to provide them with exit visas or legal documents that would allow them to continue their journey to the United States border. The asylum-seeking caravan, which is largely composed by individuals from Central and South America as well as China and other Asian countries, had threatened to block roads or cause self-injuries Monday unless the Mexican government agreed to meetings or supply buses that would transport them to the capital. 'We are asking the government to give...

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors passed a controversial sanctuary ordinance Tuesday that will restrict the county from cooperating with ICE without a federal judicial warrant -- even if the immigrant was previously convicted of violent crimes, like murder, rape, or child molestation. Supervisor David Canepa authored the ordinance on the grounds it will bring more equality to asylum seekers and prevent collusion from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday lied about his birth by falsely claiming he was born in the same hospital where his grandfather died just two weeks prior. While speaking at North America’s Building Trades Unions Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton, Biden lied about his birth — one of many lies throughout the years. “My grandpop, who I never met, died in the same hospital I was born in two weeks before I was born,” Biden claimed. “My grandpop was, as they say in Maryland, from ‘Blamer.'”

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The Olympia School District in Washington state is under fire for cutting music classes amid claims they promote "White supremacy culture" and "significant institutional violence."Board members for the Olympia School District, which is facing a budget shortfall of millions of dollars, voted last week to eliminate band and orchestra for fourth-grade students, with one member commenting on the "problems with how elementary instrumental music is administered.Alesha Perkins, a mom of three in the district, called out the "absurdity" of the move Tuesday on "Fox & Friends First.""We have reached a level of absurdity in our school district, among our school...

The Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (NMPD) denied a Tennessee Star public records request for the release of the manifesto left by the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school. On April 21 Breitbart News noted a New York Post report that the FBI was stalling release of the manifesto.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Biden 2024 Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) answered a question on how the campaign will handle concerns about President Joe Biden’s age by stating that Biden has “a deep reservoir of knowledge, of experience, and relationships. And that’s why his leadership on responding to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine has been so successful, so agile, so capable, because of that experience.”

Fewer people are going to college these days, and that's great news.For decades, the percentage of recent high school graduates attending college was climbing, until about 2008, when it started leveling off. Twelve years later, it went in the other direction, with the largest one-year drop in over 30 years coming between 2019 and 2020. And then it continued falling into 2021, albeit at a lower rate.According to some analysts, it's starting to climb back up. Which would be a shame.The Wall Street Journal reports that in the past 10 years, about 200 colleges have closed down, or four times...

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called on President Joe Biden to meet him on the debate stage and at town hall meetings throughout the country during the Democrat primary. In a statement, Kennedy Jr. distanced himself from Biden and said he aims to “reclaim” the Democrat Party “and its traditional values.”

should refuse to place Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential ballot due to his alleged “treason.” Reich made the comments in an op-ed published Monday in The Guardian. Reich argues that Trump is guilty of treason under the 14th amendment because of his claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. The 14th amendment prohibits anyone guilty of insurrection against the United States from serving in public office. “Secretaries of state – who in most cases are in charge of deciding who gets on the ballot – must refuse to place Donald Trump’s name on the 2024 ballot,...

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation,” goes a line apparently misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. While the quotation is more likely a paraphrase of Lenin by famed economist John Maynard Keynes, it also “seems like a pretty good description of what the Biden administration is doing to America’s middle class,” wrote the New York Post a year ago already. Of course, “inflation,” as in rising prices, is at least largely caused by a phenomenon expressed via another definition of the term: inflating the money supply. Now, one thing Lenin...