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Good afternoon! It's Friday, September 1, and today's headlines include a report on sex-change surgeries on teenagers, the ACLU arguing that taxpayer funds should cover the sex-change surgery of a convicted child killer, and Oliver Anthony's interview with podcast host Joe Rogan.
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Data released in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that at least 3,600 individuals between the ages of 12 and 18 underwent body-mutilating sex-change surgeries in the U.S. between 2016 and 2020, accounting for 7.7% of the observed 48,019 sex-change surgery patients. More than half (52.3%) of patients were between the ages of 19 and 30. Figures showed that 87.4% of 12-to-18-year-olds had breast and chest surgeries—the removal of healthy breasts among trans-identified females or the construction of breasts for trans-identified males—while 11% of patients between 12 and 18 underwent genital surgeries. Full Story.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a male inmate in Indiana, arguing that state law barring the corrections department from using taxpayer money to fund sexual reassignment surgeries violates the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Jonathan Richardson, a man who identifies as a woman named Autumn, was convicted of murdering an 11-month-old baby by manual strangulation. Read more. |
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The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent letters to Ohio's approximately 600 school districts calling on them to reject an off-campus Bible class program that public school kids can participate in during regular school hours. Launched in 2019, more than 300 schools in 11 states participate in the Ohio-based LifeWise Academy. A 1952 Supreme Court ruling determined that such released-time programs do not violate the U.S. Constitution. Read more. |
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The Islamic call to public prayer can now be publicly broadcast by mosques in New York City without a permit every Friday and throughout Ramadan under a new initiative launched by Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban. Some Muslims disagree with the move, with Reza Chowdhury, founder of New York Startup Lab, asserting, "This is insanity. There is a separation of church and state in this country." Read more. |
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Christian Post Executive Editor Dr. Richard Land reflects on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream speech" and how life has changed since he was a 16-year-old boy watching the speech on television while growing up in the segregated South. Land discusses what he believes King would find disappointing about today, as well as how King's dream "was rooted in his biblical understanding of the equality of all humanity." Read more. |
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Edgar Sandoval Sr. discusses the global hunger crisis and how programs contained within the Farm Bill can help to combat the issue. "These Farm Bill programs push back against hunger by ensuring students have at least one daily meal and families have the tools they need to grow their own food and create a livelihood," writes Sandoval. Read more. |
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The church in America is in serious trouble and this should increase our intensity to contend for the truth. Cowardliness is contagious, but so is courage. When the government restrains good and promotes evil, we must take a stand. READ IT HERE |
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, continues to question World Vision's finances and its use of taxpayer funding in the wake of a 2020 U.S. Senate Finance Committee report that found that the charity failed to properly vet an organization it awarded money to, which has ties to terrorism. Grassley's latest letters to World Vision and the U.S. Agency for International Development come over a year after a former manager was convicted in an Israeli court of diverting funds to Hamas. The charity believes in the man's innocence, and sent a statement to CP assuring that it "does not support any form of terrorism." Read more.Also of Interest ... |
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Oliver Anthony, the singer behind the viral "Rich Men North of Richmond" song, took to the " Joe Rogan Experience" podcast where he shared the Gospel with the host, reading Scripture passages that have guided him in the midst of his sudden popularity. The singer explained that he gave his life to the Lord just a month before he shot to fame, changing the trajectory of his life. He described his struggles with anxiety, depression, and his overall health and how he had an encounter with God and promised to change his ways. Read more. |
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Thank you for spending part of your day with us. We look forward to seeing you again on Monday! -- CP Editors
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