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Good afternoon! It's Thursday, August 4, and today's headlines include a Christian flag being raised at Boston City Hall, a Native American tribe that rescinded its ban on missionary work a day after passing the ban, and a trans-identified biological male who was kicked out of a women's cheerleading camp after allegedly choking a female teammate.
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Five years after Christian activist Harold Shurtleff of the organization Camp Constitution requested to fly a Christian flag at Boston City Hall, it was finally lifted around 11 a.m. on Wednesday. From 2005 to 2017, Boston approved 284 flag raisings by private organizations with no denials on the flagpoles that it designated a "public forum," per Christian conservative legal group Liberty Counsel. However, the city rejected Shurtleff's request, asserting that flying the "Christian flag" would be a government endorsement of religion. Liberty Counsel, which represented Shurtleff in the legal battle, argued that if any other word were used to describe the flag, the city would have approved the application. On May 2, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Shurtleff, with outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer writing the majority opinion. "We conclude that, on balance, Boston did not make the raising and flying of private groups' flags a form of government speech," wrote Breyer. A day ahead of the flag's raising, the Boston Herald reported that the city plans to propose a change to its flag-raising policies to create more jurisdiction over the matter. An ordinance filed to change the rule states that any person who wants to fly a flag on City Hall Plaza will need either a proclamation from the mayor or a resolution from the council, per CBS News Boston. Read more. |
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The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council voted last week to pass an ordinance that would have barred all activity of Christian missions on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to Native News Online, the ordinance also required religious organizations to complete an application to be allowed to engage in mission work. However, the tribal council voted 10-7 the next day to rescind the ordinance. Wings as Eagles Ministries President and Founder
Pastor Lori McAfee said in an interview with The Christian Post that the vote to ban missionaries and churches from continuing their operations was unconstitutional, which prompted the tribal council to rescind the ban. McAfee, whose organization oversees The Dream Center, a non-denominational ministry that works on the reservation, said the issue stemmed from a recent incident involving another ministry sharing a "really, really bad brochure" around the reservation. Read more. |
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Averie Chanel Medlock, a 25-year-old biological male who identifies as a woman, was kicked out of a Texas cheerleading camp after allegedly choking a female teammate. Police responded to the campus of Ranger College on July 21 following reports of a dispute among members of the cheer team, per Fox News. A since-deleted Facebook post claimed that a teammate said Medlock was a "man with a penis" and should not be on the cheerleading team. Medlock, who claimed they "stood
up" for themselves and posted a video on Facebook proclaiming their innocence, was cited by police for misdemeanor assault. At least 18 states have passed legislation prohibiting or strictly limiting transgender participation to an athlete's birth sex, including Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Read more. |
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Resurrect Ministry's Hedieh Mirahmadi calls out the Biden administration for "play[ing] word games" when it comes to taking responsibility for failed policies, particularly as it relates to a recession. Mirahmadi details several instances where "misusing words or defining them based on the situation rather than an objective definition" amounts to a language war aimed at destroying society's shared meaning of language in an effort to reshape society. Read more. |
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Dr. Karysse Trandem, a board-certified obstetrician, gynecologic surgeon, and national medical director and board member for Save the Storks, discusses the technological advancements that have enabled people to understand far more about pregnancy and the pre-born than what people understood in 1973 when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide. From new DNA immediately forming at the moment of conception to abortion health risks such as breast cancer and uterine damage, Trandem explains how technology has provided far greater understanding than what the previous generation had. Trandem calls out the billion-dollar abortion industry and the need for laws to protect women and children, "giving them the right to know about the dangers of any abortion procedure as
well as the remarkable development of their unborn child starting from the moment of conception." Read more. |
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Growing violence by Islamic State-affiliated insurgents in the northern parts of Christian-majority Mozambique has internally displaced more than 784,000 people, according to the United Nations. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement that it is "concerned with the volatile security situation in Cabo Delgado, especially recent attacks in historically safe districts." At least
24 countries have sent troops to support the fight against insurgents in Mozambique, whose army has been accused of being corrupt and having 7,000 "ghost soldiers," the BBC reports. Read more. |
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Film mogul Tyler Perry shared in a recent interview with AARP that he buried Bibles under his 330-acre Atlanta, Ga., property before building sound stages on the land to refocus "the spirit of the place." Tyler Perry Studios is built on a former Confederate army base, and Perry is the first black American to own the land. Each of the property's 12 sound stages is named after black actors and actresses that influenced Perry. In a previous
interview with The Christian Post, Perry discussed how much of his work inspires him to reflect on his faith, saying, "I just want people to know that no matter how dark, no matter how bad, no matter how dismal the scene or situation you're in, there's still hope." Read more. |
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Christian singer Amy Grant is postponing her August tour dates following a bicycle accident that landed her in the hospital last week. Posts to the singer's social media accounts indicated that Grant's doctor recommended the singer rest at home following her hospitalization. The August tour dates have been moved to April and June 2023. Read more. |
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