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Good afternoon! It's Wednesday, June 8, and today's headlines include the Southern Baptist Convention debating its approach toward abortion, the arrest of ex-megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey, and Louisiana becoming the 18th state to ban biological males from competing in female school sports competitions.
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The Southern Baptist Convention is expected to debate the best legal approach to abortion and how it informs resolutions within the SBC during its annual meeting next week. During last year's meeting, a resolution was passed containing disputed language that has distressed some leading Southern Baptists and a divide has arisen over this issue amid the probable reversal of Roe v. Wade. Some leaders, including an SBC presidential candidate, are contending for a resolution that, to a degree, diminishes the more mainstream approach to pro-life advocacy similar to what happened last year despite strong objections from the platform voiced by leading SBC ethicists and theologians. In an email to The Christian Post, North Greenville University Provost
and Dean Nathan Finn explained, "I think many pro-life Christians are drawn to the language of abolition because it is so compelling, perhaps not fully understanding everything the movement represents." At the heart of much of this debate is the "incrementalist" approach versus the "abolitionist" approach. Whereas incrementalists are known as those in the pro-life movement who have worked strategically over time to help pass laws and win court cases to make important legal gains and save as many unborn children as possible within the legal constraints of Roe v. Wade, abolitionists believe that incrementalists have compromised with evil and undermined efforts to legally abolish abortion immediately. Read more.Also of Interest ... |
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Bruxy Cavey, the former teaching pastor at The Meeting House Church, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Meeting House is one of Canada’s largest megachurches. The Hamilton Police, who announced they made the arrest in a statement on Monday, also said they believe there may be more victims and have encouraged anyone with information to come forward. Cavey confessed to sexual misconduct and resigned as the primary teaching pastor nearly three months ago. Read more. |
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During its annual meeting on Wednesday, June 1, Alphabet—formerly known as Google—and the shareholder proposal section dealt extensively with issues having to do with cancellation and censorship, especially of dissenting views concerning COVID and vaccines. The National Legal and Policy Center submitted a proposal to be voted on by shareholders that stipulates Alphabet "provide a report, published on the company’s website…that specifies the Company’s policy in responding to requests to remove or take down material from its platforms by the Executive Office of the President, Centers for Disease Control, or any other agency or entity of the United States Government." The proponent, a conservative think tank, and the discussion accompanying the proposal, with a
reference to the CDC, make it clear what the chief concerns are. Further, the statement of support that the conservative think tank included describes a specific incident suggestive that the government has been pressuring social media platforms to suppress certain content about the pandemic. Read more. |
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Vice President Kamala Harris held a roundtable with faith leaders about abortion and other "reproductive health" issues Monday. Her opening remarks did not include any overt mention of God. Harris insisted that supporting Roe v. Wade "does not mean giving up core beliefs," claiming that it is "simply about agreeing that a woman should be able to make that decision with her faith leader, with her family, with her physician—and that the government should not be making that decision for her." Pro-life groups and Biden administration opponents have criticized Harris’ remarks, with the group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America tweeting, "Harris somehow managed to avoid saying either 'God' or ‘abortion’ even once" during her opening remarks. The Republican
National Committee’s Director of Faith Communications Andrew Brennan issued a statement denouncing the roundtable event, stating, "Families can’t afford gas or groceries because of Joe Biden, and yet all this White House wants to talk about is their radical late-term abortion agenda—they couldn’t be more out of touch if they tried," noting that "[eighty] percent of Americans believe that third-trimester abortions should be prohibited in most or all cases" and "only 16% of independent voters believe abortion should be allowed at any time and for any reason." Read more. |
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In this op-ed, author and pastor Shane Idleman discusses the decline of America and addresses the question, "Is saving America the mission of the Church?" While Idleman contends that this is not the explicit mission, electing godly leaders, ensuring the protection of our borders and our children, and being a voice for the unborn are integral to the Church's mission. Pointing to faith leaders who embrace the appearance of being "woke" for the benefit of not offending others, Idleman cautions that believers should instead be asking, "Are we offending God?" Read more. |
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Georgetown law professor Ilya Shapiro resigned less than a week after being reinstated by the university following a four-month "investigation" over a tweet. The tweet, which Shapiro deleted and called "inartful," opposed the idea that a Supreme Court justice should be chosen by their race. In an article for The Wall Street Journal, Shapiro—who previously worked at the libertarian Cato Institute—explained why he believed his job at Georgetown Law was "untenable." Jarrett Stepman discusses the double standard for how people are treated in higher education depending upon whether they are on the right or left, asserting, "Our universities are of, by, and for the left, a left that is now immensely intolerant of dissent and is looking to purge everyone on the 'wrong side
of history.'" Read more. |
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Republican Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton is calling for a ban on drag shows and other sexually inappropriate displays for children following reports of minors attending a "Drag The Kids To Pride" show on June 4. The "family-friendly pride experience" was billed as a "spin-off" of the bar's Champagne Drag Brunch. Slaton released a statement in response to the event, calling it "horrifying." He has vowed to introduce legislation to stop what he calls a "disturbing trend in which perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children" once the next state legislative session gets underway. Read more. |
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The Fairness in Women's Sports Act (S.B. 44) has become law in Louisiana, making it the 18th state to ban biological males from competing in female school sports competitions. S.B. 44 became law after Gov. John Bel Edwards did not veto or sign the legislation within 10 days of the Secretary of the Senate delivering the bill to him, as required by state law. The bill cites "inherent differences between men and women" that give biological males an unfair advantage over their biological female counterparts in athletics as justification for the move, contending that men generally have "denser and stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments, larger hearts, greater lung volume per body mass, a higher red blood cell count, and higher hemoglobin as well as higher natural levels of testosterone." Read more. |
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Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Fla, has filed a lawsuit demanding that founding Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, vacate a million-dollar waterfront home owned by the church after Weems completely resigned from all work within the church in April. Church officials say in the June 1 suit that Weems purchased the home on behalf of the church and Weems Group, LLC, which he managed himself. They contend the purchase of the home, which Redfin reports
has a current estimated value of more than $1 million, was not authorized by the church's board. They say they served the Weems a notice to vacate on April 19, 26, and May 16, so that they can market and sell the home, but the Weems have refused, claiming that the Parsonage Use License Agreement permits them to reside in the property until their deaths. Read more. |
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