07/07/2023
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Good afternoon! It's Friday, July 7, and today's headlines include research on marriage in America, TV staffers who were fired over a memo calling for "balanced" pride coverage, and a church apologizing for a guest pastor's slavery comments.
An analysis of Census Bureau data has revealed that 25% of 40-year-olds in 2021 said they have never been married, a 5% increase in that population since 2010. Just 6% of 40-year-olds responded similarly in 1980. Pew Research Center's Richard Fry noted that most of this never-married group are also not living with a partner. Full Story.

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The Society of Family Planning's #WeCount reports that there were at least 25,000 fewer abortions from July 2022 to March 2023. The figure has left some pro-lifers puzzled as the abortion advocacy group's April estimate stated that 32,260 fewer abortions were performed from July 2022 to Dec. 2022, a shorter timespan. Read more.
Two managers and two other staffers of local NBC affiliate WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., have been fired following the release of a memo that warned about "polarizing" some viewers over the station's coverage of LGBT pride events. WOOD-TV anchor Michele DeSelms tweeted that covering "the other side" of the issue would equate to "requiring us to give equal time to hate and discrimination." Read more.
Daniel Kellan Mayfield, the former youth pastor at First Baptist Gowensville in Landrum, S.C., is facing 46 charges of criminal sexual conduct following his arrest for allegedly recording girls inside a church bathroom. Mayfield, who was previously charged with five counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of voyeurism, allegedly filmed girls as young as 14 years old. Read more.
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In this editorial, CP Executive Editor Dr. Richard Land discusses the case of State of Missouri et al v. Joe Biden and a judge's decision to block the Biden administration from contacting social media sites until after the case is decided. Judge Doughty found "substantial evidence" of a comprehensive censorship campaign, with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry stating, "The evidence in our case is shocking and offensive with senior federal officials deciding that they could dictate what Americans can and cannot say" on social media. Read more.
CP Senior Investigative Reporter Brandon Showalter reviews the docudrama "Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities." The film details the story of an El Salvadoran immigrant woman whose daughter knelt in front of an oncoming train to end her life. Abigail Martinez, who had to hear about how local authorities retrieved the "pieces" of Yaeli's remains from the railroad tracks, represents a growing number of parents whose lives have been forever changed by trans ideology. Read more.
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Fairpark Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, has apologized after a portion of a guest sermon from Anna Duggar's father, Mike Keller, went viral. In the clip, Keller compared the current political protests with slavery and cited 2 Chronicles 7 in the context of slavery and his view of how God responded to prayer. Read more.
Vineyard U.K. and the leadership of Causeway Coast Vineyard Church have apologized after releasing preliminary findings into complaints about former leader Pastor Alan Scott. A review from Trusted HR Ltd. has "identified themes and repeated patterns of behavior including examples of manipulation, inappropriate comments, narcissistic behavior, and certain occurrences of public shaming and spiritual abuse." Read more.
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Pop star Demi Lovato has received pushback on social media from several pro-life commenters over her crass pro-abortion song, "Swine." The profanity-filled song and accompanying music video were released last month on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. "Demi Lovato quit being a 'them' so that she could write a woman's rights anthem," Christian YouTuber Ruslan KD wrote of Lovato, who changed her "they/them" pronouns back to "she/her" prior to the song's release. Read more.
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