February 25, 2023

 

This digest of articles, essays and posts on the internet will help keep you informed about developments in the ongoing culture war. Look and read the offerings that you find most interesting. It will be well worth the time you invest.

Biden DOJ Indicts Eight Pro-Life Protesters on Federal Charges

Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice continues their attack on peaceful pro-life advocates as the “good Catholic” president reigns over the most pro-abortion administration in our history.

On Wednesday, the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of eight pro-life protesters in Michigan on federal charges, continuing an alarming trend of the weaponization of federal law enforcement agencies for the targeting of political opponents.

As reported by Fox News, the eight defendants have been charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, over an incident that took place outside an abortion clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan in August of 2020. The DOJ accuses the eight of “engaging in a civil rights conspiracy” for allegedly blocking the entrance to the Northland Family Planning Clinic. The indictment claims that one of the defendants advertised the protest ahead of time as a “blockade” on social media.

Major US School Districts Require Parental Consent for Aspirin but Not Trans Pronouns: Report

More evidence of LGBTQ efforts to sexualize our children. The war on children continues.

Eight of the largest school districts in the nation, representing two and a half million students, require parents to consent for a child to receive over-the-counter medications such as aspirin but not for staff to indulge a student’s gender dysphoria, according to a new report.

Catholic Bookstore Sues City Forcing Businesses to Use Customers’ Preferred Pronouns

As more jurisdictions submit to the desires of the transgender movement, the persecution of Christians in America will intensify. This is an inevitable effect if the culture war. Here is a recent example.

A Catholic bookstore is suing a Florida city over its anti-discrimination law, which the bookstore claims will force it to use the preferred pronouns of customers.

Queen of Angels Catholic Bookstore filed a lawsuit against the City of Jacksonville on Wednesday for expanding its human rights ordinance to include protections for gender identity and sexual orientation.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division, the complaint accuses city leaders of passing the ordinance to “require businesses to address customers using their preferred pronouns and titles regardless of a customer’s biological sex.”

Christian Teacher Fired Because She ‘Cannot Be Dishonest with Parents’

This is another case of a Christian being persecuted for refusing to deny her faith and bow down to the transgender gods. Inevitably, the culture war will increase pressure on Christians to conform to prevailing societal norms, no matter how deviant.

When school personnel told her to lie to parents, [Jessica] Tapia reminded them that the district asks teachers to “uphold honesty.….. But now I’m learning it’s situational. You want me only to be honest in this situation [at this review] but when it comes to parents being aware of the basic well-being and knowledge of their child, I cannot be honest.”

This, again, is a demand Tapia could not, as a Christian, comply with. As the first mark of Christians putting on the new self in the Spirit, Paul says, “having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor” (Ephesians 4:25).

Tapia said she doesn’t believe God is “calling us to love by affirming those lies and confusion. I believe firmly that God created man and woman, and you are who he made you to be. And when someone has confusion about that, I believe that’s lies and confusion from the devil.”

Patients Are Increasingly Starved to Death, Withdrawal of Food and Water Called “Medical Care”

With all the news about the continuing battle over abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, we must not forget the need to defend life against assisted suicide and euthanasia. Here is an alarming reminder.

However, what often gets overlooked is that assisted suicide is only one of the arsenals in the culture-of-death tool chest that is used to end the lives of those who are medically vulnerable – either physically or mentally.

If you are one of the relatively few who have been paying attention to this issue and the expanding number of changes in the laws and the policies in healthcare, then you are quite familiar with how susceptible patients are to being denied their autonomy, resulting in their medical care being withdrawn.

Additional Reading

DOJ Charges Eight Pro-Life Activists With Blocking Access to Abortion Clinic

Colo. School District Revises Transgender Student Policies After Criticism

The Fastest-Growing Crime in America

NBA Fines Cam Thomas $40K for Jokingly Noting His Lack of Homosexual Desires

Florida’s Proposed ‘Reverse Woke Act’ Would Require Employers to Pay for [gender] Detransition Care

 

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. ¹³

Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In all circumstances, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; ¹⁷ and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.

To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, ¹⁹ and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. (Ephesians 6:10–20 ESV)

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