| | Loudoun County superintendent fired after grand jury report | | Curated for you byCP Editors | | Good afternoon! It's Friday, December 9, and today's headlines include the school board in Loudoun County, Va., firing its superintendent following a report from a grand jury, the U.S. House of Representatives passing an amended same-sex marriage bill, a dean for a Chicago school caught on video bragging about sex toys being passed around classrooms during so-called pride week, and actor Kirk Cameron encouraging Christians to continue to push back against discrimination. | | The Loudoun County, Va., school board has voted to fire Superintendent Scott Ziegler. The move comes less than a week after a grand jury released a report concluding that district leaders were "looking out for their own best interests" in their responses to two sexual assaults that took place at two separate high schools at the hands of the same student. The unanimous decision was made during a closed session, with local news outlet Loudoun Now reporting that Ziegler will be paid his $323,000 annual salary and compensation because he was fired without cause. | | In May 2021, a male student wearing a skirt sexually assaulted a female student. After this male student was transferred to a different high school in the district, he sexually assaulted another student in October 2021. The grand jury determined that the second sexual assault "could have, and should have, been prevented" but happened anyway because of "a remarkable lack of curiosity and adherence to operating in silos by LCPS administrators." Loudoun County Public Schools received national media attention long before the details of the sexual assaults became public in October 2021. Continue reading. | | P.S.Volume 4 of CP Magazine, Gender Indoctrination: Inside the transgender battle and gender chaos in America, is here! If you'd like to help support Christian journalism, this digital-only offering runs just $19.99 annually—or get your free copy when you sign-up for a free Christian Post account. Sign-up to download your flipbook or PDF copy today. |
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| House passes amended same-sex marriage bill, sends to Biden's desk | | The Respect for Marriage Act passed the Democrat-led House in a 258-169 vote Thursday. The vote comes a week after the U.S. Senate approved the legislation in a 61-36 vote, amended to include religious liberty protections that critics say do not go far enough to protect Christian business owners. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill, which would codify the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which established a right to same-sex marriage, into federal law. It repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman at the national level. The bill requires states to recognize all marriages performed in other U.S. states as valid regardless of the sex of the participants. Read more. | | 'Helpless': Women forced to live behind bars with male rapists speak out | | Under the banner of "gender identity" men who are hardened criminals but self-identify as female are now allowed to request a transfer to women’s prisons. This is happening in states across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. In a bonus episode of The Christian Post’s documentary-style investigative podcast series, "Generation Indoctrination: Inside The Transgender Battle," Amie Ichikawa, who once was incarcerated and now leads the nonprofit organization Woman II Woman, revealed that when she called home to tell her mother that she was locked up with men, they couldn't believe it. "It's the most helpless feeling I've had to date," Ichikawa recalled. Read more. |
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| Religious convictions vs. gay rights: A modest proposal | | Christian Post Executive Editor Dr. Richard Land discusses the key takeaways from a column by Tish Harrison Warren in The New York Times. Chai Feldblum, an Obama appointee to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, previously argued that the rights of the religious must be surrendered to LGBT people. However, Warren, a priest in the Anglican Church of North America, has called for Americans to adhere to true pluralism, "a commitment to form a society where individuals and groups who hold profoundly different and mutually opposed beliefs are welcome at the table of public life," writing, "We must find ways to protect the civil rights of gay people while allowing religious people who adhere to historic teachings on sex and marriage to freely practice their faith." Read more. | | What’s your faith-sharing style? | | In this editorial, Dare 2 Share Ministries International President and founder Greg Stier explores the four types of evangelism he discovered in his search through the New Testament: The Talker, The Shocker, The Buddy, and The Brain. Each style is unique and comes with both strengths and weaknesses, writes Stier. What is your style? Click here to find out. |
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| Healthcare Sharing Accreditation Awarded to Christian Care Ministry | | Christian Care Ministry/Medi-Share, the nation’s leading healthcare sharing ministry, is the first ministry to be awarded accreditation from the independent Healthcare Sharing Accreditation Board (HCSAB). | | This accreditation provides third-party validation and additional reassurance about the integrity and credibility of the Medi-Share program as a viable option for families looking to manage healthcare costs in a way that is consistent with their beliefs. Read more. | | |
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| School responds to video of dean bragging about showing sex toys in classroom | | An elite private school is at the center of controversy after Project Veritas released a video on Wednesday showing the school's dean of students bragging about letting an LGBT resource center come to their classrooms and engage in "passing around butt-plugs and dildos to my students" and talk about "queer sex, using lube versus using spit" during so-called pride week. "They're just, like, passing around dildos and butt-plugs. The kids are just playing with ‘em, looking at ‘em. … They're like, ‘How does this butt-plug work? How do we do like, how does this work?’ That's a really cool part of my job," Francis W. Parker School's Joseph Bruno, says in the video. The school has condemned the undercover footage, arguing Bruno "was filmed without his knowledge or permission while describing one example of our inclusive, LGBTQ+ affirming, and comprehensive approach to sex education." Read more. | | Activists say church is 'complicit' if it hosts Kanye West school | | Faithful America, which bills itself as "the largest online community of grassroots Christians acting for social justice," is calling on Cornerstone Christian Church in Northridge, Calif., to reconsider its reported plans to lease a portion of its property for Kanye West's Donda Academy. A petition directed toward Pastor Ronald Nagin had garnered nearly 12,000 signatures as of Friday morning. "Tell Cornerstone Christian Church there's no place for antisemitism in God's house," the petition says, asserting, "Following his embrace of antisemitism and other hateful conspiracy theories, including his dinner with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and his professed admiration for Adolf Hitler, Ye should not be given a public platform of any kind—especially not a Christian platform." The group previously launched a petition against the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming she would "take away affordable health care, [LGBT] and immigrant rights, employment protections, and more." Read more. | | Military officer labels mom 'safety concern' for opposing LGBT posters | | A high-ranking military officer labeled a New Jersey mother a "safety concern" and reported her to local police for criticizing her child's elementary school for displaying posters in the hallway about sexual preferences visible to small children without parents' consent. The posters contained information on the different kinds of sexuality, including "polysexual," and were part of a "safe space" posters project at North Hanover Township Elementary School. After Angela Reading, a Northern Burlington Board of Education member, posted her disapproval of the posters in a local Facebook group, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling reported her to police alleging there were "security concerns" regarding the mother's post. The Chaos and Control Substack page, which first reported on the posters last month, noted that parents are supposed to be able to exempt their children from lessons on sexual concepts, but they can't "opt [their] child out of the main entrance of the school." Read more. |
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| Kirk Cameron refuses to back down | | Actor Kirk Cameron says he will persist despite the mounting intolerance against him and other Christians, as evidenced by more than 50 public libraries rejecting or ignoring his offer to host a reading of his new faith-based children's book. "We need to have heroes rise up out of the cultural darkness and pressure of our time, and begin to apply these same truths in modern America and around the world so that we can see a great awakening again," Cameron declared. "We need all hands on deck. The family of faith needs to get off the defense, get on the offense, and when we do, we will join that great cloud of witnesses from the past." Christian parents and librarians are now mobilizing to host their own story hours using content from Brave Books, including Cameron’s new book, As You Grow. Read more. | | | | Also of Interest... | | Public libraries say OK to drag queen story hour, reject Kirk Cameron book reading | | | | | | 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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