Prayer for 2023

Penna Dexter As 2022 ends, we’re looking at some disturbing trends. Inflation is up. Government spending has reached unheard-of levels. Population growth is sluggish with more deaths than births in 24 states. Our Congress has placed a twisted definition of marriage into law that people of faith may be forced to accept and even celebrate. We’re mainstreaming transgenderism. People are…

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Satan After School

Penna Dexter If a school hosts a Christian group for kids, like the Good News Clubs that meet in elementary schools across the country, is the school also required to accept a Satan club? School board members in Chesapeake, Virginia argue they have no choice. The Satanic Temple is requesting the board’s approval to start an ”After School Satan Club”…

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Transing American Girls

Penna Dexter On a recent Saturday, I traipsed up our attic stairs to retrieve my daughter’s childhood American Girl doll along with the accompanying furniture and doll clothes. It’s time, we thought, to pass the doll along to my 5-year-old granddaughter. Imagine our surprise when, just a day or so later, we began to see critiques of the brand American…

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Abortion Pill Lawsuit

Penna Dexter Two decades after the Clinton FDA approved the abortion pill, a lawsuit has been filed asking for the removal of these drugs from the US market. Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit in federal court on behalf of four medical organizations and four doctors who had treated patients with these drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services is…

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Climate Reparations

Penna Dexter Negotiators at the latest United Nations climate conference are touting a “breakthrough agreement” emanating from their recent gathering in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. COS27 — the 27th UN climate conference — ended with commitments by the U.S. and other wealthy countries to compensate poor countries for the damage allegedly caused by climate change. According to the Wall Street…

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Pushback Against Parents

Penna Dexter A bright spot in the midterm election results was the success of many candidates who won school board positions by opposing wokeness, radical gender ideologies and overzealous COVID policies.  Many of these candidates, and others who have been winning local elections over the past couple of years, received training and support from groups like the 1776 Project and…

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Obergefell Race

Penna Dexter Jim Obergefell lost his race for the Ohio House of Representatives by 23 points. He was the plaintiff in the landmark 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges case in which the US Supreme Court redefined marriage to include same-sex couples. Mr. Obergefell raised twice as much money as his opponent, pro-life and socially conservative incumbent, D. J. Swearingen. Most of…

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Democracy Survives

Penna Dexter Former President Obama recently told an audience at a pre-election rally in Arizona that democracy “may not survive” the midterms. This was a sort of closing argument to Democrat voters. It affirmed warnings, issued by other politicians, that “democracy is on the ballot.” In her column, the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel counts four cycles of “histrionic claims…

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Our “Lying Eyes”

Penna Dexter In a recent on-camera interview at the White House, President Biden told a group of young people he had “just signed a law” that would forgive large chunks of student debt. “It’s passed,” the president said. “I got it passed by a vote or two and it’s in effect.” This may have appealed to many of the young…

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Criminalizing Truthful Reporting

Penna Dexter The US Justice Department has been asked to investigate, with an eye toward prosecuting, Americans who are reporting on and opposing life-altering gender reassignment surgeries. Reports are coming in from investigations done by independent journalists which bring to light medical interventions that, in the name of providing so-called “gender-affirming care,” result in the mutilation and sterilization of healthy…

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Spotlighting Gender Clinics

Penna Dexter The facet of the gender transition craze I have found most shocking is how easy it is for young people to get gender transition hormones and radical surgeries at clinics often operated out of mainstream medical facilities. There were places in the U.S. to get these treatments — even for children. A shameful practice — unregulated — and done fairly quietly….

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