Penna Dexter One purpose of the National Religious Broadcasters Convention is to help Christian ministries, especially media organizations, figure out how to meet the challenges they face in getting their message out. This year, a key topic was the cancel culture and how to fight back against it. In his keynote address at the opening session, Franklin Graham described how…
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Penna Dexter In 2015 the United States Supreme Court, in Obergefell v. Hodges, struck down the nation’s marriage laws, bringing same sex marriage to every state. Same sex marriage: That’s what LGBTQ activists said they wanted. But they moved on very quickly. Within a year the quest to mainstream transgenderism was underway. First there were high-profile battles over bathroom policies….
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Penna Dexter Results from a study on the effects of giving cross-sex hormones to young people who identify as transgender were published in the January edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Cross-sex hormones, described in the article as “gender-affirming hormones,” have the effect of changing people’s bodily characteristics to resemble more closely those of the opposite sex. The…
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Penna Dexter During her senior year swimming for the University of Kentucky, Riley Gaines learned something about feminism’s identity crisis. She says she never considered herself a feminist. She told FOX News, “It almost goes against the co-dependency that I believe the sexes should have.” Then, last spring, Riley tied for fifth place in the NCAA 200-meter freestyle finals with…
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Penna Dexter Early last year The Daily Wire investigated Vanderbilt University Medical Center and found a robust gender transition program including pressure tactics against conscientious objectors and a “Buddies Program” in which trans activists accompany patients seeking treatment to make sure nothing deters them along the path to transition. Doctors pushing for the gender program touted so-called gender affirmation surgeries…
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Penna Dexter The trend toward de-emphasis on hard work and merit is playing out in large school districts in Nevada, California, Iowa, Virginia and other states. Policies there now require that schools make doing homework optional and give students multiple opportunities to complete tests and assignments. The Wall Street Journal reports that these districts have decided to jettison hard due…
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Penna Dexter House Republicans proposed the Limit, Save, Grow Act as an attempt to pair modest reductions in spending growth with approval of an increase in the debt limit. The legislation includes requirements that able-bodied adults work if they are to receive welfare such as food stamps and Medicaid. This is not angry mean Republicans “cutting benefits.” The Wall Street Journal points out…
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Penna Dexter School choice: an idea whose time has come. Finally. It took Covid school closures that lasted way too long. Students lost ground in reading and, to a greater degree, in math. Remote schooling brought surprises for parents who learned that their kids were being taught to hate their nation because it’s racist and — by the way —…
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Penna Dexter A recent poll by The Wall Street Journal and NORC, at the University of Chicago, reveals that some of the core values that have traditionally united Americans are much less important to us than in the recent past. When this survey was conducted in 1998, 70 percent of respondents said patriotism was important to them. In 2019, 61…
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Penna Dexter The devastating murder of six at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee that cruelly invaded our Easter season, leads to some conclusions. First, a pattern of mass shootings by transgender individuals is emerging — In Colorado Springs, last November, south of Denver in 2019, and in Aberdeen, Maryland in 2018. Breitbart’s John Nolte points out that “In less…
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Penna Dexter The Biden administration is set to revoke a federal regulation that defends religious liberty on college and university campuses. Christian legal groups were elated when, in 2020, Education Secretary Betsy De Vos put forward a rule stipulating that colleges that receive federal funding cannot deny religious organizations of any right, benefit, or privilege that is allowed to other organizations. The 2020…
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