By: Luke Goodrich – townhall.com – November 6, 2019 Editor’s note: Excerpted from Free to Believe: The Battle Over Religious Liberty in America. Copyright © 2019 by Luke Goodrich. Used by permission of Multnomah, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. Julea Ward was a master’s student in the counseling program at East­ern Michigan University, a few credits shy of...

By: Katrina Trinko – dailysignal.com – October 30, 2019 Lynn Meagher has two adult children who identify as transgender. “A lot of these kids have concurrent mental health issues, and they find a place to fit in because as soon as you say that you’re trans, you get love-bombed,” she reflects. “You get love-bombed online, you get love-bombed on at school …...

By: Katie Hall and Aaricka Washington – statesman.com – October 29, 2019 The Austin school board unanimously approved a new sex education curriculum that, for the first time, will teach elementary students about sexual orientation, gender identity and sexually transmitted diseases. The vote, which came in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, had at least one conservative group considering legal action...

By: Madeleine Jacob – lifesitenews.com – October 24, 2019 The judge presiding over the case of Jeffrey Younger, the father who is trying to protect his seven-year-old son, James, from chemical castration via a gender “transition,” ruled today that the parents will have joint conservatorship over James, which includes making joint medical decisions for the child. Judge Kim Cooks of the...

By: Kelly Shackelford – foxnews.com – October 6, 2019 During its past two terms, the Supreme Court issued a number of notable decisions that appear to have begun the process of restoring the Constitution’s promise of religious free exercise. At the end of its last term, for example, the court upheld the Bladensburg WWI Memorial, setting aside precedent that has been...

By: Mary Anne Pazanowski – news.bloomberglaw.com – october 15, 2019 Christian health care professionals don’t have to perform transgender-related care that is contrary to their religious beliefs, a federal district court in Texas said, invalidating an Obamacare anti-discrimination rule. The so-called “transgender mandate” implementing the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination provision violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the...

By: Sally Lockwood – news.sky.com – October 5, 2019 Charlie Evans, 28, was born female but identified as male for nearly 10 years before detransitioning. The number of young people seeking gender transition is at an all-time high but we hear very little, if anything, about those who may come to regret their decision. There is currently no data to reflect the...

By: Wesley J. Smith – nationalreview.com – September 19, 2019 I wrote the other day about the intention within bioethics to destroy Catholic healthcare. Today, a court ruling from California proves my point. A Catholic hospital known as Dignity Health refused to perform a hysterectomy on a transgendered male, as against Catholic moral teaching. The patient sued for discrimination, but the case...

By: Ryan Anderson – nypost.com – October 6, 2019 Does a 50-year-old law banning discrimination based on sex mean employers must treat biological men who identify as women as if they are women? That’s the question the Supreme Court will consider Tuesday when it hears arguments in Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Supremes’ answer could have enormous implications...

By: Madeleine Jacob – lifesitenews.com – September 27, 2019 In October, the father of a seven-year-old boy whose mother is trying to “transition” him into a girl has a final chance in court to save his son. Jeff Younger has been fighting not to lose custody of his twin sons, James and Jude, while being accused of child abuse by his ex-wife Anne...