Governor Proclaims September 25 A “Day of Prayer for Arkansas Students”

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On Tuesday Governor Sarah Sanders issued a proclamation designating Wednesday, September 25, as a Day of Prayer for Arkansas Students.

In 2021 the Arkansas Legislature passed Act 902 directing the governor to proclaim the last Wednesday in September of as a Day of Prayer for Arkansas Students.

The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education is required to notify public school districts of the day of prayer as well.

Act 902 also urges citizens of Arkansas to pray for students, teachers, administrators, and schools on that day.

WHEREAS: Students, teachers, and parents in Arkansas enjoy the right to pray. Arkansas and its government acknowledge that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them freedom of religion;

WHEREAS: As the Gospel of John tells us, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him;”

WHEREAS: Knowing the power of prayer, we ask God to provide Arkansas students with wisdom and guidance in this new school year;

WHEREAS: We pray that our students see the benefits of the most sweeping education reforms — Arkansas LEARNS — to be implemented in our schools in decades so that no child is trapped in a lifetime of poverty;

WHEREAS: We unite with our fellow Arkansans to thank God for our great schools and the opportunities they provide; and

WHEREAS: We make a commitment to always protect the right to pray in our schools, knowing the power God holds over our state.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, Governor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the State of Arkansas, do hereby proclaim September 25, 2024, as

DAY OF PRAYER FOR ARKANSAS STUDENTS

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School Districts Should Never Keep Parents, the Ultimate Decisionmakers, In the Dark

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The following is from our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom:

A Colorado school district assigned a 5th-grade girl to share a room – and even a bed – with a boy who identified as a girl during an overnight trip.

Read more: https://adflegal.org/article/colorado-school-district-kept-parents-dark-over-gender-identity-rooming-scheme

Joe and Serena Wailes said their daughter had been greatly looking forward to the school-sponsored trip to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. But when she got to her hotel room, the student with whom she was supposed to share a bed informed her that he was a boy who identified as a girl.

The Waileses’ daughter was then put in multiple uncomfortable situations before school chaperones finally changed her room assignment. Even then, chaperones on the trip told her to lie about the reason for the switch.

The Waileses were not informed about the District Policy that rooms children by gender identity rather than sex prior to the trip, so they had no way to request an accommodation so their daughter did not share a bed with a boy. School districts should be allowing parents to make the best decisions for their children and providing the information required to make informed decisions. Instead, the district jeopardized the privacy of the Waileses’ daughter and deprived the parents of their right to make important decisions for their child.

Watch the video below from our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom to learn more.

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Family Council Participates in Joint Press Conference Opposing Planned Parenthood’s Regional Abortion Facility Near Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri

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Above: Planned Parenthood’s new abortion facility in Southeast Kansas.

On Tuesday Family Council participated in a joint press conference with Operation Rescue and Students for Life opposing Planned Parenthood’s new regional abortion facility near Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion-provider. The organization owns facilities in Little Rock and Rogers — but those facilities are blocked from performing abortions thanks to Arkansas’ pro-life laws.

However, the Planned Parenthood seems determined to promote abortion to women from Arkansas.

Family Council recently learned Planned Parenthood had secretly acquired a facility in Pittsburg, Kansas — a town of some 20,000 residents — within driving distance of Northwest Arkansas.

The new location in Southeast Kansas will let Planned Parenthood promote abortions regionally to women in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma — states that all have very strong, pro-life laws.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Family Council’s Assistant Director David Cox delivered the following remarks:

We believe every innocent, human life is sacred from the moment of conception until natural death. Abortion hurts women and families, and it takes the lives of innocent unborn children. That is why we oppose Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.

Pro-lifers in Arkansas are committed to ending abortion by passing pro-life legislation and by supporting women and families. Since 2022, the State of Arkansas’ Pregnancy Resource Center Grant program has distributed $2 million in funding to organizations that provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies. This year, Family Council, Arkansas Right to Life, and other organizations worked with the Arkansas Legislature and Governor Sarah Sanders to enact a $2 million appropriation that will support maternal health and fund local pregnancy help organizations across Arkansas.

Planned Parenthood has criticized this highly successful grant program, and Planned Parenthood’s decision to open this Pittsburg abortion facility shows its goal is to perform abortions on women throughout the Four State Area. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri all have passed good, pro-life laws protecting women and unborn children from abortion. This facility will promote abortion to women from these states.

We believe women and families deserve better, and we are urging citizens not to support Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion agenda.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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