Is it fair to let a boy play girls sports if he says he is a girl?
That’s the question that Joseph Backholm tackles in this week’s installment of the “What Would You Say?” video series.
Watch the video below.
We’ve heard time and again about Christian photographers, bakers, florists, and wedding chapel owners being dragged into court because they declined to take part in a same-sex wedding or ceremony.
Sometimes the Christian business owners win their cases. Other times they lose.
These court cases often center on local ordinances or state laws that give people special privileges or protections based on sexual-orientation or gender identity.
During the Obama Administration, we saw wave after wave of radical LGBT policies rolled out at the federal level.
However, we seem to be experiencing a little bit of a reprieve under the Trump Administration.
Recently the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in a federal court in Kentucky arguing that the government cannot force a Christian photographer to photograph a same-sex wedding.
Alliance Defending Freedom is handling a lawsuit on behalf of photographer Chelsey Nelson over the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro “Fairness Ordinance.”
The ordinance grants special rights and privileges to people based on sexual-orientation and gender identity.
In the federal government’s statement about the lawsuit, the U.S. Attorney General’s office wrote,
The United States is committed to protecting the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, which include both the right to “the free exercise” of religion and “the freedom of speech.” . . . These freedoms lie at the heart of a free society and are the “effectual guardian of every other right.”
The statement goes on to say that forcing Chelsey Nelson to photograph a same-sex wedding would violate her First Amendment rights and that she probably would win any court case over the issue.
We have said before that religious liberty is a casualty of the radical efforts to redefine marriage.
Thankfully, the federal government is siding withe people of faith right now.
Hopefully this court case will result in better protections for the free exercise of religion in the future.
Recently we wrote about an ambulance and a hearse seen at the surgical abortion facility in Little Rock.
The incident was witnessed by volunteers praying outside the facility as part of 40 Days for Life.
Today, 40 Days for Life shared more information about the incident, writing,
Marsha and Sharon could tell something was up when abortion workers scrambled to move their cars away from the abortion facility’s back door.
Before long, an abortion client was loaded into an ambulance.
Earlier that morning, vigil participants warned the man who accompanied the woman to the abortion facility that abortion is not safe for the mom, but he made it clear he wasn’t interested in talking.
Please keep this mother and child in prayer!
We have written repeatedly about ambulances at abortion facilities in Little Rock and elsewhere.
Abortion takes the life of an unborn child, and it carries serious health risks for women.
That’s why Arkansas has passed several laws that protect women from unsafe abortion practices and help give women real options besides abortion. Unfortunately, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have challenged some of these good laws in court.
However, Arkansas is fighting back against these lawsuits.
Most Arkansans believe abortion ought to be completely illegal or legal only under certain circumstances.
Slowly but surely we are winning the fight to protect unborn children in Arkansas.
