Pastors Day at the Capitol 2018 a Success

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Today hundreds of ministers, church leaders, and their spouses from across Arkansas gathered for our annual Pastors Day at the Capitol in Little Rock.

This is one of the best events we do all year. Pastors Day at the Capitol gives Christians an opportunity to worship God, pray for our state, and minister to elected officials — all at the Arkansas Capitol Building.

We will be posting photos and video of the event as the day goes on, but below are a few highlights. You can also find more photos on our Facebook page.

Hundreds of church leaders and their spouses from across Arkansas gathered at the Capitol Building on February 15 for Pastors Day at the Capitol 2018. Here are a few pictures from the day's activities.

Posted by Family Council on Thursday, February 15, 2018

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Walgreens Follows Target’s Lead With Misguided Bathroom Policy

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According to news sources, pharmacy giant Walgreens recently adopted a company-wide policy similar to Target’s letting men enter women’s restrooms — and vice versa — in its more than 8,000 stores.

The policy reportedly was implemented after one customer in California complained about being barred from entering the women’s restroom.

Apparently Walgreens hasn’t learned from Target’s mistake.

Since rolling out its bathroom policies nearly 2 years ago, more than 1.5 million people have signed the American Family Association’s pledge not to shop at Target, and the retailer’s stock price has tumbled from nearly $83 per share in 2016 to $73-$74 per share as of this morning.

In December Target announced plans to close 12 of its larger stores in 2018. According to CNBC, the stores are located in Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Illinois, and Texas.

Even Target’s management has acknowledged that letting men enter the women’s restrooms and changing areas at its stores has been bad for business. However, the CEO has stopped short of saying the policy itself is bad.

Policies like these not only are bad for business. They’re bad for customers. Giving men an excuse to loiter in or around women’s restrooms or changing areas puts women and children at risk.

For example, last year a New Jersey man allegedly videotaped women in the changing area of a Target store.

A few months earlier a different man was caught photographing women in a Target store’s changing area as well.

In 2016 a Seattle man entered the women’s locker room at a pool twice — once while a girls’ swim team was present. When confronted, he told staff, “the law has changed, and I have a right to be here.” No action was taken against the man.

These are the sorts of problems that happen when businesses let men enter women’s restrooms. However, that doesn’t seem to be stopping Walgreens from following in Target’s misguided footsteps.

Photo Credite: By Anthony92931 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Ministers Blessing Murder

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In January the Washington Post ran a story in its Acts of Faith section titled, “Clergy gather to bless one of the only U.S. clinics performing late-term abortions.”

The story highlights three ordained ministers and one retired rabbi who gathered at an infamous abortion clinic in Bethesda, Maryland to pray for the clinic and its staff.

Rev. Carlton Veazey prayed for the facility’s abortionists, saying, “may they always know that all that they do is for Thy glory.”

If that makes you sick, you aren’t alone. Nobody should say that taking the life of an unborn child glorifies God.

John Stonestreet at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview recently called these minister out, writing,

They’re not ministers of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. They’ve chosen to become priests and priestesses of Molech. They have rejected the Lord of Life who commands “let the little children come to me,” and instead offer the blood of slaughtered babies to the Father of Lies. Their ritual is child sacrifice, communion with death.

The Washington Post article tries to paint abortion as something morally ambiguous over which Christians are divided. But as we have written before, Christians have opposed abortion since the first century A.D.

Right now thousands of ministers and pro-life Christians are preparing to pray at abortion clinics all across the country, but they’re going to pray a very different kind of prayer from the one offered in Maryland last January.

They won’t be praying God’s blessings over abortion. They are going to pray that God would end abortion in America. They are going to pray that abortionists would turn to Christ and stop performing abortions. They are going to pray that abortion clinics would shut down and that pregnant mothers would choose life.

These prayer meetings are part of the upcoming 40 Days for Life effort. If you would like to know more about how you can pray against abortion, go to www.40DaysForLife.com.

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