CA Senate Votes to Revoke Scouts’ Tax-Exempt Status

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From Baptist Press:

Less than a week after the Boy Scouts changed its policy to allow gay-identifying youth, the California Senate passed a law that would revoke the organization’s tax-exempt status if it doesn’t also allow gay leaders.

By Norman Rockwell for The Red Cross Magazine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

We have written about this legislation before. Essentially this bill punishes organizations like the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Little League, Special Olympics, American Youth Soccer Organization, Future Business Leaders of America, and many religious organizations that serve youth, because these organizations “discriminate on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliations.”

The Boy Scouts of America have already given in to activists who want to hijack scouting’s noble mission for their personal agenda, but evidently some lawmakers in California feel the Boy Scouts have not gone far enough.

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Christian Persecution Worldwide: Part 5 (United States)

Christian Persecution,

We enjoy a great amount of religious freedom in the United States; it’s something we should never take for granted, and something we should always defend. That’s why it’s disconcerting to read about the Fromms, a Christian couple from California who were recently fined for holding a Bible study in their home, allegedly in violation of their city’s “zoning regulations.”

“Nobody should be able to tell us what we can do in our home,” Stephanie Fromm said. “Since when do we have to qualify who we have at our house and what we’re doing?”

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