Walton Family to Offer $1 Million in Grants for Pro-LGBT Groups in Arkansas

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The Associated Press reports that the Walton Family Foundation will offer $1 million in grant money to pro-LGBT groups in Arkansas.

The AP writes,

The new fund is being established with support from the Alice L. Walton Foundation and from Olivia and Tom Walton through the Walton Family Foundation. The fund will distribute grants of $25,000 and more for groups that offer legal, health, education and advocacy services, along with other high-demand needs.

Arkansas Community Foundation will oversee the fund.

Based on the description of the grant, it sounds as if the money could go to groups like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, or the Human Rights Campaign — all of whom have been active in Arkansas over the years.

Besides being the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood has also become a major provider of cross-sex hormones and other transgender services both in Arkansas and nationwide.

The ACLU currently is suing to block the State of Arkansas from enforcing a law that protects children from sex-reassignment procedures.

And the Human Rights Campaign has a history of promoting its pro-LGBT agenda in Arkansas.

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Poll Shows Most Arkansas Voters Support SAFE Act

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A new poll by Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College shows most voters (52.5%) in Arkansas approve the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act that the Arkansas Legislature recently passed.

The SAFE Act protects children from sex-reassignment procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has never approved puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for the purpose of gender transition. Doctors are giving these hormones to kids off-label, in a manner the FDA never intended.

Researchers do not know the long term effects puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can have on kids.

That is why many experts agree that performing sex-reassignment procedures on children — even giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones — is experimental, at best.

That’s also why a major hospital in Sweden recently announced it would no longer administer puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.

The Arkansas Legislature passed the SAFE Act earlier this spring to protect children from these procedures. Now a new poll by Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College shows 52.5% of voters in Arkansas support the SAFE Act; 38% oppose it; and 9.5% don’t have a position on the measure.

The poll found that Republicans and Democrats were deeply divided on the SAFE Act, with 80% of Republicans supporting the measure and 73% of Democrats opposing it. Across the board, support for the SAFE Act was highest among voters ages 30 – 44 and 45 – 64.

Liberal outlets have gone to great lengths to mischaracterize the SAFE Act and what it does. In spite of that, most voters still support the law. This just shows once again that the Arkansas Legislature was right to pass the SAFE Act.

You can read more about the poll here.

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