Tag: Education & Family News

Virginia Overhauls Transgender Student Policies on Pronouns, Bathrooms, and Sports

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Virginia took a sharp turn on transgender student policies with a new policy released on Friday. According to the new policy, public schools cannot affirm a student’s gender without parents’ written requests. In addition, bathroom and locker room use shall be based on students’ sex, defined as the biological sex at birth. Student…


Truth Is Most Loving Response to Transgender Individuals, Say Women Who Had Gender Dysphoria

In kindergarten, Erin Brewer was a girl, but when she started first grade, she considered herself a boy. “I was insistent, persistent, and consistent that I was a boy, when I started first grade,” Brewer said during a panel discussion titled “Loving People Affected by Transgender Ideology From Beginning to End,” at the Pray Vote…


Yeshiva University Vows to Continue Fight Against Forced Recognition of LGBT Campus Club

Yeshiva University vowed to continue fighting in litigation over who should have the power to determine which campus groups it recognizes after the Supreme Court on Sept. 14 unexpectedly lifted a 5-day-old order that allowed it to refuse to accept an LGBT group based on the school’s religious beliefs. Founded in 1897, the Orthodox Jewish…


Nonprofit Group Ranks Lawmakers on Critical Issues Ahead of 2022 Midterms

The Moms for America Action group has released its first-ever Congressional Ratings “Report Card” that grades all 535 Members of Congress on critical issues facing mothers in America. The Moms for America Action Report Card examined 20 votes taken by the 116th Congress and ranked U.S. Senators based on 10 key votes on various matters…


Texas Grade School Teacher Quits After Being Accused of Posting Disturbing Sexual Content

A Texas resident blasted Highland Park ISD school board members on Sept. 13 over hiring a teacher for 5-year-olds who had disturbing sexual content allegedly posted on social media. Russell Fish, an activist and founder of OpenRecords.org, spoke publicly during the board meeting concerning a self-described “queer teacher” who identified with the LGBT community. Fish,…


Maine Parental Rights Advocate Wins $40,000 Lawsuit Against School Board

A Maine school board lost a battle against a parent fighting the introduction of obscene materials into schools—and has been ordered to pay him $40,000. But Shawn McBreairty said, “I’m not taking a penny. It’s all about the win. It’s not about the money.” In October 2021, McBreairty started a campaign to expose the radical…


Pro-Lifers Aim to Advance Movement Beyond Overturning Roe v. Wade

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion matters fully to the states, it is time to rebuild the culture of life in America, according to Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. “Life has been, and will be even more so, an issue in every election,” Perkins said…


Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Rules Yeshiva University Must Recognize LGBT Club

Yeshiva University in New York will have to recognize an LGBT student club on campus—at least while litigation proceeds in lower courts—after the U.S. Supreme Court abruptly reversed itself on Sept. 14, lifting a stay it granted five days before. Four conservative justices dissented but two conservative court members, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice…


Pro-Life Advocates Express Gratitude as Indiana Abortion Ban Set to Take Effect

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Car horns blared in morning traffic on Sept. 13 as the pro-life group Sidewalk Advocates stood post outside a Planned Parenthood clinic. Some commuters waved, others offered less gracious hand gestures. “We call that the finger toward heaven,” one of the advocates said, smiling. In the decade and a half they’ve been on the…


Loudoun County Parents Rally Against ‘American Marxism’

ASHBURN, Va.—Over 100 parents and residents joined a rally organized by the Army of Parents, a parental rights advocacy group, outside a county school board meeting on Tuesday. Speakers criticized the county school board for promoting “American Marxism”: critical race theory (CRT)—a quasi-Marxism framework that views America as systematically racist, a pro-transgender policy not to…