Tag: Social Issues

Montana Supreme Court Lets Stand Law That Bans Vaccine Mandates in Most Workplaces

The Montana Supreme Court has refused to issue a preliminary injunction on a law that currently bans vaccine mandates in most workplaces in the state. The state high court’s decision on Wednesday concurs with the Seventh Judicial District Court, a lower court, which had in February denied a request by Netzer Law Firm to block the law, pending…


Vegan ESG Investors Want Plant-Based Food Options in America’s Hospitals

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing continues to reshape America’s private sector. It may soon help dictate the food served at a hospital near you. The boards of directors for several major American healthcare companies have been sent shareholder proposals from proxy-holders of U.S. Climate Vegan ETF, an exchange-traded fund from the vegan investment firm…


San Francisco to Give $1,200 a Month to Low-Income Transgender Residents

San Francisco has launched a new pilot program offering guaranteed monthly income to a number of low-income transgender residents of the city, Mayor London Breed announced on Wednesday. Known as the Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (G.I.F.T.) program, the new plan will provide “economically marginalized transgender people with unrestricted, monthly guaranteed income as a way to combat poverty…


Appeals Court Makes Decision on Arkansas Trans Surgery Ban for Minors

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to reconsider a temporary block on Arkansas’s enforcement of a ban on sex change procedures for minors. This means the ban continues to be blocked until a federal trial concludes. The decision comes while a federal bench trial that is being heard by U.S. District Judge James Moody…


Conservative Think Tank Report Urges Congressional Investigation on BLM Organizations

WASHINGTON—A new special report on cultural Marxism is urging Congress to hold hearings on Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizations. America’s political leaders shouldn’t shy away from investigating any organizations with the words “Black Lives Matter” in their titles for fear of the “racist” label, said the report’s authors Mike Gonzalez, an expert at the conservative…


Conservative Think Tank Report Urges Congressional Investigation on Black Lives Matter Organizations

WASHINGTON—A new special report on cultural Marxism is urging Congress to hold hearings on Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizations. America’s political leaders shouldn’t shy away from investigating any organizations with the words “Black Lives Matter” in their titles for fear of the “racist” label, said the report’s authors Mike Gonzalez, an expert at the conservative…


‘Coercive Control’ Outlawed in New South Wales, Australia

“Coercive control” has now been defined as an offence under a new law being passed in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). Dubbed the Coercive and Controlling Behaviour Bill 2020, the legislation creates an offence for “violent, menacing or intimidating” behaviour in a domestic relationship. It describes coercive control as isolating, controlling, frightening, humiliating,…


Olympian Calls on Swimming’s Governing Body to Remove Restriction on Trans Women Athletes

Australian Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has criticised the international swimming body FINA’s decision to bar male-to-female transgender athletes from elite female competitions. The athlete, who previously advocated for same-sex marriage in Australia, said it was a “very complicated issue” and that he was “personally opposed to the position FINA has taken on this.” “I am…


Get the Enneagram Out of Our Churches | Church & State

The Enneagram is a cultural phenomenon that markets itself as an enigmatic personality test that has recently taken churches and Christian circles by storm. But is the Enneagram really as innocuous as it seems? In this episode, pastor Lucas Miles explores the esoteric and occultic roots of the Enneagram and the danger it presents to…


House Panel Hears Plea of Cherokee Nation to Add Nonvoting Delegate

The House Rules Committee on Wednesday heard testimony on whether to grant the Cherokee Nation a nonvoting seat that was promised in a treaty nearly 200 years ago. “Today, I come before you to remind you of the promise the federal government made to our ancestors,” Cherokee Nation principal chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said in…