"COVID-19 has highlighted why these services are so important for communities in need," said Elena Marks, president of the foundation, in a statement. "And at the same time, many of these organizations are battling severe financial issues plus increased demand for their services."
But Planned Parenthood is not primarily a health care provider. Its main focus is abortion, and its actions during coronavirus crisis made this even more clear.
Read more"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
Read moreETS was founded in 1949 and serves as a professional association of scholars, teachers, pastors and students dedicated to the written expression of theological thought and research.
The statement explains that while evangelical history includes "many positive voices for justice," such as slave trade abolitionist William Wilberforce, the history also includes "negatively those who assimilated the values of their surrounding unjust culture."
Read moreThe "white nationalist" libel against Professor Kengor as well as the call for him to quit was inserted after the petition had garnered most of its signatures, informed sources told Church Militant.
The activists removed the "white nationalist" accusation from the petition sometime on Saturday morning after a firestorm of outrage from alumni e-mailing and asserting that this was scurrilous and almost certainly libelous, sources added.
Read moreThis is a very significant case. At stake is whether bans on sex discrimination in the United States also include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Dr McHugh's expertise is helpful in questioning a so-called scientific imperative for gender affirmation. (Footnotes and references have been removed and the text has been slightly abridged.)
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Read more"The President's visit on Monday to St. John's Episcopal Church with a Bible in-hand sparked a lot of dialogue across the nation about the Bible," Whitney T. Kuniholm, a senior vice president of the Philadelphia-based society, told Religion News Service in a statement.
Read moreAmong the lessons being taught to public schoolchildren in the United States today are "how to" sex workshops where youth are instructed how to consent to sex, and "fake abstinence" -- abstaining from sex until the next steady boyfriend or girlfriend.
Read moreFrom the Denver Post,
Don't you dare put those Pride flags away just yet.
The Center on Colfax said Denver's annual PrideFest is still on for June 20 and 21 -- parade, 5K, DJ parties and all -- despite the coronavirus outbreak. But this year, it'll be online.
Read more"Striving to be a supportive, caring and generous neighbor is in our DNA. Our restaurant Operators give back locally in so many ways, and this time is no exception," said Chick-fil-A Chairman and CEO Dan Cathy.
The funds will be available through June and used for efforts such as food donations to first responders, health care workers and the families of Chick-fil-A workers.
Chick-fil-A also said that:
Read moreFor starters, the idea flies in the face of false narratives that have been promulgated by gay activists since the 1950s, which claim that sexual orientation is genetically fixed and therefore unchangeable. There has never been any science to support such an assertion but you’d never know that from what you hear in the media.
Is Gay to Straight Even Possible?
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