Recently, large numbers of UMC congregations have decided to leave the mainline Protestant denomination due to its ongoing debate over whether to change its official stance on LGBT issues…Many of those leaving the UMC have opted to join the Global Methodist Church, a theologically conservative denomination that was officially launched in May of last year.
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In a move that champions the rights of medical professionals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law that safeguards the moral, ethical, and religious convictions of healthcare providers and institutions. Under the new law, healthcare employers cannot take punitive action against employees who, guided by their conscience, refuse to provide certain services.
This law not only extends protection to medical service providers, but also covers entities and individuals responsible for healthcare service payments, such as employers
Regardless of childhood family income, white women were still better off economically than other racial and ethnic groups because of the high rate of marriage. According to the study, such “marriage market dynamics” account for 85% of the gap in intergenerational family income mobility.
“Giving women from less-advantaged race/ethnic groups similar personal incomes as white women did little to improve their chances of upward mobility,” the study states. “In contrast, pairing women from less-advantaged race/ethnic groups with similar-earning partners as white women improved their chances of moving up.”
According to Schilling, the data strengthen the economic case for a strong marriage culture in the United States. Marriage is an economic and cultural driver that compounds over time with each generation, Shilling explained, saying there need to be more potent incentives, like tax structures, to encourage marriage, children, and family unity.
All it took to for Helena — born a biological female — to get a testosterone prescription was “one trip to Planned Parenthood when she was 18,” the New York Post wrote, adding, “She said she was given four times the typical starting dose by a nurse practitioner in less than an hour, without ever seeing a doctor.”
The Post claimed that Helena “said she felt political pressure to transition.”
“The community was very social justice-y. There was a lot of negativity around being a cis, heterosexual, white girl, and I took those messages really, really personally,” Helena told the Post.
Liam, 12, said he was told to remove his “two genders” shirt almost immediately when he arrived at school.
In an email, Middleborough Public Schools Superintendent Carolyn Lyons said Liam violated the school dress code because the “content of Liam’s shirt targeted students of a protected class; namely in the area of gender identity.” Liam came back to school wearing another shirt that read, “There are censored genders,” but school personnel told him to remove that shirt as well, he said.