Church land may be next as India tightens control over Muslim religious assets
India’s Christian minority fears that the central government might be planning to bring their institutions under state control, following a series of recent developments that suggest the administration and its ideological affiliates are preparing to target church-owned properties. Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader in India’s main opposition party, the left-of-center Indian National Congress, warned that the Waqf law has set a precedent for state interference in minority-run institutions. He said the focus on Christian landholdings appears to be a continuation of an agenda to weaken the autonomy of religious minorities.
Five Reasons Porn is Bad For Your Marriage
Recent estimates suggest that anywhere from 50 to 70% of adult men and women view pornography on a regular basis. Higher pornography use is strongly related to lower reported relationship stability, decreasing by almost 15% across three groups. In the last decade, pornography has emerged as a consistent and strong predictor of a higher divorce likelihood among married couples. Research suggests that pornography use is not only related to lower feelings of stability but may also push many partners toward having affairs.
Pro-life billboards aim to change hearts of moms seeking abortions in New Mexico
The Albuquerque-based pro-life consortium LifeMinistriesUS recently began the billboard campaign in Texas to combat abortion tourism. According to LifeMinistries US member Bud Shaver, “Three billboards (two digital and one static) have been strategically placed along two separate major roadways in Texas toward New Mexico to reach women traveling for abortions … Tragically, the vast majority of the out of state abortions being obtained in New Mexico are [performed] on women from Texas who are evading their states’ pro-life laws.”
Dad Delivers Premature Twins at Home With Help From Emergency Dispatcher
An emergency services dispatcher has helped deliver premature twins over the phone who were born within just six minutes of their parents calling for an ambulance. Last summer, Chance Chipman, an emergency services dispatcher, received a call that he had always hoped would happen. His day was proceeding normally when Matt Harris called, saying that his wife was pregnant with twins and that they would not be able to make it to the hospital in time. Matt and his wife Mary were packing to go to the hospital when she told him that the babies were coming.
10 States Allow Killing People in Assisted Suicide. Illinois Should Not Join Them
Hauter’s concerns extend to the erosion of trust, in which he noted that assisted suicide laws “will change [a patient’s] relationship with their physician” as well as with insurance providers, who may see death as “the cheapest care.” Ultimately, Hauter’s cautionary words were a call for policymakers to reject such measures, ensuring that health care remains a beacon of hope and healing, rather than a pathway to expedited endings.
New York Times publishes chilling new justification for assisted suicide
Notorious secular “ethicist” Peter Singer has co-authored an opinion piece in the New York Times positing a chilling new rationale for assisted suicide: the determination that one’s life is simply “complete.”
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Pro-Lifers’ Challenge
This case goes back to January 2023, when the city of Carbondale, Illinois, enacted a law creating 100-foot “bubble zones” around all entrances to city healthcare facilities, including abortuaries. The law prohibited anyone in one of these buffer zones from speaking to another person “for the purpose of . . . engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling.” The law was specifically enacted to prevent pro-lifers from counseling and assisting vulnerable women outside of abortion clinics. However, since it applied to all healthcare facilities in the city, over 150 buffer zones were created where American citizens couldn’t exercise their right to free speech.
During oral arguments, Supreme Court seems to support parental opt-outs for LGBT coursework
Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Muslim parents sued the Montgomery County Board of Education in May 2023 after the body ended its policy of notifying parents of coursework promoting homosexuality and transgenderism and allowing the parents to opt out.
Defending Faith and Parental Rights in the Classroom
Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education is denying my husband and me the ability to exempt our daughter from storybooks and instructional materials that promote a narrow and ideologically driven view of gender and sexuality. The school even refuses to inform us when these books are introduced or discussed, leaving us in the dark. Tomorrow, we will take our fight—Mahmoud v. Taylor—to the Supreme Court, asking for the restoration of our fundamental right to guide our child’s education in alignment with our faith.
Florida attorney general announces lawsuit against Snapchat for allegedly empowering child predators
The law signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered social media companies to restrict access to children under the age of 14, but Snapchat has continued to allow full access to minors, according to the lawsuit.
Oklahoma Joins Growing Number of States Pushing Back against Same-Sex Marriage
A 2024 Gallup poll showed that Republican support for same-sex marriage dropped by almost 10% in two years. “This may or may not be the beginning of a long-term correction on how the public sees this issue,” Family Research Council’s Joseph Backholm said at the time. After all, he pointed out, “Same-sex marriage was sold to the public as the tolerant choice, but what we’ve seen since then is that the political movement that brought us same-sex marriage is anything but tolerant.” That has led, some believe, to a growing call for the Supreme Court to reassess — and potentially overturn — Obergefell. In the Times, Harmon points to a burgeoning movement to turn states’ attention back to natural marriage and end what conservatives call a “failed social experiment.”