Some sports stars make headlines for drug abuse or acts of violence, but one football player is taking heat for publicly promoting Christian values. On Saturday, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered the commencement at the Catholic Benedictine College, encouraging young graduates to stand firm in their faith and live out authentic Christian virtues. Now, the National Football League (NFL) is playing defense and condemning Butker's speech as offensive.
California's Jurupa Unified School District (USD) Board on Monday approved a $360,000 settlement agreement for Jessica Tapia, a Christian teacher who was fired for refusing to use preferred pronouns or lie to parents about their child's gender identity. "This is wonderful news," Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. "Schools behaving this way should find it is very expensive for them."
The publication of the U.K.'s groundbreaking Cass Review last month, addressing the flaws in the gender transition industry, resulted in a seismic shift across the pond: both England and Scotland halted the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone drugs to children, top clinical psychologists publicly apologized for their role in endorsing "gender-affirming care," and the British National Health Service (NHS) formally defined sex as a "biological" reality, regardless of an individual's "gender identity." Now, the report's author is warning the U.S. that medical organizations are "misleading" the public when it comes to gender transition procedures for children.
Seeking to stave off the increasingly perilous threat posed by Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joe Biden's campaign positioned the president as a moderate who "doesn't support full-term abortions" - a claim pro-life advocates call deceptive. The assertion also clashes with Biden-aligned super PACs portraying RFK Jr. as a supporter of "national abortion bans."
More than 14,000 terrorist combatants have died in Gaza since October 7, compared to approximately 16,000 civilians, according to a new Israeli estimate released Monday. "We would expect everyone to now take these figures as a genuine estimate from a free democratic country that fights in strict accordance with the laws of armed conflict in one of the most challenging urban warfare scenarios in history," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded.
Earlier this month, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), as well as various congressional Republicans, supported legislation sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) that would make it a requirement to show proof of U.S. citizenship in order to vote in elections. "Due to the wide-open border that the Biden administration has refused to close," the speaker said during a press conference, "we now have so many noncitizens in the country that if only one out of 100 voted, they would cast hundreds of thousands of votes." He noted this was the reason why the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) was introduced.
