What the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About; Nearly half of anti-Israel protesters arrested at Columbia weren’t students ...more

United Methodists strike down ban on ordination of gay clergy  The votes reverse prohibitive policies toward LGBTQ people taken on at the denomination’s 2019 General Convention, when delegates doubled down and tightened bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriage. Most of those 2019 measures have now been reversed.

   After the 2019 General Convention, some 7,600 traditionalist churches across the United States — about 25% of the total number of U.S. churches — left the denomination, fearing that the tightening of the bans would not hold.

   The absence of delegates from churches that left the denomination accounted for the quick reversal of the policies.

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Letitia James has been sued by a coalition of anti-abortion groups 

The coalition, represented by the Thomas More Society—a conservative law firm based in Chicago—accused James of carrying out a "witch hunt" after her office sent out "Notice of Intention to Sue" letters to multiple pregnancy help organizations calling on them to stop providing "persistent misleading statements" while advertising the safety and proficiency of abortion pill reversal (APR) methods.

Judge Blocks Suspensions Of Middle School Female Athletes Who Refused To Compete Against Male Student   Five middle school female athletes forfeited their positions at a track meet in April after they were informed that they would have to compete against a biological male, prompting the school district to allegedly bar the girls from future competitions, according to WDTV News. The students sued, and Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia filed an amicus brief in support of the students.

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What the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About 

Americans have the right to protest Israeli military action and American support for Israel. Such a right is key to a healthy and well-functioning democracy. As has often been said, it is what distinguishes countries like America from places like Iran, where sixteen-year-olds who remove their hijabs in protest at cultural restrictions are raped and murdered, not lionized by the media. Such protests also provide important means of holding those in power to account. But no protester has the right to be taken seriously merely as a protester. When protests are childish, inconsistent, racist, and rooted in no shared vision beyond that of mere negation, then those who participate in them should be treated with contempt. First Things

Iranian Professor's Chilling Words on American protests: "We Like What We See"   Our enemies are watching. Joe Biden is feckless. His statement on antisemitism was marred by his insistence on putting mentions against Islamophobia in his message. He can't bring himself to just say antisemitism is wrong. The statement should stand alone. He was there to speak about the protests. There is no Islamophobia in the protests, only antisemitism and hatred for Israel and America.

Nearly half of anti-Israel protesters arrested at Columbia, City College weren’t students: police     - Of the 282 protesters cuffed and hauled away during a massive NYPD operation late Tuesday, 134 of them had zero affiliation with either school, Adams and Police Commissioner Edward Caban said in a statement.

    -Of the 112 protesters arrested at the Ivy League university, 80 were students and 32 were not affiliated with the school.

    At the publicly-funded City College, only 68 of the 170 booked were students, while the remaining 102 were outsiders.

Columbia Professor Awards All Students A's and Cancels Final Exam Citing 'Current Conditions'  Five middle school female athletes forfeited their positions at a track meet in April after they were informed that they would have to compete against a biological male, prompting the school district to allegedly bar the girls from future competitions, according to WDTV News. The students sued, and Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia filed an amicus brief in support of the students.

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UCLA Med School Students Are Taught That Modern Science Is 'White Science' by Pro-Hamas Lecturer   Some may question why medical education would inject ideas about Palestine -- or have students bow before a pagan deity or be corrected on proprietorship and property rights. But these days, American institutions appear to comprise one large DEI network; emphases such as science commonly come across as asides to the goal of national wokeness...

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Study Finds That the More Covid 'Vaccine' Doses You Have, the More Likely You Are to Get Covid   The risk of contracting COVID-19 was 1.5 times higher for those who received two doses, 1.95 times higher for those who received three doses, and 2.5 times higher for those who received three or more doses, the researchers found. The higher risk was compared to people who received zero or one dose of a vaccine.