Another battle over transgenderism in the schools

Another battle over transgenderism in the schools

VERBATIM:  Parents of students at Spanish Springs High in Sparks, Nevada are protesting a policy of allowing boys to use the girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms.  At a recent school board meeting moms and dads said their daughters don’t feel safe undressing and showering around boys.  School officials say if girls are uncomfortable they’ll just have to change somewhere else,  Meanwhile, a growing number of other states are barring boys from using girls facilities at school.  MH SRN NEWS.

A move to enshrine abortion in the constitution of Scotland

A move to enshrine abortion in the constitution of Scotland

VERBATIM:  The ruling Scottish National Party has adopted a resolution that calls for abortion to become a constitutional right, should the country ever become fully independent from England.  The SNP is working toward Scottish independence and is explaining what kind of rights they would enshrine if and when that day comes.  Scottish leaders have also recently been considering physician-assisted suicide and embracing the LGBT agenda.  MH SRN NEWS.

The Episcopal Church continues to shrink

The Episcopal Church continues to shrink

VERBATIM:  Officials with the diocese of Georgia can no longer afford their offices in Savannah and will have to sell them.  The personnel will decamp to the church of St. Michael and All Angels — which has been closed for some years.  The Episcopal Church has suffered a sharp decline in membership ever since its leaders decided to embrace gay marriage and homosexual ordination 15 years ago.  The decline is causing some diocese budgetary problems.  MH SRN NEWS.

A historically black church rejects gay marriage

A historically black church rejects gay marriage

VERBATIM:  A number of Protestant denominations have decided to embrace homosexual unions, but the African Methodist Episcopal Church is standing firm.  The church rejected an appeal to permit gay marriage at its recently concluded general conference.  The denomination’s book of doctrine states that “The AME Church believes that unions of any kind between persons of the same sex or gender are contrary to the will of God.”  MH SRN NEWS.

A victory for religious freedom in federal court

A victory for religious freedom in federal court

The states are sorting themselves out when it comes to abortion

The states are sorting themselves out when it comes to abortion

VERBATIM:  According to data from the Society of Family Planning, the number of abortions is increasing the most in California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois.  Abortion numbers are declining the most in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.  The report also indicates that more and more women are using drugs to end their pregnancies rather than surgery.  Abortion pills now account for more than half of all abortions in the U.S.  MH SRN NEWS.

A member of Congress tries to settle the question of gender

A member of Congress tries to settle the question of gender

VERBATIM:  Illinois Republican Mary Miller has introduced “The Defining Male And Female Act” which would require that the two sexes be defined strictly according to biology — not anything else.  Democrats will probably block the legislation and President Biden would certainly veto it if it gets that far.  But Republicans at least want to get everybody on record.  One wonders if the founders could have ever imagined that Congress would one day need to try and established who the boys and girls are.  MH SRN NEWS.

Transgenderism sparks another court case

Transgenderism sparks another court case

Another major company abandons the LGBT agenda

Another major company abandons the LGBT agenda

Doctors in the United Kingdom take a stand

Doctors in the United Kingdom take a stand

Trump and Harris voters are far apart on cultural issues

Trump and Harris voters are far apart on cultural issues

VERBATIM:  A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 60% of Americans who plan to vote for Kamala Harris in November believe that a person can change their gender — only 7% of Trump supporters agree.  Is the country better off if people prioritize marriage and family?  Just 17% of Harris voters say YES, compared with 60% of Trump voters.  The vast majority of Harris supporters also want to keep religion out of politics.  MH SRN NEWS.

A new report on evangelism in North America

A new report on evangelism in North America

A troubling poll from the United Kingdom

A troubling poll from the United Kingdom

VERBATIM:  About 30% of British church-goers say if their local house of worship closed, they would just stop attending church altogether.  The numbers come from a survey conducted by the National Churches Trust and it comes at a time when a lot of churches ARE closing in the UK.  Elderly people are the ones most likely to stop attending if their local house of worship shuts down and many of them say it would be too difficult, physically, for them to go elsewhere.  MH SRN NEWS.

A pro-life pregnancy center was vandalized during the Democratic convention

A pro-life pregnancy center was vandalized during the Democratic convention

VERBATIM:  The Aid For Women clinic  in Chicago was attacked by someone in the early hours of last Friday, shortly after the DNC wrapped up at the United Center.  The door was damaged and vandals painted graffiti on the windows, including the words “Fake clinic, the dead babies are in Gaza”.  Abortion was the centerpiece of the Democratic Convention.  Planned Parenthood dispensed scores of free abortion pills from a mobile clinic nearby.  MH SRN NEWS.

Some pastors have a lot of work to do

Some pastors have a lot of work to do

VERBATIM:  A new poll released by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University finds that a lot of people who attend Evangelical churches hold unbiblical beliefs.  About half of them think that a person can earn his way to heaven with good works.  45% say there is no absolute moral truth and 40% don’t accept the doctrine of original sin.  The CRC report goes on to reveal that 27% of Evangelical church-goers say they are afraid to die.  MH SRN NEWS.

What’s your favorite Old Testament story?

What’s your favorite Old Testament story?

VERBATIM:  That’s what Life Way Research has been asking Christians lately and it turns out that Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt is the favorite story of 13% of poll respondents.  11% favor Noah and the flood while 8% like David and Goliath.  However, the Life Way survey reveals that 11% of believers answered with a story from the NEW Testament, suggesting that their grasp of what happened in what part of the Bible is lacking.  MH SRN NEWS.

Planned Parenthood was busy at the Democratic convention this week

Planned Parenthood was busy at the Democratic convention this week

VERBATIM:  It set up a mobile clinic near the United Center and gave away free abortion pills during the DNC proceedings.  Planned Parenthood says it was “fully booked” all week and handed out scores of the drugs that allow a woman to end her pregnancy at home.  Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris is going all-in on abortion, counting on the issue to sweep her to victory in November over former president Donald Trump.  MH SRN NEWS.

Nicaragua expands its crackdown on religion

Nicaragua expands its crackdown on religion

VERBATIM:  The government is shutting down 1500 non-profit organizations, about half of which are churches and Christian ministries.  President Daniel Ortega has a personal axe to grind with the Catholic Church, which has been one of his chief critics, but this latest order also targets many Protestant Evangelical congregations and organizations.  The property of all 1500 non-profits is to be immediately seized by the Nicaraguan government.  MH SRN NEWS.

Democrats are less likely to be Christians

Democrats are less likely to be Christians

VERBATIM:  The Pew Research Center has been polling members of the party and has discovered that nearly HALF of them — 46% — identify as something other than Christian.  Most of those people are atheists, agnostics, or followers of no particular religious faith.  Compare that to 82% of Republicans who identify as Christian.  These rather stark numbers go a long way toward explaining the sharp divergence between the two parties on social issues.  MH SRN NEWS.

Do you watch Christian movies?

Do you watch Christian movies?

VERBATIM:  A new poll from Life Way Research finds that 68% of Protestant church-goers have viewed at least one Christian film in the last year and 81% of them think such movies have the potential to lead non-believers to Christ.  Christian film-maker Stephen Kendrick tells Life Way ““We live in a visual, video-driven generation. Movies can be great tools to reach people where they are and share biblical truth in context.”  MH SRN NEWS.

California lawmakers kill a child protection bill

California lawmakers kill a child protection bill

VERBATIM:  The measure would have made it more difficult for small kids to access pornography on-line and it passed the state assembly with flying colors.  But when the legislation reached the state Senate’s appropriations committee, it was quietly killed without a vote.  The California Family Council accuses lawmakers of giving into pressure from the pornography industry, saying “it seems that money talks louder than common sense in this state.”  MH SRN NEWS.

An Evangelical leader urges Christians to vote

An Evangelical leader urges Christians to vote

VERBATIM:  Troy Miller is president and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters and he tells the Daily Caller that ALL believers need to get to the polls in November.  Noting that millions of Evangelicals did not vote in 2020, Miller says “As Americans, we are the stewards of a temporal home built on a foundation of faith to the best of its founders’ abilities. We must do everything in our power to save America for the glory of God.”  MH SRN NEWS

There will be free abortions at the Democratic Convention

There will be free abortions at the Democratic Convention

VERBATIM:  All this week in Chicago, Planned Parenthood says it will be providing free abortion pills and free vasectomies to convention-goers and anybody else who wants them.  The giant abortion business has set up a mobile clinic not far from the United Center where the Democratic Convention is taking place.  Pro-life advocates including Kristan Hawkins of Students For Life say this blatant display is proof that the Democrats are the “party of death”.  MH SRN News.

How many Evangelicals are there?

How many Evangelicals are there?

VERBATIM:  Not as many as you might think, according to a new report from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.  Using a strict doctrinal definition of Evangelicals, the CRC concludes that only about 10% of the U.S. population qualifies.  Which means that an awful lot of people call themselves Evangelicals who probably aren’t.  It also means that the very definition of Evangelical, as used in the mainstream media, is so flexible as to be almost useless.  MH SRN NEWS.