RELIGION HEADLINES

(SRN NEWS) – A government memo aimed at implementing President Trump’s order rolling back promotion of transgenderism is rippling through the federal government.  Agencies are moving quickly to strip gender ideology from websites, contracts and emails.  The Office of Personnel Management has directed agency heads to have staff remove pronouns from their government emails, disband employee resource groups, and terminate grants and contracts related to transgenderism.  OPM has also asked agencies to remove the term “gender” from government forms and swap it out with “sex.” 

Tennessee lawmakers have approved legislation expanding the number of families who can use taxpayer money on private and religious schools regardless of income.  The school voucher bill is a long-sought victory for Republican Governor Bill Lee.  President Trump backed Tennessee’s bill on social media.  Under the new proposal, 20,000 education vouchers of around 7,000 dollars each would become available next year.  Half of them would be open to any student entitled to attend a public school.  Parents have been seeking vouchers as a way to avoid the failing education system. 

Schools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies established during President Trump’s first term, with requirements for live hearings and more protections for accused students.  In a memo to education institutions across the nation, the Education Department clarified that Title Four will be enforced according to a set of rules created by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.  Colleges had already been returning to DeVos’ 2020 rules in recent weeks after a federal judge in Kentucky overturned the Biden administration’s Title Four rules. 

Anti-Christian hate crimes are on the rise in Western Europe and one expert has an explanation.  Paul James-Griffiths is director of Scotland’s Christian Heritage Edinburgh and he says radical Muslims and radical secularists are teaming up to poison the public against the continent’s historic faith.  James-Griffiths tells International Christian Concern “From about 2013 things began to change.  The currents against Christianity and traditional family values have gone from being a stream to being a river.”  Christian faith in Western European countries has been in decline for decades.