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(  )  Hollywood continues to push transgenderism and the LGBT agenda, despite evidence that most Americans are opposed to them.  A new survey by the gay advocacy group GLAAD finds that across scripted prime-time broadcast, cable and streaming shows, there are 33 transgender characters and nearly 500 LGBT ones.  ABC has the largest percentage of network LGBT series regulars while Netflix has the most amongst streaming services.  Despite all this, GLADD is demanding that Hollywood make 20 percent of all characters gay in future seasons.  According to the Pew Research Center, less than 10 percent of Americans identify as LGBT.

(  )  Christians and religious freedom advocates are cheering President Trump’s decision to place Nigeria on the “country of particular concern” list.  Tens-of-thousands of Christians have been murdered by Muslim terrorists in the country over the past decade and the government is accused of turning a blind eye.  Nigeria had been on the State Department list before, but President Biden lifted the designation in 2023 in what observers saw as a way to improve ties between the countries ahead of a visit by then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken.  Muslim terror groups are killing Christians in a growing number of African nations.

(  )  A Japanese church in Salt Lake City, Utah has uncovered a century-old snapshot of a once vibrant neighborhood now mostly gone.  Elders at the 101-year-old Japanese Church of Christ — one of just two remaining buildings in what used to be called Japantown — have opened a time capsule hidden in a wall of the church when it was first built in 1924. The box contained hand-sewn flags, Bibles and local newspapers in both English and Japanese, the church’s articles of incorporation and a sheet of glitter-trimmed paper with the handwritten names of its Sunday school teachers.  A radar scan was used to find the time capsule.

(  )  The Supreme Court is due to hear arguments this month in another religious freedom case.  It involves whether an inmate of a minority religious group, the Rastafarians, can sue for monetary damages after the warden violated his religious rights — specifically, the right not to cut his hair. Damon Landor, the petitioner, wore long dreadlocks for almost 20 years as an expression of his beliefs as a Rastafarian — part of a practice known as “the Nazarite vow”.  Many members of the movement, which first developed in Jamaica about 100 years ago, do not cut their hair.  Arguments are scheduled for November 10th.