RELIGION HEADLINES WED 11-5

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(  )  More than 20 Democrat-led states are challenging a new Trump administration policy designed to keep taxpayers from footing the bill for programs that promote the LGBT agenda.  The rule will block nonprofit workers from a student loan cancellation program if federal officials determine their employer has a “substantial illegal purpose.”  In a lawsuit filed this week in Massachusetts, the states argue that the Trump administration overstepped its authority when it added new eligibility rules for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.  The suit includes Massachusetts, New York, California and Colorado.

(  )  For the first time ever, People magazine’s annual “Sexiest Man Alive” honor goes to a homosexual.  Actor Jonathan Bailey has been named by the popular magazine for 2025.  Bailey, who has spoken openly about being gay, is the founder of the Shameless Fund, which promotes the LGBT agenda.  People is following in the footsteps of other major entertainment magazines that are relentlessly pushing homosexuality, picturing gay and transgender celebrities on their covers. Meanwhile, a growing number of beauty pageants have been awarding prizes to men who are living as women, prompting a growing backlash across the country.

(  )  Jewish and Christian leaders in Maryland are condemning a Halloween parade float that carried a replica of the gate to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.  The replica gate was included on the float made for Saint Joseph Catholic School in Hanover, northwest of Baltimore.  The Nazis murdered more than one million people at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland between 1940 and 1945.  Most of their victims were Jews killed on an industrial scale in gas chambers.  The Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg says depicting the Holocaust or its imagery is never acceptable outside of an educational setting.

(  )  Analysts say a growing number of Americans are joining Quaker churches.  They are still a tiny minority of the general U.S population, but Quakers have been here for centuries. The Religious Society of Friends — best known as the Quakers — originated in 17th-century England.  William Penn was an English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania following the faith’s emphasis on religious tolerance.  In the U.S., Quakers became highly influential in cities such as Philadelphia and founded colleges in the state including Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore.  Members of the group have also suffered persecution for their pacifism.