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DELAWARE FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL: THE (DIS)RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT IS NOT RESPECTFUL

BY NICOLE THEIS

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

SEE ALSO: https://thenewamerican.com/red-state-voters-opposed-to-respect-for-marriage-act/?mc_cid=d70c4ece82

AND: https://thenewamerican.com/respect-for-marriage-act-one-step-away-from-becoming-law

Cyber-Monday... While many of us are looking for deals and preparing for Christmas, Democrat leaders in Washington are working aggressively to pass the worst attack against religious liberty.

Delaware's Congressional representation - Senators Coons and Carper, and Representative Lisa Blunt-Rochester - have voiced their full support for HR 8404, the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.

SUPER IMPORTANT, PLEASE KEEP READING - BE INFORMED
This federal legislation, the 'Dis'Respect for Marriage Act allows churches and religious organizations to be targeted for adhering to the Biblical definition of marriage.
TARGETED! HOW?
By now, you've probably received multiple messages about this federal bill; our national allies have been sounding the alarm. Here's why:
The 'Dis'Respect for Marriage Act: 

  • Further embeds a false definition of marriage in the American legal fabric.
  • Opens the door to federal recognition of polygamous relationships.
  • Opens the door for the IRS to deprive churches and religious organizations of their tax-exempt status.
  • Makes religious organizations and businesses a target for lawsuits based on their belief about marriage.
  • Claims to respect the beliefs of religious entities on marriage, but does nothing to protect the right to act on that belief.
It's Blatant. The sponsors of this act are not hiding their agenda. 
Learn more here from our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom about why this bill must be voted down in the Senate today.
Senators Carper and Coons and Rep. Blunt-Rochester have been including false statements in their responses to Delaware constituents. Here are examples:
LIE #1: "The bill is quite limited in scope. If the Supreme Court were to overturn its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Respect for Marriage Act would not require any state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples."

TRUTH: This bill is not limited; it has massive implications for religious organizations. Because states currently recognize same-sex unions as marriages, this bill basically guarantees that individuals, religious organizations, and faith-based entities including churches, will be penalized for not complying by adhering to the Biblical, traditional definition of marriage between one man and one woman.

LIE #2: "The Respect for Marriage Act does not require any religious institution to perform or sanctify marriages that violate its teachings."

TRUTH: But it does - because those that do not comply can be sued for being in violation of this Act. THERE ARE NO PROTECTIONS.

The supporters of the bill made clear that religious organizations are the target. They rejected a proposed amendment to protect religious organizations. Instead, they passed a weaker amendment that merely pays lip service to religious liberty, but does nothing to prevent the lawsuits that are sure to come.

LIE #3: Religious organizations are safe from having their tax-exempt status taken even if they fail to comply with the Respect for Marriage Act.

TRUTH The 'Dis'Respect for Marriage Act frames the adherence to Biblical, traditional marriage as discrimination - thus leaving the door wide open for the IRS to revoke tax-exempt statuses from religious organizations that do not comply with this Act in their organizational support for the Biblical definition of marriage. 

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...From the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'  'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Mark 10:6-9

For Faith, Families, and Freedom,
Nicole
Nicole Theis

President
Delaware Family Policy Council
Delaware Strong Families
P.S. Contact Senators Carper and Coons today; they need to know that they are NOT representing their constituents by supporting HR 8404, which is an egregious violation of religious liberty. 

Be the voice of conscience to our Federal representatives, letting them know that there are still people in Delaware who unashamedly stand on God's definition of marriage.

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A Nest of Ninnies: UK Office of Budget Responsibility Declares More Migrants Help Spur Economic Growth

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/11/a-nest-of-ninnies-uk-office-of-budget-responsibility-declares-more-migrants-help-spur-economic-growth;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The nest of ninnies in the U.K. government keeps trying to convince an increasingly skeptical public that the steady stream of migrants – most of them Muslim and many of them illegal – now entering the U.K. – are a positive benefit to the economy, and hence the British, far from trying to limit immigration, should encourage it. This bizarre twist on the truth can be found here: “Cutting immigration means higher taxes,” by James Kirkup, The Spectator

Is it true that this largely Muslim immigration is a boon to the U.K.? We know that in the year ending (YE) in June 2022, the net international migration, which is the difference calculated between immigration and emigration within the same period, was estimated at 504,000, an increase of 331,000 compared with the YE June 2021 figure of 173,000. This is a colossal increase. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) seems to think that is a Good Thing.

‘Only the higher-than-expected numbers of migrants coming to the UK under the post-Brexit migration regime adds materially to prospects for potential output growth over the coming five years relative to the assumptions that we made in March.’

That’s from the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) assessment accompanying the Autumn Statement. It’s a pretty striking line: the state’s official analyst of the public finances says that the only good thing to happen to the UK economy since March is higher immigration.

Here, I can only say something rather childish: I told you so. No doubt this immigration outlook will make some people unhappy. Justifiably, too. It isn’t what they were promised, at least by the current Home Secretary. Suella Braverman said she wants net migration to fall below 100,000 – though to be fair, she said that as part of the Truss government in October.

James Kirkup belongs to that small group of Conservatives who have convinced themselves that migration has been an economic boon for the U.K. Fortunately, the majority of Conservatives take a much less sanguine view of the migrant invasion.

We need to ask a few questions of these British enthusiasts of migration. Are they aware that more than three-quarters of the migrants now flooding into the U.K. are Muslims? Are they aware that many Muslim migrants in the U.K. are not true asylum seekers, as they claim to be, but rather, economic migrants, determined to take advantage of all the generous benefits that the British government — that is, the British taxpayer – offers? Among those benefits are subsidized or free housing, free medical care available from the National Health Service, free education, and family allowances that increase with each child (Muslim families are much larger than those of the indigenous British, and derive the greatest benefit from this support), and unemployment benefits even without ever having been employed. The amount the National Health spends on Muslims is unusually high, it needs to be pointed out, because of the prevalence of congenital ailments among Muslims. This is the result of inbreeding, with marriages between cousins being encouraged. In a low-trust culture, it makes sense to keep marriages, and hence property, within the extended family.

Muslims who feel the need to supplement those benefits sometimes turn to crimes of property – robbery, and burglary. Muslims exhibit an unusually high rate of criminality; they make up 4% of the U.K. population, but 20% of the prison population. To the costs of all those benefits that Muslim economic migrants take full advantage of, we must add the cost of their high rates of criminality. This criminal activity requires that more government money be spent on police, detectives, prosecutors, court-appointed lawyers, prosecutors, judges, prison guards, and prisons. This all adds up to a very great sum, though, as far as I can tell, no one has actually calculated the precise cost to the British government of the economic benefits that Muslim migrants lay claim to, being content to simply note that annually, it runs into the billions of dollars. The average cost to the British government of incarcerating a single prisoner is $75,000, with rapists, murderers, and terrorists requiring the highest security, which makes them the most expensive to incarcerate. Muslims constitute close to one-quarter of the rapists and murderers in British prisons, and nearly all of those convicted of terrorism in the last twenty years (there is still a handful of aging IRA men in UK prisons).

Adding the cost of all the government benefits Muslim migrants take full advantage of to the cost of arresting, putting on trial, and then incarcerating Muslim criminals, gives us an annual figure of tens of billions of dollars. And this is only the economic cost. There are other great costs to society, not susceptible to measurement. What kind of dollar or pound figure do we assign to the damage done to many thousands of English girls, the victims of Muslim grooming gangs in two dozen English cities, who were seduced, given drinks and drugs, and then passed around to be shared as sexual objects? We cannot put a dollar figure on the despair and human ruin that the Muslim grooming gangs in the U.K. have caused, but that does not mean that despair and ruin aren’t real.

How do we put an economic value on the increased sense of insecurity felt by British women in some neighborhoods where they used to think nothing of going out at night alone? Muslims have been known to prey on Infidel women, whose dress suggests to Muslims that they “are just asking for it”? What about the anxiety felt by Jews who know that if they wear identifiable Jewish dress – kippahs and Star-of-David pendants, not to mention shtreimels and tallit worn by Hasidim going to the shul — they can expect at some point to be attacked by Muslims, not only in London, Manchester, and Birmingham, but also in Paris, Rome, and even New York? And what is the negative value we assign to the appearance of No-Go neighborhoods, where a dominant population of Muslim migrants makes outsiders – the indigenous non-Muslims whose country these migrants have invaded – distinctly unwelcome, and even the police and firemen do not enter without protection?

So let’s go back to that report by the OBR that prompted this piece, the report titled: “The U.K. Office of Budget Responsibility declares that more migrants help spur economic growth.”

Just one question. What are those people at the U.K. Office of Budget Responsibility smoking?

CDC study: COVID-19 mRNA shots increase risk of myocarditis by 13,200%

Image: CDC study: COVID-19 mRNA shots increase risk of myocarditis by 13,200%

BY OLIVIA COOK

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-28-cdc-study-covid-vaccines-increase-myocarditis-risk.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines increase the risk of myocarditis (heart muscle inflammation) by 13,200 percent.

It examined the effects of vaccination using the mRNA COVID-19 injections from Pfizer and Moderna, based on the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The cases were then cross-checked to match the CDC’s definition of myocarditis. A total of 1,626 cases of myocarditis had been examined.

According to CDC researchers, 105.9 myocarditis cases per million doses were recorded in the 16- to 17-year-old male cohort injected with the second dose. The 12- to 15-year-old male cohort, meanwhile, recorded 70.7 myocarditis cases per million doses following the second vaccine shot. Moreover, the 18- to 24-year-old male cohort also saw significantly higher rates of myocarditis for both the Pfizer (52.4 cases per million) and Moderna (56.3 cases per million) vaccines. (Related: Large Nordic study finds that mRNA COVID vaccines increase risk of myocarditis.)

The study authors ultimately concluded that the risk of myocarditis after receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines should be considered in the context of the supposed “benefits” of vaccination.

The public health agency, however, has doubled down on its insistence that adverse reactions after vaccination are rare.

“COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, and severe reactions after vaccination are rare,” said the CDC. “Most patients with myocarditis or pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination responded well to medication and rest and felt better quickly.

The agency also pointed out that “reports of death after COVID-19 vaccination are rare,” and that “reports of adverse events, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem.”

McCullough: Post-vaccination reports of myocarditis are far from rare

Texas-based cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, however, disagreed with the notion of myocarditis being a “rare” adverse event.

“In cardiology, we spend our entire career trying to save every bit of heart muscle. We put in stents, we do heart catheterization, we do stress tests, we do CT angiograms. The whole game of cardiology is to preserve heart muscle,” McCullough said in a statement to the Epoch Times.

“Under no circumstances would we accept a vaccine that causes even one person to sustain heart damage. Not one. And this idea that ‘Oh, we’re going to ask a large number of people to sustain heart damage for some other theoretical benefit for a viral infection,’ which for most is less than a common cold, is untenable. The benefits of the vaccines in no way outweigh the risks.”

Given the plethora of studies confirming a link between vaccination and myocarditis, the CDC has started active surveillance of adolescents and young adults to monitor their progress following heart-related incidents after vaccination. Long-term outcome data, however, are not yet available.

Meanwhile, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have advised that people with myocarditis should refrain from competitive sports for three to six months, and only resume strenuous exercise after a normal ECG and other test results are obtained. They have also advised that further mRNA vaccine doses should be deferred.

Head over to VaccineDamage.news for more stories about the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines such as myocarditis.

Watch Dr. Peter McCullough explain how the mRNA COVID-19 injections cause myocarditis below.

This video is from the MyChannel channel at Brighteon.com.

More related stories:

“The mRNA COVID vaccines are killing people, plain and simple…”

BOMBSHELL: Pfizer’s own document admits that mRNA COVID vaccines will result in mass depopulation.

Naomi Wolf: Pfizer FULLY AWARE of the dangers of its mRNA COVID vaccine.

Sources include:

Expose-News.com

CDC.gov

LifeSiteNews.com

Brighteon.com

Homeschooling Surge Continues as States Relax Rules

Homeschooling Surge Continues as States Relax Rules

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/homeschooling-surge-continues-as-states-relax-rules/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The surge in homeschooling, aided and abetted by the pandemic, continues.

The pandemic revealed to many parents for the first time just what sort of socialist and cultural indoctrination their children were being subjected to in the public schools. The school shooting in Uvalde, Texas; the increase in the use and sale of drugs on campus; the imposition of CRT in place of real American history; bullying; and — oh yes — poor academic performance — all have figured into the new educational equation.

Initially, the number of students leaving public schools during the first year of the pandemic was staggering. At one point, instead of just three percent of all students being schooled at home, that percentage tripled. Among black families, it quintupled.

In Texas, for example, the percentage of students being homeschooled during the 2019-2020 school year was estimated to be 4.5%. The very next year the percentage nearly tripled, to 12.5%.

That surge continues thanks not only to the results being enjoyed by those homeschooled students in terms of educational excellence but also to the homeschool movement itself.

Taking Texas as an example, opting out of public schools is fairly simple and mostly unregulated. If a child is moving out of a public school, the parents are required to notify the local school district. The state then only mandates that the child’s learning at home is in a visual format (workbooks and online courses) and that the curriculum includes reading, grammar, math, and what Texas calls “good citizenship.”

South Dakota has taken notice and relaxed its homeschooling rules. Efforts of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) paid off with the passage of Senate Bill 177, which ended the requirement that homeschooled students take standardized tests. Prior to that, if a student failed the tests, the state had the power to intervene.

An HSLDA attorney celebrated the victory:

It was a big win for parental rights. It cut out unnecessary regulation and streamlined the process so parents can invest their time in providing the best education they can for their children.

Similar victories or relaxations have occurred in Virginia, Illinois, South Carolina, Iowa, Idaho, Mississippi, and Utah, according to a study by The Epoch Times:

Beyond requirements that homeschooling parents teach a few core subjects like math and English, they are free to pick the content.

Another factor favoring homeschooling is flexibility. Homeschooling mom Kim Quon of Missouri reported to The Epoch Times that after finishing the required classes — usually from 8:30 to noon on weekdays — her children “had a lot of time left in the day to explore their own interests.”

And Quon had plenty of help from online sources:

I’m not a college graduate. So you don’t have to be a brainy person to homeschool your kids because there are so many resources and people available to help.

For another homeschooling mom, Linda McCarthy of Buffalo, New York, the decision to homeschool was easy. In public schools,

There are kids who don’t know basic English structure, but [the schools] want to push other things on children, and it can be blatant. But it can be, and mostly is, very subtle, very, very subtle.

So we were ready to pull [our children out] and will never send them back to traditional school.

The continuing growth of the homeschooling movement is especially encouraging to those involved in the freedom fight. Abraham Lincoln said: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

Eric Metaxas frequently voices his support for the homeschooling movement as being fundamental in the freedom fight, as does David Davenport, a fellow at the Hoover Institution: “If you are concerned about the direction of America, it is time to do something about the study of civics, which is the real long-term solution.”

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