Emily Hawley

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  Jun 30, 2021

  California bars state-funded travel to 5 more states over LGBT laws; 17 now banned

  California added Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to its list of states banned from state-funded, state-sponsored travel due to a wave recently passed legislation that California Democrats deems “discriminatory” toward LGBT individuals.

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  Jun 30, 2021

  Sen. Hawley urges USCIRF to add Canada to Watch List, says religious freedom is 'in peril'

  Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has urged the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to consider placing Canada on its Watch List due to its continued lockdown restrictions, arrests of Christian pastors and seizure of church property. 

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  Jun 30, 2021

  Pakistani court upholds life sentence of Christian man accused of blasphemous text messages

  A Pakistani Christian’s life sentence for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages was reportedly upheld by a court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, last week despite his attorney’s claim the prosecution’s evidence was manipulated and his client was framed for the crime. 

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  Jun 30, 2021

  Wis. gov. orders gender-neutral birth certificates for parents who don’t identify as mother, father

  Parents in Wisconsin will have the option of choosing “gender-neutral” terms for themselves instead of mother and father on their baby's birth certificate, Gov. Tony Evers and the state's Department of Health Services announced this week. 

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  Jun 29, 2021

  National Archives’ task force slams Rotunda for 'structural racism,’ mythologizing America's founding

  A racism task force for the National Archives asserts that the United States' Founding Fathers are inappropriately “laud[ed]” and seeks to “Reimagine the Rotunda” to address the “overarching system of racial bias” and curb the “structural racism” in the federally-funded institution responsible for preserving the U.S.’ primary documents. 

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  Jun 29, 2021

  Nurses protest Methodist hospital after over 150 lose jobs for refusing COVID-19 vaccine

  Over 100 protesters and counter-protesters gathered outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas on Saturday in opposition to the hospital system's COVID-19 vaccine mandate that led to over 150 lost jobs. 

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  Jun 25, 2021

  Kamala Harris hits back at criticism over El Paso ‘check the box’ trip, skipping ‘epicenter’ of border crisis

  Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday visited a Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, for the first time since she was tapped months ago by President Joe Biden to be the administration's “border czar” to solve the immigration crisis. 

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  Jun 25, 2021

  Florida orders universities to assess 'viewpoint diversity,' allows students to record professors

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday to allow college students to submit recordings of their professors in class as evidence to universities for political bias complaints in a wave of education bills seeking to expand "intellectual freedom" and "viewpoint diversity" on college campuses. 

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  Jun 24, 2021

  mRNA vaccine inventor concerned over adolescents receiving vaccine; YouTube removes video

  Dr. Robert Malone, who helped create some of the mRNA technology used in the COVID-19 vaccine, cautioned adolescents about being vaccinated as many public and private universities are mandating vaccines for the next school year and reports have emerged linking the vaccine to mild heart inflammation.

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  Jun 24, 2021

  Franklin Graham condemns Colorado mayor for banning Pledge of Allegiance, calling it ‘divisive'

  The mayor of a Colorado mountain town recently banned the board of trustees and residents from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at public board meetings, purportedly due to its “divisiveness,” which drew the ire of evangelical leader Franklin Graham.