RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on December 1, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – A Missouri court has upheld a new state law that bans sex-change operations on children. The state’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey says the ruling makes Missouri the first state to successfully defend such a policy in trial court. Attorneys for the plaintiffs are vowing to appeal. The 2023 statute bans sex-change surgeries for anybody under the age of 18. It also prohibits the use of hormones and puberty blockers for minors who had not started those treatments as of August 2023. Similar laws in other states are also being challenged in court.
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining a growing list of major corporations that have done the same after an outcry by customers. The changes are sweeping and include everything from not renewing a five-year commitment for a so-called equity racial center set up in 2020, to pulling out of a prominent gay rights index. Other major firms that have abandoned the “woke capitalism” movement include Ford, Target, Lowe’s, Starbucks, John Deere and Harley-Davidson.
A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill members of the state’s Jewish community and bomb local synagogues. Fifty-nine-year-old John Reardon, has pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs by threat of force and several other charges. In January of this year, Reardon called Congregation Agudas Achim (ah-GOO-dahs ah-KIM) and left a voicemail making several threats to kill congregants and bomb the synagogue. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of up to 750,000 dollars.
A liberal panic is developing about divorce. Warnings have been popping up on social media urging women who might be considering divorce to “pull the trigger”, ever since President Trump won reelection. In fact, the twice-divorced president has never said anything about changing the country’s divorce laws, and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance has only lamented the fact that there are too many divorces. Despite the panic, there is no national coordinated effort underway to make changes in divorce law. And states determine their own divorce laws, so national leaders can’t change policy.
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