RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on September 18, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents. The agreement ends a lawsuit that argued that the district unlawfully decided to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBT content. Florida recently passed a law that allows parents to get pornographic and obscene books out of school libraries. The plaintiffs in this case argued that some of the books that were removed were not actually pornographic. A growing number of states are passing laws to control the kind of materials that children are exposed to in school libraries.
A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the U.S. David Lin, who is 68-years-old, was detained after he entered China in 2006, convicted of contract fraud and sentenced to life in prison. That charge is frequently used by China against leaders in the house church movement, which operates outside state-sponsored faith groups. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says there had been reports recently that Lin was in declining health.
Vice President Kamala Harris is touting her support for the LGBT agenda in her run for the White House. The Democratic nominee is reminding voters that in February of 2004, when she was San Francisco’s newly elected district attorney, she officiated at one of the first gay marriage ceremonies in the United States. All the same-sex marriages performed during that month in San Francisco were invalidated later that year, a move that Harris has described as “devastating”. LGBT activists continue to campaign hard for the vice president.
Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions is officially repealed. A repeal approved by state lawmakers and signed by the Democratic governor took effect over the weekend. The effort followed a decision in April by the state Supreme Court to clear the way for the state to enforce the long-dormant 1864 law, which criminalized all abortions except when a woman’s life was at risk. The repeal comes as voters in the battleground state consider a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion in the state constitution.
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