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Amazon, Nike, Others Threaten Tennessee Over Law Protecting Faith-Based Foster Care, Adoption Agencies

A group of companies with operations in Tennessee—including major names like Nike and Amazon—are pressuring the state on behalf of gay activists because of a new law that protects the rights of faith-based adoption and foster agencies.

A total of 142 Tennessee businesses lent their names to a letter denouncing the newly-enacted HB 836, a law that ensures licensed foster care and adoption agencies cannot be forced to make child placements that “violate the agency’s written religious or moral convictions or policies.”

The letter, organized by the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign and Freedom for All Americans, claims that by allowing child-placing agencies the right to only place children in homes with both a mother and a father, they are discriminating against LGBTQ couples.

“Policies that signal that the state is not welcoming to everyone put our collective economic success at risk,” the letter states. “… We ask that lawmakers not pursue any further legislation that would target or exclude LGBTQ people, which would do harm to Tennesseans and create unnecessary hurdles to economic competitiveness.”

Gov. Bill Lee, who signed HB 836 into law last month, doesn’t agree with the letter’s assessment.

“I think equality is important and protection of rights is important and the rights of religious liberty are important,” he said in a recent interview. “And that bill was centered around protection of religious liberty, and that’s why I signed it.”

Other major companies to sign the letter include Dell, Lyft, Marriott and American Airlines. Collectively, the companies refer to themselves as the Tennessee Businesses Against Discrimination.

FedEx, the largest company headquartered in Tennessee, was noticeably absent from the list of businesses. According to CNBC, GLAAD asked the company to sign the letter, but FedEx respectfully declined, communicating that it prefers to demonstrate corporate values through civic and charitable efforts rather than advocacy efforts.

But that didn’t exclude FedEx from GLAAD’s wrath.

“FedEx has an obligation to its LGBTQ employees in Tennessee and its customers nationwide to use its public voice and brand power to help stop these dangerous anti-LGBTQ bills,” GLADD told CNBC. “With more than three dozen large corporations speaking out against the slate of legislation, FedEx’s refusal to address is notable and out of step with other companies doing business in Tennessee.”

HB 836 is just one of six bills introduced in the Tennessee legislature last year promoting religious liberty and conscience rights. In response, several left-leaning companies have gone as far as telling lawmakers that they would consider pulling their business from the state if it continues to put religious liberty above the LGBTQ agenda.

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If The Church Will Not Teach The Truth About Israel, Someone Else Will Gladly Teach The Next Generation A Lie

There is a spiritual battle raging today over one nation unlike any other in history. That nation is Israel. It seems everyone has an opinion about Israel—politicians, journalists, influencers, podcasters, celebrities, and social media personalities. Sadly, one of the few places where many Christians are not hearing about Israel is from the pulpit. That silence has come at a tremendous cost. The issue of Israel has become a dividing line in the Church. Entire denominations, Bible colleges, seminaries, pastors, and Christian influencers are abandoning the biblical view of Israel and replacing it with theological systems that deny Israel’s future.

As Students Head Off To University, How Many Will Be Taken Captive By The False Prophets Of Democratic Socialism?

This week, millions of young Americans are heading off for their first semester in college. How many do you think will be taught that socialism - despite its 100% record of failure - is both practically and morally superior to capitalism? I’d guess maybe around 90% - and this despite the fact that America’s institutions of higher learning would be nonexistent without the economic firepower unleashed by our free market economy.

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A group of companies with operations in Tennessee—including major names like Nike and Amazon—are pressuring the state on behalf of gay activists because of a new law that protects the rights of faith-based adoption and foster agencies.

A total of 142 Tennessee businesses lent their names to a letter denouncing the newly-enacted HB 836, a law that ensures licensed foster care and adoption agencies cannot be forced to make child placements that “violate the agency’s written religious or moral convictions or policies.”

The letter, organized by the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign and Freedom for All Americans, claims that by allowing child-placing agencies the right to only place children in homes with both a mother and a father, they are discriminating against LGBTQ couples.

“Policies that signal that the state is not welcoming to everyone put our collective economic success at risk,” the letter states. “… We ask that lawmakers not pursue any further legislation that would target or exclude LGBTQ people, which would do harm to Tennesseans and create unnecessary hurdles to economic competitiveness.”

Gov. Bill Lee, who signed HB 836 into law last month, doesn’t agree with the letter’s assessment.

“I think equality is important and protection of rights is important and the rights of religious liberty are important,” he said in a recent interview. “And that bill was centered around protection of religious liberty, and that’s why I signed it.”

Other major companies to sign the letter include Dell, Lyft, Marriott and American Airlines. Collectively, the companies refer to themselves as the Tennessee Businesses Against Discrimination.

FedEx, the largest company headquartered in Tennessee, was noticeably absent from the list of businesses. According to CNBC, GLAAD asked the company to sign the letter, but FedEx respectfully declined, communicating that it prefers to demonstrate corporate values through civic and charitable efforts rather than advocacy efforts.

But that didn’t exclude FedEx from GLAAD’s wrath.

“FedEx has an obligation to its LGBTQ employees in Tennessee and its customers nationwide to use its public voice and brand power to help stop these dangerous anti-LGBTQ bills,” GLADD told CNBC. “With more than three dozen large corporations speaking out against the slate of legislation, FedEx’s refusal to address is notable and out of step with other companies doing business in Tennessee.”

HB 836 is just one of six bills introduced in the Tennessee legislature last year promoting religious liberty and conscience rights. In response, several left-leaning companies have gone as far as telling lawmakers that they would consider pulling their business from the state if it continues to put religious liberty above the LGBTQ agenda.

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If The Church Will Not Teach The Truth About Israel, Someone Else Will Gladly Teach The Next Generation A Lie

There is a spiritual battle raging today over one nation unlike any other in history. That nation is Israel. It seems everyone has an opinion about Israel—politicians, journalists, influencers, podcasters, celebrities, and social media personalities. Sadly, one of the few places where many Christians are not hearing about Israel is from the pulpit. That silence has come at a tremendous cost. The issue of Israel has become a dividing line in the Church. Entire denominations, Bible colleges, seminaries, pastors, and Christian influencers are abandoning the biblical view of Israel and replacing it with theological systems that deny Israel’s future.

As Students Head Off To University, How Many Will Be Taken Captive By The False Prophets Of Democratic Socialism?

This week, millions of young Americans are heading off for their first semester in college. How many do you think will be taught that socialism - despite its 100% record of failure - is both practically and morally superior to capitalism? I’d guess maybe around 90% - and this despite the fact that America’s institutions of higher learning would be nonexistent without the economic firepower unleashed by our free market economy.

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A Society That Does Not Value Human Life Is On A Slippery Slope Toward Destruction

The Founding Fathers dreamed of a place where all people could live in true freedom. This could be possible only in a country built upon Biblical values. Billy Graham once said, “America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.”

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