October 17, 2026

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After City Hall Ignores Discrimination Against Homeschoolers, American Families Push Back In Droves

And this week, homeschool families packed a Fremont City Council meeting that normally draws only a handful of people. Pray Vote Stand Chapter leaders from surrounding counties were there, too. Seth told council members what he had taken home from Washington. He said, “We pray, we vote, we participate, we pay attention, and we hold those who serve accountable to the people they represent.” After roughly an hour of discussion, eight council members needed about one minute to cast their votes. The vote was unanimous — five months of indifference, one minute of voting for five months.

After City Hall Ignores Discrimination Against Homeschoolers, American Families Push Back In Droves

And this week, homeschool families packed a Fremont City Council meeting that normally draws only a handful of people. Pray Vote Stand Chapter leaders from surrounding counties were there, too. Seth told council members what he had taken home from Washington. He said, “We pray, we vote, we participate, we pay attention, and we hold those who serve accountable to the people they represent.” After roughly an hour of discussion, eight council members needed about one minute to cast their votes. The vote was unanimous — five months of indifference, one minute of voting for five months.

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After City Hall Ignores Discrimination Against Homeschoolers, American Families Push Back In Droves

And this week, homeschool families packed a Fremont City Council meeting that normally draws only a handful of people. Pray Vote Stand Chapter leaders from surrounding counties were there, too. Seth told council members what he had taken home from Washington. He said, “We pray, we vote, we participate, we pay attention, and we hold those who serve accountable to the people they represent.” After roughly an hour of discussion, eight council members needed about one minute to cast their votes. The vote was unanimous — five months of indifference, one minute of voting for five months.

A Display Of Moral Corruption: British Government Claims That Using Deceit To Obtain Abortion Pills Is ‘Not A Crime’

The fact that the government now claims that deception to obtain abortion pills is no longer an offence shows how morally corrupt our society has become. In no circumstances should deception to obtain medical treatment be acceptable. The mother is putting her own life at serious risk, let alone the life of her child, which may well end up costing the taxpayer and affecting all those close to her.

The Diminishing Of Love: A Biblical Prophecy On Full Display In Modern Culture

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:12). Our Lord’s words, of course, never fail, because He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. His prophecy telling of the diminishing of love within fallen humanity as the end of the age approaches frames all the evil and wickedness we have been witnessing for decades.

‘Kowtowing To Sharia Law’: Gavin Newsom Signs Law Codifying Muslim Observances Over Christian, Jewish Holidays

“The state of California doesn’t honor any other religion,” Rabbi Michael Barclay told CBN News. “But suddenly they’re kowtowing and catering to what is effectively Sharia law.” “Ramadan is not a month of peace,” the former Loyola Marymount instructor asserted. “In fact, al-Qaida calls it the month of conquests. And it’s a horrible statement about California and about our politicians who are pandering for whatever money or votes they think they can get from the Islamic community.” The new law’s accommodations for individual public school districts to determine their own closures for Muslim holidays is of specific concern for critics who say it’s a step toward enabling predominantly Islamic areas to operate autonomously under their own Islamic rules known as Sharia law.

Nebraska City Council Changes Homeschool Hiring Policy after Enormous Public Outcry

Following considerable public pressure exerted by a nationwide grassroots campaign in support of Nebraska volunteer firefighter Andrew Coates, whose job application for a full-time position was rejected by the city of Fremont due to him being homeschooled, the city council voted unanimously Tuesday to clarify its hiring regulations to treat homeschool credentials the same as any other educational credentials.

Midterm Election Stakes: Barbaric Abortion Up Until Birth Is The Democrats’ Agenda For The Entire Country

Pro-life advocates are sounding the alarm on congressional Democrats’ plan to nationalize abortion up to birth if the balance of power swings decidedly left in the midterm elections. And their claims aren’t simply campaign rhetoric, but proposed legislation that’s hiding in plain sight.“Massachusetts’ barbaric new Abortion Up Until Birth Act is the Democrats’ agenda for the entire country,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser says. “If they control the levers of power in Washington, D.C., they will pass a national law requiring every state to allow elective abortion on demand throughout the second and third trimesters. Brutal late-term abortions done by dismemberment and lethal injection into a baby’s heart will be greenlit across this nation and states will be banned from protecting unborn children at any point.”

House Speaker Johnson: The Midterms Are A Battle Between Two Completely Different Worldviews

“We’re at a crossroads,” Johnson said during a video interview with FRC President Tony Perkins. “It’s not just a contest right now between Republicans and Democrats. As everybody in that auditorium knows, this is a contrast between two completely different worldviews for America, who we are, and what we’re going to be. And that’s what’s on the ballot.” While serving as speaker of the House of Representatives for the past three years, the Louisiana congressman says he has tried ardently to remain true to his core Biblical convictions.

Department Of Education Defines ‘Sex’ In Title IX To Mean Male And Female

In April 2024, then-Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the addition of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to Title IX. This redefinition of “sex” led to horrible consequences, as McMahon explained: "The Biden Administration’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) pushed schools across the country to illegally allow males to intrude into women’s sports and intimate facilities, and it investigated school staff for using incorrect pronouns or failing to ask students to declare a preferred gender. The Trump Administration has rescinded these agreements."

Pennsylvania School District Rescinds Policy That Hid Social Transitions From Parents

“There is growing psychiatric evidence that affirming a child’s gender dysphoria at school by using incorrect pronouns and names sets a vulnerable child down a path with lifelong consequences,” said ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer. “Children across the country have suffered for too long because of the lies of gender ideology. Schools must cease participating in this dangerous experimentation on kids and respect the right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and healthcare of their children.”

Abortion Pills Have Turned Every Mailbox In America Into A Planned Parenthood Clinic

“The abortion drug is not safe,"  Hawley declared during the Family Research Council (FRC) Action’s Pray Vote Stand Summit last week. "It’s not safe for the babies it kills almost every single time, and it’s not safe for the mother, either, because in more than one in 10 cases, the mother who takes that pill is sent to an emergency room with a life-threatening condition. And the pharmaceutical companies who make that drug, they lie about it because they make money on abortions. The more abortions there are, the more money they make.”

‘Held To Account’: Trump DOJ Reaches Agreements With Six Major Hospital Systems To STOP Child Sex Changes

The Trump DOJ has now secured agreements with at least six major hospital systems now requiring them to stop providing child sex changes, as the Justice Department expands a nationwide investigation into these barbaric practices.

‘We Cannot Allow This To Go On’: Hawley Calls On Congress To Ban Abortion Pill

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on Congress to ban the use of the mail-order drug mifepristone that causes hundreds of thousands of chemical abortions of unborn children and sends one of every 10 women who take it to the hospital emergency room with serious, potentially fatal medical complications.

Debate Intensifies: Canada Examines Further Assisted Suicide Expansion

The euthanasia debate has intensified in Canada, which has one of the highest rates of medical assisted dying in the world, as its Parliament Members (MP) debate whether mental illness can be a sole criterion for euthanasia access.

Historic Victory: In Unprecedented Case, Aborted Baby Wins First-Ever Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Abortionist

Seibel said this historic victory in the battle for the sanctity of human life moves the pro-life cause forward significantly with the court’s recognition of personhood for an unborn child. “This case recognized the baby to have an estate, and receive compensation for wrongful death, as a ‘person’ under New Mexico law,” he said. Seibel added: “In order to establish personhood, we must establish that the baby has rights. The more they have rights, the less you can just kill them. The more rights we establish, the better our case for personhood becomes.”

Nebraska Volunteer Firefighter Denied Full-Time Job For Being Homeschooled

The United States Armed Forces allows homeschoolers to enlist, but the city of Fremont, Nebraska appears to think they are unfit to join their local fire department. Now, the governor’s office is investigating.

Dehumanizing Ideological Opponents: Roughly One-Third Of Democrats Would Feel ‘Positive’ If Trump Were Assassinated

In the wake of Trump’s ear being grazed by a would-be assassin’s rifle bullet during a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, online jokes from some of the president’s harshest critics were all but endorsements of the shooter’s actions. And the cheering by some on the left of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination at a Utah university last year seems to track with the latest polling.  Daniel Darling, director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and an assistant professor of faith and culture, told Decision that the polarization that exists stems largely from hope in Christ being replaced by hope in manmade political solutions.

Shockingly Unfair: Biological Males Have Taken 2,293 First-Place Medals From Female Athletes, Research Reveals

New research has revealed the stunning extent to which transgender-identifying males have taken over women’s sporting events, finding that almost 2,300 first-place medals have been taken by males. Women’s sports advocates say that federal legislation must be passed to once again restore a fair playing field for women and girls nationwide.

Sentenced To Prison For Homeschooling: The Battle To Raise Children According To Truth Rather Than Political Fashion Is Intensifying

The message being sent is deliberate and unmistakable. Parents may homeschool, perhaps, but only if they submit to the state’s preferred social, political, theological, and sexual doctrines. Refuse, and you risk fines, loss of custody, or prison. This is not neutral education policy—it is the weaponization of law to enforce ideological conformity and diminish the independent family. And if not stopped, it will be coming to America, too. In fact, powerful forces are already working to regulate and then abolish home education entirely.

Christians In California Win School District Legal Battle, Securing Parents’ Right To Opt-Out Children From Gender Ideology

“No child should be forced to speak a message that violates his religious convictions,” said Nate Kellum, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute. “We are grateful that we were able to reach this settlement on behalf of the families involved. This is a tremendous victory not only for our clients but for all parents in the Encinitas Union School District.”

IVF And The Commodification Of Children: Adult Desires Should Not Trump The Right To Life

This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children. We see it with abortion, where a woman’s supposed “right to choose” trumps the right to life of her unborn child. We see it with traditional IVF and other reproductive technologies (which are very hard to do in a pro-life way), where babies are routinely discarded because they don’t “make the grade,” they have a genetic abnormality, they are the “wrong” sex, or the family is simply done having children. And we see it with the creation of LGBTQ families, where children are created to be purposefully deprived of either their mother or their father.

Hyde Amendment Approaches 50th Anniversary Having Saved Almost 3 Million Babies

“An innocent, defenseless human life, in a caring and humane society, deserves better than to be flushed down a toilet or burned in an incinerator.” Such are the words of Henry Hyde, the former U.S. congressman from Illinois who tirelessly championed life and introduced the Hyde Amendment in 1976. Almost 50 years later, the legislative rider faces the opportunity to be renewed again.

Seattle City Council Votes Unanimously To Protect Polygamists And Infidelity

A lot of smart people live in Seattle, but their City Council did something really dumb this week. By unanimous vote, the Seattle City Council on Tuesday removed the legal reality of male and female in city statute relative to “sexual orientation” and gave legal recognition and protections to a whole host of very unhealthy sexual and gender identities. Some of them don’t even exist in reality. They even backtracked on the lie that sexual orientation rests on “just being born that way.”

Lone Holdout Juror Who Prevented Not Guilty Verdict In Lindsay Clancy Trial Speaks Out: ‘I Didn’t Have Any Doubts’

The juror blamed by his fellow panelists for blowing up Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is defending his decision, insisting he never wavered in his belief that the Massachusetts mother was criminally responsible for killing her three children.

A Declaration For The Defenseless: Life Is The Condition Of Every Other Right

“The Declaration of Independence gives us three examples of ‘unalienable’ rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life is the first of those rights because it is the condition of the others. It is thus the most foundational of all rights.” Those words come from the opening paragraph of a “Declaration for Life: A Statement from Christian Leaders,” spearheaded by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (R). I joined Senator Hawley in releasing the declaration this week after a prayer breakfast with Missouri pastors who traveled to Washington for the occasion.

Time To Reverse Course: How America Went From Boldly Defending Creation To Being Inundated With Evolutionary Belief

In 1925, the state of Tennessee was openly in favor of creation science. The legislature passed the Butler Act, which included the following language: "It shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the state, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." I have a hard time believing that any state in the US ever was so bold in its stance. But Tennessee was. Evolutionists struck back quickly.

New Study Exposes The Lie That Bans On Transgender Treatments Trigger Suicide Spikes

Statewide laws restricting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries for minors lead to more suicides among young adults, LGBTQ activists argue. But the recent study, conducted by “Do No Harm” researchers Ian Kingsbury and Jay Greene, claims they have found no evidence of a surge in suicide rates among teens following state bans on such procedures.

‘Go Woke-Go Broke’: Experts Call Nike To Abandon The Destructive Lie Of Gender Ideology

“Will you continue to participate in the destructive lie of gender ideology that permanently harms children?” Lorey asked. “Will you kowtow to a radical group whose primary goal will result in the elimination of women’s sports? Will you keep on supporting policies that sideline girls like me in our own sports? Or will you take the truly courageous step to follow through on your promises to women and girls? The choice is yours.”

What’s in the Water? EPA Study Puts Abortion Pills on the Watch List

When the tap runs, what else comes with it? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a new scientific study meant to sharpen the nation’s grasp of “potential pollutants in drinking water.” The agency is not only hunting the usual suspects. Traces of chemical abortion drugs have now been added to the watch list.

The Dangers Of The Modern Therapeutic Culture: When Moral Responsibility Is Erased, Justice Is the Casualty

Whatever ultimately happens in the Clancy case, America should resist the temptation to turn murder into merely another chapter in the therapeutic narrative. We must defend the principle that children are precious, that murder is evil, that justice matters, and that being human means being capable of moral responsibility.

Oregon Mother Is Free To Adopt After Winning Legal Battle Over Gender-Ideology Mandate

“Every child deserves a loving home, and children suffer when the government excludes people of faith from foster care because of the state’s own ideological crusade,” said ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse. “Oregon officials turned Jessica away just because of her common-sense belief that parents should help children become comfortable with who they are instead of pushing them down a path of confusion and medicalization. We believe this settlement is a win-win that protects constitutional rights and puts children’s interests first.”

Culture Of Death: Organization Flies Banner Above The Kentucky State Fair Advertising The Mailing Of Illegal Abortion Drugs

One example of this culture of death occurred recently at the Kentucky State Fair, which took place in Louisville, Kentucky—about an hour and a half from us at AiG. During the fair, an abortion nonprofit called Mayday Health rented a plane to fly a banner overhead that said, “Abortion Pills by Mail,” and included a URL for more information. Yes, they are promoting what the KY Attorney General calls “illegal drugs” because they want women to be able to murder their own children here in Kentucky. What a wicked organization. They do all they can to go out of their way to help people murder as many children in the womb as possible. So, so evil.

Usurping Family Authority And Protection: Parents Lead The Charge In SCOTUS Case Challenging Washington’s ‘Sanctuary’ Law For Minors

Ryan Gardner, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute, countered that thinking. “Parents should not have to wait until their children are irreparably harmed to seek protection from courts,” he asserted. “No family should face the terror of having their children run away to the state and then have those children hidden from them.”

Has Abortion Desensitized People To The Taking Of Children’s Lives?

The jury foreperson came across as an activist rather than someone sworn to render an impartial verdict. She told the media how excited she became when she thought they were about to return a verdict of not guilty. She said that if there is a retrial, she will be there in support of Clancy. The majority of jurors became incensed with the one holdout. Even if he didn’t express himself particularly well, he had a legal and moral obligation not to surrender an honestly held conviction merely to reach unanimity. That’s how the jury system works. Another juror said the holdout “had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”

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