Troubling: U.S. Pastors Increasingly Accepting Homosexual Marriage

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Once news hit that the global United Methodist Church upheld its ban on same-sex marriage and gay clergy, a Methodist pastor in North Carolina promised to fight back against the ruling until it’s reversed.

“Let us not rest until all people can be welcome to worship God in any space that they choose,” the Rev. Jason Butler with Open Table Methodist Church in Raleigh said, WNCN-TV reported. “That is what we will fight for.” . . .

Butler told WNCN that when he heard about the ruling, he “was just broken. I felt almost sick inside because I knew that for so many of our LGBTQ friends this was yet another voice, another church saying that we close our doors.”

Depris Price noted to WNCN that he’s acquainted with adversity as an openly gay black man and was taught from childhood that it was a sin to be himself.

“It was the untouched subject,” Price told the station. “You did not talk about this, and even if you did, it was only during like Sunday school, and you just said it’s wrong to be homosexual. There was no reasoning, there was no explanation.” (Read more from “Troubling: U.S. Pastors Increasingly Accepting Homosexual Marriage” HERE)

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This Pro-Life Mom Got Tired of Fashion’s Support for the Abortion Industry. So She Started Her Own Brand

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People are working to spread the pro-life message through cultural media like music, movies, and poetry, but what about fashion? One homeschooling Philadelphia-area mom has that front covered.

Carla D’Addesi and her daughters have always had a passion for shopping. “It’s our cardio,” she joked to me about their retail habits. But when they realized that so many of their favorite clothing lines were kicking back proceeds to organizations that didn’t share their views, they decided to stop buying in and start their own fashion line.

“We felt very marginalized by the fashion industry,” Carla told me at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “There were a lot of brands that were anti-American or they were giving our dollars to organizations like Planned Parenthood that went against our core principles.”

The relationship between the fashion world and the pro-abortion movement isn’t a secret. In 2017, 43 fashion designers lined up to help out Planned Parenthood during New York Fashion Week.

Conservative corporate activism watchdog 2ndVote keeps a running list of companies that have either donated to Planned Parenthood or have given to third parties that do. That list includes several famous brands such as Converse, Dockers, Banana Republic, Ann Taylor, and Old Navy. And if you want to support America’s largest abortion provider more directly, there are several smaller brands that are more vocal about their pro-abortion stance.

Ultimately, the idea for the company started with a gradual “build-up,” Carla’s 18-year-old daughter Vittoria told me. “Over time we would joke about it, you know, ‘Mom, you’re gonna have to start sewing soon, because there’s no more stores.’”

“Then one day,” Vittoria continued, “like a good Italian family, we’re sitting at our dinner table over a bowl of pasta and we were talking, you know, ‘What can we do? What’s something different that nobody else has done yet, but that can support the movement and be good for everyone?’”

“My family sits around the dinner table and we do discuss religion and politics from the time the kids were little,” Carla explained, noting that she also homeschooled her three daughters. “We have always stood outside of the Planned Parenthoods and prayed. We have been at rallies. We do the March for Life. And we just saw that the Left so appeared to be reaching our kids in pop culture and we saw a huge gap.”

“So we said, ‘Let’s try and reach the other side for life by making life glamorous and starting a fashion line,’” Carla recalled. “So this is absolutely a brand on a mission for people on a mission.”

Carla said that recent controversies over late-term abortion laws and infanticide have only increased the market for her brand.

“And believe me, there’s never been a better time to launch a pro-life fashion line than today,” Carla explained. “Because forget about abortion; it’s now about infanticide; it’s now about botched abortions where there’s babies gasping for breath on the table and we are denying them the right to life.”

“We did the research,” Carla said. “There’s nine million teen, tweens, Millennial young women that identify as being pro-life.” And she and her daughters want “to empower them” and “to make them stronger and we’re using the medium of fashion to do that.”

Right now the COL 1972 site features pieces like hoodies, knit hats and sweatpants, and travel bags, most of which are emblazoned with the company’s logo. Over time, the goal is to build out more options for both men and women.

But where does the company’s creative spark come from? So far, COL 1972 has gotten some help from a designer in Los Angeles, but Carla says that she and the girls are going to roll out their own designs this spring with their “Life is Amazing” campaign when the weather starts warming up.

“So you’re going to be seeing beach bags, flip-flops, dresses that just have the simple message: ‘Life is Amazing,’” Carla says. “Because it is!” (For more from the author of “This Pro-Life Mom Got Tired of Fashion’s Support for the Abortion Industry. So She Started Her Own Brand” please click HERE)

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Waitress Posts a Photo of Customers Acting Weird — and It Ends up Saving Children From Abuse

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By The Blaze. A waitress is being hailed as a hero for her actions documenting the suspicious behavior she saw from a family that was visiting an Olive Garden in Kentucky. . .

She says that the man was acting very aggressively and force feeding one of the children.

Cooper was able to stage a photo with customers at a nearby table in order to capture the family in the background. She says they got suspicious and left soon afterward. . .

When she got home, she posted a description of what she saw and added the photos to her Facebook account. . .

After seeing the conditions at the home of Jessica Woodworth and Mark Lee Pierce, police removed the children and charged the parents with aggravated child abuse and neglect. (Read more from “Waitress Posts a Photo of Customers Acting Weird — and It Ends up Saving Children From Abuse” HERE)

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Police Charge Parents With Child Abuse After Waitress’ Facebook Post

By WPSD Local 6. During Cooper’s shift, she and her coworkers noticed something unusual about a family they just seated. “I first walked around to the baby. She looked at me with a face that said help,” Cooper said. . .

“I can’t even describe to you how bad she looked,” Cooper said pointing to her face, “and how and why nobody noticed it.” . . .

She shared the photo of the little girl and the partial plate number, and she asked people on Facebook to help track the parents down. “My phone would not just stop going off,” Cooper said. Her post was shared more than 14,000 times. A childhood classmate saw that post and started digging.

“I got everything so I could run him and find who he was. “said Aaron Caldwell, a Metropolis 911 dispatcher. “I found that and ended up contacting Paris Police Department, Tennessee.” . . .

He called both agencies, and 20 minutes later he got a call back from the Paris Police Department. They removed two children from the home and arrested Jessica Woodworth and Mark Lee Pierce on charges of aggravated child abuse and neglect. (Read more from “Police Charge Parents With Child Abuse After Waitress’ Facebook Post” HERE)

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Sisters Arrested After Admitting They ‘Euthanized’ Father

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Two sisters were arrested in Florida on Tuesday for allegedly admitting to law enforcement that they killed their father as part of a “premeditated” act four years ago because he refused to enter an assisted living facility.

Mary-Beth Tomaselli, 63, and Linda Roberts, 62, were taken into custody after they detailed to a male confidant whom they befriended in recent months what they had seemingly done, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters on Tuesday.

Roberts told the man — who recorded his conversations with her — that she and Tomaselli “euthanized” their father, Anthony Tomaselli, in March 2015, when he was 85 years old. The sheriff said that “Linda gave very specific details about how she and Mary-Beth killed their father.”

The women said “they had killed their father, and had, quote, ‘euthanized’ him because he had been ill” and refused to go to an assisted living facility, according to the sheriff. He added, “They knew he would die sometime in the next couple of months, so they decided to euthanize him.”

The sisters allegedly gave their father a concoction of alcohol and an “excessive” amount of sleeping pills “with the hope that it would kill him.” However, the sheriff said Tomaselli put too much alcohol in the drink, which diluted it. (Read more from “Sisters Arrested After Admitting They ‘Euthanized’ Father” HERE)

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Win: Lawsuit Dropped Against Christian Baker Her Refused Transgender Cake

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Colorado has announced they are dropping their litigation against Christian baker Jack Phillips for his refusing on religious grounds to make a transgender cake.

Soon after receiving a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court last year on whether he could refuse to make a same-sex wedding cake, Phillips again found himself in legal trouble for refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

In an announcement released Tuesday, the state office explained that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission will voluntarily drop its case against Phillips; in return, Phillips will end his federal lawsuit against the state. . .

Kristen Waggoner, the Alliance Defending Freedom attorney who argued on behalf of Phillips before the Supreme Court, said in a statement that she considered the mutual dropping of cases to be “great news for everyone.” . . .

Last June, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission that Colorado violated Phillips’ First Amendment rights when the state punished him for refusing to bake a custom cake for the wedding of Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012. (Read more from “Win: Lawsuit Dropped Against Christian Baker Her Refused Transgender Cake” HERE)

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LANDMARK DECISION: Court Rules Aborted Baby Is a Person With Rights

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In a landmark case, an Alabama court became the first court in the nation to recognize an aborted baby as a person with rights.

The Madison County probate court ruled that a father of a baby that was aborted by the father’s girlfriend has the right to sue the woman’s center that performed the procedure as well the employees of the center and the pharmaceutical company that made the medication used in the abortion.

On February 10, 2017, against his wishes, the girlfriend of Ryan Magers aborted the baby they had conceived. In early February 2019, Magers filed suit; the suit states that the baby (Baby Roe) was aborted at six weeks in 2017, despite the fact that Magers repeatedly begged his girlfriend to let the baby live. The girlfriend went to the Alabama Women’s Center, where she was given a pill that would abort the baby. . .

Magers recalled in February 2019, “It was just like my whole world fell apart,” saying he filed the suit because “I’m here for the men who actually want to have their baby. Even though there’s nothing I can do for the situation I was in, there is something I can do for the future situations for other people. … I believe every child from conception is a baby and deserves to live.” . . .

This week, the probate court ruled that the aborted baby was a person, and thus Magers could legally represent the baby’s estate. Helms stated, “We have already had a victory, and it was the first one of its kind, ever.” He added, “This is the first estate that I’m aware of that has ever been opened for an aborted baby.” (Read more from “LANDMARK DECISION: Court Rules Aborted Baby Is a Person With Rights” HERE)

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Massive Study Shows There Is No Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism

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A major new study out of Denmark demonstrates, yet again, that the measles, mumps, and rubella (or, MMR) vaccine, is not associated with an increased risk of developing autism, even “among kids who are at high risk because they have a sibling with the disorder.”

NBC News reports that the study followed an incredible 657,461 children born between 1999 and 2010, 95% of whom received the MMR vaccine through August of 2013. The researchers documented a host of characteristics alongside diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, including proven autism risk factors like the “age of the parents, diagnosis of autism in a sibling, preterm birth and low weight at birth,” according to CNN.

Of the children studied, 6,517 kids developed some form of autism, but, the study found, “the MMR vaccine did not increase the risk of autism in children who were not considered at risk for the disorder and did not trigger it in those who were.”

In fact, the research did uncover some interesting — but yet unstudied — conclusions and correlations pertaining to autism diagnoses. Children with autistic siblings were seven times more likely to receive their own autism diagnosis, boys were more likely to be diagnosed than girls, and — perhaps most shocking of all — “children who had no childhood vaccinations were 17 percent more likely to be diagnosed with autism than kids who did get recommended vaccinations.” . . .

“Parents should not skip the vaccine out of fear for autism,” the study’s lead author told media. “The dangers of not vaccinating includes a resurgence in measles which we are seeing signs of today in the form of outbreaks.” (Read more from “Massive Study Shows There Is No Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism” HERE)

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Couple Launches Safe Website for Children as an Alternative to YouTube

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A few years ago, an Iowa couple became concerned about the type of online content available to children and the negative effects it can have on mood, behavior, and learning. So, they decided to do something about it.

Joseph Sines, and his wife, Bethany, decided to utilize their skills and background to create a website for kids that would entertain, educate, calm, and most importantly, be 100 percent safe for young minds.

They recently soft-launched their subscription website dubbed Bottlesodes or, as they like to call it, B-TV. The site is loaded with short videos aimed at kids ages 3 to 11. . .

Joseph has worked in the film industry for about 12 years, and Bethany studied child development in college. They’ve been married 11 years and they have an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.

In an interview with TheBlaze, the couple said that, after having kids, they noticed that children — their own as well as those of their friends — would sometimes have meltdowns after watching TV or videos online. (Read more from “Couple Launches Safe Website for Children as an Alternative to YouTube” HERE)

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University Bans Chick-Fil-A

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Last month, a dean from Rider University in New Jersey announced her resignation over the school’s decision to ban Chick-fil-A from becoming an on-campus restaurant.

In November, the university removed Chick-Fil-A from a list of possible new restaurant franchises to bring to campus, claiming that the fast food chain is “perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community.”

Cynthia Newman, the dean of the College of Business announced her resignation — which will become effective on August, 31 — in a statement that reflected on the handling of the situation, Campus Reform reports.

“As some of you already know, I am a committed follower of Jesus Christ. As such I endeavor every day to do exactly what Chick-fil-A puts forwards as its overarching corporate value: to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to me and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with me,” Newman said in the announcement. “During my initial conversations, I expressed how disappointed I was, not that the decision has been made to not have Chick-fil-A on campus … but rather that the University leadership had made such a judgemental statement about Chick-fil-A’s values — values that reflect the essence of the Christian as well as other faiths.” . . .

“Unfortunately, that did not happen,” Newman said. “Instead a second email was issued without any type of an apology and I, along with other campus leaders, was given a set of talking points about the Chick-fil-A decision that we were to use to respond to those who were critical of the decision. I could not, in a good conscience as a committed Christian, adhere to those talking points.” (Read more from “University Bans Chick-Fil-A” HERE)

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Born at Just 24 Weeks, World’s ‘Tiniest Baby’ Boy Goes Home

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As the debate escalates in the U.S. over late-term abortion, the world’s “tiniest baby” boy ever recorded to have survived, who was born at just 24 weeks and weighing under 10 ounces, has just gone home healthy.

The boy, whose name has not been released, was born by Caesarean-section weighing just 9.45 ounces, which is lighter than the previous all-time recorded low for a baby boy set a decade ago.

The child spent several months at the Keio University Hospital in Tokyo after being born three months early in August. While his mother said she at times doubted that he would survive, the boy was finally released to go home on Feb. 20 — and made history in the process. . .

World Health News tweeted out a photo of the tiny baby in celebration of his full release from the hospital. “A baby boy weighing just 268 grams (9.45 oz) at birth was sent home after months in a Tokyo hospital, the smallest surviving male baby in the world, Keio University hospital said,” World Health News tweeted. . .

The baby’s weight breaks the previous record for a boy: 9.67 ounces, recorded in Germany in 2009. (Read more from “Born at Just 24 Weeks, World’s ‘Tiniest Baby’ Boy Goes Home” HERE)

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