ACLU Gets Prayer Banned From a County’s Meetings – Here’s What the Supreme Court Just Said

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The Supreme Court announced their decision Thursday on whether to hear an appeal to a ban on public prayer before official meetings in the county of Rowan in North Carolina.

In one of the last decisions by the court before it adjourned for the summer, they refused to hear an appeal to a lower court ruling upholding the ban on prayer before meetings of the Rowan Country Board of Commissioners.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) celebrated the decision from their social media account as a victory against what they considered an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

“The Supreme Court denied a request to hear Lund v. Rowan County, our challenge to a troubling government prayer practice that pressured the public to join in prayers that overwhelmingly advanced beliefs specific to one faith,” they tweeted. . .

The ACLU represented three Rowan County residents and filed the suit against the county over the public prayer. The county superintendents would pray on a rotating basis, or observe a moment of silence, but the ACLU argued that this was unconstitutional because the prayers overwhelmingly represented the Christian faith. (Read more from “ACLU Gets Prayer Banned From a County’s Meetings – Here’s What the Supreme Court Just Said” HERE)

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Obama-Loving Netflix Under Investigation for Distributing Child Porn

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By PJ Media. An Argentinian movie that Netflix offers called Desire is upsetting subscribers because of what looks like illegal content. Viewers on Facebook have shared a clip of the movie and are calling it outright child porn. In the opening scene, two little girls who look to be about seven and nine are playing “horse” on pillows. The older girl begins to obviously masturbate as the younger child watches. The camera even takes this scene into a closeup of the child’s face in slow motion, moving up and down and panting like a porn star. The scene is graphic and includes an orgasm. The film is directed by Diego Kaplan.

PJ Media reported it to the FBI and the Department of Justice, along with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which has launched an investigation. . .

The clip is making its way around Facebook, but anyone sharing it should be aware that it is a crime to circulate child porn, even if you are trying to get help for the child. Any further distribution revictimizes the child, and because of that, PJM will not share the video or photos from the movie that show the victims’ faces. The only thing the public can do is report it to the authorities.

According to the Department of Justice, child porn is clearly defined. . .

Notably, the legal definition of sexually explicit conduct does not require that an image depict a child engaging in sexual activity. A picture of a naked child may constitute illegal child pornography if it is sufficiently sexually suggestive. Additionally, the age of consent for sexual activity in a given state is irrelevant; any depiction of a minor under 18 years of age engaging in sexually explicit conduct is illegal.

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Also, read about Netflix’s Shocking $50,000,000 Obama Deal HERE.

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Netflix Faces an Investigation Over ‘Child Pornography’ Scenes in an Argentinian Movie

By The Daily Mail. Netflix is facing an investigation over claims that a film on its U.S. platform shows child pornography, it has emerged.

The Argentinian movie Desearas, meaning Desire, is said to show young girls, aged around seven and nine, in a suggestive scene involving pillows. . .

The 2017 film was directed by Diego Kaplan, according to IMDB, where it has earned an average four stars out of ten from user reviews.

Earlier this year the film Show Dogs faced a backlash over claims that some of the scenes resembled sexual abuse.

The National Centre on Sexual Exploitation in the US slammed the film, saying it ‘sends a troubling message that grooms children for sexual abuse’. (Read more from “Netflix Faces an Investigation Over ‘Child Pornography’ Scenes in an Argentinian Movie” HERE)

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Clinton Campaigner, Head of Prominent Anti-Rape Charity, Arrested for Trying to Arrange Rape of Two Year Olds

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By The Daily Mail. The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet with children as young as two for sex.

Joel Davis, 22, is accused of trying to set up sexual encounters between himself and young children, as well as soliciting an undercover FBI agent to send sexually explicit videos of minors. . .

Davis is the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict – an organization devoted to ending sexual violence.

Davis allegedly told the agents that he was sexually interested in children of all ages. He is accused of sending the agents sexually explicit photographs of infants and toddlers, including some of the children engaged in sex acts with adults.

The 22-year-old allegedly arranged to meet the nine-year-old daughter of one of the undercover agents and with the purported two-year-old daughter of the officer’s girlfriend. (Read more from “Clinton Campaigner, Head of Prominent Anti-Rape Charity, Arrested for Trying to Arrange Rape of Two Year Olds” HERE)

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FBI: Clinton Campaign Official Arrested on Child Rape Charges

By Your News Wire. One of Hillary Clinton’s campaign officials was arrested Tuesday on child sex abuse charges, the FBI has confirmed.

Joel Davis was caught in possession of explicit child sex images and had attempted to get access to children as young as 2 years old for sex. . .

Prosecutors say Davis repeatedly asked the undercover agent to take naked and sexually explicit pictures and videos of the children and to send them to him.

Following his arrest, Davis allegedly admitted to officers that he had abused a 13-year-old boy in the past and that he kept child porn images on his phone.

‘Having started an organization that pushed for the end of sexual violence, Davis displayed the highest degree of hypocrisy by his alleged attempts to sexually exploit multiple minors,’ FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said. (Read more from “FBI: Clinton Campaign Official Arrested on Child Rape Charges” HERE)

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Households Earning $117,000 a Year Now Considered ‘Low Income’ in This City

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According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, $117,000 in annual income for a family of four is considered “low income” in San Francisco. . .

In the Department’s most recent annual assessment of income limits for determining the need for assistance like public housing and Section 8 vouchers, the low income limit for three Bay Area counties is now at $117,400 for a four-person household.

Low income for a one-person household is at $82,200 in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties in California, with the median home price sitting at $935,000. . .

Cole says that he believes the continued rise in housing prices shows that lower-income people have already been priced out of the market. As experts blame the housing shortage on the area’s booming tech industries, there’s no sign of a slow-down in rates for rent or real estate purchases.

And current residents are resistant to any initiatives that could increase traffic congestion or take away from green space, but Cole says there will need to be some sort of compromise. He added: “You’re going to have to trade off higher-cost housing for it in this area. And you’re gonna have to put up with people sleeping on the sidewalk.” (Read more from “Households Earning $117,000 a Year Now Considered ‘Low Income’ in This City” HERE)

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Sarah Sanders Finds Herself Another Unlikely Defender After Restaurant Incident

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By Townhall. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has found herself another unlikely defender after getting booted from a Virginia restaurant simply for working for the Trump administration: Former President Bill Clinton.

On Tuesday, Clinton stopped by “The Daily Show” to promote his new book, “The President Is Missing,” which he co-authored with famed thriller novelist, James Patterson. However, it didn’t take long for host Trevor Noah to shift the conversation to today’s debate about civility and whether or not Sanders deserved to be kicked out of a restaurant because of her political affiliations.

“That’s a decision for the restaurant owner to make,” Clinton started out.

“But,” he continued, “what I’d like to point out is, would it be better if that didn’t happen? I think it would.” . . .

“I read the article about the lady who owned the restaurant,” he told Noah, “and I wound up with a lot of respect for the way for the way she debated it. But I also had a lot of respect for the way Sarah Huckabee Sanders handled it. I mean, she was very dignified, she didn’t chew them out, she didn’t pitch a fight, she didn’t call them ‘an immigrant-loving thug’ or whatever. She just got up and left—and offered to pay.” (Read more from “Sarah Sanders Finds Herself Another Unlikely Defender After Restaurant Incident” HERE)

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‘Sarah Sanders Welcome Any Time,’ NY Restaurant’s Sign Says

By Fox News. A restaurant in New York received the praise of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday after posting a sign outside that said Sarah Sanders was “welcome any time.”

The father of the White House press secretary, who was booted from a Virginia-based restaurant on Friday, shared a photo on Twitter of an orange sign posted outside Kipps Restaurant.

“OPEN! BREAKFAST SARAH SANDERS WELCOME ANY TIME,” the message said.

The former Arkansas governor mused that the South Wales, N.Y. eatery, “looks like my kind of place!”

John Kipp, the owner of the restaurant, told Fox News on Wednesday that he supports Sanders and didn’t agree with what happened to her, saying he felt it was “a nasty thing to do.” (Read more from “‘Sarah Sanders Welcome Any Time,’ NY Restaurant’s Sign Says” HERE)

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New Development in Red Hen Story — Huckabee Says Owner Tailed Sarah’s Family After She Left

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That intolerance was on gross display over the weekend when it was revealed that the liberal owner of a small restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, had kicked out White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her dinner party rather than tolerantly serve a member of the Trump administration with whom they disagree politically.

The incident first came to light when an employee of the Red Hen restaurant bragged on social media about how his owner had kicked out Sanders, and Sanders later responded with a tweet that provided her side of the account.

The Washington Post interviewed the restaurant owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, and reported that everything had been handled peacefully, politely and without much a scene being caused.

But in a radio interview Monday with talk show host Laura Ingraham, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — father of the press secretary — revealed another part of the story that had conveniently been left out of the account by WaPo and the restaurateur, according to Mediaite.

The initial confrontation in the Red Hen may have been handled smoothly and with politeness, but it apparently didn’t end there, as the owner of the Red Hen is alleged to have followed Sanders’ in-laws who had been with her at the Red Hen to another restaurant and continued to harass them there. (Read more from “New Development in Red Hen Story — Huckabee Says Owner Tailed Sarah’s Family After She Left” HERE)

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Seriously? U.S. Just Made the Most Ridiculous List

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The United States has cracked into the top 10 of an unfortunate list. We are now the 10th most dangerous country for women, according to “experts” from the Thompson Reuters Foundation.

The United States has been ranked for the first time among the ten nations deemed to be the most dangerous for women by experts in the field. A survey by the Thompson Reuters Foundation of about 550 experts in women’s issues around the globe labelled the U.S. the 10th most dangerous nation in terms of the risk of sexual violence, harassment and being coerced into sex.

Reuters said the U.S. placement on the dubious list was down largely to the #MeToo and Time’s Up campaigns increasing awareness of sexual violence and intimidation of women in the U.S. in the wake of the criminal allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. (CBS News)

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Hypocrite: Anti-Gun David Hogg Caught Taking Stroll With Apparent Armed Guards Feet Away

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By Conservative Tribune. Self-defense for me, but not for thee: That seems to be the new message of anti-Second Amendment advocate David Hogg, at least if claims by people who spotted him in New York City recently are correct.

Earlier this week, the spotlight-seeking Parkland student-turned activist was photographed in the Big Apple apparently flanked by bodyguards with military haircuts and Secret Service-style suits. . .

As The American Mirror pointed out, Hogg himself jumped into the Twitter discussion of his apparent armed entourage and didn’t refute the claim that he was roaming the streets with armed bodyguards. . .

Other users pointed out that the hypocrisy is especially deep since it’s in New York City, a place with some of the most strict gun control laws in the nation and where concealed carry permits are nearly impossible to obtain. . .

Hogg’s version of supporting gun ownership: “They’re pathetic f***ers that want to keep killing our children,” he declared about millions of law-abiding members of the National Rifle Association. (Read more from “Hypocrite: Anti-Gun David Hogg Caught Taking Stroll With Apparent Armed Guards Feet Away” HERE)

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Columbus and Cincinnati Sued Over Gun Control Laws

By WOSU. Ohio pro-gun groups filed a lawsuit Thursday against Columbus and Cincinnati, hoping to overturn recently passed gun control measures.

In May, Cincinnati City Council became the first Ohio city to ban bump stocks. Columbus City Council followed by unanimously approving a slate of 11 gun ordinances.

Among the ordinances are a ban on accessories like bump stocks, restrictions on the sale of imitation firearms, and a prohibition of gun sales in residential areas.

The Buckeye Firearms Association and Ohioans For Concealed Carry, which filed companion suits against both cities, argue it’s illegal for them to pass any such restrictions. A 2006 state law blocks municipalities from passing gun control measures more restrictive than Ohio’s regulations. (Read more from “Columbus and Cincinnati Sued Over Gun Control Laws” HERE)

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U.S. Schools: There Is No God but Allah

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By WND. A fight has erupted over the mandatory Islamic indoctrination imposed on students by a public school, including reciting the Islamic oath of allegiance called the shahada, which states, “There is no god but Allah.”

The Thomas More Law Center is representing Richard Penkoski in his dispute with Mountain Ridge Middle School in West Virginia. . .

Among the points of contention, on May 14, his seventh-grade daughter “brought home a packet of lessons and assignments which included the following: Write the shahada, the Islamic conversion creed, ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” in Arabic as part of ‘calligraphy’ practice.” . . .

Penkoski, who hosts an online Christian ministry called Warriors for Christ, contacted the school when his daughter brought home the Islamic teachings, and he asked TMLC to look into the legal aspects.

He charged that it pushed far beyond what ordinarily would be expected in a class about world religions, because of the disparity with teachings about other religions. (Read more from “U.S. School: There Is No God but Allah” HERE)

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NJ School District Under Fire for Allegedly Indoctrinating Children With Islam

By CBN News. A federal court is moving ahead with a lawsuit against a New Jersey School District accused of indoctrinating children with Islamic teachings.

District Court Judge Kevin McNulty denied a motion by the Chatham, New Jersey School District to dismiss a claim brought by Libby Hilsenrath. Hilsenrath says her son was forced to watch videos in his middle school World Cultures and Geography class that were meant to convert the students to Islam.

Kate Oliveri from the Thomas Moore Law Center applauded the judge’s decision to move forward with the case.

“This ruling comes as no surprise. The motion to dismiss was a further attempt by the school district to bully and silence Mrs. Hilsenrath. The school district ignored the legal standard and ignored the facts, attempting instead to fool the judge with a poor attempt at sophistry,” she said.

Hilsenrath says her son and his classmates were shown videos that went beyond informing the students about Islam, but actually called for conversions to the faith. (Read more from “NJ School District Under Fire for Allegedly Indoctrinating Children With Islam” HERE)

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Supreme Court Tosses Ruling Against Christian Florist Who Refused to Do Arrangements for Gay Wedding

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The Supreme Court vacated a 2017 Washington state court ruling Monday that a Christian florist violated an anti-discrimination measure when she declined to make flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding.

In an unsigned order, the high court sent the case back to the Washington State Supreme Court asking them to revisit their ruling in light of the court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in which they ruled 7-2 in favor of a Christian baker who declined to make a custom cake for a same-sex wedding. . .

The Supreme Court has handed the case back to the Washington Supreme Court “for further consideration in light” of the ruling in favor of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, however, that ruling was very narrow in scope.

It focused primarily on the hostility of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission towards Phillips’s religious beliefs in violation of his free speech rights. It did not address generally whether businesses can decline services to same-sex weddings because of religious beliefs. . .

“The U.S. Supreme Court has rightfully asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider Barronelle’s case in light of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision,” she explained. “In that ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court denounced government hostility toward the religious beliefs about marriage held by creative professionals like Jack and Barronelle. The state of Washington, acting through its attorney general, has shown similar hostility here.” (Read more from “Supreme Court Tosses Ruling Against Christian Florist Who Refused to Do Arrangements for Gay Wedding” HERE)

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