Florida Sheriff Will Continue to Preach in Uniform Amidst Complaint

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Despite a letter sent to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd in protest to his preaching in uniform, Judd will speak at another church on Sunday, reports The Tampa Tribune.

The letter, sent by the Freedom From Religion Foundation on June 15, criticized Judd’s use of his sheriff position to promote his religion.

The FFRF points out an April 19 sermon at Lakeland’s First Baptist Church at the Mall, where a uniformed Judd advocated faith-based jailing and said that law-breaking individuals can best be reformed through Jesus.

In his sermon, Judd also told the Christian audience that they “are the majority.”

“In your personal capacity you can freely exercise your religion as you see fit,” reads part of the letter to Judd. “In your official capacity as an officer of the government, you are bound by the Establishment Clause and cannot abuse that office to promote your personal religious choices.” (Read more from “Florida Sheriff Will Continue to Preach in Uniform Amidst Complaint” HERE)

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Harvard Will Field First Openly Transsexual Swimmer

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A top recruit for the Harvard University women’s swim team has swapped her gender and decided to swim for the men’s team instead.

As reported by Swimming World, Schuyler Bailar was a top female swimmer in the country in high school, helping to set a high school record in the girls’ 400-meter medley relay. But after graduating in 2014, she took a gap year, during which she came out as transgender and underwent surgery to transition to living as a man. The switch reportedly means Bailar will be the first openly transgender swimmer to compete at the collegiate level.

While the transition took place back in 2014, it was only in the spring that Bailar fully committed to joining the men’s team instead of the women’s one. Since going public with her new identity in May, Bailar has taken to Instagram to chronicle her journey through a series of pictures and encourage other young people coping with gender identity issues:

Bailar’s ability to contribute to the men’s team as a competitor will be substantially curtailed. As a woman, she was a record-breaker, but men are substantially faster swimmers, and even with hormone therapy Bailar is unlikely to be as elite as she once was . . .

“I want Schuyler on my team for the same reasons I want all of my athletes,” Harvard men’s coach Kevin Tyrrell told Swimming World. “I believe he wants to push himself academically and athletically. When all of our swimmers and divers have this mindset everyone improves daily in every aspect of their lives. This process will contribute to them being outstanding members of society.” (Read more from “Harvard Will Field First Openly Transsexual Swimmer” HERE)

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School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints for ‘Tracking Purposes’

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A Pennsylvania school district is scanning students’ thumbprints, tracking all of their lunch purchases, and turning the data over to the federal government.

The Hazleton Area School District recently announced it would be providing free meals to all students, regardless of need.

The move comes after the federal government began incentivizing school districts to provide more meals to more students.

As The Citizens’ Voice reports:

While it would seem that providing all children with lunch would cost districts more, the pilot federal initiative turns that assumption on its ear. The initiative encourages school districts to move toward full participation by providing districts with reimbursements that will in fact absorb the cost of providing lunch to students of all income levels, whether they walk to school — or if a chauffeur drives them.

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Hollywood Portrays American Dads as Bumbling Morons Not ‘Patriotic’ or ‘Heroic’

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With Father’s Day around the corner, don’t look to television for an accurate portrayal of the typical American father. TV thinks dads are dumb.

An in-depth study of recent programming concludes that working-class fathers featured in American sitcoms are routinely portrayed as aimless morons.

“This follows the kind of pattern seen, wherein TV working-class fathers are typified as ‘kind of bumbling’ and ‘incapable,’ compared to middle-class fathers,” Jessica Troilo, author of the study, and assistant professor of child development and family studies at West Virginia University told the Washington Times.

The study, titled “Stay Tuned: Portrayals of Fatherhood to Come,” found significant differences between what it calls, middle- and working-class dads. It studied 13 fathers in 12 sitcoms and their 699 interactions with minor children.

The study’s abstract concludes that father-child interactions do not differ based on race or ethnicity, but they do depend on a family’s economic class, marital status, and the TV network airing the show. (Read more from “Study Shows TY Portrays American Dads as Bumbling Morons Not ‘Patriotic’ or ‘Heroic'” HERE)

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Chris Pratt: Equality Means Objectifying Men AND Women

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Pratt used to weigh almost 300 pounds, but he lost 60 pounds in six months after he quit drinking beer and started working out with a trainer six days a week to prepare for his role in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

He credits the weight loss with the shift in his career, and said that even though he’s objectified now, he’s OK with it.

“I think it’s appalling that for a long time only women were objectified,” Pratt said in an interview. “But I think if we really want to advocate for equality, it’s important to even things out.”

“Not objectify women less, but objectify men just as often as we objectify women.” (Read more from “Chris Pratt: Equality Means Objectifying Men AND Women” HERE)

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Ex-Boy Scout Admits to Killing Former Troop Leader Who He Says Raped Him [+video]

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A former Boy Scout pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing his troop leader, who he claimed had raped him over many years.

In a tense and emotional courtroom in Newton, New Jersey, Clark Fredericks admitted to killing former Boy Scout leader and Sussex sheriff’s officer Dennis Pegg three years ago.

“From the time I was 8 years old until I was 12, I was sexually assaulted and raped by Dennis Pegg,” said Fredericks.

He said he never told anyone about the rapes even as, he claimed, Pegg also raped his best friend Jeff. Jeff committed suicide in 1983, Fredericks said . . .

Fredericks said he got drunk, snorted cocaine, and with friend Bob Reynolds — who police arrested as an accomplice — went to Pegg’s Stillwater home with a hunting knife Pegg had given him back in scouting. (Read more from “Ex-Boy Scout Admits to Killing Former Troop Leader Who He Says Raped Him” HERE)

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Oregon School District Spends Big on Controversial ‘White Privilege’ Teacher Training

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Go ahead and call Dan Chriestenson out of step with the times.

The two-term school board member from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow district yearns for the hopeful goal of the 1960s civil rights movement – to eliminate race as a factor in American society.

He’s sickened to see just the opposite happening today, due to the bizarre theories of a group of radicals who use stubborn racial problems in K-12 education to promote their leftist political agenda and make a lot of money . . .

Every year the Gresham-Barlow school district, like many others across the state, sends teachers and administrators to a week-long “Coaching for Educational Equity” conference in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The Conference is presented by a private non-profit organization called the Oregon Center for Educational Equity (OCEE) . . .

The theory says that school curricula, instructional methods and disciplinary policies are hopelessly based on the norms of white culture, for the exclusive benefit of white students. It teaches that black students cannot possibly succeed unless K-12 education is modified and customized to their supposed culture. (Read more from “Oregon School District Spends Big on Controversial ‘White Privilege’ Teacher Training” HERE)

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Public Responds to Beyonce’s Sharia Law Plan for the Inner Cities [+video]

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Did Beyonce really call for Sharia law to be employed in urban communities for the benefit of the public?

Certainly not. But don’t tell that to some of the people author and social commentator Mark Dice interviewed for his “Man On the Street Mondays” segment posted to YouTube this week.

Dice, whose new book, “The Bilderberg Group: Facts & Fiction” was released last month, asks people if they heard Beyonce’s speech at The Bilderberg Group meeting last week.

Of course, Beyonce, by all accounts, was not even at the meeting and even if she was no one would know what she said because no minutes are kept of the highly secretive gatherings of political, business and academic leaders from Europe and North America. (Read more from “Public Responds to Beyonce’s Sharia Law Plan for the Inner Cities” HERE)

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Two Young Boys Rush Into Burning House to Save Babies Lives

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Two Florida boys, aged 10 and 11, rushed into a burning home to rescue two babies.

Isaiah Francis, 10, and 11-year-old Jeremiah Grimes were playing video games when they smelled smoke and realized that their neighbor’s house was on fire.

The two boys told My Fox Orlando that the father of the children was outside trying to find water. Isaiah and Jeremiah asked him if there were any kids inside, and he told them they were in the kitchen.

The young boys ran into the home, grabbing an infant and a one-and-a-half year old. They then called 911, and firefighters rescued an additional two children upon arrival. (Read more from “Two Young Boys Rush Into Burning House to Save Babies Lives” HERE)

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Female Christian Radio Host Offers the Perfect Rebuttal to the Transgender Party Line

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LaVern Vivio, a Christian radio host based in Nashville, has offered a compelling personal tale about her own struggle with gender identity, and the insights she offers are at once humanizing and terrifying . . .

“I was having trouble finding comfort in what God made me to be,” she continues. “But that was part of the journey He had for me. It’s a journey I am thankful was accompanied by parents, peers and mentors (who) taught me God does not make mistakes.”

She then offers a litany of scenarios in which vulnerable adolescents and young adults such as she once was could be be shunted down a path that ends at being convinced transgenderism is the answer to their struggles.

“What if I had been raised that the choices for me sexually were vast and practically limitless?” she asks. “What if, in my adolescence, my deep loneliness, a girl had kissed me and I liked it?” . . .

“My concern is for what we are doing to ourselves as we seek to continue down a road that tries to recreate our lives into what we want them to be rather than what God created us to be. The road we are paving for our children is so confusing and hard and it doesn’t have to be.” (Read more from “Female Christian Radio Host Offers the Perfect Rebuttal to the Transgender Party Line” HERE)

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