By L.A. Williams Christian Action League November 16, 2023 Officials in Johnston County are making it clear that elementary-aged children do not need to be hearing about or reading about sexuality, sexual activity or gender identity at school. The Board of Education there last week approved policies that not only meet the letter of North […]
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N.C. Legislature Overrides Cooper on 3 Bills that Protect Children and Guard Parental Rights
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League August 18, 2023 The North Carolina legislature overrode the vetoes of Gov. Roy Cooper this week on a trio of bills that supporters within the Christian and conservative communities say protects the health and safety of children against a leftist ideology that has blurred the differences between girls and […]
Parents’ Bill of Rights Heads to Cooper, Clarifying Moms and Dads Rights on Education, Gender, Elsewhere
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League June 30, 2023 The North Carolina House and Senate this week easily passed a bill known as the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” sending to Gov. Roy Cooper legislation that would clarify parents legal rights within education, gender, sexuality and other areas. The legislation, Senate Bill 49, declares that “parental […]
Rev. Creech Takes Umbrage With ‘Culture Wars’ Comments in Governor’s State of the State Address
By Hunter Hines Christian Action League March 9, 2023 Governor Roy Cooper delivered before a joint meeting of House and Senate members of the General Assembly his last biennial State of the State address, Monday night. The State’s constitution bars Cooper from running for Governor a third time. WUNC’s Capitol Bureau Chief, Colin Campbell, explained […]
State Senate Passes Parents’ Bill of Rights
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League February 10, 2023 “Parents are the primary decision-makers with respect to their minor children, not their school, or even the children themselves,” Sen. Amy Galey (R-Alamance) told fellow lawmakers Tuesday before the Upper Chamber passed the Parents Bill of Rights along a party-line vote. Senate Bill 49, which is […]
Parents Want More Transparency from Schools: Parents’ Bill of Rights Moves Forward
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League February 3, 2023 North Carolina parents have made it clear that they want more transparency from schools and more influence over what their children are being taught, and Republican lawmakers are trying, once again, to give them what they want with a new version of the Parents’ Bill of […]
LGBTQ Candidates Get Elected, as do Folks Like Desantis, Abbott, and Ivey. Obergfell Trounced in Ohio Race
By L.A. Williams, M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League November 11, 2022 A rainbow wave — that’s what the LGBTQ Victory Fund is calling the mid-term elections, touting that a record number of LGBTQ candidates won their races (400 or so this year as opposed to 334 in 2020). Even so, many incumbents who refused to […]
N.C. Agrees to Allow ‘Sex’ on Birth Certificates to be Changed
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League July 21, 2022 North Carolinians who want to change the sex on their birth certificate can now do so without having surgery under a consent judgment issued by a federal judge. Under the compromise reached between the state of North Carolina and three transgender individuals, a 1975 law requiring […]
Will Children Be Taught About Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation? It’s In Your Hands at Next Election.
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League July 14, 2022 Whether or not North Carolina students in kindergarten through third grade will be taught about gender identity and sexual orientation is in the hands of Tar Heel voters who could, this fall, give the Republican Party the supermajority it needs to make House Bill 755 — […]
Parents Bill of Rights Legislation Passes Senate
Legislation Bans Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation from K-3 School Curriculums By L.A. Williams Christian Action League June 3, 2022 The North Carolina Senate on Wednesday voted to ban gender identity and sexual orientation from the K-3 curriculum and to give parents more information about what goes on in their children’s classrooms. Introduced by Republicans […]