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Amid the rolling green hills of eastern Ohio, Amish and Mennonite farms dot the landscape along roads traveled by horse-drawn buggies and automobiles. Here, self-sufficient living is a way of life. This is a reason why the Food Independence Summit has already become one of the country’s largest sustainable living events where experts provide insight and hands-on demonstrations about organic farming and food preservation.
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Read MoreWhether or not it is a direct countermovement to so-called Pride Month, the initiative is undoubtedly countercultural.
initiative to rebrand June “Fidelity Month” is gaining steam among religious conservatives who share the Princeton professor’s desire to “rededicate” ourselves to our families, communities, country, and God.
“If polls are to be believed, there has been a precipitous decline in Americans’ belief in the importance of patriotism, religion, marriage and family, and community—values that, broadly speaking, have throughout our history united Americans despite our many differences,” George wrote on Twitter late last month. “By the authority vested in me by absolutely no one, I’ve declared June to be ‘Fidelity Month’—a month dedicated to renewing fidelity to God, spouses and families, our country, and our communities.”
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Read MoreConservatives and their products face obstacles on Amazon: Ads are blocked, social networks are booted, and books are undiscoverable on the search engine or removed entirely.
Now, an alternative is on the rise: PublicSq., which brands itself as “Pro-Life, Pro-Family, Pro-Freedom,” has accumulated over 1.1 million consumer users and 55,000 businesses since its launch on July 4, 2022
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Read MoreA Saskatchewan principal called in police to question students who said they were “straight and proud.”
Students at Swift Current Comprehensive High School were summoned to the ninth-grade principal’s office by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer for signing a poster saying they were “straight and proud,” according to a report by independent journalist and former RCMP officer Nadine Ness.
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Read MoreA senior Arts Council England (ACE) official who said transgender people cannot change sex has won her claim of harassment over her gender-critical beliefs.
Denise Fahmy took Britain’s biggest arts funding quango to an employment tribunal after she resigned as a grants officer having challenged a decision to withdraw funding for LGB Alliance, a group that represent gays and lesbians.
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Read MoreTwo 14 year-old girls have written an open letter to the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan ahead of the forthcoming Department for Education draft transgender schools guidance. The girls have to remain anonymous for reasons that will become clear by reading their letter. The letter was first published on the website of the excellent Transgender Trend, whose motto is “No child is born in the wrong body”. You can donate here.
Dear Gillian Keegan
With the release of the Department for Education’s transgender guidance quickly approaching, we – two 14 year-old girls in separate secondary schools – want to contribute our thoughts to the discussion. There is a lack of student voices on this issue and it’s vital to have some perspective of what it’s like in a school environment where dissenting voices are stifled, extreme ideologies are presented as fact and girls are injured by boys in mixed-sex sport.
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Read MoreA small group of neo-Nazis who posed with flags outside Georgia synagogues on Saturday were countered by displays of goodwill and tolerance from the very Jewish communities they set out to antagonize.
Chabad.org reports as congregants were arriving for Saturday afternoon services at Chabad-Lubavitch of Cobb County, in Marietta. Ga., 12 members of an antisemitic hate group brandished antisemitic posters and swastika flags at them.
“They were standing in front as I was walking up to the shul,” Rabbi Ephraim Silverman told Chabad.org.
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Read MoreDoctors and scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland helped a paralyzed man stand, walk, and even climb stairs, after implanting devices in his brain and on his spinal cord that are connected using artificial intelligence.
The procedure is a still in its early stages, but a successful trial, published in Nature, gives new hope to people suffering from spinal cord injuries.
Forty-year-old Gert-Jan Oskam lost the use of his legs in 2011 in a motorcycle accident but is now enjoying a sense of mobility once again thanks to technology linking his brain signals to his legs.
“There was like, the best outcome, I think, for everyone,” Oskam told journalists.
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Read MoreA Florida firefighter says God helped him and his wife to start their family after nearly ten years of trying to have a baby.
The firefighter, who has chosen to remain anonymous to protect his family’s privacy, was on duty in Ocala, FL on January 2. At 2 a.m. he heard the alarm go off at the Safe Haven Baby Box located at the fire station.
“To be honest, I thought it was a false alarm,” the firefighter told TODAY.com.
When he opened the box he saw a healthy baby girl wrapped in a pink blanket.
The Safe Haven Baby Box allows someone to safely and anonymously surrender a child legally – no questions asked.
There are multiple baby box locations in multiple states and baby drawers in Arizona. Baby Drawers were introduced by Banner Hospital. These locations are accessible from the outside of the building and are equipped with silent alarms so you can surrender your newborn no questions asked! See current locations below to find the closest baby box or baby drawer location near you.
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Read MoreGermany’s highest administrative court has struck down bans against peaceful prayer gatherings near abortion facilities because they violate the country’s constitution.
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, one of five supreme courts in Germany, ruled on June 20 that bans against prayer vigils outside of abortion clinics encroach upon the constitutional right of freedom of assembly as guaranteed by the Basic Law of 1949, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.
It is a major win for the pro-life advocacy group 40 Days for Life led by Pavica Vojnović. A regional court already had confirmed the group’s right to peaceful assembly in August 2022, but that ruling was appealed by the city of Pforzheim. The new ruling confirms that the city has no appeal
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