| | A quick death? 'Dr. Death' promotes coffin-shaped suicide pod | | Curated for you byCP Editors | | Good afternoon! It's Tuesday, September 5, and today's headlines include a doctor's suicide pod, Texas' ban on trans procedures for children, and Oklahoma education officials investigating a school district that hired a principal who was arrested on child pornography charges. | | Philip "Dr. Death" Nitschke, an assisted suicide advocate and former physician who once argued that troubled teens should be allowed to kill themselves, is again in the headlines after sharing details on his coffin-shaped pod that enables people to commit suicide with the push of a button. Nitschke, who heads the pro-assisted suicide organization Exit International, anticipates the 3-D printed Sarco Pods will be used in Switzerland. Full Story. |
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| Trans surgeries for kids: Indeed offers $10K to move | | Online job search company Indeed announced a $10,000 benefit for trans-identified employees and their families seeking to move to a state that allows children to be prescribed puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones, and body-mutilating sex-change surgeries. We "believe that everyone has the right to make the healthcare decisions that they feel are right for themselves and their families." asserted Misty Gaither, the company's vice president of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Read more. | | School hires principal once arrested on child porn charges | | State education officials in Oklahoma are investigating the Oklahoma City-based Western Heights Public Schools' hiring of Shane Murnan as principal of John Glenn Elementary School in June despite the district publicly acknowledging Murnan's past arrest record on charges of child pornography. Murnan resigned from a teaching role in 2002 after police found child pornography on his computer and six grams of marijuana in his home in 2001. A judge dismissed the child pornography charges, which were expunged from his record in 2003. Read more. | | Texas greenlights ban on trans surgeries for minors | | Senate Bill 14, a state law banning sex-change surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs for minors, has gone into effect in Texas after the state's supreme court denied an emergency motion to temporarily block the bill from taking effect as scheduled at the beginning of September. The court is set to hear a lawsuit filed against the measure by several families with trans-identifying children in Texas in November. Read more. |
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| The most loved Gospel hymn among kids | | Pastor Dan Delzell shares the history behind the famous children's song "Jesus Loves Me" and why it is still so relevant today. "Are you burdened by the cares of this world and the worries of life? Don't despair. Jesus loves you. Christ died for your sins on the cross ... Come to God today with the faith of a child," says Delzell. Read more. | | 4 years later Google’s search bias is as blatant as ever | | Dr. Michael Brown calls out persistent bias in Google's search results, which was documented in Douglas Murray's 2019 book, The Madness of the Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. Four years after Murray's findings were published, Google's bias persists, writes Brown, who notes that searches for terms like "gay couples" and "Black couples" yield the desired results while searches for terms like "White couples" do not. Read more. |
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| In London, 7,000 March for Life amid growing abortion figures | | Some 7,000 people participated in March for Life UK in London's Parliament Square over the weekend. Speakers at the event included March for Life Co-Director Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who shared her experience of being arrested for praying silently near an abortion clinic. "I was told my prayers were an offense. I'll tell you what is offensive: that our country has the highest ever abortion figures, 100,000 of them annually being repeat abortions," she declared. March for Life aims to see 10,000 in attendance for its 10th anniversary next year. Read more. | | Iraq: UN team addresses ISIS targeting Christians | | Iraqi Christian leaders met with a United Nations team and international representatives in the Kurdistan Region to discuss ongoing investigations into ISIS' targeted genocide against Christians, which was described as "barbaric attacks, rooted in hate and inhumanity." The conference was organized by the United Nations Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL and included political leaders from several countries. Read more. |
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