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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
A Senate committee has removed some of the controversial language in the Build Back Better bill following concerns from multiple faith groups that argued the bill would ban such groups from obtaining federal assistance due to their religious views. Although the Washington, D.C.-based Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance (IRFA) says they approve of the changes made, they are still concerned about the proposed legislation as written.
The University of California-Irvine has fired a professor of medical ethics who has been contending that the school's vaccine mandate is unconstitutional given the science of natural immunity. In a Friday essay on his Substack, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, the now-former professor of psychiatry at UC-Irvine School of Medicine and director of the medical ethics program at UCI-Health, bid farewell to the university where he has enjoyed teaching for over a decade. Kheriaty told The Christian Post, "I'm being unjustly discriminated against because I [have] this form of immunity rather than the form of immunity that is supposedly conferred by the vaccines. With each passing week, the efficacy of these vaccines, particularly against the new variants, becomes more apparent."
The sale of Artza gift boxes has raised over $1.2 million to support 42 small Israeli businesses and seven charities as thousands of businesses in the Holy Land have closed due to declining tourism during the pandemic. The quarterly subscription gift boxes, which contain nine artisanal goods from Israel and the stories behind them, provide a source of revenue for Israeli businesses and charities.
Hollywood filmmaker and preacher DeVon Franklin and his wife, actress Meagan Good, announced Tuesday that they're filing for divorce. The couple, who each shared the joint announcement on their personal Instagram pages Tuesday, met while working on the 2011 film "Jumping the Broom." Click the image to be redirected to their Instagram statement.
Miss Florida pageant winner Ashley Cariño credited God for her success during an interview with CBN's "PrayerLink" Tuesday. In discussing the role faith and religion have played in her life, she explained that she would not have achieved what she has without God in her life and specified that she did not ask God to help her win the pageant but to provide opportunities through the experience.
In this piece from CP Voices, op-ed contributor Jeff Crouere discusses Biden's first eleven months in office. Pointing to the President's 43.9% approval rating and struggles with economic policies, Crouere asserts that he believes "Biden will soon transition to a 'COVID forever' strategy. He will point to the increasing numbers of deaths as a reason for more mask and vaccine mandates. Biden will continue to demonize unvaccinated Americans, although the precise size of this group is unknown."
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