Dec. 7, 2019: 'No Safe Spaces'; homeschool parents; pastor John Gray
Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019
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— John Gray’s Relentless Church served eviction papers; Ron, Hope Carpenter allegedly want church back
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An attorney retained by pastor John Gray of Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, has said that Hope Carpenter, the wife of the church’s former pastor, Ron Carpenter, recently told church members that Gray is “shady” and “dishonest,” and that she and her husband will soon be taking back their church.
In a letter released Thursday, James Welch, pastor Gray’s lawyer, revealed that the relationship between the pastors has soured, and on November 27th, Gray was served a 30-day notice of termination for the church building he had been leasing from the Carpenters. The Carpenters moved to San Jose, California, last year and were installed as the new pastors of the 14,000-member Jubilee Christian Center, now rebranded as Redemption. They passed on the reins of their South Carolina church, which they founded in 1991, to the Grays.
— Texas CPS dismisses case after taking 4-year-old boy away from homeschool parents
Child Protective Services in Texas has dropped a five-months long case against homeschooling parents who say their son was unfairly removed from their home by the state based on false allegations of child medical abuse.
Kaufman County Judge Tracy Gray signed an order Tuesday that ended the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services' case against the Pardo family whose 4-year-old son, Drake, was taken from their home on June 20th on the authority of a court order after the family missed a CPS-facilitated meeting at Dallas Children’s Medical Center that they were not informed about.
Although the Pardo family has been reunited with their son, Jeremy Newman, director of public policy for the Texas Home School Coalition, said CPS workers get to walk away from the court agreement without any psychological damage while families are left to deal with the emotional aftermath of such removals.
— Highlighting prosperity of Trump’s presidency, Pence urges faith leaders to pray for 4 more years
Vice President Mike Pence rallied faith leaders in Michigan Wednesday to pray for and support four more years of the Trump administration in 2020 and highlighted a raft of promises fulfilled by President Donald Trump through policies advancing economic prosperity and religious freedom, and the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
— Devout Catholic Italian politician sparks outrage by claiming ‘Jesus was not a Jew’
Fabio Tuiach, an avowed Catholic and boxer turned council member in the northeastern city of Trieste, Italy, is coming under fire for claiming “Jesus was not a Jew,” despite biblical evidence of the Savior’s heritage.
Tuiach reportedly made the comment during a November 18th meeting ahead of a council vote on a motion proposing to award 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre the city’s honorary citizenship. Tuiach reportedly called Segre a “nice little granny,” whom he respected for witnessing one of the ugliest pages in history, but said that he was offended as a “devout Catholic” that she would refer to Jesus as a Jew.
— 'No Safe Spaces' shows why we must confront Silicon Valley, gender ideologues
Moviegoers and fans of free speech are encouraged to check out the film "No Safe Spaces" that chronicles an alarming trend of violent resistance to free speech, aided and abetted by tenured academics and Big Tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google, which has censored YouTube videos about the 10 Commandments and silenced women who refuse to conform and accept transgender ideology.
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