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MFM Daily Devotional 3 July 2019 – Intimacy With God (I)
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Americans Significantly Overestimate the Number of LGBT People in the U.S., New Gallup Poll Finds
A new poll by Gallup shows that Americans vastly overestimate the U.S. gay and lesbian population, a trend the polling organization says may be due in part to the “group’s outsized visibility.”
The survey, conducted in May and released on June 27, found U.S. adults estimate that nearly one in four (23.6 percent) Americans identify as gay or lesbians. In contrast, that figure is more than five times the percentage of those actually identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in a 2017 Gallup poll. In that survey, Gallup polled respondents who self-identified as LGBT, estimating that population to be 4.5 percent, up from 3.4 percent in its inaugural 2012 survey on that topic.
“Exactly who makes up the LGBT community and how this group should be measured is a subject of some debate,” Gallup reported in 2012, adding “there are a number of ways to measure lesbian, gay, and bisexual orientation, and transgender status. Sexual orientation can be assessed by measuring identity as well as sexual behaviors and attractions.”
Even so, all existing methodologies estimate the actual LGBT population to be far lower than what the public estimates.
“No measurement procedure has produced any figures suggesting that more than one out of five Americans are gay or lesbian,” according to the survey summary.
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DCLM Daily Manna 3 July 2019 – Unassailable Teaching
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Bishop Sarah Mullally asks politicians to avoid ‘the Punch and Judy of politics’ at National Prayer Breakfast
Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the current chaplain to the speaker but soon to be Bishop of Dover, opened the event, followed by the Speaker himself, John Bercow.
The annual event held in the Palace of Westminster has previously had speakers such as Tim Keller and Andy Hawthorne from The Message Trust.
This year, as guests tucked into their danish pastries and mushroom and chive frittatas, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally spoke about the need to look past binary politics and see those who disagree with us as someone made in the image of God.
After a reading of Genesis 1 by Conservative and Christian peer Baroness Berridge, the Bishop of London said: “We risk submitting one binary narrative for another – one in which the main fault lines are cultural and generational, encapsulated by the networked Metropolitan youth versus the old left behind.
“Now, whether or not you agree with this analysis, one of the key issues seems to be the use of binary narratives. The right versus wrong and the report [by St Paul’s Insitute] calls for a politics and a broad public discourse based on a different language, a transcendent conversation, one that can address deeper discussions around questions of meaning, identity, belonging.
“This morning I want to suggest that the Christian faith offers such a language because at our heart is a sense of belonging, of identity and meaning that emerges from…
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Keeping A Vigil – Open Heavens for Teens 3 July 2019
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Prayer Points on Today’s Open Heaven 3 July 2019
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Open Heaven 3 July 2019 – United We Stand
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Alaska Gov. Slashes Court’s Budget by $334,700 after Pro-Abortion Funding Decision
The pro-life governor of Alaska has found a creative way to pay for court-mandated abortion funding: take it out of the judicial branch’s budget.
Alaska Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy, a Republican, issued a line-item veto Friday removing $334,700 from the budget of the Alaska Supreme Court and the state appeals courts – four months after the Alaska Supreme Court ruled the state could not prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion.
“The Legislative and Executive Branch are opposed to State-funded elective abortions; the only branch of government that insists on State-funded elective abortions is the Supreme Court,” Dunleavy wrote in a veto message. “The annual cost of elective abortions is reflected by this reduction.”
The federal government, he noted, also “prohibits any federal funds paying for elective abortions.”
The Alaska Supreme Court in February struck down a 2014 law that limited public funding for abortion as part of Medicaid funds. The law, the justices ruled, violated the “Alaska Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.”
Jim Minnery, president of Alaska Family Action, applauded the governor’s action. Alaska Family Action is a pro-life group.
“The Alaska Supreme Court has a long history of extremist rulings on abortion,” Minnery wrote in a column at AnchoragePress.com. “But until today, they never…
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