A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered the filtering company VidAngel to pay $62.4 million in damages, three months after a federal judge ruled it had violated copyright laws.

The decision may put the company’s future in doubt, but VidAngel CEO Neal Harmon vowed to appeal. The company declared bankruptcy in 2017.

“We disagree with today’s ruling and have not lessened our resolve to save filtering for families one iota,” Harmon said in a statement. “VidAngel plans to appeal the District Court ruling, and explore options in the bankruptcy court. Our court system has checks and balances, and we are pursuing options on that front as well.” 

Disney, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox filed suit in 2016 against the company, which offers a streaming service that allows families and other users to skip objectionable content such as violence, sexuality and profanity. 

At the time, customers could buy a digital streaming movie from VidAngel for $20 and sell it back to VidAngel for $19 if the movie was returned within 24 hours — an action that resulted in a $1 rental. VidAngel said the service was legal because it owned a physical copy of each movie it sold. It also said it was protected by the 2005 Family Movie Act.

But federal judge Judge Andre Birotte disagreed the 2005 law protected VidAngel, and ruled this year the company had violated the Digital…

The Australian rugby star fired for speaking out against homosexuality on social media earlier this year said in a sermon Sunday that the devil is behind the push to expand transgender rights to children. He also urged Christians to take a stand for truth without fear of the repercussions.

“They are allowing young kids in primary school to be able to have the permission to change their gender if they want to by taking away the permission of their parents,” Israel Folau, 30, declared in a 21-minute sermon at Sydney’s Truth of Jesus Christ Church and posted on Facebook. “Now they are trying to take control as a government to make those decisions for young kids who are basically 16 years old or younger, they don’t even know what they are doing.

“This is what the devil is trying to do, to instill into the government, into this world, into society, and it is slowly happening. If there’s ever a time to stand up for the Word of God, now is the time.”

As Christian Headlines previously reported, in May, Wallabies star Folau was terminated from a $4 million contract through 2022 with Rugby Australia for an April Instagram post in which he said “Hell awaits” for “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, idolaters.” 

Folau, Super Rugby’s all-time record try-scorer, was expected to represent…