Protesters at New Toronto Chick-fil-A Outnumbered by Customers, 100 to 1

Protesters at New Toronto Chick-fil-A Outnumbered by Customers, 100 to 1



In many U.S. cities, the opening of a new Chick-fil-A is met with long lines for chicken sandwiches and waffle fries. In Canada’s largest city, though, the grand opening of a Chick-fil-A last week was met with protestors calling for a boycott.


The protest on Friday was organized by the 519, an LGBT group, and Liberation TO, an animal rights organization, which held “Don’t Eat Hate” signs and wore drag costumes. At one point the demonstrators even laid on the ground side-by-side in a “die-in” protest outside the front door. 


By the second day, the customers who were in line to buy food outnumbered the protesters 100 to 1. 


“We just want to make the population of Toronto aware of where their money is going if they decide to support this establishment,” protester Tash Riot told the Toronto Star.


The only other Chick-fil-A in Toronto is located at the airport, The Star said. 


Another protester, Helena Poison, said the protesters were there to “be visibly queer and show our support.”


Among the signs held by protestors was one reading, “Chick-fil-A is Full of Homophobia.” Others read, “Boycott Chick-fil-A” and “Cluck-Off.”


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NC School Pulls ‘Diversity Inventory’ Asking Students about Gender, Sexuality, Religion

NC School Pulls ‘Diversity Inventory’ Asking Students about Gender, Sexuality, Religion



Wake County’s Heritage High School has withdrawn a “diversity inventory” worksheet that asked students personal questions about not only their gender, sexuality, and religion, but also about their teachers, friends, and authority figures. The teacher then asked students to stand beside posters based on the questions that make them feel the “most privileged.”


“While we value efforts to build a classroom community that is inclusive and respectful of all students and backgrounds, the Wake County Public School System also respects and values student privacy and their right to engage in discussion about personal identity when they are comfortable to do so,” the district said in a statement, according to News Observer.


The worksheet asked students to identify their gender, race/ethnicity, age, sexuality, ability, religion and socioeconomic status. The complaint first arose from parent Dina Bartus when her 15-year-old son took the inventory on his second day of class. According to Bartus, the teacher, whom the district has not named, identifies as bisexual.


Many people on all sides believed the inventory to be inappropriate.


Former Wake school board candidate Shaun Pollenz, who is gay, believes the questions could hurt students.


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StemExpress CEO Admits to Trafficking Baby Body Parts, Including Intact Heads, Beating Hearts

StemExpress CEO Admits to Trafficking Baby Body Parts, Including Intact Heads, Beating Hearts



During several days of hearings, StemExpress CEO admitted to harvesting fetal brains in heads that may still be attached to the body after being pulled from the womb and selling baby’s beating hearts to researchers.


The discovery came when the CEO, named Doe 12 for privacy, was questioned during hearings for undercover investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. The duo journalists, who represent the Center for Medical Progress, recorded conversations with top executives and clinicians from Planned Parenthood about selling aborted baby parts four years ago. StemExpress was one of the alleged brokers.


Daleiden and Merritt face 14 criminal felony counts of eavesdropping and one count of conspiracy. According to the Federalist, this case is the first-time eavesdropping charges have ever been made in the history of California.


Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, which is representing Daleiden at the hearing, told Life Site News, “If you have a fetus with an intact head and an intact body, and intact extremities, that is something that would indicate that child was born alive, and then had their organs cut out of them, or that their child was the victim of an illegal partial-birth abortion.


“That is an especially gruesome admission, but it begs the question: how did they get these fully intact human children?”


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Christians, Pro-Lifers Speak Out against Bernie Sanders’ Support of Abortion as Population Control

Christians, Pro-Lifers Speak Out against Bernie Sanders’ Support of Abortion as Population Control



Speaking at CNN’s “Climate Crisis” town hall event last week, Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders appeared to suggest that abortion could be used as a tool for controlling population numbers in poor countries causing Christians and pro-life advocates to speak out.


“During CNN’s #ClimateTownHall, Bernie Sanders said YOUR tax dollars should be used to fund abortions in foreign countries to reduce population size,” tweeted Congressman Steve Scalise. “Are you kidding?? That’s horrifying, and tells you just how little regard radical liberals have for innocent life.”


Pro-life campaigner Obianuju Ekeocha also expressed her horror. “Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!!! An American presidential candidate speaks about how important it is for America to fund the abortion in poor third world countries,” she tweeted. “I repeat, @BernieSanders wants America to fund the killing of Africa’s unborn babies,” Ekeocha asserted.

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Former MLB Player, Wife Launch Ministry with Horses to Help People Cope with Trauma

Former MLB Player, Wife Launch Ministry with Horses to Help People Cope with Trauma



Former MLB all-star Paul Byrd with his wife Kym, have started a ministry to help people overcome trauma with the calming power of horses.


“[T]he Lord just kept pressing on my heart that there was something that I was being called to do but I didn’t know what,” Kym Byrd told the Christian Post.


After purchasing a farm, the couple was approached by a friend who is licensed through Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and trained by Natural Lifemanship to use their newly-acquired land to board two horses for therapy sessions.


Paul, who recently won an Emmy for his work for Fox Sports South broadcasts of Atlanta Braves games, and his wife agreed.


“The horses were such a different road to not only get in touch with nature and beauty but also they’re just so calming,” Kym said. “We would just see people come and go. I was just blessed to know that people who were in trauma who couldn’t be in four walls to talk about their pain could be with a horse out in nature and just connect with God and deal with their pain.”


The Byrd’s, after seeing the power of equine therapy, launched Byrdhouse Ministries out of their farm in Milton, Georgia. Employing three therapists, the ministry “provide[s] space for people to reset, restore and recover with God, themselves and others both inside and out.”


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‘No one can win’, Christian MPs call for prayer as Brexit divide deepens

Last week, Christian MPs Alistair Burt and Dame Caroline Spelman both announced they will not be standing at the next election over Mr Johnson’s handling of Brexit and, particularly in Dame Caroline’s case, over the abusive language she has received.

They joined 20 other Tories who had the whip withdraw after voting with the opposition and were joined by Amber Rudd when she also resigned over the weekend. 

Alistair Burt, the Conservative representative for North East Bedfordshire, told Premier the impasse seems unsurmountable: “There’s no way anyone could win on this. I have to be completely honest. Of course there are very much two opinions, of course there are people who feel ‘let’s just leave’.

 

 

“I can’t do that knowing what I believe I know about no deal. I’m not prepared to do that. I do want to see a general election; of course the public are entitled to take a view on that.

“But in view of the risks of leaving with no deal to the union to Ireland, the relationship with the EU to trade, agriculture, the economy, I think seeking further time, if a deal cannot be secured now, is better than taking that course of action and I’d be willing to put everything on the line for that. I’m perfectly comfortable in what I’ve done. I’m sorry, there’s some people disagree with it. But there we are. I’m an MP and a public representative and I’m doing what I think is…

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Buttigieg: ‘Life Begins with Breath,’ Bible Backs Late-Term Abortion

Buttigieg: ‘Life Begins with Breath,’ Bible Backs Late-Term Abortion



Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is being criticized for comments suggesting life begins at a baby’s first breath and the Bible supports abortion up until the moment of birth.


The remarks by the mayor of South Bend, Ind., occurred during an appearance on a New York radio station’s morning show last week when the discussion turned to the issue of abortion.


Abortion, Buttigieg said, is “obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through morally.”


“Then again, you know, there’s a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath,” Buttigieg told the hosts of Power 105.1 FM’s Breakfast Club show. “And so even that is something that we can interpret differently. 


“But I think no matter where you think about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins,” he said, “most Americans can get on board with the idea of – all right – I might draw the line here, you might draw the line there, but the most important thing is the person who should be drawing line is the woman making the decision.”


Buttigieg’s comments sparked plenty of reaction from pro-lifers, including from his brother-in-law, Rhyan Glezman, who is the pastor of a church in Michigan. 


“If we’re going to say we’re for all people and we love all people, but we don’t value human life in the womb, that’s being a hypocrite,”…

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Hillsong singer gives update on worship leader Chelsea Taylor’s brain aneurysm

She was taken to an intensive care unit after an 8am service at the Hills campus site in Sydney on 18th August. where they discovered she had a brain aneurysm, a bulge in a blood vessel that can cause sudden agonising headaches, a stiff neck, sickness and pain when looking at light.

Chelsea Taylor has had neck and back pain, making moving around at all difficult and has also had surgery on her brain.

 

 

Emma Fellers, a friend who is also part of the Hillsong Australia worship team posted on Instagram on Sunday: “It’s been a challenging weekend and the recovery journey takes time. Chelsea had to have another main line inserted, but tubes and drainage got removed! Three weeks since the aneurysm – It’s tiring and she just wants to go home… Chelsea has been able to be more active again, like doing trips to the bathroom, which is great!

“The docs have also finished all the strong medications, so it looks like she may go to High Dependancy Unit soon! She is still continuing with antibiotics but hopefully not for too much longer. Please keep Chelsea & her family in your prayers as we believe for a full recovery and strength & grace for the moment!”

 

 

Five days ago Emma Fellers posted that they had spent the morning singing worship music before she went into surgery and then was told that she would not need any more operations.

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‘The Lord Is My Master’ Reads Bible-era First Temple Seal Impression Found by Archaeologists

‘The Lord Is My Master’ Reads Bible-era First Temple Seal Impression Found by Archaeologists



A national service volunteer working in excavated dirt from the Western Wall in Jerusalem recently discovered a 7th century BCE clay sealer, which reads “Belonging to Adoniyahu, the Royal Steward.”


Translated, Adoniyahu means “The Lord is My Master,” the Time of Israel reports.


The one-centimeter sealer was found late last month, in dirt that had been excavated in 2013 from the foundations of the Western Wall under the staircase known as Robinson’s Arch. The clay sealer was most likely used to seal important documents and letters.


According to archaeologist Eli Shukron, the inscription is “of utmost importance.” The role of the Royal Steward (Asher al Habayit), he said, appears several times in the Bible and is used for the highest-level minister in the royal court. 


In the Book of Genesis, Joseph’s position in Egypt is called the Royal Steward.


Holding the seal in his hand, Shukron said, “After 2,600 years, you come and hold this bulla, which was used to seal a letter, that was sent 2,600 years ago by the highest minister in the kingdom, it’s something amazing… It makes my heart skip a beat.”


The seal or bulla was found as part of the City of David Sifting Project in Jerusalem.


“I overturned a bucket of earth into the sifting pallet and began washing it with a spray of water. And all of a sudden, in the…

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Sir David Attenborough joins scientists in calling for end to teaching creationism in Welsh schools

The Welsh Government is currently consulting on a new national curriculum that will drastically overhaul education in Wales and unlike in England, it does not currently explicitly prohibit teaching creationism.

Sir David Attenborough has joined around 50 scientists who’ve signed a petition calling for the teaching of creationism to be banned.

 

In a joint letter called ‘Teach evolution, not creationism’ in Wales’, they said “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”.

A Church of England priest and the Christian think tank Ekklesia have also signed the petition.

Geologist historian Rev Michael Roberts told Premier teaching creationism in a Science class doesn’t make sense.

“It has simply has no scientific credibility whatsoever as it’s based on a misunderstanding and misrepresentation of what science says, not only biology, but particularly geology with the vast age of the earth.”

He added that although he believes God is the creator of everything, science teachers should be neutral on whether there is a creator.

Creationist John MacKay disagrees with the view and says it’s important for creationism to be included in the classroom.

“It’s nonsense to say we’ve got to leave creation out because it’s the concept of creation and the creator that gave rise to the belief that there are rules and laws.”

Speaking of those who signed the petition, he said:…

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