It’s Monday, December 19th, A.D. 2022. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Iranian protestors set fire to the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s home
On November 17th, Iranian protesters set fire to the childhood home of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Islamic Republic’s founder, reported International Christian Concern. This serves as a symbol of the protester’s resistance to the Islamic republic itself.
The home has been a museum for the past 30 years since Khomeini’s death in 1989, and yet officials in Iran deny the fire even occurred altogether despite video evidence of the event.
Hundreds of protestors have died since the death of a woman in September who was detained by police for allegedly breaking the regime’s strict dress code.
Christians in Iran have been suppressed, imprisoned, tortured, and killed while under the radical Islamic Regime in Iran. International Christian Concern dubbed Ali Khamenei, the Persecutor of the Year.
Ex-trans Navy SEAL: Trans craze is “killing these kids”
A former member of SEAL Team Six who famously presented himself as a woman a decade ago, and who has since “detransitioned,” is speaking out about the dangers of transgender ideology, manipulation by its proponents, and the grave harm it is doing to children and young people, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Chris Beck, who for a time was known as “Kristen,” recounted, in a wide-ranging two-hour interview with conservative commentator Robby Starbuck, how he was used by medical experts and the media to advance the narrative that only “gender-affirming” treatments are valid for persons, including young kids, who display even the most minute sign of gender dysphoria.
Beck described those who embrace and promote transgender ideology as a “cult” that brings people into the fold through “love bombing” and propagandizing.
Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.”
Christian teacher forced to resign over fake pronouns
A Christian teacher who was forced to resign for declining to use the fake names of trans-identifying students is suing the school district, claiming it violated her free speech and religious liberty rights under the U.S. Constitution, reports Christian Headlines.
Vivian Geraghty served as an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon, Ohio, until two students on August 26 of this year asked her to begin using new names that aligned with their new fake gender identities, according to the lawsuit. One of the students also asked Geraghty to use incorrect pronouns.
She told school administrators that her Christian faith prohibited her from “lying” to the students about who they are. She was willing to use the student’s last names.
The Christian English teacher told her school principal of her concerns at 9:30 a.m. on August 26. School administrators allegedly told Geraghty she “would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant.” By 11:30 a.m., she had been forced to resign and had been escorted out of the building.
Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the teacher, said, “The Constitution protects this freedom to differ, in part, by prohibiting the government from adopting and enforcing a set of approved views on these matters in America’s public schools. The very nature of free speech, free exercise of religion, and freedom from state-enforced orthodoxy on fundamental matters condemns the state’s attempt to purge contrary views from its schools.”
Doctor sues New Mexico over physician-assisted suicide law
A doctor and a Christian medical group have filed a lawsuit against New Mexico over an assisted suicide law passed last year they say violates their sincerely-held Biblical objections to the controversial practice, reports The Christian Post.
Dr. Mark Lacy and the Christian Medical & Dental Association filed a lawsuit against New Mexico last Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Defendants named in the suit include the state’s Attorney General Hector Balderas, Department of Health Acting Secretary Dr. David Scrase, and members of the state Medical Board.
At issue was the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, a law passed last year that legalized assisted suicide for terminally ill residents of New Mexico.
The lawsuit argues that the law does not adequately protect the conscientious objection rights of medical professionals opposed to participating in the killing of patients before natural death.
It adds that the Act “compels objecting physicians to speak and inform terminally ill patients about the availability of assisted suicide.”
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Vatican dismisses Father Frank Pavone from priesthood
Father Frank Pavone, a well-known pro-life activist and national director of Priests for Life, has been dismissed from the clerical state for “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.”
In a Twitter post in 2020, Pavone spoke of “supporters of this loser Biden and his morally corrupt, America-hating, God-hating Democrat party.” One of the adjectives to define Biden, which The Worldview deleted, was blasphemous.
In a Dec. 13 letter to U.S. bishops obtained by the Catholic News Agency and confirmed by multiple sources as authentic, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, wrote that the decision on November 9 had “no possibility of appeal.”
In one statement, the Vatican said, “Father Pavone was given ample opportunity to defend himself in the canonical proceedings, and he was also given multiple opportunities to submit himself to the authority of his diocesan bishop. It was determined that Father Pavone had no reasonable justification for his actions.”
On Saturday, Pavone tweeted, “So, in every profession, including the priesthood, if you defend the unborn, you will be treated like them! The only difference is that when we are ‘aborted,’ we continue to speak, loud and clear.”
Proverbs 31:8 declares, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.”