It’s Monday, July 13th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Texas police officers vs. Christian preachers at “pride” event
Today, our persecution of Christians story comes surprisingly from Texas.
On June 27th, Rich Penkoski and like-minded believers spoke the truth and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a bullhorn at the Trinity Homosexual Pride Fest in Fort Worth, Texas. Not surprisingly, homosexual activists and nearby business owners complained to police about both his message and the amplification.
When police responded, the officers threatened to arrest and cite the preachers, telling them that phrases like “homosexuality is a sin” were offensive.
Listen to a portion of one video posted by preacher Penkoski of his interaction with a female officer.
POLICE OFFICER: “If someone is offended by your talking, then we have a problem.”
PREACHER: “That’s a constitutional violation of our rights. If you shut us down for talking or speech …”
(crosstalk)
POLICE OFFICER: “No. If they are offended by speech, …”
PREACHER: “I don’t care if they’re offended.”
POLICE OFFICER: “Okay, then I’ll write you a ticket, and we’ll go from there.”
PREACHER: “Wait, you’re going to ticket us for offensive speech?”
POLICE OFFICER: “Yes, absolutely.”
PREACHER: “Are you serious? You’re going to cite us for offensive speech.”
POLICE OFFICER: “It’s called disorderly conduct.”
Plus, according to another video, a male police officer also said if the preacher used biologically accurate pronouns for someone pretending to be the opposite gender that also could be considered an offense.
The preacher was warned that continued use of the bullhorn would violate the city’s noise ordinance before ultimately receiving a disorderly conduct citation after continuing to use the device.
Subsequently, the Fort Worth Police Department acknowledged that an officer made “certain statements that were not accurate,” reports Fox News.
In last Thursday post on X, Penkoski wrote, “Police officers have been violating preachers’ 1st amendment rights for years. This isn’t new, we just got it on video, and they can’t walk it back or deny it.”
He added, “As a street preacher, it is not my job to coddle anyone or go soft on sin. People are dying and going to hell every day and we have to warn them. … Christians need to wake up. We have got to stop sitting in the safety and comfort of our church pews and start taking the Gospel back to the streets. If we refuse to exercise our constitutional rights, we are going to lose them.”
In Matthew 5:13, Jesus said, “You are the salt of the Earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
Homosexual couple sues surrogate who refused to abort baby with cleft lip
A homosexual male couple in Canada has sued a surrogate mother who believes she is being punished because she refused a request to abort the baby after doctors detected a cleft lip and a possible heart defect, reports The Christian Post. They used a donor egg and sperm from each of the intended fathers.
In a suit filed in Ontario Superior Court in May, the homosexuals allege the surrogate mother failed to keep them informed about the baby’s health, caused them emotional distress, and violated their confidentiality, reports The National Post. The lawsuit came two years after the perverted couple asked her to abort the baby at 22 weeks — a request she refused.
Specialists at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto later determined that the baby was otherwise healthy, except for the cosmetically fixable cleft lip. The couple accepted this assessment, agreed to continue the pregnancy, and took the baby boy home after birth. The surrogate unsuccessfully sought repayment of about $10,000 in out-of-pocket costs.
Ironically, the couple filed a lawsuit for $600,000 in damages against the single mother for her failure to abort their now living son.
More than 50 countries prohibit both commercial and altruistic surrogacy. And here in the United States, surrogacy laws vary by state.
New video: Senator Mitch McConnell loaded into ambulance
New video posted on July 10th shows Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky being loaded into an ambulance after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest at his Capitol Hill home last month, reports the New York Post.
McConnell has been absent from the Senate for nearly a month as he continues to recover in the hospital. The 84-year-old lawmaker is not seeking re-election this November and will retire when his term ends in January.
California puts abortion pill reversal on trial
Heartbeat International, a pro-life group, is on trial in a California court for daring to inform women that the effects of the Abortion Kill Pill can sometimes be reversed, reports The Washington Stand.
Their attorney, Danielle White, said, “Women deserve to know all of their options. They don’t lose that right after beginning a chemical abortion.”
In 2023, Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Heartbeat and a pro-life pregnancy center for “advertising Abortion Pill Reversal as safe and effective.” Factually speaking, the abortion pill reversal protocol simply requires the use of the natural hormone progesterone which is both safe and helps save 65% of the babies.
Bonta asked the court to impose a penalty of more than $20 million against Heartbeat and $600,000 against the pregnancy center. That would amount to a financial death sentence for the pro-life non-profits.
The case went to a bench trial on June 24, 2026, and the trial may continue for another three weeks.
Thomas More Society’s Paul Jonna said, “A ruling in California’s favor would hand attorneys general across the country a roadmap to penalize any non-profit organization that provides women with information the state disagrees with. If the [California] Attorney General prevails and our clients cannot deliver free, truthful, and lifesaving information to women who request it, then countless babies that could survive may not — and countless women may never meet the children that they wanted to carry to term.”
Marriage advocate Mike McManus entered Heaven
On a personal note, my father, Mike McManus, entered the gates of Heaven on July 5th at the age of 85 in Nashville, Tennessee. Standing at 6’8” tall, he might have had to duck to walk through.
To be sure, Dad had a God-sized vision to make a difference.
After graduating from Duke University, he was employed at Time Magazine where he was stationed in Bueno Aires, Argentina and later covered President Lyndon Johnson at the White House, writing two cover stories.
In 1973, my Dad organized a public participation campaign, “Choices for ‘76” to engage 10 percent of the 20 million people of the New York Metropolitan region in policy issues as the U.S. approached its Bicentennial. The project aimed to spark public debate through a series of television town meetings on issues like housing, transportation, the environment, poverty and urban growth. After becoming informed, citizens were invited to express their opinion on possible public policy tradeoffs, using ballots available in newspapers, banks and libraries.
Then, he wrote two self-syndicated weekly newspaper columns which appeared in 100 newspapers. The first, called “Solutions,” was politically focused and offered practical public policy suggestions. The second, “Ethics & Religion,” was inspired by the preaching of Pastor Terry Fullam of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Darien, Connecticut. It grappled with church news and moral issues like abortion, pornography, and the homosexual agenda.
I remember helping him copy, collate, stuff, stamp, address, and seal the envelopes to send out his weekly columns to newspaper editors across the country before the advent of the internet and email. We were always racing to the post office to get there before the deadline at 11pm at night.
In 1993, he published his first book Marriage Savers: Helping Your Friends and Family Stay Married. Other books included 50 Practical Ways to Take Our Kids Back from the World and Living Together: Myths, Risks and Answers.
In a 2013 phone interview on American Family Radio, Dad talked about the major myth that women believe about living together.
MIKE McMANUS: “One of the myths, believed widely by women, is that ‘’If I live with him, he’s going to see how wonderful I am, and he’ll ask me to marry him.’ But he knows that this woman would marry him if he asked her. He’s living together with her because he doesn’t want to get married. He wants the sex, he wants the companionship, and the shared rent. But he doesn’t want to get married.
“She believes this myth until about a year and a half, two years into the relationship, when she realizes he’s not going to ask her to marry him, and she sadly walks away. Unfortunately, by that time they may have already had a child. The unwed birth rate has risen right along with cohabitation.
“This is an unbiblical position, of course. I mean, the church has been silent on the problem, and it’s part of the problem.”
Cognizant of the clarity of Malachi 2:16 in which God says He “hates divorce,” my father’s passion on the issue led to his founding of the non-profit Marriage Savers with my mother, Harriet, to whom he was married for 61 years and whom he simply adored. He said, “Most divorces are filed by one person who alleges incompatibility, while the other spouse wants to save the marriage. Sadly, divorce is always granted. When adultery or abuse is not alleged, divorce should only be granted if there is ‘mutual consent’ by husband and wife. What was entered into by two people, should not be ended, unless both people agree.”
They organized 10,000 pastors in 229 cities in 43 states to sign a Community Marriage Policy agreement that established rigorous premarital preparation for engaged couples and trained volunteer mentor couples to help people in troubled marriages. The Baptist Press reported that the divorce rate in those cities dropped by 17.5%. Think about the heartache that saved untold families and children!
Their work led to appearances on ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CBN News, The O’Reilly Factor, The Ricki Lake Show, Breakpoint with Chuck Colson, Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson, Truths that Transform with D. James Kennedy, and Moody Radio’s Janet Parshall.
I treasure the books that Dr. Dobson personally inscribed to my father as a fellow warrior for the family that are now in my library. And Chuck Colson, President Richard Nixon‘s former hatchet man who was gloriously saved on his way to prison over Watergate and founded Prison Fellowship, wrote the forward to one of Dad’s books after their friendship blossomed.
Having always aspired to live on the water, he eventually moved into his dream home with his bride in Kilmarnock, Virginia, just 50 feet from Indian Creek that fed into the Chesapeake Bay. A great day for him was enjoying the view from his leather chair, reading the paper, listening to classical music, and talking with my mother, who was his great joy.
My father taught me how to write clearly and think Biblically. I remember him quizzing us three boys at the dining room table about current events.
And he was a faithful husband who pointed the family to faith in Jesus Christ, His legacy lives on in my two younger brothers, John and Tim, and in me, as I strive, with my bride Amy, to disciple Honor, Mercy, and Valor in the ways of the Lord, urging them not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of their minds in the Word of God, as Romans 12:2 articulates.
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