It’s Friday, June 30th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
U.S. Supreme Court affirms religious liberty
The Supreme Court broadened religious accommodations in the workplace in a unanimous ruling Thursday, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian man and former U.S. Postal Service employee, quit his job and sued the USPS on grounds of religious discrimination after it began requiring him to work on Sundays.
After the Supreme Court made the ruling, he said, “I hope this decision allows others to be able to maintain their convictions without living in fear of losing their jobs because of what they believe.”
Exodus 20:8 says, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.”
The Court ruled that employers must “reasonably accommodate” workers’ religions.
Historically, the United States Postal Service had not delivered on Sundays. It was only after Amazon contracted with them to deliver their packages that Groff was told he had to work every day of the week.
Supreme Court guts affirmative action admission policies
In another major case, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the affirmative action admission policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which gave weight to a prospective student’s race, are unconstitutional, reports CNBC.
The court’s majority opinion said that the schools’ affirmative action programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points.”
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the universities’ policies violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The clause bars states from denying people equal protection under the law.
And Justice Clarence Thomas, a Black conservative who wrote a concurring opinion, said that the schools’ affirmative action admissions policies “fly In the face of our colorblind Constitution.”
Female Lutheran pastor: God is “nonbinary” and Jesus had “two dads”
A video of a female Lutheran pastor in Minnesota has gone viral for leading her congregation in a “sparkle creed” prayer in honor of sexual perversion pride month in which she described God as “nonbinary” and Christ Jesus as having “two dads,” reports The Christian Post.
Anna Helgen, co-pastor of Edina Community Lutheran Church in the suburb of Minneapolis, delivered the prayer during a Sunday service live stream on June 25th.
2 Timothy 4:3 says, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
Sue’s abortion
In 1981, at the age of 21, Sue Liebel had an abortion. Other than her friend, who drove her to and from Planned Parenthood 90 minutes from her Indianapolis home, she didn’t tell another soul for 30 years!
In her interview with me as I guest host today on Generations Radio, she describes what was going through her mind as she walked up the steps of that Indiana abortion mill and the sound of that suction machine that haunts her to this day.
I asked her how she felt afterwards.
McMANUS: “What was going through your mind? Did you feel relief? Did you feel anxious? Did you feel heart broken?”
LIEBEL: “Heart broken. I felt awful. They kept me out of the private room then and had me recover in a room that had probably six or eight La-Z-Boys with other girls who were recovering. They gave us a cold drink and some crackers. And they were checking us in terms of our bleeding, blood pressure, what have you.
“We were all sitting there in like a circle in these, I want to say, Navy plush, you know, 1970s La-Z-Boy recliners. And nobody said a word. We didn’t even look at each other. You know what I mean? Everyone was looking down. It was a … it was a shameful moment, for all of us, I believe. Certainly for me.”
To hear my entire 38-minute interview with Sue Liebel about her abortion and the healing she experienced through Jesus Christ, go to Generations.org/radio.
Transgender activists chant: “We’re coming for your children!”
Last Friday night, homosexual transgender activists marching in New York City’s annual drag queen parade chanted: “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children,” reports The Blaze.
Listen.
ACTIVISTS: “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children! We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children!”
Hundreds of LHBTQ advocates paraded from Tompkins Square Park to the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on Friday night during the annual New York City drag march. The parade commemorated the Stonewall Riots of 1969, when there was a protest at the Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said, “When they tell you who they are, believe them.”
Matthew 18:6 says, “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in Me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
Only 39% of Americans extremely proud to be American
And finally, Gallup Polling asked Americans this question: “How proud are you to be an American — extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, only a little proud, or not at all proud?”
Now, when Gallup first asked this question in January 2001, 55% of U.S. adults were extremely proud to be American. Not surprisingly, pride intensified after 9/11, with extreme pride ranging from 65% to 70% between 2002 and 2004.
However, since 2005, the percentage of Americans expressing extreme pride declined, but it remained at the majority level through 2017.
Since 2018, extreme pride has consistently been below that, averaging 42%.
Today, only 39% of American adults are “extremely proud” to be American.
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