Beginning this week’s publication is California and the continued battle over parental rights. A invoice headed to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk would ban California colleges from telling dad and mom about their kids’s gender transition.

“Meeting Invoice 1955 would prohibit faculty staffers and volunteers from informing dad and mom about their youngster’s ‘sexual orientation, gender id or gender expression’ with out the coed’s consent, looking for to thwart parental notification insurance policies handed by native faculty boards,” The Washington Instances’ Valerie Richardson writes.

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Anti-Israel protesters spent a bit of Satisfaction month crashing LGBTQ parades and making recognized their pro-Palestinian sentiments.

“On the NYC Satisfaction Parade, 10 folks have been taken into custody after protesters threw crimson paint on the road and on a truck pulling a Human Rights Marketing campaign float, in accordance with native information stories,” Ms. Richardson writes. “In Toronto, the parade was canceled altogether about an hour after pro-Gaza activists introduced the procession to a standstill.”

Learn extra concerning the splintering these acts expose here.

Textbook publishers Scholastic and Pearson have distanced themselves from a push to switch organic intercourse with gender id in Ok-12 classroom discussions after the conservative Heritage Basis assume tank publicized their supplies, stories The Washington Instances’ Sean Salai. Learn extra here.

Professional-life activist Paul Vaughn received three years of supervised launch for his participation in a 2021 protest exterior an abortion facility. He averted a jail sentence that might have come amid allegations he violated the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances Act. Right here’s the full story.

Creator, speaker and radio host Eric Metaxas has a strong warning for Christians who assume they shouldn’t be politically concerned: “Our religion is to be introduced into each relationship, into each sphere of affect now we have.” Listen to what else Mr. Metaxas has to say in his interview with The Washington Instances’ Increased Floor’s Billy Hallowell.

Christian males’s ministry Promise Keepers is back in action with new management and a renewed vigor to encourage males to stay devoted lives. Led by CEO Shane Winnings — an ex-cop and navy veteran — the group is making new headway.

“Our imaginative and prescient is to equip males to stay boldly on this hour. And my coronary heart actually is that Philippians 2 name of being a lightweight in a twisted and perverse era,” Mr. Winnings advised Increased Floor. “I need to assist males stand up and never simply survive via the day, however really thrive and shine as a lightweight for Christ.” Learn extra concerning the mission here.

Antisemitism is on the rise, in accordance with recent Gallup polling, which discovered 81% of adults viewing antisemitism as a “very” or “considerably” significant issue, up from 57% in 2003.

In the meantime, debate surrounds the Nationwide Training Affiliation Consultant Meeting, which reportedly has some pro-Palestinian delegates looking for to go a slew of anti-Israel resolutions over the objections of Jewish members. Right here’s more.

Everett Piper explains why he believes “kids do greatest after they have a mom and father sure to one another in marriage.”

And Mr. Hallowell breaks down what he believes critics of the brand new Louisiana regulation mandating the Ten Commandments in lecture rooms are totally missing.

Listed here are another must-reads:

• Religion of the Founding Fathers: Jim Daly, president of Deal with the Household, reflects on the lives and legacies of the Founding Fathers. “They didn’t combat for fortunes or fame – however out of conviction of their Christian religion,” he writes. “They have been preventing for his or her independence – however additionally they acknowledged their dependence of God.”
• Serving to mothers and infants: Autumn Christensen explores a vital query within the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the return of abortion regulation to the states: “What does it seem like to take care of mothers and infants two years into this Dobbs period?”
• Speaking to children about politics: And with the contentiousness of American politics comes a novel problem for fogeys: How do you discuss together with your children about President Biden, former president Donald Trump — and all the related drama? Jeff Grenell has some tips.