Indiana | October 27, 2021
With COVID Restrictions Challenged, Indiana Governor Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Down Law Empowering Legislature
Indiana | October 27, 2021
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that upheld limits on the governor’s emergency powers.
The appeal comes as President Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, governors, state legislatures, mayors, and local lawmakers across the United States battle over their proper respective roles in dealing with the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19.
State governors across the country have come under particularly heavy political fire for, in the views of their critics, authoritarianism by seizing extraordinary emergency powers, particularly related to business- and lifestyle-related pandemic regulations, and failing to be accountable. In the nearby states of Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic governors have been accused of overreach and some of their emergency powers have been taken away.
Indiana’s Republican governor is suing his fellow Republicans, State Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and State House Speaker Todd Huston, over a statute known as HEA 1123, which Holcomb argues violates the Indiana Constitution’s separation-of-powers provisions…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Indiana | October 25, 2021
Mike Pence Calls on SCOTUS to Overturn Roe: “It is Our Hope and Prayer” to End Abortion
Indiana | October 25, 2021
Vice President Mike Pence expressed strong hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade in the coming months and “restore the sanctity of life” to unborn babies.
Pence spoke to European leaders recently about his hopes during the Budapest Demographic Summit, a conservative political conference in Hungary, ABC News reports.
He lamented the societal breakdown of the family, calling it “a crisis that strikes at the very heart of civilization itself.” Pence warned of “the erosion of the nuclear family marked by declining marriage rates, rising divorce, widespread abortion and plummeting birth rates.”
After praising the falling abortion rates in Hungary under conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Pence said he hopes and prays that the same will happen in America, according to the report.
He pointed out that President Donald Trump appointed about 300 conservative judges to federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court refused to temporarily block a Texas pro-life law that is saving as many as 100 babies every day from abortion. Trump’s three appointees were part of the majority ruling…. (Excerpts from LIFENEWS.COM)
Indiana | October 5, 2021
Christian Teacher Forced to Resign After Refusing to Use ‘Transgender’ Students’ Preferred Pronouns Fights Back
Indiana | October 5, 2021
A high school music and orchestra teacher was forced to resign after a school district revoked his religious exemption from referring to “transgender” students by opposite-sex pronouns.
John Kluge, who was given the choice to resign or be fired, filed a lawsuit against the Brownsburg Community School Corporation for discrimination, but a lower court dismissed his case. He has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to uphold his religious accommodation.
Kluge serves as an ordained elder, worship leader, head of youth ministries, and director of Awana at his church…. (Excerpts from Black Community News)
Indiana | September 10, 2021
Pence slams Biden vaccine mandates: ‘Unlike anything I have ever heard’
Indiana | September 10, 2021
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday slammed President Biden‘s recently announced coronavirus vaccine mandates in an interview on Fox News, saying Biden’s announcement was “unlike anything I have ever heard from an American president.”
“To have the president of the United States say that he’s been patient, but his patience is wearing thin, that’s not how the American people expect to be spoken to by our elected leaders,” Pence, who has been floated as a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, told “Fox & Friends” in his first national television interview in nearly a year. “The president should simply continue, as we have done, to lead by example. Encourage people to take the vaccine, as Karen and I did on national television back in December,” he continued.
On Thursday, Biden announced that all private employers with 100 or more employees must require COVID-19 vaccination or daily testing for workers.
“What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see? We’ve made vaccinations free, safe and convenient. The vaccine has FDA approval, over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot,” Biden said, addressing unvaccinated Americans. “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and the refusal has cost all of us. So please do the right thing.”.. (Excerpts from The Hill)
Indiana | August 19, 2021
Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says
Indiana | August 19, 2021
In the November 2020 general election, whose chaotic results have been vigorously disputed, almost 15 million mail-in ballots went unaccounted for, according to a good-government group that focuses on electoral integrity.
The research brief by the Indianapolis-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) notes that as the nation dealt last year with the CCP virus (which causes COVID-19), various U.S. states “hastily pushed traditionally in-person voters to mail ballots while, at the same time, trying to learn how to even administer such a scenario.”
PILF describes itself as “the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity,” existing “to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections.”
Former Justice Department civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams, now president of PILF, said the results don’t bode well for mail-in voting.
“These figures detail how the 2020 push to mail voting needs to be a one-year experiment,” Adams said in a statement… (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
Indiana | April 26, 2021
Indiana signs law designating churches as essential services
Indiana | April 26, 2021
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a new law that prohibits the state government and its agencies from treating a religious body worse during a public health emergency than secular entities.
Known as Senate Enrolled Act 263 and signed Thursday, the legislation designates houses of worship as essential services and thus prohibits them from being treated worse than secular entities.
“Religious organizations provide essential services that are necessary for the health and welfare of the public during a disaster emergency,” reads SEA 263 in part.
“[T]he state and a political subdivision may not impose restrictions on … the operation of a religious organization; or … religious services that are more restrictive than the restrictions imposed on other businesses and organizations that provide essential services to the public.”..
(Excerpts from the Christian Post)