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Education, Culture & the Family
Teacher unions and the sexualization of children
As parents and educators alike continue to push back against gender indoctrination, the true culprit in the sexualization of children at school is clear: teachers’ unions.Maddie Dermon | July 24, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
OEA parent organization vows to support youth sex-change surgeries
The national parent organization of the Oklahoma Education Association has vowed to spend member funds fighting against state laws that restrict school bathroom access based on sex and laws that prevent children from undergoing sex-change surgeries.Ray Carter | July 14, 2023
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
OCPA praises Supreme Court ruling favoring religious liberty
OCPA President Jonathan Small said the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis preserves citizens’ core right to religious liberty and free speech.Staff | June 30, 2023
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Culture & the Family
Family focus desperately needed
If we truly care for children, those who are lonely, the most vulnerable, and the future, then we must focus on building and empowering strong families.Jonathan Small | June 21, 2023
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Budget & Tax, Culture & the Family
After Oklahoma veto override, Sesame Street touts transgenderism
Within a week of Oklahoma lawmakers’ overriding Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of OETA reauthorization, Sesame Street was touting transgenderism to children.Ray Carter | June 20, 2023
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Culture & the Family
SPLC says Oklahoma parent organizations are ‘hate’ groups
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has redefined the phrase “hate group” to include concerned parents. Says one U.S. senator, “the SPLC is a corrupt slush fund devoted to defamation.”Ray Carter | June 9, 2023
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
Stitt’s OETA veto draws support
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decision to veto legislation reauthorizing the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), the state’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) entity, has drawn national attention and prompted much pearl-clutching from his critics. But the move is drawing support from some Oklahoma lawmakers and a good-government organization.Ray Carter | May 10, 2023
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Culture & the Family
Brecheen, Lankford seek answers after experiments on children
U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Coalgate, and U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., are asking why the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to spend millions of dollars on transgender youth studies after one recent NIH-funded study on the impact of cross-sex hormones on transgender youth involved the suicides of two participants even as 11 other subjects considered killing themselves.Ray Carter | May 9, 2023
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Culture & the Family
Oklahoma hospital prevails against Biden administration
Facing the threat of a lawsuit and encountering widespread public backlash and ridicule, the Biden administration has backed down in its efforts to effectively force the closure of an Oklahoma Catholic hospital because it maintains a “living flame” candle in its chapel.Ray Carter | May 8, 2023
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Culture & the Family
Biden administration threatens Tulsa hospital over candle
The Biden administration has threatened to strip Saint Francis Hospital South of accreditation that allows it to serve Medicare and Medicaid patients because the hospital maintains an eternally lit candle as a religious symbol in its hospital chapel, according to a legal organization representing the hospital.Ray Carter | May 4, 2023