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The Failure of the UK ‘Marriage Allowance’

Jul 19, 2023 |

The Marriage Allowance was always a token at best, worth little more than a few hundred pounds. It is also hugely complex—claimed through an annual tax assessment rather than paid up front in cash.
Even marriage advocates would agree the allowance has been a failure: take-up has been low, marriage rates have continued to decline at an alarming rate, and recent analysis by the Civitas think tank shows £2.4 billion (or $3 billion in U.S. dollars) has been left unclaimed by married couples…Recent analysis suggests that there will be almost no new marriages by 2062 if the current trend away from marriage continues at its alarming pace.

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What’s Going On With Porn Age Verification Laws

What’s Going On With Porn Age Verification Laws

Jul 19, 2023 | ,

Since the legislation was passed, porn industry groups are suing Utah over the age verification law…A new bill, passed in May 2023, has recently gone into effect in Virginia,  requiring users to provide identification before viewing websites with nudity or sexual content. The bill has already caused some privacy and free speech advocates to call out its “far-reaching” effects. Similarly, Pornhub responded by insisting the new law would not apply to all adult content providers equally, adding that their current system “to identify users by their device and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that identification” was a more effective way to prevent underage consumers’ access.

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Judge Blocks Iowa’s Six-Week Abortion Ban

Judge Blocks Iowa’s Six-Week Abortion Ban

Jul 19, 2023 |

Reynolds was quick to respond to her latest legal setback. “The abortion industry’s attempt to thwart the will of Iowans and the voices of their elected representatives continues today, but I will fight this all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court where we expect a decision that will finally provide justice for the unborn,” Reynolds said in a statement Monday.
The judge noted that he was forced to apply the undue-burden standard left in place when the state supreme court deadlocked last month.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses FBI of targeting Catholics while ignoring pro-abortion extremists

Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses FBI of targeting Catholics while ignoring pro-abortion extremists

Jul 19, 2023 | ,

Greene said: “The FBI targeted Catholics attending Latin Mass, putting agents inside a Latin Mass but yet not going after Jane’s Revenge, the radical group that was firebombing pregnancy resource centers. This is who the FBI is, and that is why they have to be held accountable.”
Wray’s latest testimony comes after Greene filed articles of impeachment against him for unfairly suppressing pro-lifers and Catholics in May and after the FBI director previously defended his agency’s actions against Houck during a Fox News interview.

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United Church of Christ urges churches to help ‘pregnant people’ get abortions    

United Church of Christ urges churches to help ‘pregnant people’ get abortions    

Jul 19, 2023 |

The UCC resolution claimed that “a majority of Americans support legal abortion in all or most cases” and that state abortion bans can threaten “the lives of pregnant people,” as well as “deepen unequal access to comprehensive reproductive care” for minority communities. The resolution supports “resisting by peaceful means, including civil disobedience, any laws banning abortions, and calls upon every setting of the United Church of Christ to use Just Peace practices to confront abortion bans and restrictions on reproductive healthcare.”
“Christianity always has taught that every human life is valuable, and killing innocent people is evil. But some churches, including a number of shrinking Protestant denominations like the UCC, have abandoned this teaching in recent years.”

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