18 December 2024

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“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Supreme Court Sides with First Amendment in Landmark  Colorado Case

[2] Colorado Baker Jack Phillips Wins Major Victory after Twelve-Year Persecution

Additional Articles of Interest

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[1] Supreme Court Sides with First Amendment in Landmark  Colorado Case

America’s Bill of Rights is the most robust protection of individual civil rights in the history of Gentile nations. It is the product of an experiment that began in England with the Magna Carta of the 13th century and concluded with the founding of the United States of America in the 18th. Though America’s Bill of Rights is under vicious assault and has been weakened over the past century and more by Congress and the Courts, it still offers protections far greater than those enjoyed by citizens of other nations. While America is ridiculously marked as a systemically racist, fundamentally evil nation by the Woke, CRT crowd, multitudes have been willing to sacrifice life and limb to live there. The following is excepted from “Colorado agrees to pay,” Standing for Freedom, Nov. 21, 2024: “The state of Colorado has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in attorneys’ fees for violating the free speech rights of Lorie Smith, a web designer and plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case 303 Creative v. Elenis. Smith brought her challenge to Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act in 2016, claiming that the law violated her First Amendment rights by compelling her to create messages that violate her conscience. Smith, a devout Christian, wanted to create websites celebrating traditional weddings, but faced the possibility of being punished by the state if she refused to also celebrate same-sex weddings. … Smith’s challenge to the law also reached the Supreme Court, which ruled in the summer of 2023 that Colorado’s law violated Smith’s free speech rights. The Court noted that Smith served customers of all groups including homosexuals; she simply did not want to be forced to create websites for homosexual weddings, an act which violates her religious beliefs. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored the majority opinion of the Court, wrote, ‘?e First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. … The First Amendment’s protections belong to all, not just to speakers whose motives the government finds worthy. In this case, Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance.’”

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[2] Colorado Baker Jack Phillips Wins Major Victory after Twelve-Year Persecution

The following is excerpted from “Baker Jack Phillips,” CBN, Nov. 2, 2024: “Christian baker Jack Phillips has been locked in a long legal battle over his refusal to make cakes for a same-sex wedding and a gender transition. But after over a decade of court battles, Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, recently won a major victory at the Colorado Supreme Court–something over which he’s elated. … The baker first found himself in the crosshairs more than a decade ago, when he declined to make a same-sex wedding cake. After that case made its way through the courts, he again found himself facing a new battle after he refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. ‘I want to make it clear that, at Masterpiece Cakeshop, we serve everybody, but we can’t create every cake with every message that people ask us to,’ Phillips said. ‘In … the first case, the two men asked me to create a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding. To me, a wedding cake has an inherent message, and that’s a message I couldn’t express.’ … [T]he second case surrounded a person he described as an ‘activist attorney’ who called and requested yet another cake Phillips couldn’t in good conscience make. ‘[the individual] asked if we could create a cake that was pink on the inside and blue on the outside,’ Phillips said. ‘And then we were told that those colors were symbolic of celebration of changing gender, and then it became a message that I couldn’t create. … Phillips, he also spoke about what it’s been like to be dragged through the courts almost endlessly over the past twelve years. ‘It’s been a very encouraging time, though it seems like it shouldn’t.’ Phillips said he decided to keep fighting rather than throw in the towel, appealing to the Bible to express his motivation for seeing the case to its conclusion. … Phillips said it is God who provides the strength to enable us to be committed to Him and to find solace in our faith. It’s through that dynamic that he’s found his own ability to persist in peace. ‘Just knowing that God is in control of all these issues and I can trust Him implicitly for everything,’ he said. ‘that’s pretty much what’s helped keep us going.’ Ultimately, Phillips said it’s essential to take a stand for truth, regardless of pushback. ‘We have to stand for what we believe, and we get what we believe from God’s Word, the Bible,’ he said.”

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– BOMBSHELL Study: Covid ‘Vaccines’ Alter Human Behavior

– Australian Excess Deaths Are Highly Correlated with the Number of COVID Booster Vaccinations

– Syrian Christians in ‘Grave Danger’ As Islamist Militias Take over Aleppo