Editorials

College of the Ozarks is a small, private, Christian college located in Point Lookout, Mo. Although the college may be small in size, it has made a big-time splash with news that it is suing President Biden over his anti-discrimination executive order that would force the college to abandon its religious principles in favor of gender politics.

Once again, President Biden’s press secretary has said that President “respectfully disagrees” with Catholic bishops, this time on federally-funded fetal tissue research. Last week at a press briefing, EWTN News Nightly reporter Owen Jensen asked Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, about the Biden Administration’s recent decision to remove restrictions on federally-funded fetal tissue research.

The level of Christian persecution has reached a record high globally, according to watchdog organization Open Doors. The organization announced the disturbing news in its 2021 World Watch List that ranks the top 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be Christian — and exposes startling shifts in the landscape of global religious persecution.

Once again, there is hope for the Born-Alive Act. Setting a record for first-day signatures on a discharge petition, 202 members of the House of Representatives last week signed the discharge petition filed by Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fl.), joined by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House Whip, and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the House floor for a vote.

At a press briefing last week, the White House said that President Joe Biden “has a difference of opinion” with Catholics who are concerned that the Equality Act would trample conscience rights and religious liberty. Owen Jensen of EWTN News Nightly asked Jen Psaki, White House press secretary: “What does the President, who we know is Catholic, say to Catholic doctors, Catholic institutions, who are fearful that if the Equality Act passes, it has the potential to trample on their conscience rights?”