January 2019
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Continuing the U.S. Bishops' work of promoting and defending marriage.
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The Dating Podcast: January 2019
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To kick off 2019, January's "Made for Love" episodes are all about Catholics in the dating world. It is ROUGH out there, people! Here's the schedule:
January 1:
The Dating Podcast: Young Adults
This episode focuses on young adults and college students, featuring Dr. Kerry Cronin of
"The Dating Project"
fame. (Check out the trailer below!)
January 4: The Dating Podcast: Healthy Habits
This episode focuses on approaching dating in a healthy way.
January 11: The Dating Podcast: Stories
This episode features stories about dating-- successes and failures.
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We also have
a flyer
that you could download, print, and put up at your parish or in your office to help spread the word!
REMINDER: If you listen to "Made for Love" through iTunes,
the podcast is now available under its own name
(not only through USCCB Clips) and it would help a lot if you would leave a review! This should make it much easier for people to find, subscribe, and tell their friends.
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REMINDER: If you listen to "Made for Love" through iTunes,
the podcast is now available under its own name
(not only through USCCB Clips) and it would help a lot if you would leave a review! This should make it much easier for people to find, subscribe, and tell their friends.
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All the USCCB's action alerts for legislative priorities are available at one website. There you can contact your representatives and make your voice heard.
Check it out!
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Military “Transgender Ban”
– On December 13, the Dept. of Justice, which in November had asked the Supreme Court to bypass the normal appeals process, again
approached
the Supreme Court and, this time, asked for temporary stays against three lower courts’ adverse preliminary rulings. These rulings have denied the Trump Administration’s ability to not implement the “transgender” service and care policies that were launched in mid-2016 by the Obama Administration.
Jack is Back
– The Christian Baker, Jack Phillips, continues to persevere in his third case opposite the State of Colorado, which already
lost
in the US Supreme Court in June on account of its hostility to his beliefs in declining to make a custom cake for a same-sex wedding. On December 18, the federal district court
held an initial hearing
in his suit to stop the state from forcing him to bake a cake to celebrate a “gender transition.”
Colorado
has been quite busy on this front. On November 30, the State began issuing driver’s licenses with “X” and “I” sex options. On December 19, the Board of Health, as part of a lawsuit settlement,
voted
to allow people to change the sex on their birth certificates without surgery; and, on the same day, a committee of the Denver City Council began
debating a ban
on “conversion therapy” for minors.
New York Adoption Case
– To prevent being shut down or forced to surrender its tenets by the State, for not placing children in the care of same-sex or cohabiting couples, a privately-funded pregnancy center and adoption agency, New Hope Family Services of Syracuse, NY,
sued
State officials on December 6.
Idaho
– On December 13, 2018, a federal court
ordered
Idaho
to provide “gender confirmation” surgery to a male who had lived for years as a woman in a men’s prison.
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