Crosstalk: August 22, 2016

 

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Jim Schneider brought listeners up to date on headlines from the past week. Stories included:

 

--Due to a surprise regulation published in the federal register yesterday,every bathroom, shower and locker room in every federal building in the nation is now open to people of any gender.

--Target announces that they will install single toilet bathrooms.

--The owner of 3 Michigan funeral homes is defending his right to require employees to dress on the job according to their biological sex in a federal case brought on behalf of a transgender who used to work as a funeral director.

--The Human Rights Campaign's Welcoming Schools Initiative released back-to-school tips for educators that include introducing LGBTQ topics into math word problemsand checking in on people's pronouns twice a year to increase accountability.

--Lawyers representing a group of 51 families in a Chicago suburb have asked a federal judge to temporarily suspend the school policy that grants transgenderstudents access to the girls restrooms and locker rooms.

--The U.S. Department of Agriculture is holding a series of summits to push therole of lesbian farmers as part of its rural pride campaign.

--The NBA has decided to hold their All-Star game in New Orleans instead of Charlotte, North Carolina, because of a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people.

--An effort is underway that seeks to remove a Wyoming judge from the bench because she won't perform so-called same-sex weddings.

--Gay and bisexual men comprised about 2% of the U.S. population in 2013 but they accounted for more than half of all Americans living with HIV according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

--Liberty Counsel has reported that Kim Davis has won her case for religious freedom after a federal judge issued an order dismissing all three 2015 marriage license lawsuits against her.

--The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has demanded that an Air Force major be aggressively punished because he had an open Bible on his desk at an Air Force Base.

--The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has launched an investigation into a video filmed at night at its Geneva campus depicting a mock ritual human sacrifice.

--A recent local assembly meeting in Alaska featured an opening prayer that was directed to Satan.

--A one-world religion metaphysical event will attempt to gather Muslims, Jews and Christians together to pray.

--President Obama will send the Trans-Pacific Partnership to Congress.

--The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months.

--In flood ravaged Louisiana, Homeland Security Director Jay Johnson responded to criticism that President Obama has not interrupted his summer vacation and his golf playing on Martha's Vineyard.

--The Obama administration facing renewed accusations from Republican lawmakers for putting national security at risk following the release of 15 more Guantanamo detainees.

--Damin Pashilk was arrested Monday and arraigned on 17 counts of arson in a West Coast fire estimated to have caused 10 million dollars in damage thus far.

--Liberal billionaire George Soros gave former Vice President Al Gore's

environmental group millions of dollars over 3 years.

--The Evangelical Lutheran Church is calling on the U.S. to end Israel's occupation of Palestine.

--Olympic Judo medalist Or Sasson described his encounter with his Egyptian opponent, Islam El Shehaby, who refused to shake his hand.

--A Denver TV station sends a jolting message to advocates of medical aid in dying, better known as 'assisted suicide'.

--Nancy Pelosi says that we need to fund Planned Parenthood to stop the Zika virus and then claimed it's for the babies.

--Donald Trump expresses regret over some of his comments during his campaign.

--North Korea threatens to destroy U.S. bases in the Asia/Pacific region.

--U.S. moving nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania.

--Iran acknowledges that Russia is using an Iranian base to strike Syria.

--Turkey to release 38,000 prisoners to make room for coup plotters.

--ISIS continues to think up horrifying new methods to execute captors and spies.

--Muslims looking to overhaul the culture of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

--According to the foreign affairs chairman, the 400 million dollar amount paid to Iran by the Obama administration was a ransom because it wasn't paid until after the prisoners were released.

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