Patrick Richardson

2 weeks ago | readlion.com | Michael Ryan |Patrick Richardson |Joy Stockbauer |Tom Joyce

Kansas lawmakers Thursday overrode the governor’s veto of a bill restricting COVID-style shutdowns and another bill protecting people of faith in fostering and adopting children. The Substitute for Senate Bill 29 will convert COVID-style shutdown orders by state and local health officials into recommendations only that must be approved by an elected body. It also prohibits the use of law enforcement officers to enforce health orders on individuals, such as quarantines and mask or vaccine mandates.

1 month ago | readlion.com | Patrick Richardson |Tom Joyce

(The Sentinel) – According to the Daily Caller, some children’s hospitals across the country are continuing to provide so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors — despite an executive order removing federal funding for such “care.”Indeed, the Daily Caller reports that dozens of federally-funded hospitals — including one in Kansas — continue to provide gender-affirming care to children.

1 month ago | readlion.com | Tate Miller |Patrick Richardson |Bethany Blankley |Reagan Reese

(The Center Square) – Western Washington University’s LGBTQ center offers hormone treatments, trans-affirming voice therapy and an annual drag show, as well as an LGBTQ orientation and graduation. Western Washington is the third largest public university in the state, according to its website.

2 months ago | readlion.com | James Lalino |John Ransom |Patrick Richardson

(The Daily Signal) – “Despite the occupation, despite the apartheid, Palestine will one day be free,” declared Mahmoud Kutmah, the valedictorian of Kentucky Country Day School’s class of 2021, at the end of his graduation speech.