Arkansas Catholic Diocese stays above the fray on bills against transgender children
Arkansas Catholic Diocese stays above the fray on bills against transgender children
April 9, 20213:01 pm This mosaic of Empress Theodora and her attendants includes Anasthasia the Patrician, a Catholic saint who lived much of her life as a man.
The Catholic Church holds the view that gender and biological sex are one and the same, but the church also opposes bullying, and that’s why the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock did not weigh in on a recent attack on transgender children.
An article went out Thursday in the Arkansas Catholic, a print and online newspaper for the Diocese of Little Rock, explaining the decision to take no stand on House Bill 1570 that bans gender-affirming therapies for transgender youth.
Denver Newsroom, Apr 8, 2021 / 21:19 pm America/Denver (CNA).
The legislature of Arkansas on April 6 overrode a veto from the governor of a bill outlawing gender-transition procedures, including surgeries and hormone treatments, for minors in the state.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, praised the bill’s passage as a protective measure for children in the state.
“Our laws should protect every child’s opportunity to have a natural childhood. While approaches may differ, we should all agree that there is nothing natural or healthy about pumping kids full of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones,” Christiana Holcomb, legal counsel for ADF, said in a statement to CNA.
Arkansas bans most abortions in bid to challenge Roe v Wade 03/11/2021 at 5:01 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency, March 10, 2021
Arkansas is the latest state to pass legislation banning almost all abortions, in an effort to prompt the Supreme Court to revisit and overturn
Roe v. Wade.
Governor Asa Hutchinson on March 9 signed Senate Bill 6, also known as the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection Act, which bans abortions except when medically necessary to save the life of the mother.
The law provides for an “unclassified felony” for anyone who performs an abortion in the state except in a medical emergency, with a fine of up to $100,000, ten years in prison, or both.
CWN Editor s Note: Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock has contracted Covid, according to an article on a new Latin Mass parish in northwestern Arkansas.
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