The Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC) has long listed so many of our good and hard-working friends – Alliance Defending Freedom, American Family Association, American College of Pediatrics, many family policy councils, Moms for Liberty, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel, World Congress of Families, Society for Evidence-Based Medicine and the Ruth Institute —  as “hate groups.” But for some reason Focus on the Family was never listed among this august group.

But now, all that has changed. Focus on the Family has been added to the official SPLC “hate group” list.

Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly responded to the news by issuing the following statement.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has long perpetuated the dangerous and reckless myth that faithful Christians who adhere to the teachings of the Old and New Testaments and biological reality are hateful. Their inflammatory rhetoric has incited violence against innocent believers and fanned the very behaviors they claim to want to combat. It would appear that the SPLC, who has championed their faux hate list for years, always finds a way to hate Christians.

“Christian organizations like Focus on the Family adhere to the multi-millennia, divinely inspired beliefs that God created two immutable genders, and that marriage is a sacred institution between one man and one woman. But you don’t need a Bible to affirm natural marriage or the biological reality of two sexes — you just need common sense. While we’re all sinners in desperate need of a Savior, we hold, as Scripture commands, that sex outside of that heterosexual union is sinful.”

Maine’s House of Representatives must temporarily allow Representative Laurel Libby to vote again, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday.

The 7-2 decision comes almost three months after a slim majority of Maine representatives barred Libby from voting or speaking on legislation — unless she publicly apologized for criticizing boys’ participation in girls’ sports.

“This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself,” Libby wrote of the ruling on X, continuing:

“The Supreme Court has affirmed what should NEVER have been in question — that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking truthfully about issues that matter.”

The Supreme Court’s brief ruling contains no information from the majority.

Justice Sotomayor wrote she would not grant Libby an injunction, but did not explain why. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored a five-page dissent criticizing the court for offering emergency relief in cases that aren’t true emergencies.

Libby filed an emergency petition with SCOTUS on April 28 after a whirlwind legal battle that began with a simple Facebook post.

Less than ten days after the post went live, Libby’s colleagues voted to censure her for violating Maine’s Legislative Code of Ethics “in an effort to advance her political agenda.”

It must have been a slow news week, because many media outlets are feverishly covering Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Wednesday morning prayer service at the Pentagon.

In past generations, such an event would have been seen as normal — not newsworthy.

The New York Times spent four pages reporting on the event, noting that the defense secretary “led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader.”

The Times reports the service was titled the “Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer & Worship Service.”

“[The event] was standing room only and ran for about 30 minutes, with Brooks Potteiger, the pastor of Mr. Hegseth’s church in Tennessee, as the main speaker,” the outlet notes, before adding, “The service is part of an increasing infusion of overt Christian evangelization in official government events during Mr. Trump’s second term.”

In his remarks at the service, the secretary said,

“This is precisely where I need to be, and I think exactly where we need to be as a nation, at this moment, in prayer, on bended knee recognizing the providence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

“Knowing that there’s an author in heaven overseeing all of this, who’s underwritten all of it, for us, on the cross, gives me the strength to proceed.”

On Thursday, May 22, during a press conference at the White House, the Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again released an important assessment on the declining health of our children, validating the concerns of MAHA moms.

The 72-page report, titled “Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment” is the first of two projects President Trump assigned to the Make America Healthy Again Commission in February through Executive Order 14212.

The Commission was charged with assessing the chronic childhood disease crisis by May and developing a strategy to reverse the trend by August.

At the press event today, President Trump and Secretary Kennedy discussed the Commission’s findings and recommitted to the important goal of making our kids healthy again.

Some of the disturbing facts cited by the Commission’s assessment include that over 40% of U.S. children suffer from at least one chronic condition and over 75% of American youth are unfit to serve in the military “primarily due to obesity, poor physical fitness, and/or mental health challenges.”

The assessment boldly promises to confront the underlying problems of childhood disease and begin to roll it back the crisis.

“During this administration, we will begin reversing the childhood chronic disease crisis by confronting its root causes — not just its symptoms.”