PART SEVENTEEN--MORE RECENT NEWS FOR OUR FAITH-BASED READERS & HISTORY BUFFS TOO, OREGON GOV SUED, BARRETT, LAOS CHRISTIANS EVICTED, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, THE BIBLE, ETC., STATUES OF LINCOLN AND ROOSEVELT TOPPLED, PORTLAND OF COURSE

Continuing our series for our faith-based readers and history buffs too...by far one of the most well-traveled series here at the blog as concern mounts over the riots, "protests", Orwelian attempts to cancel history, etc. Here's the latest sad news--proceed at your own risk...

--OREGON GOV. SUED; allows public schools to re-open but not private and religious schools...A small Christian school in Oregon is suing Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and other Oregon officials after claiming the state is discriminating against private and religious schools by keeping them locked down while allowing public schools to reopen.The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of Hermiston Christian School, a K-12 school in Hermiston, Oregon, which has a student body of 51. MORE AT https://www.dailywire.com/news/small-christian-school-sues-oregon-governor-for-shutting-private-religious-schools-while-letting-public-schools-reopen?utm_source=Jeeng

--AMY CONEY BARRETT AND HER PEOPLE OF PRAISE COMMUNITY  https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-and-her-people-of-praise-community-1.html

--MORE FROM TOM FARANDA'S FOLLY:Great column: on SC Justices reading the Bible and the Constitution

--LAOS: Christians evicted from their homes for not renouncing faith - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-10/laos-persecution-seven-christians-faith.html

AND ON 10/12, MORE STATUE DESTRUCTION/VANDALISM: Portland protesters topple statues of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln in ‘Day of Rage’; police declare riot Updated 1:08 AM; Today 9:10 PM -- A group of protesters toppled statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and shattered the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in Portland’s South Park Blocks late Sunday before moving into other areas of downtown, smashing storefronts and engaging in other acts of destruction. Police declared the event a riot and ordered people rampaging through the city’s streets to disperse but did not directly intervene until nearly an hour after the first statue fell. See more at https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/10/protesters-topple-portland-statues-of-theodore-roosevelt-abraham-lincoln-in-day-of-rage.html

SEE PART SIXTEEN OF THIS SERIES--MORE RECENT NEWS FOR OUR FAITH-BASED READERS & HISTORY BUFFS TOO, ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT ON ANTI-CATHOLIC BIAS, FROM THE ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH 10/4 BULLETIN, 1st AMENDMENT ISSUES, JEFFERSON HEADSTONE AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/10/part-sixteen-more-recent-news-for-our.html

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