1. Southern Baptist: Large Drop of Members
The Southern Baptist Convention lost more than 457,000 members in 2022. That’s the largest drop in membership in 100 years.
Total SBC membership went from approximately 13.68 million members in 2021 to 13.22 million members in 2022.
There are 416 fewer member churches in the SBC, going from 47,614 in 2021 to 47,198 in 2022, but it’s still the largest Protestant denomination.
2. Christian Discrimination By CVS
Paige Casey is a young nurse practitioner. For years, she faithfully worked as a nurse practitioner at a local CVS MinuteClinic in Virginia. When she was hired, she made her employer aware that her Catholic faith prevented her from prescribing or dispensing abortion-inducing drugs.
CVS accommodated her religious conviction for three-and-a-half-years and didn’t require her to administer any life-ending drugs.
But then in 2022, they told Paige they would no longer allow her religious freedom. A few months later, she was fired-just two days after earning a performance-based raise. This is blatant religious discrimination, and according to Virginia law – it’s illegal.
Alliance Defending Freedom is filing a lawsuit against CVS on behalf of Paige.
3. Your Tax Money: Funding Minor Children Sex Change Drug Experimentations
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded a study on mostly minors who purported to identify as transgender, in which they were given cross-sex hormones over the course of two years.
The Boston Children’s Hospital, the University of California at San Francisco, and the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, all received a $477,444 five-year grant from NIH.
4. Supreme Court Loss: Christian Colleges and Transgender Housing
The Supreme Court declined to take up a Christian College’s challenge to the federal government’s directive on housing for transgender people.
College of the Ozarks, a Christian school in Missouri, challenged the Biden administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development noting that discriminating on the basis of gender identity was unlawful.
Lower Court Judicial Activists ruled against the college.
“The College’s code of conduct specifies that residence halls are single sex and assigned by biological sex, not gender identity,” the school argued. “The Government’s rule to change now deems the College’s housing polices to be discriminatory and its speech unlawful.”
Without comment, the high court declined to take up the school’s appeal.