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The Department of Labor announced in May an update to overtime regulations. The ramifications for employers are significant. Nonprofits, including churches, are not exempt from these rules.

Frontline Ministries, Inc., and the Exodus Mandate Project announced today that a “Mass Exodus” of children from the public school system is the only logical response to the transgender bathroom edict by the Obama Administration. Sadly, the response of many Christian leaders and pastors has been silence or simply whining or complaining that cannot change the situation to protect the children. These leaders offer weak solutions or advocate “conservative school reform” rather than call for an exodus of children into the sanctuary of K-12 Christian schools and homeschooling.

Katie Short, VP of Legal Affairs for the Life Legal Defense Foundation, appeared in federal court yesterday afternoon with attorneys for the Thomas More Society on behalf of David Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress (CMP) in the case of Planned Parenthood v. CMP. Yesterday’s hearing addressed Life Legal’s Motion to Dismiss Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against Daleiden as well as our “Anti-SLAPP” Motion. A SLAPP, or Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, is an impermissible lawsuit filed solely for the purpose of harassing, intimidating, and silencing a defendant. California provides special procedures to protect defendants in SLAPP suits. In this case, Planned Parenthood, a 100-year old corporation with annual revenue exceeding $1.3 billion, filed suit against 27-year-old David Daleiden and his small non-profit organization the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) in order to punish David for releasing documentation exposing the abortion cartel’s role in the trafficking of the bodies of aborted children, as well as to chill him and other from conducting further investigations. Planned Parenthood is seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages and attorney fees from Daleiden and his fellow investigators.

THE FIGHT WITHIN—a muscular faith film set in the rough-and-tumble world of MMA (mixed martial arts)—premieres in limited theatrical release, nationwide Aug. 12, from GVN Releasing. With a mashup of faith, fighting and romance, the film’s producers aim to attract a wide audience.

Dating site ChristianMingle, among others, must make same-sex matches, according to a recent settlement.

U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves issued an injunction blocking HB 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.”