News Roundup and Comment

Look to Crosstalk each Friday for news stories from around the world of interest to Christians. Stories included-----Jim highlighted a column by Riley Gaines and put out by Fox News that deals with the Progress Pride flag. This flag is, -...aimed at supporting individuals who feel marginalized despite living in the most diverse and inclusive society in the history of the world.- She communicated the contrast between this flag and our American flag and what the latter stands for.----There's a memo circulating internally at 24 Hour Fitness reportedly labeling symbols associated with Black Lives Matter and LGBT pride as freedom of expression while banning patriotic imagery.----3 teenage boys in Spokane, Washington, could face up to 5 years in jail and up to -10,000 in fines for putting skid marks on a rainbow colored street mural with their scooters.----The board of supervisors for the city of San Francisco declared the city a sanctuary city for transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary and two-spirit people.----A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday stopped the Biden administration's new Title IX protections. ----House Republicans are eyeing this year's must-pass defense policy bill as a vehicle to combat left-wing Biden administration policies on diversity, LGBTQ representation and gender ideology.----This June is under a travel advisory for worldwide caution for unspecified, potential violence against homosexuals and gender confused Americans according to the U.S. State Department.----The executive director of a Columbus, Georgia, pride organization was arrested Wednesday after police discovered a trove of drugs and paraphernalia and a .38 revolver at his home.