The American Press, and other links

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• Chapter 10: Deliberating The Arguments -- “...we should also embrace the biblical promises from God concerning preservation, thereby approaching the issue both scripturally and scholastically.”
• DA: Pregnant woman, boyfriend fatally stabbed woman after social distancing argument -- “He says Price-Green may have gotten too close to Toran when she stepped back, leading to the verbal altercation.”
• DOJ Has Been on an Indictment Spree Against Violent Anarchists -- “Since late May and early June, violence has erupted in leftist cities around the country and the Department of Justice has wasted no time indicting and arresting violent rioters.”
• How fast food got caught in the crossfire of viral social debates -- “Welp. It’s unfortunate that thanking a customer for a compliment back in 2012 would be viewed as political. Guess that’s 2020 for ya.”
• LGBT Rights Supreme Court Ruling Is a Power Play by Gorsuch -- “The ground on which Gorsuch is fighting is the theory of statutory interpretation known as “textualism.” The basic idea is that...the overwhelming focus of statutory interpretation should be the words of the law itself: the text.”
• Macron says France won’t remove statues, erase history -- “I will be very clear tonight, compatriots: the Republic won’t erase any name from its history. It will forget none of its artworks, it won’t take down statues.”
• Missing Tallahassee activist, 19, and woman, 75, found dead, police say -- “On June 6, she tweeted that she was molested by a black man in his mid-40s who offered to give her a ride to find a place to sleep. That was the last day Salau was seen alive.”
• Muhammad Ali’s son said his dad wouldn’t have supported Black Lives Matter movement or protests over George Floyd’s death -- “In 2016, Ali’s most famous child, television personality and retired boxer Laila Ali, made similar statement, saying, ‘All lives matter’.”
• Small Beginnings: C. H. Spurgeon at Waterbeach -- “Before he was the pastor of the largest of church in London...C. H. Spurgeon pastored a small Baptist church in the village of Waterbeach...”
• The American Press Is Destroying Itself -- “Today no one with a salary will stand up for colleagues like Lee Fang. Our brave truth-tellers make great shows of shaking fists at our parody president, but not one of them will talk honestly about the fear running through their own newsrooms.”
• The 5 weirdest rules unveiled for MLB's shortened 2020 season -- “In the name of reducing playtime and person-to-person exposure, teams playing extra innings this season will start with a runner on second base.”
• The 7 Largest Cemeteries in the World -- “The largest cemetery in the world spans nearly 1500 acres.”
• Trolling Is a Terrible Way to Write Laws -- “There are many different angles here, some of which involve larger debates about the role of courts, how to read law, and what socially conservative voters expect from conservative judges.”
• UK’s Sunak sees ‘enormous difference’ after social distance review -- “Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced the review a week ago, has said he will do everything he can to get the country back to normal as soon as possible without risking lives.”
• 4 Reasons Pastors Ought to Be Gentle -- “...gentleness is not only godlike in general, but Christlike in specific.”