Supreme Court Denies Case of Christian Parents Whose Trans-Identifying Child Was Taken From Them By Talla Wise CBN

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up the case of two Indiana parents who asked the court to intervene after the state’s Department of Child Services took their trans-identifying child away from them due to their Biblical beliefs about sex and gender.

This week the high court denied a writ of certiorari in the case of M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) submitted by Jeremy and Mary Cox.

The Indiana Family Institute along with Becket Law, a non-profit legal group, presented the petition on behalf of the parents who wanted the Supreme Court to hold the state accountable for removing their child from their home. 

Our world is becoming increasingly combative against Biblical Family values and parental rights. How can the Supreme Court rule against loving parents who are raising their own children accordingly to their values. Why is evil being accepted and traditional values under attack. Conclusion (IMO) evil and demonic powers are feeding off our immoral society. RH

“No other loving parents should have to endure what we did. The pain of having our son taken from our home and kept from our care because of our beliefs will stay with us forever,” said the couple in a statement after the Supreme Court’s announcement. 

“We can’t change the past, but we will continue to fight for a future where parents of faith can raise their children without fear of state officials knocking on their doors and taking their children,” they added. 

As CBN News previously reported, DCS initiated an investigation of the Cox’s home because they were not referring to their son with a cross-gender name and pronouns, nor were they endorsing their child’s self-identification as a girl because of their Christian beliefs.

DCS pressed for the child’s removal from the home arguing, “We just feel that at this point in time… she should be in a home where she is [accepted] for who she is.”

A trial court removed the Cox’s son from the home and barred them from speaking to him about the topic of sex and gender.

Court documents contend that the child, identified as A.C., was removed from the home partly because of a severe eating disorder that allegedly could have gotten worse if he had returned home. 

Although DCS voluntarily dismissed all allegations that Mary and Jeremy abused or neglected their child, an Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s decision ruling the restriction on the parents’ religious instruction was permissible under state and federal constitutions.

The couple was only allowed to visit their son for 2-3 hours a week, but all other contact was limited. He eventually aged out of the foster care system while out of their custody.

Joel – A Prescription for Revival

Below is a short devotion in outline form for the need and the steps that God proclaimed to the prophet Joel to bring revival to the land. Anyone can plainly see America is on the brink. We need morality and Godliness in our nation. God is so merciful to hear and forgive out sins. Please take a moment to read and pray through the devotion. Remember mercy is not getting what we deserve. 

    A Call To Repentance (Joel 1:13-15)

Warning

a. Gird yourselves and lament, you priests: Joel called the religious leaders to lead the nation in repentance. He told the priests to gird yourselves for repentance, the idea being “prepare to do the work of repentance.”

i. Joel also told them how to do the work of repentance.

· Consecrate a fast: Make getting right with God so important that even eating isn’t significant.

· Call a sacred assembly: Call for God’s people to come together and repent.

· Gather the elders: Bring the elders together to lead in this act of repentance.

· Into the house of the LORD your God: Come to the place where you should meet together with God.

· And cry out to the LORD: Finally, simply cry out to God and trust that He will respond in mercy.

Joel 2:12-17

Action

a. Now, therefore…turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning: Because they heard the warning of judgment, God’s people should repent. It doesn’t make their repentance less valid because they had to be scared into it. The important thing is that they turn back to the LORD in sincerity, and God tells them how.

i. Sincere repentance is to turn to God, and therefore away from our sin.

ii. Sincere repentance is done with all your heart, giving everything you can in surrender to God.

iii. Sincere repentance is marked by action (with fasting) and emotion (with weeping…mourning). Not every act of repentance will include fasting and weeping, but if action and emotion are absent, it isn’t real repentance.

Rend your heart, and not your garments: One expression of mourning in Jewish culture was, and is, the tearing of the clothes. It was a way to say, “I am so overcome with grief that I don’t care if my clothes are ruined and I look bad.” Joel knew that someone could tear their garments without tearing their heart, and he described the kind of heart-repentance that really pleases God.

Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not give Your heritage to reproach: Joel puts a rich prayer of repentance into the mouths of God’s priests. It’s as if the priests should pray with the thought, “How can we persuade God to have mercy on us?”

i. Spare: This implies that God’s people deserve judgment, but they plead for mercy.

ii. Your people: This reminds God that they belong to Him and provides another motivation for mercy.

iii. Do not give Your heritage to reproach: This tells God that mercy to His people will bring Him glory among the nations and that judgment may bring His name into discredit.

Joel 2:28-32

Result

It shall come to pass afterward: After the restoration Joel spoke of previously in the chapter, there will come a time of ultimate restoration and blessing. This latter time will be marked by an outpouring of God’s Spirit on all flesh – not only selected men at selected times for selected duties. Rh

    Warning Signs for America in 2024  

Looking ahead to this year of 2024, I believe it could be one of the most chaotic years that we have ever experienced.  Obviously we have an election for president this coming year. We have ongoing conflicts and wars that are raging around the world, from Russia and Ukraine to the war in the Middle East.  What will China do with Taiwan?  Religious and ethnic cleansing in Indonesia and South Africa. It truly is a world of conflicts and war with nation against nation and tribe against tribe.

Now let’s take a look at what might be in store for the United States.  Our southern border is wide open and ready for business. Allowing this to happen is treason!  Where are our law and order politicians on this issue? It’s estimated that maybe 12 million people have crossed the border in the last few years.  This is a direct invasion of other countries into the sovereign state of our country.  Major US cities are facing hardships as they try to deal with the influx of unwanted illegals that now need to be housed, fed and taken care of.  I believe this is the number one issue facing our country at present time, due to the fact that this would destroy the fabric of America.  Our language, allegiance to the flag, governmental philosophies and our culture are being destroyed, as wave after wave of illegals are allowed into our nation. 

We look forward to and hope for a positive election coming in November.  However, if the 2020 election was stolen as it surely was, how in the world do we expect this election to be fair and free as our constitution declares.  No doubt there will be shenanigans again that will cast doubt upon the validity of our next president.  Unfortunately nothing has been done to secure a fair election.  

Inflation has skyrocketed with approximately 60% now living paycheck to paycheck with an astounding amount of credit card debt. Bloomberg reports that 70% of office buildings in New York and San Francisco could default as their leases are renewed. One trillion worth of bonds have to be refinanced soon. That has risen from $7 trillion since Bush left office to over $34 trillion at the present time.  Look for a new housing crisis again!  Mortgages are being given to people that have little or no down payment.

We had become socially apostate. We live in a modern day Sodom. Our ruling class politicians and left wing Luciferians in this country have put morality and murder on the ballot. You don’t like your baby well you’ve got thirty days to decide if you want to keep it or not. Abortions are the curse of America. God will not sit idly by forever until he judges this country for its infatuation with death and destruction in the shedding of innocent blood.  

How could we have fallen so fast?  The majority of churches in America are deaf, dumb and blind to what is going on. I pray God shakes us, and awakens us to see the pitiful condition that we are in today.

My focus this year is on repentance and restoration. We need revival to enliven and bring the church back to its fundamental roots. We also need a move of God that will transcend. denominational lines and cultures and bring genuine repentance and restoration to the United States of America.  If not, we face a diminished role in the world, and due to the destructive nature of our moral code, we will crumble.  The scary part of everything I said is that we are still the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. God help us all.