Daily Dispatch 6/21/24: Gateway Leaders Found Morris Resignation "Difficult", And More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Audio captured during a Gateway Church staff meeting, called to announce the resignation of Pastor Robert Morris, includes a board member calling accepting the resignation as a "difficult" decision: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gateway-church-leader-announces-robert-morris-resignation-audio-rcna158026

...Due to Texas' statute of limitations, Morris is unlikely to be charged - and efforts to change that statute have met resistence from Republican lawmakers: https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/north-texas-victims-rights-attorney-fighting-to-change-statute-of-limitations-for-exploited-women/

...While another church-related sex abuse scandal involving children pops up in Granbury and Lubbock: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-youth-pastor-arrested-child-sex-assault-charge/287-8e44bf40-b821-49b1-8e20-816f7cab8c93

More Texas-related pending SCOTUS cases include one of a Castle Hills City Councilwoman who charges that she was arrested out of retaliation on trumped-up charges: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/supreme-court-sylvia-gonzalez-arrest-free-speech.html

...While a North Texas man's case pushing for allowances under the 2nd Amendment for people under protective order restrictions to keep their guns is being considered by SCOTUS as well: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/scotus-to-rule-on-a-texas-mans-second-amendment-challenge-of-law-protecting-domestic-violence-victims/

Austin U.S. Rep. Greg Casar writes in an op-ed that while GOP culture wars must be resisted, they are also meant to distract progressives away from other nefarious conservative agenda items: https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2024-06-21/opinion-the-right-wing-is-attacking-queer-and-trans-americans-to-distract-from-their-bigger-agenda/

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