We are an embryonic, volunteer-firefighting, makeshift, mixed-metaphor-prone outfit. We do not know what will become of this little pirate skiff. We just want to know that—no matter what happens in our cultural upheaval—we weren’t silent.
Our Story: From the editor
The agenda to virtually every meeting of your local government is posted publicly well in advance. But how many of us actually pay attention, let alone have the time? Aren’t Christians supposed to mind their own business, anyway?
I’m a life-long Wake County resident. I pondered these questions as the deep roots of our nation’s cultural rupture began to bear further fruit in the Triangle.
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In October 2021, the Wake County Board of Commissioners adopted a “nondiscrimination ordinance,” prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations and employment. The unsurprising, full-throated endorsement of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” went into effect February 2022, furthering one of the county’s self-described guiding goals—to “embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The ordinance, though, only applied to unincorporated areas under the county’s direct jurisdiction. The county’s towns and cities would have to adopt the ordinance independently.
Every town, then, from Apex to Wendell, would face pressure to consider the ordinance.
I emailed Garner town council members at the time, but it wasn’t on the agenda, nor did they know when it would be. Time passed and one July morning I discovered a short news bulletin. Garner had passed the ordinance unanimously the night before, at that time joining Raleigh, Cary, Knightdale, Apex, Morrisville, and Wendell in adopting the ordinance.
It was then that I realized something: An ordinance that bans acting as if male and female are real things in key aspects of your public life is no longer controversial enough to make headlines.
Local votes that address the foundation of reality can come up without much warning. The financial struggles of local news organizations and a general acceptance of false ideologies can render such policy votes banal—basically uncovered.
But the ordinance was on the public agenda for that meeting.
How can a family follow town council, county commission, and school board in an age when the very definitions of “male” and “female” are now political?
The idea for the Triangle Reformation Banner & Record was born.
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