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www.christianheadlines.com is an English news site with a Christian bias. It is part of the Salem Web Network, host to other gems like GodTube and Townhall.com.

Reporting

The main page features current news and posts by their columnists, alongside articles from other Salem properties and other Christian-oriented websites. It is divided on various sections, like LGBT and prayer.

LGBT

Not exactly the friendliest kind to LGBT folks. On a post by John Stonestreet and Jared Eckert, titled Correcting the Actual Misinformation about Gender Ideology, they proceed to criticize a CBS news article about the facts of gender-affirming healthcare. They take the stance that sex determines one's gender, as evident by this statement:

The first dead giveaway about the piece is how it smuggles transgender ideology into its chosen language and terminology. Rather than refer to boys and girls, or young males and females, the author refers to “kids with testes” and “those with ovaries.”

They rely heavily on linking back to Breakpoint, a Christian website, as sources for their claims

As for news reporting, well, just look for yourself

• Woman Who Regrets Trans Surgery Sues Doctors for Medical Malpractice: 'They Lied'.
• University: Professor Who Failed Student for Writing 'Biological Women' Won't Be Punished: A story about the eternal boogeyman of trans women in womens' sports, and a professor who failed an student for arguing that "trans women – biological men who identify as women – have an advantage over biological women in sports".

In a nutshell, their news reporting mostly consists of de-transition stories and topics who no-one really cares about, like trans women in womens' sports. This is very deliberate, in order to paint a specific worldview about trans people. You will never see them talk about how common de-transitioning actually is, or the stories of those who didn't regret receiving gender-affirming care.

Abortion

Pro-life is it's own section on the main page. They host another post from our dear Breakpoint folks about Roe v. Wade's overturning:

A year ago, after 49 years of Roe v. Wade straitjacketing legislatures and courts into a draconian pro-abortion regime, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the infamous 1973 ruling. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health the court returned power to the states to determine abortion policy. Pro-life groups have rightly celebrated this fruit of decades of labor, encouraged that their efforts were not in vain. They can also be confident that their work to serve mothers and children will no longer be hamstrung by the miscarriage of justice embodied by Roe.

At the same time, it was not clear a year ago what the end of Roe would mean state by state. How divided is our country over this issue? What would the future of defending pre-born lives entail? Would the Dobbs decision take us closer to the ultimate goal: that abortion would not be merely illegal in some places but unthinkable everywhere? Or would the demon of Roe be replaced by seven more, even worse?

The website is obviously anti-abortion.

The post is all about hope that, with Roe v. Wade's end, that would mean that they get closer to what they describe as their ultimate goal: abortion at all being illegal everywhere.

They believe that, by closing abortion clinics in a state, the state becomes abortion free:

In states with so-called “trigger laws,” laws already on the books in the case of Roe’s demise, abortion clinics have been closed and restrictions on abortion have been added, leaving whole regions increasingly abortion-free.

This just makes back alley abortions return, and now, instead of being performed by medical professionals in a safe environment, they are done at home using unsafe instruments. But well, as long as they think it stops happening, right? One has to imagine what would happen if one of the children of those that wrote this post needed an abortion.

They state that the new front for the pro-life battle is mail-in abortion pills, that allow abortions to take place safely at home and can be easily, and in some states, may be safely purchased through the Internet, and is significantly safer and more private than going to an abortion clinic, where there may be pro-life harassers who may do who-knows-what to you.