Disney’s Quiet Plan for Revenge Unleashes a DeSantis Firestorm

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In the feud between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), one thing’s clear: tempers haven’t cooled. The two sides, who’ve been at odds since the company openly attacked parents’ rights in education, are back at each other’s throats now that CEO Bob Iger secretly undermined the state’s plans to have a seat at the company’s table. But if the Mouse House thinks it’s outmaneuvered conservatives, Republicans say they have another thing coming.

It wasn’t until last week that DeSantis’s team realized what Iger had done. More than a year into this spat over Florida’s education law, the two sides are still playing a sophisticated game of chess over Disney’s powers. And the stakes have never been higher. Thanks to a special legislative carve-out, the Magic Kingdom had been operating as its own self-governing district for more than half a century.  Under the arrangement, they could approve their own construction projects, bypass local zoning and tax laws, even install their own nuclear power plant without asking permission. It was a sweetheart of a deal for Disney — until they declared war on Florida’s moms and dads.

When then-CEO Bob Chapek belatedly blasted the law (which happened to be enormously popular with Democrats), DeSantis decided the company’s meddling had finally crossed the line. Postponing conversations about sex and gender until the fourth grade isn’t a radical idea, he argued. And as long as he’s governor, the state will not be run by “California corporate executives,” DeSantis said. “We will continue to recognize that in the state of Florida, parents have a fundamental role in the education, health care and well-being of their children. We will not move from that. I don’t care what corporate media outlets say. I don’t care what Hollywood says. I don’t care what big corporations say. Here I stand. I’m not backing down.”

And he didn’t. To the raucous cheers of conservatives, DeSantis yanked the rug out from under Disney, ending the Reedy Creek district and replacing it with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board filled with Republicans handpicked by the governor himself. What DeSantis didn’t know is that on February 8, Disney officials had met and signed a hush-hush agreement that stripped Florida of its powers before the new board even convened. Under this clandestine document, all decisions would be rerouted through Disney, neutering the GOP of its oversight.

In a big middle finger to DeSantis, the members even wrote in this absurd clause: “This declaration shall continue in effect until twenty-one (21) years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England living as of the date of this declaration.” Originally, reporters thought it was a joke. But local News 6 reporter Mike DeForest, who got his hands on the text, tweeted that it was, in fact, “absolutely real.”

Imagine the surprise of the Central Florida Tourism board when they convened for the first time last Wednesday, only to find their hands had been tied. “The board announced that a hired special council [sic] discovered agreements were made in February between Disney and Reedy Creek, weeks ahead of the signing of HB-9B [the law dissolving Reedy Creek], which handed over direct control of the district’s development rights and privileges to the company,” the Orlando Sentinel explained.

Ron Peri, who’d been appointed by DeSantis to serve on the board, was flabbergasted at the underhandedness of the move. “I cannot tell you the level of my disappointment in Disney,” he said. “I thought so much better of them. This essentially makes Disney the government. The board loses, for practical purposes, the majority of its ability to do anything beyond maintain the roads and maintain basic infrastructure.”

Another board member, Brian Aungst, insisted the gloves were about to come off. “They have tried to take [the governing authority] away from this board, the ability to provide that oversight, and we’re not gonna let that stand.”

On Monday, DeSantis’s office warned that “all legislative options are back on the table,” hinting at even more painful punishments for the company, whose financial picture is bleak enough to lay off 4,000 employees. (Apparently, Disney’s “not-so-secret agenda” of grooming kids is as unprofitable as it is unpopular.)

In a letter to the state’s chief inspector general and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s commissioner, the governor asks for a “thorough review and investigation” of the company’s workaround, pointing out that “these collusive and self-dealing arrangements aim to nullify the recently passed legislation, undercut Florida’s legislative process, and defy the will of Floridians. … Any legal or ethical violations should be referred to the proper authorities,” DeSantis insists.

Even the state’s attorney general, Ashley Moody, is wading into the battle — “demanding emails, text messages, and other communications” that “[discuss] an intentional goal of circumventing, avoiding, frustrating, mitigating, or otherwise attempting to avoid the effects of anticipated actions by the Florida Governor and Florida legislature.”

Since then, the war of words has only escalated, with Iger taking time out from his shareholder’s meeting Monday to blast DeSantis as “anti-business” and “anti-Florida.” “A year ago, the company took a position on pending Florida legislation,” Chapek’s woke replacement said. “And while the company may have not handled the position that it took very well, a company has a right to freedom of speech just like individuals do.”

“The governor got very angry about the position Disney took,” Iger claimed, “and seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us, including the naming of a new board to oversee the property and the business. In effect, to seek to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right. And that just seems really wrong to me.”

Team DeSantis fired back. “While a company has First Amendment rights, it does not have the right to run its own government and operate outside the bounds of Florida law,” the governor’s communications director told The Daily Caller. “The Florida Legislature and Governor DeSantis worked to put Disney on an even playing field, and Disney got caught attempting to undermine Florida’s duly-enacted legislation in the 11th hour.”

Disney’s scheming may have bought the company some time from the political accountability they’re so desperate to avoid, but at what cost? Surely Iger has learned the hard way that in the fight to radicalize Florida, don’t bet against DeSantis.

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Suzanne Bowdey

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Abortion Pill-Pushers Work the Dark Side

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Washington state is the first to stock up on abortion pills in case legal action makes them unavailable.  The state has ordered a four-year supply, about 40,000 doses of mifepristone.  Given the known dangers of the pills, what this means in a state where some 60 percent of all abortions are by pill, is that roughly 2,400 women – one in 17 – will end up in the hospital because they have serious complications from an attempted chemical abortion.  It is entirely possible some will die, because abortion pills are known killers, already linked to 28 maternal deaths in the U.S. alone.  Other adverse reactions already numbered in the thousands by 2018, and the FDA has stopped reporting them – not exactly reassuring, is it?  Abortionistas like to say abortion pills are “safer than Tylenol”, but that’s clearly not the case, but they don’t want you to know just how dangerous abortion pills really are.

Wyoming became the first U.S. state to ban abortion pills.  Texas filed a lawsuit to block a Biden administration rule requiring pharmacies to fill abortion pill prescriptions nationwide, even in states where abortion is illegal.  A conservative legal group sued the FDA for approving abortion pills on the pretext pregnancy is an ‘illness’ and without studying their safety.  Abortion activists have answered with a litigation trump card of their own, arguing in a case filed in West Virginia that states can’t ban drugs approved by the FDA.   Twenty-one Republican state attorneys general have asked the court to dismiss that case, arguing that just because the FDA approves a drug doesn’t mean states have to use it.

The pro-abortion movement has been lying from the beginning and they’re not stopping now.  The architect of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, admitted he repeatedly told the press the number of illegal abortions was 10,000 when the true number was closer to 200.  True to form, abortion activists falsely claimed pregnancy was a “serious or life-threatening illness” in order to get the FDA to approve mifepristone quickly.  In its haste, the FDA ignored evidence pill abortions cause more complications than surgical abortions.

Ever the devious ones, abortion activists have also created an underground network that has distributed more than 20,000 abortion pills to women since Roe v. Wade was overturned.  This is completely illegal and is ironic, since abortion activists are the ones who claim abortions are ‘healthcare’ yet are completely willing to go outside the healthcare system in order to accomplish their political goals.  They traffic the pills over the southern border, using disguises, burner phones, and encrypted messaging apps to distribute them.  Because this is all outside legal channels, this means no oversight, no check-ups, and no follow-up to see how the women are doing.  And no screening to make sure abortion pills are not being forced on vulnerable women by abusive partners.

If you are contemplating joining the underground network to help women get abortion pills, be forewarned you would be placing yourself in legal jeopardy.  The husband of a Texas woman just sued three women for wrongful death for assisting his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy by conspiring to unlawfully obtain abortion pills.  “Anyone involved in distributing or manufacturing abortion pills will be sued into oblivion,” a Texas lawmaker said.  And this doesn’t even cover what the authorities would do to you if you are caught dispensing prescription medication without a prescription.

If a court knocks down the prevailing two-pill procedure with mifepristone being the first step, abortion activists and their co-conspirators in industry are preparing to pivot to the “misoprostol-only” technique using just one type of pill.  Misoprostol-only is much less effective, with a much higher failure rate necessitating additional doses or surgery to complete the abortion.  Women will experience more bleeding, nausea, and cramping in the process.  It also means more birth defects for babies born alive after unsuccessful attempts to abort them.  Misoprostol-only is not approved FDA protocol.

Women who take abortion pills often end up regretting their choice and calling the Abortion Pill Rescue Network for a drug to reverse the attempted abortion.  The drug is effective in two out of three cases and has already saved thousands of lives.  Abortion activists working the dark side don’t want you to know that, either.

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Trans-Terrorist That Slaughtered Children in Tennessee Planned Attack for Months

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Why haven’t they released the manifesto?

Nashville Transgender Shooter Plotted Christian School Attack For Months

Matt Vespa | April 03, 2023 7:30 PM

This development isn’t exactly shocking, given the images and the preliminary evidence in the aftermath of the Nashville shooting. Transgender mass shooter Audrey Hale plotted the attack “for months.” Journals found in Hale’s car and home revealed the blueprints for the attack on Covenant School, a private Christian academy. Hale was biologically female but identified using male pronouns, using two firearms described by the media as AR-15-style to commit this act of mass murder. Six people were killed, including three children (via NBC News):

The person behind last week’s deadly shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville planned the attack for months, police said Monday.

Audrey Hale outlined plans “to commit mass murder at The Covenant School” in journals police found in Hale’s car and bedroom after the March 27 attack that killed six people, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) said.

Police previously said the shooter had carefully planned the attack on their former school with detailed maps and surveillance.

Police have not yet established a motive, but say Hale “considered the actions of other mass murderers.”

“The writings remain under careful review by the MNPD and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia,” the police department said.

Authorities have said that a sense of “resentment” may have played a role in the attack that killed three adults and three 9-year-old students.

Police said Hale, who acted alone, fired 152 rounds — 126 5.56 rifle rounds and 26 9-mm rounds.

Breaking911: NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTING: Journals found in killer’s car & home. She ‘considered the actions of other mass murderers,’ cops say. Fired 126 5.56 rifle rounds & 26 nine millimeter rounds. Motive remains under investigation (Twitter)

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My Letter to the Minn. Official Who Demanded Parents Respect Their Kids’ Identities

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Not long ago, footage surfaced of Minnesota lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan lecturing kindly instructing parents on how to raise their children. Seeming very cult-member-like passionate, Flanagan insisted that we “listen” to youngsters and “believe them” when they have a fantasy about tell us who they are. So since she’s clearly delusional an expert, I concluded, “Who better to go to for further parenting advice?” and sent her a letter via computer. It follows.

Tell me what you think — and if there’s anyone, anywhere, who could better field the questions posed therein.

Dear Lt. Gov. Flanagan:

I’m writing to tell you that you’ve inspired me to change my parenting. When you said, bravely, “When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them,” it struck a chord. I realized I needed to respect my kids’ identities because, as we’ll understand if we think back, really hard, we all knew exactly what we should be and what life was all about already when we were five or six. I’m new to this, however, and still have some questions.

My daughter, 5, tells my wife and me that she’s a whitetail fawn. I don’t have a problem with this because I read about species dysphoria and, as they say, “Better a live deer than a dead daughter.” (Though it will make me think if, when she’s older, she tells me she’d like to have a few bucks.) But, question: Should we feed her grass for dinner? Or, must we go all the way and leave her in the forest so she can be with her own kind?

And, also, do you think Bambi might be triggering for her?

Then there’s our younger son, 7. He informed us that he’s a ferocious Kodiak bear. He doesn’t look dangerous, but, still, I worry. I know that bears sometimes eat deer. Should we keep him in a cage at night and on a short leash during the day? I mean, better a chained bear-son than a dead deer-daughter, right?

Lastly, there’s our older son, 12, who says he’s a Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show-winning Neapolitan mastiff. This is reassuring because, with him now being man’s best friend, maybe he’ll help us out protecting our deer from our bear.

But there’s an issue here, too: He’s at that age where, well, he’s noticing those who identify as the opposite sex. He has a crush on a cute cocker spaniel down the street (I saw him sniffing her Democrat end yesterday), and he wants to take her out to a movie — sort of an innocent date. Is this appropriate, or is he too young? Or, is it okay because 12 is 84 in dog years?

Or should we just get him neutered and avoid the whole issue?

Oh, and one last matter, keeping future transition in mind: Do you know where Joe Biden went for his hair plugs?

Sincerely,

A Lot to Learn in N.Y.

As of this writing, Dr. Benjamin Spock Peggy Flanagan hasn’t responded to my questions. I’m sure she’s still carefully mulling them over so as to provide the most sage counsel possible.

For those interested, a video of Flanagan rendering her infallible wisdom from on high is below.

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A double mastectomy at 13? How can President Biden possibly overlook that?

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Layla Jane is suing doctors who “fixed” her gender dysphoria.

American children whose lives were ruined by gender-affirmative medication and surgery are resorting to litigation to seek justice.

The latest case to surface in the media is a 18-year-old Californian woman known as Layla Jane, who is suing doctors at Kaiser Permanente, a huge American medical group. They gave her puberty blockers and testosterone when she was 12 and performed a radical double mastectomy when she was only 13.

“I don’t think I should have been allowed to change my sex before I could legally consent to have sex,” Layla said on Fox News. “I don’t think I’m better off for the experience, and I think transition just completely added fuel to the fire that was my pre-existing conditions.”

Layla was a severely troubled 11-year-old when she self-diagnosed herself as suffering from gender dysphoria. Her mother took her to doctors who recommended testosterone and a mastectomy after just two face-to-face consultations lasting 30 and 75 minutes.

The lawsuit alleges that the doctors presented Layla’s parents with the false dilemma: “would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?”

“These are decisions I will have to live with for the rest of my life,” Layla said in a statement. “I’m ready to join the growing group of detransitioners so that no other child has to go through the torment I went through at the hands of doctors I should have been able to trust.”

Her lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, of the Center for American Liberty, in San Francisco, says: “This so- called ‘treatment’ of Layla by her providers represents a despicable, failed medical experiment that grossly breached the standard of care.”

Ms Dhillon also represents Chloe Cole, another young woman who had a double mastectomy at 15 because she thought that she was really male. She says that she has received thousands of calls from detransitioners from all over the country. The prospect of a class-action lawsuit by these people must make doctors wake up at night in a cold sweat.

“Layla’s medical providers grossly and recklessly breached the standard of care in this case, and others,” says Ms Dhillon in an “intent to sue” letter. “We look forward to holding them liable for what they did, and together we seek to deter this assembly-line, insensitive, and destructive treatment of children with these woke, unscientific, and barbaric practices.”

Ironically, only a few days later, US President Joe Biden proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. “We celebrate the strength, joy, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know,” he declared. “Transgender Americans deserve to be safe and supported in every community.”

It’s painfully obvious that the President is ignoring the growing number of detransitioners – don’t they deserve to be safe and supported as well? He ended his speech with these stirring words: “You’re each made in the image of God, and deserve love, dignity, and respect. You make America stronger, and we’re with you.”

But that’s all they are – words. Or does he mean that “love, dignity, and respect” mean amputating the healthy breasts of a 13-year-old girl?

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Michael Cook

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Joe Biden, Uncle Screwtape, and ‘Our Nation’s Soul’

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In an age when presidential candidates of both parties ignore the will of the majority to cater to an infinitesimal minority, it is noteworthy when a politician takes an uncompromisingly biblical stand on public issues. It is more remarkable when that leader represents a secular nation, cites the Bible on a national platform, and has a delightful British accent. Yet a member of the U.K.’s Parliament made a statement that should serve as a model for any American leader.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative Member of Parliament, literally quoted chapter-and-verse on the GB News show “State of the Nation” last Thursday. “Ladies and gentlemen. I can exclusively reveal that I in fact do not identify with a gender, because I take my line from Genesis 1:27: ‘So God created man in His own image. In the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.’ And it’s for not me to overrule the work of God,” he said. In 58 words, he exposed extreme gender ideology as nonsensical and idolatrous.

Rees-Mogg, whose aristocratic manner created a boomlet of support to elect him prime minister, possesses other traits now uncommon among British authorities. The father of six upholds a consistent pro-life position, describes abortion as a “cult of death,” and affirms marriage as the unique union of one man and woman based on his deeply held Christian faith. One prominent American priest called him “a practically perfect Catholic politician.”

The U.K. MP’s faithfulness contrasts markedly with America’s second Catholic president, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. The president’s handlers invariably label him a “devout” Roman Catholic. Yet last Thursday Biden issued the first of his two statements (and a fact sheet) celebrating the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” in which the president asserted: “Transgender Americans shape our [n]ation’s soul.” On the same day a politician in profoundly secular England proclaimed God’s creation of the material world, the president of the world’s most powerful Christian-majority nation credited transgender activists with forming the immaterial soul.

Biden has shown perplexing attention to the “soul of the nation.” He regularly sows confusion by subtly implying that God intended people to struggle with gender dysphoria. His humanistic hermeneutics, not coincidentally, echo the theology of transgender activists.

Last Wednesday night, a man who identifies as a woman asserted that God is a female and created transgenderism. In the next seat was the media’s most celebrated “evangelical” leader, who called Christian conservatism “anti-Christ.”

“I go to church every Sunday. My faith is very important to me. But God made me in her image. God made me transgender,” Charles Clymer, who now goes by the name Charlotte Clymer, told MSNBC’s “The ReidOut.” Moments later, hostess Joy Reid said she picked Clymer — the former press spokesman of an LGBT pressure group and ex-communications director at Catholics for Choice — as one of “the two specific people I wanted to talk to” about the shooting at a Nashville Christian school.

Of course, the Bible states that Jesus Christ is God and that “all things were made by Him” (John 1:1-3). Jesus, Who is certainly not female, referred to the First Person of the Trinity as “Father” more than 100 times. Furthermore, the Bible tells us, “God is not the author of confusion” (I Corinthians 14:33).

As Clymer proclaimed gender confusion a fruit of the goddess’ Spirit, Reid’s other chosen guest, Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, stared silently into the camera. When Reid gave Wallis the last word, he declined to correct his colleague for misgendering the Almighty but accused conservatives of “worshiping a false god.” Earlier in the segment, he charged anyone who opposes gun control with worshiping the Oriental idol Moloch, mentioned in the Book of Leviticus (which he cited without mentioning what that book says about the LGBTQ issue in the very next verse). After Clymer’s descent into heresy, Wallis — who sycophantically offered to “link our pulpits to the bully pulpit” during the Obama-Biden administration — rained fire and brimstone on his political enemies. Second Amendment advocacy “is anti-Gospel, anti-Christ. And so this is a false worship we’re confronting here. We have got to confront it theologically,” Wallis said. “They are worshiping a false god.”

Capitalizing on flagging faith, biblical illiteracy, and dwindling church attendance to preach some “other Gospel” is as old as Christianity itself (Galatians 1:8). Wallis and Clymer followed a devilish strategy laid out by C.S. Lewis in “The Screwtape Letters”: “[I]f men become Christians at all … let them at least be Christians with a difference,” Lewis wrote. “Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian coloring.”

The ultimate aim, the senior demon Screwtape tells nephew Screwtape, is to “direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on the virtue nearest to that vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.”

Presumably, this includes fretting about “transphobic” Christian speech and believers’ gun ownership at the moment a transgender mass murderer slaughtered a half-dozen believers inside a Christian school, three of them under the age of 10. Or getting worked into a foam about U.S. coastal lands going underwater as U.S. carbon emissions have fallen 31% since 2000.

Yet history teaches some theologians will always volunteer to assist in this game of biblical Three-card Monte. Witness the fact that the University of Helsinki announced it plans to present an honorary doctorate of theology to 20-year-old climate critic Greta Thunberg on June 9. This author has never seen Thunberg launch into lengthy discussions of Jesus, the Bible, or other weighty matters of religious faith and morals. The only thing Greta Thunberg and certain Christian theologians have in common is that both have inaccurately predicted the end of the world. Yet the faculty defended their award on biblical grounds. Thunberg’s “concern for the future of the Earth … has everything to do with academic theology which is no less interested in the Earth as it is in Heaven,” Martti Nissinen, one of the university’s theology professors, told the Daily Caller.

If their faith cares as much about Earth as Heaven, perhaps that’s because the Earth is where so much of their theology originates (James 3:15). The antidote to heresy is orthodoxy; the cure for counterfeit theology is quoting true Scripture; and the solution to America’s harmful transgender policies comes by electing leaders who can discern the difference between the two.

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Ben Johnson

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Punched, Brutalized, Spit On: ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ Leads to International Violence

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Angry transgender activists surrounded a Canadian conservative and punched his throat; in America, LGBT demonstrators physically or verbally harassed conservative counter-protesters; and two Christian schools canceled classes due to violent threats issued in the shadow of a mass murder. These scenes of mayhem played out as a spate of violence, intimidation, and threats spanning at least two countries marked the annual “Transgender Day of Visibility” held each March 31 by and on behalf of those who identify as members of the opposite sex.

In Vancouver, men dressed as women swarmed Chris Elston, a conservative activist known as “Billboard Chris” for the pro-children’s rights placards he wears, flashing Elston the middle finger while chanting, “F— you!” When Elston raised his phone to capture the perpetrators on video, he brushed against a man dressed as woman who punched Elston in the throat, grabbed the back of his head, and hurled him to the ground. A female officer later told Elston the altercation “seemed like a consensual fight,” and a male law enforcement officer accused him of “looking to be confrontational with me,” because he refused to stop recording his interaction with police.

The Vancouver Police Department later announced that it had launched an investigation into the incident. “Police believe at least two people were assaulted,” the department noted in an appeal to eyewitnesses.

In the United States, comedian Alex Stein had coffee thrown on him during a rally in New York City’s Union Square on Friday, shortly after he voiced his opposition to cross-hormone injections and body-altering surgeries for minors. “Children cannot consent!” Stein told a crowd of LGBT activists, who promptly surrounded him, grabbing his phone and stealing his hat. Video shows one of them throwing coffee on Stein.

“They throw water on me. They assault me. You got the cops here — they don’t do anything about it,” Stein told the camera, which captured someone in the surrounding mass of humanity spit on him. “They just literally spit on me,” Stein continued.

On the West Coast, members of the radical group Trans Rights Activists (TRA) congregated at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles on Friday, blocking passing cars and chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” Conservative activist Storm Robinson described being surrounded, “shoved and shoulder checked several times by several different ANTIFA members.” He also identified one potential leader as Jasmine “Abdulluah” Richards, who told Robinson she was affiliated with Black Lives Matter. Richards served 90 days in jail after being convicted of felony lynching in 2016.

Between the two coasts, two Christian schools in the same town — Resurrection Christian School and Loveland Classical Schools in Loveland, Colorado — canceled classes Friday after receiving multiple threats.

“Early this morning, LCS and a number of other schools in the region received anonymous tips via the State’s Safe2Tell program, which is designed as a way for students, parents, and community members to notify schools of possible concerns to student safety or threats impacting schools,” said Loveland Classical Schools executive director Ian Stout on Facebook. “Given external variables and the short timeframe, we opted for the safest course of action for our students, teachers, and staff.”

The alerts came less than a week after a 28-year-old woman who identified as a man murdered six people, including three young children, inside a Christian school in Nashville. At least one group of transgender activists had redubbed the day the “Transgender Day of Vengeance” despite the mass shooting. “Hate has consequences,” stated the Trans Resistance Network about the Nashville Covenant School massacre. Mass murderer Audrey Hale “felt [s]he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others.”

Loveland Police Department later verified the reports of potential anti-Christian violence. “We have received two Safe2Tell threats against Christian schools today,” an officer told the Loveland Herald-Reporter. “We take all threats seriously and are taking extra safety precautions and measures to enhance our presence in and around schools throughout Loveland.”

Stout later ascertained the report did not qualify as “a valid or substantiated threat,” adding that the original comments had not been “directed at LCS specifically with clear intent.” Still, “if the LCS administration is not able to verify 100% that we are safe given the information available to us, we will make the overly-cautious decision regarding the status of school for the safety of our students, staff, and entire community.”

Despite killings and future threats of violence, President Joe Biden issued two statements celebrating this year’s “Transgender Day of Visibility,” proclaiming, “Transgender Americans shape our [n]ation’s soul.”

A potent source of violence against the LGBT community is the LGBT community, conservatives point out. “The dirty little secret is that trans people are the ones victimizing each other,” said Catholic League President Bill Donohue.

The Williams Institute, an LGBTQ think tank based at UCLA, took note of studies showing high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) or intimate partner sexual abuse (IPSA) among people who identify as transgender. A total of “31.1% of transgender people and 20.4% of cisgender people had ever experienced IPV or dating violence,” said the institute, showing that people who identify as the opposite sex are 50% more likely to be abused by their loved ones.

“Findings of lifetime IPV among transgender people from purposive studies range from 31.1% to 50.0%,” the institute continued. “Three studies provided findings of lifetime IPSA prevalence among transgender people, which range from 25.0% to 47.0%.”

“We know one thing for sure,” said Donohue. “It is not white, heterosexual Christian men who are roaming the streets looking for trans people to beat up — it is trans people who are committing the lion’s share of the violence.”

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Ben Johnson

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Crazy People Are Running the Pentagon

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A new report concludes the U.S. military is in decline and places the blame for the fall squarely on the Pentagon’s Woke politics.  Public confidence in the military, recruitment, and retention are all down.  The report says ‘creeping politicization’ has a ‘corrosive impact’ on the military’s war-fighting capabilities.

Look at some of the crazy people running the Pentagon and you can see why.  In their rush to push ‘gender-affirming care’, Pentagon doctors claim that 7-year-olds are perfectly capable of making life-altering decisions about sex change drugs and surgery.  That’s just nuts.  How can 7-year-olds make decisions like that when 17-year-olds can’t even consent to a car loan?

Our crazy Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin can’t get it through his thick head that allowing drag queen story hours for children on military bases shows support for that activity.  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley promised to get rid of them, but we’ll see if he actually follows through.

Kelisa Wing – the Pentagon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion chief until recently – tweeted in 2020 she was exhausted from hearing “white folx” saying black people can be racist.  Under her theory, black people can’t be racist because they aren’t the majority.  This is in line with critical race theory which holds that only people who have power can be racist.  So I ask you, who has more power – House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries who is black, or me – just some little grassroots white guy?

Follow the money here because Kelisa Wing is accused of promoting her own books on defunding the police, white privilege, and Black Lives Matter at military events, in a conflict of interest.  The Pentagon is spending $86.5 million on diversity and inclusion activities.  The Air Force is also paying diversity managers $82,000 to $180,000 a year.  None dare call it reparations.

This lavish spending comes at the same time Joe Biden’s military budget proposes to cut the size of the Navy by another two ships, showing you the nation’s priorities have gone completely haywire.  The Secretary of the Navy is giving top priority to fighting climate change – “we are accelerating and broadening those efforts,” he said recently.  “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment.”  Crazy as a loon.

Talk about crazy, the military is still trying to fire service members who refused the COVID vaccination even though the military vaccine mandate was lifted in the last defense bill.

Along with the Pentagon’s phony narratives come the speech codes to enforce them.  Air Force Academy students are being told not to use the terms ‘mom and dad’ and, more seriously, they’re also being told not to call terrorists ‘terrorists’.    How can you fight the enemy if you’re not allowed to even name the enemy?  Pretty crazy.  Service members are afraid to speak out against these narratives for fear of being labeled ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’.

Free speech is not the only casualty of the Woke Pentagon’s narratives.  The Air Force has a pilot shortage.  One observer attributes the shortage to the Air Force’s new emphasis on recruiting minorities to become pilots, making it difficult to retain mid-career pilots who are, in effect, being told they’re not wanted and are now a detriment to the mission.  There’s that Woke-induced retention problem again.  As for the Woke-induced recruitment problem, the military is now accepting recruits with ADHD and other behavioral challenges.

The Pentagon’s Woke narratives are producing weakness.  It is folly to call diversity and climate change ‘strategic imperatives’ that are ‘mission critical’.  I assure you America’s adversaries like China and Russia who openly say they want to displace us aren’t sitting around navel-gazing like this.  As former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used to say, “Weakness is provocative.”  To deliberately make yourself weak, now that’s really crazy.

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But, but, but, they said this wasn’t happening.

Facts:

  • The child sex change industry is massive and growing, and children undergoing cross-sex treatments can bring a massive cash influx to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and others in the medical industry.
  • From 2017-2019 at least 56 genital surgeries and 776 mastectomies were performed on minors as part of the gender transition process in the U.S., but even this figure is outdated and vastly underestimates the scope of the child sex change industry by excluding certain patients.
  • “There is no question that financial rewards play a role in the adoption of gender affirming care. Hospitals and physicians generate substantial payments from insurers or self pay patients when children enter into the transition protocols,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm and former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Boston Children’s Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors

The director at Boston Children’s Hospital said medical school students should learn transgender surgeries in residency programs

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Detransitioned teen Chloe Cole: I’m afraid my generation will be led astray

Former transgender kid, Chloe Cole, shares the complications she deals with every day as a result of medical interventions she was subjected to after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria. “I’m not sure whether it’ll even go away,” she said.

Boston Children’s Hospital co-director at its Center for Gender Surgery called for a drastic increase in capacity for what he called “gender-affirming care” (GAC), including surgeries, for kids as GOP states enact bans on the practices.

Oren Ganor is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who specializes in gender-affirming surgeries. He has previously stated in an email that the hospital is “slightly flexible” when it comes to the age of transgender girls seeking genital surgery,” according to a local outlet. The policy had not been finalized, he said, “because of the issue around consent for sterilization.”

The children’s hospital clarified to Fox News Digital that it does not provide genital surgeries on kids. A patient needs to live in their new gender for 12 months before the genital surgeries are considered.

In a March 14 article he co-wrote with a medical school student, Shawheen J. Rezei, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, he said that the capacity for gender surgeries for kids needed to be increased.

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‘Age Is A Number’: Gender Clinic Offered Puberty Blockers To Kids As Young As 8, Surgery Referrals At 14

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  • The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) Gender and Sexuality Development Program offers medical interventions to children as young as eight as part of the medical transition process, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. 
  • Clinic employees have publicly advocated for certain cross-sex surgeries for minors, along with hormones and puberty blockers, and have downplayed the seriousness of the infertility which is a known consequence of some of these interventions. 
  • “I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” clinic co-founder Dr. Nadia Dowshen said. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

The Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers drastic medical interventions as part of the gender transition process to children as young as eight, according to statements and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

CHOP’s youth gender clinic, one of the first in the U.S., is a major trans medical provider in Pennsylvania and has strong ties to Rachel Levine, a former trans activist who currently serves as the U.S. assistant secretary for health. The clinic recently came under fire for holding seminars where teachers were instructed to hide students’ trans identities from their parents. Clinic employees also promoted cross-sex procedures for children while downplaying the risks, documents and statements reveal.

The clinic has referred children as young as 14 for “top surgery,” a euphemism for mastectomies or breast construction, though most referrals are for patients aged 16-18, Dowshen told lawmakers at a Pennsylvania House of Representatives Health Committee hearing in 2020.

The clinic’s co-founders, Dr. Linda Hawkins and Dr. Nadia Dowshen, advocated for “top surgery” for minors in a 2021 paper published in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“We observed consensus that chest dysphoria is a major source of distress and can be functionally disabling to transmasculine youth. MCS performed during adolescence, including before age 18, can alleviate suffering and improve functioning,” they wrote in their paper.

The clinic worked to secure surgical referrals for minors and even employed a social worker who served as a “surgery advocate,” collecting letters of support on behalf of gender dysphoric minors in order to persuade insurance companies to cover their surgeries, according to a 2021 report from CHOP. A staffer had previously pushed for such a position to be funded with the help of then-acting secretary of health for the state, Rachel Levine, and argued that the position would yield a high return on investment.

“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” Dowshen said at the hearing. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

CLICK HERE FOR INFOGRAPHIC: MEDICAL TREATMENT BY STAGE.

CHOP professionals laid out the gender clinic’s guidelines for sex change procedures in a webinar on the clinic’s standards of care, which the hospital created in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and the DCNF obtained through a public records request.

The clinic advised “affirmation” of a child’s gender identity and social transition to the opposite sex for kids under the age of eight, who are too young for medical interventions under the clinic’s guidelines.

For medical interventions, patients must experience long-lasting gender nonconformity, which emerged or worsened at the onset of puberty, and have any coexisting medical, social and psychological issues addressed prior to the onset of medical treatment, according to the webinar.

Dr. Zachary McClain, webinar host and former adolescent specialty provider at CHOP, claimed there was “no regret” among patients who undergo cross-sex hormones during his webinar lecture.

“What are the long-term outcomes after starting hormone replacement therapy?” he said. “These are all really great. No regret to transition. Despite some of the lay press that’s out there, the medical literature does not support that at all.” He also claimed hormones resulted in “significant or complete resolution of gender dysphoria.”

It’s impossible to gather long-term data on regret rates for individuals who underwent hormones and other procedures in recent years amid the massive surge in transgender identification and the explosive growth of transgender clinics, since most of those patients are only a few years into their medical journeys. But numerous detransitioners have come forward to express regret over undergoing cross-sex procedures in their youth, including hormones.

CLICK HERE FOR INFOGRAPHIC: WHAT ARE THE LONG TERM OUTCOMES AFTER STARTING HRT?

The clinic prescribes puberty blockers after the onset of puberty, which the webinar says can occur in children as young as eight. Dowshen also stated that children were placed on blockers as young as age eight or nine in her testimony to state lawmakers.

“For kids who are going through puberty at normal ages, that could start as early as 8 or 9 … we’re making a decision to start the blocker based on when that child hits puberty,” she said. “We have a series of tests that we do, as well as the main thing being our physical exam to understand when a child is starting to have, for example, testicular development or breast development to clue us in to when they’re starting puberty. And we would start the puberty-blocking medications at that time.”

“We look to a few organizations to guide us in medical care for the youth,” McClain said in the webinar, explaining that CHOP’s guidelines follow standards of care developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society and the UCSF Center for Transgender Excellence. “There are currently no medical interventions recommended prior to the onset of puberty. That brings us to our second block, which is pubertal or eight to 14 years old. And the eligibility … to start [pubertal] suppression is they must have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and have started puberty.”

The use of puberty blockers as part of the gender exploration process is an off-label use of a prescription drug developed to delay premature puberty in young children; it’s been linked to serious health problems, and some experts have argued that blockers can cement a transgender phase that most children would otherwise outgrow.

“The benefits are that it can delay irreversible secondary sex characteristics,” Dowshen told an audience during a 2018 lecture at a women’s health seminar series hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “The other benefits of the blockers are that they are fully reversible, and this allows some time for the young person to mature and be ready to make decisions that may be more irreversible.”

The irreversibility of puberty blockers has been called into question by numerous experts, including 31 psychologists, neuroscientists and hormone experts who urged further study on the drugs in a 2020 paper that concluded “the full consequences (both beneficial and adverse) of suppressing endogenous puberty are not yet understood.”

“If the brain is expecting to receive those hormones at a certain time and doesn’t, what happens?” Dr. Sheri Berenbaum, head of a gender research lab at Penn State and one of the authors of the paper, told The New York Times. “We don’t know.”

Puberty blockers cost up to $49,000 for an 18-month implant, and insurance covers it about 72% of the time, according to the webinar. McClain acknowledged that the drug is not FDA-approved for use in kids with gender dysphoria and that it is not associated with a decrease in gender dysphoria — the sense of deep discomfort with one’s body that drives some individuals to transition to the opposite sex. (RELATED: ‘Horrifying’: Huge Proportion Of Children Pursuing Gender Transitions Are Actually Autistic, Experts Believe)

The CHOP webinar recommended the administration of cross-sex hormones and “gender affirming surgeries” in the post-pubertal phase of development, which it defines as occurring at age 14 and up. For natal females, taking testosterone is tied to clitoral enlargement, severe acne, insulin resistance and an increased risk of heart disease and cancer, while for natal males, estrogen causes lower libido and increased risk of blood clots, according to the CHOP webinar; both can cause infertility and emotional changes.

Dowshen acknowledged the fertility risks associated with these drugs to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Health Committee in 2020, but downplayed concerns about patients being unable to start families after undergoing cross-sex procedures as children.

“Questions about fertility, these are important ones that we discuss with patients and families early on and often,” she said. “What’s interesting is that the field of assisted reproductive technology is rapidly evolving and our understanding of the impacts of these medications on biological fertility are also evolving.”

“I also want to take a step back for a second to say that … there are other ways to build families beyond having a child biologically. Folks can adopt as well, and many transgender children and adolescents are interested in having biological children and many are not interested in having children at all or are interested in adopting,” she said.

Dowshen, Hawkins, McClain and the CHOP gender clinic did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

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Mental Illness: Does it Truly Exist?

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Man is a triune being, a being consisting of the spirit, the soul and the body, created in the image of Jehovah God. This was known in ancient times by men who understood God and His word. A close study of God’s word will reveal to the diligent researcher just how true the above statement is.

As humans, we all must relate to our environment, and to each other, using the five physical senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, and anything, any sickness or disease, that detracts from our ability to use those five senses in this life is inherently evil.

All data incoming through those senses go through our onboard computer, the human brain. That magnificent organ receives the data and, through collaboration with our NON-physical parts, our spirits (the true being consisting of the true life) and our souls (mind, will and emotion) make the decisions on how the data received is to be interpreted and used.

The Difference Between the Body and the Other Attributes of a Man

All of man’s physical bodily parts, from the outer layer, the skin, and inward to the hidden organs that work together to keep the body alive and functioning normally, are subject to attack by evil forces capable of causing physiological disease and death; these are all a result of Adam’s sin which activated the ‘law of sin and death’ (Romans 8:2 KJV) and brought death into the world. Since that time untold billions of people have fallen victim to those forces and have lost their physical lives as a result. All the world is well acquainted with sickness and death and have lived their lives somewhat in fear of those evils.

The Human Mind and Its Function

In this current age, we hear much about mental illness, especially when reports of mass shootings and other violent events occur. Indeed, reports of violent behavior due to “mental illness” issues are rampant in the news. Murders, even mass murders, are listed as a consequence of “mental illness”. Sometimes, the people who are charged with murders will claim to be innocent by reason of “insanity”, or what they term mental illness.

If the reports are true and factual, then this type of illness is even more prevalent than cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other maladies of the physical body and are even more horrifying because the symptoms, or outward signs of such ‘disease’ are difficult, if not impossible to see. Only the results of the ‘disease’ are visible due to the decisions and actions of people who reportedly are mentally ill and allow it to manifest in illegal, sometimes catastrophic, actions.

The physical infirmities that affect men and women are much easier to diagnose and treat than mental illness mainly because the physical body can be observed with the naked eye or with radiological instruments that allow a peek into the inner workings of the body.

Science has proven that many of the diseases we encounter in our lives are spread from human to human through some type of physical contact or through the bodily fluids that we all have and sometimes share. It would seem then that, if we could insulate ourselves from all bodily contact with other humans, we could eliminate all disease and sickness. But that would indeed be an impossibility; and even if it were possible, what would life be like if we could not touch a loved one, hug our child or kiss the love of our lives? Would life even be worth living under those conditions? Hardly. But the good news is that, when a person has a healthy immune system, the system that God designed for our use, most diseases can be fought off and defeated, with the added benefit that an immunity is then created in the body that helps to protect against any future attack of that disease.

In the physical realm, the human body which can be seen and touched, and the brain, like all the other physical organs of the body, though hidden from sight, are all ‘flesh and blood’ and are subject to the infirmities that can and do affect all humans at one time or another. When that occurs, there are definite ways to treat them in the physical realm. But the body/brain of a man, and the spirit/soul of a man are two distinctly different things. The first are ‘natural’ and function in the natural realm, while the spirit/soul are supernatural and cannot be seen with the eyes; they function in a much higher, spiritual realm and as such, they are subject to attacks in that higher, spiritual realm.

Since the term ‘mental illness’ refers to a sickness that seems to originate in the mind, NOT the brain, a closer look at mental illness in light of God’s word is needed.

So, What IS Mental Illness and Where Does It originate?

Satanic Attacks/Spiritual Warfare

Satan knows very well how the human being is constructed and how  God designed it to work. He longs for a human body so that he can function as does the man that God created. But, Satan is a spirit, NOT a flesh and blood being so he is limited in how he can bring attacks on people.

The Holy Spirit, through the Apostle Paul, has spoken much about our battles with evil, where they originate and how we are to deal with them. He said in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Notice that all the entities with whom we do battle are NOT flesh and blood beings, but ARE ‘spirit beings’ and they attack us in the non-physical areas, the mind, the will and the emotions (the soulish realm), with their deception, lies and evil suggestions, in order to engage us in battle in hopes of stealing everything God has given to us. Even though we are in flesh and blood bodies, the REAL persons in those bodies are spirit beings, living in the physical bodies that God prepared for us when He created Adam and Eve; as spirit beings, we have the ability, AND the authority, to do battle in the spirit realm, but we can only be successful in battle by using the spiritual armor God provided. Only through the proper knowledge of, and use of, that armor will we be guaranteed success.

And in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5,

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”.

 Notice in the above passage that we have been given a command from God to get violent in that spiritual realm in order to defeat Satan.

Protecting Our Minds

As important as it is to properly nourish and care for our bodies, the proper care of the mind is even more important.

The story of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who defeated the Jewish people and carried Judah into captivity is one of several accounts of ‘mental illness’ that offers great insight into the cause of mental illness (Daniel 4). Because of the wickedness and pride of Nebuchadnezzar, giving himself all the credit for his kingdom and his accomplishments, refusing to give that glory to God, He was afflicted with demonic possession as the ‘heart’ of Nebuchadnezzar was changed from that of a man to that of a beast, and his demonic possession lasted seven years. During that time, the Babylonian king acted as a beast and lived as a beast, doing beastly things.

Think of a human brain, which definitely IS a part of the physical human body, as a preprogrammed computer, or at least a computer that is being constantly programmed and reprogrammed. The data stored in the brain is a result of the input from the computer ‘operator’. The operator not only programs the computer, but constantly accesses the data stored there. So, in essence, the operator/programmer, though not an integral part of the computer, is absolutely necessary for any part of the computer to be utilized for any significant function of the human body.

So, who then is the operator of the computer? That would be the human mind which, though NOT a physical part of the physical human body is as necessary as the human brain for a human being to function rationally, logically and with any positive outcomes.

So, to sum up, if the human mind is NOT physical, just what is it? It has a direct connection to, and is a communication link between, the human spirit and the human body. The human spirit is the TRUE being without whose presence the human body would die, or cease to function on its own, and when the body dies, the mind, being a part of the spiritual man, lives on eternally; being a part of the human spirit (the mind, the will and the emotions), it is always alive, whereas the human brain dies shortly after the human spirit departs the body.

Proper Care of the Human Mind

The believer should have a different ‘mindset’ from that of the world. God did not leave us in the dark regarding the proper care of the mind. In fact, in Romans 12, the Apostle Paul told us what we must do to keep our minds in top condition, always ready for battle:

“ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”

Please note that your physical body will NOT present itself a ‘living sacrifice’; in fact, the body, even that of a true believer, will constantly resist sacrificing anything. The fallen human nature is always at war against the spirit and wants total dominance over all. The sacrifice Paul mentions is the function of the real person, the human spirit, using the mind as the communication interface with the body. In fact, the human physical body will mostly  try to do whatever is against the spirit. Paul stated so when he said,

“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” Romans 7:23-25

Paul’s point is that, in order to keep the body under the control of the spirit, one MUST constantly provide the nourishment it needs, which is God’s word.

What does it mean to ‘lose one’s mind?

The world assumes that the human mind can be ‘lost’, but what they likely mean is that it has become under the control of a spirit other than the human spirit. If so, then the mind, being controlled by another spirit, though still able to access the stored data in the brain, will attempt to use that data for evil purposes rather than good, logical rational and righteous purposes. In effect, the evil spirit that has gained control of the mind also now controls the brain and, through that control, the body is able to work evil and create havoc.

Rather than ‘losing one’s mind’, the truth is that one allows a foreign agent to assume partial, or even total, control of one’s mind, leading to what the scientific world calls mental illness, or insanity, but which is actually demonic influence or demonic possession.

Conclusion

The deceived and lost world offers what they believe to be a rational explanation for what they call ‘insanity/mental illness’, but is actually evil and demonic influence or outright demonic possession. They will likely NOT admit to the existence of evil demon spirits since to do so would be to admit the existence of the fallen angel Lucifer, Satan, the devil (use whichever you want, they are all interchangeable) as ‘the god of this world’. They refuse to recognize that what they call “mental illness” is actually the result of human beings being influenced by demonic spirits. Their refusal makes the current chaotic condition of the world seem easier for them to accept and explain. After all, illness can and does ‘happen’ to all humans, right? So why should we separate ‘mental illness’ from all other diseases.

Just as there are varying degrees of physical illness, some mild and merely inconvenient, others are almost immediately life-threatening, so there are degrees of mental illness/demonic influence. And as the degrees of physical illness are indicated by the severity of the  symptoms, so are the degrees of demonic influence.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 5, we find the account of Jesus, who had just arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, encountering a man who was possessed of a multitude of evil spirits and who dwelt among the tombs (it seems that demons love the dark places where death reigns). This man would make crying noises and cut himself as he roamed the mountains and the tombs. He was obviously a danger to himself and eventually would have been to others, since in verse 4, we are told that the demon possession gave him exceptional physical strength so that he could break any chains or fetters that had been used to bind him. The poor possessed man ran to Jesus and knowing Who He was, worshipped Him and begged Him to not send them (the legion of demon spirits) away out of the country.

Jesus, having mercy on the man possessed, ordered the demon spirits to leave the man and the spirits begged Jesus not to send them out of the country, but to allow them to enter a herd of swine feeding nearby. Jesus did and the demons left the man and entered the swine, causing them to run into the water and drown.

The people of that region were well aware of the man who was saved by Jesus and they also knew he had been possessed by unclean spirits for a long time. They did NOT call a psychiatrist to heal him of his “mental illness”. But when Jesus arrived, the man himself, knowing he was possessed, approached Jesus and received his cleansing.

After witnessing the destruction of the herd of swine caused by the devil spirits that entered into them, and seeing that the possessed man was sitting calmly, clothed and “in his right mind”, they were afraid, (Mark 5:15 KJV) and they implored Jesus to leave their coasts.

How ironic that they were afraid of the One who brought deliverance to the possessed man, but were willing to live with him in their area while possessed by the truly evil spirits.

When was the last time you heard of a Christian commanding a devil to leave a person who was influenced or possessed by evil? I thought Christians were supposed to be ‘Christlike’, but it now appears the Church has become afraid of acting like Christ and willing to accept as ‘normal’, a condition they prefer to call ‘mental illness’ instead of what it truly is: demonic influence or possession.

When will the Church begin to recognize what is happening and refuse to allow themselves to be deceived into accepting evil as a normal state? Instead of commanding the demons to flee from those people who have been plagued with the, the Church now seems more afraid of Jesus and ready to cozy up to those who are demon-possessed…uh, I mean “mentally ill”.

Selah……

Maranatha

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Now the truth comes out. Please read this column about GMO foods and Bill Gates.

Renz Missouri House Testimony – BioTech Admits Gate’s GMO Factory Food IS a Gene Therapy

This has been a monumental week for the truth and freedom movement in our ongoing war against the WEF/CCP/Gates Foundation/etc. Here are just a few highlights:

  1. I had an opportunity to get incredibly important information about the DoD involvement with the creation of SARS-COV-2 and the vaccines on the official record in the state of Missouri;
  2. I was able to put on record that the DMED data has yet to be refuted under oath or where a penalty of perjury would apply by the DoD it accuses of killing it’s own soldiers;
  3. Daniel Horrowitz (if you do not follow Daniel’s work please do – he is an incredible journalist) uncovered and reported that the CDC expected over 1000 adverse events per day to be reported to VAERS per a FOIA document (see the article here). How much clearer can it be that the CDC and big pharma worked together to push a product for profit despite the fact that these products were incredibly dangerous? This is even more damning when you consider that these same people intentionally stoked fear in the public over a disease roughly as dangerous as the seasonal flu;
  4. Redfield has admitted that, not only was SARS-COV-2 created in a lab using gain of Function research but also that this research is going on and WILL be the cause of the next great pandemic. He also called Fauci a liar (see this article for a summary); and
  5. The biotech lobbyists admitted that GMO food like the type Bill Gates wants to manufacture in factories WILL actually alter your genetic code!!!

Here is the press release posted on www.TomRenz.com & www.Renz-Law.com regarding this testimony:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Biotech lobbyists in Missouri opposed to the HB1169 Gene Therapy Disclosure & Informed Consent Bill ADMIT that GMO food like the type Bill Gates is pushing to manufacture in factories WILL alter your genetics – ARE THESE FOODS GOING TO BE THE NEXT mRNA VACCINES?

HB1169 in Missouri would require disclosure of any product that would produce impacts on the human body similar to a gene therapy drug as well as requiring informed consent disclosure to include all risks and benefits – including adverse events of special interest. The language of the bill can be found at https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills231/hlrbillspdf/2467H.01I.pdf. Naturally, big Pharma and their associates oppose disclosure and informed consent.

During official testimony in the Missouri House on the bill the lobbyists for BioTech and WashU (I believe) in Missouri went on record to admit that GMO foods do in fact impact people’s genetic code. They actually opposed the bill on the basis that this law would require them to admit that all of their GMO products ARE in fact impacting people’s genetic code. There was no discussion as to how substantial the impact was or what studies were being done to ensure these modifications were not causing long-term health effects.

This SHOCKING admission is critical in light of the Gates Foundation/WEF push to begin producing all meats and dairy products in factories. If a basic GMO food can cause modification of our genome what could an entirely manufactured food do? Further, do we trust the same people to ensure these products are safe and effective that told us the COVID vaccines would stay in the injection site, have minimal side effects, and prevent the spread of COVID despite admitting to the European Union that they never studied the vaccine’s ability to stem the spread of COVID?

Also in this testimony Renz was able to include discuss the DMED data, DoD involvement with the development of COVID, the DoD involvement with the COVID vaccines, and MUCH more.

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MINNESOTA: Elementary School Hosts ‘Gender Resource Fair’ Featuring A ‘Drag Story Hour’ For Kids

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Not even half the students at this school are proficient in reading or math….but sexualizing illiterates is the priority.

Elementary School Hosts ‘Gender Resource Fair’ Featuring A ‘Drag Story Hour’ For Kids

By: Reagan Reese, Daily Caller, March 28, 2023

A Minnesota elementary school is hosting a “gender resource fair” for children and their families featuring a “drag story hour,” according to a school website.

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is putting on an April 13 event for transgender and non-binary children at Loring Elementary School featuring local gender non-conforming resources, a bounce house, games and dinner, according to the St. Paul Public Schools website. The elementary school event includes a “drag story hour” for kids.

“We’re hosting a gathering for families and their gender creative young ones,” a flyer for the event, promoted by the local teachers union, read. “Join us for community resources, entertainment, food, games and more.”

Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd, the medical director of Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program who uses they/them pronouns, is the guest speaker for the event, the flyer showed. The Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program serves as a “resource” for transgender minors and their families while providing “compassionate and comprehensive care” for the “gender-diverse youth,” the hospital website read.

Very cool event happening next month for families and their gender-creative kids at Loring Elementary! pic.twitter.com/prAovbDM7p

— MFT 59 (@MFT59) March 23, 2023

Across the country, school districts are pushing to promote gender identity lessons to elementary students; an elementary school principal in Minnesota suggested kindergarten through second grade students read “Jack (Not Jackie),” a story about a young girl who realizes she prefers to act like a boy. In Pennsylvania, an elementary school held a training for educators to teach them how to create a “gender-inclusive” classroom and affirm LGBTQ identities.

In the 2021-2022 school year, at Loring Elementary School, 42% of students are proficient in math and 42% of students met grade-level expectations for reading, according to U.S. News and World report, the nation’s largest ranking system.

“Not even half the students at this school are proficient in reading or math and yet somehow the priority is to partner with a local gender clinic and host an event that promotes gender confusion in young children and includes drag queen story hour?” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, a parental rights group, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Another red flag is that the local teachers’ union is promoting it. This whole thing is ideological in nature and has no place in an elementary school.”

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‘Bouncy Houses’ and ‘Goodie-Bags’: Inside the Military’s Drag Queen Events for Kids

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The U.S. military under President Joe Biden has hosted numerous drag queen events for children on military bases, advertising the story hours alongside promises of “bouncy houses,” face painting, and “goodie-bags.” After public backlash, one base’s spokesman called gender-bending events “essential” to military morale and readiness.

Now, a conservative Republican congressman plans to hold the Biden administration’s feet to the fire after its top military advisor said drag queen events for children “shouldn’t be happening.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) raised the issue of the “deeply unserious things” the administration has foisted on America’s fighting forces with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

“How much taxpayer money should go to fund Drag Queen Story Hours on military bases?” Gaetz asked Lloyd.

“Drag Queen Story Hours is [sic] not something that the Department [of Defense] funds” or “supports,” asserted Austin.

“Wait a second, that’s actually not what the record seems to suggest,” corrected Congressman Gaetz, pointing to four drag-themed events on U.S. military institutions.

  • Germany’s Ramstein Air Force Base planned to celebrate Pride Month by hosting a “Drag Queen Story Time” for soldiers’ children inside the base library last June 2. The event was canceled after Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) called the decision “completely insane” in a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Since “decisions over children and their bodies should be left to moms and dads serving our nation, not mediated through publicly funded propaganda,” wrote Rubio;
  • Although that event was canceled, Gaetz highlighted another example of cross-dressing men reading to minors at Malmstrom Air Force Base in deep-red Montana. “To celebrate pride, the Mister Sisters will be hosting a Drag Story Time and a Drag Show, June 30,” 2021, the base announced on Facebook. “The reading will be held at the Base Library at 2 P.M. and the first 25 children will be gifted goodie-bags”;
  • The Army and Air Force’s Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia announced two on-base drag performances last July 30. The base-wide “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summer Festival” advertised the dance stylings of “Harpy Daniels — the Navy Drag Queen” alongside “bouncy houses and face painting for the children”; and
  • The Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas — once described as offering the “most demanding advanced air combat training in the world” — hosted “Drag-u-Nellis,” a privately sponsored drag show for officers, at an on-base facility on June 17, 2021. Nellis AFB Spokesman Col. Bryon McGarry described LGBTQ-themed spectacles as “essential to the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the military,” adding he remains “committed to providing and championing an environment that is characterized by equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.”

Confronted with the evidence, Austin replied, “I stand by what I just said.” Gaetz quickly parried that Austin’s sworn testimony is “belied by the evidence” and “doesn’t comport with the facts.”

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley asked for copies of the articles Gaetz had entered into the Congressional Record, saying, “I’d like to take a look at those, because I don’t agree with” drag events for children. “It shouldn’t be happening.”

“Thank you for that admission,” Gaetz replied.

“To their credit, they said if I brought them examples of where this was happening on installations, that they would use their power to stop it,” Gaetz told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” shortly after the hearing. “In a world of divided government where Joe Biden’s the president, I guess that counts as a win for the day.” But he advised conservatives to “remain diligent that in the name of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ we don’t create a more divisive and less welcoming fighting force.”

Some of the men who put on cross-dressing events defend their propriety and accuse Republicans of pouncing on the issue. “There’s nothing sexualized about a drag queen reading a book to a group of children,” insisted Daniels Hays, a federal employee who gives cross-dressing performances under the name Muffy Blake Stevens. “Politicians of any stripe [are] using drag queens as their wedge issue to try and ignite their base and say, somehow, we’re coming for” their children. In reality, “none of us are on a crusade to change anyone,” he contended.

But the official Drag Story Hour (DSH) website declares, “DSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

“Elementary school is the perfect time” to introduce children to extreme gender theory, before children “develop a stable understanding of their gender identity,” one LGBTQ activist told teachers and administrators of schools located on U.S. military bases.

Gaetz’s revelations come on intensifying concern over the Biden administration teaching children transgenderism, “global citizenship,” and equity-tinged critical race theory in the global complex of military-run schools. “The new military education aims to detach military brats from their families and their country, all the better to make them global citizens. It seeks to disrupt stable sexual identities,” wrote Ryan P. Williams and Scott Yenor of the Claremont Institute. The U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), teaches more than 66,000 students in 160 schools spread over seven states and 11 foreign countries.

Biden’s dogged promotion of gender nihilism also coincides with one of the worst years of military recruitment on record, a failure Gaetz and others chalk up to the Democratic Party’s determination to replace toughness with liberal social engineering. “The American South [and] the American Southeast make an oversize contribution” to the ranks of enlisted soldiers. “When values are presented that are antithetical to the values that a lot of people grow up with, then I think that can really have an impact on readiness.”

While transvestite events have taken place on military bases for years, official government approbation is a relatively new occurrence.

Navy drag queen “Harpy Daniels,” whose real name is Joshua Kelley, discussed performing drag shows for his fellow sailors in a 2018 interview, in which he also admitted he joined the service to get enough money to keep performing in women’s make-up. “With drag being my number one passion, it quickly became costly,” Kelley said. “The Navy became a great option to get myself situated” financially. Kelley also became an officer in the Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Sailors association chapter aboard a carrier named for Ronald Reagan.

Gaetz asked “Washington Watch” listeners to share examples of wokeness in the military with him via his website, “so we can bring it forward, highlight it, and then defund it” and “get rid of the authorities that even allow this nonsense — whether it’s dividing people on gender or on race or on belief.”

“One of the remarkable things about our military is that they are in a community of common fate,” Congressman Gaetz told Perkins. “Included in that is a common sense of mission and patriotism and love of country,” which the commander-in-chief should not undermine by promoting radical theories on transgenderism, race, or COVID-19 vaccination status.

“It is absolutely important that our military focus on its mission, and that is fighting and winning wars, not promoting drag queen story hours and the rest of this woke agenda,” said Perkins.

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White House To Host ‘Roundtable On Affirming Transgender Kids’

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The White House will host a “Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids” Friday as part of its observance of “Transgender Day of Visibility,” according to a fact sheet.

The roundtable is part of a push from the administration to support transgenderism, including childhood medical transitions, in the wake of numerous red states restricting the procedures. The discussion will focus on the experiences of children who identify as transgender and their parents in states that have restricted child sex changes, according to the White House.

“Over half of transgender youth say they have seriously considered suicide in the last year because of the discrimination and rejection they face. In the face of these challenges, research shows that, when transgender youth are affirmed and supported, they thrive,” the fact sheet wrote, citing no evidence for either claim.

The suicidality rates of transgender individuals are vastly exaggerated, according to experts in the field, some of whom believe that overemphasis on the suicide narrative can become a self-fulfilling prophecy that encourages young people with gender identity issues to contemplate suicide. Additionally, studies suggesting that cross-sex medical procedures improve mental health are riddled with bias, confounding variables and methodological errors, according to multiple Daily Caller News Foundation reviews.

The White House also issued what it called a “landmark report” on ways to support LGBT youth and issued new guidance for “gender identity inclusion” for public servants.

The White House did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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