"That’s What Christians Do Now"

VS what they SHOULD be doing... 

By John Droz, Jr. Oct 19, 2024 @ Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues

This classic commentary has been repeated before — because it’s good. As elections in 2024 get ominously closer, I hope that this resonates with conscientious citizens…

---

“They called it no-fault. Why should we blame anyone when something so tragic happens? Haven’t they already suffered enough? Half of the marriages in America end this way. The children suffered. The family broke down. It is called divorce.

I go to church, the minister preaches and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

In 1973 The US Supreme Court said it was OK to kill unborn babies. Since then, in the US we have killed more than the entire population of Canada. And it continues. A woman’s choice? Half of those who have died in their mothers’ wombs have been women. They didn’t have a choice. It is called abortion.

I go to church, the minister preaches and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

First, it was in dingy, dirty theaters. Then, convenience stores. Then, grocery stores. Then on television. Now it is in the homes of millions via the Internet. It is called pornography.

I go to church, the minister preaches and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

At one time it was an aberration. We secured help and hope for those who practiced it. Now it is praised. We have parades celebrating it, and elected officials give it their blessing. Now it is endowed with special privileges and protected by special laws. Even some Christian leaders and denominations praise it. It is called homosexuality.

I go to church, the minister preaches and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

It used to be an embarrassment. A shame. Now a third of all births are to mothers who aren’t married. Two-thirds of all African-American children are born into a home without a father. The state usually pays the tab. That is why we pay our taxes so that government can take the place of parents. After all, government bureaucrats know much better how to raise children than parents do. It is called illegitimacy.

I go to church, the minister preaches and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

At one time it was wrong. But then the state decided to legalize it, promote it, and tax it. It has ripped apart families and destroyed lives. But just look at all the money the state has raised. No longer do we have to teach our children to study and work hard. Now we teach them they can get something for nothing. We spend millions encouraging people to join the fun and excitement. Just look at the big sums that people are winning. They will never have to work again! It is called gambling.

I go to church, the minister preaches and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

Not long ago, Christians were the good guys. But now any positive image of Christians in movies or on TV is gone. We are now depicted as the bad guys – greedy, narrow-minded hypocrites. The teacher can’t have a Bible on her desk but can have Playboy. We don’t have Christmas and Easter holidays – just winter and spring break. We can’t pray in school, but can use foul language. It’s called being tolerant.

I go to church, the minister preaches, I go home. That’s what Christians do now.

Yes, all these things came to pass within 30 years. Where were the Christians? Why, they were in church. All these things are for someone else to deal with. Times have changed. It’s called apathy.

But don’t blame me. I didn’t do anything. I go to church, the minister preaches, and I go home. That’s what Christians do now.”

by Dr. Donald E. Wildmon – American Family Association (AFA) President.

---

Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:

I am now offering incentives for you to sign up for new subscribers!

I also consider reader submissions on Critical Thinking on my topics of interest.

Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2024 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?

Leave a comment

Share

Thanks for reading Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues! Please pass a link to this article on to other associates who might benefit. They can subscribe for FREE to receive new posts (typically about once a week).

Cotton Candy or Salt?

By Rob Pue @ Wisconsin Christian News

It’s really too bad that I need to take time out of my very busy schedule to address today’s topic.  I’ve been publishing Wisconsin Christian News for 25 years now, so I know that what I’m about to share with you is par for the course and to be expected, but it still bothers me a lot.  Even though I know this is just another attempt of Satan to get under my skin and weigh me down with discouragement, I can’t seem to just let it go.  So, let me tell you what happened yesterday.
 
I was busy working in my office, trying to cross as many things off my “to do” list as possible when the phone rang.  It was a man who had found Wisconsin Christian News for the first time at one of our public news racks.  He told me he was impressed by the cover and glad to find a Christian newspaper out in public, but then, how he was immediately disgusted by, as he put it, “all the political crap” we published.  “What’s with all the political crap in here?” he asked.  

But he didn’t really want to listen to anything I had to say.  In fact, I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.  “I thought we weren’t supposed to mix politics and religion,” he said.  And then, as critics like this always love to do, he attempted to “scare” me by saying, “I was going to subscribe to this paper but there’s no way I’ll do that now!”  These guys always say this as if losing the $2 “profit margin” we receive per year on an annual subscription is going to strike tremendous fear into my heart. 
 
It would have been nice if I were able to have a discussion with him, but then again, over the years, I’ve come across so many others just like him, that I know it’s futile.  Just as well that he hung up on me after yelling at me for publishing what he considered to be “political” material.
 
But this situation gnawed at me all day, and it’s still gnawing at me today.  So much so that I went back in my files to see what articles could have set him off enough to bother making the call.  People will rarely contact me with positive, encouraging messages, but seem to be very eager to call and tell me how I’m doing everything wrong.
 
There were a couple articles on how God was mocked during the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Paris.  An article on Repentance, God’s Law and the Republican National Convention; one on the new LGBTQP+ curriculum elementary school kids will be subjected to in public schools this fall.  We ran a commentary on how the mainstream media is stumping for Kamala Harris; one about how our government is supposed to have a system of checks and balances with three separate branches; an investigation into the Trump assassination attempt; and one on the sanctity of life for preborn babies.
 
But the rest of the paper was all Bible teaching, letters to the editor, health-related articles, parenting articles, and several on building strong marriages and families.  If I’d had the chance, I would have explained that we are a NEWSpaper, and therefore, we include news in each issue.  Our articles are all from a Christian perspective and worldview, but yes, we do and will continue to cover things like the upcoming elections, tyrannical government, the New World Order, plans of the Globalists, the LGBTQP+ grooming and exploitation of our children and more.
 
We’ll continue to publish real information on the invasion of our nation by foreign enemies.  We’ll speak up when Christ-followers are unjustly hunted and persecuted by our Justice Department, jailed for standing in the gap for the preborn or for praying in public.  We’ll let you know when injustice claims yet more victims.
 
I don’t see these things as being political.  In fact, everything this man would have claimed is “political” are actually moral and spiritual issues, but he’ll never come to understand that.  Something he said made it all clear to me. He said, “I thought we weren’t supposed to mix politics and religion.”  Clearly, he’s been well trained by a cowardly, weakling “pastor” somewhere, in a “stained glass fortress” steeped in “churchianity.”
 
Again, moral and spiritual matters should not be confused with political ones.  But even in the realm of politics, I believe Christians should not only be present, but front and center and in charge.  I won’t apologize for that.  How different would our society and our modern American culture be right now if our government leaders were true Christ-followers?  
 
Do you think we’d have this unbridled lawlessness in our streets?  Would we have abortion up to — and beyond — the moment of birth?  Would we have feminine hygiene products stocked in our male restrooms in public schools and other public places?  Would our public schools have litter boxes in the restrooms for those students who identify as cats?  Would we have pornography being read to our tiny children by so-called “teachers?”  Would 25% of our children be confused about their gender?  Would 47% of our children “identify” as some type of LGBTQP+?
 
If Christians were involved in politics — and pastors properly spoke the truth from their pulpits — would God be mocked and ridiculed at every public event — the Olympics being just one example of many?  Would the media be allowed to lie to us constantly with impunity?  Would school boards be able to push through whatever horrific agenda they wanted — causing serious mental and physical abuse of our children, regardless of what parents wanted?  For that matter, would our children, right now, be being groomed by sodomites in public schools, masquerading as “teachers,” without parents even knowing about it?
 
And if Christians were properly taught — by courageous pastors — to push back and stand as a restraining force against evil in our nation, do you think we’d have all the homelessness, drug abuse, poverty, hunger, prostitution, and insanity in our streets?  I doubt it.
 
I’m sick of it.  The reason our nation and world is in chaos today, teetering on the edge of total destruction is because so-called “Christians” have failed in their primary duty.  Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost his savor, how shall its savor be restored?  It’s no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under the feet of men.”  
 
This is what we’ve allowed to happen... and America is now a post-Christian nation.  “Christianity” has become irrelevant.  Good for nothing.  The very Word of God has been thrown out and trampled under the feet of men, and we have allowed this to happen.  Yes, Pastor, I’m talking to you — and all those lost souls you’ve spent your entire career serving up lies of omission to.  You’ve taught them well.  It’s because of you that they don’t think God Almighty has any place in the affairs of men and civil government.  And so we no longer have civility and our government is treacherous tyranny.
 
It’s doubtful that the man who called me to complain will ever read this message or hear it on the radio.  From what I could gather, he only listens to the modern “praise choruses” on the “Christian Rock” stations.  It’s very sad.  So many are so deluded because of our silent pulpits.  But if you don’t want to get near anything that could possibly be considered “political,” you certainly have your choice of 99.9% of places that call themselves “churches” to attend and get a heaping helping of feel-good motivational speeches on any given Sunday.
 
Because we publish articles of real substance, covering the most vital matters facing our families, our nation and our world, Wisconsin Christian News is quite regularly condemned as being “too radical.”  I guess most people are expecting the typical milquetoast, wimpy, poetry and recipes, “feel good” motivational materials served up by the vast majority of our pastors and churches today.  I can tell you that fewer than one in a hundred pastors will even allow Wisconsin Christian News in their buildings, because they fear someone may be offended when we say sodomy and baby-murder is wrong.
 
When people open up our newspaper, they’re often shocked to see in-depth articles on what’s really going on in this world.  Serious matters.  Don’t get me wrong; we’re not all doom and gloom — we offer the real hope of salvation in Christ — but we’re not “cotton candy” vendors either.  No sugar-coating here.  We provide the truth.  We offer substance and relevant information I believe all Christ-followers need to be aware of as they carry forward the Great Commission in this world.  “Religious” people can’t handle it.  Pastors hate it.  Even most businesses and ministries are too afraid to advertise in our newspaper, for fear of offending someone.
 
I’d like to contrast what we offer in Wisconsin Christian News with another so-called “Christian” newspaper from another state.  While we struggle to meet the budget every month, this one is literally packed with expensive paid advertising.  In their current issue, just in the first 15 pages there are nine full pages of nothing but ads.  They offer plenty of positive, motivational teachings, some questionable new age psychology-based articles, and this month, a Christian College Guide, which appears to be another great opportunity for them to sell even more ads, which they did.
 
And in what I can only describe as a way for them to “stroke” the egos of the area pastors, they print full color pictures of pastors each month and publish their response to one absurd question a month.  Examples of questions they’ve asked are: “What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?” “What is your favorite meal of all time?”  “How old were you when you got your first car and what kind was it?”  This month, they’re asking, “Are you an early bird or a night owl, and why?”
 
I’m sorry to sound critical, but this is just such a waste, and clearly, I see no other reason for this particular feature except to, as I said, “stroke” the egos of the pastors who respond to the questions and get their pictures published.  This is probably a great “door opener” too, to hopefully sell more ads to churches.  Then they publish calendar listings for concerts and special events, along with classified ads.
 
They sell a lot of ads.  Their paper is in full color throughout — something we’ve never been able to afford to do with Wisconsin Christian News.  But for the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would bother to read even a single page of it.  It contains nothing of significance or substance.
 
Now, if I simply wanted to make money, I guess this would be a way to do that — but honestly, this is not “Christian news.”  This is nonsense.  It offers nothing of substance at all.  If I were only about making money, I’d much rather publish a Shopper’s Guide or “Auto Seller.”  At least it would have some value and wouldn’t be, in my opinion, mocking God.
 
I used to joke about how pastors and church-goers really only seem to want “poetry and recipes.”  Some time ago, I came across a small paper that was exactly that.  It was put out for a while by a secular newspaper in one Wisconsin city, and I believe it was quarterly.  And it truly was just poetry and recipes...and just about every single church in that city had an ad in it.  It was definitely a money-maker, but I doubt anyone ever picked up more than one copy and it lasted less than a year.  
 
I tell you all this to let you know that what we do here at Wisconsin Christian News is not easy.  We get a lot of criticism and a lot of cruel and hateful phone calls, emails and letters.  You might be shocked to know that most of the nasty comments come from those who consider themselves to be good, church-going Christians.  On the other hand, we get amazing testimonies from people who find the Lord for the first time, or return to Him after many years away, after finding Wisconsin Christian News in a newspaper rack in a public place somewhere.  Because we’re relevant.  We take on the tough issues.  We don’t mince words. We work hard to publish truth and have some of the best writers in the nation.  Many have told us it’s the only newspaper they read and the only media they feel they can trust.  If you haven’t seen it and would like a complimentary copy, just call and request one.  I’ll be happy to send it you.

Should Christians Fear Kamala Harris?

Her hostility to Catholics and evangelicals runs deep. 

By Tim Donner | Aug 13, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

In a presidential campaign marked by one bombshell occurrence after another, it is easy to lose sight of fundamental issues that newly minted Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has yet to address. As the vice president dodges scrutiny in the run-up to the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump and Republicans have spent plenty of time discussing the areas where the VP is highly vulnerable, primarily the economy and illegal immigration, which together rate as the most serious concerns of a majority of voters. But there has been little talk about an issue of profound importance to tens of millions of Americans on which Harris might be just as exposed: her view of Christianity.

The vice president’s own religious background is telling. Her mother was Indian and Hindu, her father Jamaican and Christian. As Trump has pointed out, she has alternated between identities during her career. During her formative years in Canada and later in the US, she attended both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple. Like Barack Obama, Harris’ father is a Marxist academic, which provides crucial context to her record of hostility toward Catholics and evangelical Christians. But whatever influences hit closest to home during her upbringing and throughout her political career, her record on religion is worthy of close scrutiny – and deep concern.

“The vice president has a strong Christian faith that she’s talked about a lot,” Jamal Simmons, Harris’ former communications director, told The Washington Times. But like so many other aspects of her persona, you would be hard-pressed to figure out exactly what that means in light of her record over more than a decade of public service.

The Kamala Harris Brand of Christianity

Harris’ 2019 ranking as the single most liberal senator in the entire nation was not without merit. One year earlier, she had famously ignored Article VI of the US Constitution prohibiting religious tests on judicial appointments during a Senate hearing. She asked a nominee to the federal court, Brian Buescher, if he was aware that the Knights of Columbus (KOC), a widely familiar charitable organization, “opposed a woman’s right to choose” and whether he had “ever, in any way, assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women’s reproductive rights.” Incredibly, Harris’ progressive colleague, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), went on to ask the nominee if he would resign from the KOC if confirmed.

As California attorney general, Harris backed a 2015 state law requiring pro-life pregnancy crisis centers to offer abortion referrals. The US Supreme Court vacated the law as a violation of free speech. As a longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood, she also authorized a 2015 raid on the home of pro-life activist David Daleiden after he secretly recorded Planned Parenthood affiliates selling fetal tissue from abortions.

Then there was her time in the Senate, when she sponsored a bill, the 2019 “Do No Harm Act,” requiring  Catholic hospitals to cover abortions and gender-transition surgeries, despite their objections based on centuries of settled Catholic theology. She infuriated Christians by cosponsoring the 2017 Equality Act to protect the right of biological males who identify as female to enter girls’ and women’s facilities. And as part of her radical agenda during her run for the presidential nomination in 2020, she proposed that states be required to obtain permission from the Justice Department to pass any abortion restrictions.

Like many left-wing Christians, Harris claims that traditional Christian beliefs are perfectly compatible with her own, declaring at a recent NAACP Convention that supporting abortion access “does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs.” Of course, that flies directly in the face of the teachings of the Catholic Church, even with a Pope in the thrall of progressive theology, which continues to unilaterally oppose abortion.

But perhaps the most revealing insight into the Democratic presidential nominee’s beliefs might come from her statement excising one-third of the most defining statement of American values ever written. Indeed, in 2023, Harris deliberately left out the word “life” in stating during a pro-abortion speech that the Declaration of Independence guaranteed the right to “liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Almost 20% of the US population is Catholic. Another 39% identify as “born again” or evangelical, according to Gallup. That adds up to more than half the country.  Will Kamala Harris reassure people of faith that she will protect their religious liberty, or will she try to win the election by doubling down on her progressive view of faith?

 

Read More From Tim Donner

Crime is Not Down, and Christians and Jews Are Under Attack

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note: This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me. If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK

 

Did you know that the New York City and Los Angeles police departments are among the approximate 40% of law enforcement agencies nationwide NOT sharing their crime data with the FBI? Keep that in mind when the FBI reports that crime is down. 

Also keep in mind George Orwell’s “1984.” 

You might wonder why cities don’t share their crime statistics. They used to. However, the FBI needed a more comprehensive data system and in 2021, introduced its advanced National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Cities could no longer submit their crime data through the older Summary Reporting System. Many cities stopped sending the FBI crime data as they lacked the technology for the new NIBRS system. 

But the FBI doesn’t make this known when it releases its crime statistics. Many people will erroneously assume the FBI’s data is from most major police departments. In short, if you believe the FBI report that crime is down, you probably also believe that Joe Biden received 81 million votes in 2020 and is mentally fit to be president. 

Even The Epoch Times omitted this important information in their June 11 article.  

(Robin Itzler sent a letter to Siyamak Khorrami, Chief Editor of Epoch Times, about this omission.  While costs may have been the original factor in stopping their reporting, now events are unfolding that makes it even less desirable to report what's going on.)

Christians and Jews Are Under Attack

In New York America is repeating the history of Germany in the 1930s. Today’s Kristallnacht is directed at Christians and Jews, whereas in Germany it was primarily Jews.

Christians:

The February 2024 edition of Family Research Council’s “Hostility Against Churches” report “identified 436 hostility incidents in 2023 – more than double the number identified in 2022 and more than eight times the number identified in 2018, the first year Family Research Council collected data.”

In New York City, home to 2.8 MILLION Catholics and 1.6 MILLION Jews, consider these recent incidents that occurred solely because of faith. Ask yourself what the MSM response would have been had these attacks happened to mosques and Muslims.

On June 10, Randy Maldonado Avila went into a Brooklyn Catholic Church and using a hammer, destroyed statues of Mother Teresa and Pope John XXIII along with the church’s glass doors. Police arrested Avila, but you would go blind looking for “hate crime” in the indictment for the 12 crimes listed.

What if Avila had done this in a mosque? We all know the answer!

Jews:

On the evening of June 10 there was another pro-Hamas rally in New York City. And where did they hold this pro-terrorist demonstration? At an exhibit honoring the fallen in the October 7 Hamas murderous rampage. To make certain everyone knew they were rallying FOR terrorism, signs included: “Long live the intifada!” “Long live October 7!” “The Zionists are not Jews & not humans. They are the evil of the world!”

What if a sign read “Muslim are not humans?” We all know the answer!

On June 11, the Director of the Brooklyn Museum along with several Jewish board members had their homes vandalized with disgusting anti-Semitic graffiti.

What if this happened to Muslims? We all know the answer!

Where the hell is New York City Mayor Adams? Why isn’t the mayor standing up for Christians and Jews who are under attack? Adams is probably busy giving out government freebies to illegal alien migrant invaders! 

These attacks against Christians and Jews are happening because of Joe Biden and his Marxist Democrat party. As to the Hamas terrorist supporters in the Big Apple, if they can make it there, they can make it anywhere.

The Great Replacement is Here, Now!

This article was inspired by a speech by  Eva Vlaardingerbroek at #CPACHungary stating the establishment is losing its mind as she spoke the forbidden truth: The Great Replacement is no longer a theory - it’s reality.

By Rich Kozlovich

"White Europeans are being replaced in their own countries at an ever accelerating rate and it will mean the end of our civilization if we don’t turn things around."

What we're seeing are violent and dangerous conflicts at a level not seen before.  Why?  Because this is an imported problem.  As a result of this insane attitude regarding multiculturalism, and social responsibility we're seeing mass uncontrolled migration from failed primitive tribal societies with ethnic, cultural, and religious values which are totally antithetical to western civilization.  

This is an ethnic culture problem so massive and so pervasive, since they've brought their tribal conflicts to Europe and the United States, and these migrants are blatantly antisemitic, anti Christian, and anti white, anti-western civilization, and they and their leftist enablers are using our own values against us, and all of that is blatantly obvious to the most casual observer!  So, it that's true, and it is, why is it then western civilization seems to be indifferent to our own destruction?   We've seen murder, rape, and destruction at unrepresented levels, and nothing changes.  We're capitulated to these savages in fear of being called  racists, xenophobes, and more, all that's left to do is accept dhimmitude status and surrender totally.   

All of which has been promoted and promulgated by a corrupt globalist elite, and they're imposing destructive rules, regulations, and taxes to make it happen, and the demographics is against whites and Christians, and these misfit elite globalists are even saying that's a good thing.  

In some of Europe's nations they're either already demographically past the point of no return, or on the verge of it.  In many of Europe's major cities, the ethnic white population is substantially outnumbered by non whites and non Christians from Africa and the Middle East.  And a substantial number of them are on government dole. 

Diversity isn't our friend, it's the true viral pandemic destroying civilization.  No Muslim controlled nation in the world would tolerate the very thing they're demanding from Europe and America.    

America has been subject to the outrageous anti white lies and leftist secular religious neo-paganism of Marxism and Critical Race Theory, all of which is an organized international attack on Western civilization.  The E.U. cannot be reformed, it must be eliminated, and that goes for the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund,  the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the

David Prentice states time is running out to save Western civilization, saying:

What we face as a nation is daunting; if we do not correct our left-leaning course, we will fall into the ashbin of history.  The city on the hill.  Gone.  The U.S. is moving quickly towards a centralized state.  Our liberties, our culture, and our national greatness are being subverted.  Subverted by a corrupt, clever, twisted, amorphous blob of powerful people.  Most of the old media, the new technocratic media (i.e.,:  Facebook and Google), one entire political party, part of the other party, along with the unelected bureaucracies and spy agencies of the U.S. are all a part of this blob.   Evil that’s difficult to overcome. 

And why is all this evil difficult to overcome?  We have nitwits passing massively expensive bills like the Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill, "which includes $3.5 Billion to fast track mass migration from Middle East nations, and s $481 million to settle migrants in U.S. cities."

 

As you watch the antisemitic pro Hamas insanity taking place on America's college campuses, we must come to the realization these misfit protesters of today are America's terrorists of tomorrow, and we're coming close to the point of no return. 

 

As for the future?  Well, as has been noted over and over again, "prediction is really hard, especially about the future".  Stop trying to predict it.  Create it!

The Divide Among American Jews

November 28, 2023 By Howard J. Warner

This week was a sad awakening for me.  I attended a discussion group regarding the situation in the Mideast at my synagogue.  Of the ten attendees I was the only one to express concern about the level of anti-Semitism which was occurring around the USA.  Others that spoke expressed their concern about the aggressiveness of the Israeli government and negative treatment of Arabs.  

I entered the room somewhat depressed that so many people will die because of the Oct 7^th attack but left even more upset.  These people were approaching the issue based upon their dislike of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and admiration for the socialist origins of Israel rather than the present facts...........

Ultra-Orthodox groups such as the Satmar Hasidim and Neturei Karta (an offshoot of Haredi Jews that originated in Jerusalem in 1938) reject political Zionism and therefore reject the state of Israel............... The alliance between Marxism and Islam has encouraged young Jews to carry signs saying “Jews for Palestine” because they are ignorant of its meaning.  ............Christians regularly tell me of their support for Israel.  But among middle-aged and older Jews I find lukewarm support with some hesitant to express strong support for the Gaza incursion.  ............In Israel it is apparent that some on the political Left has recognized that their strategy for “land for peace” and coexistence with Palestinian Arabs has not succeeded.  .......To Read More.....

My Take - One thing is clear.   If anyone ever wondered why Israeli politics is so complicated with all those political parties in their Knesset it's because Jewish views are in no way monolithic, even at the expense of the nation of Israel.

Why Jews Can Count on American Christians in Terrible Times

By Naomi Schaefer Riley Deseret News October 12, 2023

“Be careful,” my elderly aunt admonished me before I left New York City 22 years ago to visit a number of Christian colleges across the country for research on a book I was writing. She and others in my Jewish extended family were genuinely worried about my physical safety, with one even muttering something about lynching. They warned me about antisemitism and cautioned me to watch my back.  I thought their words were silly even before I visited these schools — which included those affiliated with evangelicals, Catholics and Latter-day Saints — but afterward I found their ideas downright preposterous. 

The truth is that Jews have no greater friends in this country, and in this world, than faithful Christians, and I can only hope that somewhere in the aftermath of the horror we are witnessing in Israel, my friends and relatives will reckon with this truth. .......Atheists...... are more likely to express a favorable view of the Palestinian government (39%) than of the Israeli government (20%). ..............In recent years my Jewish friends have been more inclined to populate their lawns and Facebook pages with “Black Lives Matter” signs, despite the virulent antisemitism and anti-Zionism the leaders of these groups have spewed. ”................To Read More..........

CAIR Wants Schools to Consult Mosques Before Teaching Sex Ed

Daniel Greenfield September 13, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog

Prayers in schools and any kind of religious content, from the Ten Commandments to Christmas songs, remain widely opposed by litigious leftist organizations like the ACLU. And even the most modest efforts to keep kids from being exposed to graphic pornographic content have been assailed by the Biden administration which has sued school districts for trying to keep kids safe.

That’s why CAIR’s guide telling schools how to treat Muslim students is so extraordinary. The Islamist organization lays out rules for Islamic school prayers and tells schools to consult with mosques about sex ed. It warns schools against allowing Muslim girls to interact with boys in co-ed environments like swimming and dancing. And, in a time when leftist governors and school boards force girls to shower with transgender boys who claim to be members of their sex, it even insists that Muslim girls should shower in their burkinis even in single sex settings.

But what is truly extraordinary about the CAIR guide is that there will not be a word of protest against it from the same political establishment and media that smeared Florida laws empowering parents to protect students from sexual content as “Don’t Say Gay”.

There was a good deal of political discomfort when Muslims in Dearborn, MI, an Islamic dominated city, stormed a school board meeting to denounce LGBTQ content. Rather than addressing the fundamental conflict between its politics and Islamic law, the leftist media dishonestly blamed Republicans for having brainwashed Muslims to hate gay people.

Had an influential Christian or Jewish organization put out a similar guide to schools barring them from interacting in co-ed settings or being taught sexual materials, there would be outrage. The media would warn that we were on the verge of theocracy and schools would redouble their sexual programming. But that won’t be the reaction to the Muslim guide.

What will almost certainly happen instead is that the guide will be privately passed around by school administrations and treated as a mandate without it ever being publicly discussed.

But if implemented, these secret carve outs and exemptions will represent discrimination.

For example, under ‘Sex Education’, the CAIR guide states that “sex education material presented in schools are another sensitive matter to many Muslim families.” That is obviously true for all religious families, but apparently only Muslims will be entitled to that privilege.

CAIR claims that, “Islam puts great emphasis on modesty, chastity and morality.” As if Christians and Jews don’t. All parents and students should be able to opt out of sexual content in classes. Treating that as an exclusive entitlement for one single group is discriminatory.

Finally, in a truly extraordinary demand in an educational system that aggressively eliminates even the most basic vestiges of religion, CAIR tells schools that sex ed requires, “close contact with local Islamic centers is essential to encourage input from the Muslim community.”

Can anyone imagine a Christian group telling schools to run their curriculum past the local church in order to get approval from parents? Parental rights advocates were investigated as terrorists by the Biden administration for asking for much more modest limitations on porn and the ability to actually review what their children were being taught by woke teachers.

Beyond that, CAIR lays out an extensive set of proposed accommodations including not shaking hands with members of the opposite sex or looking “at persons of different sexes directly”. CAIR also proposes private showers since “Muslim boys and girls may not wish to take same-sex communal after-sport showers without wearing appropriate covering of their bodies.”

Furthermore, “Muslims may raise religious objections to coed physical education classes” and “should not be forced to participate in coed swimming classes.” They also should not be expected to bow in martial arts classes because that is reserved for their deity of choice. (Muslims in international competitive martial arts sports regularly bow to their opponents.)

Muslims understandably “may be hesitant to recite the pledge of allegiance”, but are expected to pray in schools including individual prayers in unused classrooms and group prayers on Fridays. They also need to wash their feet in the sink that everyone else washes their hands in.

CAIR warns that “lunch items containing ingredients derived from pork must be highlighted clearly” along with dijon mustard, jello and lard. Cafeteria personnel also won’t be allowed to use the same cutter “that has contacted pepperoni pizza” to avoid “cross-contamination.”

Even non-Muslim parents will be warned not to bring snacks that Muslims can’t eat.

The latter goes beyond any kind of reasonable accommodation into forcing Islamic religious practices on other students and their families. Telling other students that they can’t eat bacon sandwiches is not accommodation, it imposes an Islamic ban on pork on everyone else.

Not satisfied with mandating religious behavior for Muslim and non-Muslim students, CAIR tips its hand by demanding control over textbooks and ensuring that they incorporate Islamic views.

“One common error is the definition of ‘Allah’ as a particular Muslim god rather than the same God of Christianity and Judaism,” CAIR complains. It insists that, “Muslim educators should participate in the textbook selection process, particularly for history, social studies, and geography texts.” Are Christian and Jewish authorities allowed the same level of input?

While Muslims do believe that Allah is also the god of Christians and Jews (and that, as the Koran repeatedly claims, Jews and Christians falsified Allah’s teachings which are only to be found in the Koran, not the Bible), many Christians and Jews do not believe this. There is no need to impose an Islamic view on Christians and Jews about their own religions. Schools can teach that Muslims believe that they are the successor (or predecessor) religion to Judaism and Christianity, much as the Bahai believe that they are the successor religion to Islam, but that this is their perspective. Much as Mormons and Christians have different understandings of their relationship, Muslims, Christians and Jews have very different perspectives on the matter.

When Islamist groups like CAIR pressure school officials to impose their theological dogma on non-Muslims, this amounts to transforming schools into missionary enterprises for Islam.

CAIR has been putting out its guide to educators since 1997 and it has not changed a great deal in that time. The latest more polished edition leaves out the missionizing Koran quotes and has softened language that appeared to be mandating student behavior in schools such as “men and boys are always to be covered from the navel to the knee” or “Muslim boys and girls may not take same-sex communal after-sport showers without wearing appropriate covering of their bodies.“ While the language has been made less severe, the intent is the same. CAIR is seeking to exercise control over the behavior of Muslim students in school.

This is also where the CAIR guide fundamentally differs from parents advocating for children. CAIR doesn’t represent parents, it represents Islamic dogma. While Democrats and the media have assailed parental advocacy, they have had nothing to say about an Islamist group putting out a guide dictating the behavior of administrators, teachers, students and non-Muslim parents.

And the real question may be how much of an influence has CAIR’s guide had on schools providing special exemptions for Muslims that they would not allow for non-Muslim students?

Parents of all religions, and of no religion, should be able to opt their children out of coming into contact with sexual materials. And if Democrats and the media want to attack Christian and Jewish parents for making such requests, they should also be consistent and take on CAIR.

Anything else is evidence of religious discrimination.

CAIR wants schools to consult mosques before teaching sex ed. Any schools that have done this also have to consult churches, synagogues and all other religious groups. Schools that allowed Muslim parents to opt out more easily than non-Muslim parents have engaged in religious discrimination and should be sued. The same goes for allowing school prayers and any other exemptions that were reserved specifically for Muslim students, but not non-Muslim ones.

We cannot have a country where non-Muslim girls have to shower with ‘transgender’ boys while Muslim students are offered private showers. Nor a country where mosques get approval over sex ed courses and Islamic scholars determine the theological content of textbooks.

The supreme right to determine the education of children belongs not to schools or to CAIR, but to parents.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

Pride Month Is Over; What Did Deviancy Gain?

July 3, 2023 By Mychal Massie @ Daily Rant 

So-called homosexual pride month is now over.  But, what exactly did those celebrating debauchery accomplish to ingratiate themselves to the public?  How many parents factually go to bed at night, after viewing the crude morally depraved behavior exhibited from the White House to the television screen to the streets in the most decadent displays of grotesque amoral behavior masquerading as parades; thinking how wonderful such abominating behavioral practices are?

After hearing and seeing these people on the news dressed in outfits that screamed horrific; how many parents voiced to their children: “That’s what I want you to be when you grow up?”  How many parents were convinced to take their children to the nearest clinic and start getting the child puberty blockers?

How many parents were thrilled to hear these people boast: “We’re coming after your children?”  Or is the real question parents were asking: “What can we do to protect our children?”

The indisputable fact is that these people are coming after our children and they’re being aided and abetted by the Biden administration and the public schools.

As I wrote in an article dated January 1, 2018, titled, The Homosexual Threat Against Our Children:  I contend, and nothing dissuades me, one of the reasons sexual deviants are forcing sexual deviance upon children in Kindergarten through fifth grade is because the sexual deviancy they practice is not normal and neither is it genetic. Ergo, they must continually find ways to replenish their kind. If they do not desensitize young children to the abnormality and ungodliness of this perversion by the time untainted children are adults, they will reject personal participation in this deviant sexual practice.

The publisher of the textbooks to be used in the 8th grade said: We’re not trying to make anybody [homosexual]; we’re not saying there’s an agenda; we’re not saying that these people are better than other people; what we’re saying is this is another group of Americans and they face certain prejudices.”

That’s an unmitigated lie. Everything he claims they aren’t, they by their own written agenda, in fact intend to see happen. It is part of the homosexual agenda’s goal. The following is an excerpt from part one of the “homosexual manifesto” (First published in Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987 and also placed into the Congressional Record. Author – Michael Swift)

• Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles.
• We will sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms…youth groups…Your sons…will be recast in our image.”

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT: Swift was not only condemned by conservative Christians, including myself, he was condemned by moral people as well.  Accordingly he and his perverts claimed his manifesto was just a humorous joke and everyone understood that except Christians.  Fast forward to the zeitgeist of today and it is apparent many are not laughing at abhorrent filth being forced upon our children.

But, there’s another reason and believe me it’s the last one wicked anti-God deviants want you to enter into the public discourse.  It’s the true reason this is taking place and the driving force behind it.

The enemy of our souls, i.e., Satan, is the true driving force behind this aberrant behavior.  He hates God beyond our comprehension; knowing that his fate is sealed and immutable, he purposes to destroy the family structure God created and ordained.  It matters not that there are those who think otherwise. Those lost souls are unbelievers and accordingly they’re unsaved.  There’s no truth in them, because they follow after the father of lies.

I believe a great guilt of responsibility must be laid at the feet of the Christendom.  True Christians have the Sword of Truth, i.e., God’s Word.  However, many – if not most, not only ignore it, but they are contributors to this cesspool.

I drove by many churches during June that had rainbow flags and signboards on the church property.  I saw one just last week that had: Love is welcome and practiced here, with the rainbow as its background.  Apparently the bibles they use omit Leviticus 20 (KJV).  What they support isn’t love; it is sin.

We as Christians are not helpless.  We must use our resources to reach and rescue through Christ, the families with children in public schools.  As Christ said: “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that [H]e will send forth laborers into [H]is harvest. (Matthew 9:37-38 KJV)

Parents are not helpless. They need Christ-centered, bible believing churches and true born-again Christians to obey Matthew 28:18-20 (KJV). We’re ignoring one of the greatest mission fields since the Apostles went forth from Jerusalem upon receiving the Holy Spirit.

About the Author Mychal Massie

Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here

Supremes line up to make critical decision on free speech

State force Christians to violate their faith in name of 'nondiscrimination'

  By Bob Unruh December 2, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court is to hear arguments on Monday in a critical free speech case. The question is whether a state – the leftist Colorado in this case – can deliberately order a Christian to violate her faith in the name of its so-called “nondiscrimination” agenda.The fight is over a Denver website developer who has been ordered by the state, under penalty of law, to promote same-sex marriages through her work if she does any work at all for traditional weddings.Multiple groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs, including Liberty Counsel, when the attack by the all-Democrat government in the state against web designer Lorie Smith developed..........To Read More....

Has the Democrat party converted to Islam?

By Bert Peterson November 26, 2022

On October 21, U.S. reps. Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky issued a press release introducing a bill titled the "Combating International Islamophobia Act."  According the release, the purpose of the bill is "to address the rise in incidents of Islamophobia worldwide." Specifically, it would require "the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, [which would] include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity [sic] in the Department's annual human rights reports."

The bill was supported by the White House, which, notwithstanding its focus on Islam alone, described it as a measure committed to "defending freedom of religion and belief." On Dec, 14, 2021, the bill, H.R. 5665, passed in the House, 219 to 212.  No Democrat voted against it; no Republican voted for it. Portions of the bill at §3(k) describe its scope:..............

Secondly, in focusing on issues relating specifically to Islam and to no other religion, the bill is "respecting an establishment of religion," which, under the Amendment, is prohibited. One has to wonder if the 219 House members are aware that we have a Constitution, or whether it has a First Amendment?

In addition to constitutional issues is the one of national sovereignty.  Two hundred nineteen Democrats have voted for the U.S. to monitor "international Islamophobia."  But the U.S. is not an international institution; Islam is.  This is Islam's concern, not America's.  Or have the Democrats converted to Islam?.............To Read More.....

Civilization Cannot Exist Without Righteous Retribution

Kurt Schlichter  |  Oct 17, 2022

The only thing about the fact that a jury found that the degenerate scumbag who murdered seventeen people should not be executed is that it was just one nimrod juror who held out not to give the vermin the death he deserves. Statistically, even in a red state like Florida, it’s difficult to find a group of twelve people without a moral illiterate or two. In blue venues, it’s hard to find any moral literates at all.........

And then there is the spectacle of family members of murder victims “forgiving” the criminals......... This bizarre misunderstanding of Christianity is mixed with what seems to be a desire to front to the world as somehow enlightened –

“I want to announce that I forgive the barbarians who raped and murdered my daughter. They did not repent, they did not seek forgiveness, and they have not yet been punished, but I’ll do it now anyway. Look at me.” 

These moral posers – and it is posing, sad and horrifying, but posing nonetheless – demand nothing to obtain forgiveness, so the forgiveness they offer is meaningless narcissism...............To Read More....

You Can’t Be True Christian and A Democrat

My Mychal Massie, September 12, 2022 @ Daily Rant

 

Business and Retail     Christian     Economy     Education / Public Schools     homosexuality     Immigration and Illegal Aliens     Political, Christian and Conservative Issues     Politics     Pro Life & Family     Skin Color

It’s not ipse dixit when I say; you cannot be a true born-again Christian and be a Democrat. They Democrat Party supports everything the Word of God condemns and they do so proudly.  I would be remiss if I didn’t make the point that it’s become increasingly more difficult for true born again Christians to support what the Republican Party has transmogrified into under Karl Rove and the Bush family.

That said; Democrats are like feral chickens.  Chickens can be expected to leave droppings everywhere they walk.  Democrats can be expected to do ostensibly the same thing vis-à-vis their embracement of the worst failed policies history has offered.

They’re an amalgam of the malleable minds, revisionist historical teachings, anti-God neo-Leninism and raw hatred produced in classrooms where the bar of instruction has been lowered to the level of dust on the ground; and they continue to surpass that low standard as though it were advancements in Olympic sports.  They’re a demonic ecclesiastical cabal formed from the worst humanity has to offer.  They’re representative of what Dante witnessed as he journeyed through hell.

I find very little to agree with in the context from which Thomas Paine espouses, beginning with the fact that he was a Deist.  But, as the saying goes: “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

Thus, when Paine in his work titled, “The American Crisis,” said:  

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture,” I wholeheartedly concur.

Democrats boast not of hiring and/or placing the most qualified in positions that require competence; rather they boast of placing sexual deviants, wholly unqualified females and/or persons recognized as a crayon color.

Sexual perversion isn’t a skill set nor is melanin alone consistent with intellectuality.  And, even if a person who views being a crayon color as the summum bonum is qualified in one position, it doesn’t make them qualified in all positions.  Nor does two men engaging in sexual intercourse with one another qualify them as a husband and wife.  It qualifies them for disease and mental health treatment, but sexual perversion isn’t a skill set.

Democrats can always be counted upon when they win or in Biden’s case, steal the presidential election, to immediately shut down and dismantle programs that were working seamlessly to the great benefit of American citizenry and specifically the working class. Biden is the poster child for this.

Biden shut down pipelines, refused to renew drilling leases and in so doing destroyed America’s economy.  In destroying the American economy, he took the American workers from income security and pension growth to the typical Democrat standard of government dependence.

Biden and Democrats boast that gas prices have decreased as much as $3.00 per gallon.  What they fail to mention is that the price of gas is still $3 and more higher than it was 20 months ago.  And Biden is silent on what will be historic cost for home heating oil this winter.  He’s boasting forgiving student loans.  What he fails to understand is that most of those with student loans should never have gone to college.  They would have benefited from tech school programs and trade school training.

Those persons identified as black enjoyed the highest rates of employment ever, under President Trump. Under Biden, Democrats have relegated them to poverty standards they’ve always experienced under Democrats.

Democrats push for mandatory electric vehicles in states where they experience blackouts and rolling blackouts when people use air conditioners in their homes.  States are painting streets yellow to reflect sunlight and other dipstick stupidity.

Democrats are masters at telling people what they should do, but doing the exact opposite themselves. They’re morally opprobrious, anti-modernity, social-Marxists, reprobate, debaucherous believers that they deserve what we have earned.

They’re rabid destroyers of initiative.  They’re Erebusic marplots whose singular skill is deconstruction of the greatest country in the world.

They’re walking contradictions: They claim to be for opportunity for all, but they do far more for illegal aliens than they do for Americans.  They claim to be about climate, but they engage in the lifestyles they claim are destroying the environment.  Politics for them isn’t a job; politics is the ability to reward and indemnify themselves in whatever way and whenever they believe it in their best interest.

And above all, they’re liars.  They lie to one another; they lie to We the People and they lie about the proper social constructs.  But, while they believe they’re pulling deceiving God, we who are true believers know the day of their reckoning awaits them.

The Scriptures tell us in Psalm 37:1-2 (KJV) to: “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.  For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and whither as the green herb.”

The Scriptures tell us to come out from among them and to be separate.  I take that seriously.  I will never honor or obey their wicked laws and mandates.  I will do my all to rescue people whose minds are imprisoned by them.

Take action and share this!

About the Author

Mychal Massie

Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here

 

Why ruling elites hate and fear genuine Christians

David Kupelian on how oligarchs finally dropped the pretense and now openly identify their real enemy 

By David Kupelian July 5, 2022, Tags:  

 In case you missed it, two shocking and unprecedented megatrends are unfolding simultaneously in the United States of America right now. The first is the explosion of what can only be described as openly predatory targeting of America’s children by legions of “gender activists” obsessed with seducing, grooming and recruiting kids into the phantasmagoric transgender world of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical amputation of healthy body parts and astronomical suicide rates.  Incredibly, this wild celebration of transgenderism is being praised, promoted and funded by the ruling class at the highest levels, from the White House on down, while all who sound the alarm are demonized and canceled. .....Why ruling elites hate and fear genuine Christians

Colorado Christian center burned in mostly peaceful fashion

Jazz Shaw Jun 26, 2022

In predictable fashion, the night after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health was announced, the violence kicked off almost immediately. And in an equally predictable fashion, the majority of the mainstream media mostly ignored it. One of the more notable attacks (among many) took place at the Life Choices Christian crisis center for pregnant women in Longmont, Colorado. When police and firefighters arrived at the center after three o’clock in the morning, the building was already ablaze. The graffiti we’ve come to expect in these attacks was on display, proclaiming the usual messages pushed by Jane Sent Us. But in addition to that, the attackers decided to include the anarchy symbol (a capital letter “A” in a circle) on the walls and the sidewalk. Thankfully, no injuries were reported. (NY Post)..........To Read More.....

Biden Bans Conservatives and Christians from the Military

Daniel Greenfield December 23, 2021@ Sultan Knish Blog

In Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country, the David Horowitz Freedom Center had warned that the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group imposed by the Biden administration and headed by Bishop Garrison (pictured above), a racist who constantly accused Republicans of racism for the most frivolous reasons, was preparing to purge conservatives from the military.

Now the purge has arrived.

The first task of Garrison’s CEWG was to develop a new definition of extremism. The newly added definition, which takes effect immediately, doesn’t actually define extremism. Since extremism is inherently relative to someone else’s moderation, it can’t be legally defined. But the CEWG’s definition was cunningly written to target conservatives and protect leftists.

The majority of the definitions are already covered by existing military codes and laws against terrorism and treason. The only real addition here is the final definition of "extremism activities" which includes, "advocating widespread unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, or sexual orientation."

The wording initially appears generic, but it’s actually written to provide military leaders with a wide latitude for targeting conservatives while exempting black nationalists like Garrison.

Racism is defined only in terms of “advocating discrimination” and only “unlawful discrimination”, unlike affirmative action or the discriminatory policies of the CEWG. This is in line with the leftist claim that racism can only be defined in terms of the power to discriminate and that therefore minority racists aren’t racist. Service members can be fans of black hate groups that promote racist hatred of white people because only advocacy for “unlawful discrimination” matters.

The new Department of Defense policy "prohibits active participation in extremist activities and clearly defines what we mean by the term extremist activities," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby falsely claimed. It actually defines almost nothing and that enables it to outlaw nearly anything.

Would Christians who oppose gay marriage fall afoul of this policy? Is anyone who donates to a church that advocates against gay marriage now deemed an “active participant” in “extremism”?

Biden’s definition of active participation includes, “fundraising for, or making personal contributions through donations of any kind (including but not limited to the solicitation, collection, or payment of fees or dues) to, a group or organization that engages in extremist activities.” Potentially donating to a traditionally biblical church or synagogue would mean violating the Biden administration’s new guidelines against active participation in extremism.

The result would almost certainly be a federal case that the Biden administration would lose, but how many members of the military want to spend years of their lives fighting for their careers?

The Biden administration’s leftist radicals are out to intimidate and they may well succeed.

It goes without saying that counterterrorism researchers warning about the national security threat of Islamization would be punished, and that any service members who support or interact with a whole range of such organizations, including the Freedom Center and Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch are at risk. But so would a majority of service members who are at all conservative.

Garrison’s definition of extremism includes advocating for “discrimination” against “gender identity” which means that anyone opposed to teenage girls being forced to shower with men is now accused of being an extremist and that supporting virtually any conservative group effectively makes a member of the military into an “active participant” in “extremist activities”.

The purge goes even further, reaching out to punish anyone who engages “in electronic and cyber activities regarding extremist activities, or groups that support extremist activities – including posting, liking, sharing, re-tweeting, or otherwise distributing content”.

A service member who “likes” a Facebook post from a conservative group is now an “active participant” in “extremist activities”.

What about opposition to abortion?

The Garrison definition of extremism includes advocating for discrimination based on ”sex (including pregnancy)”. The pregnancy part of this might be an effort to silence military critics of pregnant women serving in combat roles. That’s another example of how the Biden political purge is meant to silence legitimate objections to absurd woke policies like the Navy’s new maternity flight suits. But it could be used to suppress pro-life views and church membership.

The question of whether the Equal Rights Amendment’s “on account of sex” language would protect abortion and enshrine it into the Constitution has been at the heart of the debate over the amendment. State ERAs have already been used to define opposition to abortion as a form of discrimination on account of sex.

The Countering Extremist Activity Working Group’s inclusion of ”sex (including pregnancy)” would potentially open the door to branding any member of the military who personally opposes abortion, donates to an anti-abortion group, or just a traditional church, or even likes a Facebook post by a pro-life group as an “active participant” in “extremism”.

Defenders of Biden’s military purge will insist that these are unlikely scenarios. Right up until the point where they begin happening. There is nothing in the wording of these new definitions of “extremism” and “active participation” to prevent service members from being targeted because of their membership in a traditional church or their conservative religious views. And since the military has traditionally received more leeway in restricting religious expression, court battles over these issues should not be viewed as a foregone conclusion. Furthermore the existence of these codes create an intimidating effect that suppresses speech and religious expression.

Exactly as they were designed to do.

"One extremist is one too many," Bishop Garrison had contended. The new definition is meant to screen out everyone whom Garrison, a supporter of black supremacists like Ta-Nehisi Coates and of extremist agendas like the 1619 Project, disagrees with. That means all conservatives.

Garrison, who defended bigots and extremists like Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and falsely accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of racism, has been allowed to impose his own discriminatory regime on the military.

And that must not be allowed to stand.

The new purge "preserves a service member's right of expression to the extent possible”, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby argued. That statement is as un-American as it gets.

There will almost certainly be legal battles over this, but it will be on Congress and the next administration to make it clear to future military leaders that they must rescind or at least dramatically revise Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 1325.06 if they want to lead.

And any presidential candidate or congressional member must commit to opposing any military leader who does not agree to remove DoDI 1325.06 and protect political and religious liberty.

The military leaders complicit in this disgrace are the products of Democrat and Republican administrations. If conservatives don’t firmly demand and hold presidential and congressional candidates accountable for undoing this, the radicals will take over the military the way that they control academia, the media, and the corporate spheres. That means ignoring the happy talk, the virtue signaling, the empty distractions, and demanding that the politicians actually do it.

The military is the most conservative branch of the government. The purge of conservatives from the military is a political coup. Under the guise of outlawing discrimination, the Biden administration is engaging in the most dangerous and pervasive discrimination imaginable.

This is a critical threat. It’s one that the David Horowitz Freedom Center took the lead in warning against. Now that it’s embedded in the military, the career brass that the DHFC warned against in Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country will do everything possible to retain it even under another Republican administration. The leaders, as we’ve warned, have to go.

New leaders must commit to a merit-based military free of discriminatory “equity” measures and political purges that is built from the ground up to fight and to win for America.

Or else we will have lost the military and the war.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

Click here to subscribe to my articles. 

Thank you for reading.

Tags: Biden, military, recent

Share This: Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest Linkedin

About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center