lifesitenews--2020-11-13--Dear sisters in Poland fighting for right to kill your babies: Here’s what doctors will never tell y

Dear sisters in Poland fighting for right to kill your babies: Here’s what doctors will never tell you about abortion

Editor ’ s note : Catholic author , sociologist , and pro-family advocate Gabriele Kuby delivered the following talk at a November 12 , 2020 video conference on “ Defending Women Rights '' organized by Ordo Juris .
November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – We are in the middle of a global war .
This is a war between the culture of death and the culture of life ; it is a war between Marxist atheists who want to establish equality , and of believers in God , who want to establish justice ; it is a war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dictatorship by manipulation of mass consciousness , the jettison of law and the use of violence and those who believe in the power of God , nature and reason and therefore fight to freedom and justice .
They know that God , nature and reason will win this war .
Presently in Europe the front of this battle is in Poland .
We see that one nation after the other is falling away from God at an amazing pace .
Spain , Italy , Ireland , Malta , to name just a few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ centuries until very recently .
Will Poland go down this road too , a nation that was able to withstand Nazi terror and communist dictatorship by the power of Catholic faith ?
All these once Catholic nations made incredible contributions to the culture of man in art , architecture , music , theology , literature , the establishment of justice through law , the moral foundation of society as the basis of the family – these nations now fall to the eternal temptation of the fraudulent snake in the garden of Eden : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You will be like God Gen. ” But the snake is lying .
First of all : We will all die .
Also you who vandalize churches and destroy statues of the mother of God , you will die too .
It is not certain that your ashes will be recycled in a tree .
You too have an eternal soul .
Millions of unborn children die because their mothers and fathers wanted to have sex without being ready to become parents .
They prefer to kill the child and they fight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at any stage of pregnancy , as does Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who may become the next leaders of the United States .
Maybe some of you only fight for the right to kill an unborn child that has a fatal abnormality .
It also is a human being with dignity and a right to life .
We do not want a society where only the healthy have a right to life .
You can ’ t bear the thought that you might have to care for , let us say , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your life would be ruined .
No doubt , it is hard to accept such a fate .
Parents of children with special needs should be highly respected and get every kind of help from their social environment and the state .
The radical feminists in Poland and around the world fight for more .
They fight for a “ human right ” to abortion .
Dear women , are you aware what you are demanding ?
After the horrors and atrocities of World War II the nations came to a mutual consent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being enjoys , simply because he or she is a human being with dignity .
Of course , the protection of the right to life is the condition for any other human right .
Is it really a human right , that some humans have the right to kill other humans ?
You started your life as an embryo , so did I .
Were we anything else than a human being in the womb of our mother who allowed us to grow within her until she gave birth to you and to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conditions where it is very hard to bear the lifegiving consequences of the sexual act , that is , the life of another human being .
But in order to avoid this consequence do you really want to kill your child ?
We casually use the word “ abortion ” , and count the numbers by the thousands , or hundred thousands or the millions : Around 50 million children are killed every year around the globe before they are born .
If you see yourself in a situation where the death of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way out , you will have to choose between different methods , so it is good to know what they are .
I will speak about seven methods of killing the unborn child .
The suction method at the early stages of pregnancy is a risky do-it-yourself method used where abortion is forbidden by law .
The International Planned Parenthood Federation distributes such handy suction devices in countries with high birth rates and delivers plans for making them oneself .
If the woman fears she is pregnant , this device is used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk for women is very high — from a punctured uterus or an infection to an incomplete abortion .
This is the method of choice up to the 12th week of pregnancy .
The baby has a beating heart , little hands with fingernails , a fast-developing brain , male or female sex organs .
The uterus is dilated , and a curette with a sharp tip is inserted into the cervix .
The baby is cut up with this blade , and the uterus is scraped out .
The abortionist or assisting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the baby are present in the bloody mass , because if anything is left in the uterus , serious complications can follow .
A suction tube with a cutting instrument is inserted into the uterus and connected to a vacuum device .
The baby ’ s body is cut into pieces and sucked out .
Then the uterus is scraped out .
Here also , the cut-up body parts must then be checked for completeness .
From the fourth to the sixth month of pregnancy , this process gets more difficult .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ stiff enough that it can ’ t be cut up .
The cervix has to be spread wider , because larger instruments must be inserted .
The baby ’ s arms and legs are cut off with a long , curved pair of scissors and are pulled out individually .
The abortionist waits until the child has bled to death and then removes the torso .
With larger babies , the head must be crushed , so that it can be pulled from the cervix in pieces .
This method is used from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the third trimester .
The risks for the mother are very high , because the salt solution can get into one of the mother ’ s blood vessels .
About 200 milliliters of amniotic fluid is sucked out and replaced with salt solution .
The baby swallows and inhales this solution .
Over hours , it suffers an agonizing death through salt poisoning , dehydration , brain bleeds and cramps .
Within 24 to 48 hours , the baby is born through induced contractions .
The child is deep red .
Mothers report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s wild movements during its hours-long battle with death .
The antiseptic Rivanol contains alcohol and is injected through the abdominal wall to mix with the amniotic fluid .
Rivanol penetrates the tender , unprotected skin of the child in the uterus and destroys the cells .
The high percentage of alcohol is very poisonous to the child , stops the heart relatively quickly and triggers contractions .
This results in the stillbirth of a yellow-colored child .
The child is killed with an injection of poison to the heart .
Viewing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a long needle through the mother ’ s abdominal wall , seeks out the child ’ s heart , inserts the needle and injects a potassium chloride solution into the heart .
The poison prevents muscle contraction , causing the heart to stop .
The dead child is delivered by cervical dilation and expulsion using hormone injections .
This method is used with in vitro fertilization if more than one fertilized egg has been implanted and multiple births are to be prevented .
These methods are mainly used in the United States to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up until birth , or more precisely during actual birth .
The abortionist uses ultrasound to determine the child ’ s position .
He guides tongs into the uterus , grabs one of the child ’ s legs , and pulls the child out of the birth canal — all except its head .
The child is alive and punches and kicks around .
The abortionist places his fingers around the baby ’ s shoulders , shoves a dull pair of scissors into the lower part of the head , spreads the scissors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scissors out and inserts a suction catheter to suck out the brain .
The skull collapses .
Now the child can be pulled from the uterus .
Swallowing pills seems less brutal than surgical methods .
RU-486 can be taken until the end of the second month of pregnancy .
An extremely high dose of the synthetic hormone RU-486 blocks the hormone progesterone required for pregnancy .
The uterus recedes , which strangles the child to death .
The uterine lining dies , and the dead child is expelled .
The child ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which it slowly dies of hunger , thirst and suffocation .
There is a discharge , and the fetus usually ends up in the toilet .
Thrombosis , embolism , breast cancer , impaired fertility , heavy bleeding , heart attack and cardiac arrhythmia can all result from a chemical abortion .
Depression , sadness , broken relationship , unknown physical pains , breast cancer , infertility , a deep rooted feeling of guilt may be the consequence of any abortion , it is called the Post Abortion Syndrome .
Doctors who earn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not tell you about it .
Dear sisters who fight for the right to kill your child , is this what you want ?
I am sure you don ’ t .
You just can ’ t see a child in your life .
But let me tell you : Life itself is extremely powerful .
A living baby , tiny and helpless as it is , will find a place on this earth to exist together with you .
Your baby will love you unconditionally , as you are .
Countless women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the life of their baby , give witness for the deep thankfulness that they did not fall into that trap , for the joy that their child gives them , for a meaningful life .
Is there anything more touching than the smile of a baby , the innocence , the pureness , the beauty , the soul that looks out of their eyes ?
Even if it was difficult to accept the pregnancy , even if the birth was painful , as it usually is , mother and baby are flooded with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gives happiness and creates bonding .
When a child receives what it needs , it delights those around it with its smile , its untamed joy of life , its creativity , the light in its eyes , the radiance of its sleeping face , its complete , nonjudgmental acceptance of mother and father , of the world as it is .
Parents witness the miracle of its awakening intelligence , the family rejoices in the words a child creates , the creativity of a free spirit , the declarations of love of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When the mother ’ s heart is near to the child , then the world is new to her as well .
No one accepts you as completely as your own child .
This will be a path to your own healing .
A child will bond you to life itself , it will bond you to the future .
The love you give to a child now , will come back to you , once you need the love and caring of your children .
We all want to make the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make it a better place by killing unborn children .
If you accept your child with your heart , give your loving motherly care to your child , if you are willing to make sacrifices for the wellbeing of your child , it might well be that your child will make the world a better place .
Joy and deep satisfaction by fulfilling your motherhood as long as it is needed will be the reward .
You will not face gruesome loneliness when you are old .
Dear sisters in Poland .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to life , your Yes to the culture of life , your Yes to the family , your Yes to children , your Yes to God .
Keep up the wonderful example Poland has been to the world by resisting ideologies and their deadly consequences with the power of faith .
You have done it before , you can do it now .

Editor’s note: Catholic author, sociologist, and pro-family advocate Gabriele Kuby delivered the following talk at a November 12, 2020 video conference on “Defending Women Rights” organized by Ordo Juris.
November 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – We are in the middle of a global war. This is a war between the culture of death and the culture of life; it is a war between Marxist atheists who want to establish equality, and of believers in God, who want to establish justice; it is a war between those who will establish a totalitarian dictatorship by manipulation of mass consciousness, the jettison of law and the use of violence and those who believe in the power of God, nature and reason and therefore fight to freedom and justice. They know that God, nature and reason will win this war.
Presently in Europe the front of this battle is in Poland. We see that one nation after the other is falling away from God at an amazing pace. Spain, Italy, Ireland, Malta, to name just a few nations that have been deeply Catholic for centuries until very recently. Will Poland go down this road too, a nation that was able to withstand Nazi terror and communist dictatorship by the power of Catholic faith? All these once Catholic nations made incredible contributions to the culture of man in art, architecture, music, theology, literature, the establishment of justice through law, the moral foundation of society as the basis of the family – these nations now fall to the eternal temptation of the fraudulent snake in the garden of Eden:
“No, you will not die. You will be like God Gen.”
But the snake is lying.
First of all: We will all die. Also you who vandalize churches and destroy statues of the mother of God, you will die too. It is not certain that your ashes will be recycled in a tree. You too have an eternal soul.
Millions of unborn children die because their mothers and fathers wanted to have sex without being ready to become parents. They prefer to kill the child and they fight for the right to kill the child at any stage of pregnancy, as does Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who may become the next leaders of the United States.
Dear sisters in Poland:
Maybe some of you only fight for the right to kill an unborn child that has a fatal abnormality. It also is a human being with dignity and a right to life. We do not want a society where only the healthy have a right to life. You can’t bear the thought that you might have to care for, let us say, a Down Syndrom- child. You believe your life would be ruined. No doubt, it is hard to accept such a fate. Parents of children with special needs should be highly respected and get every kind of help from their social environment and the state.
The radical feminists in Poland and around the world fight for more. They fight for a “human right” to abortion.
Dear women, are you aware what you are demanding? After the horrors and atrocities of World War II the nations came to a mutual consent that there are rights which every human being enjoys, simply because he or she is a human being with dignity. Of course, the protection of the right to life is the condition for any other human right. Is it really a human right, that some humans have the right to kill other humans? You started your life as an embryo, so did I. Were we anything else than a human being in the womb of our mother who allowed us to grow within her until she gave birth to you and to me?
Yes, there can be conditions where it is very hard to bear the lifegiving consequences of the sexual act, that is, the life of another human being. But in order to avoid this consequence do you really want to kill your child?
We casually use the word “abortion”, and count the numbers by the thousands, or hundred thousands or the millions: Around 50 million children are killed every year around the globe before they are born.
If you see yourself in a situation where the death of your child seems to be the only way out, you will have to choose between different methods, so it is good to know what they are. I will speak about seven methods of killing the unborn child.
Menstrual extraction
The suction method at the early stages of pregnancy is a risky do-it-yourself method used where abortion is forbidden by law. The International Planned Parenthood Federation distributes such handy suction devices in countries with high birth rates and delivers plans for making them oneself. If the woman fears she is pregnant, this device is used to suck away the uterine lining. The risk for women is very high — from a punctured uterus or an infection to an incomplete abortion.
Curettage
This is the method of choice up to the 12th week of pregnancy. The baby has a beating heart, little hands with fingernails, a fast-developing brain, male or female sex organs. The uterus is dilated, and a curette with a sharp tip is inserted into the cervix. The baby is cut up with this blade, and the uterus is scraped out. The abortionist or assisting nurse must check whether all body parts of the baby are present in the bloody mass, because if anything is left in the uterus, serious complications can follow.
The suction method
A suction tube with a cutting instrument is inserted into the uterus and connected to a vacuum device. The baby’s body is cut into pieces and sucked out. Then the uterus is scraped out. Here also, the cut-up body parts must then be checked for completeness.
From the fourth to the sixth month of pregnancy, this process gets more difficult. The baby’s tissue is now stiff enough that it can’t be cut up. The cervix has to be spread wider, because larger instruments must be inserted. The baby’s arms and legs are cut off with a long, curved pair of scissors and are pulled out individually. The abortionist waits until the child has bled to death and then removes the torso. With larger babies, the head must be crushed, so that it can be pulled from the cervix in pieces.
Saline abortions
This method is used from the second trimester to the start of the third trimester. The risks for the mother are very high, because the salt solution can get into one of the mother’s blood vessels.
About 200 milliliters of amniotic fluid is sucked out and replaced with salt solution. The baby swallows and inhales this solution. Over hours, it suffers an agonizing death through salt poisoning, dehydration, brain bleeds and cramps. Within 24 to 48 hours, the baby is born through induced contractions. The child is deep red. Mothers report that they can feel the baby’s wild movements during its hours-long battle with death.
Abortion with Rivanol antiseptic
The antiseptic Rivanol contains alcohol and is injected through the abdominal wall to mix with the amniotic fluid. Rivanol penetrates the tender, unprotected skin of the child in the uterus and destroys the cells. The high percentage of alcohol is very poisonous to the child, stops the heart relatively quickly and triggers contractions. This results in the stillbirth of a yellow-colored child.
Fetal homicide
The child is killed with an injection of poison to the heart. Viewing the baby through ultrasound, the abortionist sticks a long needle through the mother’s abdominal wall, seeks out the child’s heart, inserts the needle and injects a potassium chloride solution into the heart. The poison prevents muscle contraction, causing the heart to stop. The dead child is delivered by cervical dilation and expulsion using hormone injections. This method is used with in vitro fertilization if more than one fertilized egg has been implanted and multiple births are to be prevented.
Late-term abortion or partial birth abortion (dilation and extraction methods)
These methods are mainly used in the United States to kill the child from the 24th week up until birth, or more precisely during actual birth. The abortionist uses ultrasound to determine the child’s position. He guides tongs into the uterus, grabs one of the child’s legs, and pulls the child out of the birth canal — all except its head. The child is alive and punches and kicks around. The abortionist places his fingers around the baby’s shoulders, shoves a dull pair of scissors into the lower part of the head, spreads the scissors to enlarge the hole, pulls the scissors out and inserts a suction catheter to suck out the brain. The skull collapses. Now the child can be pulled from the uterus.
Chemical abortion using the pill RU-486 (Mifepristone)
Swallowing pills seems less brutal than surgical methods. RU-486 can be taken until the end of the second month of pregnancy. An extremely high dose of the synthetic hormone RU-486 blocks the hormone progesterone required for pregnancy. The uterus recedes, which strangles the child to death. The uterine lining dies, and the dead child is expelled. The child’s agony lasts many hours, during which it slowly dies of hunger, thirst and suffocation. There is a discharge, and the fetus usually ends up in the toilet.
Thrombosis, embolism, breast cancer, impaired fertility, heavy bleeding, heart attack and cardiac arrhythmia can all result from a chemical abortion.
Depression, sadness, broken relationship, unknown physical pains, breast cancer, infertility, a deep rooted feeling of guilt may be the consequence of any abortion, it is called the Post Abortion Syndrome. Doctors who earn money by killing thousands of babies will not tell you about it.
Dear sisters who fight for the right to kill your child, is this what you want? I am sure you don’t. You just can’t see a child in your life. But let me tell you: Life itself is extremely powerful. A living baby, tiny and helpless as it is, will find a place on this earth to exist together with you. Your baby will love you unconditionally, as you are. Countless women, who resisted the temptation of ending the life of their baby, give witness for the deep thankfulness that they did not fall into that trap, for the joy that their child gives them, for a meaningful life.
Is there anything more touching than the smile of a baby, the innocence, the pureness, the beauty, the soul that looks out of their eyes? Even if it was difficult to accept the pregnancy, even if the birth was painful, as it usually is, mother and baby are flooded with the hormone oxytocin, the hormone that gives happiness and creates bonding. When a child receives what it needs, it delights those around it with its smile, its untamed joy of life, its creativity, the light in its eyes, the radiance of its sleeping face, its complete, nonjudgmental acceptance of mother and father, of the world as it is. Parents witness the miracle of its awakening intelligence, the family rejoices in the words a child creates, the creativity of a free spirit, the declarations of love of the pure heart of a child.
When the mother’s heart is near to the child, then the world is new to her as well. No one accepts you as completely as your own child. This will be a path to your own healing. A child will bond you to life itself, it will bond you to the future. The love you give to a child now, will come back to you, once you need the love and caring of your children. We all want to make the world a better place. We do not make it a better place by killing unborn children. If you accept your child with your heart, give your loving motherly care to your child, if you are willing to make sacrifices for the wellbeing of your child, it might well be that your child will make the world a better place. Joy and deep satisfaction by fulfilling your motherhood as long as it is needed will be the reward. You will not face gruesome loneliness when you are old.
Dear sisters in Poland. We need you. We need your Yes to life, your Yes to the culture of life, your Yes to the family, your Yes to children, your Yes to God. Keep up the wonderful example Poland has been to the world by resisting ideologies and their deadly consequences with the power of faith. You have done it before, you can do it now.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--‘Something extremely bogus is going on’: Elon Musk questions accuracy of COVID tests

SILICON VALLEY , California , November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted early this morning @ @ @ @ @ times in one day for the coronavirus — “ ( s ) ame machine , @ @ @ @ @ ” — and received two positive and two negative results .
Musk went on to @ @ @ @ @ tests .
“ When asked if he was feeling any symptoms , the Tesla founder @ @ @ @ @ like that of a common cold and not much else , ” The Daily Wire @ @

The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder received two positive and two negative test results in one day.
SILICON VALLEY, California, November 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted early this morning that he was tested four times in one day for the coronavirus — “(s)ame machine, same test, same nurse” — and received two positive and two negative results.
Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
BD presumably refers to Becton Dickinson, a medical technology company.
Musk went on to question the accuracy of COVID-19 tests.
Would be great to hear from people who know a lot about the PCR testing industry. What’s the approximate false positive rate, all things considered, for cov2 PCR tests? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
“When asked if he was feeling any symptoms, the Tesla founder said they were minor, like that of a common cold and not much else,” The Daily Wire reported.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--US election injustice is significant. The worldwide eclipse of Catholicism is catastrophic

November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The U.S. presidential election has been the center of worldwide attention in recent weeks .
Pro-life people throughout the world are naturally deeply shaken by the prospect of a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration that supports the slaughter of innocents by abortion for all nine months of pregnancy .
In the meantime , in Westminster , the Mother of Parliaments , parliamentarians , including notable Catholics , voted to suppress public religious services including the suppression of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the first time since the Catholic Relief Act .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ world history , made all the darker by the welcome given to the apparent result of the U.S. election by so many people who should know better – including our friends , family members , and fellow church-goers ; and including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ( USCCB ) who said in a statement published on 7th November 2020 : Does the USCCB understand the lie they are telling ?
Do they know that to profess the Catholic faith means to believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revealed by God ?
Does the USCCB not understand that supporting abortion breaks the 5th Commandment ?
Is the USCCB unaware that Pius XI in his encyclical Casti Connubii rejected the specious justifications of abortion and that Pius XII excluded all direct abortion , i.e.
, every act tending directly to destroy human life in the womb “ whether such destruction is intended as an end or only as a means to an end ” [ 1 ] ?
It ’ s entirely understandable if pro-lifers , Catholics , and all people of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the celebration by fellow citizens and church leaders of the apparent ascent to the world ’ s most powerful political office of a man who , by reason of his unequivocal , unapologetic support for abortion alone , is totally unfitted for this role .
It puts us in mind of , but it ’ s even worse than , the ugly scenes of young people celebrating in Dublin when , tragically , 66.4 % of those voting in Ireland ’ s 2018 abortion referendum supported the thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the killing of unborn children .
True bishops know that the USCCB statement is false and an historic scandal – whereas , with the young people in Ireland , the words of Our Lord on the Cross come to mind : “ Father , forgive them , for they know not what they do.
” This brings me to my main point .
I hope and pray that , as a result of a just legal process , Trump proves to be the true winner in this month ’ s U.S. presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Biden/Harris presidency for the world will be a mere tea-party in comparison with the eclipse of the Catholic Church , taking place today – as evidenced by the disgraceful and dishonest statement from the USCCB regarding Joe Biden and his running mate for the U.S. presidency .
Whoever wins the presidency , whichever politicians triumph in the U.S. Senate or Congress , we can not expect them to lead the American public back to God and to full respect for human life , true marriage , and the family , if Catholic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Christ and handed on by the Apostles and their faithful successors for the past 2,000 years .
Albeit , as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children ’ s chief executive , I lead a non-confessional group , I have never hidden my Catholic faith during my 45 years working for the Society .
There is no reason why any pro-lifer should do so .
I consider that the Catholic Church was founded by God Himself , Jesus Christ , the Second Person of the Holy Trinity , in order to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Heaven .
However , whatever the beliefs of pro-lifers may be , it ’ s clear that one comprehensive , consistent body of teaching on marriage , the family , human sexuality , and the sanctity of human life is found in the constant , unchangeable , teaching of the Catholic Church – but that , tragically , that teaching is now eclipsed by , above all , false teaching from so many of those who hold the office of bishop in the Church .
There is so much evidence of false @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hold the office of Catholic bishops , including from the Bishop of Rome with his recently reported statement on civil unions for same-sex couples , it ’ s hard to know where to begin – but , for me , here in Britain , nothing ’ s worse than the Catholic Bishops ’ Conference of England and Wales and their repeated expressions of support for the British government ’ s legislation which makes “ relationships education ” compulsory at primary school and Relationships and Sex Education compulsory at Secondary School .
Not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sex Education in schools in England , they have said , on the subject of homosexuality , that an “ exalted form of love exists just as powerfully in relationships between people of the same sex as it does in heterosexual relationships ” ; and they have welcomed as “ compatible with the Catholic model curriculum ” the government ’ s Final draft guidance on relationships education , relationships and sex education and health education ( February 2019 ) which reaffirms in an intimidatory way the obligation of schools to teach LGBT content @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as one of the available options during pregnancy to which pupils must be signposted without any reference to parents .
With due reverence to my pastors , I affirm that the words of Our Lord apply to the members of the Catholic Bishops ’ Conference of England and Wales : “ And he said to his disciples : It is impossible scandals should not come .
But woe to him through whom they come !
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and cast into the sea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of these little ones ” .
The scandal of the U.S. bishops ’ statement on Biden , the scandal of the CBCEW , and all the scandalous statements of so many bishops throughout the world , including the Bishop of Rome , which are currently eclipsing the glorious teaching of the Church on life and the family must not cause faithful Catholics and tireless pro-life campaigners to despair .
On the contrary .
As Professor de Mattei , the church historian , has said , there has never been a better time for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the whole of the Gospel , from the rooftops – encouraged by the rare exceptional bishops who , as faithful successors of the apostles , sacrifice the respect of their peers by courageously handing on the teaching of Christ .
In an entirely different and secular context , the English poet John Milton wrote : “ The hungry sheep look up and are not fed ” .
The hungry sheep are all around us .
At this time when so many are disturbed by the U.S. presidential election and its possible consequences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as by historically unprecedented draconian restrictions of freedom imposed in apparently every country throughout the world , now is the time for the pro-life movement to come out fighting and proclaiming the pro-life message in its fullness , namely that : • A human being , made in the image and likeness of God from the moment of conception , is sacred and each and every human life is called to serve God in this life , from conception until natural death , and be happy with Him in the next @ @ @ @ @ @ @ union of one man and one woman , is the foundation of a stable and flourishing society and is the greatest protector of children , born and unborn • Marriage and the protection for human life before birth is mortally wounded by giving legal recognition to same-sex unions • The procreative and unitive ends of the conjugal act can not licitly be separated ; the rejection of this truth lies at the root of modern attacks on life and the family .
• Parents are the primary educators of their children and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ building a new “ culture of life ” .
Now is the time for Catholics and pro-life people of all faiths and none to break their misplaced tactical silence on the fatal damage being done to marriage , to the family and to the protection of human life before birth by legal recognition of same-sex unions ; and to turn their backs on compromise unethical political deals on abortion which sacrifice babies in cases of rape , or disability , or before the baby ’ s heart begins to beat , and to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the sanctity of human life , marriage , and the family .

I hope and pray that, as a result of a just legal process, Trump proves to be the true winner in this month’s U.S. presidential election. However, the disaster of a Biden/Harris presidency for the world will be a mere tea-party in comparison with the eclipse of the Catholic Church, taking place today – as evidenced by the disgraceful and dishonest statement from the USCCB regarding Joe Biden and his running mate for the U.S. presidency.
November 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. presidential election has been the center of worldwide attention in recent weeks. Pro-life people throughout the world are naturally deeply shaken by the prospect of a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration that supports the slaughter of innocents by abortion for all nine months of pregnancy.
In the meantime, in Westminster, the Mother of Parliaments, parliamentarians, including notable Catholics, voted to suppress public religious services including the suppression of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the first time since the Catholic Relief Act.
It’s a dark moment in world history, made all the darker by the welcome given to the apparent result of the U.S. election by so many people who should know better – including our friends, family members, and fellow church-goers; and including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) who said in a statement published on 7th November 2020:
“… We congratulate Mr. Biden and acknowledge that he joins the late President John F. Kennedy as the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith …”
Does the USCCB understand the lie they are telling? Do they know that to profess the Catholic faith means to believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches, and proclaims to be revealed by God? Does the USCCB not understand that supporting abortion breaks the 5th Commandment? Is the USCCB unaware that Pius XI in his encyclical Casti Connubii rejected the specious justifications of abortion and that Pius XII excluded all direct abortion, i.e., every act tending directly to destroy human life in the womb “whether such destruction is intended as an end or only as a means to an end”[1]?
It’s entirely understandable if pro-lifers, Catholics, and all people of good will are feeling deeply disturbed by the celebration by fellow citizens and church leaders of the apparent ascent to the world’s most powerful political office of a man who, by reason of his unequivocal, unapologetic support for abortion alone, is totally unfitted for this role. It puts us in mind of, but it’s even worse than, the ugly scenes of young people celebrating in Dublin when, tragically, 66.4% of those voting in Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum supported the thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland permitting the Irish Parliament to legislate for the killing of unborn children.
True bishops know that the USCCB statement is false and an historic scandal – whereas, with the young people in Ireland, the words of Our Lord on the Cross come to mind: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
This brings me to my main point. I hope and pray that, as a result of a just legal process, Trump proves to be the true winner in this month’s U.S. presidential election. However, the disaster of a Biden/Harris presidency for the world will be a mere tea-party in comparison with the eclipse of the Catholic Church, taking place today – as evidenced by the disgraceful and dishonest statement from the USCCB regarding Joe Biden and his running mate for the U.S. presidency.
Whoever wins the presidency, whichever politicians triumph in the U.S. Senate or Congress, we cannot expect them to lead the American public back to God and to full respect for human life, true marriage, and the family, if Catholic leaders fail to proclaim the truths taught by Christ and handed on by the Apostles and their faithful successors for the past 2,000 years.
Albeit, as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children’s chief executive, I lead a non-confessional group, I have never hidden my Catholic faith during my 45 years working for the Society. There is no reason why any pro-lifer should do so. I consider that the Catholic Church was founded by God Himself, Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, in order to defeat Satan and to lead all people to Heaven.
However, whatever the beliefs of pro-lifers may be, it’s clear that one comprehensive, consistent body of teaching on marriage, the family, human sexuality, and the sanctity of human life is found in the constant, unchangeable, teaching of the Catholic Church – but that, tragically, that teaching is now eclipsed by, above all, false teaching from so many of those who hold the office of bishop in the Church.
There is so much evidence of false teaching on the part of those who hold the office of Catholic bishops, including from the Bishop of Rome with his recently reported statement on civil unions for same-sex couples, it’s hard to know where to begin – but, for me, here in Britain, nothing’s worse than the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and their repeated expressions of support for the British government’s legislation which makes “relationships education” compulsory at primary school and Relationships and Sex Education compulsory at Secondary School.
Not only have the bishops welcomed LGBT-inclusive Relationships and Sex Education in schools in England, they have said, on the subject of homosexuality, that an “exalted form of love exists just as powerfully in relationships between people of the same sex as it does in heterosexual relationships”; and they have welcomed as “compatible with the Catholic model curriculum” the government’s Final draft guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education (February 2019) which reaffirms in an intimidatory way the obligation of schools to teach LGBT content; and in which abortion is presented as one of the available options during pregnancy to which pupils must be signposted without any reference to parents.
With due reverence to my pastors, I affirm that the words of Our Lord apply to the members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales: “And he said to his disciples: It is impossible scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones”.
The scandal of the U.S. bishops’ statement on Biden, the scandal of the CBCEW, and all the scandalous statements of so many bishops throughout the world, including the Bishop of Rome, which are currently eclipsing the glorious teaching of the Church on life and the family must not cause faithful Catholics and tireless pro-life campaigners to despair. On the contrary. As Professor de Mattei, the church historian, has said, there has never been a better time for the lay faithful to preach the Gospel, the whole of the Gospel, from the rooftops – encouraged by the rare exceptional bishops who, as faithful successors of the apostles, sacrifice the respect of their peers by courageously handing on the teaching of Christ.
In an entirely different and secular context, the English poet John Milton wrote: “The hungry sheep look up and are not fed”. The hungry sheep are all around us. At this time when so many are disturbed by the U.S. presidential election and its possible consequences for life and for the family, as well as by historically unprecedented draconian restrictions of freedom imposed in apparently every country throughout the world, now is the time for the pro-life movement to come out fighting and proclaiming the pro-life message in its fullness, namely that:
A human being, made in the image and likeness of God from the moment of conception, is sacred and each and every human life is called to serve God in this life, from conception until natural death, and be happy with Him in the next
Marriage, the exclusive, life-long union of one man and one woman, is the foundation of a stable and flourishing society and is the greatest protector of children, born and unborn
Marriage and the protection for human life before birth is mortally wounded by giving legal recognition to same-sex unions
The procreative and unitive ends of the conjugal act cannot licitly be separated; the rejection of this truth lies at the root of modern attacks on life and the family.
Parents are the primary educators of their children and the protection of this right is essential for building a new “culture of life”.
Now is the time for Catholics and pro-life people of all faiths and none to break their misplaced tactical silence on the fatal damage being done to marriage, to the family and to the protection of human life before birth by legal recognition of same-sex unions; and to turn their backs on compromise unethical political deals on abortion which sacrifice babies in cases of rape, or disability, or before the baby’s heart begins to beat, and to begin fearlessly to proclaim the whole truth about the sanctity of human life, marriage, and the family.
[1] Address to the Biomedical Association “San Luca” (12 November 1944): Discorsi e Radiomessaggi, VI (1944-1945), 191; cf. Address to the Italian Catholic Union of Midwives (29 October 1951), No. 2: AAS 43 (1951), 838.
John Smeaton is the Chief executive officer of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). He has worked fulltime in the pro-life movement for more than four decades. He was educated at Salesian College, London, before going to Oxford where he graduated in English Language and Literature. He qualified as a teacher, becoming head of English at a secondary school. He is married to Josephine. He has a grown-up family and lives in north London.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--WATCH: Choice42 explains how abortion is modern-day child sacrifice

November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Ontario pro-life group Choice42 ( Choice For Two ) may be best known for its “ Just Saying ” video series , which uses humor to skewer pro-abortion logic , but its latest video eschews satire to lay bare the reality of abortion in deadly serious terms .
“ Child sacrifice .
Barbaric .
Evil .
Ancient .
Modern .
There ’ s nothing new under the sun , ” opens the video ’ s narrator , Choice42 founder and director Laura Klassen .
“ Throughout history , children have been sacrificed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to gain favor or blessings.
” Klassen details how primitive cultures , from the Aztecs to the Canaanites , would slaughter their young in public ceremonies , as offerings to the gods that they believed dictated everything from weather to harvest to prosperity .
But while 21st-century Western Civilization largely believes itself to have evolved past such barbarism , Klassen reminds viewers that “ child sacrifice never stopped .
And we still don ’ t hear their screams.
” “ We sacrifice our children today not for rain or war victories , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says , while animated representations of abortion cross the screen .
“ We sacrifice to gain favor in the workplace , or for the blessings of money or fame .
We sacrifice our babies on the altar of free sex.
” “ Child sacrifice is no longer a public event ; it ’ s done behind closed doors , ” Klassen continues .
“ Rather than a gory burning or bloody stabbing , it ’ s become a neat , sterile , and clinical event .
We don ’ t throw our children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freeze to death .
We starve our babies .
We poison them .
We rip off their arms and legs and crush their skulls.
” “ We celebrate baby murder , ” she laments .
“ We consider it vital to our existence .
It ’ s become a right .
But nothing is different .
There ’ s nothing new under the sun .
Innocent human beings are still being sacrificed for the selfish gains of those more powerful .
Modern child sacrifice is thriving .
We must end it .
End @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its “ Just Saying ” series , which has previously debunked the arguments for Down syndrome abortions , abortion as a mercy toward unwanted kids , excluding men from the abortion debate , and the idea that a “ magical birth canal ” turns an ambiguously human fetus into a true living being , as well as some abortion activists ’ avoidance of the word “ abortion , ” the separation of sex from procreation , and the double standard of protecting preborn puppies but not baby humans .
The group ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more serious fare , which tackles topics such as the firsthand accounts of women who choose life in difficult circumstances .
Choice42 also works to help women by connecting them to crisis pregnancy resources .

PETITION UPDATE (1/15/2021) -
The events of the past month, and especially the past 10 days, have shaken the faith Americans have in their elected and appoint officials.
We continue to call for investigations to be made into allegations of election fraud. Texas is in the process of prosecuting one political operative for illegal ballot harvesting, and multiple state legislatures have called for investigations, too.
However, the judiciary has severely let down the American electorate.
As we have said all along, the integrity of the election is much bigger than President Trump. Election integrity is at the heart of republican democracy, and if we don't have it, we no longer have a functioning republic.
Therefore, we continue to seek the truth for the election outcome. Perhaps that will only be known in the future when state or federal commissions are established to investigate the instances of election fraud which were witnessed and sworn to, by thousands of Americans of all political persuasions.
In the meantime, you may still sign this petition. Thank you!
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PETITION UPDATE (12/10/20) -
On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted: "We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!"
He is referring to the lawsuit which the state of Texas has filed against Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia in the Supreme Court over changes those states made to their election rules, claiming they violated the U.S. Constitution in the process.
Here is the central part of the argument: if Texas were to allow possible voter fraud to go unchecked in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, it would be akin to committing fraud upon the people of Texas, who cast their ballots within the framework of the law.
Indeed, this would apply equally to all citizens who voted within the framework of the law across the United States!
President Trump also tweeted that this case is, "very strong...ALL CRITERIA MET."
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, now.
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PETITION UPDATE (12/7/20) - Since this petition was launched, President Trump's legal team, as well as other concerned citizens, have discovered what appears to be irrefutable evidence of voter fraud in several of the key battleground states, and have initiated legal challenges in six states.
While the situation continues to evolve, this remains a hugely important petition which we encourage you to SIGN and SHARE.
Below, please WATCH and READ about the mounting evidence of voter fraud and how the mainstream media seem determined to ignore even the most egregious instances of vote tampering. Then, please SIGN and SHARE this petition.
'Trump: ‘Our election system is now under assault and siege’ and as president I must defend it'
'Tens of thousands 2020 election votes illegally scanned in Detroit, says Dominion IT contractor'
'Trump campaign files lawsuit demanding ‘a new statewide election for president’ in Georgia'
'Experts flag over 500k ballots in PA with new evidence of major 2020 election voter fraud'
''Smoking gun'? Pennsylvania vote fraud hearing gets gasps from audience'
'FBI and Justice Department have dragged their feet investigating 2020 vote fraud'
''CNN top brass in leaked tape: We won't give Trump 'too much of a platform on his not conceding'
'Twitter censored Trump 63 times over Thanksgiving holiday, Biden untouched'
LifeSite supports President Trump with this petition because we believe he is trying to defend the Constitution, ensuring that electoral fraud does not taint the result of the 2020 general election.
But, since starting this petition, we have launched a separate petition related to the disputed election outcome, calling on the Department of Justice to 'do their job' and engage in meaningful investigations of the mounting evidence of voter fraud.
We believe that conducting forensic audits of ballots and voting machines, as well as issuing subpoenas to collect more evidence, would be a good start.
Thankfully, some of the state started to demand investigations independent of federal agencies. But we still believe that the DoJ needs to use its enormous fact-finding resources to help resolve allegations of election fraud.
Thank you for continuing to SIGN and SHARE all our election-related petitions.
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Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition which calls on all Americans to Stand With President Trump as he uses every legitimate means to find out if voter fraud played any role in the election outcome.
Amid allegations of voter fraud, and at a time when the situation with COVID has been used by many of the states to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on a massive scale, we need to be very careful in dismissing the possibility of voter fraud.
The fact is, the possibility of wide-spread fraud with mail-in ballots is significant.
But, this is not about Donald Trump or Joe Biden! This about whether or not the sanctity of the ballot box has been tampered with!
Please Stand With President Trump as he attempts to defend the integrity of this election, as well as well as the right to vote itself!
Indeed, this is so important, not so much because one election hangs in the balance, but because our democracy, itself, hangs in the balance.
Americans not only have a right to know, but should demand that every legitimate means be used to discover the truth about these elections!
Please SIGN this petition and Stand With President Trump to ensure that these elections were conducted freely and fairly!
While most all Americans believe in playing by the rules, we also know that some very devious, politically-motivated operatives have been trying to harm the Trump administration from before he even took the oath of office.
This fact should lead us to question how some allegations of voter fraud can be so easily dismissed by state election authorities.
We demand to know the truth, and, for the sake of our democracy, we demand that President Trump keep fighting to learn the truth.
Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this petition today!
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--Numerous new studies show Christianity is most harassed religion in the world

November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Several well-researched studies released this year show that Christianity remains the most persecuted religion in the world , with some form of harassment occurring in 145 of 198 countries in the world .
Pew Research conducted a study , the 11th of its kind , dealing with data in 2018 , which is the most recent year included in the survey .
Pew defined harassment as “ a wide range of actions – from verbal abuse to physical violence and killings – motivated at least in part by the target ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government and social harassment .
While government harassment of Christianity occurred in 79 countries in 2007 , that figure rose to 124 countries in 2018 .
Similarly with social harassment , the number rose from 74 countries in 2007 to 104 countries in 2018 .
Pew also noted the trend in certain parts of the world to become centers for Christian persecution .
In the “ Middle East-North Africa region , ” Christians are harassed in 19 out of 20 countries .
While social persecution occurred in 15 of those , government harassment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ region , too , “ Christians reportedly were harassed by governments or social groups in 80 percent of countries.
” Reporting on the plight of persecuted Christians in 2019 , Fr .
Armand de Malleray of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter ( FSSP ) compiled a summary of the Second Budapest International Conference on Christian Persecution , in which he learned that 245 million Christians are persecuted every day , precisely because of their religion .
Aid to the Church in Need ’ s ( ACN ) own 2017-2019 report noted , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a favoured target for violent militant extremists who operate without boundaries and who perceive local Christians as a legitimate alternative to a direct strike on the West.
” The website Open Doors USA compiled its own 2020 World Watch list , in which it gave astonishing statistics .
The records showed that in the last year , there were “ 2,983 Christians killed for their faith , 9,488 churches and other Christian buildings attacked , 3,711 believers detained without trial , arrested , sentenced or imprisoned.
” Open Doors stated that “ Christian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other time in modern history.
” It also highlighted , “ In seven of the countries in the World Watch List ’ s top 10 , the primary cause of persecution is Islamic oppression.
” ACN emphasized that “ Church attacks in Sri Lanka and the Philippines show that there is now an unholy trinity of threats facing Christians in South and East Asia : Islamic extremism , popularist nationalism and authoritarian regimes.
” Islamic oppression was a theme that Fr .
de Malleray also mentioned .
“ Since its inception , Islam @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persecution , ” he wrote .
However , despite the threat to Christians that Islam poses , he noted that “ Communism under its political and now cultural guises is even more harmful than Islam , if ever possible.
” “ The anti-Christian Marxist ideology wants us to hide , compromise and eventually forget our Christian faith , ” de Malleray continued .
Fr .
de Malleray further commented that in the U.K. and the West , generally “ most of the recent laws undermining the natural and Christian order indicate further Marxist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ACN ’ s own designation of North Korea , headed by communist dictator Kim Jong-Un , as “ the world ’ s most dangerous place to be a Christian.
” Open Doors added , “ If North Korean Christians are discovered , they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot.
” London-based Korea Future Initiative ( KFI ) recently published a very detailed account of religious , specifically Christian , persecution in North Korea and China between 1990-2019 .
The investigators conducted 117 interviews with survivors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ camps .
“ 273 victims of religious freedom violations ” were recognized , with 215 of them having been Christians .
Prisoners noted that “ the harshest punishments were reserved for Christians.
” “ Documented violations included : 244 incidents of arbitrary arrest ; 195 incidents of arbitrary detention ; 125 incidents of arbitrary imprisonment ; 111 incidents of arbitrary interrogation ; 79 incidents of refoulement ; 36 incidents of punishment of family members ; 36 incidents of torture or sustained physical assault ; 32 incidents of sexual violence ; 20 incidents of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trial or resident exposure meetings , ” according to KFI .
“ In many cases , a single victim experienced multiple violations.
” The victims were between ages 3 and over 80 years old .
One prisoner said , “ There is no religion in the world and Kim Jong-il is God , ” and as a result Christianity was particularly singled out in the public schools as an area for “ anti-religious education.
” One victim was found to possess a Bible , for which the punishment was being sent straight to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also found owning a Bible , was shot “ in front of 3,000 residents.
” KFI documented that among the 273 identified victims , there were 32 “ incidents of sexual violence and forced abortions that were perpetrated against persons who experienced criminal charges based on their religious adherence.
” Communist prison guards would suffocate to death all babies born alive when the abortion procedure did not previously kill the baby .

Some form of harassment occurs in 145 of 198 countries in the world.
November 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Several well-researched studies released this year show that Christianity remains the most persecuted religion in the world, with some form of harassment occurring in 145 of 198 countries in the world.
Pew Research conducted a study, the 11th of its kind, dealing with data in 2018, which is the most recent year included in the survey. Pew defined harassment as “a wide range of actions – from verbal abuse to physical violence and killings – motivated at least in part by the target’s religious identity.”
The report distinguished between government and social harassment. While government harassment of Christianity occurred in 79 countries in 2007, that figure rose to 124 countries in 2018. Similarly with social harassment, the number rose from 74 countries in 2007 to 104 countries in 2018.
Pew also noted the trend in certain parts of the world to become centers for Christian persecution. In the “Middle East-North Africa region,” Christians are harassed in 19 out of 20 countries. While social persecution occurred in 15 of those, government harassment existed in 19.
In the Asia-Pacific region, too, “Christians reportedly were harassed by governments or social groups in 80 percent of countries.”
Reporting on the plight of persecuted Christians in 2019, Fr. Armand de Malleray of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) compiled a summary of the Second Budapest International Conference on Christian Persecution, in which he learned that 245 million Christians are persecuted every day, precisely because of their religion.
Aid to the Church in Need’s (ACN) own 2017-2019 report noted, “Around the world, Christians are a favoured target for violent militant extremists who operate without boundaries and who perceive local Christians as a legitimate alternative to a direct strike on the West.”
The website Open Doors USA compiled its own 2020 World Watch list, in which it gave astonishing statistics. The records showed that in the last year, there were “2,983 Christians killed for their faith, 9,488 churches and other Christian buildings attacked, 3,711 believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced or imprisoned.”
Open Doors stated that “Christian persecution is higher today than at any other time in modern history.” It also highlighted, “In seven of the countries in the World Watch List’s top 10, the primary cause of persecution is Islamic oppression.”
ACN emphasized that “Church attacks in Sri Lanka and the Philippines show that there is now an unholy trinity of threats facing Christians in South and East Asia: Islamic extremism, popularist nationalism and authoritarian regimes.”
Islamic oppression was a theme that Fr. de Malleray also mentioned. “Since its inception, Islam has been a major factor of anti-Christian persecution,” he wrote.
However, despite the threat to Christians that Islam poses, he noted that “Communism under its political and now cultural guises is even more harmful than Islam, if ever possible.”
“The anti-Christian Marxist ideology wants us to hide, compromise and eventually forget our Christian faith,” de Malleray continued.
Fr. de Malleray further commented that in the U.K. and the West, generally “most of the recent laws undermining the natural and Christian order indicate further Marxist oppression.”
His statements are vindicated by ACN’s own designation of North Korea, headed by communist dictator Kim Jong-Un, as “the world’s most dangerous place to be a Christian.” Open Doors added, “If North Korean Christians are discovered, they are deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot.”
London-based Korea Future Initiative (KFI) recently published a very detailed account of religious, specifically Christian, persecution in North Korea and China between 1990-2019. The investigators conducted 117 interviews with survivors or witnesses of the North Korean prison camps. “273 victims of religious freedom violations” were recognized, with 215 of them having been Christians.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: Ask Pope Francis to clarify and rectify scandalous remarks on homosexual civil unions Show Petition Text 22787 have signed the petition. Let's get to 25000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition Remarks attributed to Pope Francis (and, not denied by the Vatican) in support of homosexual civil unions have caused grave scandal to the faithful. Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks Pope Francis to clarify and rectify these heterodox and scandalous remarks on homosexual civil unions, and which will be delivered both to the Vatican and to the Papal Nuncio of the United States (the Pope's official representative in the U.S.). As the last guarantor of the Faith, the Pope should clarify and rectify these remarks, which go against the perennial teaching of the Church, even including the teaching of his living predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. "What we have to create is a law of civil coexistence [meaning civil union law, for homosexuals]...," Pope Francis is reported to have remarked, in what is arguably his clearest statement of public support for a practice morally prohibited by official Catholic Church teaching. In fact, the Church has been crystal clear in Her opposition to homosexual unions. Just in 2003, Pope Saint John Paul II approved a document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, titled 'Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons' and written by Cardinal Ratzinger (now, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), which concludes with the following: "The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself." It could not be more clear: the Church is calling people to repentance, not to be left to indulge in grave sin. Since becoming public, several senior prelates as well as other notable Catholic figures have voiced their opposition to these remarks attributed to the Pontiff. Cardinal Raymond Burke stated: "It is a source of deepest sadness and pressing pastoral concern that the private opinions reported with so much emphasis by the press and attributed to Pope Francis do not correspond to the constant teaching of the Church, as it is expressed in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition." Cardinal Gerhard Müller commented: "Where there is tension between the plain and obvious Word of God and the infallible interpretation on the one hand, and private expressions of opinion even by the highest church authorities on the other, the principle always applies: in dubio pro DEO [When in doubt, be in favor of God]." And, Catholic theologian and apologist Scott Hahn, without directly quoting Pope Francis, shared on Facebook the 'Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,' published by the CDF in 1986, with the statement: "Holy Father, respectfully and humbly, I beg to differ... if that is indeed what you said. In any case, please clarify and rectify your statement, especially in view of the official teaching of our Lord through the magisterium of His Church." But, the silence from the Vatican has been deafening, with no clarification forthcoming. We must, therefore, ask the Pope for clarification in this serious matter. 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Prisoners noted that “the harshest punishments were reserved for Christians.”
“Documented violations included: 244 incidents of arbitrary arrest; 195 incidents of arbitrary detention; 125 incidents of arbitrary imprisonment; 111 incidents of arbitrary interrogation; 79 incidents of refoulement; 36 incidents of punishment of family members; 36 incidents of torture or sustained physical assault; 32 incidents of sexual violence; 20 incidents of execution; and 19 incidents of public trial or resident exposure meetings,” according to KFI. “In many cases, a single victim experienced multiple violations.”
The victims were between ages 3 and over 80 years old. One prisoner said, “There is no religion in the world and Kim Jong-il is God,” and as a result Christianity was particularly singled out in the public schools as an area for “anti-religious education.”
One victim was found to possess a Bible, for which the punishment was being sent straight to a prison camp. Another person, also found owning a Bible, was shot “in front of 3,000 residents.”
KFI documented that among the 273 identified victims, there were 32 “incidents of sexual violence and forced abortions that were perpetrated against persons who experienced criminal charges based on their religious adherence.” Communist prison guards would suffocate to death all babies born alive when the abortion procedure did not previously kill the baby.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--Norway adds ‘transgender discrimination’ to list of crimes punishable by up to 3 years in jail

November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Norway has expanded its “ hate speech ” laws , which can see people sentenced for a year in prison for private remarks , to include people who identify as “ transgender.
” Previously , the code prohibited “ hate speech ” based on a ) skin color or national or ethnic origin , b ) religion or belief , c ) homosexual orientation , and d ) disability .
The amendments changed “ homosexual orientation ” to “ sexual orientation ” and added “ gender , gender identity or expression ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Those found in violation of the law could face up to a year in prison for “ discriminatory remarks ” made in private , and up to three years for public comments .
In explaining the reason for the amendments , Monica Maeland , Norway ’ s minister of justice and public security , told Thomson Reuters Foundation , “ It is imperative that the protection against discrimination offered by the criminal legislation is adapted to the practical situations that arise , ” noting that transgender individuals are “ an exposed group when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and violence.
” In their review of Norway ’ s “ human rights situation of lesbian , gay , bisexual , trans , and intersex people , ” LGBT activist group Rainbow Europe claims that a quarter of LGBT persons have been victims of hate speech in the past year , and that “ 15 percent of LGBT people have personally received threats during the same period , compared to four percent in the general population.
” Norway has some of the most liberal laws supporting the gender confused and is ranked fifth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Children as young as 7 have the right to change their sexual identity in legal documents without a medical or psychological diagnosis of gender identity disorder , and there is no requirement for those who identify as a member of the opposite sex to undergo any appearance altering treatment .
Nevertheless , LGBT activists want more .
Rainbow Europe says it considers Norway to have implemented only 68 percent of what it identifies as essential rights for LGBT people .
In the category of “ legal gender recognition and bodily integrity , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would like to see changed .
They are dissatisfied with the fact that children under 7 are unable to legally change their sex and that medical intervention is prohibited for those too young for informed consent .
They would also like to see the “ requirement for a mental health assessment in order to access trans-related care ” removed .

PETITION UPDATE (12/14/2020) -
The vaccine roll out is beginning in the United States, and first responders have been tagged as those likely to be among the first to receive a vaccine.
President Trump needs to ensure that this is entirely voluntary.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition, today!
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Early reports suggest that the U.S. military could be first on the list of those ordered to take a COVID vaccine.
But, no one should be forced to be vaccinated against his or her will, especially members of the U.S. military!
Military men and women, and their families, already sacrifice enough for the safety of our country. Forcing them to take an untested and unproven vaccine, against their will, would violate the spirit of their contract with America.
This petition says 'No' to treating our servicemen and women like guinea pigs with an unproven and insufficiently-tested vaccine.
Please SIGN this petition to President Trump asking him to declare, as Commander-in-Chief, that members of the armed forces will not be forced to take any COVID vaccine.
So far, big pharmaceutical companies have reported casualties and halted trials for a COVID vaccine on numerous occasions:
An AstraZeneca COVID trial participant died over the summer.
On October 12, Eli Lilly stopped a COVID antibody trial because of safety concerns.
Johnson and Johnson paused their vaccine trials on October 11 because one participant had an "unexplained" illness.
And, other AstraZeneca trials in the UK were put on hold both in July and September after participants developed a "serious neurological condition that might have been caused by the vaccine."
No one, especially in the U.S. military, should be used as a guinea pig for proving the "effectiveness" of any COVID vaccine.
Apart from these real health concerns, many military men and women object to vaccines made from aborted fetal cell lines and to other unethical testing, and these ethical considerations should also be honored.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition which calls on President Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, to issue a declaration protecting the right of servicemen and women to exercise conscientious objection in relation to a mandate for them to take a COVID vaccine.
Just like it was essential for President Trump to nominate a new Supreme Court justice before the election, it is now essential that the President declare any vaccine to be voluntary for the military before January, just in case there is a transition to a new administration.
Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this urgent petition to President Trump, today!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Why rushing a COVID vaccine will likely fail to provide a safe and effective immunity' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/why-rushing-a-covid-vaccine-will-likely-fail-to-provide-a-safe-and-effective-immunity
'Coronavirus vaccine trial volunteer dies in Brazil' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-vaccine-trial-volunteer-dies-in-brazil
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--If Biden becomes president, Dem crackdown against Trumpers will be swift and severe

November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Predictably , the time for America to unify is immediately after the Democrats feel assured that a Democrat will be in the White House on January 20 , 2021 .
Also predictably , they have entirely forgotten about the past four years .
They are now claiming , as if none of us have had access to the media outlets that so faithfully stump for them , that they “ accepted ” Trump ’ s presidency , and that thus it is downright unAmerican for suspicious conservatives to launch a # NotMyPresident @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was them .
Last time .
Awkward .
Moving on .
If Republicans hold onto the Senate after the two Georgia runoff races , then perhaps Cocaine Mitch will be able to prevent Joe Biden from going whole hog on the Equality Act , and court-packing , and the rest of the transformation he and the carnivorous Kamala Harris have planned .
But if they achieve the power they desire—and be assured , they will be pouring money into Georgia like desperate bidders—the backlash they want to unleash will be something to behold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hyperbolic , let ’ s look at some evidence for that assertion .
Joe Biden is considering California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for the AG position .
Becerra is currently prosecuting undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt , who released an exposé that resulted in the closure of two California companies that dealt in aborted baby body parts .
If Becerra gets his way , these two journalists could end up behind bars for recording people without consent , falsifying documents , and—get this—eavesdropping .
As SFLA ’ s Kristan Hawkins put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come after the pro-life movement one day .
We must save the Senate.
” Biden ’ s running mate Kamala Harris was Becerra ’ s predecessor , and when the Center for Medical Progress release their exposé of Planned Parenthood ’ s sale of baby body parts , Harris sprang into action .
While taking Planned Parenthood ’ s donations for her Senate campaign , she ordered a raid on David Daleiden ’ s home .
As Daleiden put it : “ Kamala Harris , at the behest of her political patron — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ punishment solely because of the content of the message that I was publishing and speaking at the time as you mentioned the undercover video series showing top-level Planned Parenthood officials callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of tiny aborted baby hearts and lungs and livers and brains.
” Imagine , if you will , what abortion activists like that will do if they achieve the power they seek .
Don ’ t think the Democrats are going to forgive and forget these last four years , either—or even the fact that the Blue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weakly on the DC beach .
Michelle Obama tweeted that we need to “ connect ” on “ what unites us ” —but that it is important to “ remember that tens of millions of people voted for the status quo , even when it meant supporting lies , hate , chaos , and division.
” Which , I ’ m sure you ’ ll agree , sounds like someone eager to work with the hateful , divisive , and chaotic liars that stole the Democratic birthright for four long years .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Unify with us , you liars and haters !
” That ’ s pretty tame compared to the rant sportscaster and unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann launched into on his YouTube channel shortly before the election .
Beating Trump , he bellowed , isn ’ t even close to enough : “ He , and his enablers , and his supporters , and his collaborators , and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs ... and the Mike Pences , and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.
” This is the same guy , by the way , who tweeted on November 5 that “ It is necessary to remove , and arrest , the president of the United States .
Tonight.
” I ’ m not sure how tens of millions of people are going to be “ removed from society ” or how Amy Coney Barrett or William Barr or Mike Pence for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even what Olbermann wants them prosecuted for .
But you ’ ll notice that fascism is a sneaky little bugger .
It creeps up on those who claim to hate it , and suddenly pops out of their mouths while they ’ re too worked up to notice .
For Olbermann , his hatred is evidence enough that these people are guilty of crimes .
As Stalin ’ s infamous enforcer Beria once noted : “ Show me the man and I 'll find you the crime.
” The only reason Democratic triumphalism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because they have not yet gotten hold of the tools they need to finish the job .
They need the Senate for that , and so the Eye of Sauron has swung to Georgia .
But imagine , if you will , what happens when “ unifiers ” like this are in the driver ’ s seat .
Touré is an African American Black Lives Matter activist seeking to build a better society , and this was his take on the election : “ If you ’ re a Trumper I hope the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ excruciating .
You voted against America and for a cult leader who has no redeeming or admirable qualities .
He ’ s a cretin who cares nothing about this country and you don ’ t either .
You deserve all the pain and more.
” To that end , the Trump Accountability Project was set up to pinpoint and purge anyone who worked with the Trump Administration .
The founders now say that the project will remain inactive due to Biden ’ s call for unity .
Put me down as unconvinced .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP who is awaiting the outcome of the Trump Campaign ’ s lawsuits before joining them in congratulating Joe Biden , and Jake Tapper warned that those still holding out hope for a Trump win should consider how their social media behavior might look to future employers , whatever that means .
Cancel culture is alive and well , and progressives are simply biding their time in order to persuade Georgian voters that they aren ’ t as extreme as Keith Olbermann makes them look .
For all the progressive accusations leveled at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ British commentator Douglas Murray , who spent the weeks prior to Election Day on a journalism tour across America .
“ Perhaps we can now drop the ‘ both sides ’ equivalence and admit why US cities boarded-up last week ?
” he noted .
“ Fears of looting and arson were only if Trump got re-elected .
A self-questioning left would reflect here : Are you happy about having become the side of implicit , expected violence ?
” In short , the progressives have a message for America : Unify—or else

'Don’t think the Democrats are going to forgive and forget these last four years'
November 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Predictably, the time for America to unify is immediately after the Democrats feel assured that a Democrat will be in the White House on January 20, 2021. Also predictably, they have entirely forgotten about the past four years. They are now claiming, as if none of us have had access to the media outlets that so faithfully stump for them, that they “accepted” Trump’s presidency, and that thus it is downright unAmerican for suspicious conservatives to launch a #NotMyPresident social media campaign. Wait, that was them. Last time. Awkward. Moving on.
If Republicans hold onto the Senate after the two Georgia runoff races, then perhaps Cocaine Mitch will be able to prevent Joe Biden from going whole hog on the Equality Act, and court-packing, and the rest of the transformation he and the carnivorous Kamala Harris have planned. But if they achieve the power they desire—and be assured, they will be pouring money into Georgia like desperate bidders—the backlash they want to unleash will be something to behold.
In case anyone thinks that is hyperbolic, let’s look at some evidence for that assertion.
Joe Biden is considering California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for the AG position. Becerra is currently prosecuting undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who released an exposé that resulted in the closure of two California companies that dealt in aborted baby body parts. If Becerra gets his way, these two journalists could end up behind bars for recording people without consent, falsifying documents, and—get this—eavesdropping. As SFLA’s Kristan Hawkins put it in Twitter: “They will come after the pro-life movement one day. We must save the Senate.”
Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris was Becerra’s predecessor, and when the Center for Medical Progress release their exposé of Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts, Harris sprang into action. While taking Planned Parenthood’s donations for her Senate campaign, she ordered a raid on David Daleiden’s home. As Daleiden put it: “Kamala Harris, at the behest of her political patron — Planned Parenthood — targeted me for criminal punishment solely because of the content of the message that I was publishing and speaking at the time as you mentioned the undercover video series showing top-level Planned Parenthood officials callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of tiny aborted baby hearts and lungs and livers and brains.”
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Imagine, if you will, what abortion activists like that will do if they achieve the power they seek.
Don’t think the Democrats are going to forgive and forget these last four years, either—or even the fact that the Blue Wave they predicted for 2020 washed up weakly on the DC beach. Michelle Obama tweeted that we need to “connect” on “what unites us”—but that it is important to “remember that tens of millions of people voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.” Which, I’m sure you’ll agree, sounds like someone eager to work with the hateful, divisive, and chaotic liars that stole the Democratic birthright for four long years. As Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review put it: “Unify with us, you liars and haters!”
That’s pretty tame compared to the rant sportscaster and unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann launched into on his YouTube channel shortly before the election. Beating Trump, he bellowed, isn’t even close to enough: “He, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs … and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.”
This is the same guy, by the way, who tweeted on November 5 that “It is necessary to remove, and arrest, the president of the United States. Tonight.”
I’m not sure how tens of millions of people are going to be “removed from society” or how Amy Coney Barrett or William Barr or Mike Pence for that matter can get prosecuted and convicted—or even what Olbermann wants them prosecuted for. But you’ll notice that fascism is a sneaky little bugger. It creeps up on those who claim to hate it, and suddenly pops out of their mouths while they’re too worked up to notice. For Olbermann, his hatred is evidence enough that these people are guilty of crimes. As Stalin’s infamous enforcer Beria once noted: “Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.”
The only reason Democratic triumphalism hasn’t set in yet is because they have not yet gotten hold of the tools they need to finish the job. They need the Senate for that, and so the Eye of Sauron has swung to Georgia. But imagine, if you will, what happens when “unifiers” like this are in the driver’s seat. Touré is an African American Black Lives Matter activist seeking to build a better society, and this was his take on the election: “If you’re a Trumper I hope the pain and anxiety you feel now is excruciating. You voted against America and for a cult leader who has no redeeming or admirable qualities. He’s a cretin who cares nothing about this country and you don’t either. You deserve all the pain and more.”
To that end, the Trump Accountability Project was set up to pinpoint and purge anyone who worked with the Trump Administration. The founders now say that the project will remain inactive due to Biden’s call for unity. Put me down as unconvinced. CNN is already condemning anyone in the GOP who is awaiting the outcome of the Trump Campaign’s lawsuits before joining them in congratulating Joe Biden, and Jake Tapper warned that those still holding out hope for a Trump win should consider how their social media behavior might look to future employers, whatever that means. Cancel culture is alive and well, and progressives are simply biding their time in order to persuade Georgian voters that they aren’t as extreme as Keith Olbermann makes them look.
For all the progressive accusations leveled at Trump voters, consider this observation by British commentator Douglas Murray, who spent the weeks prior to Election Day on a journalism tour across America. “Perhaps we can now drop the ‘both sides’ equivalence and admit why US cities boarded-up last week?” he noted. “Fears of looting and arson were only if Trump got re-elected. A self-questioning left would reflect here: Are you happy about having become the side of implicit, expected violence?”
In short, the progressives have a message for America: Unify—or else
Jonathon’s new podcast, The Van Maren Show, is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement. In his latest episode, he interviews Mark Crutcher to discuss the state of the pro-life movement, what pro-lifers need to be focusing on, and what the 2020 US election means for those throughout the world opposed to abortion. In 1999, Crutcher's group exposed the illegal sale of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities. They also exposed the abuse and assault that occurs at abortion clinics as well as the industry's cover-up of statutory rape. You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below:
Follow Jonathon Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator and others. He has received an award for combating anti-Semitism in print from the Jewish organization B’nai Brith. His commentary has been featured on CTV Primetime, Global News, EWTN, and the CBC as well as dozens of radio stations and news outlets in Canada and the United States. He speaks on a wide variety of cultural topics across North America at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions. Some of these topics include abortion, pornography, the Sexual Revolution, and euthanasia. Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history from Simon Fraser University, and is the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. Jonathon’s first book, The Culture War, was released in 2016.
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lifesitenews--2020-11-13--Federal coronavirus money going to Oregon prostitutes for ‘professional development’

November 13 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Prostitutes and strippers in Oregon are eligible for federally funded coronavirus relief money that a group called “ PDX Stripper Strike ” is distributing for “ professional development ” and to help “ sex workers most impacted by prejudice and COVID.
” “ PDX Stripper Strike , the Portland chapter of the Haymarket Pole Collective ( warning : contains vulgar images and content ) , was recently awarded nearly $ 600,000 in a COVID-relief grant from the Oregon Health Authority , ” KOIN 6 reported November 11 .
“ The organization is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are Black and/or Indigenous , are transgender , live with a minor dependent at their home or are experiencing homelessness .
Meant to help mitigate sex workers ’ financial hardships brought on by the pandemic , PDX Stripper Strike will distribute the money in the form of microgrants .
Accepted applicants can receive $ 150 for internet access , $ 500 for utilities or $ 1,600 for rent relief.
” Additionally , the money from PDX Stripper Strike will provide prostitutes and strippers with “ educational grants ” and “ professional development grants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hollis told KOIN 6 .
The Haymarket Pole Collective describes itself as “ a group of autonomous sex workers who share a common vision of our labor liberated from the binds of racism , patriarchy , ableism , and other oppressive structures.
” One of its stated goals is to “ Advance Queer Liberation.
” “ We are against all forms of whorephobia and the hierarchies entrenched within .
The decriminalization of sex work maintains autonomy and protect marginalized populations , ” the Haymarket Pole Collective declares on its “ About Us ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asks applicants , “ Between March 2019 and March 2020 ( before COVID ) , did you earn the majority of your income as an erotic service provider ?
” It defines “ erotic service provider ” as “ including but not limited to : Nude or partially nude entertainer , digital erotic content , in person services , adult massage , camming , dominatrix or other BDSM services.
” Applicants are also asked what their “ gender identity ” is , with seven different options as well as “ prefer not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ options are available for “ sexual orientation , ” plus “ prefer not to say ” or “ other.
” The Oregon Health Authority awarded state organizations $ 45 million in “ Health Equity Grants ” that the state government says flow from “ legislatively-directed $ 45 million in federal CARES Act coronavirus relief funds.
” The Haymarket Pole Collective received a $ 590,000 grant .
The YWCA of Greater Portland is helping it distribute that money .
It appears the YWCA is also fundraising for the stripper group .
“ As an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ programming and community organizing , the YWCA of Greater Portland acts as an incubator for newer non-profit organizations that share our values through our fiscal sponsorship program , ” the Haymarket Pole Collective says on its website .
“ This allows all cash and in-kind donations made to Stripper Strike Action to be tax deductible.
” The YWCA of Greater Portland also received its own “ Health Equity Grant ” of $ 450,000 .
Other “ Health Equity Grant ” recipients include Catholic Charities of Oregon ( $ 450,000 ) , food banks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and organizations .

The Oregon Health Authority awarded state organizations $45 million in 'Health Equity Grants' that the state government says flow from 'legislatively-directed $45 million in federal CARES Act coronavirus relief funds.'
November 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Prostitutes and strippers in Oregon are eligible for federally funded coronavirus relief money that a group called “PDX Stripper Strike” is distributing for “professional development” and to help “sex workers most impacted by prejudice and COVID.”
“PDX Stripper Strike, the Portland chapter of the Haymarket Pole Collective (warning: contains vulgar images and content), was recently awarded nearly $600,000 in a COVID-relief grant from the Oregon Health Authority,” KOIN 6 reported November 11. “The organization is now seeking applications from sex workers who are Black and/or Indigenous, are transgender, live with a minor dependent at their home or are experiencing homelessness. Meant to help mitigate sex workers’ financial hardships brought on by the pandemic, PDX Stripper Strike will distribute the money in the form of microgrants. Accepted applicants can receive $150 for internet access, $500 for utilities or $1,600 for rent relief.”
Additionally, the money from PDX Stripper Strike will provide prostitutes and strippers with “educational grants” and “professional development grants,” PDX Stripper Strike founder Cat Hollis told KOIN 6.
The Haymarket Pole Collective describes itself as “a group of autonomous sex workers who share a common vision of our labor liberated from the binds of racism, patriarchy, ableism, and other oppressive structures.” One of its stated goals is to “Advance Queer Liberation.”
“We are against all forms of whorephobia and the hierarchies entrenched within. The decriminalization of sex work maintains autonomy and protect marginalized populations,” the Haymarket Pole Collective declares on its “About Us” webpage.
Its application for microgrant money asks applicants, “Between March 2019 and March 2020 (before COVID), did you earn the majority of your income as an erotic service provider?” It defines “erotic service provider” as “including but not limited to: Nude or partially nude entertainer, digital erotic content, in person services, adult massage, camming, dominatrix or other BDSM services.” Applicants are also asked what their “gender identity” is, with seven different options as well as “prefer not to say” or “other.” Five options are available for “sexual orientation,” plus “prefer not to say” or “other.”
The Oregon Health Authority awarded state organizations $45 million in “Health Equity Grants” that the state government says flow from “legislatively-directed $45 million in federal CARES Act coronavirus relief funds.” The Haymarket Pole Collective received a $590,000 grant. The YWCA of Greater Portland is helping it distribute that money. It appears the YWCA is also fundraising for the stripper group.
“As an agency with over a century of innovative programming and community organizing, the YWCA of Greater Portland acts as an incubator for newer non-profit organizations that share our values through our fiscal sponsorship program,” the Haymarket Pole Collective says on its website. “This allows all cash and in-kind donations made to Stripper Strike Action to be tax deductible.”
The YWCA of Greater Portland also received its own “Health Equity Grant” of $450,000. Other “Health Equity Grant” recipients include Catholic Charities of Oregon ($450,000), food banks and pantries, and Native American tribes and organizations.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: Say 'No' to using the U.S. military as guinea pigs for COVID vaccine Show Petition Text 17354 have signed the petition. Let's get to 17500 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition PETITION UPDATE (12/14/2020) - The vaccine roll out is beginning in the United States, and first responders have been tagged as those likely to be among the first to receive a vaccine. President Trump needs to ensure that this is entirely voluntary. Please SIGN and SHARE this petition, today! _______________________________________________________________________ Early reports suggest that the U.S. military could be first on the list of those ordered to take a COVID vaccine. But, no one should be forced to be vaccinated against his or her will, especially members of the U.S. military! Military men and women, and their families, already sacrifice enough for the safety of our country. Forcing them to take an untested and unproven vaccine, against their will, would violate the spirit of their contract with America. This petition says 'No' to treating our servicemen and women like guinea pigs with an unproven and insufficiently-tested vaccine. Please SIGN this petition to President Trump asking him to declare, as Commander-in-Chief, that members of the armed forces will not be forced to take any COVID vaccine. So far, big pharmaceutical companies have reported casualties and halted trials for a COVID vaccine on numerous occasions: An AstraZeneca COVID trial participant died over the summer.
On October 12, Eli Lilly stopped a COVID antibody trial because of safety concerns.
Johnson and Johnson paused their vaccine trials on October 11 because one participant had an "unexplained" illness.
And, other AstraZeneca trials in the UK were put on hold both in July and September after participants developed a "serious neurological condition that might have been caused by the vaccine." No one, especially in the U.S. military, should be used as a guinea pig for proving the "effectiveness" of any COVID vaccine. Apart from these real health concerns, many military men and women object to vaccines made from aborted fetal cell lines and to other unethical testing, and these ethical considerations should also be honored. Please SIGN and SHARE this petition which calls on President Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, to issue a declaration protecting the right of servicemen and women to exercise conscientious objection in relation to a mandate for them to take a COVID vaccine. Just like it was essential for President Trump to nominate a new Supreme Court justice before the election, it is now essential that the President declare any vaccine to be voluntary for the military before January, just in case there is a transition to a new administration. Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this urgent petition to President Trump, today! FOR MORE INFORMATION: 'Why rushing a COVID vaccine will likely fail to provide a safe and effective immunity' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/why-rushing-a-covid-vaccine-will-likely-fail-to-provide-a-safe-and-effective-immunity 'Coronavirus vaccine trial volunteer dies in Brazil' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-vaccine-trial-volunteer-dies-in-brazil **Photo Credit: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
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