lifesitenews--2020-06-16--Transgenderism destroyed my dad who almost destroyed me. JK Rowling is right to sound alarm

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June 15 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A defense of biological gender came from an unexpected voice recently .
J.K. Rowling , author and activist , spoke out against the transgender movement on behalf of women ’ s rights .
No surprise , then , that the woke generation immediately attacked her on social media .
Rowling had the courage to risk censure by “ leaving the winding but brightly-lit path of wokery , ” as one blogger put it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with tough love.
” And , somewhat to my surprise , I agreed with several points Rowling made in her essay .
First , Rowling acknowledged that even though some girls are attracted to what the transgender movement offers , “ increasing numbers ” of young women “ regret taking the steps that have , in some cases , altered their bodies irrevocably , and taken away their fertility.
” I find the same trend in the transitioning women I counsel at Living Stones Ministries .
Furthermore , research has “ consistently shown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teens will outgrow their dysphoria ” — a fact also confirmed among the families I counsel .
Trans-activists claim that children will harm or possibly kill themselves if they are not permitted to transition , but psychiatrist Marcus Evans noted that the activists ’ claims do not “ align substantially with any robust data or studies in this area .
Nor do they align with the cases I have encountered over decades as a psychotherapist.
” In her essay , Rowling also says , “ I believe things have got significantly worse for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denigrated and dehumanized to the extent they are now … Everywhere , women are being told to shut up and sit down , or else.
” I , too , understand what it feels like to be silenced .
Trans activists have told me repeatedly that I was a “ selfish daughter ” because I resented my father ’ s invasion of my privacy , his desire to wear my clothes and makeup , his obsession with being what I was — female .
Like all transgenders , my father sought what he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with becoming female reminds me of a character in J.R.R .
Tolkien ’ s The Lord of the Rings .
The creature Gollum made the ring of power , which he called “ my precious , ” an idol that ruled all of his thoughts and affections .
The gold ring looked harmless , but it had the power to destroy anyone who possessed it .
That ’ s why Frodo had to toss it in the fires of Mordor .
To keep it would have been worse .
I ’ m not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ ring of power , ” but the obsession that empowered him imprisoned me through the sexual abuse he inflicted on me .
I ’ m not saying every man identifying himself as a transgender woman has sexually abused women , but it does occur .
In Rowling ’ s essay , she also admits to being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor .
She notes , “ The scars left by violence and sexual assault don ’ t disappear … I pray my daughters never have the same reasons I do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finding people behind me when I haven ’ t heard them approaching.
” I agree .
God has given me immense healing , but abuse is a scar that remains sensitive , and certain memories will never be erased .
For example , when I enter a public bathroom , I still look at the size of the person ’ s feet in the stall next to me .
Could those feet belong to a predatory male ?
Again , I ’ m not saying that every transgender is a predator , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he ’ s a woman … then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.
” Rowling also takes issue with trans-activists because they insist that “ women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves .
… But , as many women have said before me , ‘ woman ’ is not a costume .
‘ Woman ’ is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ head.
” Indeed .
‘ Woman ’ is God ’ s idea .
He created male and female .
And both sexes are precious in his sight — as he created them .
Rowling concludes her essay by saying , “ I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘ woman ’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators.
” I applaud her bravery .
Speaking the truth is not hateful ; it ’ s an act of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of other sexual abuse victims , have the right to speak out and should be respected for doing so .
Instead , our culture harasses them in public and hurls insults at them on social media .
Some women understandably are afraid of doxxing , losing their jobs , or being physically injured .
Trans-activists always make the transgender the victim and disregard those who are trampled beneath the feet of those rushing toward the illusion of being the opposite sex .
But let ’ s be honest .
Who ’ s the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the author of My Daddy ’ s Secret , a book about what the transgender lifestyle of her father did to her as a child .

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June 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A defense of biological gender came from an unexpected voice recently. J.K. Rowling, author and activist, spoke out against the transgender movement on behalf of women’s rights. No surprise, then, that the woke generation immediately attacked her on social media.
Rowling had the courage to risk censure by “leaving the winding but brightly-lit path of wokery,” as one blogger put it, to “addresses the trans lobby with tough love.” And, somewhat to my surprise, I agreed with several points Rowling made in her essay.
First, Rowling acknowledged that even though some girls are attracted to what the transgender movement offers, “increasing numbers” of young women “regret taking the steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility.” I find the same trend in the transitioning women I counsel at Living Stones Ministries.
Furthermore, research has “consistently shown that between 60-90 percent of gender dysphoric teens will outgrow their dysphoria” — a fact also confirmed among the families I counsel. Trans-activists claim that children will harm or possibly kill themselves if they are not permitted to transition, but psychiatrist Marcus Evans noted that the activists’ claims do not “align substantially with any robust data or studies in this area. Nor do they align with the cases I have encountered over decades as a psychotherapist.”
In her essay, Rowling also says, “I believe things have got significantly worse for girls. Never have I seen women denigrated and dehumanized to the extent they are now … Everywhere, women are being told to shut up and sit down, or else.”
I, too, understand what it feels like to be silenced. Trans activists have told me repeatedly that I was a “selfish daughter” because I resented my father’s invasion of my privacy, his desire to wear my clothes and makeup, his obsession with being what I was — female.
Like all transgenders, my father sought what he could not ever possess. His infatuation with becoming female reminds me of a character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The creature Gollum made the ring of power, which he called “my precious,” an idol that ruled all of his thoughts and affections. The gold ring looked harmless, but it had the power to destroy anyone who possessed it. That’s why Frodo had to toss it in the fires of Mordor. To keep it would have been worse.
I’m not sure exactly how my dad procured his “ring of power,” but the obsession that empowered him imprisoned me through the sexual abuse he inflicted on me. I’m not saying every man identifying himself as a transgender woman has sexually abused women, but it does occur.
In Rowling’s essay, she also admits to being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor. She notes, “The scars left by violence and sexual assault don’t disappear … I pray my daughters never have the same reasons I do for hating sudden loud noises, or finding people behind me when I haven’t heard them approaching.” I agree. God has given me immense healing, but abuse is a scar that remains sensitive, and certain memories will never be erased. For example, when I enter a public bathroom, I still look at the size of the person’s feet in the stall next to me. Could those feet belong to a predatory male?
Again, I’m not saying that every transgender is a predator, but Rowling is right when she says, “When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman … then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.”
Rowling also takes issue with trans-activists because they insist that “women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves. … But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head.”
Indeed. ‘Woman’ is God’s idea. He created male and female. And both sexes are precious in his sight — as he created them.
Rowling concludes her essay by saying, “I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators.”
I applaud her bravery. Speaking the truth is not hateful; it’s an act of love. Rowling, and the host of other sexual abuse victims, have the right to speak out and should be respected for doing so. Instead, our culture harasses them in public and hurls insults at them on social media. Some women understandably are afraid of doxxing, losing their jobs, or being physically injured.
Trans-activists always make the transgender the victim and disregard those who are trampled beneath the feet of those rushing toward the illusion of being the opposite sex. But let’s be honest. Who’s the real victim here?
Denise Shick is the author of My Daddy’s Secret, a book about what the transgender lifestyle of her father did to her as a child.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-17--Witches and Satanists have teamed up with leftists to destroy America

June 16 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The recent protests were supposed to be rallies of concerned Americans who were horrified by the death of George Floyd .
However , many protests degenerated into riots that destroyed parts of American cities .
Unfortunately , many capitalized on the events to present other agendas .
People who have absolutely nothing to do with the issue of community policing are hoping to hijack the debate .
Thus , the left has used the occasion to bring together ecologists , socialists , feminists , LGBT activists , pro-abortion advocates , and others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon the American public .
Less known , however , is the involvement of darker forces .
Satanists and witches were invoking evil powers to aid those participating in the violence .
The witches do not hide their involvement in the violent protests .
Mashable reports that witches ’ covens are actively engaged in hexing police , whom they accuse of brutality .
They especially target those who are risking their lives to stop the riots .
The witches also cast spells asking for protection for protesters that confront the police .
Witch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapons for those who want to engage in a more spiritual class warfare .
The hashtag # witchesforblm serves a meeting place for practicing witches who want to learn how to cast protection spells , draw occult sigils , and hex police .
Five days after the hashtag started , it garnered 10 million views on the TikTok app .
The postings often include videos of witches casting spells or even acting out what they believe will happen to the police they target .
The hexing can get very personal as the witches @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of individual police officers on papers , which are then burned with black candles .
The hexes aim to bring misfortune to the officers already at risk while defending the city from disorder .
The witches are part of a growing movement mixing politics and the occult .
Numerous books of spells have been published since the 2016 elections advising occultist activists how to invoke the powers of darkness for political causes .
Witches and satanists are appearing more often in public to push their agenda and display their scorn for God and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at odds with past leftist policies .
The left used to follow a secular outlook that did not recognize spiritual powers of any kind .
It always tried to keep politics and Christianity separate by labeling Christian action as superstitious .
However , the left is now welcoming witches and occultists with their dark arts into the public square .
Their involvement in the recent protests should surprise no one .
The secular media tend to make light of these actions , seeing them as almost curiosities .
They do not believe that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as malcontents against Christianity .
However , the secular left also has no problem accepting them into its ranks despite secular leftists ’ disbelief in the supernatural .
The occult ’ s story of the devil oppressed by an Almighty God fits into their tired class struggle narrative and feeds their disdain for God .
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The Fight between Good and Evil Religious Americans have no problem understanding the presence of the occult in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can affect events , then invocations to the devil also can have major consequences .
Indeed , Christians have long defined history as the fight between the forces of good and evil .
Wherever chaos , hatred , and agitation exist , the occult can be expected to have its role .
It was the saving action of Christ that conquered the devil and sin and prepared the way for Christian civilization .
This is why the involvement of witches in the protests is so troubling to those Christians who understand the full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involves real forces that are dangerous and sinister .
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines occultist magic as “ the art of performing actions beyond the power of man with the aid of powers other than the Divine.
” When taken seriously , its practitioners expect and obtain the interference of demons or lost souls for evil ends .
The Church admits that spirits other than God can interfere in events , although never without God ’ s permission .
Prayers of exorcism aim to limit the devil ’ s action over individuals and situations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last thing needed is occult involvement like the witch ’ s spells and incantations .
This will only increase the chaos and conflict .
Satan is the spirit of division and hatred .
America now needs to turn to God to defeat the actions of Satan , who prowls about , seeking the ruin of souls and whole societies .
John Horvat II is a scholar , researcher , educator , international speaker , and author of the book Return to Order , as well as the author of hundreds of published articles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pennsylvania where he is the vice president of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition , Family and Property .

June 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The recent protests were supposed to be rallies of concerned Americans who were horrified by the death of George Floyd. However, many protests degenerated into riots that destroyed parts of American cities. Unfortunately, many capitalized on the events to present other agendas. People who have absolutely nothing to do with the issue of community policing are hoping to hijack the debate.
Thus, the left has used the occasion to bring together ecologists, socialists, feminists, LGBT activists, pro-abortion advocates, and others to push their false class struggle narratives upon the American public. Less known, however, is the involvement of darker forces. Satanists and witches were invoking evil powers to aid those participating in the violence.
Casting Spells and Hexes
The witches do not hide their involvement in the violent protests. Mashable reports that witches’ covens are actively engaged in hexing police, whom they accuse of brutality. They especially target those who are risking their lives to stop the riots. The witches also cast spells asking for protection for protesters that confront the police. Witch activists used their dark arts as cutting-edge weapons for those who want to engage in a more spiritual class warfare.
The hashtag #witchesforblm serves a meeting place for practicing witches who want to learn how to cast protection spells, draw occult sigils, and hex police. Five days after the hashtag started, it garnered 10 million views on the TikTok app.
The postings often include videos of witches casting spells or even acting out what they believe will happen to the police they target. The hexing can get very personal as the witches teach others to write down the names of individual police officers on papers, which are then burned with black candles. The hexes aim to bring misfortune to the officers already at risk while defending the city from disorder.
Mixing Politics and the Occult
The witches are part of a growing movement mixing politics and the occult. Numerous books of spells have been published since the 2016 elections advising occultist activists how to invoke the powers of darkness for political causes. Witches and satanists are appearing more often in public to push their agenda and display their scorn for God and His Law.
Such occult activism appears at odds with past leftist policies. The left used to follow a secular outlook that did not recognize spiritual powers of any kind. It always tried to keep politics and Christianity separate by labeling Christian action as superstitious. However, the left is now welcoming witches and occultists with their dark arts into the public square. Their involvement in the recent protests should surprise no one.
The secular media tend to make light of these actions, seeing them as almost curiosities. They do not believe that witches have real powers and see them as malcontents against Christianity. However, the secular left also has no problem accepting them into its ranks despite secular leftists’ disbelief in the supernatural. The occult’s story of the devil oppressed by an Almighty God fits into their tired class struggle narrative and feeds their disdain for God.
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The Fight between Good and Evil
Religious Americans have no problem understanding the presence of the occult in this fight. If Christian prayers to God can affect events, then invocations to the devil also can have major consequences. Indeed, Christians have long defined history as the fight between the forces of good and evil. Wherever chaos, hatred, and agitation exist, the occult can be expected to have its role. It was the saving action of Christ that conquered the devil and sin and prepared the way for Christian civilization.
This is why the involvement of witches in the protests is so troubling to those Christians who understand the full implications of dark magic. Their action involves real forces that are dangerous and sinister. The Catholic Encyclopedia defines occultist magic as “the art of performing actions beyond the power of man with the aid of powers other than the Divine.” When taken seriously, its practitioners expect and obtain the interference of demons or lost souls for evil ends. The Church admits that spirits other than God can interfere in events, although never without God’s permission. Prayers of exorcism aim to limit the devil’s action over individuals and situations.
In the present crisis, the last thing needed is occult involvement like the witch’s spells and incantations. This will only increase the chaos and conflict. Satan is the spirit of division and hatred. America now needs to turn to God to defeat the actions of Satan, who prowls about, seeking the ruin of souls and whole societies.
John Horvat II is a scholar, researcher, educator, international speaker, and author of the book Return to Order, as well as the author of hundreds of published articles. He lives in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania where he is the vice president of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-17--Sesame Street goes gay: ‘On our street, we accept all…Happy Pride Month’

June 16 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The long-running PBS children ’ s television program Sesame Street showed its support for LGBT “ Pride Month ” with a social media post shared on Twitter and Facebook last week .
“ On our street , we accept all , we love all , and we respect all .
Happy # PrideMonth !
” says the Twitter post dated June 11 , from the official Sesame Street account @ sesamestreet .
Sesame Street was not the only kids ’ show that voiced a message of support for the LGBT activist–backed “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homosexual lifestyle and gender-fluidity .
Also tweeting in support of “ Pride Month ” was the kids ’ network Nickelodeon , which posted a tweet featuring a trio of its popular characters in colorful dress .
“ Celebrating # Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month , ” said the June 13 Nickelodeon tweet .
The LGBT-backed “ Pride Month ” was also supported by the Cartoon Network , who celebrated with social media advertising and special videos along with shows approved by the LGBT lobby .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ characters and educational content , which is targeted to young audiences .
The June 11 “ Pride Month ” Facebook and Twitter Sesame Street posts feature an image of multiple Sesame Street characters ’ arms holding hands in the colors of the rainbow .
Two of the arms in the image appear to be similar to be those of the well known Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie .
For a long time , LGBTQ activists and pundits have insisted tha the two puppet characters are a “ gay couple.
” Bert and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2018 when Sesame Street Workshop , as well as Muppet creator Frank Oz , denied that Bert and Ernie are “ gay.
” Despite this , a 2019 report from The Hollywood Reporter highlights a conversation with Brown Johnson , who at the time was the executive vice president of the Sesame Workshop .
She was asked if Bert and Ernie are a “ committed gay couple.
” She gave a reply that people can wish what they want to .
“ People can think whatever they want ” about Bert and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You want to think they ’ re gay ?
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The Nickelodeon tweet featured an image of the well known cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants ; Canadian actor Michael D. Cohen , a woman who considers herself a man , from the show Henry Danger ; and Avatar Korra from The Legend of Korra .
Cohen said in 2019 that she “ transitioned ” — started presenting herself as male — about 20 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Korra ” said in 2020 that she identifies as “ bisexual.
” The Twitter hashtag # Spongebobisgay began to trend on Twitter after many on social media speculated that SpongeBob SquarePants is indeed “ gay ” for being included in the June 13 Nickelodeon tweet .
However , the creator of SpongeBob , Stephen Hillenberg , who died in 2018 , said in 2005 that he “ never intended ” the Spongebob character and his sidekick friend Patrick Starfish to be “ gay.
” '' We never intended them to be gay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asexual .
We ’ re just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show , '' Hillenberg was quoted as saying in a Reuters report .
This is not the first time Sesame Street has shown public support for LGBT activism .
In 2017 , Sesame Street tweeted a “ rainbow ” that featured multicolored Muppets for Pride Month , saying , “ Sesame Street is proud to support families of all shapes , sizes , and colors.
” Also in 2017 , the Sesame Street song @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lyrics “ some boys like to play dolls ” while showing the popular male character Grover sporting a purple dress .
In early 2020 , it was announced that actor and LGBT activist Billy Porter would appear in drag in an episode of Sesame Street .
LifeSiteNews launched a petition that asks Sesame Street to drop the upcoming show .
As of its last count , it has over 58,500 signatures .

Sesame Street was not the only kids’ show that voiced a message of support for the pro-homosexual 'Pride Month.'
June 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The long-running PBS children’s television program Sesame Street showed its support for LGBT “Pride Month” with a social media post shared on Twitter and Facebook last week.
“On our street, we accept all, we love all, and we respect all. Happy #PrideMonth!” says the Twitter post dated June 11, from the official Sesame Street account @sesamestreet.
Sesame Street was not the only kids’ show that voiced a message of support for the LGBT activist–backed “Pride Month,” which promotes the homosexual lifestyle and gender-fluidity.
Also tweeting in support of “Pride Month” was the kids’ network Nickelodeon, which posted a tweet featuring a trio of its popular characters in colorful dress.
“Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” said the June 13 Nickelodeon tweet.
The LGBT-backed “Pride Month” was also supported by the Cartoon Network, who celebrated with social media advertising and special videos along with shows approved by the LGBT lobby.
Sesame Street is known for its Muppet characters and educational content, which is targeted to young audiences. The June 11 “Pride Month” Facebook and Twitter Sesame Street posts feature an image of multiple Sesame Street characters’ arms holding hands in the colors of the rainbow. Two of the arms in the image appear to be similar to be those of the well known Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie. For a long time, LGBTQ activists and pundits have insisted tha the two puppet characters are a “gay couple.”
Bert and Ernie “gay” rumors were addressed in 2018 when Sesame Street Workshop, as well as Muppet creator Frank Oz, denied that Bert and Ernie are “gay.”
Despite this, a 2019 report from The Hollywood Reporter highlights a conversation with Brown Johnson, who at the time was the executive vice president of the Sesame Workshop. She was asked if Bert and Ernie are a “committed gay couple.” She gave a reply that people can wish what they want to.
“People can think whatever they want” about Bert and Ernie, Johnson told THR. “You want to think they’re gay? OK.”
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The Nickelodeon tweet featured an image of the well known cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants; Canadian actor Michael D. Cohen, a woman who considers herself a man, from the show Henry Danger; and Avatar Korra from The Legend of Korra.
Cohen said in 2019 that she “transitioned” — started presenting herself as male — about 20 years ago. The creators of the character “Korra” said in 2020 that she identifies as “bisexual.”
The Twitter hashtag #Spongebobisgay began to trend on Twitter after many on social media speculated that SpongeBob SquarePants is indeed “gay” for being included in the June 13 Nickelodeon tweet.
However, the creator of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenberg, who died in 2018, said in 2005 that he “never intended” the Spongebob character and his sidekick friend Patrick Starfish to be “gay.”
“We never intended them to be gay. I consider them to be almost asexual. We’re just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show,” Hillenberg was quoted as saying in a Reuters report.
This is not the first time Sesame Street has shown public support for LGBT activism. In 2017, Sesame Street tweeted a “rainbow” that featured multicolored Muppets for Pride Month, saying, “Sesame Street is proud to support families of all shapes, sizes, and colors.”
Also in 2017, the Sesame Street song called “Anyone Can Play” included the lyrics “some boys like to play dolls” while showing the popular male character Grover sporting a purple dress.
In early 2020, it was announced that actor and LGBT activist Billy Porter would appear in drag in an episode of Sesame Street. LifeSiteNews launched a petition that asks Sesame Street to drop the upcoming show. As of its last count, it has over 58,500 signatures.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-17--Supreme Court cripples US housing dept’s rule allowing women-only homeless shelters

WASHINGTON , D.C. , June 16 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A new rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) would enable homeless shelters to serve people based exclusively on their biological sex as opposed to their “ gender identity.
” The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the new rule , understanding “ the plain meaning of the word ‘ sex ’ as male or female and as determined by biology , ” is currently “ being circulated among lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
” On Monday , however , the Supreme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights Act should be reinterpreted to cover homosexuality and gender confusion .
It is unclear at this point how the Supreme Court ’ s decision is going to affect HUD ’ s proposed rule .
The new rule , according to the Washington Post , “ would scrap the Obama administration ’ s 2016 guidance ” requiring homeless shelters to accept people claiming to be a member of the opposite sex .
At the same time , the administration ’ s 2012 rule “ barring federal housing discrimination on the basis of sexual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kept in place .
Should HUD ’ s new rule be enforced as it is currently shown to legislators , operators of single-sex shelters could “ determine an individual ’ s sex based on a good faith belief that an individual seeking access ... is not of the sex , as defined in the single sex facility ’ s policy , which the facility accommodates.
” However , no homeless shelter would be required to implement the new rule .
Instead , they can choose to continue to admit men pretending to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and vice versa .
Any person refused access to the shelter would not simply be sent away , but receive a recommendation to go to another shelter matching his actual sex .
Ben Carson , secretary of HUD , pointed out in 2019 that he “ had heard from many women ’ s groups about the difficulty they were having with women ’ s shelters because sometimes men would claim to be women , and that HUD ’ s policy required the shelter to accept — without question — the word of whoever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the women feel unsafe , ” he added , “ and one of the groups described a situation to me in which ‘ big hairy men ’ would come in and have to be accepted into the women ’ s shelter even though it made the women in the facility very uncomfortable.
” According to the Washington Post , the new HUD rule refers to a court case in Alaska , where several homeless women told shelter operators “ that if biological men are allowed to spend the night alongside them , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ woods , ’ even in extreme cold.
” Several people and organizations opposed to yesterday ’ s Supreme Court decision to redefine the term “ sex ” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to mean not simply “ male ” and “ female ” as biological facts , but also “ sexual orientation ” and “ gender identity ” have pointed out that certain religious protections are left in place .
Michael Farris , the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association , assured his readers on Facebook that Bostock v. Clayton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religious exemptions .
The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act , which I helped write , is fully applicable to all federal claims arising under this decision .
The Court also said that it was not deciding privacy matters such as bathrooms , locker rooms , and women ’ s sports.
” On the other hand , various commentators indicated that natural law and traditional biblical morality have been on a slippery slope in the United States for decades .
Princeton University legal scholar Robert P. George predicted that Bostock v. Clayton County was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including the eventual destruction of all-women ’ s sports.
” Writing for the Conservative Review , senior editor Daniel Horowitz referred to an issue similar to that of single-sex homeless shelters .
Following the Supreme Court ’ s decision , “ lawsuits may be brought under the Fair Housing Act against colleges that have separate dorms for males and females .
Also , female prisoners will be subjected to males living with them .
Again , once sex is redefined , it is no longer limited to employment or animus-based discrimination .
”

The Department of Housing and Urban Development had wanted to relieve single-sex shelters of being forced to take in men who say they're women or vice versa.
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A new rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would enable homeless shelters to serve people based exclusively on their biological sex as opposed to their “gender identity.”
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the new rule, understanding “the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” is currently “being circulated among lawmakers on Capitol Hill.”
On Monday, however, the Supreme Court decided that the 1964 anti-discrimination Civil Rights Act should be reinterpreted to cover homosexuality and gender confusion. It is unclear at this point how the Supreme Court’s decision is going to affect HUD’s proposed rule.
The new rule, according to the Washington Post, “would scrap the Obama administration’s 2016 guidance” requiring homeless shelters to accept people claiming to be a member of the opposite sex. At the same time, the administration’s 2012 rule “barring federal housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity” would be kept in place.
Should HUD’s new rule be enforced as it is currently shown to legislators, operators of single-sex shelters could “determine an individual’s sex based on a good faith belief that an individual seeking access … is not of the sex, as defined in the single sex facility’s policy, which the facility accommodates.”
However, no homeless shelter would be required to implement the new rule. Instead, they can choose to continue to admit men pretending to be women to a women’s shelter and vice versa.
Any person refused access to the shelter would not simply be sent away, but receive a recommendation to go to another shelter matching his actual sex.
Ben Carson, secretary of HUD, pointed out in 2019 that he “had heard from many women’s groups about the difficulty they were having with women’s shelters because sometimes men would claim to be women, and that HUD’s policy required the shelter to accept — without question — the word of whoever came in.”
“This made many of the women feel unsafe,” he added, “and one of the groups described a situation to me in which ‘big hairy men’ would come in and have to be accepted into the women’s shelter even though it made the women in the facility very uncomfortable.”
According to the Washington Post, the new HUD rule refers to a court case in Alaska, where several homeless women told shelter operators “that if biological men are allowed to spend the night alongside them, ‘they would rather sleep in the woods,’ even in extreme cold.”
Several people and organizations opposed to yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to redefine the term “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to mean not simply “male” and “female” as biological facts, but also “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” have pointed out that certain religious protections are left in place.
Michael Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, assured his readers on Facebook that Bostock v. Clayton County “does not decide issues of religious exemptions. The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which I helped write, is fully applicable to all federal claims arising under this decision. The Court also said that it was not deciding privacy matters such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and women’s sports.”
On the other hand, various commentators indicated that natural law and traditional biblical morality have been on a slippery slope in the United States for decades.
Princeton University legal scholar Robert P. George predicted that Bostock v. Clayton County was going to have “far-reaching consequences, including the eventual destruction of all-women’s sports.”
Writing for the Conservative Review, senior editor Daniel Horowitz referred to an issue similar to that of single-sex homeless shelters.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision, “lawsuits may be brought under the Fair Housing Act against colleges that have separate dorms for males and females. Also, female prisoners will be subjected to males living with them. Again, once sex is redefined, it is no longer limited to employment or animus-based discrimination.”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-17--The untold triumph and tragedy of Ireland’s fight to defend the unborn

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June 16 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – There 's a powerful moment in Patriots , Jonathon van Maren 's brilliant new book about the Irish pro-life movement 's decades-long battle to keep the Emerald Isle abortion-free .
The date is May 24 , 2018 -- the vigil of the referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution .
This amendment , passed by popular vote in 1983 , explicitly recognized the right to life of the unborn .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Ireland 's shores for decades , even as nearly every other Western nation fell to the abortion regime .
But on this day in 2018 , it was hanging by a thread .
It is late at night , and a group of sleep-deprived pro-lifers has gathered for drinks at a pub in Dublin , around the corner from their headquarters .
The preceding months have been consumed by an exhausting , all-out effort to counter the tsunami of propaganda , lies , money , and power -- all in support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's pro-lifers have left everything on the mat .
Many of them have taken leaves of absence from work , or skipped a semester of school , just in order to be able to volunteer full time for the cause .
But on this night , with the vote scheduled for the following day , there is nothing else to be done .
After having traveled to hundreds of towns and cities , distributed hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature , knocked on tens of thousands of doors , debated with countless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and strategized and polled and marketed and lobbied using every technique that had proved successful over the past 3 1/2 decades … all that is left now is the waiting .
The question on everybody 's mind is : Has it been enough ?
When the dust settles tomorrow night , will Ireland still be a pro-life nation ?
Van Maren 's description of the scene is chilling : Despite the hopefulness , everybody was tense .
If pro-life Ireland would come through once again and victory awaited on the other side of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fast-forward to that moment of exquisite relief and jubilation .
But if not -- if May 25 would bring the devastating news that the Ireland they all loved so much no longer existed , and that the Irish people would be the first to bring in abortion by popular demand -- then this night could last forever .
Here , in this moment , everything was still as it should be .
Babies in the womb were protected , Ireland was one of the only pro-life nations in the Western world , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Here , on this island of sanity surrounded by those who had sacrificed weeks , months , and years to pour out their hearts for Ireland 's children , was laughter and camaraderie .
On the other side lay a new era of unthinkable and unknowable darkness .
It was Schrodinger 's Ireland : Nobody knew if she was alive , or dead -- and nobody knew if they wanted to know .
Unfortunately , we now know what they , on that night , did not .
The Ireland that had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every pro-life activist the world over , the Ireland that had proved by its rock-bottom maternal mortality rate that abortion was completely unnecessary to protect women 's health , had indeed died .
On May 25 , 2018 , Ireland 's Day of Infamy , the Irish people voted by a staggering margin , 66 percent to 33 percent , to bury the Eighth Amendment , paving the way for a permissive regime of abortion-on-demand .
Judged solely by May 25 , 2018 , the Irish pro-life movement was a failure .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which that is the grim , undeniable truth .
And yet , what Van Maren has accomplished in this book is to place that one , fateful failure within the context of a much larger story -- a story that includes such a litany of near-miraculous success , success obtained and maintained through such a mixture of conviction , creativity , and sheer , dogged , daily sacrifice , that the effect is that one closes the book astonished and grateful that such a thing could ever be , and inspired to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by imitating their example in whatever way possible .
Truth be told , I was hesitant even to read this book .
Having been brought up in the pro-life movement , and having worked in it for so long , it sometimes seems to me that there is little I could possibly read about it that would surprise me , or move me , or provide much in the way of new information .
Besides anticipating a certain measure of boredom , I was little inclined to read a book that I already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Van Maren is a Canadian pro-life activist who flew to Ireland in the weeks before the May 25 vote to witness and participate in the pro-life effort .
However , his descriptions of the campaign to `` Save the Eighth '' only occupies the final third of the book .
In the rest , he recounts the history and paints a portrait of a pro-life movement that operated on such a vast scale , and with so many triumphs over the years , and that enjoyed such widespread public sympathy , that most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in nations where abortion was legalized decades ago can scarcely even begin to imagine what that might even look or feel like .
This aspect of the book alone is worth the price of admission .
For , even though the pro-life side ultimately lost , what emerges from Van Maren 's telling is a compelling picture of a modern , Western nation in which , until quite recently , the mere thought of legalized abortion was inconceivable to most of its residents , and in which , as a consequence , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and political power .
And if this could exist once , then why not again ?
Truth be told , most of us have been so steeped in media propaganda to the effect that being modern means legalized abortion , that we have unconsciously come to believe that maybe it is so : maybe , just maybe , being a healthy , wealthy , modern , and developed nation just is , for some unknown reason , inconceivable without legalized abortion .
Maybe we pro-lifers are simply tilting at progress in our effort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what Ireland and Ireland 's sophisticated pro-life movement proved for so many decades is that this simply is n't true .
In vote after vote , in poll after poll , the Irish people again and again reaffirmed their conviction that they could do perfectly well without abortion .
Even as Ireland thrived economically and socially , standing with head held high amid other world-class nations , her politicians , experts and citizens spurned foreign pressure to `` get with the program '' and legalize abortion .
The effect of Van Maren 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to elicit this exceedingly encouraging thought : if Ireland could do this , then we can do this .
Ireland once showed us what was possible .
And if she showed us once , she can show us again .
And if not her , then some other nation , with sufficiently motivated and savvy and committed pro-lifers , who can carry the torch .
Perhaps our nation .
This is the spirit of vigor and optimism that infuses Van Maren 's narrative .
Van Maren is one of those pro-life activists for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has held the battered bodies of babies who have been aborted in his hands .
He has no doubt of the righteousness of the pro-life cause .
Furthermore , being a foreigner , Van Maren is free of the need to feign humility with respect to the accomplishments of the Irish pro-life movement .
The result is that he conveys a sense of the life-and-death urgency of the cause , as well as the brilliance of the Irish pro-lifers who successfully kept at bay the international abortion juggernaut , that is bracing and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the introduction , as he worked alongside the Irish pro-lifers in 2018 , it seemed to him that there was something different about them .
He concluded that the difference was their `` innocence . ''
`` Not naivete , not at all -- they certainly knew that they could lose the referendum . ''
But , Alas , that is not how things turned out on May 25 , 2018 .
That day began a tragic new era in Irish history .
To the many pro-life Irish who had in some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ireland abortion-free , it seemed as if that day the Ireland they knew died .
It is not hard to pinpoint reasons for the change of fortune : the existence of a media class that had become almost universally pro-abortion , and that flagrantly and tirelessly campaigned to repeal the Eighth , and that had no qualms about distorting and outright lying to accomplish that end ; a Catholic Church that entered ( or , alas , in many cases , did not enter ) the fray bruised and bloodied by scandals , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and incessant pressure from the powerful globalist community on Ireland to conform , etc .
Van Maren recounts and analyzes all of this , and much of what he tells is enough to make one 's blood boil .
It seems certain that without the incessant drip-drip-drip of shameless media distortion and foreign pressure , May 25 , 2018 could very well have turned out otherwise than it did .
So much for democracy ; so much for Irish independence , earned at the cost of the blood of so many patriots ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much for truth , and human rights , and compassion .
But in the end , the value of Van Maren 's book is in telling the story of Irish pro-life heroism .
Conservatives are not always very good at telling our own stories .
Liberals are often far better at that .
Most pro-lifers do n't like blowing their own horn .
We value humility .
But this can be taken too far , if it buries the heroism that has the power to inspire others to pick up the torch and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maren 's book does nothing else but celebrate and honor the sacrifices of so many unsung heroes , and inspire but a handful of others to imitate their example , it will have been worth all the effort .
I will conclude -- as does Jonathon -- with this quote from one of those Irish heroes , Niamh Uí Bhriain .
Abortion might now be `` the new reality in this new , harsh , pitiless Ireland , '' she said in the wake of the 2018 vote .
`` But that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John Connors said , May 25th was the most shameful day in Irish history -- but it is not our shame , because we did not vote for this .
Instead , that shame should be felt by ( Minister for Health ) Simon Harris , by ( Taoiseach ) Leo Varadkar , by the Irish media , and by those who were too cruel or too foolish to know that the only compassionate answer is to love both mother and child .
This cruel abortion regime is a stain on what was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Time , and the persistence of the few , will change that once more . ''
Note : 100 percent of the profits from the sale of Patriots will be donated to pro-life groups .
To purchase Patriots , click here if you 're in North America , and here if you 're in Europe .

Note: 100 percent of the profits from the sale of Patriots will be donated to pro-life groups. To purchase Patriots, click here if you're in North America, and here if you're in Europe.
June 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – There's a powerful moment in Patriots, Jonathon van Maren's brilliant new book about the Irish pro-life movement's decades-long battle to keep the Emerald Isle abortion-free.
The date is May 24, 2018 — the vigil of the referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. This amendment, passed by popular vote in 1983, explicitly recognized the right to life of the unborn. It was the bulwark that kept abortion from Ireland's shores for decades, even as nearly every other Western nation fell to the abortion regime. But on this day in 2018, it was hanging by a thread.
It is late at night, and a group of sleep-deprived pro-lifers has gathered for drinks at a pub in Dublin, around the corner from their headquarters. The preceding months have been consumed by an exhausting, all-out effort to counter the tsunami of propaganda, lies, money, and power — all in support of abortion — sweeping their nation. Ireland's pro-lifers have left everything on the mat. Many of them have taken leaves of absence from work, or skipped a semester of school, just in order to be able to volunteer full time for the cause.
But on this night, with the vote scheduled for the following day, there is nothing else to be done. After having traveled to hundreds of towns and cities, distributed hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature, knocked on tens of thousands of doors, debated with countless voters on the streets, and protested and strategized and polled and marketed and lobbied using every technique that had proved successful over the past 3 1/2 decades … all that is left now is the waiting. The question on everybody's mind is: Has it been enough? When the dust settles tomorrow night, will Ireland still be a pro-life nation?
Van Maren's description of the scene is chilling:
Despite the hopefulness, everybody was tense. If pro-life Ireland would come through once again and victory awaited on the other side of the night, then everybody wanted to fast-forward to that moment of exquisite relief and jubilation. But if not — if May 25 would bring the devastating news that the Ireland they all loved so much no longer existed, and that the Irish people would be the first to bring in abortion by popular demand — then this night could last forever. Here, in this moment, everything was still as it should be. Babies in the womb were protected, Ireland was one of the only pro-life nations in the Western world, and being Irish still meant something profoundly beautiful. Here, on this island of sanity surrounded by those who had sacrificed weeks, months, and years to pour out their hearts for Ireland's children, was laughter and camaraderie. On the other side lay a new era of unthinkable and unknowable darkness. It was Schrodinger's Ireland: Nobody knew if she was alive, or dead — and nobody knew if they wanted to know.
Unfortunately, we now know what they, on that night, did not. The Ireland that had served as a beacon of hope for every pro-life activist the world over, the Ireland that had proved by its rock-bottom maternal mortality rate that abortion was completely unnecessary to protect women's health, had indeed died. On May 25, 2018, Ireland's Day of Infamy, the Irish people voted by a staggering margin, 66 percent to 33 percent, to bury the Eighth Amendment, paving the way for a permissive regime of abortion-on-demand.
Judged solely by May 25, 2018, the Irish pro-life movement was a failure. And indeed, there is a sense in which that is the grim, undeniable truth. And yet, what Van Maren has accomplished in this book is to place that one, fateful failure within the context of a much larger story — a story that includes such a litany of near-miraculous success, success obtained and maintained through such a mixture of conviction, creativity, and sheer, dogged, daily sacrifice, that the effect is that one closes the book astonished and grateful that such a thing could ever be, and inspired to do homage to Ireland's indomitable pro-life warriors by imitating their example in whatever way possible.
Truth be told, I was hesitant even to read this book. Having been brought up in the pro-life movement, and having worked in it for so long, it sometimes seems to me that there is little I could possibly read about it that would surprise me, or move me, or provide much in the way of new information. Besides anticipating a certain measure of boredom, I was little inclined to read a book that I already knew ended in a depressing defeat.
How wrong I was.
Van Maren is a Canadian pro-life activist who flew to Ireland in the weeks before the May 25 vote to witness and participate in the pro-life effort. However, his descriptions of the campaign to “Save the Eighth” only occupies the final third of the book. In the rest, he recounts the history and paints a portrait of a pro-life movement that operated on such a vast scale, and with so many triumphs over the years, and that enjoyed such widespread public sympathy, that most of us who have lived our lives in nations where abortion was legalized decades ago can scarcely even begin to imagine what that might even look or feel like.
This aspect of the book alone is worth the price of admission. For, even though the pro-life side ultimately lost, what emerges from Van Maren's telling is a compelling picture of a modern, Western nation in which, until quite recently, the mere thought of legalized abortion was inconceivable to most of its residents, and in which, as a consequence, the pro-life cause and movement enjoyed enormous popularity and political power. And if this could exist once, then why not again?
Truth be told, most of us have been so steeped in media propaganda to the effect that being modern means legalized abortion, that we have unconsciously come to believe that maybe it is so: maybe, just maybe, being a healthy, wealthy, modern, and developed nation just is, for some unknown reason, inconceivable without legalized abortion. Maybe we pro-lifers are simply tilting at progress in our effort to keep child-killing at bay.
But what Ireland and Ireland's sophisticated pro-life movement proved for so many decades is that this simply isn't true. In vote after vote, in poll after poll, the Irish people again and again reaffirmed their conviction that they could do perfectly well without abortion. Even as Ireland thrived economically and socially, standing with head held high amid other world-class nations, her politicians, experts and citizens spurned foreign pressure to “get with the program” and legalize abortion.
The effect of Van Maren's recounting of Ireland's pro-life history is to elicit this exceedingly encouraging thought: if Ireland could do this, then we can do this. Ireland once showed us what was possible. And if she showed us once, she can show us again. And if not her, then some other nation, with sufficiently motivated and savvy and committed pro-lifers, who can carry the torch. Perhaps our nation.
This is the spirit of vigor and optimism that infuses Van Maren's narrative. Van Maren is one of those pro-life activists for whom abortion is no abstraction. He has held the battered bodies of babies who have been aborted in his hands. He has no doubt of the righteousness of the pro-life cause. Furthermore, being a foreigner, Van Maren is free of the need to feign humility with respect to the accomplishments of the Irish pro-life movement. The result is that he conveys a sense of the life-and-death urgency of the cause, as well as the brilliance of the Irish pro-lifers who successfully kept at bay the international abortion juggernaut, that is bracing and deeply inspiring.
As Van Maren recounts in the introduction, as he worked alongside the Irish pro-lifers in 2018, it seemed to him that there was something different about them. He concluded that the difference was their “innocence.” “Not naivete, not at all — they certainly knew that they could lose the referendum.” But,
It was the sort of innocence one has when they possess both the courage to fight evil and the faith that good can defeat it. More than that, it was the faith that good could defeat evil again. Abortion activists had been striving to destroy and undermine the Eight Amendment for decades, but always the pro-life movement had fended them off. Time and again, the sweaty panic of the final countdown to the campaign's end had given way to an explosion of celebration. … This time, it had to be that way, too. The dragon had to die, the knight had to win, and the innocents had to be saved.
Alas, that is not how things turned out on May 25, 2018. That day began a tragic new era in Irish history. To the many pro-life Irish who had in some cases dedicated their whole lives to keep Ireland abortion-free, it seemed as if that day the Ireland they knew died. It is not hard to pinpoint reasons for the change of fortune: the existence of a media class that had become almost universally pro-abortion, and that flagrantly and tirelessly campaigned to repeal the Eighth, and that had no qualms about distorting and outright lying to accomplish that end; a Catholic Church that entered (or, alas, in many cases, did not enter) the fray bruised and bloodied by scandals, and consequently lacking in moral authority; and incessant pressure from the powerful globalist community on Ireland to conform, etc.
Van Maren recounts and analyzes all of this, and much of what he tells is enough to make one's blood boil. It seems certain that without the incessant drip-drip-drip of shameless media distortion and foreign pressure, May 25, 2018 could very well have turned out otherwise than it did. So much for democracy; so much for Irish independence, earned at the cost of the blood of so many patriots; so much for media objectivity; so much for truth, and human rights, and compassion.
But in the end, the value of Van Maren's book is in telling the story of Irish pro-life heroism. Conservatives are not always very good at telling our own stories. Liberals are often far better at that. Most pro-lifers don't like blowing their own horn. We value humility. But this can be taken too far, if it buries the heroism that has the power to inspire others to pick up the torch and fight for justice. Even if Van Maren's book does nothing else but celebrate and honor the sacrifices of so many unsung heroes, and inspire but a handful of others to imitate their example, it will have been worth all the effort.
I will conclude — as does Jonathon — with this quote from one of those Irish heroes, Niamh Uí Bhriain. Abortion might now be “the new reality in this new, harsh, pitiless Ireland,” she said in the wake of the 2018 vote. “But that is not my country. As the actor John Connors said, May 25th was the most shameful day in Irish history — but it is not our shame, because we did not vote for this. Instead, that shame should be felt by (Minister for Health) Simon Harris, by (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar, by the Irish media, and by those who were too cruel or too foolish to know that the only compassionate answer is to love both mother and child. This cruel abortion regime is a stain on what was once a proud, pro-life nation. Time, and the persistence of the few, will change that once more.”
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Follow John John Jalsevac is Web Strategy Director of LifeSiteNews.com. He has a bachelor's degree in philosophy with a minor in theology from Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He has published hundreds of articles in publications including Crisis Magazine, Catholic Insight, The Wanderer, and of course, LifeSiteNews.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-17--Is the US on the verge of a communist revolt?

June 16 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Seattle was in mayhem last week as a six-block area was occupied by openly communist groups .
The police were unwilling to enter the zone , and the Democratic governor was clueless .
President Trump warned that he had to take action .
Interestingly , we also learned last week that Heaven foretold there would be a communist takeover of America if Heaven ’ s warnings were not heeded .
It seems that that is happening right before our very eyes .
At LifeSiteNews last week , writer Dr. Maike Hickson drew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1947 with the last remaining seer of Fatima , Sr. Lucia dos Santos .
She was one of the three children of Fatima , Portugal who in 1917 saw the Mother of Christ and received secret messages from Our Lady .
The truth of these apparitions was confirmed by a stupendous miracle witnessed by 70,000 people , and photographed and recorded in many newspapers , which involved the sun dancing in the sky .
Sr. Lucia told of how Our Lady had revealed to her that even the United States of America would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart by the pope in union with the world ’ s bishops .
Given what is happening in America right now and what communism is and its goals for America , the account from Sr. Lucia is truly remarkable .
Dr. Hickson wrote at LifeSiteNews of the interview conducted by the well respected American historian and author , William Thomas Walsh .
In 1947 , Professor Walsh authored a book about Fatima , titled Our Lady of Fatima , at the end of which he recounts an interview @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the year before .
One of the messages of Fatima received by the children in 1917 pertains to the then-impending Bolshevik Revolution in Russia .
“ What Our Lady wants is that the Pope and all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart on one special day .
If this is done , she will convert Russia and there will be peace .
If it is not done , the errors of Russia will spread through every country in the world , ” Lucia told Walsh .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asked , “ in your opinion , that every country , without exception , will be overcome by Communism ?
” And Sister Lucia answered : “ Yes.
” The interpreter during the interview , allowing Walsh to converse with Sr. Lucia in her native Portuguese , was Father Manuel Rocha , who later revealed that Walsh had asked explicitly about the United States of America , adding : “ And does that mean the United States of America , too ?
” Whereupon Sister Lucia responded once more : “ Yes.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima , which have been approved by the Catholic Church , predicted that the United States , under certain conditions , would also be overcome by communism .
Dr. Hickson notes that in 1946 , Lucia ’ s response might have sounded somewhat unrealistic , given that it was just after the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War .
But today we see revolutionary riots in many American cities .
To appreciate how much communism has affected and , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ requires an appreciation for communism itself and its goals .
Communism is thought mainly to be an economic system competing with capitalism .
However , when we really comprehend communism , the spread of Russia ’ s errors becomes recognizable .
The Naked Communist is the most concise and straightforward source outlining communist goals and ideology .
It was written in 1962 by W. Cleon Skousen , a former FBI agent who used many original sources and the best intelligence of the FBI during its investigation of communist infiltration into the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ list of 45 “ current communist goals ” that was also recorded in the Congressional Record in 1963 .
President Ronald Reagan commented on Skousen , saying : “ No one is better qualified to discuss the threat to this nation from communism.
” A selection of the goals of communism listed by Skousen serve to illustrate its spread to all nations , especially America .
You can find the full list in the Congressional Record ( see Appendix , pp .
A34–A35 of the House of Representatives of January 10 , 1963 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of those goals : • Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States • Get control of the schools • Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda At LifeSite last year , we reported on the case of Rebecca Friedrichs , who spent 28 years teaching in California public schools and was the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association , a 2016 Supreme Court case concerning forced union dues .
She detailed how the California Teachers ’ Association ( CTA ) and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which advocate and donate heavily to a wide range of left-wing causes including abortion and transgenderism , work with far-left groups such as the Women ’ s March , the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) , the Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ) , the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network ( GLSEN ) , and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States ( SIECUS ) to “ push a radical sexual agenda onto our kids and to punish teachers , parents and students who dare to speak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case of Judy Bruns , a Christian teacher in Ohio who took the opportunity at an NEA representative meeting to ask whether the phrase “ reproductive freedom ” in the group ’ s resolutions included support for abortion up to delivery and/or partial-birth abortions .
Bruns was “ mocked and shunned ” by the Ohio Education Association ’ s leaders but got the answer : “ We have no restrictions ( or limitations ) .
” Friedrichs also quoted a former teacher and executive director of Christian Educators Association International ( CEAI ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research showing nearly $ 800,000 of roughly $ 1 million in donations by the NEA to a 2014 PAC was directed to Planned Parenthood .
• Gain control of key positions in radio , TV , and motion pictures The whole reason we started LifeSiteNews nearly 25 years ago is that it seemed that almost all the mainstream media had a left-wing , anti-life , and anti-family bias .
That situation has only gotten worse .
Without Fox News , there wouldn ’ t be a mainstream conservative television media outlet at all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression • An American Communist cell was told to “ eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings , substitute shapeless , awkward and meaningless forms.
” • Control art critics and directors of art museums .
“ Our plan is to promote ugliness , repulsive , meaningless art.
” How of us have gone to parks and museums only to be disgusted or at least confused by the ugliness of the so-called art — which , it often seems , our 3-year-old children could do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if you were to breathe such a thought , you ’ d be labeled a Neanderthal and wholly unsophisticated for not seeing the “ deep art ” at play .
• Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “ censorship ” and a violation of free speech and free press • Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books , magazines , motion pictures , radio , and TV Check , check .
Been there , done that .
We ’ re teaching pole-dancing to children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today would have been considered pornographic years ago .
Here is another goal of communism : We ’ ve gone so far in this direction that we ’ ve made counseling for those wishing to leave the homosexual lifestyle illegal !
• Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “ social ” religion There can be no more obvious implementation of this than what has been seen in the Catholic Church in the USA over the last half-century .
Listen to these other communist goals : • Discredit the Bible and emphasize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not need a “ religious crutch ” • Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate , old-fashioned , out of step with modern needs , a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis • Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “ separation of church and state ” • Discredit the family as an institution .
Encourage promiscuity , masturbation , and easy divorce • Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blocks , and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents ” • Infiltrate and gain control of more unions There is so much here to unpack , but I wanted to draw attention to a couple of items that are particularly striking , given the mayhem we ’ re experiencing in America today .
Listen to these two goals : • Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition ; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “ united force ” to solve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies • Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [ or treat ] .
And those two items together are what we ’ ve witnessed since the riots began with the excuse of the tragic death of George Floyd .
President Trump recently described the situation in America in an eye-opening manner , which exemplifies just how far these communist ideals have entered America , even with the collusion of state governors and mayors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about not having a police force .
Well , that ’ s not happening , ” Trump said .
Believe it or not , while all this was going down , six city blocks were seized in Seattle , and a police station was forced to be abandoned .
Leftist Governor Jay Inslee of Washington claimed he knew nothing about it .
So it definitely seems as though Our Lady of Fatima ’ s prophecy of the spreading of Russia ’ s errors — even in the United States — has come true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Heaven proposed was the Consecration of Russia and also that that day is coming because she herself said it would be done .
After that consecration comes , a never before experienced period of peace will happen .
So there is hope in the not too distant future for peace , even though there may well be some tough times to go before we get there .
Here is a full list of the communist goals taken from Skousen ’ s “ The Naked Communist ” The John-Henry Westen Show is available by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ channel and right here on my LifeSite blog .
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A former FBI agent wrote in 1962 a book outlining the strategies communists would use to overthrow America. Are we living through the times foretold in his book?
May 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Seattle was in mayhem last year as a six-block area was occupied by openly communist groups. The police were unwilling to enter the zone, and the Democratic governor was clueless. President Trump warned that he had to take action. Interestingly, we also learned that Heaven foretold there would be a communist takeover of America if Heaven’s warnings were not heeded. It seems that that is happening right before our very eyes under Joe Biden.
LifeSite writer Dr. Maike Hickson has drawn attention to a fascinating interview conducted in 1947 with the last remaining seer of Fatima, Sr. Lucia dos Santos. She was one of the three children of Fatima, Portugal who in 1917 saw the Mother of Christ and received secret messages from Our Lady. The truth of these apparitions was confirmed by a stupendous miracle witnessed by 70,000 people, and photographed and recorded in many newspapers, which involved the sun dancing in the sky.
Sr. Lucia told of how Our Lady had revealed to her that even the United States of America would be overcome by communism if Russia was not consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart by the pope in union with the world’s bishops.
Given what is happening in America right now and what communism is and its goals for America, the account from Sr. Lucia is truly remarkable.
Dr. Hickson wrote at LifeSiteNews of the interview conducted by the well respected American historian and author, William Thomas Walsh. In 1947, Professor Walsh authored a book about Fatima, titled Our Lady of Fatima, at the end of which he recounts an interview he conducted with Sister Lucia of Fatima the year before.
One of the messages of Fatima received by the children in 1917 pertains to the then-impending Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
“What Our Lady wants is that the Pope and all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart on one special day. If this is done, she will convert Russia and there will be peace. If it is not done, the errors of Russia will spread through every country in the world,” Lucia told Walsh.
“Does this mean,” Walsh then asked, “in your opinion, that every country, without exception, will be overcome by Communism?” And Sister Lucia answered: “Yes.”
The interpreter during the interview, allowing Walsh to converse with Sr. Lucia in her native Portuguese, was Father Manuel Rocha, who later revealed that Walsh had asked explicitly about the United States of America, adding: “And does that mean the United States of America, too?” Whereupon Sister Lucia responded once more: “Yes.”
That is to say, the seer of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, which have been approved by the Catholic Church, predicted that the United States, under certain conditions, would also be overcome by communism.
Dr. Hickson notes that in 1946, Lucia’s response might have sounded somewhat unrealistic, given that it was just after the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War.
But today we see revolutionary riots in many American cities.
To appreciate how much communism has affected and, some might say, overcome America, requires an appreciation for communism itself and its goals.
Communism is thought mainly to be an economic system competing with capitalism. However, when we really comprehend communism, the spread of Russia’s errors becomes recognizable.
The Naked Communist is the most concise and straightforward source outlining communist goals and ideology. It was written in 1962 by W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI agent who used many original sources and the best intelligence of the FBI during its investigation of communist infiltration into the United States. He published in the book a list of 45 “current communist goals” that was also recorded in the Congressional Record in 1963. President Ronald Reagan commented on Skousen, saying: “No one is better qualified to discuss the threat to this nation from communism.”
A selection of the goals of communism listed by Skousen serve to illustrate its spread to all nations, especially America. You can find the full list in the Congressional Record (see Appendix, pp. A34–A35 of the House of Representatives of January 10, 1963).
Here are just a few of those goals:
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States
Get control of the schools
Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda
Soften the curriculum
Get control of teachers’ associations
Put the party line in textbooks
At LifeSite last year, we reported on the case of Rebecca Friedrichs, who spent 28 years teaching in California public schools and was the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a 2016 Supreme Court case concerning forced union dues. She detailed how the California Teachers’ Association (CTA) and the National Education Association (NEA), which advocate and donate heavily to a wide range of left-wing causes including abortion and transgenderism, work with far-left groups such as the Women’s March, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) to “push a radical sexual agenda onto our kids and to punish teachers, parents and students who dare to speak out against it.”
Friedrichs cites the case of Judy Bruns, a Christian teacher in Ohio who took the opportunity at an NEA representative meeting to ask whether the phrase “reproductive freedom” in the group’s resolutions included support for abortion up to delivery and/or partial-birth abortions. Bruns was “mocked and shunned” by the Ohio Education Association’s leaders but got the answer: “We have no restrictions (or limitations).”
Friedrichs also quoted a former teacher and executive director of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI), who she said did some detailed research showing nearly $800,000 of roughly $1 million in donations by the NEA to a 2014 PAC was directed to Planned Parenthood.
The Communist Goals also include:
Gain control of all student newspapers
Infiltrate the press
Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures
The whole reason we started LifeSiteNews nearly 25 years ago is that it seemed that almost all the mainstream media had a left-wing, anti-life, and anti-family bias. That situation has only gotten worse. Without Fox News, there wouldn’t be a mainstream conservative television media outlet at all in America.
The Communist Goals continue:
Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression
An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
How of us have gone to parks and museums only to be disgusted or at least confused by the ugliness of the so-called art — which, it often seems, our 3-year-old children could do a better job with.
But oh, if you were to breathe such a thought, you’d be labeled a Neanderthal and wholly unsophisticated for not seeing the “deep art” at play.
Other communist goals include:
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV
Check, check. Been there, done that. We’re teaching pole-dancing to children now, and the majority of movies today would have been considered pornographic years ago.
Here is another goal of communism:
Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy”
We’ve gone so far in this direction that we’ve made counseling for those wishing to leave the homosexual lifestyle illegal!
And another goal:
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion
There can be no more obvious implementation of this than what has been seen in the Catholic Church in the USA over the last half-century.
Listen to these other communist goals:
Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch”
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state”
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity, masturbation, and easy divorce
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute “prejudices, mental blocks, and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents”
Infiltrate and gain control of more unions
Infiltrate and gain control of big business
There is so much here to unpack, but I wanted to draw attention to a couple of items that are particularly striking, given the mayhem we’re experiencing in America today. Listen to these two goals:
Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems
Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies
Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
And those two items together are what we’ve witnessed since the riots began with the excuse of the tragic death of George Floyd.
President Trump recently described the situation in America in an eye-opening manner, which exemplifies just how far these communist ideals have entered America, even with the collusion of state governors and mayors.
“They’re actually talking about not having a police force. Well, that’s not happening,” Trump said.
Believe it or not, while all this was going down, six city blocks were seized in Seattle, and a police station was forced to be abandoned. Leftist Governor Jay Inslee of Washington claimed he knew nothing about it.
So it definitely seems as though Our Lady of Fatima’s prophecy of the spreading of Russia’s errors — even in the United States — has come true. But we know that the solution Heaven proposed was the Consecration of Russia and also that that day is coming because she herself said it would be done. After that consecration comes, a never before experienced period of peace will happen. So there is hope in the not too distant future for peace, even though there may well be some tough times to go before we get there.
Here is a full list of the communist goals taken from Skousen’s “The Naked Communist”
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.” 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.” 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.” 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.” 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” (Remember these goals were published to expose them in 1958) Coincidence? 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.” 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems. 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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