Tuesday, October 15, 2024

News and Views: October 15, 2024

The left is ‘funneling money to what look like Christian organizations’ to ‘move Christians on policy’   "36 percent of churches have not taught anything on the civic duty of a Christian to get involved in the political process."

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Pope Francis Takes Time To Meet with Apostate LGBTQ+ Group   Pope Francis met today with a diverse group of transgender, intersex, and ally Catholics, including a medical doctor who provides gender transition care. The group urged Pope Francis to move past the Church’s negative approach to gender-diverse people, and to encourage Church leaders to listen more attentively to the lives and faith of LGBTQ+ people.

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Biden-Harris Admin Paves Way For Bureaucrats To Take Gender-Confused Kids From ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents   “Transphobia is child abuse,” Alex Roque, who runs the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBTQ youth in New York City, asserted on a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) webinar last fall.
   In less than three minutes, he cast a vision for completely transforming child protective systems nationwide. Family rejection of a child’s gender identity cannot be dismissed as a personal view, he argued. Non-affirmation must be treated as abuse. “If they were denying them food or denying them access to school or denying other things, there would be headlines,” Roque continued. “There would be prosecution.”

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New Migrant Caravan Headed North Trying to Beat the Possible Arrival of a Trump Administration   A new migrant caravan of approximately 1,000 migrants departed from Mexico’s southern border this weekend to make its way to Mexico City. From there, the group is expected to disperse and find various ways to reach the U.S. border. The caravan is the second to start in Mexico since October 1, when the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took office.

NYC Residents On Edge As Tren De Aragua Gangsters Terrorize City   Members of the migrant gang are allegedly targeting tourists and other popular New York City destinations, such as Central Park, according to the Post. They frequently post on social media with government-issued phones, brandishing guns and bragging about their exploits.
   Additionally, the packs often use peer pressure on the younger members to commit certain crimes, with punishments for failures, according to the New York Post. The gang recruits younger members with the knowledge they won’t be charged if caught by police.


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‘Do Your Job’: Ernst and Stefanik Demand FBI Investigate Pro-Terror Columbia Student Group  The congressional letter also noted that CUAD recently praised a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv that killed seven Israelis, including a mother who died while shielding her 9-month-old baby. That "bold attack" and "significant act of resistance," the student group wrote in an essay, "serves as a reminder that the struggle is not confined to Gaza or Lebanon."
   Ernst and Stefanik also wrote that, according to an FBI tool, "The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective," CUAD’s threats and history make its most recent statements "a medium-level threat" that often "warrant investigation as a possible criminal offense."

Columbia fundraising falls by nearly 30% following pro-Palestine protests  This decline follows pro-Palestinian protests on campus, with some students calling for the eradication of Western civilization and criticizing Israel's actions.

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'Mystery Drones' Penetrate Restricted U.S. Air Space in Virginia, Pentagon Stumped   Last December, a fleet of a dozen or more drones flew over Langley Air Force Base and Hampton Roads Naval Base in Virginia. For 17 days the drones penetrated U.S. air space with impunity. At times, they apparently dropped smaller drones that would fly slower and occasionally hover. The military also believes that some of the drones might have landed in a public park.

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The Strange, Mythological Campaign of Kamala Harris   Harris is distancing herself from her record, misrepresenting her past, and shifting blame for policy failures onto Donald Trump, creating a disconnect between her actions and campaign messaging (Hanson)

Kamala Harris Accused of Plagiarizing Parts of 2009 Criminal Reform Book  JD Vance responds: “Hi, I’m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.”

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UK University Slaps Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales With Trigger Warning over ‘Expressions of Christian Faith’   According to the paper, supposedly fragile-minded students were warned that the 14th Century Canterbury Tales, which describe a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, contain violence, depictions of mental illness, and “expressions of Christian faith”.

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