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Sometimes people can take the entire idea of complying with ridiculous government mandates several bridges too far. That appears to have been the case during a recent sporting event held in New Hampshire. A girls' soccer game was scheduled between Plymouth Regional High School and their rival Bow High School. Bow High School was fielding a boy who "identifies" as a girl to compete, but when the Plymouth Regional parents heard about this, they asked the Bow High athletic director to withdraw the boy from the roster. He refused, saying that "his hands were tied" by a federal ruling allowing...

A watchdog group that aims to expose hypocrisy announced Monday that it would donate $1 million to "Queers for Palestine" or any U.S. LGBTQ advocacy organization to host a gay pride parade in Gaza or the West Bank. Anti-Israel groups such as "Queers for Palestine" have surfaced across America since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 6, but homosexuality remains deeply taboo in the Palestinian territories. Gay and transgender people in Gaza and the West Bank face a significant level of persecution and are often subjected to horrific acts. New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) President Gregory T. Angelo, who...

Erin Brewer started identifying as a boy after she was sexually assaulted at the age of 6, which led to feelings of self-loathing that eventually resulted in her turning to pornography before she found peace through God and accepted His unending love. After the assault, Brewer wore her brother’s hand-me-downs and cut her hair short, thinking that if she were a boy, the violation would never have happened. Brewer’s dissociation from her own body often manifested in a strong sense of rage, and she would do things like beat her head with a brush when she saw herself in the...

There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son, so the proverb goes. But this fundamental bond has been tested in a landmark legal battle in London.... The men, referred to as 'X' and 'Y', agreed that she would have contact with the child after it was born.... ...she signed a parental order handing responsibility for the child to the men along with a second order ensuring that she could have regular contact with the child...But the gay couple reneged on that agreement... then pursued a series...

Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the parents of the parents of three children in Colorado. The lawsuit involves elementary school children who, with the permission of their parents, went on overnight field trips arranged by the school. The Jefferson County Public Schools district told parents that girls would stay on one floor of a hotel while boys were on another. But the students and their parents discovered too late that wasn't the case.For school trips, JeffCo tells parents that “girls will be roomed together on one floor and boys will be roomed together on a...

A Christian school in Vermont is appealing a judge's decision to uphold its ban from sporting activities because its girl's basketball team forfeited a game against a team that had a biological male on its roster. Mid Vermont Christian School filed an appeal last week before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as part of its fight to reverse an expulsion issued by the Vermont Principals' Association."To justify its expulsion decision, the VPA invoked discretionary policies applied on a 'case-by-case basis' and subject to individualized exceptions," stated the appeal's introduction."And though the VPA penalized Mid Vermont, it lets other...

An appeals court panel has ruled that Florida can enforce a state law prohibiting doctors from performing cosmetic sex change surgeries or prescribing puberty blockers to minors younger than 18.In a 2-1 ruling issued Monday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit decided to allow a Florida law passed in May 2023 to take effect as litigation continues.The majority concluded that they “believe the defendants have made a strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits,” reversing a lower court decision against the law.The panel majority rejected the claim that...

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has gotten Lowe's, Tractor Supply, Jack Daniel's, and John Deere to retreat from identity-based employee policies and donations to left-wing activism. Hardware retail chain Lowe’s is the latest major brand to announce a retreat from “woke” policies, again driven by pressure from conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck. Starbuck announced Monday on X that he had notified Lowe’s that he was planning another of his now-trademark exposés against the company’s left-wing corporate policies, to which Lowe’s responded by announcing multiple changes to those policies. Specifically, the company will stop participating in the Corporate Equality Index social credit system...

A nuclear policy expert appointed to the Department of Energy under the Biden administration in February 2024 previously co-authored an article entitled "queering nuclear weapons" which argued "queer theory" should be used to inform American nuclear policy. Sneha Nair works as a special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency responsible for maintaining the safety and security of America's extensive arsenal of nuclear weapons. On Wednesday Beijing said it was "seriously concerned" after President Biden updated America's Nuclear Employment Guidance to focus on the threat from China, according to The New York Times. Nair co-authored a piece titled...

As a former restaurant critic, I don’t get to go to dinner on assignment much anymore. But last week, I spent a grueling few hours in the private back room of a restaurant in North Beach, listening to a crowd gnash their teeth about “parental rights,” and the Trans Conspiracy to Destroy the American Family, while noshing on very dry garlic bread. Hosted by the San Francisco Republican Party, the event was billed by the group’s chairman John Dennis as “a reasonable conversation for parents who have concerns.” Speakers included Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a Bay Area-based former social worker and a...

“Never again” wasn’t supposed to be just some throw-away virtue-signaling statement, but a sobering and intentional commitment to ensuring that the human experimentation, and crimes against humanity seen under the authority of the Third Reich, never again had to be written about in history books—but apparently only *some* of us got the memo. This week, the Manhattan Institute released a new report that detailed some very sickening findings: “Trans” surgeries are being performed on children under the age of 12, with hundreds of little girls already sacrificed on the agenda’s altar. . From a Fox News item by Melissa Rudy...

𝕏-Muslim @Thexmuslim Queers for Palestine is upset because a Muslim crowd was hostile and made anti-LGBT statements to a Queer speaker at a pro-Palestine protest. These people don't even know what they are fighting for.

[Catholic Caucus] Faithful Catholics protest Fr. James Martin’s LGBT conference endorsed by Pope Francis‘Faithful Catholics must resist the rainbow revolution inside the Church and boldly uphold Church teaching,’ TFP’s John Ritchie said.The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property protest a pro-LGBT conference led by the dissident Father James Martin, S.J. at Georgetown University.The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) on Saturday held a rally of reparation and protest against a recent pro-LGBT conference led by the dissident Father James Martin, S.J. at Georgetown University.“With rosaries in hand, standing shoulder to shoulder,...

Harvard University will be offering a course examining medieval texts by using “queer theory.”Harvard’s English department will be featuring a “Queer/Medieval” class in the upcoming spring 2025 semester. The course will be an “introduction to queer theory as an intellectual tool with which to read texts far removed from the political, cultural, and social discourses from which queer theory emerged,” specifically, in this case, medieval texts. “We will ask: what can queer theory offer readers of medieval literature in its explorations of gender, sexuality, race, power, narrative, trauma, and time?” the course description states.The course will use the lens of...

This is Part 2 of a multi-part investigative series.Part 1 investigated the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)'s trail of government grants, leading to SMYAL's taxpayer-funded LGBTQ youth program aimed at influencing kids as young as six-years-old to identify as "transgender." This sequel follows the next (un)natural step in childhood "gender-transitioning," providing a raw and intimately close peek under the hood of pediatric "gender care." Meet the physicians who practice it, the parents who willfully sacrifice their children on the altar of gender ideology, and the activists who marshal them there.WASHINGTON, DC — Pro tip: When medically mutilating your young...

"This is France!" France unveiled a decidedly family-unfriendly spectacle last Saturday for over 28.6 million viewers worldwide as the four-hour opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, which unfolded along a 4.5 mile stretch of the River Seine in Paris, turned into the world’s most-watched Pride Parade.Because Western cultural elites today are overwhelmingly cultural Marxists, the organizers of the 2800-year-old athletic competition decided to jettison any connection with sports, athletic excellence, or national pride, and instead promote the normalization of sexual perversion, gender ideology, and anti-Christian bigotry.As always with Pride parades, the celebration of sexual libertinism, masked as “love” and “tolerance,”...

Golden calf, Antichrist, sexual promiscuity alarm viewers Christians expressed offense at the debauchery celebrated during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris that showed a ménage à trois and a depiction of The Last Supper with drag queens as Jesus’ disciples, among other symbols that rankled viewers.One performance at the ceremonies that caused significant offense Friday afternoon was a depiction of Leonardo da Vinci’s "The Last Supper" that portrays Jesus' last meal with his disciples before his betrayal, arrest and crucifixion.The song “King” was played as a woman wearing a crown was depicted as Jesus surrounded by...

The 2024 Olympics in France opened Friday with a controversial ceremony featuring drag queens and what many described as homages to satanic symbolism, igniting a firestorm of negative reactions on Twitter. “This is crazy,” podcast host Clint Russell said in a tweet. “There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate NOT WELCOME.” The infamous re-creation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper began with a woman in a blue dress and crown, making a heart sign with her hands in front of a DJ deck,...