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A Wyoming school district is being sued by the parents of a teenage girl after they allegedly allowed her to self-identify as a boy without their knowledge. Sean and Ashley Willey, of Rock Springs, are the parents of a teenage daughter who identified as a boy during her freshman year of high school. The Willey's lawsuit, filed in April, alleges how school district staff used a male name and pronouns for their child without informing them for a period of six months during 2021 and 2022. The Willeys, who are both teachers, only discovered the school district's actions when Mrs...

As North Point Community Church pastor Andy Stanley continues to be embroiled in a series of controversies featuring the revelation of widespread LGBTQ-affirming pastors, church leaders, and sentiment within their churches (see endnotes), Stanley is going through a sermon series where he outlines the fundamentals of the faith that must be believed to be a Jesus follower. In the seventh installment of this eight-part series, Stanley defends his ‘Fundamental List.’ He compares it to the Apostles Creed, acknowledging that while the Creed may be more ‘theologically robust,’ it was also formulated when the church was sanctioning activities that were ‘unchristlike.’...

A Lutheran pastor announced on Facebook that he was going to be preaching “AGAINST the text” that contains the Great Commission, declaring that he’s doing so “in solidarity with the millions around the world who have been the targets of this non-reciprocal and colonial discipline.” Clint Schnekloth is the impastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Lafayette, AR, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) church that promotes the full inclusion of LGBTQ folks and Queer Camps for children. Claiming to have common cause with Episcopalians and “Unitarian Universalists,” the church is committed to “offering open space for doubts and...

When the initial protests started in France over the death of “French George Floyd” Nahel M, a 17-year-old Muslim killed by police, corporate media was all over it. But in recent days as the protests turned into riots, then full-blown insurrection (the real kind, not the J6 false version), corporate media suddenly has many other things to cover. What happened? It’s obvious. Open borders and forced multiculturalism have been exposed for their inevitable outcomes and American corporate media doesn’t want us to see what’s in our future. Here are a few videos detailing the carnage. Keep in mind, I have...

Arkansas-based minister Mike Keller, who is associated with the Duggar family, is currently in the hot seat. This follows the emergence of clips on the internet showing him delivering a wild, wild sermon that is illogical and ignorant at best and steeped in racism at worst. Keller is the father of Anna Duggar and the father-in-law of convicted pedophile Josh Duggar, who is currently serving a 12.5-year sentence for possessing CSAM. Showing his poor judgment, Keller previously penned a letter to the judge, pleading for leniency towards Duggar. He described him as “very gentle, kind and polite to everyone” and...

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For years, Focus on the Family has promoted the teaching that Christian wives are obligated to give their husbands sex. Now, they seem to be reversing course—while also deleting references to the researcher that first exposed the harm of so-called “obligation sex.” Author and researcher Sheila Wray Gregoire had previously called out Focus on the Family (FOTF) for promoting obligation sex. Gregoire’s survey of 20,000 evangelical women and 2021 book, “The Great Sex Rescue,” concluded that Christian teachings requiring women to have sex with their husbands, regardless of women’s emotional and physical needs, increase sexual pain and harm marriages. On...

A Brooklyn brute landed himself in the doghouse Friday after cops found the owner’s helpless pooch dangling from a fifth-floor banister, law enforcement sources said. Cops collared sicko Shatik Bennett, 26, at his East Flatbush apartment just before 6 a.m. when the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad found the helpless adult pit bull, Romeo, swinging from the elevated railing by a leash that was attached to a collar. Bennett was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after a tipster alerted cops that Bennett was allegedly abusing Romeo to make him “tough,” sources said. “The dog is a sweetheart. Once we...

The border crisis has raised concerns. A large majority of Americans view human trafficking in the U.S. as a significant issue, a new survey has found, as concerns rise about the increasing number of people prosecuted for the crime nationwide. About 80% of voters in the U.S. believe human trafficking is a “major problem” in the country and that not enough is being done to address it, according to a June national poll from the Convention of States Action and the Trafalgar Group. Only 5.7% of people said human trafficking is not a major problem and that they think enough...

President Biden is bringing his embattled son, Hunter Biden, with him to Camp David for the second weekend in a row, defying aides who’ve warned him of potential political fallout from being seen too often with the alleged tax cheat. White House pool reporters spotted the 53-year-old first son on Friday climbing into the presidential SUV as it departed the White House enroute to Fort McNair, where the presidential travel party will helicopter over to Camp David in Maryland. NBC News reported on Wednesday that the president has refused to listen to political advice from his closest aides on limiting...

Two news directors at a Michigan NBC affiliate were ousted on Thursday following the circulation of an internal memo calling for scaled-back coverage of Pride Month events and directing the station’s journalists to “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. The email, sent earlier this month by Stanton Tang, news director of Grand Rapids-based WOOD-TV, and Amy Fox, the station’s assistant news director, said the “polarizing” nature of Pride events had upset some of its conservative viewers, CNN previously reported. “We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are...

Since the release of tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to permeate industries worldwide, transforming the way we work and live.To gain insight into this rapidly evolving landscape, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu and Sabrina Lam - using data from MSCI - has ranked U.S. industries by their estimated share of employment that could be exposed to AI-driven automation.Data and HighlightsThis analysis comes from a March 2023 report published by Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research. The authors estimated automation exposure for over 900 U.S. jobs using the O*NET occupational database, which provides details on the types of tasks each...

Over the past few years, the transgender movement has pushed its way into every nook and cranny of American culture, and major institutions and authorities have tried to force all people to go along with it. But now, the tide is turning.It started quietly, with biological science and objective reality being given a backseat to internal feelings and chosen identity. To become a member of the opposite sex, all one needs to do is declare it to be so and others will be forced to acknowledge it is so.Next came the reengineering of language. The word “sex,” which defines a...

In his newest Twitter monologue, Tucker Carlson forcuses on Biden Assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine, who has risen to a high-ranking position in government and became a trans woman later in life. Tucker points out that we are forced to accept this person’s delusions or accept the consequences. He also notes that Levine’s personal journey was partially about obtaining power. The Daily Caller has details: Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson mocked Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health in President Joe Biden’s administration, in Friday’s episode of “Tucker on Twitter.” Carlson called out Levine, who was born Richard “Rick” Levine,...

If LA County’s homeless population were its own city, it would be the 124th largest city in the entire state. Every year the city does a homeless count designed to help keep track of whether the problem is getting better or worse. This year, despite a flood of money directly at programs, the news was pretty bad.Unsheltered homelessness — which refers to people living outdoors in vehicles, tents and makeshift shelters like propped-up tarps — is up 40% over the past five years, rising to 55,155 people countywide…When including people in shelters in the tally, the count found that 75,518...

Here’s an interesting story that might make you think – especially if you’re an advocate for Second Amendment rights and gun ownership. This case highlights an incident in which a man was forced to use a firearm to defend himself and his property. But the way the incident played out is instructive in that it gives us a chance to consider how we might react in a similar situation.A La Puebla resident earlier this week apprehended a suspected burglar who was attempting to steal his tools, holding him at gunpoint after a brief struggle until law enforcement arrived. The alleged...

I know it’s customary to say, “I hate to say ‘I told you so.’” But I don’t hate it, so I’m just going to say it: I told you so.Last week, I wrote an article titled “What’s the Big Deal about RFK Jr?” The main thrust of the piece was that I did not understand why I was seeing so many libertarians and even conservatives fawning all over Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running to win the Democratic presidential nomination.I still don’t get it. But I do think some are finally starting to realize he may not be the...

“What’s the password?” — it’s a question found in spy stories, but the idea now applies to a plethora of societal situations.For instance, if a male solicits admittance to a female locker room, in many cases, the password is “I am a woman.” But if the submitted words lack adequacy, welcome will elude the seeker.A similar scenario seems to have played out at New York’s St. Lawrence University, where a hopeful student came up calamitously short. Last fall, 22-year-old biological male Fabián “Fa” Guzmán rushed for membership to a ladies-only sorority. Subsequently, the senior was accepted into iconic girl-group Chi...

A Texas biology professor is appealing to be reinstated after being fired following telling students that sex is based on chromosomes. According to a letter from First Liberty Legal Group, released June 20, biology professor Johnson Varkey was fired from St. Philip’s College in San Antonio after four students walked out of his class when Varkey said that sex is determined by chromosomes in November 2023. A January 10 email from Randall Dawson, the Vice President for Academic Success at St. Philip read, “I am sending you notification that Alamo Colleges District Human Resources department is in receipt of an...