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With the news that Andy Stanley’s North Point Community Church has become a cesspool filled with LGBTQ+ affirming pastors, leaders, ministries, guest speakers, and conferences, it’s unsurprising that as more stones are overturned, more deviant theology emerges. One new stone comes in the form of a post by Courtney Fitzgerald wishing everyone “Happy Pride, ya’ll.” The family spent the month of June in Brooklyn, and going to the Pride parade weekend was the “one thing” her young son wanted to do. Who is Fitzgerald? She’s a self-described she/her who also happened to be the assistant to the Lead Pastor at...

A lecturer at LSU has been barred from teaching at the university after he left a profanity-laced voicemail to a Louisiana State Senator who voted in favor of a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for children. Professor Marcus Venable is alleged to have left the angry message on the cellphone of Republican State Senator Mike Fesi after he voted yes on House Bill 648. The bill called the 'Stop Harming Our Kids Act' - bans hormone treatments and puberty-blocking drugs, gender-affirming surgeries and other related care for anyone under the age of 18. Fesi justified his position based on the anecdotes...

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Cycling has become the latest sport to ban transgender women from competing in the female category at international events. The UCI, cycling’s world governing body, announced the rule change on Friday ‘to protect the female class and ensure equal opportunities’, bringing the sport into line with athletics and swimming and following British Cycling’s own policy change in May. Under the UCI’s old guidelines, transgender women could compete in female races if they had lowered their testosterone level to 2.5 nanomoles per litre. That policy came under scrutiny in May when American Austin Killips won the Tour of the Gila to...

Ron DeSantis wants the state's pension fund to investigate Bud Light-makers AB InBev and possibly explore a lawsuit for putting social activism ahead of shareholders during its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. The Florida Governor, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, sent a letter to the fund's interim director Lamar Taylor, where he said that 'all options are on the table after partnering with the transgender influencer caused Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, a $27 billion loss. 'We must prudently manage the funds of Florida's hardworking law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and first responders in a manner that focuses on growing returns,...

Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine has claimed children can go through 'the wrong puberty.' Levine, 65, endorsed providing gender-affirming care to minors, arguing that the treatment options are 'evidence-based.' 'The treatment options for gender-affirming care for transgender youth really are evidence-based,' Levine said. She had been asked about the possibility of keeping transgender youth from seeking body-altering treatment until at least the age of 18. Levine has previously said so-called gender-affirming care for minors has the 'highest support' from the Biden administration. Levine is the highest ranking openly transgender federal official in the country and was made a...

A Milwaukee mother charged with child neglect and imprisonment locked her children in their bedroom so they wouldn't wander off due to 'their autism', a criminal complaint has revealed. Her boyfriend also boarded up the kid's windows so that they wouldn't bother their 'nosey neighbor', the document states. Katie Koch, 34, and lover Joel Manke, 38, were both arrested after her children escaped from their 'horror movie' home on July 13. The boys, aged seven and nine, smashed a window and escaped naked and bloody where neighbors found them in the street. In a tragic sight the children's boarded up...

Four people, including children, are dead in what has been reported as a triple-murder suicide following an hours-long standoff with the police in a small town in Oklahoma. The incident took place Friday in the town of Verdigris, a town of just over 5,000 people about 20 miles east of Tulsa. The four were found dead on Thursday evening in an area near Cypress Street and Dogwood Court, according to the Rogers County Sheriff's Department. The Oklahoma State Bureau Investigation has taken over the investigation, which 2 News Oklahoma reports is a triple-murder suicide following a standoff of over two...

Republicans immediately began lashing out at President Biden Thursday following the release of an unclassified FBI document detailing his alleged involvement in an international bribery scheme, with a number rallying for his impeachment. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released the FD-1023 form earlier in the day which detailed how Biden, along with his son, Hunter Biden, allegedly "coerced" Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to pay them millions of dollars in exchange for their help in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company fired. "Most corrupt family to ever live in the White House! Impeach!" Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., wrote on Twitter, while...

The documents, previously submitted by Moderna to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as part of the licensing process for Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine, included details on unexplained deaths and fetal abnormalities in animal studies. A 13,685-page tranche of documents related to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials released Tuesday contain details about the deaths of 16 trial participants, the prevalence of severe adverse events (SAEs) and other abnormalities. The documents, previously submitted by Moderna to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of the licensing process for Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine, also exposed an “utter lack of thoroughness”...

DeSantis campaign officials tell NBC News that there be a shift to less of a Florida focus, more lean events and an insurgent approach. Expect fewer big speeches and more handshaking in diners and churches. There will be more of a national focus than constant Florida references. Campaign filings show that the DeSantis campaign needs to figure out how to bring in more money and spend less. It fired roughly a dozen staffers last week. Donors and allies are pressing for a change. The poll numbers are stagnant. And rival GOP presidential candidates are smelling blood in the water. “Downright...

Children’s Hospital Colorado has stopped performing sex change surgeries on patients over 18, but will still assist with referrals,... Hospital spokeswoman Rachael Fowler reportedly said they never performed sex change surgeries on patients younger than 18, but patients can still receive puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones at the facility, ... A Denver woman was reportedly hoping her child, who identifies as a boy, would be able to get a mastectomy before going to college, ... “I think he’s going to be very disappointed,” she said. “He was so looking forward to this.” The hospital has also scrubbed its website of...

America’s increasing reliance on intermittent power sources and batteries is creating novel risks, according to grid specialists who testified before Congress on July 18.Many of the greatest among them emanate from a key geopolitical rival, China.That’s partly because the new technologies frequently use inverters. When solar panels, wind turbines, and battery systems generate or store direct current electricity, inverters turn it into the alternating current electricity that flows through the grid.Paul N. Stockton, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, opened what he called a “rabbit hole” in response to a question on inverters during the House...

YO! Another one bites the dust.Vattenfall will stop the development of a major wind project in the UK after a surge in costs.The Swedish utility said a wind farm planned in the North Sea, which would provide power for 1.5 million UK homes, is no longer viable after costs for the technology soared 40%. https://t.co/vtMeMhg9xc— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) July 20, 2023This announcement is an especially bitter blow considering the Brits have basically sold their souls to the wind lobby and climate cult. Foolishly, they’ve put the climate cart before the horse by stripping their reliable fossil fuels, coal and nuclear...

In 2021, the median salary for Americans 25 to 34 was $52,156 per year. Meanwhile, the cost of the average wedding was around $30,000. What’s wrong with this picture?You have young couples getting together, struggling to pay their bills, maybe with college debt to pay off, probably getting ready to work on a kid – which we all know is insanely expensive these days – and they’re going to spend $30,000+ on a one-day ceremony. Let’s also not forget that a man is supposed to spend a “two-month salary” on an engagement ring. That’s another $8,692 of that median salary....

Starting a patient-controlled epidural anesthesia (PCEA) infusion while the patient is still in the operating room (OR)—rather than in the recovery room after the procedure—may help provide better pain control, suggests research. An epidural involves placing a tiny tube called a catheter in the patient's back to deliver pain medication. An epidural may be used during surgery or after surgery, especially for those that may result in a substantial amount of pain. If it is used following a surgery, the patient can self-administer the pain medicine as needed with the push of a button. Several issues can delay the set-up...

The email account of the U.S. ambassador to China was hacked by Chinese hackers on a mission to attack several American and global targets in recent weeks, including another account at the State Department, according to reports.China-based hackers breached the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns as part of a recent targeted intelligence-gathering campaign, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.The hackers also accessed the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of State for East Asia, who recently traveled with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China, the people said.The State Department did...

Republican Reps. Chip Roy (TX) and Warren Davidson (OH) on Thursday are introducing a bill calling on NATO allies to pay more for Europe’s defense amid billions of U.S. taxpayer funds going to support Ukraine, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. The bill expresses “the sense of the House of Representatives that the majority of NATO member countries have failed to meet their defense spending commitment and that the United States should not continue to subsidize the security of countries that choose not to invest in their own defense.”

Hedge fund investor/entrepreneur and anti-ESG crusader Vivek Ramaswamy entered the top-tier of not-Trump Republican candidates when he was the choice of 12 percent of 800 likely Republican voters in a new poll—the same level of support for Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis—as both men trail President Donald Trump’s 48 percent.The rest of the field came in as follows, when responding to the question, “If the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary were held today, for whom would you vote?” Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, 5 percent; South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former vice president Mike Pence, 5 percent; former South Carolina...

Top Biden spox John Kirby told Fox News host Martha MacCallum that Joe Biden spoke ‘very, very clearly’ when he dropped his head down and mumbled to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Biden held a bilateral meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the Oval Office on Tuesday. It was the first time Biden had been seen publicly in days after he returned from Europe and he was in very bad shape. 80-year-old Joe Biden hunched over and mumbled incoherently during the meeting. “And we brought Israelis and Palestinians together on a political level and they uh – uh – and...