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At last we know why the corporate world has fallen in love with pretend woman Dylan Mulvaney. As I noted Thursday, he seems to be everywhere all at once, and it seems unlikely that corporate giants are suddenly so taken with Dylan’s charm and wit that they are spontaneously all at once falling over themselves to make him their pitchman. But now we know why there is this sudden imperative to make this man America’s sweetheart: corporations are being strong-armed into featuring him, or else. The New York Post reported Friday that “executives at companies like Nike, Anheuser-Busch and Kate...

When we were children my mother would bring me and my sister to our local library every Saturday. We were allowed to take out two books of our own choosing (usually The Baby-sitters Club which my mother thought was cute, or one of the Sweet Valley High series, which she said was trash) and then the third book had to be what she deemed a classic: The Secret Garden, Tom’s Midnight Garden, A Little Princess and so on. When I turned 12 she took me down the steps from the children’s section of the library to the adult section and...

Citing violence against women's rights activist Riley Gaines, members of a University of Wyoming sorority on Friday asked a federal judge to reconsider their request for anonymity in a lawsuit against the sorority for admitting a transgender woman. The landscape around transgender-related issues grows more violent each day, the women said in their renewed request to proceed anonymously, which they filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming. The seven female members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority on March 27 sued the sorority and its transgender inductee Artemis Langford. Their lawsuit complaint said that the sorority violated its...

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school´s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.

Despite the immoral rot that has set into our society, there was one area of popular culture that was long considered a relative haven for conservatives. Country music, with much of its emphasis on God, family and hard work, has been seen as a safe harbor amid the explicit wickedness that now dominates most of American entertainment. Unfortunately, the CMT Music Awards on Sunday night suggest those days might be over. Singer Kelsea Ballerini’s performance of “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too)” featured drag queens as backup dancers amid LGBT “pride” rainbow lights. This was apparently a...

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s latest trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse promoted gender affirmation and child mutilation with a “Protect Trans Kids” flag prominently displayed. At the 2:03 mark of the trailer, Gwen Stacy’s Spider-Gwen appears to be sitting in her room contemplating losing her friend, Miles Morales. In her room above her door is a “Transgender Flag” that reads “Protect Trans Kids.” This flag is a symbol of “gender affirmation” and surgical procedures done to affirm an individual’s misguided belief that they are the opposite sex from what they were born. Bishop Michael Burbidge instructs the faith in his A...

U.S. — In a match made in heaven, a beverage that tries to pass itself as beer has hired as its spokesperson a man trying to pass himself off as a woman. "For decades, we've been putting carbonated backwash in a beer can and pretending it's beer," said Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth. "Who better to represent our brand than a guy throwing on a dress and pretending he's a woman?" Long a staple drink of people who hate actual beer, Bud Light felt putting Dylan Mulvaney's face on a can would also attract people who hate actual women. "As a...

Far-left Antifa activists used paint and oil to vandalize two Catholic churches and a premises belonging to pro-life group Christian Democrats for Life.MUNICH (LifeSiteNews) — A group of Antifa activists has vandalized two Catholic churches in Munich after members of the churches supported the local March for Life. Before the March for Life in Munich on March 25, 2023, a group of leftist activists sprayed bitumen [sticky, black form of petroleum], varnish, and paint on the outside of the two Catholic churches and the “Hansahaus,” the meeting place of the pro-life group “Christian Democrats for Life” (CDL). One of the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TND) — A teenager who plays the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) at a high competitive level was reportedly disqualified from a tournament after he laughed when an official asked for his pronouns. Makani Tran was out $800, a couple of flights and missed school time after he offended a nonbinary Pokémon TCG judge, cutting his tournament run prematurely short "for a bizarre reason," according to Dexerto. The teenager says in a Twitlonger post that he never meant to offend anyone and was close to tears when he was disqualified. The Charlotte-based tournament was livestreaming the TCG matches...

I wrote recently about Canada’s state broadcaster airing a program in which they introduced drag queens to nervous and awkward-looking children for the purpose of indoctrination — normalizing queer and transgender culture. That show was only one of scores of current examples that I could cite, including the inaugural episode of “Sharing Spaces” in which Daniel Radcliffe, presumably still attempting to escape his Harry Potter past since J.K. Rowling became a culture warrior fighting the transgender movement, grovels before a group of “transgender” and “non-binary” youth and begs them to help him understand.But the Dutch TV show “Gewoon Bloot” —...

From hateful rants on Fox news to falsehoods in Congress, the far right is exploiting the Nashville shooting, experts warn An already vigorous assault by Republicans on LGBTQ+ rights around the US is certain to gather pace in the wake of the Nashville school shooting, advocacy groups are warning. Hard-right figures wasted little time in seizing on the reported transgender identity of the Covenant school killer to advance tenets of a “hateful” agenda that has become an obsession of Republican-controlled statehouses from Florida to Tennessee.

Zambia's government has warned the opposition against holding anti-gay rights protests during US Vice-President Kamala Harris’s visit in the country. Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) party plans to hold protests ahead of democracy summit being hosted in the capital, Lusaka. Ms Harris will arrive in the southern Africa country on Friday and is scheduled to make an address at the summit - which is jointly being hosted by Zambia, the US, Costa Rica, Netherlands and South Korea. Some 50 opposition MPs have claimed, without evidence, that the event was part of an agenda to impose gay rights on Zambians. Amnesty International...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal: St Paul Knew "Nothing" About HomosexualityWhen the Church's teaching on homosexuality was “created” [by God] “the concept of homosexuality did not even exist,” Luxembourg's Cardinal Hollerich told the Croatian Glas-koncila.hr (March 27), making a fool out of himself.Croatia is still relatively Catholic. Homosexualists are trying to corrupt such relatively unpolluted areas.According to Hollerich, homosexuality is a "new word" [but an old concept]. He wants his audience to believe that people in St. Paul's time had "no idea" that homosexuality existed, despite the fact that St Paul strongly condemns this vice as do many ancient philosophers.Hollerich believes that...

Michel Santier's "strip-confessions", too much for the Church? The former bishop of Créteil has admitted to having asked young men in the 1990s to strip for every sin they confessed to. If he was sanctioned in 2021, believers are now outraged by the silence that surrounded this decision. Last October, the Trombinoscope des évêques, co-authored by the author of these lines, was published, revealing the particular confessions of Michel Santier, Bishop Emeritus of Créteil (2007-2021), in the 1990s. In mid-October, the weekly Christian Family revealed the canonical sanctions taken against this clergyman in October 2021, in the greatest secrecy, causing...

Dear marriage supporter, Yesterday, Ben Bradshaw MP’s ‘ten minute rule motion’ aimed at forcing the Church of England to conduct same-sex marriages was passed by the House of Commons without a vote. The motion does not change the law. But it sends a message that some politicians are becoming increasingly willing to compel acceptance of same-sex marriage on those who disagree. The motion asked that “leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable clergy of the Church of England to conduct same-sex marriages on Church of England premises”. The slippery wording makes it sound like a choice, but...

Cardinal McElroy criticizes EWTN, says San Diego Diocese won't publish contentSan Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy sharply criticized the Eternal Word Television Network, the conservative Catholic U.S. media conglomerate, in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published on March 24. Vida Nueva asked McElroy about the decision of newly installed Bishop Fernando Prado of San Sebastián, Spain, to ban diocesan television from carrying content produced by EWTN. Prado wrote that he made the decision "trying to support the communion of the diocese with the Successor of Peter.""I would not have EWTN on diocesan media either," McElroy responded."EWTN worries me because...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pointedly invited the west to mind its own business in how his country handles the issue of homosexuality.KAMPALA, Uganda (LifeSiteNews) — The president of Uganda on Thursday pushed back against the global promotion of the LGBT agenda by western nations, saying the west “should stop wasting the time of humanity by imposing their social practices on us.” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni made the remarks during an address to parliament, in which he strayed from expected talking points to address the cultural imperialism of the LGBT-promoting west. “The western countries should stop wasting the time of humanity...

The White House is warning that a proposed Ugandan bill that would outlaw identifying as LGBTQ+ could threaten US aid to the African country. John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications for the National Security Council, said Wednesday that if the law passes, the Biden Administration would consider potential "repercussions...perhaps in an economic way." "This would be really unfortunate because so much of the economic assistance we provide Uganda is health assistance," Kirby said at a press briefing. "Hopefully it won't pass and we won't have to do anything." The United States provides more than $950 million in aid to Uganda...

A Belgian bishop maintains that they bless homosexual couples with the approval of the PopeThe Italian journalist, Luisella Scrosati, tells it in the newspaper La Brújula Cotidiana following a speech by the Archbishop of Antwerp, Monsignor Johan Bonny, at the last German Synodal Assembly.In a day full of interventions of a minute and a half each, Archbishop Bonny was able to benefit from no less than eight minutes, to tell how the Belgian bishops have officially introduced the blessings of homosexual couples in their dioceses, as we have already reported in this medium . .Archbishop Bonny explained in his speech...

[Catholic Caucus] Disconcerting quotations from Bishop Heiner WilmerThe bishop of Hildesheim, Germany, who may still be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently published a letter stating that “it has become clear that we need significant changes in sexual morality in the Catholic Church.”Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in succession to Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, SJ. Bishop Wilmer’s statements on a number of...