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It's a misrepresentation of Anderson's views, which is a disservice not only to him but to Boorstein's readers, who deserve accurate information.Michelle Boorstein made a simple mistake. Boorstein, a religion reporter for the Jeff Bezos-backed Washington Post, tweeted, “Some religious objectors to the Equality Act say the issue isn’t exemptions — it’s that LGBT equality is akin to ‘what gave us the Holocaust,’ a concept that humans are trying to overrule God.” She was partially quoting from a lecture Ryan Anderson gave in 2016. Boorstein’s attempt to paraphrase Anderson conveyed a verifiably false representation of his position on the legislation,...

On Thursday, Attorney General Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) warned Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that his office is considering legal action after the company removed a conservative book from its inventory. In 2018, Ryan T. Anderson — now the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) — published When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, a scholarly and scientifically-informed warning against the transgender movement. The book disappeared from Amazon shortly before the House of Representatives voted to pass the pro-transgender Equality Act. “I will be watching closely and with interest how Amazon continues down this path of censorship...

People like me have gone years feeling alone and ignored by the popular discussion of gender identity. Backed by science, Ryan gives us hope and understanding. In July 2017, I took a risk and submitted an article to a publication that I respected and read frequently, hoping to provide conservatives a perspective they may not have viewed before. I wanted to address why suicide was so high among transgender people and ask questions about transition I hadn’t seen asked by mainstream LGBT sources. I wanted to present my voice as a person who experienced gender dysphoria, pursued transition, then later...

Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally was removed from Amazon’s cyber shelves Sunday, three years after the controversial best-seller was published on February 20, 2018. Anderson told Newsweek that he discovered that his book had vanished from Amazon—as well as the company’s e-reader Kindle, podcast service Audible and used-book sellers—when someone looking to buy a copy informed the author. He said that neither he nor his publisher were notified by Amazon. In 2018, the book hit No. 1 on two of Amazon’s best-seller list before it was even released, but sparked controversy for arguing that society’s growing acceptance of transgender...

Amazon pulled a bestseller on transgender issues from its online store on Sunday without explanation. Author Ryan T. Anderson tweeted on Sunday that his book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, had been removed. At the time of writing, the book was not available on Amazon either in physical form, as an e-book, or as an audiobook, although Anderson’s four other books remain up. Amazon’s crackdown on conservative content mirrors a trend many on the right see in other major tech companies. Criticism of big tech has spiked since Facebook and Twitter removed President Donald Trump following...

Is the debate about marriage over after the Supreme Court’s June decision to redefine marriage in all fifty states? That’s what some Amazon.com reviewers are insisting after a new book was released last week. The book, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,” is a roadmap from Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on how the conservative movement can move forward in promoting marriage and protecting religious freedom after the Supreme Court’s ruling. “I wrote this book for all Americans. For those who disagree with me, to at least understand the viewpoint of roughly...

The Heritage Foundation's Ryan Anderson (with whom I happen to disagree on same-sex marriage) appeared on Ed Schultz's MSNBC program (cough) last night to discuss Indiana's religious freedom law, and the resulting conversation culminated with the host instructing producers to silence Anderson's microphone. End of Discussion: Schultz advances one false or misleading narrative after another, then loses his composure when Anderson (or "Mr. Ryan," as Schultz calls him at one point) replies with rapid-fire factual corrections. Schultz interrupts Anderson's first answer almost immediately to contest the statement that Indiana's law is effectively the same as other RFRAs, including the federal...

3/25/13 - On Monday, a debate on CNN over the issues headed to the Supreme Court this week relating to the constitutionality of prohibitions on same-sex marriage and the right of same-sex couples to receive the same federal benefits as straight couples exploded. Heritage Foundation scholar Ryan Anderson got into a heated and tense exchange with CNN anchor Don Lemon after he asserted that there are no laws currently on the books that make gay marriage "illegal." Lemon resented Anderson's assertion, calling it "absurd." "Just to clarify, the issue here is not legality," Anderson began, "so, in all 50 states,...

... She's been communicating with Michael Curtis Reynolds on the Web. He's like a great novel Rossmiller can't put down.Mastermind, narcissistic sociopath, Rossmiller pegs Reynolds, a Wilkes-Barre man who is writing in English on the all-Arabic Osama bin Laden Crew Web site. Guys like him creep me out."The plan is [to] recall ... [U.S.] troops home [from Iraq] as well as firing their boss," Reynolds writes. "Interested?"It's November 2005, and Reynolds seems to want to crash the U.S. government and end the Iraq war. He's asking al-Qaeda for money and personnel.Oh, dear G-d, please just let him be a blowhole...

Michael Curtis Reynolds, the Wilkes-Barre drifter who is looking for al-Qaeda funding to help him blow up the trans-Alaska and transcontinental pipelines, is now on Shannen Rossmiller's radar.Conspicuous as a barroom braggart, Reynolds is writing boldly - and in English - in the all-Arabic Osama bin Laden Crew chat room, making no pretense about his background or his mission: He's an American citizen out to destroy his country.Just like Ryan Anderson, Rossmiller says to herself, recalling another angry American, from 2003. Oh, please don't let him be another one like that. ...Having ensnared Anderson in an exchange of 30 e-mail...

CHARLES GIBSON, ABC NEWS But first, we have an extraordinary update. As you know, we have an occasional series that we call "Take 2" in which we bring you up to date on stories that we've talked about previously. graphics: take 2 CHARLES GIBSON (Off Camera) And this one involves a young National Guardsman who tried to pass military secrets to al Qaeda, or someone he thought was al Qaeda. And it also involves the Montana mom who uncovered him. Last Thursday, a military jury convicted Specialist Ryan Anderson of attempted treason and sentenced him to life in prison. But...

SEATTLE, Sept. 3 - A National Guardsman was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for trying to aid Al Qaeda. The soldier, Specialist Ryan G. Anderson, had been caught in a sting operation offering information on military vulnerabilities to investigators posing as members of the Qaeda terrorist group. Lawyers for Specialist Anderson argued that he suffered from mental disorders, including bipolar disorder and Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism marked by eccentric behavior, as well as from a tendency to create alternate personas in order to make himself feel important, said Jeff Young, spokesman for the Fort Lewis Army...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after his conviction on charges he tried to aid al Qaeda by detailing ways to destroy U.S. weapons and kill soldiers to undercover agents, the Army said. National guardsman Spc. Ryan Anderson, 27, was convicted on all five counts of attempted treason and related charges by nine officers in a court-martial that ended late on Thursday. "He was sentenced to confinement for life with possibility of parole and a dishonorable discharge, with reduction to the rank of private," the Army said in a statement on Friday.

FORT LEWIS — A Washington National Guardsman tearfully asked for mercy and apologized to his country, his fellow soldiers and his family yesterday before a military jury sentenced him to life in prison with eligibility for parole for attempting to give aid and intelligence to the enemy. "I beg you and your families to forgive me," Spc. Ryan G. Anderson said, choking back tears, as he read from a statement. "I'm deeply shaken that what I did could have put your lives in danger. I find comfort in the fact that I was in the hands of investigators." A nine-member...

Military jury convicts soldier of trying to help al-Qaida By MELANTHIA MITCHELL Associated Press Writer FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) -- A National Guardsman accused of trying to give al-Qaida information about U.S. troops, including methods for killing soldiers, was found guilty Thursday on all five counts of trying to help the terrorist network. The verdict in Spc. Ryan G. Anderson's court-martial, which began Monday, was announced late Thursday afternoon. Anderson, a tank crewman whose 81st Armor Brigade unit is now in Iraq, was accused of trying to give terrorists information about U.S. troops' strength and tactics. The terrorists he...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. - A soldier accused of trying to give al-Qaida information about U.S. troops, including methods for killing soldiers, was found guilty Thursday on all five counts of trying to help the terrorist network. The verdict in Spc. Ryan G. Anderson's court-martial, which began Monday, was announced late Thursday afternoon. Anderson, a tank crewman whose 81st Armor Brigade unit is now in Iraq, was accused of trying to give terrorists information about U.S. soldiers' strength and tactics. The terrorists he though he was meeting with were actually undercover federal agents, prosecutors said. A military spokesman has said the...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. -- A National Guardsman accused of trying to help the al-Qaida terrorist network suffers from bipolar disorder and other mental-health conditions, a civilian psychologist from Madigan Army Medical Center testified Wednesday. "He has been an outsider, a social misfit, most of his life," psychologist Jack Norris said of defendant Spc. Ryan G. Anderson. Norris said he began evaluating Anderson in mid-July, eventually diagnosing him with bipolar disorder, the condition formerly called manic depression. Anderson also had features of two other disorders, narcissism, or egocentrism, and schizotypal, symptoms of which include social discomfort and eccentric behavior, Norris said....

FORT LEWIS, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. Army soldier charged with trying to aid al Qaeda had a mental disorder that drove him to brag to undercover agents about ways to destroy U.S. weapons and kill soldiers, his lawyer said at the opening of his court martial on Monday. Specialist Ryan Anderson was filled with grandiose visions of his own importance that led him to lie and encouraged him to role play, defense attorney Maj. Joseph Morse said in opening remarks in the case that has drawn national attention. "They (prosecutors) want you to believe he was a militant Muslim,...

Soldier says he's liar, not terrorist WSU grad in treason case was just pretending, lawyer says Richard Roesler Staff writer August 31, 2004 FORT LEWIS, Wash. – In the case of Army Spc. Ryan G. Anderson, very few of the players were whom they seemed to be. The "Muslim militant" who exchanged e-mail with Anderson actually was a small-town Montanan whose hobby is trolling for terrorists online. The "al Qaeda members" Anderson met in a Seattle parking lot turned out to be Army counterintelligence agents. Now, as the 27-year-old Washington State University graduate battles charges of attempted treason in a...

US soldier 'tried to pass secrets to al-Qaida' 31/08/2004 - 09:17:30 A National Guardsman betrayed his country and fellow soldiers when he tried to pass military information to undercover agents he believed were al-Qaida terrorists, prosecutors said at the start of his court-martial. Specialist Ryan Anderson, 27, could get life in prison without parole if convicted. Anderson, a Muslim convert, pleaded innocent to five counts of trying to provide the al-Qaida terrorist network with information about US troop strength and tactics, and methods for killing American soldiers. “This is a case about betrayal – betrayal of our country, betrayal of...