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(CNSNews) Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) introduced a bill Thursday banning transgender females – people who were born male – from taking part in women’s sports.

The Protect Women’s Sports Act (H.R. 8932) would clarify Title IX for female athletes based on biological sex and require that only biological females can participate in women’s sports.

“Title IX was a historic provision championed by Hawai‘i’s own Congresswoman Patsy Mink in order to provide equal opportunity for women and girls in high school and college sports. It led to a generational shift that impacted countless women, creating life-changing opportunities for girls and women that never existed before,” Gabbard said in a statement.  (Read More)

(Redoubt News) The World Economic Forum (WEF), through its corporate partnerships, has a plan to indoctrinate every citizen on its Great Reset agenda.  According to the WEF, we must all live sustainable lives, with equality in all aspects of life, and that as a result, life will be much better for all.  What isn’t mentioned is that it will be corporations, elitists, and most importantly technocrats who will be making the decisions on exactly how this utopian world will work.  Corporate propaganda and indoctrination have been prepping the common people on this for years, enough to the point where the masses have bought into this group think about sustainability.  (Read More)

(RedState) It appears that yet another high-profile individual has been busted for trafficking minor children for sex. Peter Nygard, a prominent Canadian fashion retailer, has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking and other crimes involving women, many of whom were underaged.

Prosecutors stated that Nygard, 79, is accused of “a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct” in the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan, the authorities arrested the fashion mogul in Winnipeg on Monday at the request of the United States under an extradition treaty.

Nygard is being accused of using the influence of his company and its employees to “recruit and maintain adult and minor-aged female victims” over a 25-year period. These minor females were sexually abused by himself and his associates.  (Read More)

(LifeNews) A group of pastors condemned Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock’s statement that he is a “pro-choice pastor,” saying that Warnock’s comment shows “grave errors of judgement,” in a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

A coalition of Black Christian ministers sent a letter Friday entreating Warnock, a reverend headed into a January runoff election against Republican Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, “to reconsider” his “public advocacy for abortion.”

“Unborn Black, brown and white lives are so much more than clumps of cells, burdensome inconveniences, or health problems,” the letter said. “They are sacred human persons endowed by God with inalienable dignity and worth. We implore you to uphold the Biblical defense of life and to fight against the systemic racism of abortion.”  (Read More)

(OneNewsNow) A group of Ohio pastors is asking Christians in their state to defend foundational American values and take action to defeat a so-called “fairness” act.

The Ohio Fairness Act (S.B. 11) would provide special protection of homosexual and transgender individuals in regards to employment, housing, and accommodations. It amends many sections of existing civil rights law by inserting numerous times throughout the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression.”

Opponents of the measure fear it would open the door to the passing of other legislation seen in various states, such as the allowance of transgender individuals using opposite-gender restrooms and the dismantling of Title IX through the allowance of biological males participating in female sports.  (Read More)

(Faith & Freedom) Portland’s Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler, recently re-elected in a run-off election, promised to restore order and pledged, “There will be no autonomous zone in Portland.”

Two days later, an “autonomous zone” was established with layers of barricades forbidding police to even enter the zone.

The Seattle Times is asking how Mayor Jenny Durkan will be remembered, now that she has announced she will not run for a second term.

Seattle’s autonomous zone, a.k.a. CHAZ, comes to mind. An event Durkan characterized as “A summer of love.”

There is one fundamental reason why the American Revolution succeeded, while the French Revolution failed.

Secular progressive humanism.  (Read More)

(Binary Australia) The adverse roll of social media in the rise of ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’ has been raised in light of the recent British High Court judgement against transitioning treatments for children.

Keira Bell now 23, began transitioning treatments when she was just 16 years old. She brought the legal action against Tavistock claiming that more should have been done to explore underlying reasons for her dysphoria instead of rushing in to irreversible and drastic treatments.

The court ruling has put a stop to children undergoing similar treatments. Now the spotlight is being shone on the role of the internet.  (Read More)

(RedState) Yesterday evening, Idaho’s Central District Health Board, which rules four Idaho counties in the present environment, was meeting to vote on imposing a mask mandate in reaction to an uptick in Wuhan virus cases. As with so much of the scaremongering that has surrounded this virus for the past nine months, the panic driving the latest drive to restrict civil liberties is based on fears of what might happen rather than what is actually happening. The measure the board was considering was, to say the least, rather bizarre. The proposed measure, along with limiting business activity, would have limited gatherings to fewer than 10 people and required face masks to be worn in public and private around non-household members. Such a rule is utter unhinged lunacy as it is illegal and unenforceable.  (Read More)

(Idaho Freedom Foundation) In a little more than a month, Idaho’s public colleges and universities are supposed to report to state lawmakers what they’ve done to reduce administrative bloat and get back to their core missions.

It’s hard to point to a single thing the schools have done to unwind the leftist, social justice-oriented indoctrination that has infiltrated deep into the bowels of Boise State University, the University of Idaho, and, to a lesser degree, Idaho State University.

Maybe surprise reforms have happened or are underway that we don’t know about. That’s doubtful, as evidenced by the latest announcement from BSU.

An email from the school recently revealed big doings within the BUILD program. For those of you who are unfamiliar, that’s the program through which faculty and staff can earn a certificate by learning that white people are privileged and racist.  (Read More)

(The Federalist) By now it should be obvious that elected state and local officials issuing COVID-19 lockdown and stay-at-home orders are just making things up as they go along.

Too often, their edicts aren’t based on science or data, but on a grotesque understanding of their own authority and infallibility. In the face of a worsening pandemic, they want to be seen doing something, taking bold action to stop the spread of the virus—that is, so long as it doesn’t hurt certain favored special interests.

That’s why Americans living under arbitrary and unconstitutional lockdown orders should simply ignore them, en masse, as an act of civil disobedience.

How else are ordinary people to push back against the capricious rules of politicians like Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti?  (Read More)

(OneNewsNow) A group that supports Christian athletes is applauding efforts by a group of state attorneys general who have joined the fight to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ high school athletics.

The Friday before Thanksgiving, 14 Republican attorneys general filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Idaho’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which is the focus of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU – along with Legal Voice, a progressive feminist group – seeks to overturn the law.

The brief, written by the office of the AG of Nebraska, Douglas Peterson, argues that the act “draws a straightforward distinction based on biological sex and prevents biological males (regardless of how they identify) from participating in women’s sports.”  (Read More)

(FRC) Americans aren’t the only ones concerned about a Biden administration. Persecuted people all around the world have a lot to lose if Donald Trump isn’t reelected. Just this past week, a Uyghur leader bluntly said that a liberal president would be a nightmare for the suffering minorities in China. “We’re actually quite worried, I’ll be honest with you.”

And they have reason to be. Not only is Joe Biden desperate to get back into communist China’s good graces, his early picks for key posts like secretary of State will be a disaster for religious freedom around the world. “Prior to setting up these concentration camps in 2016 and 2017, the Chinese government claimed that it was fighting against terrorism — and this was part of the excuse for why they have millions of people in [locked away] in these forced labor camps, is to ‘fight against extremism and terrorism,'” Salih Hudayar told the Federalist. Incredibly, Anthony Blinken, Biden’s choice to replace Mike Pompeo, was fine with this.  (Read More)

(Live Action) Despite media and abortion advocates’ claims, later abortions are not as rare as the public is led to believe, nor are they only committed on unhealthy babies. Live Action’s undercover investigations have captured footage of late-term abortionists admitting as much.

A new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that in 2018, an estimated 50,000 abortions were committed at 14 weeks or later, with nearly 6,200 of those committed at or over 21 weeks — the point at which some premature babies have survived with assistance. The report also showed that the number of later abortions increased by four percent from just two years prior (2016). In 2017, the Guttmacher Institute, which publishes more comprehensive abortion totals, reported an estimated 100,000 later abortions that year.  (Read More)

(Daily Wire) On Thursday, an exclusive report on leaked documents revealed that the San Diego Unified School District was holding training sessions where teachers were told of their “white privilege,” that they were racist, and they were part of an oppressive white power structure. Not only are the teachers told that they must acknowledge their “privilege” and embrace “antiracist” ideas, they are instructed to “teach others to see their privilege.”

Christopher Rufo of City Journal reported what he had discovered in the leaked documents. “SCOOP: San Diego Unified School District is forcing teachers to attend ‘white privilege’ training, in which teachers are told ‘you are racist’ and ‘you are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.’ The leaked documents from the training session will shock you…”  (Read More)

(Alliance Defending Freedom) Alliance Defending Freedom’s mission is to keep the doors open for the Gospel.

This year, our cases representing churches and ministries during COVID-19 government overreach reflect that mission. With God’s blessing, over a dozen churches and ministries who were treated unequally by the government and hindered in their ministry achieved victory in their legal challenges. And we still have cases in court because churches and ministries continue to be treated unjustly in some states.

But we also continue to represent churches and ministries in other matters. One of these involves One Love Ministries and Calvary Chapel Central Oahu—two Hawaiian churches that we have represented for seven years.  (Read More)

(LifeNews) Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks is calling on Republicans to pledge their support for a ban on federal abortion funding, a leaked congressional letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation shows.

In a letter addressed to both Democratic and Republican leaders, Banks and the Republican Study Committee expressed “unified opposition” to Democratic efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or if the mother’s life is in danger.

“As part of their pro-abortion crusade, Democrats have taken direct aim at these long-standing, bipartisan protections that generally prevent the federal government from using taxpayer dollars to support abortion procedures,”  (Read More)

(OneNewsNow) A homosexual-rights lobbying group is proving elections have consequences, including for private Christian colleges and universities which could face closure if a Biden administration bows to an anti-religious legal scheme.

The ominously named “Blueprint for Positive Change 2020,” written by the Human Rights Campaign, calls for the U.S. Dept. of Education to deny accreditation to faith-based colleges and universities if they “discriminate or do not meet science-based curricula standards.”

Such legal-sounding language is eyebrow-raising for many Christian conservatives who have witnessed homosexual activists win numerous legal battles over what “discrimination” means in a courtroom. To date, numerous Christian business owners have been on the losing end of that legal and moral fight, and the HRC document suggests Christian schools are next.  (Read More)

(CNSNews) In an attempt to compel the states to impose mask-wearing mandates on its citizens to combat COVID-19, two prominent Democratic senators have introduced legislation that would provide money to states and local governments, if they follow the mask-mandates proposed.

The bill is entitled, “Encouraging Masks for All Act of 2020,” and it was introduced on Nov. 25 by left-wing Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).  (Read More)

(The Federalist) Late on the night before Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court granted an injunction against New York state’s restriction on religious services, with 10- or 25-person occupancy limits depending on whether the gathering is in a “red” or “orange” zone, respectively, according to viral prevalence. Although the justices split 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts voting to deny the injunction on a technicality, it seemed like a no-brainer: Houses of worship were treated differently than many similarly situated secular facilities, so the state executive order couldn’t stand as a basic First Amendment matter (and equal protection, although the Court didn’t discuss that framework).

I called it a “Thanksgiving miracle,” with the Court finally pushing back on expansive and arbitrary COVID-19-era restrictions rather than blindly deferring to government officials.  (Read More)

(American Greatness) A decisive moment comes and passes, a fleeting chance for action. People rise to the occasion or not, their measure taken and place in history assigned.

We, the citizens of the United States, have reached such a moment. For those who still remember the old republic, the questions it poses are self-evident. Do we make a stand or nervelessly surrender our rights? Do we affirm ourselves citizens—an historically rare and noble title—or do we accept becoming subjects, the fate of most humankind?

We might, of course, hope for a quiet subjecthood, one in which our rulers permit us to go about our lives reasonably undisturbed. But that would no longer be our call, only their clemency.  (Read More)

(The Post Millennial) Human Rights Watch calls for children to have “access to confidential adolescent-responsive and non-discriminatory reproductive and sexual health information and services, available both on and off-line, including… safe abortion services.” It also recommends that governments ensure that “children have access to confidential medical counsel and assistance without parental consent, including for reproductive health services,” as well as “specifically calling for confidential access for adolescent girls to legal abortions.

“If implemented, this submission by Human Rights Watch would allow for children to have legal rights to bypass parental consent to access with absolute privacy: abortions, hormone injections for the purpose of gender transition and/or puberty blockers, complete privacy rights in accessing online and offline information on any subject and to any materials…  (Read More)

(RedState) The Great Reset is, without question, the most important issue facing the United States today–and probably the most important issue facing the country since the fall of the Soviet Union. I used to think the rise of socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders reached that level, but now, I think it’s clear that the globalist Great Reset movement, which also has very strong collectivist and socialist elements to it, is much more worrisome.

Unlike with AOC and Sanders, the Great Reset has far more powerful supporters. It’s not a populist movement. In fact, as the comments appearing below will show, it largely rejects populism, instead favoring increasing the authority and influence of international ruling elites and billionaire investors. Rather than deride massive, multi-national corporations, the Great Reset seeks to use them as tools to accomplish leftist goals.  (Read More)

(Creators.com) On Nov. 22, 2020, New York Times columnist Charles Blow unleashed one of the most bizarre tweets in recent memory. “Stop doing gender reveals,” he stated. “They’re not cute; they’re violent. All we know before a child is born is their anatomy. They will reveal their gender. It may match your expectations of that anatomy, and it may not. If you love the child you will be patience, attentive and open.”

This is patently insane for a variety of reasons.

First, the characterization of gender reveal parties — parties during which parents celebrate finding out whether their unborn children are boys or girls — as “violent” is, in and of itself, radically nuts.  (Read More)

(FRC) While the media’s looking ahead to January, some states are still trying to sort out what happened in November. No one is busier than Georgia, where election officials aren’t just working through two Senate runoffs but a critical presidential recount. If anyone doubted Georgia’s political importance before, trust me: they aren’t doubting it now. With one congressional chamber in the balance — and the possible fate of Trump’s legal challenge — this one is for all the marbles.

People on the ground, like election law attorney Cleta Mitchell, are hoping that what happens with the recount at least gets some of the mess cleaned up before next month’s races. Right now, she says, the state’s process is in complete shambles.  (Read More)

(The American Mind) Big Tech has infiltrated the American homeland and is imposing speech laws that resemble those of Europe, challenging the authority and longevity of the First Amendment. Although we share common ideals with other Western nations, we pursue and defend those ideals very differently. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our approach to speech.

It is important to understand how fundamentally different our country is from the rest of the world if we want to understand why Big Tech’s speech codes should not be inflicted on American citizens in American jurisdictions. Put another way, if the would-be monarchs of Silicon Valley get their way, their speech codes will ultimately undermine our American values of free speech and the First Amendment itself.  (Read More)