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Patrick says

sodomy.

A religious concept. How does the private doings of gay people pick your pocket or break your back? It doesn't. One must embrace the superstitions of pretechnological humans, and embrace a victim/martyr/hero's journey conquering evil trope to twist their existence into an existential threat.

No, sodomy is real. Let me know if you need a graphic definition.

Like I agreed in the first comment on this thread, I have no qualms with people who keep their private business to themselves, no matter how self-harmful. If you want to drink yourself to death, well, I won't stop you there either, though I'll try to discourage you from doing it.

What I object to is the promotion of sodomy to children with colorful flags, via schools and the media, and the spreading of gayness via pedophilia. About half of gays were sexually molested as a boy by a gay man.

And in spite of being only 2% of the population, gays commit about 33% of child molestations. There is a very close and consistent relationship between pedophilia and gayness

I also think people should be able to quote the bible without being charged with a crime. Not a believer myself, but I think Christianity is a good religion, and we must defend basic rights like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Nobody: Sodomy is fake!

Patrick says

No, sodomy is real. Let me know if you need a graphic definition.

You won't address the salient question. How does the private doings of gay people pick your pocket or break your back? It doesn't.

"Like I agreed in the first comment on this thread, I have no qualms with people who keep their private business to themselves"

Supporting people like this vile cunt of a woman, is embracing having qualms with, and actively pursuing and persecuting people who keep their private business to themselves.

Automan Empire says

You won't address the salient question. How does the private doings of gay people pick your pocket or break your back? It doesn't.

I did answer. You even quoted my answer.

My objection to gays is that they are pushing sodomy on children. They molest children far out of proportion to their numbers, and the majority of gays were molested as a boy by a gay man. There is a clear causal connection. And then they create a flag in bright primary colors, which attracts children.

I'm supporting that woman's right to have an opinion and to quote the bible.

Do you deny her rights?

Patrick says

My objection to gays is that they are pushing sodomy on children.

So literally every gay person deserves persecution because some "push sodomy on children." This doesn't hold up to a moment of scrutiny. Pushing sodomy on children is patently offensive and illegal and easy to pursue without objections when that is actually happening or likely to. If you're talking about "drag queen reading hour" I agree that's fishy and wouldn't take my kids to it, but that entire phenomenon is IMO an artifact of existing homophobia and its consequential behaviors. Like pride parades with the freaks of their culture letting it all hang out for a day, after a generation of society NOT "officially" ostracizing gay people, this will die out from boredom and mundaneness. I see it as homophobia's extinction burst, or put another way, hate leaving the body politic.

Patrick says

I'm supporting that woman's right to have an opinion and to quote the bible.

The thing is, she and hers have opinions and make interpretations of the bible that get used to justify acts like the guys who lured Matthew Shepard to get tied to a fence, tortured and beaten severely, then left to die on a freezing Wyoming night, which he did despite being rescued at some point... all for being gay.

What is the true moral state of "Christians" who have joy in their hearts when something bad happens to a gay person?

Patrick says

Do you deny her rights?

Apparently under Finnish law and constitution, she does NOT have a "right" to say the things she does without consequences. Do you deny even Americans the consequences of their speech even in cases where OUR laws and constitution allow it?

Automan Empire says

So literally every gay person deserves persecution because some "push sodomy on children."

Whence did you come up with this conclusion?

If I knew that Gay people, (that I know) are pushing pushing sodomy on children... I would call them out in a new york minute. I would have to call Guido, Tony or Joseppi back in Cicero Illinois, to let them know of this. Knee caps first...

Of course they are.

That's the point of the rainbow flag. Kids like bright primary colors.

And they have help from zillions of Karens teaching kids in elementary school to "be proud" of sodomy and putting up the sodomy flag in the classroom.

seesaw says

If I knew that Gay people, (that I know) are pushing pushing sodomy on children... I would call them out in a new york minute. I would have to call Guido, Tony or Joseppi back in Cicero Illinois, to let them know of this.

If I knew (as in with tangible unambiguous evidence) that gay people that I knew were doing this, I wouldn't hesitate, wait, or sublet the task to another... let's just say the actions would be decisive to a level some might call ruthless.

It's because I've known gay person after gay person after gay person who was NOT like that, that I bring the same energy against injustice to bear against casual gay bashers.

Patrick says

Automan Empire says

So literally every gay person deserves persecution because some "push sodomy on children."

Whence did you come up with this conclusion?

From your exact choice of words.

Patrick says

My objection to gays is that they are pushing sodomy on children.

No qualifiers or limits... just THEY. Your statement is endlessly falsifiable.

Automan Empire says

homoerotic shirtless pictures of Putin

This?

Overall, I don't understand this Patnet preoccupation with gays. I don't care whom anyone bangs, be it men, womyn, wasp nests, or holes in ground. IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS! If we want to protest something, then it should be Big Business pushing gay crap on us in name of inclusivity and PC ness. This is related to gays in the same way how Southern racism was related to a poor white guy in 1940s or how current BLM crap is related to a black person. Most of them did nothing wrong, and should not be blamed. A few were wrong, and should be criticized as individuals, and not as members of the group. Call out mayor Pete for incompetence and being an affirmative action hire, call out Karens who push rainbow flags on kids, call out child molesters, etc. I don't think anyone should bash a whole group of people, even if statistically they may be more prone to some bad behavior. That still makes most of them reasonable.

If you want to do something about media forcefully pushing gay lifestyles on us, don't consume this media. Get off fucking facebook, twitter, instagram, don't listen to MSM news, don't patronize virtue signaling big business. But I understand that is difficult, and some Patnetters prefer to bash gays as a whole instead of quitting social media etc.

Automan Empire says

The thing is, she and hers have opinions and make interpretations of the bible that get used to justify acts like the guys who lured Matthew Shepard to get tied to a fence, tortured and beaten severely, then left to die on a freezing Wyoming night,

Perhaps you're misinterpreting what happened (all of it, no doubt, horrifying).
Sourced from The Guardian (which is pretty far left):
Jimenez found that Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He also took significant sexual risks and was being pimped alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his killers, with whom he’d had occasional sexual encounters. He was HIV positive at the time of his death.
“This does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement,” says Jimenez. “Which is a big part of the reason my book has been so trashed.”
Matthew’s drug abuse, and the fact that he knew one of his killers prior to the attack, was never explored in court. Neither was the rumour that the killers knew that he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000 which they wanted to steal.
Matthew was born into an affluent family and had attended state school in Casper, Wyoming. The 21-year-old political science major at Laramie University stood only 5ft 2in, and his blond hair, braces and slight frame gave him an air of vulnerability and innocence. In his junior year of high school, Matthew moved with his family to Saudi Arabia. There were no American high schools in Saudi at the time, so he was sent to the American School in Switzerland. By the time he enrolled at Laramie he spoke three languages and had aspirations to be a human-rights advocate. Somewhere along the line, however, Matthew fell from being a grade-A student to a drug-addicted prostitute who diced with danger. He suffered periods of depression, possibly as a result of being gang raped a few years earlier while on holiday in Morocco. But this is not the Matthew Shepard who became a celebrated figure for the gay-rights movement in America.

Patrick says

I did answer. You even quoted my answer.

You're correct, I did not address many of the points you made, so I will do so now. TBH they rang so hollow they were kinda invisible to me the first read through.

Patrick says

What I object to is the promotion of sodomy to children with colorful flags, via schools and the media, a

You see promotion of sodomy, I see promotion of inclusiveness and de-stigmatizing gayness to take away power from not only homophobes, but from those who would take advantage of the shame, guilt, self-loathing, and secrecy that gay underage grooming and unreported rape currently thrive nicely within.

Patrick says

About half of gays were sexually molested as a boy by a gay man.

Even if I took that statistic at face value (I don't) that still leaves the other 50% of gay people to reckon with. Attraction to sexually mature (but perhaps socially and legally underage) young people isn't unique to homosexuals. It's baked into our DNA as MAMMALS. I believe that imposing arbitrary religious and moral standards and myths only serves to COMPLICATE prevention and harm reduction of underage people "willfully" having sex, both gay and straight, but more so for gay people because of an entire additional realm of stigma. As for sex with sexually immature children, that is absolutely beyond the pale, and whether the "pairing" is gay or straight makes zero difference in the legal and moral realm.

I believe a generation in to general societal abandonment of homophobia and the resulting stigma and secrecy, there will be LESS opportunity for clandestine grooming and blackmail by gay predators. Keeping gayness "morally wrong" and stigmatized gives them an easy tool to keep victims silent. Don't forget that heterosexual rape, incest, and spousal rape were HUGE problems for WOMEN up through the 1950s. One of the huge drivers of the second wave of Feminism and free love in the 60s was the fact that being dependent on men for protection was a SHIT DEAL for women up until then. Due to the religion-driven stigma against premarital sex and unwed motherhood, women impregnated by these things resulted in victim-blaming the women while letting the men get away with it, because men.

Patrick says

but I think Christianity is a good religion,

Religion in general and Christianity in particular ABSOLUTELY FAILED at protecting young WOMEN from grooming, predation, then victim-blaming and ostracism. Why should anyone believe religion has good answers for resolving these problems for gay people in today's world? Their track record is absolute SHIT. They are failing hard, to this day, on protecting children and eliminating known molesters from their midst. Maybe I'll hear religious arguments on sexuality and protection of children a generation after molesting priests aren't a major daily topic. I'm likely to die of old age first on this timeline.

My Mom was in grade school when her Doctor father ran off with his "blonde bombshell" nurse through zero fault of her own. Yet she was immediately targeted for widespread hardcore ostracism and shunning from the community at large. She described how over a few days, all her grade school friends told her one by one, variations of, "I can't be your friend any more, because YOUR MOMMY is a DIVORCEE, so she'll come steal my Daddy away." The entire congregation of "Her Dad's" church shunned her. Later they started attending the (different denomination) church of her eventual Stepdad, which came with its own stigmatizing and shunning THERE. Meaning the entire congregation, elders to kids, looking down on a 9 year old girl and treating her as less-than and "the other"... because her Dad left her Mom against her wishes. FUCKED. UP.

EBGuy says

Perhaps you're misinterpreting what happened (all of it, no doubt, horrifying).
Sourced from The Guardian (which is pretty far left):

Sourced from The Guardian, which is which is one of the two big British tabloids that gave rise to the pejorative "Tabloid journalism." Out of that entire block of victim blaming and post-hoc painting him in as bad a light as possible, the murder convictions (and convictions against their accomplice-girlfriends) did not hinge on any of this.

Doesn't move the needle on my opinion of the topic at hand or the Shepard case one tiny bit.

Automan Empire says

From your exact choice of words.

Please find my exact words that said "So literally every gay person deserves persecution because some "push sodomy on children." "

If you can't find them, delete your slander.

Automan Empire says

Patrick says

Please find my exact words

Already ran through this.

No you didn't.

Find a quote of me saying the words you are lying about.

You're permanently in moderation until you stop lying about what other users said. Particularly me.

You could just apologize and admit that you completely fabricated the the accusation that I said "literally every gay person deserves persecution".

Your choice.

Automan Empire says

Whence did you come up with this conclusion?

From your exact choice of words.

You can't back off now and say "that was just your interpretation".

"Exact words" means exact words. You lied about what I said. Waiting for quote of my exact words, or apology....

I did not delete any of my words. Find them.

You also misrepresented my intent. Gays have a vice, nothing more. I wouldn't persecute anyone for a vice, but I would try to stop them from spreading it.

Automan Empire says

RUN WITH well known Russian online campaigns to divide Americans and make them distrust our institutions and fellow Americans,

For fucking sake.

The reason people don't trust their "institutions" is because American institutions are corrupt. It has nothing to do with Putin anymore than it does with the price of tea in China.

Everything, EVERYTHING is blamed on "Russian propaganda", and it's so fucking stupid.

Do you think I believe that our intelligence agencies are corrupt because of Russia, or do you think I believe they are corrupt because they did Operation Ajax, PBSuccess, MKUltra, Mockingbird, provided false intelligence to start the Iraq War, provided cover for Obama to bomb Libya and Syria, and lied for years about Trump?

It's not Russia. God, how can you fall for this bullshit - that Russia makes us believe our entirely corrupt, criminal, fucking shit institutions are corrupt, criminal and fucking shit?

All Russia is doing, is what the US did with Radio Free America. When a nation's government is TOTALLY corrupt, the only thing you need to do to attack it, is tell the truth. Russia's "propaganda" is nothing but being honest about how criminal our government is. Well, I don't need Russia for that, but I don't mind Russia jumping on board either.

All the United States would need to do, is stop being fucking criminals. They could have arrested and prosecuted Antifa and BLM protestors, they could arrest and prosecute the FBI informants and the FBI agents that created those informants for January 6th. They could prosecute congressmen for engaging in insider trading. They could put Hunter Biden in jail for accepting bribes on behalf of his father and impeach Biden for accepting bribes, and on, and on, and on.

They COULD do that.

But they won't.

Don't blame Russia for Americans realizing what a fucking bunch of criminal assholes are the "federal government". They just point it out, and laugh, just like our nation did with the USSR 35 years ago.

Automan Empire says

My Mom was in grade school when her Doctor father ran off with his "blonde bombshell" nurse through zero fault of her own. Yet she was immediately targeted for widespread hardcore ostracism and shunning from the community at large. She described how over a few days, all her grade school friends told her one by one, variations of, "I can't be your friend any more, because YOUR MOMMY is a DIVORCEE, so she'll come steal my Daddy away." The entire congregation of "Her Dad's" church shunned her. Later they started attending the (different denomination) church of her eventual Stepdad, which came with its own stigmatizing and shunning THERE. Meaning the entire congregation, elders to kids, looking down on a 9 year old girl and treating her as less-than and "the other"... because her Dad left her Mom against her wishes. FUCKED. UP.

Every once in a while people reveal the real reasons for their prejudices. That’s what I see here. Ancient family history from what, the 1950s? You know they also shunned blacks back then too!
Lots of shitty things have been done by people being self righteous, and often in service to their idea of religion. The culture has changed since then and Christian culture has changed greatly. You might want to update your idea of all that to the current millennium. I had plenty of bad experiences with Christians in my childhood, but that was 30-40 years ago.
The world changes.
You may wanna change too.

https://www.ksbw.com/article/spreckels-lgbt-school-controversy-gets-national-attention/38554727?source=patrick.net

SPRECKELS, Calif. —
A controversy over teachers and school equity clubs on campus has led national news outlets to focus on the recent school board meeting of the Spreckels Union Elementary School District.

In October, the California Teachers Association held a conference focusing on LGBTQ+ issues in schools. According to a Substack article, leaked audio from one session included two teachers from Spreckels Union Elementary School District discussing how they grow their equity clubs on campus. The leaked audio recording has not been verified by KSBW 8.

At the time of the Substack article, the school district announced changes to club rules, the suspension of the LGBTQ+ club on campus, and more.

At the Dec. 15 school board session, parents packed the meeting. Many spoke out against the teachers, the school and the club while a few spoke in favor of them.

According to one parent, two teachers coached a pre-teen student into changing their gender identity. The teachers were involved and the student did not speak.

More:

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/spreckels-union-school-board-meeting-exposing-activist-teachers-recruiting-kids/

Shaman says

Lots of shitty things have been done by people being self righteous, and often in service to their idea of religion. The culture has changed since then and Christian culture has changed greatly. You might want to update your idea of all that to the current millennium. I had plenty of bad experiences with Christians in my childhood, but that was 30-40 years ago.

This dates you.

Do not think the prejudice of the past is being implemented in the present.

I bring this up because I think you have a prejudice of the past. The USSR is dead and gone, and I celebrated it. Do you really, actually, believe that Russian propaganda is a significant force today? This smacks of McCarthyism, and I think he was more right then,than you are now. YOU seem to echo a paranoia that died out before I was even born.

The United States did a great favor to the people of the USSR back when they produced Radio Free America. All they did, was tell the citizens of the USSR and their satellite states the truth. Do you really object to Russia returning this favor? And it is absolutely a favor.

All my adult life, I've hoped to shake people out of the propaganda complex and that's what we are in. Are we REALLY in a pandemic? China and Russia aren't - what's really going on? This is just the last, and most obvious incarnation of propaganda. Previous versions were to generate support of unjustified and immoral war. I can't know what is going on yet, but I do know certainly that we're not in an eternal lockdown for the public good.

https://meaww.com/lori-caldeira-california-teacher-who-stalked-kids-to-recruit-them-defends-herself?source=patrick.net

A California teacher who confessed to “stalking” her students’ online searches earlier this year to hire them for a school LGBTQ+ club has now defended herself by saying her comments were not meant to be taken literally. Lori Caldeira said that she and her colleague Kelly Baraki of Buena Vista Middle School used to check sixth-grade students' online activity to find kids who can join the LGBTQ club.

At the 2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference, ‘Beyond the Binary: Identity & Imagining Possibilities’, in Palm Springs in late October, Caldeira stated: “When we were doing our virtual learning — we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren't doing schoolwork.” She also acknowledged the “stalking” while justifying it with how they struggled to get enough students in 2020.

“So we started to brainstorm at the end of the 2020 school year, what are we going to do? We got to see some kids in person at the end of last year, not many but a few. So we started to try and identify kids. One of them was Googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ And we're like, ‘Check.’ We're going to invite that kid when we get back on campus,” she said ...

The title of the November article was ‘How Activists Recruit Kids’. In the bombshell feature, the journalist wrote: “Last month, the California Teachers Association (CTA) held a conference advising teachers on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.”

She added: “Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents,” while revealing the names of Caldeira and Baraki.

I don't usually post donation links, but this one seems worthy:

#FreeSpeechOnTrial
Meet the member of Parliament who never thought she would face three criminal charges for sharing her beliefs in public.

Päivi Räsänen was shocked to learn that she was accused of “hate speech” for publicly voicing her deeply held beliefs on marriage and human sexuality.

She now faces a daunting trial on 24 January for having written a pamphlet on marriage in 2004, for taking part in a discussion on a radio show in 2019, and for tweeting a picture of a Bible passage.

Bishop Pohjola stands trial alongside Päivi for publishing the 2004 pamphlet.

https://give.globalreligiousfreedom.org/free-speech-on-trial?reference_code=10020859&source=patrick.net

I sure hope we sort this out, before my youngins ages 4 though 8 get to the age group some evil twisted fuck pulls that shit on them. For those teachers sake, as well as my family's sake. I would hate to go to jail for life over disgusting scumbags like these.

Automan Empire says

It only figures that American evangelicals and barely closeted homophobes and bigots would champion this woman and her cause

Wait, What? Are you calling Patrick a "barely closeted homophobe" or a "bigot"?

Tone down the personal attacks.

Automan Empire says

You won't address the salient question. How does the private doings of gay people pick your pocket or break your back? It doesn't.

Patrick just clearly stated that he cares not what people do in the privacy of their own home. It's the predatory recruitment by the LGBT's of our children that he is complaining about.

Let those butt fuckers fuck each other in the butt if they want to, but don't give them access to our children.

Automan Empire says

So literally every gay person deserves persecution because some "push sodomy on children."

Straw man, Patrick never said or implied that.

Automan Empire says

You see promotion of sodomy, I see promotion of inclusiveness and de-stigmatizing gayness to take away power from not only homophobes, but from those who would take advantage of the shame, guilt, self-loathing, and secrecy that gay underage grooming and unreported rape currently thrive nicely within.

I see it as cultures (and even religious belief systems) clashing. And parents are definitely going to have a problem when someone pushes their culture on their children. You see inclusiveness and diversity as some kind of holy grail. If so, why have borders, language and culture been a thing forever? NOW humans are somehow going to change the natural human instinct? The Gods laugh at you.

Tenpoundbass says

I sure hope we sort this out, before my youngins ages 4 though 8 get to the age group some evil twisted fuck pulls that shit on them. For those teachers sake, as well as my family's sake. I would hate to go to jail for life over disgusting scumbags like these.

What will it take to turn things around? Protecting children is a fathers highest duty imo.

There's actually a book on this.

1. Argue that what happens in bedrooms is private (true)
2. Get Elite support to legalize gay marriage as perfectly equal to traditional marriage, Love is Love!
3. We need to act against bullying (aka any and all arguments against homosexuality)
4. We need anal buttplug education in K-12
5. And have it taught by trannies named "Miss Little Hot Mess" on PBS distributed to all schools.
6. Like the economy, we need to get the public to 'understand' parents have no role in education, and must not opposed the "highly trained professional experts" who only act in the interest of the public, never self-dealing.

How come white males can call out loser Heroin Users, Stupid fuck Florida Man, Scumbag Realtors, Scumbag Used Car salesmen, Crooked Politicians, Interloper Celrgy, and every and any scumbag in our ranks.

But Black People, Gay People, Muslims, and Jews, all circle the wagon and will defend their biggest Scumbags to a caged Deathmatch?

Is it not possible to call out these miscreant scum sub humans, that would manipulate Children and try to fuck them up so bad, that they grow up with distorted psychological issues, that stemmed from well protected scumbags molesting them, and polluting their minds, without damning a whole race, or lifestyle?

Choose a hill, you can protect the scumbags because they share some aspects of your ideology, or you can chose to stand with humanity of all color race, and creed.

The Fucking Commie Shitbirds, have done broke the doohickey of the thingamajigger, that makes White people run in shame and fear, when they paint with a broad stroke to silence and stifle proper and just.
Their Racecard line of credit has been revoked, we're using a different social credit score!

Tenpoundbass says

How come white males can call out loser Heroin Users, Stupid fuck Florida Man, Scumbag Realtors, Scumbag Used Car salesmen, Crooked Politicians, Interloper Celrgy, and every and any scumbag in our ranks.

But Black People, Gay People, Muslims, and Jews, all circle the wagon and will defend their biggest Scumbags to a caged Deathmatch?

Is it not possible to call out these miscreant scum sub humans, that would manipulate Children and try to fuck them up so bad, that they grow up with distorted psychological issues, that stemmed from well protected scumbags molesting them, and polluting their minds, without damning a whole race, or lifestyle?

Choose a hill, you can protect the scumbags because they share some aspects of your ideology, or you can chose to stand with humanity of all color race, and creed.

The Fucking Commie Shitbirds, have done broke the doohickey of the thingamajigger, that makes White people run in shame and fear, when they paint with a broad ...

Simply push back when some asshole says anything about whites. I do it all the time. I've dumped 3 friends over the last 2 years over this...1 black friend, 1 Hispanic friend and 1 white friend. Whites who give the white race grief are the worst. Get rid of them.

WineHorror1 says

Simply push back when some asshole says anything about whites. I do it all the time. I've dumped 3 friends over the last 2 years over this...1 black friend, 1 Hispanic friend and 1 white friend. Whites who give the white race grief are the worst. Get rid of them.

I'm simply talking about us Whites, rightly so calling out White people where appropriate.
You'll never see a Black person post a picture of Welfare family visually demonstrating their abuse of the welfare system, and a comment deriding their actions.

You'll never see a Jew post a video of Jew robbing someone out of money, then bragging about. And post commentary rebuking that Jews actions.

You'll never see a Muslim posting a video of a Cleric calling for Jihad, and denounce that Cleric and call for his removal.

Whites do examples of that where applicable all the time. Could you imagine Blacks or Jews posting pictures of a Black person in Walmart loading up on Chicken and Watermelons, or a Jew picking up a penny in a Walmart? We'll post the fuck out of some Redneck doing some stupid redneck shit in a Walmart though.

Tenpoundbass says

But Black People, Gay People, Muslims, and Jews, all circle the wagon and will defend their biggest Scumbags to a caged Deathmatch?

Hey, if I'd had cancer, I'd Rosenberg. I've posted about her before I'm sure. Verb left out on purpose, but it ain't fuck or screw.

And Chumpsky. And a shitload of other Brooklyn Bolsheviks.

Actions speak louder than words.

Pull your children out of school. Instead of forced masking, take them outside on study breaks and let them learn about their neighborhood and meet their neighbors. Teach them the truth instead of institutional lies. Teach them courage in the face of threats instead of fear.

The lockdown contains a silver lining hidden in the clouds of the pandemic to parents who were losing their children to school/peer doctrine. For those fortunate enough to be working at home, this is a chance to have an additional few years of profound influence on your children's world view, as opposed to that from their teachers/peers. Use this precious time to reaffirm your family's commitments to one another, and hopefully prosper in these times of adversity.

https://notthebee.com/article/sign-up-today-oregon-school-launches-lgbt-club-for-4th-and-5th-graders-no-parental-consent-required?source=patrick.net

This was the point of the "Anti-bullying" Crusade.

Now it's aggressively advancing LGBTQ+

https://patriotpost.us/articles/85821?source=patrick.net

Finland Is Cross With the Bible
A parliamentarian and Lutheran bishop are on trial for quoting the Bible and upholding the Christian view of marriage.

The ticklish thing about censorship is that it has become synonymous with authoritarianism. Censorship now occurs at the slightest perceived offense. In the United States, the Big Tech monopolies are the arbiters of online speech. A user can get kicked out if he or she expresses a “wrong” (a.k.a. conservative) opinion. Censorship fosters a modern-day witch hunt that begins online but usually ends with doxxing by self-righteous busybodies.

This phenomenon, known as “canceling,” has ruined lives, and no one is spared from its purge. As National Review’s Elyssa Koren puts it, “After all, who among us could survive having almost two decades’ worth of personal speech examined on the basis of the extraordinarily low bar of ‘insulting’ content?”

But as bad as this authoritarian digital fist is, it could always be worse.

In Finland, Päivi Räsänen, a member of parliament and grandmother of six, and a Lutheran bishop, Juhana Pohjola, are on trial for quoting the Bible and proclaiming the teachings of Christianity on marriage and sexuality.

Räsänen is a deeply devout Christian who was charged with three counts of “ethnic agitation” for so-called hate speech against the LGBT community, which consisted of a pamphlet written in 2004 on sexuality and marriage, a social media post quoting Romans 1:24-27, and comments made on a radio show. “According to my knowledge, the court has to for the first time take a stand on whether it is legal or not to cite the Bible,” says Räsänen.

Pohjola is charged with aiding and abetting Räsänen by printing her pamphlet. Not flinching one bit, Pohjola articulated his position: “I confess the God given dignity, value and human rights of those who identify themselves as homosexuals but at the same time call homosexual acts sinful and in discordance with the created order and the will of God as found in the Bible. We are all called to live according the good order of creation. According to the Christian view sexual life is meant to be in the confines of marriage between one man and one woman.”

The freedoms at stake here are religion and speech. Both Pohjola and Räsänen know they have not committed any crime. On the first day of trial, which was on Monday, the two Christians had a golden opportunity to share their faith with the court and profess the gospel.

The ramifications for this decision could have international consequences. Leaders from countries across the globe have weighed in on this injustice. From the U.S., Republican Senators Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, James Lankford, Jim Inhofe, and Mike Braun published a statement warning, “It could open the door for prosecution of other devout Christians, Muslims, Jews and adherents of other faiths for publicly stating their religious beliefs.”

The tragic truth is that Finland is a “Christian” country. On its flag is a blue cross on a field of white. The white represents the snowy landscape of Finland, the blue for its lakes, and the cross for Christianity. Unfortunately, Pohjola and Räsänen are fighting against a culture that has been so secularized that it is not really recognizable as a Christ-following nation. The bottom line is that the Scriptures are on trial; Pohjola and Räsänen are merely the scapegoats.

This legal scourging of free speech and freedom of religion is not limited to Finland. Canada has also sought to outlaw religious teachings by signing into law a bill outlawing LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy.” This law also is one that could be considered a “secular blasphemy law,” to borrow from Rubio and Co., because it definitely undermines the teachings of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

The U.S. isn’t much better, but if we’re not careful, it could quickly get much, much worse.

Patrick says

In Finland, Päivi Räsänen, a member of parliament and grandmother of six, and a Lutheran bishop, Juhana Pohjola, are on trial for quoting the Bible and proclaiming the teachings of Christianity on marriage and sexuality.

Will they hold Imams and the Muslims to the same standard?

I said a long time ago that the fashion models didn't look like women, they looked like emaciated boys for the benefit all the gays in the industry. Now, there are theorists who say that many of them are body distorted males. They are trying to 'normalize' the tranny look.