TRUMP SLAMS DEMOCRATS FOR VACATIONING IN LUXURY IN PUERTO RICO WHILE HE IS "IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WAITING" & WORKING DURING THE CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR'S PERIOD

 

TRUMP SLAMS DEMOCRATS FOR VACATIONING 

WHILE HE IS "IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WAITING"

 Democrats sunning themselves in Puerto Rico, watching Hamilton and partying

BY STEVE WATSON

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/trump-slams-dems-for-vacationing-while-he-is-in-the-white-house-waiting/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

President Trump has hit out at Democrats for leaving Washington and taking vacations while he awaits their cooperation on reopening the government.
Trump fired off a tweet Sunday, noting that “The Democrats are everywhere but Washington as people await their pay.”

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

I’m in the White House, waiting. The Democrats are everywhere but Washington as people await their pay. They are having fun and not even talking!

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 Trump was following up on a previous tweet asking Democrats to return from vacationing:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

We have a massive Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. We will be out for a long time unless the Democrats come back from their “vacations” and get back to work. I am in the White House ready to sign!

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4:14 PM - Jan 12, 2019

 The President was referring to the fact that some congressional Democrats spent the weekend in Puerto Rico, while the shutdown became the longest on record.
As The Washington Examiner reported, over 30 Democrats headed to the Caribbean island  with 109 lobbyists and corporate executives in tow, claiming that they were scheduled to discuss their “shared priorities.”
Those priorities included seeing the Broadway show Hamilton and attending at least three parties.

Andrew Scurria @AndrewScurria

While the government shutdown drags on, dozens of Congressional Democrats are staying at $289/night hotel in Puerto Rico this weekend and watching $350/ticket showings of Hamilton. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-30-members-of-congress-will-visit-puerto-rico-during-hamiltons-opening-week/ …

 Sen. Bob Menendez was spotted on the beach, discussing his own priorities:

 

David McAlpine @DavidMcAlpine

Spotted: Sen. Bob Menendez on the beach at a resort in Puerto Rico on Day 22 of the partial government shutdown. Reports say dozens of Dems are in PR for the CHC BOLD PAC winter retreat — including meetings on Maria cleanup, and a party with PR’s “Hamilton” cast.

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Of course, the leftist media has not reported on any of this, instead blaming Trump for the shutdown gridlock.
The White House also slammed Democrats, with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders accusing Democrats of “partying on the beach instead of negotiating a compromise.”

Sarah Sanders ✔ @PressSec

Democrats in Congress are so alarmed about federal workers not getting paid they’re partying on the beach instead of negotiating a compromise to reopen the government and secure the borderhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-fly-to-puerto-rico-amid-ongoing-government-shutdown …

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 In an interview with Fox News, Trump told Jeanine Pirro that he does not want to have to call a national emergency at the southern border.
“I’d rather see the Democrats come back from their vacation and act. They’re not acting, and they’re the ones that are holding it up,” he said. “It would take me 15 minutes to get a deal done, and everybody could go back to work. But I’d like to see them act responsibly, and they’re not acting responsibly, and that’s it. I’m in the White House, and most of them are in different locations. They’re watching a certain musical in a very nice location.”

 Trump followed up the tweet Monday, again asserting that the shutdown could be ended within 15 minutes:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

Nancy and Cryin’ Chuck can end the Shutdown in 15 minutes. At this point it has become their, and the Democrats, fault!

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12:26 PM - Jan 14, 2019

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

I’ve been waiting all weekend. Democrats must get to work now. Border must be secured!

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12:23 PM - Jan 14, 2019

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

“Dems in Puerto Rico as Shutdown hits day 24.” @foxandfriends

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"PARTY OF THE PEOPLE" 

PARTYING IN THE LAP OF LUXURY,

PLAYING BEACH BLANKET BINGO

 Dems fly to Puerto Rico on chartered jet, meet with lobbyists, see Hamilton, as shutdown continues

 Democrats vacation with lobbyists 

amid government shutdown

 Dozens of Democrats are coming under fire for vacationing with lobbyists in Puerto Rico, while thousands of federal employees lose out on a paycheck and the government shutdown stretches into its third week. One America's Jack Posobiec breaks down the sponsors of the group that hosted the festivities. 

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30-40 DEMOCRATS & 109 LOBBYISTS FLOWN TO PUERTO RICO VACATION ON A PRIVATE CHARTER,

BYPASSING TSA!

IMAGINE THE "CARBON FOOTPRINT" 

FOR THIS ESCAPADE?

Malkin: Dems Visit Puerto Rico While Trump Is 'Working Overtime' on Border Security, 

Ending Shutdown

 Syndicated columnist and author Michelle Malkin said the optics are bad for Democrats after about 30 lawmakers traveled to Puerto Rico 

with their families and lobbyists -- for a winter retreat.

RAHAF'S SAUDI FAMILY WILL NEVER, EVER STOP COMING AFTER HER FOR RENOUNCING ISLAM

 

 ARRIVING IN CANADA

A teenage girl who fled her home in Saudi Arabia due to her "abusive" family has been praised as a "very brave new Canadian". 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was welcomed to Toronto by the Canadian Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, as she arrived in the country after being granted asylum. 

 Sky's Hannah Thomas Peter reports.

 Rahaf al Qunun pledges to use her freedom 

to help others

 In her first interview since arriving in Canada as a refugee, Saudi refugee Rahaf Mohammed al Qunun talks to the ABC's Sophie McNeill about what it's like being a woman in Saudi Arabia, why she thinks there will be many more women fleeing 

the regime, and her hopes for the future.

 Saudi teen granted asylum in Canada 

gives public statement 

 Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi teen who was granted asylum in Canada, made a statement to the media and the public Tuesday morning. After a frantic 10 days that saw the Saudi Arabian teen flee her family, barricade herself in a Thai hotel room, galvanize international support over social media and ultimately be granted asylum in Canada, Mohammed held a brief press conference on Tuesday in Toronto to thank Canadians for welcoming her.

FULL PRESS CONFERENCE

 RAHAF'S SAUDI FAMILY WILL NEVER, EVER STOP COMING AFTER HER FOR RENOUNCING ISLAM 

 The Saudi teen remains in real and terrible danger because she has renounced Islam

BY PHYLLIS CHESLER

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272545/rahafs-saudi-family-will-never-ever-stop-coming-phyllis-chesler; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Reprinted from Israel National News
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, a Saudi teenager, has just tried to save her own life—and in so doing, has risked death for shaming her family and her country. 

Rahaf fled her family vacation in Kuwait, took a plane to Bangkok, barricaded herself in her hotel room at the airport and began posting about her plight on social media.  She demanded political asylum.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. In this case, the ammunition is digital and governmental.
Via her smartphone, Rahaf claimed that she had renounced Islam and that her family would surely kill her if she was returned to them. Rahaf obtained 90,000 followers on Twitter. The media began to cover her plight.
The Thai government had been about to deport her back to the family which Rahaf claimed had beaten and imprisoned her for up to six months at a time for minor, alleged offenses. And then, it changed its mind and allowed Rahaf to meet with an official from the UN’s refugee agency (U.N.H.C.R.).
Rahaf wanted asylum in either Australia or Canada and both countries considered her request even as she was being vetted for “refugee” status.
But make no mistake. She remains in real and terrible danger. She has shut down her Twitter account due to death threats.  Her family will never, ever stop coming after her.
She is a disobedient woman and as such deserves constant humiliation, beatings, broken bones, solitary confinement, and, if she is lucky, a forced marriage to a man the age of her grandfather, who already has three wives and twenty children. She is also an apostate. This is a capital crime.
By now, her father and brother are probably already in Thailand. They are both her “guardians” or “minders” and she has absolutely no western-style “agency” over this matter. They are claiming that she needs “medical attention.”
I have conducted four studies about honor killing globally. I am now working on a fifth study which seeks to identify the variables associated with successfully escaping from being honor killed. Rahaf exemplifies a pattern.
For reasons as yet unknown, Rahaf has decided that her life is worth preserving and that she no longer has to absorb the normalized brutalization and subordination that Saudi women are fated to endure. 
 In addition, she has cannily used the power of social media to attract attention to her plight. Further, she has been able to liaison with government, international, or law enforcement authorities who believe she is in danger—or who know that if they return her and she is “disappeared” or murdered that they would be viewed as accomplices by a watchful world.
In this instance, the internet has played a crucial role in her potential salvation.
So many other Saudi women and dissidents were not as lucky. According to Ali Alyami, the founder of the D.C. based Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR), other Saudis have tried to save their own lives but have not been successful. He notes Hamza Kashgari (2012) and Dina Ali Lasloom, (2017) both of whom tried to escape after being labeled, respectively, a heretic and a disobedient woman. They were both sent back to the Kingdom and have not been heard from ever since. Alyami also notes how many men and women are literally rotting in prison in Saudi Arabia as dissidents and feminists.
I remember the tragic 1977 case of Saudi princess Mishaal bint Fahd al Saud, who fell in love with a young man of her own choice and was trying to escape from the Kingdom. Her fiancé (not her lover) was be-headed in a botched execution and she was, mercifully, merely shot to death. Being an al Saud did not spare her. Au contraire.
I remember the forty-seven Saudi women who, in the early 1990s, launched the first Drive-In and who were arrested, fired from their jobs, and placed under house arrest for more than a year.
Today, Eman Al-Nafjian languishes in prison where she is being tortured and sexually assaulted as a campaigner for women’s rights.
The feminist revolutions in the West have caught fire in the East where some of the bravest people on the planet are demanding their freedom and dignity.
I hope the world’s governments heed their cries and grant them political asylum. They are Children of the Enlightenment and it is the midnight hour.
Rahaf has just been granted asylum in Canada! I wonder how much it will cost them to provide security for her for the rest of her life?
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 Chrystia Freeland silent on Canadian 

sentenced to death in China

 Ezra Levant of The Rebel.media reports on Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland posing in photo-op with a young Saudi woman she rescued from a Bangkok hotel - while remaining silent on China sentencing a Canadian citizen to death. MORE: https://www.therebel.media/freeland-c...

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SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/saudi-human-rights-group-surprised-by-incitement-of-female-delinquents-to-rebel-against-values-of-their-families 

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/cbc-asks-who-benefits-from-rescuing-ex-muslim-girl-who-fled-parents-who-threatened-her-worries-its-far-right 

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/canadian-government-provides-24-hour-security-for-ex-muslim-who-fled-saudi-arabia-after-death-threats-from-muslims 

LAURA LOOMER: NANCY PELOSI'S WALL JUMPED BY ALLEGED ILLEGAL ALIENS LED BY RIGHT WING ACTIVIST

 
 PICTURES OF THOSE KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS
 
LAURA LOOMER: NANCY PELOSI'S WALL 

JUMPED BY ALLEGED ILLEGAL ALIENS 

LED BY RIGHT WING ACTIVIST

 A group of alleged illegal aliens led by Laura Loomer jumped the fence surrounding Nancy Pelosi's California mansion and then demanded 

entry to her home.

 Police Respond To Illegal Aliens Camping 

At Nancy Pelosi’s House

 Laura Loomer hired illegal aliens to raise a tent on Nancy Pelosi's property. 

Watch as police confront the workers despite Nancy's call 

to welcome all illegals into America.

NOT "SLOWLY BECOMING CATHOLIC" BUT FULLY: SOUTHERN BAPTIST PRESIDENT GREEAR: GOD SAYS WE NEED TO SHUT UP ABOUT THE REFORMATION

SOUTHERN BAPTIST PRESIDENT GREEAR: GOD SAYS WE NEED TO SHUT UP ABOUT THE REFORMATION

BY Cherie Vandermillen

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/09/sbc-prez-god-says-we-need-to-shut-up-about-the-reformation/;  

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

[Reformation Charlotte] The Reformation was our defining moment as Protestants. It’s who we are, it’s our history. It was the moment the gospel was recovered from the grips of the apostasy of the Roman Catholic religion and made available to the common man. It was the wellspring of good theology of which we rest our knowledge of God on. Apart from the Scriptures itself, the Reformation gave birth to the greatest understanding of Jesus Christ and his saving gospel of grace that history has ever seen.

⁷ Remember the days of old;
    consider the years of many generations;
ask your father, and he will show you,
    your elders, and they will tell you.
⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
    when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of God.
Deuteronomy 32:7-8

However, at the Cross Conference a few days ago, JD Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of the multi-campus Summit megachurch in North Carolina, declares that God says we need to “shut up about the Reformation” because He is “not a God of the past.”

Basically what God says through Amos is if you’ll let me put it in colloquial language, “will you shut up about Gilgal and Beersheba?” I’m sick and tired of hearing about those places because I’m not a God who moved in the past. I’m a God who wants to move today in your present. I almost think, I’m on dangerous ground here…I almost think that God is saying to us “shut up about the Reformation.”

However, at the Cross Conference a few days ago, JD Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of the multi-campus Summit megachurch in North Carolina, declares that God says we need to “shut up about the Reformation” because He is “not a God of the past.”
Basically what God says through Amos is if you’ll let me put it in colloquial language, “will you shut up about Gilgal and Beersheba?” I’m sick and tired of hearing about those places because I’m not a God who moved in the past. I’m a God who wants to move today in your present. I almost think, I’m on dangerous ground here…I almost think that God is saying to us “shut up about the Reformation.”

For your viewing pleasure, here is a link to the entire sermon.
[Editor’s Note: Over-all, this reeks of the Acts 29-ism of Greear’s homeboys. By the way, Greear is wrong on God’s name being defined simply as “I am.” יהוה, or Yahweh, is an omni tempered verb meaning that it could be rendered, I was that I was, I was that I am, I was that I will be, etc as well as the more traditional I am that I am or I will be what I will be. Also, I would remind Greear that God is the “One who was, and is, and is to come” (Revelation 1:8). Either way, it is safe to say – as we’ve reported before – Greear is definitely not Reformed and not a Calvinist]

JOYCE MEYER ALLEGEDLY "REPENTS" OF PROSPERITY TEACHING

 Did she ever realize Jesus never had a place to call his home on this earth?

 Luke 9:58-And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

 Mark 8:34-37 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

 

JOYCE MEYER ALLEGEDLY "REPENTS" OF 

PROSPERITY TEACHING 

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/10/joyce-meyer-allegedly-repents-of-prosperity-teaching/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Joyce Meyer is a lady pastor (1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 2:12) who holds to Little God Theology – or Kenyonism – and is also known as Word-Faith Theology. All of these are subsets of the so-called Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that Jesus’ atonement provides health, wealth, and prosperity to the believer. In a recent sermon from Meyer, she claims to have at one time let her prosperity teaching “get out of hand” but now has a much more balanced view of prosperity and suffering.
Charismatics are currently promoting the clip as evidence that Joyce Meyer is not a prosperity teacher. You can watch it below, or read the excerpts below that. 

“[In] the Word and Faith movement back in the ’60s and the ’70s, [there was] lot of teaching in that about prosperity…I thank God for it. God touched my life back then in a powerful way because I knew I was saved by grace, but I didn’t know anything about using my faith for anything other than just salvation. Faith is something God gives you that you need to use and release in your life. It’s a powerful force, but it’s not just automatic. You put your trust in God. You put your faith in Him.”

Meyer continues…

“I’m glad for what I learned about prosperity, but it got out of balance. I’m glad for what I learned about faith, but it got out of balance. So every time somebody had a problem in their life, it was because they didn’t have enough faith. If you got sick, you didn’t have enough faith. If your child died, you didn’t have enough faith. Well, that’s not right. There’s nowhere in the Bible where we’re promised that we’ll never have any trouble. I don’t care how much faith you’ve got. You’re not going to avoid ever having trouble in your life.”

While charismatics are claiming that Joyce has repented of prosperity teaching, she seems to be referring to her teaching in the 60s or perhaps decades ago, and doesn’t seem to be distancing herself from her most recent prosperity teachings that characterize her career in motivational speaking or the vast income, mansions, and the 23 thousand-dollar gold toilet her prosperity teaching has afforded her.. 

 

 Joyce Meyer’s five-mansion compound. 

 [HT Charisma Mag]

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SEE ALSO:

https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/24/joyce-meyer-claims-to-have-faith-that-

will-raise-the-dead/

Did Joyce Meyer actually recant?

Todd Friel Reports

UNITED METHODIST UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS CALL FOR POLICIES TO INCLUDE "SACRED WORTH" OF LGBTQ "CHRISTIANS"

 
UNITED METHODIST UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS 

CALL FOR POLICIES TO INCLUDE 

"SACRED WORTH" OF LGBTQ "CHRISTIANS" 

BY Cherie Vandermillen

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/11/united-methodist-university-presidents-call-for-policies-to-include-sacred-worth-of-lbgtq-christians/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

(RNS) — Ahead of next month’s special session on sexuality intended to resolve an issue that has dogged the United Methodist Church for decades, a group of affiliated college and university presidents issued a strong call for full inclusion of LGBTQ Christians.
The group, which represents presidents of 93 United Methodist-affiliated colleges and universities, urged the denomination to amend its policies and practices to recognize the “sacred worth” of people regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
The three-paragraph statement won unanimous approval in a vote taken Friday (Jan. 4) by the National Association of Schools and Colleges of The United Methodist Church.
“We call upon the leaders of the United Methodist Church at this 2019 Called General Conference to honor the past and current practices of inclusion by amending their policies and practices to affirm full inclusion in the life and ministry of the United Methodist Church of all persons regardless of their race, ethnicity, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity/expression or sexual orientation,” the statement reads.
The 93 affiliated schools serve more than 260,000 students across the United States. They include large institutions such as American University, Boston University, Duke University and Emory University, as well as dozens of smaller schools such as Randolph College, Otterbein University and Greensboro College.
At issue is the denomination’s rulebook, the Book of Discipline, which bars “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained as ministers and forbids pastors from marrying them in the church.
The special session called for Feb. 23-26 in St. Louis is intended to resolve once and for all an issue that has divided the United Methodist Church despite repeated attempts to resolve it going back to the 1970s.
Last year, the denomination’s Council of Bishops endorsed a plan that would allow regional decision-making bodies called annual conferences to determine whether to ordain LGBTQ clergy and allow individual churches to vote whether to perform same-sex marriages in their buildings.
While the university presidents did not formally endorse that plan, they made it clear they want the language on homosexuality in the Book of Discipline stricken.
“The presidents are really firm about full inclusion,” said Scott D. Miller, president of Virginia Wesleyan University and a board member of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of The United Methodist Church.
“It is my disappointment and the feeling of many of my colleagues that this has been one of the reasons contributing to a decline in membership and attendance,” Miller said. “The church has not stayed current with the people it serves.”
The statement on sexuality issued by the university presidents is their fourth in the past 13 years. In 2006, 2011 and 2013 the presidents drafted similar statements calling on the church to offer LGBTQ people full inclusion.
Sexuality was so divisive a topic during the denomination’s 2016 conference that 56 different legislative petitions were submitted to try to resolve it. Instead, delegates voted to defer all proposals to a special Commission on a Way Forward.
Last year, that commission concluded its work and put forth three proposals. The Council of Bishops endorsed the so-called One Church Plan, which would allow the most flexibility while keeping the denomination’s various factions together.
Lacking any resolution, the denomination has been plunged into chaos.
Many regional United Methodist bodies have made their own decisions regarding ordination and marriage of LGBTQ people.
In 2016, the Mountain Sky Conference elected Karen Oliveto, a married lesbian, as the denomination’s first openly LGBTQ bishop, and dozens of individual pastors have publicly or secretly celebrated same-sex weddings. Some have been summoned to church trials and stripped of their preaching credentials.
But while the United Methodists’ 7 million U.S. adherents might be inclined to change the rules regarding gays and lesbians, the denomination is a worldwide body active in 136 countries. Many of its African churches oppose any steps toward LGBTQ inclusion.
Regardless, some university presidents said they would disaffiliate rather than back down, though that was not mentioned in the statement.
“Some institutions that feel very strongly about inclusiveness could very well say we no longer wish to be affiliated with a denomination that, in their view, discriminates against the LGBTQ people,” said Miller.

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[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Yonat Shimron and originally published at Religious News Service]

THOUSANDS OF REQUESTS FOR CHILD & ADOLESCENT BRIDES~AND APPROVAL IS LEGAL IN U.S.

 

THOUSANDS OF REQUESTS FOR CHILD & ADOLESCENT BRIDES~AND APPROVAL IS LEGAL IN U.S. 

BY Cherie Vandermillen

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/11/thousands-of-requests-for-child-and-adolescent-brides-approval-is-legal/;  

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

[Lincoln Journal Star] Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. In one case, a 49-year-old man applied for admission for a 15-year-old girl.
The approvals are legal: The Immigration and Nationality Act does not set minimum age requirements. And in weighing petitions for spouses or fiancees, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services goes by whether the marriage is legal in the home country and then whether the marriage would be legal in the state where the petitioner lives.
But the data raises questions about whether the immigration system may be enabling forced marriage and about how U.S. laws may be compounding the problem despite efforts to limit child and forced marriage. Marriage between adults and minors is not uncommon in the United States, and most states allow children to marry with some restrictions.
There were more than 5,000 cases of adults petitioning on behalf of minors and nearly 3,000 examples of minors seeking to bring in older spouses or fiances, according to the data requested by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in 2017 and compiled into a report.
Some victims of forced marriage say the lure of a U.S. passport combined with lax U.S. marriage laws are partly fueling the petitions.
“My passport ruined my life,” said Naila Amin, a dual citizen from Pakistan who grew up in New York City.
She was forcibly married at 13 in Pakistan and applied for papers for her 26-year-old husband to come to the country.
“People die to come to America,” she said. “I was a passport to him. They all wanted him here, and that was the way to do it.”
Amin, now 29, said she was betrothed to her first cousin Tariq when she was just 8 and he was 21. The petition was eventually terminated after she ran away. She said the ordeal cost her a childhood. She was in and out of foster care and group homes, and it took a while to get her life on track.
“I was a child. I want to know: Why weren’t any red flags raised? Whoever was processing this application, they don’t look at it? They don’t think?” Amin asked.
There is a two-step process for obtaining U.S. immigration visas and green cards. Petitions are first considered by USCIS. If granted, they must be approved by the State Department. Overall, there were 3.5 million petitions received from budget years 2007 through 2017.
Over that period, there were 5,556 approvals for those seeking to bring minor spouses or fiancees, and 2,926 approvals by minors seeking to bring in older spouses, according to the data. Additionally, there were 204 for minors by minors. Petitions can be filed by U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
“It indicates a problem. It indicates a loophole that we need to close,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told the AP.
In nearly all the cases, the girls were the younger person in the relationship. In 149 instances, the adult was older than 40, and in 28 cases the adult was over 50, the committee found. Among the examples: In 2011, immigration officials approved a 14-year-old’s petition for a 48-year-old spouse in Jamaica. A petition from a 71-year-old man was approved in 2013 for his 17-year-old wife in Guatemala.

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[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Colleen Long and originally published at the Associated Press]
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31182-report-child-bride-import-business-is-thriving-in-the-u-s?vsmaid=2924&vcid=3987 

WHEATON: THE "RACIST" SPEECH A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE DOESN'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO HEAR

 
THE "RACIST" SPEECH A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 

DOESN'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO HEAR

BY  Cherie Vandermillen

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/11/the-racist-speech-a-christian-college-doesnt-want-the-public-to-hear/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

[Townhall] This is the tale of two lectures at Wheaton College, a Christian evangelical college in the suburbs of Chicago. One was given in September 2017 and the other in November 2018. Though only a year apart, the responses to the two presentations were universes apart. The reaction is very telling and tragic for those who believe that a Christian education is different than a secular one.
The first speech (listen to excerpts here) was given by Dr. George Yancy, a philosophy professor at Emory University (huge thanks to Jamie Dean at World Magazine for an excellent article on this and uncovering actual audio recording). It was sponsored by Wheaton’s Philosophy department and held in the esteemed Billy Graham Center on campus. It was entitled: “A Post-Racial America? White Gazes and Black Bodies.” It can only be described as an expletive-laced, pornographic, racist, anti-biblical screed. His theme? “To be white is to be racist.”
There was no backlash from Wheaton’s leadership. There were no letters sent out by any staff or student government leaders denouncing him or raising concerns about the hostile, f-bomb-laden speech. There was only internal praise by the school’s own Wheaton Record. 
Then there’s that second speech. Wheaton College Republicans courageously invited me to speak about abortion and race. Keep in mind, there’s never been anyone—ever—to address racism and the abortion industry at Wheaton. In fact, no one has addressed the issue of abortion at their thrice weekly chapels but once (briefly) in many years. Wheaton, though founded by slavery abolitionists, doesn’t lead whatsoever on the abolition of abortion. One would think a school that (sort of) espouses a pro-life worldview, at least on its website (“followers of Jesus Christ will uphold the dignity of human beings, from conception until death…”), would encourage students to put that into action by attending the March for Life Chicago or volunteering at a local pregnancy resource center.
Needless to say, I did not speak in the center named after the school’s most famous alum. But I did speak to a standing-room only audience in another Wheaton lecture hall. My multimedia talk was entitled “Black Lives Matter In and Out of the Womb.” it was an expletive-free, fact-based, statistics-driven, Biblically-rooted, deeply personal and grace-filled discussion on the systemic racism of the abortion industry and the hypocrisy of the pro-abortion #BlackLivesMatter movement. As an adoptee and adoptive father who was conceived in rape, I challenged students to see the most vulnerable, the most marginalized, and the most powerless among us as having equal intrinsic worth and God-given Purpose.
Six days later, I was severely denounced by a campus-wide email sent out by two Wheaton staff members and signed by three student government leaders. My entire message was branded as “offensive rhetoric” that made “many students, staff and faculty of color” feel “unsafe” on their campus. And now, the school has cancelled the College Republicans’ next event, because leadership claims their speaker approval process needs to change so Wheaton students aren’t exposed to such factivism (aka truth) again.
So a biblical worldview that reminds us we’re created in the image of God and that we’re one human race, created out of one blood (Acts 17:26), is not in line with Wheaton’s mission?
“Given the history of white supremacy, we ought to be the ones who fear white people. I mean sh*t, if you’re black you should be scared as hell here at Wheaton College,” Yancy told students. He also asserted “that in the end, white people are the n***ers.” That got zero pushback from Wheaton leadership. Zilch.
“To be white is to be racist,” Yancy repeated over and over. This is what a Christian institution is peddling.
Yancy dug up racist diatribes of people from the 1700s like Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson (with a revised f-bomb version of Jefferson’s quote about the “oranootan”, now spelled orangutan) and David Hume. The only modern-day examples he gives are anonymous rants from online commenters and white supremacists on obscure and unnamed websites. He never gave any examples of actual racism from modern-day leaders. No stats—just regurgitations of mainstream media #blacklivesmatter propaganda that divisively color the narrative of police brutality.
He could have invoked plenty of examples of racists in the 20th century in the American Eugenics movement like Frederick Osborn(founder of the American Eugenics Society), Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood), and Henry H. Goddard(psychologist who coined the term “moron”), but he would have had to talk about all those “white bodies” touching and destroying “black bodies” through the undeniable and celebrated form of systemic racism—abortion. But I digress.

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[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Ryan Bomberger and originally published at the Townhall]

POPE'S PUPPET, PELOSI, JOYOUS: PRO-LGBT JESUIT PRIEST RETAINED BY DEMOCRATS AS U.S. HOUSE CHAPLAIN

POPE'S PUPPET, PELOSI, JOYOUS OVER APOSTATE JESUIT SOLDIER OUT TO DESTROY AMERICA'S PROTESTANTISM & CONSTITUTION

 

PRO-LGBT JESUIT PRIEST RETAINED BY DEMOCRATS AS U.S. HOUSE CHAPLAIN

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/12/pro-lgbt-jesuit-retained-by-democrats-as-u-s-house-chaplain/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

[Liberty Voice] Democrats, who now hold the majority of House seats, have voted that Father Patrick J. Conroy will remain as their chaplain. They solidified their intent by granting him a new two-year contract.
In April 2018, former Speaker Of The House Paul Ryan asked the Jesuit Priest to submit his resignation. Conroy agreed and included in the resignation that it would take effect on May 24, 3018.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats and a few Republicans pulled together to support the priest. As a result, Conroy withdrew his resignation and on May 3, 2018, and Ryan concluded that the priest would remain chaplain.
In a video found on “YouTube” which is not dated, Conray is seen as saying that the Catholic teaching and thoughts pertaining to homosexuality is outdated, and that the Church needs to change with the times. Conroy continued in the video, stating that humans conceive male to female, but human sexuality is not about procreation, it is about more than that.
Ryan’s staff said that the reason the priest was asked to resign was because of concern regarding a prayer Conroy delivered on Nov. 6 during a deliberation regarding tax overhaul.
Conroy said in his prayer that he hoped the efforts of Congress assure that under the new tax law there will be no winners and loser, but it will be balanced and all Americans will share in it.
Ryan stated he disagreed with his staff’s statements and Conroy was not fired for that reason.
One of the people on the committee to fill the position which would be vacated by Conroy was Mark Walker (R-North Carolina). He said he wanted an individual for the position whose was nondenominational, someone shepherding a multicultural congregation.
Nancy Pelosi released a statement expressing that she strongly disagreed with the decision Ryan made regarding Father Conroy. She found it particularly peculiar that Ryan asked for the resignation at the end of his term knowing he was unable to fire Conroy directly.
The House has no rules on the process to remove a chaplain from their position.
Members of the Congress who opposed Conroy’s dismissal raised concerns that Ryan was being driven to fire Conroy by evangelical Republicans whose views differ from the Jesuit’s beliefs. The focus of a Jesuit is to focus on service to the community and education. They also have more liberal beliefs in terms of religion compared to those who consider themselves a traditional Catholic.
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[Editor’s Note: This article was written Barbara Sobel and first pubilshed at Liberty Voice]
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 House of Representatives Chaplain Patrick Conroy: Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality a "Dead End"

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OwningOurFaith | Father Patrick J. Conroy 

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 Introduction 0:07 Sexuality and Faith 1:09 "Who Am I To Judge" 5:05 How are LGBT Gifts to the Church? 7:16