Thursday, May 23, 2019

PENNSYLVANIA BILL WOULD PREVENT DOCTORS FROM REFUSING TO TREAT UNVACCINATED PATIENTS



Metcalfe Informed Consent Press Conference With Doctor, Lawyer & Parents Present

News conference coverage of Daryl D. Metcalfe, a Pennsylvania Republican introducing House Bill 286, also known as the Informed Consent Protection Act which makes it illegal for pediatricians to “Fire” a patient or family for not following the CDC vaccination schedule. It also makes it illegal for pediatricians to “Game the System” by accepting cash kickbacks from insurance companies for vaccinating children. Source: jeffreydachmd.com
PENNSYLVANIA BILL WOULD PREVENT DOCTORS FROM REFUSING TO TREAT UNVACCINATED PATIENTS 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Legislation proposed in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly would prevent doctors and health care facilities from discriminating against unvaccinated patients. Doctors would be required to treat unvaccinated families in their practice, limit tactics used to place pressure on patients to use vaccines and prevent medical staff from requiring parents or guardians to sign a liability waiver if they decline or delay one or more federally recommended vaccines.1 2
The bill would also protect doctors from being penalized by health insurance companies for providing health care to unvaccinated patients and prevent child protective services employees from instigating a neglect investigation of parents solely based on a parent’s choice to delay or decline vaccines.
House Bill 286, also known as the Informed Consent Protection Act, would “support parents in obtaining fair and equal access to medical treatment for their children regardless of their child’s vaccination status.”3
The bill’s primary sponsor is Representative Daryl Metcalfe. Co-sponsors include Rep. Jim Cox, Rep. Dawn Keefer, Rep. Russ Diamond, Rep. Rich Irvin, Rep. Lee James and Rep. Rob Kauffman.1
“We live in the United States of America where you should have the freedom to decide what is injected inside your body or your child’s body. It’s a parent’s right to make that decision for their child. Our children do not belong to the state. This is not communist Russia. This is the United States of America,” Rep. Metcalfe said.2
According to the bill, “A health care practitioner or a health care facility may not discriminate against a patient or parent or guardian of a patient based solely upon a patient or parent or guardian of a patient choosing to delay or decline a vaccination. Exercising the right to informed consent by delaying or declining vaccinations under this act may not be the reason for a patient or family member of a patient to be dismissed from a practice or lose medical privileges or benefits.”4
HB 286 also bars insurance companies from penalizing doctors with low vaccination rates. It states, “An insurer shall not deny a health care practitioner’s participation in an insurance plan or decrease the practitioner’s reimbursements through fines or financial penalties due to low patient vaccination rates or due to a practitioner’s decision not to vaccinate a patient.”4
Additionally, the bill prohibits investigations by child protective services should parents choose to delay or decline vaccination for their child. The bill states, “Child protective services shall not initiate an investigation against a parent or guardian for the sole reason of a parent or guardian choosing to delay or decline a vaccination for a child of the parent or guardian under this act.”4
The idea for HB 286 comes at a time when an increasing number of pediatric practices throughout the United States are refusing to provide services to families who do not strictly follow the childhood vaccine schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This trend coincides with new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) that it is acceptable for pediatricians to dismiss families who refuse vaccines recommended by the AAP and the CDC.5 6
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LA PLATA, MARYLAND SCHOOL DENIGRATES CHRISTIANITY, PROMOTES ISLAM~CASE GONE TO THE SUPREME COURT


A Christian student argues that a school history lesson on ...
LA PLATA, MARYLAND SCHOOL DENIGRATES CHRISTIANITY, PROMOTES ISLAM~
CASE GONE TO THE SUPREME COURT 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A taxpayer funded public school in Maryland instructed its students:
“Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.”
“Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.”
Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.”
“To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”
Imagine the shock when 11th-grader at La Plata High School, Caleigh Wood, revealed this to her parents. More students and more parents need to actively need to get involved as Caleigh Wood did. She bravely stood up for her rights as a Christian. She stated that, as part of an assignment, she “was also required to profess in writing, the Islamic conversion creed, ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.’” For refusing to concede to the sharia and standing “firm in her Christian beliefs”, Wood was punished for it and given a failing grade for non-compliance.
Her case has now gone to the supreme court. “The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a petition asking the high court to take up the case of student Caleigh Wood.” Its president, Richard Thompson warned:
Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion.
Jihad Watch reported on May 19th that a Washington school district was caught promoting Islam for Ramadan through a CAIR initiative. Now lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter. Islamization happens rapidly if unnoticed and unchallenged. Parents need to be paying attention to what their children are being indoctrinated with and taught in schools.
“U.S. SCHOOL FAILS CHRISTIAN STUDENT FOR REFUSING ISLAMIC PRAYER”, World Net Daily, May 19, 2019:
The declarations could have been made by an imam in a mosque sermon.
“Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.”
“Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.”
Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.”
“To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”
The problem is that those statements were part of the instruction in a public school in Maryland, and one of the students in the classroom now is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to condemn such religious lessons funded by taxpayers.
The Thomas More Law Center has submitted a petition asking the high court to take up the case of student Caleigh Wood.
“As a Christian and 11th-grader at La Plata High School in Maryland, Caleigh Wood was taught that ‘Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.’ She was also required to profess in writing, the Islamic conversion creed, ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.’ Ms. Wood believed that it is a sin to profess by word or in writing, that there is any other god except the Christian God. She stood firm in her Christian beliefs and was punished for it. The school refused her request to opt-out or give her an alternative assignment. She refused to complete her anti-Christian assignment and consequently received a failing grade,” the legal team explained Wednesday.
Lower courts have given a free pass to the school district to teach Islam, and so TMLC filed the request with the Supreme Court to decide “whether any legal basis exists to allow public schools to discriminate against Christianity while at the same time promote Islam.”
“Under the guise of teaching history or social studies, public schools across America are promoting the religion of Islam in ways that would never be tolerated for Christianity or any other religion,” said Richard Thompson, TMLC’s president.
“I’m not aware of any school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord’s Prayer or John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,’” he said.
“Many public schools have become a hot bed of Islamic propaganda. Teaching Islam in schools has gone far beyond a basic history lesson. Prompted by zealous Islamic activism and emboldened by confusing court decisions, schools are now bending over backwards to promote Islam while at the same time denigrate Christianity. We are asking the Supreme Court to provide the necessary legal guidance to resolve the insidious discrimination against Christians in our public schools,” he said.
Unresolved include whether or not schools can make preferential statements about one religion over another, and whether students may be required to assert religious beliefs with which they disagree.
And how do those concepts align with “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”?
The Charles County public schools and officials are defendants.
The filing explains the lower courts, despite the First Amendment’s requirements, “upheld the ability for [the school] to denigrate Petitioner Caleigh Wood’s faith and require her to write out statements and prayers contradictory to her own religious beliefs.”….
______________________________________________________________ SEE ALSO: https://clarionproject.org/father-banned-high-school-after-islam-lesson- dispute-50/ 

How Not To Teach Islam In A Maryland High School (Part II)

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/how-not-to-teach-islam-in-a-

maryland-high-school-part-ii; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Students in high school at La Plata, Maryland were forced to write out Islam’s Profession of Faith, the Shahada. They were also instructed that the faith of Muslims is “stronger” than that of the average Christian.“ But that is not all — though that is more than enough to trigger a lawsuit by the Thomas More Law Center — that the high school students had to endure.
Using a Powerpoint presentation in the class, the students at the school were also taught:
 
“”Islam is a peaceful religion.”
Comment:
Islam is not a “peaceful religion.” It began in war, with Muhammad fighting in dozens of military campaigns to subdue non-Muslims in the Arabian peninsula. It continued to spread through war, ie. violent Jihad, throughout the Middle East and North Africa during the first century of its existence. War has been the primary means for the spread of Islam over its entire 1,400 history. There has never been a time when, somewhere in the world, Jihad has not been waged. Islam is “peaceful” only once it has conquered a land, and subjugated its inhabitants. These inhabitants who are then offered–if they are “People of the Book” (Christians and Jews),  or are treated like them (as ultimately happened  to both Zoroastrians and Hindus)–the three options of: death, conversion to Islam, or permanent status as tolerated dhimmis. Those dhimmis may remain alive, and practice their own religion, as long as they fulfill a series of onerous conditions, the most important of which was payment of the Jizyah, a burdensome tax paid by non-Muslims to the Muslim state, so as to be “protected” from the Muslims themselves. In this Introduction to Islam for high-schoolers in La Plata, apparently neither the dhimmi, nor the Jizyah, was discussed.
Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.”
The primary meaning of Jihad is not that of a “personal struggle,” though this is a favorite claim of Muslim apologists, who are fond of quoting a single weak Hadith, not found in any of the most reliable Hadith collections, in which Muhammad, returning home from a military campaign, says that he is returning from the Lesser Jihad (of war) to the Greater Jihad of domestic life, requiring the spiritual discipline that everyday existence demands. Against that single Hadith, there are 109 Qur’anic verses that command Muslims to wage violent Jihad — Holy War — against the Infidels. Did the teacher not think to look into any  of those Qur’anic verses about that kind of Jihad — e.g., 2:191-193; 3:151, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4? Does the teacher really think that when the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Shebaab, Boko Haram, and many similar Muslim groups, all declare they are waging Jihad, that what they have in mind is a “personal struggle…involving spiritual discipline’?
To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.”
This is a mendacious attempt to make Allah seem familiar and acceptable to Christians and Jews; the word itself, we are supposed to believe, is simply another name for the “same God.” But Allah is very different from the God of the Christians or Yahweh of the Jews. Among the differences are these, taken from a Christian website:
In Christianity,
God’s only begotten Son is Jesus. Allah has no begotten son.
God made salvation available by sacrificing His Son and promises salvation by grace to those who believe. Allah sacrificed nothing, and only saves if sufficient works are done.
God has a payment for sins—Jesus Christ. Allah has no payment for sins.
God’s Christ paid for the sins of mankind. Allah paid for nothing, and all men pay for their own sins.
God’s salvation is through Christ’s work. Allah’s salvation is through people’s works.
God’s saving work is, “Come to Christ.” The major part of Moslem salvation is to believe Mohammed was the sum and seal of the prophets.
God’s book is very different from Allah’s book. They contradict each other, so they cannot both be true. For example, the Bible says Christ was resurrected from the dead. The Moslems reject that as a lie.
God says his Son is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Allah says Christ is “only  a messenger.”
God treats men and women equally. Allah does not.
God says marriages today (Christian) are to be monogamous. Allah allows more than one wife.
There is no marriage in God’s Paradise. Faithful men get many virgins in Allah’s paradise..
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.”
Comment:
This last remark — about men as managers of the affairs of women –is one of the very few remarks mentioned in the high school classes about Islam that accurately conveys what the Qur’an teaches. See Qur’an 4:34, where men are described as managing the affairs of women. And note that the lesson includes the remark that “righteous women are therefore obedient” but no mention is made that there is a corollary to this statement, to be found in Qur’an 4:34: a Muslim husband is in that verse given the  right to “beat” his wife (or wives),  if he merely suspects her of disobedience. That, of course, was not mentioned in the unit on Islam at  La Plata high school.
Furthermore,  the reason men are “managers” of the affairs of women is explained by Muhammad in a Hadith where he describes “the deficiency of their [women’s] intelligence.” This Hadith was not mentioned by the high school teacher; apparently the students were simply meant to memorize that Islamic teaching — about men being the managers of women –without being provided with the  textual justification from Muhmmd.  His reason – the  “deficiency of their [women’s] intelligence” –would be too offensive for the students, and has thus been deliberately left unsaid.
“Many public schools have become a hotbed of Islamic propaganda,” Thompson [President of the Thomas More Law Center] continued.
“Teaching Islam in schools has gone far beyond a basic history lesson. Prompted by zealous Islamic activism and emboldened by confusing court decisions, schools are now bending over backward to promote Islam while at the same time denigrate [sic] Christianity.”
“We are asking the Supreme Court to provide the necessary legal guidance to resolve the insidious discrimination against Christians in our public schools,” he concluded.
Despite two rulings against it in lower courts, the Thomas More Law Center should prevail when the case comes before the Supreme Court. The public schools in La Plata, Maryland have favored Islam in such a blatant way, clearly violating the Establishment Clause. It is one thing to tell students that conversion to Islam requires only that one recite the Profession of Faith, without knowing anything else about Islam, and then passing out a sheet so that they can read the Shahada for themselves. Muslims were so eager to make converts, to swell their numbers, that they didn’t care what converts knew at the time. That is permissible. But it is quite another thing to force students to write out the Shahada themselves, which is a way of propagandizing for the faith, no doubt leading some of them to think, excitedly, “Gosh, now I really could be a Muslim.”  The President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, Richard Thompson, said in a statement. “I’m not aware of any school which has forced a Muslim student to write the Lord’s Prayer or John 3:16: ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'”
Thompson’s point is devastating and unanswerable. The public schools should not be promoting Islam by asking students to write out the Shahada. And they should also not be favoring Islam over all other faiths by disseminating misinformation — propaganda –about Islam. When the public school teachers and administrators in La Plata, Maryland teach students  that “Islam is a peaceful religion,” they are ignoring 1,400 years of violent jihad. When the teachers  instruct their students  that “Jihad is a personal struggle…involving personal discipline” they are ignoring the 109 Qur’an verses commanding violent Jihad, and relying on a single weak Hadith. When the students are told that there is no difference between the Muslim Allah and the Christian God, they are being asked to ignore the Christian belief, ferociously rejected by Muslims, that Christ is the Son of God. They are also being asked to overlook the violence and ferocity rightly associated with Allah in the Qur’an, so different from the Christian God’s message of peace, love, and compassion.
There may be a way to teach American students about Islam. But if the reality of Islam is to be accurately conveyed, it is hard to see what, beyond the Five Pillars, can be truthfully taught. without considerable trouble. In today’s supercharged political atmosphere, CAIR and other Muslims will be watching to see if there is anything they deem untoward — that is, negative — being taught about Islam. They will try to insist that teachers offer the sanitized version of Islam that CAIR has been so adept at spreading. They will be quick to cry “Islamophobia” and “racism” if there is any deviation from the version of Islam they wish to have presented. And even if there are suits by the Thomas More Law Center that ultimately prevail, the time and expense spent on fighting CAIR over this or that  program on Islam may make many schools not eager to teach about Islam at all. And if Islam is not to be taught, then other religions cannot be either, lest the schools run afoul of the Establishment Clause. Perhaps, since there seems little prospect of being allowed to teach the truth about Islam in our schools, it would be best to leave the subject out of the curriculum altogether. The study of comparative religion can be taken up at a later date, at the university level. It is harder for the CAIRS of this world to intimidate those college professors whose work focuses on Islam (but are neither Muslims nor cheerleaders for the faith), and who are more likely to stand their ground, than it is for them to frighten public high school teachers and administrators, who likely do not know enough about Islam to defend themselves from those devastating charges of “Islamophobia” and “racism.”


OUTDOORS COMPANY REFUSES CITY DEMAND TO TAKE DOWN MASSIVE AMERICAN FLAG

Outdoors Company Refuses City Demand To Take Down Massive American Flag
VIDEO: RAISING OF THE FLAG
FROM A DRONE:
OUTDOORS COMPANY REFUSES CITY DEMAND 
TO TAKE DOWN MASSIVE AMERICAN FLAG

‘This is about our veterans, military and the men and women that have sacrificed for this great country’

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A North Carolina-based outdoor and recreation company is refusing city demands to take down a huge American flag on its property.
Officials with the City of Statesville filed an injunction against Camping World and Gander Outdoors requiring them to obey a city ordinance detailing the allowed size of flags on its RV property.
It asks them to remove their 40 x 80 foot flag in accordance with an ordinance that allows dimensions of 40 x 25 feet, or face a fine of $50 per day.
The company responded in a Facebook post, saying they won’t back down.
“Many cities like Statesville have requested that Camping World and Gander Outdoors take down their American Flags,” a Facebook post from Camping World says. “We won’t do it! Stand with us.”
“This is about our veterans, military and the men and women that have sacrificed for this great country,” Camping World said. “They are the reason we fly the flag and they are the reason we will not take it down!”
The company CEO Marcus Lemonis added, “I don’t care if it goes to $500 a day. It’s not coming down.”
“My family has been car dealers, had been car dealers since the 1960s, and our key trademark was always flying our flag in our dealership in south Florida,” he said. “My family is largely immigrants of the country.”

GALLUP POLL: 43% OF AMERICANS THINK SOCIALISM IS GOOD

GALLUP POLL: 43% OF AMERICANS 
THINK SOCIALISM IS GOOD 
BY WARREN MASS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Forty-three percent of Americans think socialism would be a good thing for the United States, while a slim majority — 51 percent — of those surveyed in a Gallup Poll released on May 20 think it would be a bad thing. The figures contrast markedly with a Roper/Fortune survey taken in 1942, in which 25 percent of those polled described socialism as a good thing, 40 percent as a bad thing, and 34 percent did not have an opinion.

An article published by Gallup on May 20 noted:
Previous Gallup research shows that Americans’ definition of socialism has changed over the years, with nearly one in four now associating the concept with social equality and 17% associating it with the more classical definition of having some degree of government control over the means of production. A majority of Democrats have said they view socialism positively in Gallup polling since 2010, including 57% in the most recent measure in 2018.
Gallup’s continuation of its commentary on the poll results is also telling:
Gallup first asked Americans in 1949 about their outlook on the spread of democracy over the next 50 years. At that time, seven in 10 Americans (72%) predicted that most countries in the world would have a democratic government. It's important to note that in much of the political rhetoric of the time, the terms democracy and capitalism were more intimately intertwined than they are today, perhaps synonymous to many.
If Gallup’s observations are accurate, we might very well attribute the slide towards acceptance of socialism in America and also the favorable view of “democracy” among most Americans, to the failure of our nation’s government-controlled schools to teach their students the proper definitions of this “political rhetoric.” The abandonment of history classes in favor of more ambiguous “social studies” is very likely a key factor in this lack of education.
In May 2013, The New American published a condensed version of the classic essay, “Republics and Democracies,” first delivered as a speech by Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, on September 17, 1961.
Welch noted, “By the time of the American Revolution and Constitution, the meanings of the words ‘republic’ and ‘democracy’ had been well established and were readily understood.”
He observed that as early as 1775, John Adams had pointed out that Aristotle (a Greek), Livy (a Roman), and Harington (an Englishman) all “define a republic to be … a government of laws and not of men.”
The essay quoted multiple statements made by our founders indicating that their decision to establish a republic and not a democracy (which they warned against) was deliberate and made after much consideration.
Knowing the difference between a republic and a democracy is essential to understanding why socialism (to which “democracy” invariably leads) is a complete contradiction to — and repudiation of — the constitutional republic established by our founders. If more Americans understood these terms, the results of the Gallup poll would have been very different.
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TARGET SELLS LGBTQ CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN, FUNDS GROUP WHOSE FOUNDER PRAISED NAMBLA DEFENDER

Target Sells LGBTQ Clothing For Children, Funds Group Whose Founder Praised NAMBLA Defender

RICK GOMEZ 
Target’s Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, Rick Gomez happens to be on the board of GLSEN, as promoted on the department store’s website.
TARGET SELLS LGBTQ CLOTHING FOR CHILDREN, FUNDS GROUP WHOSE FOUNDER PRAISED NAMBLA DEFENDER

Major retail chain promotes organization founded by Obama-era Department of Education official

BY KELEN MCBREEN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
American retail chain Target recently donated $100,000 to a non-profit whose founder praised a NAMBLA advocate and teaches students and teachers in schools grades K-12 about “sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.”
The group, GLSEN, was founded by Kevin Jennings in 1990 with a plan to be “the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe and affirming schools for LGBTQ students.”
Jennings was President Obama’s Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education from 2009 to 2011 where he continued pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in American schools.
As a part of the government’s Common Core initiative, GLSEN teaches elementary school children in grades 3-5 about “gender identity and expression,” and “gender-neutral” pronouns according to a lesson plan on their website.
In 2009, Jennings was under fire for failing to report a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school who told him about his sexual relationship with an older man.
The GLSEN founder was also criticized for praising Harry Hay who frequently defended the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Target’s Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, Rick Gomez happens to be on the board of GLSEN, as promoted on the department store’s website.
In addition to the generous donation, Target has started selling its own line of LGBTQ products, including kids and baby clothes.
The kids clothing includes rainbow-clad shirts reading, “Love my dads,” “Love my moms,” “Come out and party,” along with other slogans.
In the following video, a pro-LGBTQ woman goes through the products at her local Target store:
Not everyone was as excited about the clothing as the woman in the previous video as seen in the next clip where a man films at his local Target, saying, “Letting your children wear that, that’s insane.”

THE ESCALATION OF LEFTIST POLITICAL VIOLENCE

THE ESCALATION OF LEFTIST POLITICAL VIOLENCE
BY BRITTANY PETTIBONE