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Thursday, October 24, 2019

TEACHERS ENCOURAGED TO USE "GENDER SNOWPERSON" IN SEX EDUCATION CLASSES

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TEACHERS ENCOURAGED TO USE 
"GENDER SNOWPERSON" 
IN SEX EDUCATION CLASSES 
Clown world strikes again
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Teachers are being encouraged to use a ‘gender snowperson’ drawing in sex education classes.
Yes, really.
Teacher2Teacher, a resource community which provides lesson plans and other tools for educators, tweeted the image with the words “Using this “gender snowperson,” learn about identity and language!”
They tagged Johnny Cole as the source of the image, a “diversity” officer for Lexington Public Schools.
The image shows a gender ambiguous ‘snowperson’ and is accompanied by post-it notes, including one that reads, “Gender Identity – Girl, Boy, Both or Neither – who you are and how you feel as a person.”
Responses to the tweet weren’t exactly enthusiastic.
“Can we stop pushing the idea of sexuality at all until kids are older?” asked Brett Fenderson. “Or are teachers just a bunch of sex-craved pervs these days? I’m a preschool teacher and I am blessed to never have to come across this issue with 3-5 year olds. I would protect them from people like you.”
“Whatever teacher decided this was a good idea for what I would assume would be elementary school kids needs to be fired immediately,” commented another user. “And any parent who wants their child to be normal and healthy mentally should pull their child out of this school ASAP.”
Perhaps the next step is to have drag queens dress up as ‘gender snowpersons’ and teach the kids that way.
At this point, anything is possible.
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EVANGELICALS & UNIVERSALISM

Evangelicals and Universalism
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
October 24, 2019 (first published October 1, 2013)
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
866-295-4143, 
fbns@wayoflife.org
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In an open letter to a newspaper editor, Pope Francis says that sincere atheists will be accepted by God. Writing to Eugenio Scalfari, founder of La Repubblica, the pope said: “You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith. I start by saying--and this is the fundamental thing--that God’s mercy has no limits if you go to him with a sincere and contrite heart. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience” (“Pope Francis Assures Atheists,” The Independent, UK, Sept. 11, 2013).

This statement made big news, but there is nothing here that evangelicals have not been saying for decades. In fact, this is yet another way in which Roman Catholics and evangelicals are “coming together.” It is another aspect of the building of the end-time, one-world “church.” 

A 1996 book by Zondervan Publishing House featured the writings of various theologians on the subject of whether or not there is salvation in pagan religions. The book,
More Than One Way? is subtitled "four views on salvation in a pluralistic world." 

At least three of these views promote some form of inclusivism or universalism. The authors of the four views are John Hick, Clark Pinnock, Alister McGrath, R. Douglas Geivett, and W. Gary Phillips. The book is edited by Dennis Okholm and Timothy Phillips, associate professors of theology at Wheaton College. The various views are divided into four groups: 1) Normative Pluralism, 2) Inclusivism, 3) Agnosticism regarding those who have not heard the Gospel, and 4) Exclusivism - salvation only through personal faith in Christ. 

Scholarly evangelicalism has long refused to see doctrine in terms of black and white, right and wrong, truth and heresy. The emerging church is just the most recent twist in evangelicalism’s apostasy.

Scholarly evangelicals typically see things in terms of various shades of gray. Theology is more an intellectual pastime than a matter of life and death, heaven and hell. The evangelical claims that the Bible is his sole authority, but in practice he has no absolute authority, because he is willing to accept heretical interpretations of Scripture as acceptable “models.” 

The editors of 
More Than One Way noted that a large percentage of students in evangelical colleges no longer believe that those outside of Jesus Christ are lost. 

"The new willingness to subject revelation to contemporary sensibilities has eroded the theological underpinnings for a missionary faith. Hunter's questionnaire found that only two-thirds of the students in evangelical colleges believe that the sole hope for heaven is through a personal faith in Jesus Christ. Increasingly students in Christian colleges are affronted when hearing the traditional claim that salvation is found in Jesus Christ alone" (Editors, 
More Than One Way, p. 11).
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CLARK PINNOCK
Consider some excerpts from Clark Pinnock's statements:

"When I was a young believer in the 1950s, C.S. Lewis helped me understand the relationship between Christianity and other religions in an inclusivist way. Because I trusted him as an orthodox thinker, I was open to hear him say that he could detect God's presence among other faiths and that he believed people could be saved in other religions because God was at work among them. His view was wonderfully summed up for me in that incident in 
The Last Battle, the last volume of the Narnia cycle, where the pagan soldier Emeth learns to his surprise that Aslan [the lion which represents Jesus Christ] regards his worship of Tash as directed to himself. Anyone who appreciates that incident is on his or her way to inclusivist thinking.

"The other influence was Sir Norman Anderson, a scholar of Islamic law and a longtime leader in the InterVarsity Fellowship in Great Britain. In 1970, he wrote a book called 
Christianity and Comparative Religion, which in 1984 was revised and retitled Christianity and World Religions. Anderson taught that people could be saved while being members of other faiths, much the way people were saved in Old Testament times apart from any Christian confession. Both these scholars helped me as a young student avoid the narrow outlook toward other faiths that was otherwise characteristic of evangelicalism" (More Than One Way, p. 107).

"Moving from the parochial and personal to the world stage, the key historical influence for inclusivism is undoubtedly the work of the Second Vatican Council in its articulation of this teaching. The spirit of the whole Council was one of openness to the world and a seeking after the unity of humanity. ... Its standpoint was to view religions as arising from the spiritual dimension of created life and to seek the hidden presence of God in that sphere. ... As an inclusivist, I acknowledge my debt to the Catholic Church for its leadership in this regard, and, as an evangelical, I am concerned that the model be shown to be congruent with the Scriptures. In agreement with the Council, I want the model to be not only theologically coherent, but also exegetically well founded" (
More Than One Way, pp. 108,109).

"God has been at work saving human beings before Jesus was born and does so where Jesus has not been named. ... Faith in Jesus as the Savior of the world leaves room for us to be open and generous to other religious traditions. Scripture encourages us to see the church not so much as the ark, outside of which there is no hope of salvation, but as the vanguard of those who have experienced the fullness of God's grace made available to all people in Jesus Christ. ... I welcome the Saiva Siddhanta literature of Hinduism, which celebrates a personal God of love, and the emphasis on grace that I see in the Japanese Shin-Shu Amida sect. I also respect the Buddha as a righteous man (Matt. 10:41) and Mohammed as a prophet figure in the style of the Old Testament" (
More Than One Way, pp. 110-111).

This is heresy. Pinnock admits that he has been influenced by C.S. Lewis and Roman Catholic Vatican II Council. It is interesting to see how deeply this “evangelical” has drunk from the fountain of Catholicism.
ROB BELL
Rob Bell is another example of “evangelicals” who are teaching a form of universalism. In a 2005 interview with Beliefnet, Bell said “the church must stop thinking about everybody primarily in categories of in or out, saved or not, believer or nonbeliever.” In his influential book 
Velvet Elvis, which is popular with many Southern Baptists, Bell described a wedding that he conducted for two pagan unbelievers who told him that “they didn’t want any Jesus or God or Bible or religion to be talked about,” but they did want him to “make it really spiritual” (p. 76). Bell agreed with this ridiculous request and said that his pagan friends “are resonating with Jesus, whether they acknowledge it or not” (p. 92).

In his 2011 book Love Wins, Bell makes a case for universalism, though he might have left room for 
some folk to wind up for a while in some type of hell. Consider two of many quotes we could offer as evidence: 

“This insistence that God will be united and reconciled with all people is a theme the writers and prophets return to again and again. ... The God that Jesus teaches us about doesn’t give up until everything that was lost is found. This God simply doesn’t give up. Ever” (
Love Wins, Kindle location 1259-1287). 

“The love of God will melt every hard heart, and even the most ‘depraved sinners’ will eventually give up their resistance and turn to God. And so, beginning with the early church, there is a long tradition of Christians who believe that God will ultimately restore everything and everybody” (
Love Wins, location 1339-1365). 

Bell even claims that Sodom and Gomorrah will be restored (location 1057-1071, 1071-1082).

Bell has nothing but ridicule for the gospel that Jesus died for man’s sins and that only those who repent and believe will be saved.

“What happens when a fifteen-year-old atheist dies? Was there a three-year window when he could have made a decision to change his eternal destiny? Did he miss his chance? ... What exactly would have had to happen in that three-year window to change his future? ... Some believe he would have had to say a specific prayer. Christians don’t agree on exactly what this prayer is, but for many the essential idea is that the only way to get into heaven is to pray at some point in your life, asking God to forgive you and telling God that you accept Jesus, you believe Jesus died on the cross to pay the price for your sins, and you want to go to heaven when you die. Some call this ‘accepting Christ,’ others all it the ‘sinner’s prayer,’ and still others call it ‘getting saved,’ being ‘born again,’ or being ‘converted’” (
Love Wins, location 129-143).
Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Theological Seminary, told USA Today that “Rob Bell’s Love Wins is a fine book and that I basically agree with his theology” (“The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell,” Christian Post, Mar. 20, 2011). This tells us just how terribly far Fuller Seminary has fallen from its roots in Charles Fuller’s “only through the blood” evangelistic ministry. Mouw agrees with Bell that it is wrong to say, “Accept Jesus right now, because if ten minutes from now you die without accepting this offer God will punish you forever in the fires of hell.” Mouw comments, “What kind of God are we presenting to the person?” The answer is the God of the Bible and the God that was preached by the founders of Fuller Theological Seminary. It is Bell and Mouw who have the new god. Mouw says that after a rabbi friend of his died, he “held out the hope that when he saw Jesus he would acknowledge that it was Him all along, and that Jesus would welcome him into the heavenly realm.” I’ve never read anything like that in the Bible, but C.S. Lewis taught this very thing. Mouw says that those who question Mother Teresa’s salvation just because she believed a false gospel should be ashamed of themselves. Mouw implies that Bell’s critics just want to keep people out of heaven, which is patently ridiculous and slanderous. Mouw would have us believe that he is more compassionate than Jesus, who stated very bluntly, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:35). 

Both Bell and Mouw complain about their “critics,” but they don’t draw back from lashing out pretty fiercely at “fundamentalists.” Bell calls hellfire preaching “lethal,” “toxic,” “unloving,” “creepy,” a “cheap view of God.” No judgmental criticism there! Nothing but compassionate, tolerant dialogue! 

BILLY GRAHAM
Some “conservative” evangelicals criticized Rob Bell. John Piper tweeted, “Good bye, Rob Bell.” Albert Mohler, Jr. of Southern Baptist Seminary described Bell’s view as “Velvet Hell.” But why haven’t these men criticized Billy Graham? 

For decades he has been saying that it is possible for someone to be saved without personal faith in Jesus Christ, but there has been no outcry from evangelicalism, including from Graham’s own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. 

In an interview with 
McCall’s magazine, January 1978, entitled “I Can’t Play God Any More,” Graham said: “I used to believe that pagans in far-off countries were lost—were going to hell—if they did not have the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached to them. I no longer believe that. … I believe that there are other ways of recognizing the existence of God—through nature, for instance—and plenty of other opportunities, therefore, of saying ‘yes’ to God.” In 1985, Graham affirmed his belief that those outside of Christ might be saved. Los Angeles reporter David Colker asked Graham: “What about people of other faiths who live good lives but don’t profess a belief in Christ?” Graham replied, “I’m going to leave that to the Lord. He’ll decide that” (Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 22, 1985). In 1993, Graham repeated this doctrine in an interview with David Frost. “And I think there is that hunger for God and people are living as best they know how according to the light that they have. Well, I think they’re in a separate category than people like Hitler and people who have just defied God, and shaken their fists at God. … I would say that God, being a God of mercy, we have to rest it right there, and say that God is a God of mercy and love, and how it happens, we don’t know” (The Charlotte Observer, Feb. 16, 1993). In an interview with Robert Schuller in May 1997, Graham again said that he believes people in other religions can be saved without consciously believing in Jesus Christ. “[God’s] calling people out of the world for His name, whether WHETHER THEY COME FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD, OR THE BUDDHIST WORLD, OR THE CHRISTIAN WORLD OR THE NON-BELIEVING WORLD, THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN CALLED BY GOD. THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THE NAME OF JESUS but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think that they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in heaven” (television interview of Billy Graham by Robert Schuller, broadcast in southern California, Saturday, May 31, 1997). 
C.S. LEWIS’S INFLUENCE ON THE EVANGELICAL DOWNGRADE OF HELL 

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) has been called a “Superstar” by 
Christianity Today. A 1998 CT poll rated Lewis the most influential evangelical writer, and In light of the wretched spiritual-doctrinal-moral condition of “evangelicalism” today, that is a very telling statistic and certainly no praise for C.S. Lewis. 

One of the ways that Lewis has influenced evangelicalism is in the fundamental issues of hell and the exclusiveness of salvation through the name of Christ. Lewis said that it would not be very wrong to pray to Apollo, because to do so would be to “address Christ 
sub specie Apollonius” (C.S. Lewis to Chad Walsh, May 23, 1960, cited from George Sayer, Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis, 1994, p. 378). 

Lewis claimed that sincere followers of pagan religions can be saved without personal faith in Jesus Christ (C.S. Lewis, 
Mere Christianity, HarperSanFrancisco edition, 2001, pp. 64, 208, 209). In the popular Chronicles of Narnia series, which has influenced countless children, Lewis taught that those who sincerely serve the devil (called Tash) are actually serving Christ (Aslan) and will eventually be accepted by God. “But I said, ‘Alas, Lord, I am no son of thine but the servant of Tash.’ He answered, ‘Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me.’ ... Therefore, if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him’” (The Last Battle, chapter 15, “Further Up and Further In”). 

Lewis also denied the finality of one’s destiny at death. He taught the possibility of repentance beyond this life. This is the theme of 
The Great Divorce. “Is judgment not final? Is there really a way out of Hell into Heaven? ‘It depends on the way you’re using the words. If they leave that grey town behind it will not have been Hell. To any that leaves it, it is Purgatory. And perhaps ye had better not call this country Heaven. Not Deep Heaven, ye understand’” (The Great Divorce). 

In this book Lewis taught that questions such as the finality of men’s destiny and purgatory and eternal destinies cannot be understood in this present life and we should not fret about them. 

“Ye can know nothing of the end of all things, or nothing expressible in those terms. It may be, as the Lord said to the Lady Julian, that all will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well. But it’s ill talking of such questions. ‘Because they are too terrible, Sir?’ ‘No. Because all answers deceive” (The Great Divorce, Kindle location 140-150).

In light of these views, it is not surprising that Lewis has been cited as a major influence by evangelicals who are soft on hell and near-universalists. 

Clark Pinnock said, “When I was a young believer in the 1950s, C.S. Lewis helped me understand the relationship between Christianity and other religions in an inclusivist way” (
More Than One Way? Zondervan, 1996, p. 107). 

Richard Mouw says, “If I were given the assignment of writing a careful theological essay on ‘The Eschatology of Rob Bell,’ I would begin by laying out the basics of C.S. Lewis’s perspective on heaven and hell” (“The Orthodoxy of Rob Bell,” 
Christian Post, March 20, 2011). 

In the acknowledgements section of 
Love Wins, Rob Bell writes, “... to my parents, Rob and Helen, for suggesting when I was in high school that I read C.S. Lewis.” Beware of C.S. Lewis. That he is loved with equal fervor by “conservative evangelicals,” hell-denying emergents, Christian rockers, Roman Catholics, Mormons, and even some atheists is a fact that speaks volumes to those who have ears to hear.
There is really nothing that Rob Bell is teaching today that was not first taught by C.S. Lewis.

THE CONDITION OF THE UNBELIEVER ACCORDING TO EPHESIANS -- 
Ephesians chapter 2 leaves no doubt about the condition of those outside of Jesus Christ. 

“And you 
hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. ... That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:1-3,12,13).

This is a description of every individual who has not been made alive in Christ. He is --

1. Spiritually dead (Eph. 2:1)
2. Under Satan’s control (Eph. 2:2)
3. Children of disobedience (Eph. 2:2)
4. Dominated by the flesh (Eph. 2:3)
5. Children of wrath (Eph. 2:3)
6. Without Christ (Eph. 2:12)
7. Aliens and strangers from God’s covenants (Eph. 2:12)
8. Having no hope (Eph. 2:12)
9. Without God (Eph. 2:12)
10. Far off from God (Eph. 2:13)

Nowhere does Scripture teach that those outside of Jesus Christ can be saved apart from the knowledge of the Gospel and personal repentance and faith. 

This is what has motivated genuine Christian missionary enterprises throughout the centuries. Paul preached Christ to the heathen because he believed they were lost and on their way to eternal Hell. He believed that the gospel of Jesus Christ alone is the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16).

UNIVERSALISM DENIES WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES ABOUT: (1) Man's lost condition (Rom. 3:10-18; Ephesians 2). (2) The necessity of the new birth (Jn. 3:16). (3) Christ’s warning about hell (e.g., Mk. 9:43-48). (4) The Great White Throne Judgment (Rev. 20:11-15). (5) The necessity of gospel preaching (Mk. 16:15,16).

Modernists and many evangelicals mock this position as simplistic and non-intellectual. They are correct. Sound Bible doctrine IS simple in contrast to “intellectualism.” I praise God that it is so, and that a man does not have to be a "scholar" to understand the truth. 

Sound Biblical education is important, but “scholarolatry” is damnable.

AUSTIN HOMELESS BEING IMPLANTED WITH TRACKABLE MICROCHIPS

Report: Austin Homeless Being Implanted With Trackable Microchips
AUSTIN HOMELESS BEING IMPLANTED WITH TRACKABLE MICROCHIPS

Program rolled out in Latin America and third-world countries now coming to Texas

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The ID2020 Alliance is a digital identity program that uses vaccination to insert tiny microchips into people’s bodies as part of a “digital identity program,” which has already been rolled out for use on the homeless:
Below is the report from Natural News:
Vaccines now being used to harvest biometric identities of everyone; Big Brother merges with Big Pharma by Ethan Huff
It’s all happening, just as we predicted. Big Pharma is officially partnering with the tech industry to pair “immunization” with digital biometrics, meaning humans will soon be microchipped, tracked, and ultimately controlled through a global identification matrix.
The ID2020 Alliance, as it’s being called, is a digital identity program that aims to “leverage immunization” as a means of inserting tiny microchips into people’s bodies. In collaboration with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, also known as GAVI, the government of Bangladesh and various other “partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief,” the ID2020 Alliance hopes to usher in this mark of the beast as a way to keep tabs on every human being living on Earth.
Similar to how cattle are marked with ear tags, this globalist alliance wants all humans to be “vaccinated” with digital tracking chips that will create a seamless monitoring system for the New World Order to manage the populations of the world with ease.
“We are implementing a forward-looking approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over their own personal information, while still building off existing systems and programs,” says Anir Chowdhury, a policy advisor at a2i, the Bangladesh government’s “Access to Information Program.”
“The government of Bangladesh recognizes that the design of digital identity systems carries far-reaching implications for individuals’ access to services and livelihoods, and we are eager to pioneer this approach,” he adds.
For more related news about the coming one world government and its biometrics component, be sure to check out PopulationControl.news.

ID2020 MICROCHIPS ARE ALSO BEING “VACCINATED” INTO THE BODIES OF HOMELESS PEOPLE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

While the ID2020 program’s testing grounds are primarily in the Third World, the group says it’s also now working with governments here in the United States to start microchipping people through vaccination.
In Austin, Texas, for example, the homeless population is now being exploited as a collective guinea pig for ID2020’s microchip vaccination program, which the group claims will help to “empower” homeless people by supposedly giving them “control” over their personal identity data.
“The City of Austin, ID2020, and several other partners are working together with homeless people and the service providers who engage with them to develop a blockchain-enabled digital identity platform called MyPass to empower homeless people with their own identity data,” writes Chris Burt for BiometricUpdate.com.
ID2020 is also jabbing refugees with its microchip vaccinations through two inaugural pilot programs known as iRespond and Everest. According to reports, iRespond has “improved continuity of care” for more than 3,000 refugees receiving drug treatments for chronic illness. Everest, on the other hand, has “assisted with the provision of access to critical energy subsidies and a range of additional services with secure and user-centric digital identities without relying on a smartphone,” Burt writes.
All of this is priming the public for an eventual mandate of microchip vaccinations, which will be required for every individual in order to buy and sell goods. Chowdhury openly admitted this in stating that digital identity systems will be necessary for “individuals’ access to services and livelihoods.”
In other words, the Bible is right: A global identification system is in the works that will eventually be required for people to function in society, and ultimately survive. Without these microchips in their bodies, people won’t be able to work, let alone eat, and it’s all happening right before our very eyes.
Keep in mind that ID2020 is a part of the so-called “REAL ID,” which will soon be required for those who wish to travel. REAL ID will also be used as a backdoor method of implementing mandatory vaccination policies for adults.

HOUSE REPUBLICANS STORM DEMOCRATS’ SECRET IMPEACHMENT HEARING

MARK 4:22-
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
LUKE 12:3-
Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
EPHESIANS 5:11-
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
"THIS IS NOT THE SOVIET UNION"
Video: House Republicans Storm Democrats' Secret Impeachment Hearing

DEMANDING TRANSPARENCY: Jim Jordan DEMANDS Impeachment Transparency Hearings


HOUSE REPUBLICANS STORM DEMOCRATS’ 
SECRET IMPEACHMENT HEARING

Move meant to protest Dems’ unconstitutional closed-door proceedings and bring transparency

BY JAMIE WHITE
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
House Republicans stormed the Democrats’ closed-door impeachment deposition within the Capitol, forcing a delay into the secret unconstitutional proceedings.
The charge into the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday included nearly 50 other lawmakers determined to bring daylight to the secret proceedings helmed by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told reporters that Schiff said “nothing” and shut down the deposition as soon as Republicans entered the chamber for their sit-in.
“He doesn’t have the guts to come talk to us,” Marshall said. “He left, he just got up and left. He doesn’t have the guts to tell us why we can’t come in the room, why he doesn’t want this to be transparent. It’s the biggest facade, biggest farce of my life.”
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) compared the secret proceedings to that of the Soviet Union.
Schiff was also “threatening” GOP members with ethics violations after postponing his secret hearing, said Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.).
Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Alabama), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said he wasn’t even allowed to observe the hearing despite the fact one of the “witnesses” the Democrats were questioning is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.
“Adam Schiff just SHUT DOWN his secret underground impeachment hearing after I led a group of Republicans into the room,” Byrne tweeeted. “Now he’s threatening me with an Ethics complaint! I’m on the Armed Services Cmte but being blocked from the Dept. Asst. SecDef’s testimony. This is a SHAM!”
Democrats are sweeping the area after some of the Republicans brought their cell phones into the SCIF.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Fla.) told the Democrats not to “hide” their impeachment “travesty” “from the American people.”
Several other Republican lawmakers expressed their frustration that House Democrats continue to hold their secret impeachment inquiry without due process or transparency.
Democrats have not released any of the transcripts from the witnesses who appeared in the secret hearings, but selectively leaked their opening statements to shape their narrative that Trump’s impeachment is justified.
Watch the full Republican press conference leading up to their disruption of Democrats’ secret hearing below: