BETHANY "CHRISTIAN" SERVICES: PROFESSING CHRISTIAN FOSTER, ADOPTION AGENCY TO COMPLY WITH STATE, ALLOW PLACEMENT IN HOMOSEXUAL HOMES

BETHANY "CHRISTIAN" SERVICES: 

PROFESSING CHRISTIAN FOSTER, ADOPTION AGENCY 

TO COMPLY WITH STATE, ALLOW PLACEMENT 

IN HOMOSEXUAL HOMES

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: https://christiannews.net/2019/04/26/professing-christian-foster-adoption-agency-to-comply-with-state-allow-placement-in-homosexual-homes/;

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Well-known Christian-identified foster and adoption agency Bethany Christian Services has agreed to abide by the requirements of its contract with the State of Michigan and allow placement in homosexual homes in order to continue serving children in government custody.

The decision comes following word that Attorney General Dana Nessel had reached a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), agreeing to enforce current terms that prohibit State-contracted foster care and adoption agencies from discriminating against prospective parents, which includes turning down same-sex households.

While Bethany Christian Services says that it was not pleased with the outcome, it will comply in order to continue participating in the state program.

“We are disappointed with how this settlement agreement has been implemented by the state government. Nonetheless, Bethany will continue operations in Michigan, in compliance with our legal contract requirements,” it said in a statement.



The organization added that the “mission and beliefs of Bethany Christian Services have not changed.”

According to the Detroit Free Press, Bethany’s national board of directors voted on April 11 to adjust the policy for its Michigan office. The change will not apply to private adoptions.

As previously reported, on a corporate level, Bethany Christian Services is led by Chris Palusky, who formerly served in a leadership capacity at World Vision, and also has been involved with Samaritan’s Purse, CARE and World Relief.

Palusky began serving as president of Bethany Christian Services in January 2018, a position that according to a 990 form posted online, paid his predecessor over $230,000 a year. He lists Rob Bell, Rick Warren, Coldplay, The Police, Sting and U2 among his likes on social media. Under his “religious views” section, he provides a link to a message from Rob Bell. Palusky also characterizes his political views as being in the “center.”

The organization similarly agreed last year to allow placements with homosexuals in order to retain its contract with the City of Philadelphia.

Attorney General Nessel applauded the latest move, writing on Twitter, “Having more adoption agencies which don’t discriminate =s more children adopted into loving, nurturing “forever” homes. Thank you to Bethany Christian Services!”

As previously reported, in 2017, the ACLU filed suit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Children’s Services Agency on behalf of four lesbian women who contacted St. Vincent’s Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services in an effort to adopt a child.

Because both organizations operate in accordance with their religious beliefs, they do not place children in homes where there is not both a mother and a father.

“When somebody calls in with interest to become a foster parent or adoptive parent … if they let us know they’re unmarried, or if they’re gay or lesbian, we immediately recommend, make a referral to another agency … for other agencies that provide that service,” Jose Carrera, director of clinical services for St. Vincent Catholic Charities, told legislators in 2015.

Representatives therefore told the women that the agencies could not be of assistance, or that “same-sex couples aren’t our area of expertise.”

The lesbian women stated in their lawsuit that they “object to the use of taxpayer funds to underwrite and endorse religious beliefs to which they do not subscribe.” They also contended that allowing State-hired religious adoption agencies to decline to place children with homosexuals deprives homosexuals “of their rights protected by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

“There is no legitimate government interest served by denying children access to potentially qualified families based on a religious exclusion,” the complaint asserted.

The ACLU consequently sought an injunction to prevent the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Children’s Services Agency from contracting with, or providing taxpayer funding to, any child placement agency that “employ religious criteria in decisions regarding the screening of prospective foster and adoptive parents.”

Read the lawsuit, Dumont et al. v. Gordon et al., in full here.

After Nessel, a lesbian, took office in January, she reviewed the case and determined that the agency could be held legally liable. She decided to reach a settlement with the ACLU, which resulted in a voluntary dismissal of the case.

“Discrimination in the provision of foster care case management and adoption services is illegal, no matter the rationale,” Nessel said in a statement. “Limiting the opportunity for a child to be adopted or fostered by a loving home not only goes against the state’s goal of finding a home for every child, it is a direct violation of the contract every child placing agency enters into with the state.”

A summary of the settlement outlines that Michigan will enforce its current contract language prohibiting discrimination, which it says is consistent with both federal and state law.

Examples of discrimination outlined in the document include “turning away or referring to another contracted agency an otherwise potentially qualified LGBTQ individual or same-sex couple that may be a suitable foster or adoptive family for any child accepted by the agency for contracted services,” and “refusing to place a child accepted by the agency for contracted services with an otherwise qualified LGBTQ individual or same-sex couple suitable as a foster or adoptive family for the child.”

Organizations that commit these delineated violations may have their contract with the State terminated.

While Bethany Christian Services decided to comply with the contract terms that will now be enforced under the settlement, St. Vincent Catholic Charities rather chose to fight the matter. It has now filed a lawsuit, stating that the requirement violates its sincerely-held religious convictions, and thus its First Amendment rights.

“St. Vincent would be forced to close down both its foster care and adoption programs if the state follows through on their threats,” Becket attorney Nick Reaves told the Detroit Free Press. “The vast majority of the work St. Vincent is doing is through its contracts with the state.”

“This means that adoptive parents will have fewer choices and foster children will face longer waits to find permanent homes,” the formal complaint reads.

Read the lawsuit in full here. 

Proverbs 25:26 says, “A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.”

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https://www.philly.com/philly/news/foster-adoption-lgbtq-gay-same-sex-philly-bethany-archdiocese-20180313.html

KANSAS SUPREME COURT RULES RIGHTS TO "LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" INCLUDE "RIGHT" TO ABORTION

KANSAS SUPREME COURT RULES RIGHTS TO 

"LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" INCLUDE 

"RIGHT" TO ABORTION

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: https://christiannews.net/2019/04/26/kansas-supreme-court-rules-rights-to-liberty-pursuit-of-happiness-include-right-to-abortion/; 

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

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Supreme Court of Kansas has ruled that the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the state Constitution’s Bill of Rights encompass a woman’s “right” to an abortion.

“We conclude that, through the language in section 1, the state’s founders acknowledged that the people had rights that pre-existed the formation of the Kansas government. There they listed several of these natural, inalienable rights …,” the court wrote in its opinion, released on Friday. “Included in that limited category is the right of personal autonomy, which includes the ability to control one’s own body, to assert bodily integrity, and to exercise self-determination.”

“This right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life — decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy. Although not absolute, this right is fundamental,” it asserted. “Accordingly, the State is prohibited from restricting this right unless it is doing so to further a compelling government interest and in a way that is narrowly tailored to that interest.”

As previously reported, in 2015, then-Gov. Sam Brownback signed Senate Bill 95 into law, banning what is termed as “dismemberment abortions.” The bill passed the Senate 31-9 and moved to the House where it likewise was approved 98-26.



The law prohibits “knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush or grasp a portion of the unborn child’s body in order to cut or rip it off.”

The prohibition was challenged by abortionist Herbert Hodes and his daughter, Traci Nauser, who argued that it placed a burden on their “right” to perform second trimester abortions.

In court, the state defended the ban, in part, by presenting other options for ending the lives of the unborn.

“The state has offered three alternatives to the standard D & E procedure: labor-induced abortion, inducing fetal demise with digoxin injections, and inducing fetal demise by cutting the umbilical cord (also known as transection),” an appeals court ruling outlines.

In June 2015, Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks placed an injunction on the enforcement of the law while the constitutionality of the legislation is decided in full in court.

“The alternatives do not appear to be medically necessary or reasonable,” he said. “[P]atients’ fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy will be unduly burdened if SB 95 goes into effect.”

The state then filed an appeal, and in January 2016, the Kansas Court of Appeals announced that it was was evenly split over the matter.

The half that favored the injunction pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex “marriage,” stating that the courts seem to find “rights” in the law that aren’t expressly written in the Constitution. It used the example and others to conclude that Kansas must include the “right” to abortion.

But the other seven justices that favored the law said that they weren’t convinced that abortion has ever been considered a right, nor should it be.

“Simply put, there is nothing within the text or history of §§ 1 and 2 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights to lead this court to conclude that these provisions were intended to guarantee a right to abortion,” they wrote. “Our state’s founders held sacred the basic concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and they expressed those sentiments in that order in § 1 of our Bill of Rights.”

“Even if Kansas courts were to find substantive due process rights under § 1, as opposed to a mere expression of traditional beliefs, we would not find a substantive due process right to abortion,” they continued. “The subject of abortion places the pregnant woman’s liberty interest directly at odds with the unborn child’s right to life.”

In April 2016, the Kansas Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of the case. It took three years to issue a ruling, and now has concluded that inherent in the constitutional rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the “natural right to make decisions about parenting and procreation.”

It pointed to other cases nationwide that have upheld the right to control one’s own body, and also noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has found that “to marry, establish a home and bring up children” are “long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.”

The court then concluded that Section 1 of the Kansas Bill of Rights “protects an inalienable natural right of personal autonomy, which today we hold to be fundamental. Presuming that any state action alleged to infringe that right is constitutional dilutes the protections established by our Constitution.”

“[A] woman has a federal constitutional right to access an abortion, including whenever it is necessary to protect her health,” it also said. “A regulation that prevents her from accessing the safest method of abortion for her places an undue burden on that right. These holdings have particular significance in this case, where the trial court found that S.B. 95 has removed access to the method for performing a second-trimester abortion that is the safest in most cases.”

One justice, Caleb Stegall, issued a sharp and lengthy dissent, calling the conclusion of his peers “far reaching.”

“Perhaps it is apropos — though macabre — that while reviewing a prohibition against human dismemberment we have fashioned a 20th century jurisprudence of fundamental rights and tiered scrutiny into a procrustean bed upon which we now force the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights to lie,” he wrote.

“[T]he majority abandons the original public meaning of section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights and paints the interest in unborn life championed by millions of Kansans as rooted in an ugly prejudice,” Stegall said.

He stated that by the way his fellow justices framed their decision, it would seem that “all the luminaries of the western legal tradition — from Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone to Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson — would celebrate and enshrine a right to nearly unfettered abortion access. In this imagined world, the Liberty Bell rings every time a baby in utero loses her arm.”

Stegall also found it ironic that while the court found a “fundamental right” to abortion, Kansas simultaneously “criminalizes homicides of the unborn; refuses to execute pregnant convicts; permits wrongful death actions for the unborn; gives no effect to a living will when the patient is pregnant; and provides for the representation of the unborn in trust and probate proceedings.”

“Abortion has become the judicially preferred policy tail wagging the structure of government dog,” he lamented. “For the majority, the settled and carefully calibrated republican structure of our government must give way, at every turn, to the favored policy. But in my considered judgment, constitutional structure is the very thing securing and guaranteeing the full range of human liberty.”

“History and reason suggest that those who, in the name of liberty, tear down that edifice will wind up out in the political elements, unsheltered and exposed to the cold wind of every arbitrary power.”

Read the ruling and dissent in full here.

2 Chronicles 19:6 reads, “And [he] said to the judges, ‘Take heed what ye do, for ye judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.'”

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SEE ALSO:

https://christiannews.net/2019/04/26/judge-blocks-hhs-rule-barring-abortion-facilities-and-referral-sites-from-federal-family-planning-funding/

CORY BOOKER DEFENDS ILHAN OMAR'S ANTI-SEMITIC STATEMENTS; ACCUSES CRITICS OF "ISLAMOPHOBIA"

CORY BOOKER DEFENDS ILHAN OMAR'S ANTI-SEMITIC STATEMENTS; ACCUSES CRITICS OF "ISLAMOPHOBIA"

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/cory-booker-defends-ilhan-omars-anti-semitic-statements-accuses-critics-of-islamophobia;  

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

At the “She the People” presidential forum in Houston, Cory Booker defended Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s “anti-Semitic comments about AIPAC,” stating that “the criticisms of Congresswoman Omar, what Donald Trump has been saying about her is reprehensible, it is trafficking in Islamophobia.”

“Islamophobia” is nothing more than a buzzword used to beat down critics. It has become the fastest way to silence real dialogue and discussion about the global jihad. If you criticize hateful and violent Islamic doctrine, which jihadis refer to as their justification for murder and myriad other abuses and atrocities, you’re branded “Islamophobic” and “racist,” even though most of these atrocities are committed against visible minorities and women — a fact Democrats do not care about even amid their manipulation of racism and sexism charges to court votes.

Those who have called out the anti-Semitic words of Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and have shed light on her alliance with Hamas-linked CAIR stand accused by Booker of  “trafficking in Islamophobia.” Identity politics is in full swing among Democrats. It’s their primary playing card, and they will continue to play it even if it means aiding the jihad by defending those who ally with Muslim Brotherhood interests and maintaining their own alliance with degenerates like Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan sent a message to Omar about her disingenuous apology for her anti-Semitic comment: “Sweetheart, don’t do that….Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have nothing to apologize for.” Booker agrees.



“Booker Defends Omar: Criticism of Her Is ‘Reprehensible,’ ‘Trafficking in Islamophobia,’” by Pam Key, Breitbart, April 24, 2019:


Wednesday at the “She the People” presidential forum in Houston, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) defended Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) anti-Semitic comments about AIPAC.

The moderator asked, “My question is about Ilhan Omar. She was recently critical of the outside influence of AIPAC in determining U.S. foreign policy, including funding of Israel. Subsequently, she has received condemnation from the President and members of her own party, as well as death threats. What will you do as president to protect the right of courageous women of color to criticize U.S. policy even when directed at allies?”

Booker answered, “Thank you for your question. The criticisms of Congresswoman Omar, what Donald Trump has been saying about her is reprehensible, it is trafficking in Islamophobia,

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https://www.infowars.com/man-of-faith-cory-booker-says-thoughts-and-

prayers-are-bullshit/

MACRON SAYS NOTRE DAME SHOULD BE REBUILT IN LINE WITH DIVERSITY~ARCHITECT SUGGESTS AN ISLAMIC MINARET BE INCLUDED

MACRON SAYS NOTRE DAME SHOULD BE REBUILT IN LINE WITH DIVERSITY~ARCHITECT SUGGESTS AN ISLAMIC MINARET BE INCLUDED

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/macron-says-notre-dame-should-be-rebuilt-in-line-with-diversity-architect-suggests-an-islamic-minaret-be-included;

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France flagged “more than 78,000 people” as jihadist security threats in 2017; three churches a day are attacked there; anti-Semitism is so prevalent (and violent) in France that it prompted the President of the Confederation of Jews in France to conclude that “in a few decades, there will be no Jews in France.”

But none of these facts have troubled globalist Emanuel Macron (and company), whose focus is on making everyone feel welcome in France, no matter what. Never mind those who choose not to integrate. This can be partially explained due to the fact that Macron does not believe that there is anything substantial to integrate into. He once declared that there is “no such thing” as a true Frenchman or true Dane. So it follows that Macron has a few ideas of his own about the rebuilding of the Notre Dame cathedral that would reflect his undying commitment to “diversity,” even if they are callous toward Christians and those who respect France’s heritage. Macron does not believe that the rebuilding of the Notre Dame should be intended to restore the glory of the ancient Gothic cathedral (with the painstaking labor that went into it); instead, Macron wants it to be recreated to be “consistent with our modern, diverse nation.”

Now what might that mean? Here’s an indicator: an architect has proposed that the new structure include a minaret. A minaret is a type of tower built into mosques as a visual focal point and used for the Islamic call to prayer. The architect sees fit to “memorialize Algerians who protested the French government in the 1960s” since “these victims of the state could be memorialized by replacing the spire with – why not? – a graceful minaret.” Given the obscene insensitivity displayed by Macron and others, it would come as no surprise if indeed a minaret were installed at Notre Dame, as a declaration of victory over France’s history and democracy.

Macron undoubtedly knows that Islamic countries — among others — value their own history and culture, but he has no such respect for French culture, and so it would follow that he would believe that there is no culture in France to protect. The burning down of Notre Dame was symbolic of the steady burn of French culture, as the country’s globalist leaders continue to bow to everything multiculturalism has to offer.



“Macron says Notre Dame should be rebuilt consistent with the modern, diverse France – and architects suggest a glass roof, steel spire and minaret,” Voice of Europe, April 23, 2019:


Macron’s initial promise to restore the magnificent cathedral to its former glory has been shoved aside. Now he says it will be rebuilt “consistent with our modern, diverse nation”, and at the same time the French Government has announced an international competition to redesign the Notre Dame spire.

After the announcement designers haven’t missed the opportunity to respond with their ideas, proposing that it should not be faithfully restored, but rebuilt with “contemporary” features such as a glass roof, steel spire, or even a minaret.

The Telegraph published an article claiming it would be a “travesty” to restore Notre Dame, while Rolling Stone quoted a Harvard architecture historian as saying that the burning of a building “so overburdened with meaning… feels like an act of liberation.”

Lord Norman Foster, arguably Britain’s most famous modern architect, has unveiled a design topping the ancient cathedral with a glass and steel canopy with a featureless glass and steel spire, which he describes as “a work of art about light” which would be “contemporary and very spiritual and capture the confident spirit of the time”.

Ian Ritchie, a modern architect most famous for the so-called Spire of Dublin – a metal spike erected in the Irish capital – is mulling a proposal along similar lines, which he describes as “a refracting, super-slender reflecting crystal to heaven” or a “beautiful contemporary tracery of glass crystals and stainless steel” – i.e. a featureless glass and steel spire.
Perhaps most controversial is a proposal in Domus, the architecture magazine, by Tom Wilkinson, for the fallen spire to be replaced with an Islamic minaret….

EVANGELIST FRANKLIN GRAHAM CHALLENGES BUTTIGIEG'S VIEW ON HOMOSEXUALITY

Franklin Graham urges Buttigieg to repent 
for sin of being gay

Franklin Graham Suspended by Facebook, Blocked for His Biblical 'Hate Speech'

EVANGELIST FRANKLIN GRAHAM CHALLENGES BUTTIGIEG'S VIEW ON HOMOSEXUALITY 

BY STEVE BYAS

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32128-evangelist-franklin-graham-challenges-buttigiegs-view-on-homosexuality?vsmaid=4391&vcid=3987; 

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Franklin Graham, evangelical Christian leader and son of the most widely known evangelist of the 20th century — the late Billy Graham — took issue Wednesday with South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Democratic presidential candidate who has publicly attacked Vice President Mike Pence, a former Indiana governor, on the issue of homosexuality and its relationship to Christianity.

Graham said in a tweet, “Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a gay Christian. As a Christian I believe the Bible defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized. The Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman — not two men, not two women.”

During the CNN-sponsored “Town Hall” event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Buttigieg defended his homosexuality: “I get that one of the things about Scripture is different people see different things in it. At the very least we should be able to establish that God does not have a political party.”

But Buttigieg was the one who first interjected his status as a gay man into the contest, and opted to attack Vice President Pence’s Christian faith in relationship to that status. He recently questioned Pence’s Christianity for serving with President Donald Trump, and said that Pence (who had said nothing publicly about Buttigieg’s homosexuality) and those who think like him should understand that if they have a problem with Buttigieg’s sexual orientation, then they should take it up with God.

What Buttigieg was saying was not really a political statement, per se, because Pence has proposed no laws inhibiting the mayor’s homosexual lifestyle, but rather a religious statement. When Buttigieg said at the CNN event, “It can be challenging to be a person of faith who’s also part of the LGBTQ community and yet, to me, the core of faith is regard for one another,” adding, “And part of how God’s love is experienced, according to my faith tradition, is in the way that we support one another and, in particular, support the least among us,” he was stating religious beliefs.



Buttigieg has every right to express whatever religious belief he wants, but by the same reasoning, so does Mike Pence, and so does Franklin Graham. And when a public figure such as Buttigieg chooses to use his position as a public figure to advance a religious viewpoint, others have not only a right, but a duty, to defend their own religious viewpoint.

But what has happened in American society in recent years is that Christians who accept the authority of Scripture are expected to just shut up and not assert their view that homosexuality, adultery, and other sexual sins are sins.

The truth is that public figures have been using their public platforms to attack evangelical and Roman Catholic Christianity more and more, in increasingly strident tones. When Amy Comey Barrett, a Catholic, was up for confirmation to a federal circuit court judge position, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) actually told Barrett that she did not like her Catholic “dogma.” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told Russell Vought, a nominee for a post in the Office of Management and Budget, that he was going to vote against him simply because Voight holds to the position that salvation is only through faith in Jesus Christ.

And, incredibly enough, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, the 2016 candidate of the Libertarian Party — a party supposedly dedicated to the concept of “liberty” — dismissed the concept of religious liberty as a “black hole.”

Buttigieg, during his unprovoked assault upon Pence’s Christian faith, said, “My understanding of Scripture, it’s about protecting the stranger and the prisoner and the poor person and that idea of welcome. That’s what I get in the gospel when I’m in church.”

For years, liberals have cited Scripture (wrongly, many say) to argue that Jesus was some sort of progressive who advocated the redistribution of wealth, but when someone else would quote the Bible to defend a conservative position, they would shout that such quotations are “mixing politics and religion.”

We can expect that Graham will be told that he should not have called homosexual behavior a sin — after all, only liberals are allowed to use religion in a political context. But Graham is not even making a political point. On the contrary, Graham is defending his Christian faith from what he believes is a public and deliberate distortion by a politician.

Of course, politicians have never really cared for preachers calling them out for sexual sins. King Herod wasn’t too happy about it when John the Baptist publicly condemned him for taking his own brother’s wife away from him. John the Baptist called it what it was — adultery — and a sin. At the angry wife’s urging, Herod had John beheaded.

Franklin Graham doesn’t face decapitation — we haven’t degenerated that far, yet — but he will no doubt face the wrath of the elites who control academia, Hollywood, and the secular media. He should also receive the support of fellow Christians for bravely defending the faith from distortion.

BIDEN ENTERS RACE WITH VIDEO THAT BASHES TRUMP AS ALLY OF RACISTS; STILL LEADS IN POLLS

IS HE THE BEST THAT DELAWARE CAN OFFER AMERICA?

BIDEN ENTERS RACE WITH VIDEO THAT BASHES TRUMP AS ALLY OF RACISTS; STILL LEADS IN POLLS 

BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/32125-biden-enters-race-with-video-that-bashes-trump-as-ally-of-racists-still-leads-in-polls?vsmaid=4391&vcid=3987; 

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The question isn’t just whether Joe Biden, who announced his candidacy for president yesterday, can defeat Donald Trump. It isn’t even whether he can win the nomination — an increasingly doubtful proposition in a party that is openly hostile to white men.

The question is whether Biden can overcome his past. His nickname is Creepy Joe because he has a bad habit of grabbing, hugging, and kissing any woman who gets within arm’s length.

But the Biden résumé also includes plagiarism, a fight against forced busing (a position liberals in the Democrat Party would take issue with), silly racial gaffes that would have ended the career of any Republican, and what the hard Left and sisterhood claim is his betrayal of sex-harassment hoaxer Anita Hill during the confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

Nonetheless, Biden is in. The polling shows he is the heavy favorite among rank-and-file Democratic voters, but again, the radicals who control the party might stymie his third try for the White House.

Mendacious Video
Biden didn’t bother contesting or challenging President Trump’s foreign, economic, or other policies in his opening video. Instead, he adopted the Left’s usual tactic: name-calling. Albeit without name-calling.

Biden opened with a few words about Thomas Jefferson and Charlottesville, Virginia, then segued into the unfortunate race riot in Charlottesville in 2017.

“Charlottesville is also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years,” Biden intoned. “It was there on August of 2017 we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism. Chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s. And they were met by a courageous group of Americans, and a violent clash ensued and a brave young woman lost her life.”

Then Biden said the president’s remarks on the riot “stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation. He said there were ‘some very fine people on both sides.’ Very fine people on both sides?”

Trump also said “we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” but ignoring that, Biden claimed the president “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.”



Those remarks, Biden said, were an afflatus. “I wrote at the time that we’re in the battle for the soul of this nation. Well, that’s even more true today. We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.”

If Trump is reelected, Biden said, “he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation — who we are — and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

Thus, Biden is running. To save us from Trump.



Biden’s Past
Awaiting this moment were moderate Democrats who fear a repeat of 1972, when Democrats went off the deep end, nominated hard-left George McGovern, and handed Nixon the presidency.

Problem is, moderate Democrats don’t control the party. Radicals do, which is why Biden’s most disqualifying attribute might be his sex and race. The New York Times frankly asked whether a white man could "be the face of the Democratic Party in 2020,” an explicit recognition that the party is, as columnist Pat Buchanan wrote, “no party for old white men.”

That said, as The New American has reported, the Real Clear Politics polling average shows that Biden holds a comfortable lead over his closest rival, communist apologist Bernie Sanders, and a commanding lead over the rest of the field.

The latest voter polls from RCP put Biden over Sanders, 29.3 percent to 23 percent. Harris sits at 8.3, 21 points behind, followed by media darling Pete Buttigieg at 7.5 percent, the leftist media’s only hope they’ll be reporting about a homosexual and his “husband” in the White House.

But that’s the RCP average. A Morning Consult poll conducted among nearly 15,000 registered voters from April 15 through 21 showed Biden ahead of Sanders 30-24, with the rest no closer than Buttigieg at nine, a whopping 21 points behind Biden and 15 behind socialist Sanders.

A Monmouth University poll of 330 registered voters 10 days ago showed Biden ahead of Sanders, 27-20, with Harris and Buttigieg at eight percent.


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CREEPY UNCLE JOE HIRES HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S ‘DAMAGE CONTROL’ ADVISER

Former Obama official praised Communist Dictator Mao

https://www.infowars.com/creepy-uncle-joe-hires-harvey-weinsteins-damage

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COPS: BETO O'ROUKE TRIED TO FLEE DRUNK DRIVING CRASH

COPS: BETO O'ROUKE TRIED TO FLEE 

DRUNK DRIVING CRASH

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273576/cops-beto-orouke-tried-flee-drunk-driving-crash-daniel-greenfield; 

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

Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke's campaign may be losing steam, so this is an important reminder that he truly is Kennedyesque.


The former police officer who arrested Beto O’Rourke for driving drunk in 1998, along with the sergeant who signed the incident report, both say they believe now what they reported at the time: that O’Rourke tried to leave the scene of the wreck he caused.

O’Rourke admits he was intoxicated and says there is no justification for his actions, but he has denied that he tried to flee.

Neither the investigating officer, Richard Carrera, nor his former supervisor, Gary Hargrove, specifically recalls the events of that night more than 20 years ago. But both of the former Anthony Police Department officers told The Texas Tribune they have no doubt the report they compiled and signed is accurate.

“I believe we have contradicting stories here,” said Carrera, who arrested the 26-year-old O’Rourke and took him to a police station to undergo a breath test. “I stand by my report.”

Carrera, 49, said after reading the police report, in which an unnamed witness claimed O’Rourke tried to flee in his Volvo, he has “no doubt that he tried to leave the scene.”


It figures that it would be a Volvo. Though that's less Kennedyesque and more Obamaesque. And it doesn't really qualify as Kennedyesque unless you kill a woman.

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SEE ALSO:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/32127-cops-to-texas-tribune-o-rourke-tried-to-flee-dui-crash?vsmaid=4391&vcid=3987

EIGHT OF NINE ISLAMIC SUICIDE BOMBERS WHO KILLED MORE THAN 300 IN SRI LANKA NOW IDENTIFIED

EIGHT OF NINE ISLAMIC SUICIDE BOMBERS WHO KILLED MORE THAN 300 IN SRI LANKA NOW IDENTIFIED

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: https://christiannews.net/2019/04/24/eight-of-nine-islamic-suicide-bombers-that-killed-more-than-300-in-sri-lanka-now-identified/; 

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COLOMBO — Eight of the nine Islamic suicide bombers responsible for the deadly blasts that killed more than 300 people in Sri Lanki on Sunday, including at two Roman Catholic assemblies and an evangelical charismatic church, have now been identified by officials.

According to reports, most were middle to upper class citizens, with some holding degrees from foreign universities.

“They’re quite well-educated people,” Junior Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said during a press conference on Wednesday, according to ABC News. “We believe one of the suicide bombers studied in the U.K. and then later on did his postgraduate in Australia before coming back to settle in Sri Lanka.”

Names of the bombers include Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed and brothers Inshaf Ibrahim and Ilham Ibrahim.



Wijewardene outlined that the assailants were those that had affiliations with the local Muslim group National Towheed Jamaar. The philosophy of the attackers, he said, is that “Islam can be the only religion in this country.”

The barbaric Islamic group ISIS had also claimed responsibility for the deadly bombings, releasing a photograph of eight of the individuals — most of whom had their face covered — as well as a video of the men pledging allegiance to ISIS.

Sri Lanka is largely a Buddhist nation — an estimated 70 percent of residents identify as Buddhist, followed by 12 percent Hindu. Less than 10 percent identify as Catholic or evangelical, and likewise fewer than 10 percent identify as Muslim.

According to reports, the attackers at the three houses of worship targeted all Catholic facilities: St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya; St. Anthony’s Church in Colombo; and St. Mary’s Cathedral in Batticaloa.

The Daily Mirror reports that a suspicious male went to St. Mary’s Cathedral at approximately 8:30 a.m. and began to inquire about mass. However, as the service had begun early that morning, most of the attendees had left the premises.

The attacker consequently left and went down the road to Zion Church, a charismatic congregation, where he similarly began to make inquiries about the meeting.

Contrary to reports from The Times of India and other outlets, which characterized the service as a “mass” and the leaders as “father” or “priests,” Zion Church is evangelical and not Catholic. It identifies itself on social media as “A Charismatic church, situated in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. A branch church of Lighthouse Church, Kandy, Sri Lanka. A member of the Fellowship Of Free Churches of Sri Lanka.”

Ganeshamoorthy Thirukumaran, one of the pastors of the church, says that he spoke to the man and invited him inside.

“I noticed a person standing near the pastor’s office with a bag on his shoulder and clutching another bag to his chest. I asked him who he was and why he was standing there,” he recalled to the Daily Mirror. “He replied that he had just come to observe what was happening at the church and asked me details about the church.”

Thirukumaran asked another church member to tend to the inquirer, and the member became uncomfortable with the visitor’s suspicious demeanor and questions. He began to lead him off the premises. While standing just outside the building, the man detonated a bomb, killing a number of children who were playing and/or eating a snack nearby.

Caroline Mahendran, one of the Sunday School teachers at Zion Church, said that the children had just been asked during class if they were willing to die for Christ, and minutes later, a dozen of them lost their lives.

“Today was an Easter Sunday School at the church and we asked the children, ‘How many of you [are] willing to die for Christ?’ Everyone raised their hands,” Israeli reporter Hananya Naftali posted to social media in sharing Mehendran’s recollection. “Minutes later, they came down to the main service and the blast happened. Half of the children died on the spot.”

Thirukumaran’s 14-year-old son was among those who died in the blast.

Roshan Mahesan, the senior pastor of Zion Church, posted the times and locations of the funeral services to social media on Monday. He also shared a message about the terror attack on Sunday, writing in English above the video, “May the dear Lord continue to comfort us all in this difficult time.”

Messages of condolence have poured in from around the world.

“Our deepest condolences with sympathy for church members who lost their loved ones. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected,” one commenter wrote.

“Terribly sorry to hear of your tragic and violent loss. May God’s Holy Spirit comfort you all in the years ahead and grant you the grace necessary to lead in these dangerous times, in Jesus’ name,” another posted.

“We are with you pastor and congregation of Zion Church. May the Lord comfort you all and give you strength to face this pain. We uphold you in our prayers,” a third stated.

In addition to the three houses of worship, suicide bombers also targeted three luxury hotels — the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand hotels — and an explosion additionally occurred at the mansion of attacker Ilham Ibrahim, as his pregnant wife blew herself up when police arrived on the scene, killing the officers and her three additional children.

Surveillance footage from the hotels has been located, showing men with backpacks walking the premises.

A pipe bomb was also found on a road near the Colombo airport. It was safely detonated by authorities.

359 people were killed in the various blasts at the seven locations, and an estimated 500 injured. Four Americans died in the attacks and nearly 50 Sri Lankan children.

Some residents are further upset now that it has emerged that the government reportedly had been warned about potential violence from Islamists.

“We were told that ten minutes before the blast, Indian intelligence had said that this is going to happen,” Hilmy Ahmed, vice president of Sri Lanka’s Muslim Association, told CBS News. “The churches could have been evacuated and at least the number of casualties could have been reduced.”

He noted that one of the men shown in the video released by ISIS, Moulavi Zahran Hashem, had been reported to intelligence officials three years ago.

“I don’t think they took this threat seriously enough, to put enough manpower [into it] to track him down,” Ahmed said.

The Daily Mail reports that dozens have either been arrested or questioned in the aftermath of the coordinated terror attacks.


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SEE ALSO:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273585/twitter-notifies-frontpage-editor

-jamie-glazov-frontpagemagcom

Sri Lanka Suicide Bomber Was Radicalized in 

Great Britain and Australia

AND:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/sri-lanka-muslim-preacher-who-

masterminded-easter-jihad-massacre-preached-that-idolaters-need-to-be-

slaughtered

PRESIDENT TRUMP PARTICIPATES IN A ROUND TABLE ON IMMIGRATION & BORDER SECURITY

PRESIDENT TRUMP PARTICIPATES IN A ROUND TABLE ON IMMIGRATION & BORDER SECURITY