DINESH D'SOUZA INTERVIEWED ABOUT HIS NEW BLOCKBUSTER FILM,
"HILLARY'S AMERICA"
Published on Jul 28, 2016
Dinesh D'Souza discusses the criminality of the Clinton family as well as his latest film which shows them for what they really are.
Friday, July 29, 2016
OBAMA RESTARTS MILITARIZATION OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
OBAMA RESTARTS MILITARIZATION
OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/23743-obama-restarts-militarization-of-local-law-enforcement; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In light of recent unrest, President Obama has decided to go back on his promise to halt the militarization of local law enforcement.
As reported this week by Tech Dirt:
The images of police greeting protesters with assault rifles, armored vehicles, grenade launchers, and officers who appeared to mistake the Midwest for downtown Kabul apparently was a bit too much. It looked more like an occupation than community-oriented policing — something every administration has paid lip service (and tax dollars) to over the past few decades while simultaneously handing out grants that turned police officers into warfighters.
Apparently, though, it isn’t so much the danger of looting, but the power of lobbying that brought about the president’s change of heart.
In an exclusive interview with two “police organization directors” — Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, and Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations — Reuters reports that the law enforcement lobbyists met with the president and Vice President Joe Biden on July 11, three days after the tragic murder of five police officers in Dallas.
After the meeting, President Obama ordered the administration’s chief legal counsel to review the ban on the transfer of military materiel to police departments and other law-enforcement agencies that the president announced in May 2015.
While speaking at an event in Camden, New Jersey, on May 18, 2015, President Obama announced that in response to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, the previous August, he was banning the sale of certain military equipment to local law enforcement. "We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like they're an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them," Obama said at the time.
This policy was in made furtherance of procedures outlined in Executive Order 16388 that Obama issued in January 2015. In that fiat, the president set up a task force of federal officials to prepare a report on the potential use and misuse by local law enforcement of military-grade equipment.
Not surprisingly, within hours of the White House’s pronouncement, the police lobby was lobbing criticism at President Obama.
“The nation’s largest police union is fighting back against a White House plan to restrict local police forces’ ability to acquire military-style gear, accusing President Barack Obama’s task force of politicizing officers’ safety,” Politico reported in May 2015.
Well, their voice was heard, and the restriction lasted about a year. Now, thanks to the pressure from those police representatives, the pipeline of weapons more suited for waging war than serving warrants is open and flowing freely from the feds to the police.
Specifically, Reuters reports, the lobbyists’ warfighter wish list included “helmets, grenade launchers and tracked armored vehicles.”
While most stories published by traditional media outlets have focused on the 1033 program — the Defense Department’s program that takes decommissioned military gear and passes it to police — that well of war machines and materiel isn't nearly as deep as the one controlled by the Department of Homeland Security. This second source is rarely even mentioned in the context of controlling police access to military equipment, but Radley Balko, the author of books and articles revealing the depth and danger of the militarization of police, uncovers this virtually ignored arrangement between the feds and local law enforcement. He writes in the Washington Post,
Since 2003, for example, the Department of Homeland Security has been giving grants to police departments around the country to purchase new military-grade gear. That program now dwarfs the 1033 Program. It has also given rise to a cottage industry of companies that build gear in exchange for those DHS checks. Those companies now have a significant lobbying presence in Washington. I suspect that presence will now only grow stronger. So if the Obama administration really wants to roll back police militarization, this program needs reform, too.
Steadily and speedily, the forces of the militarized police are denying citizens the protections of fundamental civil liberties afforded us by the Bill of Rights. While there remain legions of law-enforcement officers devoted to protecting and serving their fellow citizens, the federal government’s proffer of powerful, free (or almost free) weapons, vehicles, gear, and tactical training is making the allure of becoming an unofficial branch of the armed forces irresistible.
The equipment being stricken from the list of items blocked from sale to the police is, the officers’ reps claim, necessary “to enhance officers' safety and their ability to respond to violent riots.”
Curiously, despite the recent spate of officer deaths, the current rate of such crimes is actually no higher than average and is lower than in recent years.
According to data reported by the National Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial Fund, 31 police officers have been killed this year, putting the country on pace for a yearly total of 59. That is fewer than the number of officers fatally shot in 2007, 2010, and 2011.
Such facts don’t support the statists’ goal of converting local police into a sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces — a force armed and trained to exert absolute control over the civilian population they were ostensibly created to protect and serve.
The White House, of course, insists that the revision of the year-old policy is standard operating procedure and nothing to do with being leaned on by law-enforcement lobbyists.
Pasco, of the Fraternal Order of Police, told Reuters that President Obama thought that this type of arms and armor “intimidated people,” but after their confab he came to see that police couldn’t protect and serve without being outfitted with armored personal vehicles and grenade launchers.
One wonders how the goal of reducing violent encounters between police and the public is furthered by endowing the former with firepower capable of killing the latter en masse.
Moreover, there is something psychologically significant about a police officer being outfitted with a uniform, a helmet, and weapons that were obviously made to protect the wearer — a warfighter — from an enemy and to enable him to kill that enemy.
As TechDirt writes, “Put someone in war gear and they're going to be pretty sure they're in a war, rather than serving the public as a trusted member of the community.”
In light of the president’s bowing to pressure to green-light the federal government’s subtle subordination of local police and sheriffs through grants of money and materiel, Americans need to participate in grassroots activism to work to keep local law enforcement under the supervision of local elected officials and free from state and federal control or influence.
NEOCONS, WARMONGERS & GLOBALISTS ABANDON GOP FOR HILLARY
NEOCONS, WARMONGERS & GLOBALISTS ABANDON GOP FOR HILLARY
BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In the top echelons of political power, there is only one major party in American politics, and that is the globalist war party. In case Americans needed more evidence that party labels are largely meaningless to the bipartisan ruling establishment, influential members of the establishment wing of the GOP — neocons, warmongers, globalists, and so on — are abandoning the Republican Party and in many cases jumping on board the Democrat Hillary Clinton campaign. From Bush-era war hawks who misled Americans into war to pseudo-conservative operatives of the globalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations, Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) are showing their true colors and allegiances. Blasting Donald Trump, more than a few of the globalist RINOs and neocon warmongers are now proudly on the Hillary Train.In the massive history book Tragedy and Hope, Bill Clinton mentor and establishment insider Carroll Quigley explains succinctly how American politics works in the real world — and how the insiders like it. “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers,” Quigley says matter-of-factly in what would certainly be news to most grassroots activists in both parties. “Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.” As far as the establishment is concerned, Trump, who proudly slams the Hillary-backed Iraq and Libya wars and blasts “globalism,” may be a threat to that whole “uniparty” idea.Ironically, establishment media outlets are touting the establishment GOP defections to Hillary among neocons and globalists in an apparent effort to hurt the the Trump campaign. Apparently, they are oblivious to the fact that the defections of widely loathed establishment warmongers from Republican ranks actually bolsters Trump's arguments of a “rigged” system — not to mention his credibility in the eyes of supporters on both sides of the political spectrum, including among embattled “working class voters” and union members long considered reliable Democrats. Recent polls make that clear, with Trump's campaign surging ahead of Clinton's and attracting hordes of disaffected Democrats opposed to globalist “free trade” deals and endless wars.One of the many leftist media outlets celebrating the anti-Trump RINOs is the Daily Beast, a sort of wannabe establishment outlet that is unabashedly left-wing. The Beast compiled a list of some of the “biggest GOP names” backing Hillary Clinton so far. According to an alleged “source” within the Clinton camp, “highlighting Republicans who’ve crossed over will be a key fixture in campaign ads this fall.” If the list provided is representative of those “Republicans” to be highlighted, though, Clinton better hope Americans have a short memory. Indeed, aside from some no-name lobbyists and bureaucrats, the list is practically a who's who of the most politically toxic establishment globalists, banksters, and neocons on the planet.Consider: At the top of the list of prominent alleged Republicans pushing Clinton is globalist bankster Henry “Hank” Paulson. Among other supposed accomplishments, the Goldman Sachs CEO and George W. Bush Treasury secretary helped oversee the redistribution of trillions of dollars in public money from middle class and poor Americans to billionaire Wall Street insiders. According to lawmakers, they were threatened by Paulson and his cronies with a declaration of martial law if Congress refused to approve the “banker bailout” heist. Now, Paulson spends much of his time pushing the discredited man-made global-warming theory hoping to profit from the radical policy schemes.Also featuring prominently on the list are many of the neocons responsible for squandering trillions of tax dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives — if not millions — on undeclared, illegal wars based on lies. Chief among them is neocon Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the far-left globalist “think tank” Brookings Institution and a co-founder of the fringe Project for the New American Century that helped lead America into Iraq under Bush. Aside from his own non-stop warmongering seeking to send your children off to die in undeclared wars, Kagan is married to senior Obama official and fellow warmonger Victoria Nuland. Naturally, Kagan is on Team Hillary.Another senior neocon globalist on the Hillary Train is Max Boot, a left-wing Council on Foreign Relations(CFR) operative who claims to have been a “lifelong Republican” despite his love for Big Government. “[Hillary Clinton] would be vastly preferable to Trump,” Boot was quoted as saying, adding that he hopes the GOP will split. “What she basically espouses is a pretty mainstream view.” Of course, what Clinton espouses is so far from mainstream, it's hard to believe anyone, including fringe neocons, actually believes something so ridiculous. Just a few days ago, a poll showed eight in 10 voters want more restrictions on abortion, while Clinton wants even less restrictions and more tax funding for it. Almost no Americans except Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and fringe abortion activists support any tax funding for abortions. And that is just the start.Others on the list of disgraced “Republican” neocons, globalists, and establishment insiders who are pushing a Clinton presidency include Bush globalist and leading Iraq war booster Richard Armitage; Ken Adelman, assistant to Iraq warmonger Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and later a senior disarmament bureaucrat; Tony Fratto, deputy propagandist for George W. Bush; former “regional EPA administrator” Alan Steinberg, also from the second Bush administration; Mark Salter, a “former speechwriter” for embattled neocon globalist Senator John McCain of Arizona; and more. Also listed are people with politically toxic titles like “Republican lobbyist,” “Republican strategist,” and a handful of mega-donors and crony capitalists.That is all wonderful news for the Trump campaign. Essentially, neoconservatism and globalism are now considered toxic in the GOP. And so, the neocon and globalist factions in the Republican Party have been preparing to migrate to the Democrat Party to join their ideological brethren. The preparations have been underway for some time. Indeed, the globalist mouthpiece New York Times, described as a “propaganda megaphone” for war and the establishment by a former reporter, reported on the trend two years ago — long before Trump, running on an anti-globalism campaign, became the nominee. “Even as they castigate Mr. Obama, the neocons may be preparing a more brazen feat: aligning themselves with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her nascent presidential campaign, in a bid to return to the driver’s seat of American foreign policy,” an opinion piece in the Times noted in July of 2014. “It’s easy to imagine Mrs. Clinton’s making room for the neocons in her administration.”More recently, Politico was reporting that the Hillary Clinton campaign was courting major Bush donors — many of whom stand to lose big money if the cronyism, banker bailouts, and funding for the perpetual war machine start to dry up. According to the report, the Clinton camp told Bush's donors “that she represents their values better than Donald Trump.” And if Trump actually means what he says about stopping illegal wars, asking Congress for a declaration of war before waging one, withdrawing from globalist entangling alliances and pseudo-“free trade” regimes, putting America first, ending globalism, and so on, then the Clinton campaign is probably — in an unusual move — actually telling the truth in this case.The ultra far-left, Bernie Sanders-supporting wing of the Democrat Party has wondered if and when the opposite might start happening, with non-establishment Democrats joining the Trump bandwagon. “One might think that at least Bernie’s supporters would applaud Trump’s left-wing transformation of the old conservative, pro-corporate neocon Cheney-Bush core of the Republican Party,” explained two leftist analysts at the radical leftist website Counterpunch.org. “But nobody had a single good word to say about Trump’s assertions that he would wind down confrontation with Russia, reduce military spending on the grounds that NATO is obsolete, and oppose the TPP and TTIP as well as rewrite NAFTA’s terms.” Indeed, many lifelong Democrats have already joined the Trump bandwagon, as chronicled by the pro-Clinton Daily Beast itself.Meanwhile, the neocons will have to share the Democrat Party with proud communists and socialists, as evidenced by the numerous Marxists and other extremists on the Platform Committee. However, the ideological extremism of the neoconservative movement actually makes the factions natural allies. In his 1995 book Neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, the father of neocon Bill Kristol and of the neocon movement, made it plain. “I regard myself lucky to have been a young Trotskyite and I have not one single bitter memory,” Kristol gushed. Other founding fathers of the neoconservative movement such as Norman Podhoretz and Max Shachtman, a former Communist Party member, shared those feelings.National Review editor, Skull and Bones secret society initiate, and CFR member William Buckley, masterfully exposed in the 2002 book William F. Buckley, Jr.: Pied Piper for the Establishment, played a key role in helping the neocons burrow their way into the GOP. But now, with National Review's reputation and influence in tatters, the most unsavory elements of the GOP are packing up and moving to the Democratic Party. As such, the Democrat Party is becoming the proud pro-war, pro-Wall Street Party under Clinton.Neocons themselves are well aware of it. “I'm old enough to remember when the Republican nominee was pro-war, pro-TPP, and pro-Wall Street ... and proud of it!” lamented neocon leader and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, the son of the Trotskyite founder of the neoconservative movement. The bizarre remark was a response to Trump's comment that Bernie Sanders had “abandoned his supporters by endorsing pro-war pro-TPP pro-Wall Street Crooked Hillary Clinton.” The globalists and neocons are not all dumb, though, as evidenced by the fact that some of them have not yet burned their bridges with Trump.Whether Trump will actually stand by his pledges of a non-interventionist foreign policy, sensible trade policies, and an end to globalism remains to be seen. With no voting record but a documented history of funding the Clintons and other establishment politicians, more than a few real conservatives and constitutionalists have expressed concerns about Trump. If Republicans work hard, though, the exposure and exodus from the GOP of the globalist-neocon-warmonger faction, which includes almost zero actual grassroots voters, will mean that there is at least one major party in American politics not totally under the control of anti-American globalist neocons who love war and aim to sideline the U.S. Constitution.Still, the real keys to making America great again include creating an educated electorate that understands the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian foundations of America, and electing good candidates to the House of Representatives who understand as well. Patriotic Americans should not lose sight of those facts amid the frenzied 2016 presidential election.Related articles:
RUSSIA’S NEW LAW RESTRICTING EVANGELISM SIGNED BY PUTIN CRUSHES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPEECH
RUSSIA’S NEW LAW RESTRICTING EVANGELISM
(Friday Church News Notes, July 29, 2016, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
SEE: http://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/17_31.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The following is excerpted from “Putin Signs,” Forum18.org, July 8, 2016: “Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed into law legislation on so-called ‘missionary activity,’ further restricting the public expression of freedom of religion and belief, including in the media and online. The amendment--which has been rapidly introduced--caused widespread protests, but was signed on 6 July and the signing was made public at Moscow lunchtime on 7 July. It was published on the presidential website that day and comes into force on 20 July. Lawyers working to protect the right to freedom of religion and belief are already preparing for an appeal to the Constitutional Court. ... Against international human rights obligations, the amendments to the Religion Law restrict those who can share beliefs to people with permission from members of state-registered religious groups and organisations. This excludes people from groups which have chosen to operate without state permission, such as certain Baptist congregations.
The amendments also bar even informal sharing of beliefs, for example responding to questions or comments, by individuals acting on their own behalf. The amendments also restrict the beliefs that can be shared, specifies a restricted list of places where beliefs may be shared, and explicitly bans any beliefs from being shared in residential buildings, or on another association’s property without permission. An allegedly ‘anti-terrorist’ part of the amendments bars the conversion of residential property to religious use. There are now heavy financial penalties of up to 50,000 Roubles for individuals and up to 1 million Roubles for organisations who violate the amendments. A fine of 50,000 Roubles (about 6,500 Norwegian Kroner, 700 Euros, or 780 US Dollars) represents about six weeks’ average wages for those in work. Maximum fines for organisations would be up to 20 times as much.”
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
ACTIVIST PROUDLY PROCLAIMS HER ABORTION AT DNC: ABORTION GIVES WOMEN "POWER OVER OWN DESTINY"
KILLING UNBORN CHILDREN THAT INTERFERE WITH A WOMAN'S CAREER & DREAMS IS WHAT THESE & THOSE LIKE THEM STAND FOR
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Prior to her work for NARAL, Hogue worked for MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Media Matters for America, and the Friends of Democracy super PAC, a campaign-finance reform group founded by Jonathan Soros.
ACTIVIST PROCLAIMS HER ABORTION AT DNC: ABORTION GIVES WOMEN "POWER OVER OWN DESTINY"
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
PHILADELPHIA — The president of an abortion advocacy group unashamedly declared on Wednesday during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that she herself had an abortion, and asserted that killing unborn children gives women “power over [their] own destiny.”Ilyse Hogue is the leader of the National Abortion Rights Action League, also known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. She took to the stage during the convention to shout her abortion to the nation and declare that American needs Hillary Clinton to keep abortion legal.“To succeed in life, all we need are the tools, the trust, and the chance to chart our own path,” Hogue stated. “I was fortunate enough to have these things when I found out I was pregnant years ago. I wanted a family, but it was the wrong time. I made the decision that was best for me—to have an abortion and get compassionate care at a clinic in my own community.”Convention-goers clapped and cheered at the revelation.“My story is not unique. About one in three American woman have abortions by the age of 45 and the majority are mothers just trying to take care of the families they already have,” she said. “It’s not as simple as bad girls get abortions and good girls have families. We’re the same women at different times in our lives each making decisions that are best for us.”Hogue suggested that abortion helps to make families successful because it allows women to end their pregnancies if they don’t want children at the time.“If we want families to succeed, we start by empowering women. Give us accurate information and access to health care. Keep politicians out of our business when we’re not ready to parent and support us when we are. That’s what gives our families the best chance to get ahead and to stay ahead,” she said.Hogue also contended that those who oppose abortion really aren’t against ending the lives of unborn children, but rather giving power to women.“It’s not abortion that’s bothering them. It’s empowering women to live our own lives,” she asserted. “And when we have power over our own destiny, we honor our most cherished traditions of charity and equality. These aren’t just women’s issues. These are the very foundation of our freedom.”But some state that no one is ever meant to be the lord over their own lives, whether it be in matters of abortion or contraception, or anything else.“[P]racticing birth control is in essence an attempt to lock Sovereign God out of one of the most important areas of our lives. Do not think that it is insignificant, for all things that we do are significant, and is an evidence of the condition of our hearts,” Tony Warren of the Center for Biblical Theology and Escatology writes in an online blog. “We are not the Lord of our lives, Christ is. Therefore, our prayers are not of insistence, but in child-like humility, ‘Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.’”____________________________________________________________________ONLY PRO-LIFERS ARE EXTREMISTPublished on Mar 16, 2016Hillary Clinton and Ilyse Hogue, president on NARAL Pro-Choice America spoke at a NARAL event in New Hampshire on January 22, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.Ilyse Hogue Tells Her Abortion Story
Lila Rose and Ilyse Hogue debate abortion on CNN Crossfire
THE REPUBLICAN "CONSERVATIVE" COMPLETE CAPITULATION TO THE LGBT AGENDA LEAVES OUT BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS:
ARTICLES BELOW FROM:
http://americansfortruth.com/2016/07/25/trumps-lgbtq-friendly-gop-elevates-homosexual-businessman-peter-thiel-media-hype-for-gay-republicans-overshadows-conservative-platform/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Trump’s LGBTQ-Friendly GOP Elevates Homosexual Businessman Peter Thiel – Media Hype for ‘Gay Republicans’ Overshadows Conservative Platform
Fox News, media, Republican social liberals cheer on LGBTQ agenda in Cleveland
“Fake” Culture Wars? Donald Trump gave homosexual (activist) Republican and PayPal founder Peter Thiel a prime-time slot to address the Republican convention–and he used it to belittle the “culture wars” and pro-family campaigns against “transgender rights,” i.e., laws allowing men wearing dresses to use female restrooms. AFTAH does not cower to political correctness: we tell the truth: that God makes no special dispensation for Republican homosexuality as opposed to the Democrat variety.
By Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH Special Report, Part One
Quick Summary [see videos at bottom]:
- Donald Trump is already taking the Republican Party in a pro-homosexual direction
- Trump as a life-long New Yorker has a history of supporting homosexual “rights”
- In his speech accepting the GOP presidential nomination, Trump went out of his way to affirm the “LGBTQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning] community”
- Meanwhile, Trump said nothing about overturning the Supreme Courts’s Obergefell ruling imposing homosexual “marriage” on the states
- Trump also ignored the battle raging between “gay rights” and freedom of conscience [see this Colorado baker case update]. And his long speech did not mention abortion and the plight of the unborn
- All these issues were featured prominently in the conservative 2016 GOP Platform approved in Cleveland
- Trump did champion a repeal of the Johnson Amendment inhibiting churches from political involvement. This will greatly help Christians and pastors to engage culturally if he succeeds
- Trump invited openly homosexual PayPal founder and “gay” activist Peter Thiel to give a prime time address at the GOP convention [watch video at bottom]
- Thiel used the opportunity to deride the “Culture Wars” as “fake”; said he was “proud to be gay”; and he belittled pro-family efforts opposing “transgender rights” laws
- Fox News and other major media applauded Thiel and generally celebrated the “gay Republican” cause
- Fox News’ Megyn Kelly brought on young homosexual Republican Guy Benson and a liberal Democrat–but no social conservative–to comment on Thiel’s address
Homosexualism in the name of “freedom”…is being pushed in the GOP by groups like the American Victory Fund. Shown above are (left to right): Montel Williams, Margaret Hoover and Bruce (“Caitlyn”) Jenner at a widely covered AUL event held at the Republican convention in Cleveland. Watch Jenner’s and Williams’ presentation at the AUL event here. Photo: American United Fund website.
- A convention event put on by the American Unity Fund–a pro-LGBT Republican group–featuring Bruce (“Caitlyn”) Jenner and Montel Williams also received wide media attention in Cleveland
- In contrast, dissident conservative voices–e.g., pro-life and pro-natural marriage voices–will likely receive little media attention at the left-leaning Democratic convention this week
- Socialcons, Beware: Throughout the GOP primary campaign, some socially liberal and libertarian Republicans welcomed Trump’s rise because, to quote one writer, it “appears to have broken the stranglehold social conservatives have had on the party’s primary process”
- The pro-LGBTQ appeal within the GOP is being marketed to and in part driven by millennial voters (ages 18-29)–who, polls show, favor “same-sex marriage” and are more accepting of homosexuality than older demographics
- However, transcendent, biblical morality is timeless and is not determined by polls
- Unlike many politically correct conservatives who walk on eggshells when discussing “gay Republicans” and the GOP’s perversion-enabling “Big Tent,” we at Americans For Truth embrace and boldly defend historic truth: homosexualism is immoral whether advanced by Democrats or Republicans, or by young people or older people.
- And with God’s help, people can overcome the sin of homosexuality: see this inspiring interview with former “gay” Frank Worthen
- Conservatives have long condemned “moral relativism,” but that is the essence of the new campaign by GOP moderates and social liberals to rationalize homosexualism and gender confusion in the name of freedom and conservatism
- Openly homosexual Republicans and their “straight allies” may be conservative on a variety of issues, but on homosexual and transgender issues they usually echo liberal, LGBT talking points
- If the GOP becomes a party espousing homosexual “marriage” and “LGBT rights”–i.e., a “Democrat-Lite” party on moral and social issues–it will cease to be truly conservative and pro-family. It will dishonor God, and become an agent of destructive change in America
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Quick Links:
- Trump GOP convention speech text
- Peter Thiel GOP convention speech text and video (note conservative Breitbart site’s laudatory coverage)
- Video: Fox “Fair & Balanced”? Homosexual conservative Guy Benson praises Thiel’s speech on Megyn Kelly’s show
- Obama’s Reign of Error: Long list of President Barack Obama’s pro-LGBT actions
- AFTAH article: “Affidavit and Video: Cross-dressing Transgender Voyeur Shauna Smith – Who Shot Video of Woman Undressing at Idaho Target Store – Says It Was Like Viewing Porn
- GOP 2016 Platform: excerpts on key social issues
- Full Republican Party Platform approved in Cleveland (PDF)
- Fox News’ liberalism: Author’s in-depth report on Fox News’ Pro-Gay Bias for America’s Survival (PDF)
- New York Times article (4/22/16): “Donald Trump’s more accepting views on Gay issues set him apart in GOP”
- Politico article (7/22/16): “Gay Republicans want more from Trump”
- AFTAH article on Trump’s liberal, “gay”-affirming past: “Trump Called For Adding Homosexuality to the 1964 Civil Rights Act – in 2000 Interview with ‘Gay’ Magazine”
- Conservative pollster Rasmussen Reports on Trump breaking social conservatives’ “stranglehold” on the Republican Party (3/3/16): “Why Trump Is Good for the GOP”
- Video: American Unity Fund event at GOP Convention featuring Bruce (“Caitlyn”) Jenner and Montel Williams (who compares unchangeable race to homosexuality)
- Trump’s Promise to Christians: Time article (7/14/16) on Trump and the Johnson Amendment: “Republican platform calls for repeal of ban on political organizing by churches”
- “Gay conservatives” get nasty like other homosexual activists: “Tammy Bruce’s Nasty Ambush Interview [of this writer], and Cliff Kincaid on CPAC and ‘Gays'”
- It is a lie to say that “gays” cannot change: “VIDEO: Anne Paulk Interviews Frank Worthen, Dean of Ex-‘Gays’ – at Restored Hope Network Conference”
Will Trump Accelerate Republicans’ Pro-‘Gay’ Evolution?
The Donald’s Social Liberalism: New York Times headline for April 22, 2016 story by reporter Maggie Haberman reports on Trump’s pro-“gay” attitudes. Because most media agree with homosexuality, there was very little coverage in the GOP primary highlighting Trump’s record on homosexualism. Although Ted Cruz used code to mock Trump’s “New York values,” Trump’s past backing of radical, federal “gay civil rights” legislation in 2000 never came up during the campaign. Cruz did make an issue of Trump supporting “transgender” men (men dressed as women) using women’s public restrooms.
My mind is swirling with images from the Republican Party National Convention last week in Cleveland and the media’s skewed coverage of it. Here are some of my observations:
- Donald Trump will lead the GOP further in a pro-homosexual, pro-“transgender” direction than it has ever gone. How far depends on whether Trump wins in November and whether social conservatives will be able to mount a counter-offensive in the GOP (and the larger culture) against pro-homosexual “conservatives.”
- Trump’s choice of “proudly gay” PayPal founder Peter Theil as a prime time speaker last night–an hour or so before The Donald himself would give his own powerful speech to the nation–telegraphs Trump’s (and his family’s) determination to elevate “gay rights” in the Party.
- This was not unexpected. Trump, living his whole life in and around New York City—with its long and unique history of tolerating and then celebrating homosexualism—has ahistory of being pro-homosexual. Unfortunately, this was rarely discussed in the GOP primary campaign (unlike Trump’s past pro-abortion-rights stance, which was widely covered by the media).
- It appears that Trump will be the first Republican presidential standard-bearer to enthusiastically celebrate ‘homosexuals’ as a minority–even as he has heaped praise upon “evangelicals” and pledged to defend their religious freedom. (To his credit, Trump has promised to get rid of the Johnson Amendment inhibiting church political action—but he did not mention the battle between “gay rights” and Christians’ freedom of conscience in his speech.)
- Conservative media like Fox News anchors Sean Hannity, Dana Perino and Megyn Kelly—and conservative commentators like openly homosexual Guy Benson (editor of Townhall.com and a Fox News Contributor)–are all well ahead of Trump when it comes to championing “gays and lesbians” in the GOP. [More on that below; also see my 2013 Fox News Pro-Gay Bias report for America’s Survival.]
The “Gay” Agenda’s Radical Roots: One-time Communist and “Radical Faeries” founderHarry Hay first envisioned the notion of “homosexuals” comprising a “minority” as a means of winning acceptance and building power. Here Hay is shown defending the right of the notorious pederasty group NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) to march in the 1986 Los Angeles “gay pride” parade. Now pro-homosexual advocates in the GOP are pushing the line of Hay and other “gay” activist ideologues positing homosexuality as a “civil right.”
- The evolving, pro-sexual-immorality transformation of America’s “conservative, pro-family” party is a stunning historical development: only a few decades ago, when homosexual practice was taboo and criminalized, it was a Communist, Harry Hay–who founded the group “Radical Faeries” and defended the pederasty group NAMBLA–who first sought to organized homosexuals in America as a political and cultural “minority.”
- Democrat-Lite on Gay Rights? Although it is now clear that Trump and many Republicans want to compete specifically for homosexual voters’ affections, it is doubtful that the GOP will ever match the pro-“gay” zeal of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama is easily the most radically pro-homosexual, pro-transgender president in U.S. history; see a not fully up-to-date list of Obama’s LGBT actions HERE. Before Obama, another Democrat, Bill Clinton, became the first president to seriously advance the “gay rights” agenda. (And Jimmy Carter was the first president to invite homosexual activists to the White House; Carter is now radically pro-“gay.”)
- True to form, Peter Thiel, in his high-profileconvention speech, mocked the social conservative fight against allowing men in female bathrooms (“transgender rights”): “When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?”
- This is significant in that battling the public policy madness of enabling and institutionalizing gender confusion in its many forms–especially men who identify as “women” demanding entrance to female restrooms and female sports leagues–is the one arena where Republicans and conservatives are on the offense vis a vis their LGBTQ rivals. Most Americans are not comfortable with allowing gender-confused men with hormone-induced breasts and a penis entering the private spaces of women and girls.
- Thiel went on to deride “fake culture wars” that “only distract us from our economic decline.” His speech, likely vetted by Trump forces, was enthusiastically applauded by Trump’s family and many in the convention hall. Though it serves Thiel’s self-interest to downplay moral issues, cultural battles over homosexualism and transgenderism are very real and critically important to America’s future. [See this AFTAH story on a male “transgender” pervert allegedly caught secretly videotaping a woman dressing in an Idaho Target store changing room; see my “Letter to Target” here.]
- For the record, Theil and PayPal are very real players in the ongoing “culture wars.” PayPal pulled a plant out of North Carolina in protest of the state’s enactment of law mandating that people use only restrooms matching the gender on their birth certificate, costing the state 400 jobs.
- Thiel reiterated the main falsehood of self-styled “moderates” and secular conservative Republicans: that social issues don’t matter and that the GOP should focus only on economy and national security matters. President Ronald Reagan would not agree. The gipper’s “three-legged stool” for Republicans includes the third leg of social conservatism (along with free market economics and a strong defense and foreign policy). Reagan was passionately and eloquently pro-life and strongly backed natural family values over the homosexual agenda (he was a faithful ally of Anita Bryant, the singing star who led the fight to successfully repeal several homosexual “rights” laws in the 70s).
The Cultural Threat Is Real: Perhaps as a homosexual man Peter Thiel does not understand it, but most women do not want men wearing dresses to occupy a restroom or locker room with them or their daughters. See this story on the arrest of a “transgender” man dressed as a woman who secretly videotaped a woman getting dressed in a women’s changing room in an Idaho Target store. The gender-confused fellow above was attending at the recent “International Mr. Leather” homosexual perversion-fest held every year in Chicago.- Trump himself, like Thiel, has downplayed if not belittled the fight against “transgender rights.” He has been on both sides of North Carolina’s HB2 “bathroom bill,” but courtedBruce (“Caitlyn”) Jenner by telling him (Jenner) that he coulduse any gender restroom he wanted at Trump Tower. Jenner, a Trump-supporting Republican,gladly obliged (standing up or sitting down?). In Cleveland, he spoke at a GOP convention event sponsored by the pro-LGBT-Republican group American Unity Fund–which promotes homosexualism and transsexualism in the name of “freedom.” [This event predictably drew huge media interest; see thisPeople Magazine article on Jennerand view the AUF video talk here.]
- Of course, Theil also declared that he was “proud to be gay.” As I tweeted, Thiel should be proud to have created an amazing corporation—but not his embrace of homosexuality because same-sex behavior is morally wrong. Although being tempted homosexually is not a sin, homosexual behavior itself is sinful, and we know as Christians that people are NOT to be proud of their sin but rather ashamed of it.
- Apply my “Sexual Sin Substitution Test” here: would a person ever say that he is “proud” to be a “pornography-using American” (or have that inclination)? Would fellow Republicans welcome him to publicly identify with them on that basis? We must not make a “truth exception” for homosexuality just because it is alien to most people. [See Prof. Rob Gagnon’s excellent website for more on the Bible and homosexualism.]
- Celebrating homosexuality in any way is not a “conservative” nor a Christian thing to do. Too judgmental, you say? As Christian believers or Jews who follow the Old Testament, we must agree with God’s judgments on sin and righteousness. As conservatives we must “conserve” that which is good, including the Judeo-Christian foundational truths undergirding American liberty and exceptionalism. Our liberty is derived ultimately from God, and the God of the Bible opposes homosexual behavior as sinful (see Romans 1), so how can homosexuality be the basis for “constitutional rights”? Most Republicans, I suspect, would still say they do not want the Party undermining both Christianity and conservatism.
- Getting “gay” votes vs. promoting “gay” Ideology: Of course, Republicans and conservatives like this writer have always welcomed anyone to vote Republican, and many ‘homosexuals’ have. (AFTAH is non-partisan.) But there is a big difference between encouraging people to vote Republican based on various ideals–low taxes, law and order, national security, etc.—and actually promoting the normalization of homosexual behavior and LGBTQueer identities through the Republican Party (or any party).
- Although the conservative Republican Platform Committee rejected inserting LGBT-affirming language in addressing the Islamic terrorist slaughter of 49 people at a “gay” nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Trump not only mentioned the “LGBTQ community” but went out of his way to do so in his main speech. (By the way, the “Q” stands for “Queer” [and Questioning]—a rebellious self-description encompassing various aberrant-sex-and-gender identities that turns around a putdown against ‘homosexuals’ into a proud self-label.)
- It is sad but true: some conservatives, and many homosexual activists and allied liberals, are using the threat of Islamic jihadi terrorism—and the cruel excesses of Islamic Sharia law—to promote the acceptance of homosexualism in the West. This is especially true after the horrifying Orlando terror-attack. Embracing the semantics of a sexual sin movement is not the proper response to Islamic extremism—even as we reject the outlandish anddraconian punishments under Sharia law for sodomy. [More on this in Part Two.]
- The media—including Fox News—eagerly promoted “gay Republicans” at the convention at expense of social conservatives. I mostly watched Fox News’ coverage of Trump’s speech accepting the GOP presidential nomination. As supposedly the most “fair and balanced” network, its talking heads were hardly balanced in their giddy discussion of pro-LGBTQ “firsts” at the Trump convention. Of course it helped that the Trump team gave Peter Thiel top billing.
Young, Appealing, Sexually Confused, and a Paid Emissary for “Gay Conservatives” at Fox News: Guy Benson, a Fox News Contributor and the political editor of Townhall.com, appearing on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show last year, in which he declared, “I’m gay.” Kelly was obviously supportive of Benson’s sexual declaration, in a protective sort of way. She and other on-air personalities at Fox, like Dana Perino, are increasingly vocal in their LGBT-affirming advocacy. On the final night of the Republican convention in Cleveland, Kelly brought on Benson to analyze Peter Thiel’s “I’m proud to be gay” speech. [see interview below]. No social conservative was invited on to defend the historic, Judeo-Christian viewpoint that homosexual practice is immoral and unnatural. Pray for Benson, that he would find Truth, repent of his homosexuality and be transformed through Christ, like former “gay” Frank Worthen.
- Megyn Kelly: no ‘socialcon’ representation: Fox News star Kelly brought in two Fox “Contributors” to analyze Theil’s speech: Guy Benson, the well-spoken, rising young Townhall.com political editor who last year announced that he is “gay”; and a liberal Democratic spokesman. Missing was someone defending the traditional conservative viewpoint that: 1) the culture wars are not “fake”; and 2) homosexual activism is immoral and against the principled Platform of the GOP.
- When Kelly pressed Benson for his thoughts on the “anti-LGBT’ provisions of the Platform, he said there should be more Platform language affirming LGBT “inclusion,” and complained about the Platform defending “conversion therapy.” (Note: although it is supposedly the guiding document of the GOP, in reality the Platform guides too few Republicans.) “Conversion” therapy is the favored term used by homosexual activists to demonize pro-heterosexual (“reparative”) therapy for young people with unwanted same-sex desires. Five states—including Gov. Chris Christie’s New Jersey—plus the District of Columbia have enacted lawsbanning such therapy for minors.
- Here is the passage in the GOP Platform referenced by Benson: “We support the right of parents to determine the proper medical treatment and therapy for their minor children.”
- It is amazing how much propaganda homosexual activists generated about this simple sentence, which is set in the context of defending parental rights. Read it in context in the Platform section headed, “Protecting Individual Conscience in Healthcare”; go here for key social issues excerpts or read it on page 38 of the full GOP Platform here.
- Guy Benson: influential “gay” advocate for today’s youth: The growing prominence of Benson as the most famous openly homosexual young conservatives in America is a lesson on the immense strategic, political value of “coming out” for LGBT activists. His declared (and proud) “gayness” has served as a catalyst for Megyn Kelly’s own growing pro-LGBT advocacy on the Fox network [see my 2013 Fox News Gay Bias report for background], beginning with her sympathetic, puff “coming out” interview with Benson announcing his self-declared homosexuality last year. [Watch that interview with Benson below.]
- *Coming out” is a key homosexual activist political tactic from the 1970s onward and the engine of their marketing strategy building LGBT visibility and power. It converts the person “outing” himself into a “change agent” of sorts for the normalization of homosexuality. This is true whether he or she becomes a bold “gay” propagandist or just a prominent person who “happens to be gay” and works in pro-homosexual comments here and there in arguing larger points. (The latter is the far more persuasive approach; it is the main method used by Hollywood in programs like “Modern Family” to mainstream sexual perversion: nice, likable characters who “happen to be gay” but whose homosexuality is not the focus of the show.)
- Once a conservative (or family member, or anyone) “comes out,” the person’s friends and associates—in this case, Megyn Kelly, are freed to become bolder LGBT advocates themselves. There are a lot of psychological, emotional and manipulative factors at play, enough to write a book about. But essentially this is how homosexualism advances in GOP circles through popular “gay conservatives” like Benson, Tammy Bruce (also a Fox News Contributor), and Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft, who “outed” himself as homosexual following the Orlando terror-massacre.
- Most prominent media conservatives have embraced Benson’s “coming out” as somehow noble and grant him a sort of “teaching authority” on homosexual issues—see this recent CPAC discussion on “gay marriage” and religious liberty. The errant supposition is that this is part of “who he is” (as opposed to aberrant–yet changeable–behaviors he is practicing and sinful, confused thoughts he is indulging). Meanwhile, especially in this age of Political Correctness, few conservatives have either the desire or the courage to criticize Benson’s tragic embrace of a misguided “identity” based in sexual sin. With confident Christian and moral counter-advocacy waning, homosexualism wins by default as there is little thought given to the philosophical and theological implications of fusing the proud embrace of sexual perversion with “conservatism.”
- Benson also claims to be a “gay Christian”—another identity affirmed by Megyn Kelly in one interview, despite it being an oxymoron with zero basis in the Bible. Perhaps Benson will latch on to the work of another young man selling a same-sex heresy, Matthew Vines, whose terribly misnamed “Reformation Project” seeks to penetrate evangelical churches with pro-LGBT “missionaries” bringing pro-homosexual messages.
- I asked Benson in a tweet about the irony of him criticizing a pro-parental rights GOP plank defending the freedom of parents (and minors) to pursue their own identity—since Benson’s new book, “End of Discussion,” criticizes leftist activists, including homosexual militants, who seek to shut down debate. Here’s a portion of our Twitter exchange:
- Guy Benson’s public rhetoric as a Fox News contributor is evidence that “gay” advocacy becomes dominant in the advocacy of “gay Republicans,” to the detriment of genuine conservatism. Benson remains civil on the issue but as his confidence as an “out gay conservative” rises, I suspect that the ardor of pro-homosexual advocacy will grow. This is the pattern of other “gay conservatives” like Tammy Bruce—who, though a harsh critic of intolerant leftists, cruelly tried to set up this author in a “mock homophobic sting operation” (my words) when I was a guest on her radio show (not knowing she was a lesbian activist). Bruce ably fights for conservatism on a number of issues, but somehow she was driven to sabotage and demonize this writer because she sees me as “the enemy.” She acted like a leftist on the one issue that matters to her most.
- Self-interest and self-rationalizations tend to dominate: I cannot see Guy Benson–an immensely talented and likable fellow–getting vicious like this against Christian conservatives. Quite the contrary. But there is a lesson here on homosexual “conservatives.” Self-interest matters. They may be truly conservative on any number of policy questions (taxes, gun rights, etc.), but when it comes to homosexuality, “gay conservatives” typically become committed ideologues because they have so much invested in that self-rationalization (see Robert Reilly’s “Making Gay Okay” book below).
- Let’s all pray for Guy Benson and all our homosexual friends, family members and acquaintances–that they would find Truth and freedom in righteousness through Christ–like the venerable overcomer Frank Worthen, who lived 25 years as a “gay” man before he started living for Jesus [watch this interview].
- Truth is more important than politics. But lots of LGBT political energy is now focused on the GOP. Sadly, “homocons” (homosexual conservatives) are actually far more effective at changing minds on this moral and spiritual issue among Republicans than radical LGBT leftists (mostly Democrats)–for whom the average conservative has little respect.
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Megyn Kelly and Fox Contributor Guy Benson cheerlead for Peter Thiel during Fox News’ coverage of the Republican convention:
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Megyn Kelly’s celebratory 2015 puff interview with Townhall.com political editor Guy Benson after Benson declares his homosexuality:
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PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s speech t 2016 Republican National Convention:
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