The Front Page Cover
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Shocking Media Lies
by Cliff Kincaid
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. A Win for Religious Liberty — SCOTUS and
Trinity Lutheran
The Supreme Court had a busy day Monday, issuing one important ruling after another. One of the more satisfying decisions was in the case of Trinity Lutheran, a religious school in Missouri that was denied state funds for a playground solely because it's a church. In April, our Allyne Caan noted that the issue was whether Missouri can discriminate against religious institutions in public aid programs. Caan gave the background: "In 2012, the Missouri church, which also runs a daycare center and preschool program, applied for a grant through a state program that helps non-profits install rubber playground surfaces. The church's application ranked fifth out of 44 submissions, yet Trinity was disqualified from receiving one of the 14 grants. The reason? The state claimed giving the church funds would violate the state constitutional provision against providing public funding for religious organizations." If funding is going to be public, it should be available to everyone. Yet more than 30 states have what are known as Blaine Amendments that prohibit state funding of religious organizations, including schools. Those laws are now on shaky ground.
In reversing a lower court ruling in Missouri's favor, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, "Trinity Lutheran is not claiming any entitlement to a subsidy. It instead asserts a right to participate in a government benefit program without having to disavow its religious character. The 'imposition of such a condition upon even a gratuitous benefit inevitably deter[s] or discourage[s] the exercise of First Amendment rights.' Sherbert, 374 U. S., at 405. The express discrimination against religious exercise here is not the denial of a grant, but rather the refusal to allow the Church — solely because it is a church — to compete with secular organizations for a grant. ... In this case, there is no dispute that Trinity Lutheran is put to the choice between being a church and receiving a government benefit. The rule is simple: No churches need apply." Roberts concluded, "The exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution ... and cannot stand."
It's worth noting that only Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented. Religious liberty wins are great and important. Winning them 7-2 is even better.
~The Patriot Post
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JFK: Democrat or Republican?
by Truth Revolt
{truthrevolt.org} ~ John F. Kennedy lowered taxes, opposed abortion, supported gun rights, and believed in a strong military. And he was a proud Democrat. But would he be one today?... Author and talk show host Larry Elder explains. He was one of America’s most popular presidents -- handsome, charismatic, a war hero. He believed a strong military was the best guarantor of peace; he explained that cutting taxes was the best way to grow the economy; he firmly opposed racial quotas, and was horrified by the idea of unrestricted abortions...http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/prager-u-jfk-democrat-or-republican
Swarmed By 13,500 Illegal
African Boat People In Just Two Days
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s a mindless journey toward inevitable self-destruction. The EU member states, in large part, just keep voting in those European Union puppet governments, Italy, France, Germany and elsewhere... They’d better take a lot of pictures. In a short time you’ll need them to remember what their country used to look like before they helped the globalists destroy it. The numbers are almost beyond belief. In the past two days, 13,500 African invaders have entered Italy by ship. Finally, the locals may be starting to realize that it can’t continue. It’s a reality that their governments, the one they elected still refuses to acknowledge and is definitely doing nothing to stop. Local media and politicians are finally now calling it what was clearly visible from a continent away, that there’s an invasion taking place which is exceeding the country’s capacity for assimilation...http://rickwells.us/italy-invasion-swarmed-13500-illegal-african-boat-people-two-days/.
Trump faces rebellion from more than 267 mayors
by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ A movement is afoot by a United Nations-backed group to get U.S. cities to rebel against President Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate deal... ICLEI, founded in 1990 as an international network of local and regional governments committed to “sustainability,” is rounding up support for a massive resistance movement by American cities in which they would forge ahead with what Trump has called a “bad deal for America.” At least 267 mayors and governors have signed an open letter sent to the “international community and parties to the Paris Agreement” stating their commitment to the Paris climate deal, whether the president supports them or not...What a bunch of idiots. http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/trump-faces-rebellion-from-more-than-267-mayors/
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{freedomoutpost.com} ~ No matter how much liar-Hillary Clinton and her supporters want it to be so, the email scandal will not die. And for good reason too, it is clear to anyone with half a brain that liar-Clinton clearly and blatantly violated federal law... Just because disgraced former FBI Director James Comey recommended no criminal charges doesn’t mean that no charges are warranted. And now, in a terrible case of déjà vu for liar-Clinton, the State Department is doing its own investigation on the case. In the following video, Today’s Yellow Snow formerly Right Wing News looks at a report which states that the State Department has opened an investigation to determine whether liar-Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. While liar-Clinton may wish for the investigation to be as dead as her chances of being President, could it be only a matter of time before liar-Clinton is finally found guilty?...http://freedomoutpost.com/state-department-has-awful-but-familiar-news-for-hillary-clinton/
State Department Has Awful,
but Familiar, News For liar-Hillary Clinton
by MIchael DePinto
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ No matter how much liar-Hillary Clinton and her supporters want it to be so, the email scandal will not die. And for good reason too, it is clear to anyone with half a brain that liar-Clinton clearly and blatantly violated federal law... Just because disgraced former FBI Director James Comey recommended no criminal charges doesn’t mean that no charges are warranted. And now, in a terrible case of déjà vu for liar-Clinton, the State Department is doing its own investigation on the case. In the following video, Today’s Yellow Snow formerly Right Wing News looks at a report which states that the State Department has opened an investigation to determine whether liar-Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. While liar-Clinton may wish for the investigation to be as dead as her chances of being President, could it be only a matter of time before liar-Clinton is finally found guilty?...http://freedomoutpost.com/state-department-has-awful-but-familiar-news-for-hillary-clinton/
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Sanders Says FBI Probe Of Wife Is
Political – Like A Democrat Russia Witch Hunt
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~Communist Bernie Sanders has a bad case of selective outrage in his criticism of a Trump campaign official in Vermont as attacking his wife for a land deal, apparently using the FBI as a tool... That’s Hussein liar-nObama and James Comey’s specialty, and they’re Democrats. It’s standard operating procedure for them, as is rioting, beating up opponents, throwing eggs, blocking traffic, destroying property and intimidation. They assaulted and battered Trump supporters and their families on a daily basis. They attacked every member of the Trump family to the point that Eric Trump had to give up his position with a charity benefitting St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Ivanka Trump had her clothing line pulled from retailers. Melania had designers refusing to create gowns for her, and much more, all of it happening to innocent people because their political views are opposed to the Democrats. Sanders does what he and other leftists do when they are confronted with facts that they can’t refute, they declare them to be false and refuse to talk about them beyond issuing their statement...Sanders is a dreamer. http://rickwells.us/sanders-says-fbi-probe-wife-political-like-democrat-russia-witch-hunt/
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by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ In a story about the Women’s March on Washington, Time magazine published various “Portraits of Dissent” that included the views of a 17-year-old Calvert County, Maryland, high school senior with the words “Nasty, Queer, Bitch,” marked on her cheeks and forehead. She was quoted as saying rights were in danger because of the Trump presidency and that Vice President Mike Pence “is someone that supports electroshocking people like me to turn us into people we aren’t.”
Pence never said any such thing. But where did this fictional and irrational claim come from? And why did Time publish this lie?
A new report from the National Task Force for Therapy Equality to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) identifies precisely where many of the false claims are originating. The report, entitled, “Lies, Deception, and Fraud,” accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights of a hate campaign designed to ban psychotherapy for individuals with sexual and gender identity conflicts.
You may recognize the Human Rights Campaign as the pro/liar-nObama group that furnished a speaker for the FBI’s recent gay “pride” summit.
In one case documented in the report, a transgendered woman associated with a New Jersey homosexual-rights organization claimed she had been tortured at a “conversion therapy camp” and that it constituted “child abuse.” But no such camp ever existed. It did exist in a 1999 movie, “But I’m a Cheerleader,” starring drag queen RuPaul. In Washington State, gay rights advocates claimed that children were subjected to shock therapy and ice baths to get them out of the lifestyle. No evidence of such practices was ever presented.
Evidence shows that same-sex attractions can be changed through counseling and can result from bad relations with a parent or sexual abuse. Indeed, the Restored Hope Network (RHN), representing the largest coalition of ex-homosexual ministries in the world, just held a national conference.
The National Task Force for Therapy Equality is part of the Equality And Justice For All, a coalition of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, physicians, public policy organizations and clients. The co-coordinator, Christopher Doyle, is a former homosexual who says that therapy changed his life. He is now married to his wife and they have five children.
Despite claims in the media that people are born gay, this is a myth perpetuated by left-wing homosexual organizations. There is no scientific evidence for the claim. Another myth is that counseling away from same-sex attraction involves shock therapy. There is no evidence whatsoever that the technique has been used or coerced on children or adolescents to modify sexuality.
Perhaps the best known of the three organizations cited above, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), calls the idea of counseling homosexuals to leave the lifestyle “quackery.”
The SPLC has a notorious reputation, even on the left. It raises money by using terms like “homophobia” and “Islamophobia” to demonize people supporting traditional Christian values. The group’s “Hate Map” of conservative organizations inspired a homosexual militant to launch a terrorist attack on the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council in 2013. It was “liked” on Facebook by the left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to massacre a group of Republicans at a baseball game outside of Washington, D.C.
Its fundraising practices, which have generated a reserve fund of about $300 million, are at the heart of the complaint by the National Task Force for Therapy Equality to the FTC. The FTC complaint asks for action to be taken against the three organizations because they use “deceptive and fraudulent” claims. Such claims, of course, are prominently featured in the liberal media, which regularly refer to the SPLC as a “civil rights” organization.
On a national basis, six liberal states and several cities and jurisdictions have passed legislation banning licensed psychotherapy for minors with unwanted same-sex attractions and general identity conflicts. The legislation has been driven mostly by the three organizations mentioned above and local homosexual groups working with them.
Still, most states have refused to follow. And the 2016 Republican Party platform declared, “We support the right of parents to determine the proper medical treatment and therapy for their minor children.”
Bans on therapy also harm people who have been victims of sexual abuse and developed a same-sex attraction as a result of the abuse. The Equality and Justice for All website notes, “Children who have been molested by a same-sex adult and are confused about their sexual orientation as a result of the sexual abuse will be denied access to therapy simply because it is not gay-affirming. In effect, a child will be molested twice—first by the perpetrator and then again by the political environment, which refuses to treat the child unless he sees a gay-affirming therapist.”
Needless to say, as demonstrated by the Time magazine “Portrait of Dissent” cited earlier, some people seem to think that methods of brutal force are used to turn people away from the gay lifestyle. In fact, psychotherapy involves talking to people who want to leave their state of sexual confusion or unwanted sexual attraction through what are called “sexual orientation change efforts.”
While the FTC complaint has received some coverage from conservative and Christian news organizations, the major media have remained mostly silent. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that all of the major news organizations, including Fox News, financially underwrite the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and follow its dictates. This group, which now accepts transgendered and “queer” people, asserts in the face of the scientific evidence that gays are born that way and that choice has nothing to do with it. Yet, the wife of New York City Mayor Bill “Red Bill” de Blasio is an ex-lesbian.
The claim by the young lesbian in Time magazine that Vice President Pence “supports electroshocking people like me” is an example of the falsehoods that continue to be peddled by the media. What Pence did say, in a 2000 campaign statement, was that he supported providing assistance to “those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”
Only in a culture dominated by a pro-homosexual media would such a statement be considered offensive and transformed into a demand for shocking homosexuals out of their lifestyle.
The only shock therapy practiced today is a form of media bias that makes sexual perversion acceptable and eliminates any mention of the ability to change or even cure a lifestyle that carries major health risks.
Shocking Media Lies
{aim.org} ~ In a story about the Women’s March on Washington, Time magazine published various “Portraits of Dissent” that included the views of a 17-year-old Calvert County, Maryland, high school senior with the words “Nasty, Queer, Bitch,” marked on her cheeks and forehead. She was quoted as saying rights were in danger because of the Trump presidency and that Vice President Mike Pence “is someone that supports electroshocking people like me to turn us into people we aren’t.”
Pence never said any such thing. But where did this fictional and irrational claim come from? And why did Time publish this lie?
A new report from the National Task Force for Therapy Equality to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) identifies precisely where many of the false claims are originating. The report, entitled, “Lies, Deception, and Fraud,” accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights of a hate campaign designed to ban psychotherapy for individuals with sexual and gender identity conflicts.
You may recognize the Human Rights Campaign as the pro/liar-nObama group that furnished a speaker for the FBI’s recent gay “pride” summit.
In one case documented in the report, a transgendered woman associated with a New Jersey homosexual-rights organization claimed she had been tortured at a “conversion therapy camp” and that it constituted “child abuse.” But no such camp ever existed. It did exist in a 1999 movie, “But I’m a Cheerleader,” starring drag queen RuPaul. In Washington State, gay rights advocates claimed that children were subjected to shock therapy and ice baths to get them out of the lifestyle. No evidence of such practices was ever presented.
Evidence shows that same-sex attractions can be changed through counseling and can result from bad relations with a parent or sexual abuse. Indeed, the Restored Hope Network (RHN), representing the largest coalition of ex-homosexual ministries in the world, just held a national conference.
The National Task Force for Therapy Equality is part of the Equality And Justice For All, a coalition of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, physicians, public policy organizations and clients. The co-coordinator, Christopher Doyle, is a former homosexual who says that therapy changed his life. He is now married to his wife and they have five children.
Despite claims in the media that people are born gay, this is a myth perpetuated by left-wing homosexual organizations. There is no scientific evidence for the claim. Another myth is that counseling away from same-sex attraction involves shock therapy. There is no evidence whatsoever that the technique has been used or coerced on children or adolescents to modify sexuality.
Perhaps the best known of the three organizations cited above, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), calls the idea of counseling homosexuals to leave the lifestyle “quackery.”
The SPLC has a notorious reputation, even on the left. It raises money by using terms like “homophobia” and “Islamophobia” to demonize people supporting traditional Christian values. The group’s “Hate Map” of conservative organizations inspired a homosexual militant to launch a terrorist attack on the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council in 2013. It was “liked” on Facebook by the left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to massacre a group of Republicans at a baseball game outside of Washington, D.C.
Its fundraising practices, which have generated a reserve fund of about $300 million, are at the heart of the complaint by the National Task Force for Therapy Equality to the FTC. The FTC complaint asks for action to be taken against the three organizations because they use “deceptive and fraudulent” claims. Such claims, of course, are prominently featured in the liberal media, which regularly refer to the SPLC as a “civil rights” organization.
On a national basis, six liberal states and several cities and jurisdictions have passed legislation banning licensed psychotherapy for minors with unwanted same-sex attractions and general identity conflicts. The legislation has been driven mostly by the three organizations mentioned above and local homosexual groups working with them.
Still, most states have refused to follow. And the 2016 Republican Party platform declared, “We support the right of parents to determine the proper medical treatment and therapy for their minor children.”
Bans on therapy also harm people who have been victims of sexual abuse and developed a same-sex attraction as a result of the abuse. The Equality and Justice for All website notes, “Children who have been molested by a same-sex adult and are confused about their sexual orientation as a result of the sexual abuse will be denied access to therapy simply because it is not gay-affirming. In effect, a child will be molested twice—first by the perpetrator and then again by the political environment, which refuses to treat the child unless he sees a gay-affirming therapist.”
Needless to say, as demonstrated by the Time magazine “Portrait of Dissent” cited earlier, some people seem to think that methods of brutal force are used to turn people away from the gay lifestyle. In fact, psychotherapy involves talking to people who want to leave their state of sexual confusion or unwanted sexual attraction through what are called “sexual orientation change efforts.”
While the FTC complaint has received some coverage from conservative and Christian news organizations, the major media have remained mostly silent. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that all of the major news organizations, including Fox News, financially underwrite the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and follow its dictates. This group, which now accepts transgendered and “queer” people, asserts in the face of the scientific evidence that gays are born that way and that choice has nothing to do with it. Yet, the wife of New York City Mayor Bill “Red Bill” de Blasio is an ex-lesbian.
The claim by the young lesbian in Time magazine that Vice President Pence “supports electroshocking people like me” is an example of the falsehoods that continue to be peddled by the media. What Pence did say, in a 2000 campaign statement, was that he supported providing assistance to “those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”
Only in a culture dominated by a pro-homosexual media would such a statement be considered offensive and transformed into a demand for shocking homosexuals out of their lifestyle.
The only shock therapy practiced today is a form of media bias that makes sexual perversion acceptable and eliminates any mention of the ability to change or even cure a lifestyle that carries major health risks.
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