September 29, 2026

04a Faith

Massachusetts: School Secretly Transitioned Girl, State Seized Her From Parents – RedState– redstate.com
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It’s an insane state of affairs indeed when a state can step in and yank a teenage girl out of her home, can block the girl’s parents and older brother from seeing or speaking with her, all because the family’s faith precludes them from acknowledging her school-prompted “transgender” status and because they refused to call her a boy.

Now the daughter is a ward of the state of Massachusetts, and the parents are fighting to get her back.

That conversation:

Bill Hemmer (host): A devout Catholic family in Massachusetts are locked a huge legal fight to stop the state from transitioning their teen daughter to a boy without their consent. Lauren Green’s got more on this story, here in New York. What have you found out, Lauren, good morning.

Lauren Green: Hey Bill, you know, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko haven’t spoken to their daughter since the end of 2024, after the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed her from their home. The family claims it was because of their Catholic faith, that would not allow them to affirm their daughter as a boy. An emotional Joseph Kutzko reading the birthday card his daughter Sophie gave him in October of 2024.

Joseph Kutzko: Without you, I would have nothing. So it’s wholeheartedly, fully, sincerely, I love you with no end.

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed Led Protest Against ‘Ex-Terrorists’ Who Abandoned Islamic Extremism, Converted to Christianity– slaynews.com
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Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed led a college protest against three self-described former terrorists who spoke about abandoning Islamic extremism and converting to Christianity, according to a resurfaced report from his time at the University of Michigan.

El-Sayed, who is running against Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) in Michigan’s closely watched Senate race, was vice president of the university’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) when the organization protested the 2007 appearance of Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Annani, and Kamal Saleem.

The three men described themselves as former terrorists with backgrounds involving the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Muslim Brotherhood before converting to Christianity.

Students staged a walkout during their appearance, and El-Sayed celebrated the protest afterward.

“We’ve done something good today, and we need to keep that going in the future,” El-Sayed said.

James Talarico’s progressive Christianity is proof that Democrats have a ‘God problem’– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — The Democrats have had a “God problem” for decades. This graph, by researcher Ryan Burge, sums up the problem succinctly:

A New Christian Political Order Is Emerging– www.lifesitenews.com
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Frank Wright reports from Washington, D.C., on signs that the liberal political consensus may be breaking down. He argues that Western politics has lost its moral foundation, contributing to social fragmentation, anti-natalism, permanent war, and a broader degradation of human life.But Frank also sees reason for hope. He believes a growing post-liberal movement is forming around the common good, Christian moral principles, and a Catholic understanding of human nature—and that it could offer a real alternative to Western decline.

Microsoft releases ‘Humanist AI’ code of conduct– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Microsoft released a draft of its “Humanist AI” code of conduct on Monday as the top leaders in artificial intelligence call for slower development of the technology.

The preliminary guidelines published by Microsoft essentially state that AI models should remain under human control, and that any models that cannot be contained must be rejected.

Canadian Military Prohibits Chaplains From Mentioning God or Jesus at Mandatory Public Events * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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To preserve religious freedom, Canadian military chaplains are now barred from mentioning God during mandatory public events. Photo courtesy of the Government of Canada.

The Canadian Armed Forces has issued a new directive barring chaplains and other military personnel from mentioning God, Jesus, or other religion-specific language during mandatory public events. Military Personnel Instruction 03/26, Spiritual Reflections in Military Settings, was issued on July 29, 2026, by the Chief of Military Personnel. It states that chaplains “must instead offer a spiritual reflection” when prayers or religious observances are requested at official government events that members are expected or required to attend.

The policy applies to graduation parades, change-of-command ceremonies, ship commissionings, honours ceremonies, mess dinners, and Remembrance Day commemorations. At such events, chaplains acting as representatives of the Armed Forces rather than their own faith traditions must not use words, actions, or symbols specific to a spiritual or faith tradition.

The Department of National Defence told Canadian Catholic News that the instruction was intended to clarify the responsibilities of commanders, chaplains, and all members in responding to personnel’s moral and spiritual needs. The department also said it was intended to align military policy with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2015 ruling in Mouvement laïque québécois v. Saguenay. The ruling found that a municipal council’s practice of opening meetings with prayer breached the state’s duty of religious neutrality.

‘Evangelicals for a Better Future’ Is Yet Another Talarico-Stan Run by a Dem Operative – RedState– redstate.com
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A group called “Evangelicals for a Better Future” has poured money into advertising in support of Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico. The group released this glossy ad painting Talarico as a unifier who gets “What Makes a Texan.”

Sure, Jan.

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While this PAC (political action committee) does not coordinate with the Talarico campaign, it appears to dovetail with the candidate’s sudden pivot to the center. Talarico recently appeared on right-leaning and right-of-center outlets like Fox News and News Nation to proclaim that his words and record are being misconstrued by his opponent, TX Attorney General and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Ken Paxton.

WATCH: Exorcist priest slams women supporting Lindsay Clancy– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) —Father Dan Reehil, an exorcist in the Diocese of Nashville, criticized during a Sunday homily the numerous women supporters who have rallied behind Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose trial for murdering her three young children ended in a mistrial last week.

During a September 6 homily focused on the need for the faithful to call out evil, Fr. Reehil briefly highlighted the insanity of the women who have come out in support of Clancy and encouraged any men dating a woman who supports her to break up with them.

As reported extensively by LifeSiteNews, Clancy evaded conviction last week for the 2023 murder of her three children when a mistrial was declared after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. The fact that she did it was undisputed, but the defense argued she was not responsible due to “postpartum psychosis” that allegedly brought her to a point at which she decided to end her children’s lives before attempting to kill herself.

The full clip is viewable below from about 5:25-6:36.

“There is no universe that exists where a man would kill three of his children and be going to the courthouse, and hundreds of men would show up to rally behind him. That world doesn’t exist,” Fr. Reehil said during his homily. “But somehow there’s women out there that think this is a good thing. So now we are promoting killing children outside the womb. Is this not crazy? This is crazy.”

“Yes, I understand she was on all these drugs and all the other things. Seek help, you’re a grown woman! This is a catastrophe that … and we should pray for her. I think she has demons, to be honest,” the priest added.

WATCH: Leftist student tells pro-lifer: ‘You’re going to get Charlie Kirked’– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) – On the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s murder, left-wing vitriol toward the conservative influencer has not ebbed, as evidenced by a viral video of a recent interaction between a pro-lifer and a group of pro-abortion students.

On September 6, the group Abolitionists Rising shared a video clip of the reception received by a young woman holding a sign displaying aborted baby remains, highlighting the gruesome effect of abortion pills. The location of the interaction was not shared.

The clip begins with one girl calling the activist a f***ing femcel” with a “really ugly” haircut. The conversation devolves from there, though some cursory debating of pro-abortion talking points does occur. At one point, another girl asks, “Do you even go to this school?” to which the pro-lifer answers, “No, I’m not even from here.”

“Okay, then why the f*** are you here?” the questioner follows up, answered by “to have conversations.”

“You’re going to get Charlie Kirked someday if you keep doing this kind of s***,” the interrogator declares. 

Lawyer for Illinois mom who hanged 2-year-old son claims she was in ‘psychotic episode’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“It is also a tragedy that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened.”

Lawyers representing an Illinois mom who was reportedly obsessed with the Lindsay Clancy trial and has been arrested for the murder of her 2-year-old son have claimed that she suffered a “psychotic episode” when the killing took place.

Corie Walsh, 38, has been charged with murder after her 2-year-old son was killed by hanging from the rafters of the basement. Prosecutors said that Walsh allegedly told police that she killed the child because she believed him to be the “anti-Christ” and the “devil.” Prosecutors have also said that Walsh was extremely invested in the Clancy trial, where the Massachusetts mom admitted to killing her three children by strangling them and then tried to kill herself.

Walsh’s attorney, Andrea Lyon, has claimed that Walsh suffered from a severe mental break at the time of the killing of her son. Police were called to the family’s home on Tuesday after a teenage neighbor saw the toddler dead in the basement and started CPR. The child was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. The coroner said that the child had been killed by asphyxia.

“It is also a tragedy that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened. It is our hope that through a thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, that all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is,” Lyon said, per CBS News.

Walsh was found with cuts on her wrists and thighs in her bathtub. She was taken to the hospital for the non-life-threatening injuries and has been transferred to the Will County Adult Detention Facility.

Walsh is set to appear in court on September 8. The Illinois Department of Child and Family Services said that they had no prior contact with the Walsh family until the incident took place.

WATCH: James Talarico Denies Jesus Is the Only Way, Says Allah Leads to Same Truth– www.breitbart.com
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Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico denied that Jesus Christ is the way to truth, saying Allah and other religious paths can lead people to the same divine truth.

In a newly resurfaced video, Talarico says Islam and Christianity are “equal pathways to truth,” rejecting the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ is the only path to salvation. Talarico said he views all religions as different paths leading to the same truth.

“I find that they’re all kind of equal pathways to truth. You know, that’s how I think, you know, I always think of all of the world’s faith traditions as like a circle with,” Talarico said. “That divine mystery of the universe in the middle. And we all have different names for that mystery.”

Talarico specifically included Allah, Nirvana, and the Great Spirit among the names he said people use for what he called the same “divine mystery.”

“Whether it’s God or Yahweh or Allah or Nirvana, the Great Spirit, whatever you call it, this is all, you know, different pathways to the same kind of fundamental truth of reality,” Talarico continued.

Watch: Lindsay Clancy Jurors Accidentally Admit They Made Their Decision Based on the Wrong Criteria– www.westernjournal.com
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After Friday’s mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, three jurors have come forward revealing how they saw the outcome — and their perspective is just as bad as you would imagine.

Clancy was on trial for the deaths of her three children in January 2023. Her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued she should not be held criminally responsible due to postpartum depression and psychosis. A mistrial was declared after one juror held out against the rest, refusing to retreat from the charges against her.

Now, we’re hearing from three women who saw it differently and gave an interview to WBTS — Paula Devlin, Roni Carlson, and Kellie Farina.

Their comments showed they were completely clueless and favored Clancy for reasons that had nothing to do with the law.

WBTS posted the interview to YouTube on Tuesday. Farina called the prosecution’s opening statement “harsh,” and said she did not like that they did not present character witnesses for Clancy. “You’re presenting all these medical professionals, but nobody’s presenting for the prosecution, a woman, a mother of three children.”

“I found it to be biased right out of the gate.”

Should Lindsay Clancy have been convicted of murder?

Why would the prosecution need to talk about her character?

Reddington admitted she killed three children. Would talking about her role as a mother before killing three children completely excuse that completely evil act?

What does “bias” have to do with anything? They are the prosecution. They are trying to prove she murdered her children.

“There is no compassion in this courtroom right now,” Farina recalled, apparently forgetting that compassion was not shown to the children Clancy killed.

When Devlin was asked if the prosecution said anything she considered in her decision, she gave a blunt “no.”

Related:

A Lindsay Clancy-Inspired Murder? Hours Before Boy, 2, Was Found Hanging from Rafter, Mom Was Discussing Clancy Online: Court Docs

On the other side, all three women could not stop swooning over Reddington. It was not because of the legality of his defense. They just seemed to like him.

Carlson recalled laughing at Reddington, saying his demeanor was “funny,” adding that “he was entertaining, which was good because we needed some of that.”

Devlin noted he was both “arrogant and entertaining,” before Farina added “but compassionate,” to which Devlin agreed.

“His compassion toward Lindsay was amazing,” she added.

Again, none of this should have anything to do with a murder trial and the facts presented.

It is clear these women went off of their emotions and were ready to let a child killer go free.

All three of them should be embarrassed to admit these things.

It is further proof that the one holdout juror was possibly the only sane voice during deliberations.

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Stewart: ‘It Is a Contemptuous Position’ To Not Mandate Baking Gay Wedding Cakes– www.newsbusters.org
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After taking all of August off, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Tuesday with host Jon Stewart welcoming Utah Gov. Spencer Cox to the show to promote his new book on helping Americans not hate each other as much. At one point Stewart questioned Cox’s commitment to the idea when he demanded to know why Cox hasn’t forced Utahans to bake cakes for same-sex weddings even if that would violate their religious beliefs.

The context for such a question was Utah making it illegal to fire someone for being gay but maintaining First Amendment protections for people such as wedding cake bakers. For Stewart, such a compromise was not good enough, “I think that it’s certainly an admirable effort. It is hard for me not to look at it as there is a vulnerable—there is a power disparity in that equation and that the gay community in Utah is not equivalent to the Christian community in Utah.”

 

 

Stewart further claimed, “You are asking a community of people whose humanity has not been recognized as total to accept that they will be—you will still be—we can’t fire you, but we will still view you as aberrant, and we will enshrine that in the law because it does—if you flip that and you say to somebody, ‘I will not bake a cake because you believe in Jesus for your wedding,’ I think you can see that that is a contemptuous position.”

Finally getting to something resembling a question, Stewart wondered, “And so asking a group that is traditionally less righted to accept a bargain for their humanity still strikes me fundamentally as—I don’t want to say contemptible, but boy, there are some synonyms that are hard for me—it is a hard one to swallow as a victory. Does that resonate in any way?”

Cox, who was the first conservative/Republican guest on a late night comedy show in 13 months, began to reply, “I mean, it resonates, but I don’t think that that was how it was viewed, and again, You can talk to them. I’ll let them have that conversation.”

Stewart then interrupted to joke that he won’t be doing that, “I’m not going to end up—I do one show a week, man! I spent my whole August reading this thing. Yeah.”

After the laughter from the audience died down, Cox resumed, “What I will say is those protections went both ways, and it’s not about contempt. It is about religious freedom, which is really important to people. You wouldn’t have to bake a cake for Christians if you didn’t want to. That is also included in the law. We’re not going to force you to do that piece. And yet at the time. Again, this was incredibly rare. It had never happened. Those types of protections in a red state, and it didn’t have to happen. That is the point.”

The last year has been defined by the late night comedy shows trying to portray themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment, but when it comes to defending the First Amendment rights of a common baker, Jon Stewart thinks the First Amendment is disposable.

Here is a transcript for the August 8 show:

Comedy Central The Daily Show

9/8/2026

11:44 PM ET

JON STEWART: I think that it’s certainly an admirable effort. It is hard for me not to look at it as there is a vulnerable—there is a power disparity in that equation and that the gay community in Utah is not equivalent to the Christian community in Utah.

And so the difficulty I have in that, just being honest—

SPENCER COX: Yeah.

STEWART: —is that you are asking a community of people whose humanity has not been recognized as total to accept that they will be—you will still be—we can’t fire you, but we will still view you as aberrant, and we will enshrine that in the law because it does—if you flip that and you say to somebody, “I will not bake a cake because you believe in Jesus for your wedding,” I think you can see that that is a contemptuous position.

And so asking a group that is traditionally less righted to accept a bargain for their humanity still strikes me fundamentally as—I don’t want to say contemptible, but boy, there are some synonyms that are hard for me—it is a hard one to swallow as a victory. Does that resonate in any way?

COX: I mean, it resonates, but I don’t think that that was how it was viewed, and again—

STEWART: Right. Fair enough.

COX: You can talk to them. I’ll let them have that conversation.

STEWART: I’m not going to end up—I do one show a week, man! I spent my whole August reading this thing. Yeah.

COX: What I will say is those protections went both ways, and it’s not about contempt. It is about religious freedom, which is really important to people. You wouldn’t have to bake a cake for Christians if you didn’t want to. That is also included in the law. We’re not going to force you to do that piece. And yet at the time—

STEWART: Yeah.

COX:  — again, this was incredibly rare. It had never happened. Those types of protections in a red state, and it didn’t have to happen. That is the point.


Southern Methodist University cancels ‘Unapologetically Muslim’ student conference– www.thecollegefix.com
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A student conference organized by CAIR-Texas to be held at Southern Methodist University has been canceled, with campus officials citing a proclamation from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as “terrorist” organizations.

The “Unapologetically Muslim: Youth in Action” conference for high school and college students had been slated for Sept. 19 at the Dallas-based campus.

In a statement provided to local media, a campus spokesperson said “SMU welcomes a wide range of organizations and perspectives to campus as part of our commitment to open inquiry and the free exchange of ideas.”

However, after “reviewing plans for an upcoming unaffiliated youth leadership symposium advertised to take place at SMU, the University has determined that permitting the event to take place on campus, given the State of Texas’ current designation of the symposium’s organizer, is inconsistent with our mission and related University policies. As a result, the event will not take place on campus,” the statement read.

The event was slated to include “interactive sessions,” “mock testimony,” and “power mapping,” according to an online flier. Power mapping is a community organizing tool used to influence political leaders by pressuring the people and systems around them.

“Designed for high school students and rising college freshmen and sophomores, MYLS brings together young Muslims from across Texas for a full day focused on leadership and civic engagement,” CAIR-Texas’ website states.

If You’re Using AI To Replace Discipleship, You’re A Bad Pastor– thefederalist.com
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PreacherBot ain’t got no soul.

But people really want him — or rather, it — to have one. This is bad, as was demonstrated by a recent New York Times profile of Justin Lester, a California Bay Area pastor who has created an AI “twin” of himself using “almost two million words of his sermons, podcasts, books, text messages and emails.” This AI facsimile is “available on his website and Facebook page for online chats or phone calls … to provide advice around the clock.”

Lester is not the first to do something like this — a Catholic parish in Switzerland even installed AI Jesus in a confessional for a while — and he won’t be the last, in part because he is encouraging and assisting other pastors in following his lead. And though his efforts are concentrated among historically black Baptist churches, everyone from Catholics to Pentecostals to Presbyterians will be tempted to create a PreacherBot of their own.

The incentives are simple: There are not enough pastors, and pastors don’t have enough time. As his life and ministry got busier, Lester, a longtime tech enthusiast, turned to AI, first as an assistant, then as a substitute. He won’t use AI to write his sermons, but otherwise he adopted AI as a way to multiply his ministry, first by using it to handle some mundane tasks, and then by multiplying himself via an AI doppelganger that is always available for in-depth conversations, even with “people he’d never met who had questions he’d never been asked.” He thought this AI “twin” captured not only his views but also his voice, and he became comfortable with it dispensing advice in his image.

But using AI in this way seems to further increase the distance between Lester and his congregation. For instance, The New York Times related that “he shook a young woman’s hand after church and then watched her walk to the car and begin chatting on her phone with his digital twin.” In this case, Lester’s efforts to expand his pastoral role shrunk it, as a congregant who could have taken time with him in person instead turned to the ersatz digital self he had commissioned. Yet he still pushes other pastors to build PreacherBots of their own.

With the rise of Islamist Progressive candidates and elected officials nationwide, President Trump has declared that, if needed, he will issue an executive order to prevent Sharia from being the Rule of Law in any American-ruled jurisdiction.

He declared in an interview, “Number one, on Sharia law, I would absolutely say that’s not this country. There’s no Sharia law. And you do have pockets of it, as you know… I would absolutely prohibit the Sharia Law thing. It is happening in this country a little bit, and where we see it, we take it out… We have one system.”

Trump Mulling Crackdown to ‘Absolutely Prohibit’ Sharia Law in America– slaynews.com
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would “absolutely” support prohibiting Sharia law in the United States, arguing that Americans should be governed under one legal system rather than competing religious codes.

Trump made the remarks during a live interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck, who asked whether the president would support or sign legislation aimed at barring Sharia law.

“Number one, on Sharia law, I would absolutely say that’s not this country,” Trump said.

“There’s no Sharia law,” the president continued.

“And you do have pockets of it, as you know.”

The president pointed to developments in Europe as a warning for the United States.

“And you go to London, you go to Paris,” Trump said.

“It’s almost like a second way of life. It’s ridiculous.”

Question 1 in Virginia Would Legalize Unlimited Abortions Up to Birth– www.lifenews.com
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Virginia voters will decide in November whether to write a abortions up to birth into the state constitution. Ballot Question 1 would allow unlimited abortions until a baby is born.

Early in-person voting begins Friday, September 18. A simple majority would adopt or reject the amendment and the result would not return to the General Assembly or the governor.

Olivia Gans Turner, director of the Virginia Society for Human Life, said the proposal is not the modest health-care measure described on the ballot.

“The hard truth is that this amendment is not about protecting women’s safe reproductive care, but merely more political action designed to make abortion up to birth permanently legal in Virginia,” she says.

EXPOSED: Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups influenced Canadian elections, launched ‘Vote Palestine’ initiative: report | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Qatar is singled out as a particularly significant source of foreign funding and institutional relationships.

A sweeping new report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) alleges that Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks have established influence across the Canadian government, electoral politics, charities, civil society, and universities, while exploiting gaps in government oversight and foreign-funding transparency.

The nearly 200-page report, Assault on Democratic Values and Principles: How Islamist Entryism Weakens Civil Society and Higher Education in Canada, argues that the activity should not be viewed as a collection of unrelated organizations or incidents, but as part of a “structured transnational strategy” involving ideological entrenchment, institutional embedding, narrative control, political mobilization, and legal protection.

“Canada’s challenge is not simply the presence of individual extremist voices or isolated institutional weakness. The report maps how interconnected ideological networks acquire legitimacy, institutional access, public funding, political influence, and protection from scrutiny,” ISGAP Executive Director Dr. Charles Asher Small said in announcing the report.

“Canadian democracy is built on openness, robust notions of citizenship, pluralism, civil liberties, and public trust,” Small added. “These principles must not be exploited to shield foreign influence, ideological entryism, antisemitism, or efforts to weaken democratic accountability.”

Girl Scouts Offers Muslim Faith Awards To Be Earned by Learning Pillars of Islam, Visiting Mosques– gellerreport.com
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Nothing is sacred anymore.

Don’t buy their cookies.

Girl Scouts of America provides religious recognition awards for participants of various faiths, including Muslim-specific ones run by the National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting. These involve practices like prayer, charity, and mosque visits, similar to programs for other religions. Critics called for boycotts, viewing it as a shift from the group’s American roots.

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Girl Scouts of America offers Muslim badges to be earned by learning pillars of Islam, visiting mosques

The Girl Scouts’ faith materials identify the Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting and say it offers “Girl Scouts of the Islamic Faith” religious recognition awards, including medals.

Girl Scouts of America offers Muslim badges to be earned by learning pillars of Islam, visiting mosques

James Talarico Says He Hates Christianity. Why Do We Keep Calling Him Christian? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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At what point are we going to stop calling James Talarico a Christian? The Apostle Paul warned young Christian leader Timothy about people like Talarico and his fellow-traveling progressive Christians:

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 (ESV)

The Senate hopeful from Texas once used a heretical Gnostic “gospel” to call Jesus a feminist and preach in favor of transgenderism. He grew up in a church with squishy, unbiblical theology. He has repeatedly said that “God is nonbinary” and gushes over a “TransQueer, Latinx” activist theologian.

Talarico has been guilty of eisegesis (reading his own desired meaning into scriptural texts) time and time again. He even claimed to lefty podcaster Ezra Klein that the Bible doesn’t say you have to be a Christian to get into heaven.