June 21, 2026

04a Faith

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Suicide pods now have a “double dutch” option, where couples can die together in Switzerland. These 3D-printed death pods are designed for two people to climb inside, press a single button at the same time, and pass away within minutes.

Suicide pods were created by Philip Nitschke, often nicknamed “Dr. Death,” and were first introduced in 2024 for single-person use. The individual must meet with a psychiatrist for a mental capacity assessment to determine whether he or she is considered “fit” to proceed.

With the push of a button, the chamber fills with nitrogen, causing the person to lose consciousness within seconds, followed shortly by death. What is being marketed as innovation is, in reality, a modernized gas chamber. Now that same concept has been redesigned to end not one life, but two at once.

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Most Americans believe that conferences for public school educators feature practical, hands-on sessions designed to improve academic and behavioral outcomes and effectively manage the various roles and responsibilities assigned to teachers by elected officials and school administrators.

Unfortunately, modern education conferences often look more like political rallies than thoughtful explorations into the art and science of teaching. And no group offers a more politicized conference experience than the nation’s largest teacher union, the National Education Association (NEA).

One in seven Christian Colleges and Universities have formed some form of association with abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. 725 institutions were surveyed, with 114 found to have abortion industry connects. The report claimed, “A painstaking investigation into each school’s website revealed an alarming number of proabortion internships, promoted events, and class resources, along with advertised ‘health’ resources, volunteer opportunities, and general support of abortion.”

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Alarming Number of Christian Colleges Have Connections to Abortion Providers – legalinsurrection.com

A new report has sparked debate over how Christian colleges and universities across the country approach abortion-related resources on their campuses, with researchers identifying more than 100 faith-based institutions that maintain some form of connection to abortion providers.

The Institute for Pro-Life Advancement recently released its latest findings examining 725 Christian-affiliated colleges and universities, flagging 114 institutions that have some sort of tie to abortion providers, such as listing Planned Parenthood as a student health resource or maintaining referral relationships with abortion providers.

“More than one in seven Christian colleges and universities maintain some type of relationship with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry,” stated the 32-page report.

Published in January, it cites 10 schools in particular that have “completely forsaken their Christian values in terms of abortion”: American University, Duke University, Dickinson College, Macalester College, Rhodes College, Emory University, Hope College, Southern Methodist University, Augsburg University, and Otterbein University.

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The left’s ideology is not rooted in universal truth. This is especially true when it comes to transgenderism. In fact, the entire foundation of that ideology is rooted in the lie that gender is somehow malleable.

This also contradicts the gay agenda. This is because, at one point in time, the left pretended people were “born this way.” The problem now, however, is that the premise for transgenderism is that some are born in the wrong body. Subsequently, if you can allegedly change your sex, then being gay and/or lesbian becomes meaningless. Thus, two things cannot be true at the same time. Either it is true that gay people are born gay or that trans people are born trans. These things cannot coexist — and yes, both can be false. Draw your own conclusions.

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The NYPD has confirmed that the device thrown at conservative protesters in New York City was not just a crude explosive—it was a shrapnel bomb packed with nuts, bolts, and screws designed to maximize carnage. Police say that had it detonated, the blast could have killed or maimed large numbers of people in the crowd. New York came frighteningly close to a mass-casualty attack.

The Daily Caller Foundation has released a report that exposes “online pharmacies” as being sources for children to get access to “transition” drugs. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at DNH, summarized the report, claiming it “reveals how online pharmacies may enable minors to obtain cross-sex hormones with alarming ease.

“From websites listing online vendors across the globe to marketplaces for ‘homebrewed’ hormones, we found a multitude of troubling pathways that appear to bypass basic safeguards and regulatory oversight. Gender-confused kids should not be able to purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks. These hormones carry significant risks, including effects that can be irreversible.

We urge the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and other federal agencies to investigate any potential unlawful sellers and, where appropriate, for states to do the same when their laws are being violated,” Miceli continued. “Protecting minors from unsafe and unregulated access to powerful cross-sex hormones must remain a priority.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Online Pharmacies May Be Allowing Minors To Get Transgender Hormones ‘With Alarming Ease’ – dailycaller.com

Some online pharmacies seemingly do not require prescriptions or information about patient age for individuals seeking transgender hormones, according to a Do No Harm (DNH) report released Tuesday.

The new report, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, also highlights a spate of resources DNH found which promote online pharmacies and other distribution networks for “homebrewed” transgender hormones, as well as guides on how to self-administer such hormones. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at DNH, told the DCNF in a statement that the report “reveals how online pharmacies may enable minors to obtain cross-sex hormones with alarming ease.

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Officials in Austin, Texas, have reached a settlement with a former volunteer chaplain for the Austin Fire Department who sued after he was dismissed from his role following posts on his personal blog that discussed his religious views.

Andrew Fox, an ordained minister who helped launch the department’s chaplaincy program, served as the city’s lead volunteer chaplain for eight years. He filed a lawsuit in 2022 alleging that the city violated his First Amendment rights after officials demanded he apologize for blog posts stating that men and women are biologically different and expressing opposition to men competing in women’s sports.

At the time, he was one of many individuals who were fired, suspended, or otherwise cancelled for discussing their disfavored views on their personal social media platforms. At the time, his case was particularly alarming because, as the Standing for Freedom Center asked at the time, “If chaplains can’t write about or discuss their religious beliefs without fear of retribution, who can?”

Under the settlement, city officials agreed to pay Fox damages and issued a letter thanking him for his service.

“Everyone should be able to speak freely without fear of punishment just for expressing a view with which the government disagrees,” said Hal Frampton, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and director of the ADF Center for Conscience Initiatives, who represented Fox.

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Hollywood is a factory of fakery. Social media accounts run by publicists. Apologies written by lawyers. Whole personalities assembled by committee.

In Hollywood, sincerity is often the most convincing special effect of all.

‘My behavior’s dirty, ugly, disgusting, so I gotta eat it.’

Which is why Shia LaBeouf has always felt like an anomaly.

Storm before the calm

LaBeouf is many things: talented, erratic, often self-destructive. His life reads less like a biography than a weather report — storms, brief calm, then another system moving in. He wears his heart on his sleeve, his wounds on his face, and his worst moments out in public.

In an industry built on careful concealment, he seems incapable of it. Most actors learn early to construct a polite distance between who they are and what the world sees. LaBeouf apparently never built that wall.

So when trouble comes — and with him it usually does — everyone gets a front-row seat.

And that’s what makes the story unmistakably Christian. The prodigal son does not return home polished and rehabilitated. He comes back hungry, broken, and not entirely sure how he got there.

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“We want everyone here to stay in New York,” comedian and counterprotester Walter Masterson was saying at an anti-Islamification demonstration Saturday when a Muslim man who pledged allegiance to ISIS allegedly chucked a bomb over his head into the crowd.

But that close call wasn’t enough to shake Masterson’s open-borders convictions. Within hours he doubled down on the same mass-migration position that helped enable the situation he found himself in.

“As a born and raised in New Yorker, everyone is welcome,” Masterson said. “Everyone except chief goatf-cker Jake Lang.”

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As everyone knew he would, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has appealed Marion County Judge Christina R. Klineman’s “absurd” ruling that the state’s 2022 abortion law violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

“We disagree with the court’s decision and have already appealed,” an offices spokesman said. “As we have with every challenge against our pro-life law, we’ll continue fighting to protect the lives of the unborn.”

Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter said, “We are encouraged by Attorney General Todd Rokita’s immediate move to appeal this injunction.” He called the 17-page decision “a perversion of the law’s intent.”

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New York City’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, criticized an anti-Muslim protest outside Gracie Mansion but did not mention the suspects or their alleged ISIS links in his first statement about the attack.

An anti-Islam protest led by Jake Lang, who has described himself as a “January 6 political prisoner,” drew counter-protesters outside Gracie Mansion. During the demonstration, authorities said at least one device was ignited. Two suspects, identified by authorities as Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were arrested on the scene in connection with the incident. Police revealed the device was an improvised explosive device consisting of a sports drink bottle filled with volatile explosive material known as TATP, placed inside a glass jar and surrounded by nuts and bolts.

The New York Post reported that law enforcement sources said Balat used the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” after his police interview. During a brief appearance before reporters, he flashed the single-finger gesture associated with ISIS.

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In new book, gender studies professor says it’s time to abolish these labels

“Sexual identity” labels should be abolished because they “harm trans people” in their dating and sex lives, a UC Riverside professor argues in a new book.

Brandon Robinson, a professor of sociology, gender, and sexuality studies, wrote the book “Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom” based on interviews with men who identify as women (“trans women and trans femmes — trans people who identify with a feminine gender expression”) and their Reddit conversations about dating and sex.

The book documents these individuals’ experiences in “the bedroom,” “restaurants,” “dating apps,” and other typical dating spaces, and the discrimination that they often face, according to Robinson.

“… dominant understandings of sexual identities—which center desires around gender and genitals—harm trans people. They also limit how everyone can love and feel pleasure,” according to the book description.

Republican Indiana Governor Mike Braun has officially signed into law a bill that will protect people of Faith from being excluded from adoption and foster care. The bill is primarily aimed at democrat-controlled local governments that are attempting to freeze Christians out of the adoption/foster care process because of their opposition to indulging children’s sexuality or gender fantasies.

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Indiana Protects Christian Families in Adoption and Foster Care – standingforfreedom.com

Indiana Protects Christian Families in Adoption and Foster Care – standingforfreedom.com

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, R, has signed legislation aimed at protecting adoptive and foster parents, along with faith-based child welfare organizations, from discrimination based on their religious beliefs.

The measure, House Bill 1389, prohibits state and local government agencies from discriminating against individuals who seek to adopt or foster children if they intend to raise those children according to their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

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I’m New York City was rocked today when two Muslim terrorists —Amir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Nick, 19— threw a homemade explosive device filled with nails, bolts, and screws toward a crowd of protesters while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The incident has reignited concerns about Islamic violence and public safety in a city that once set the standard for law and order. For many residents, the question is no longer whether authorities are aware of the threat—but whether they are willing to confront it head-on.

NYC – earlier today Amir Balat (18) and Ibrahim Nick (19) threw a homemade explosive device filled with nuts, bolts, nails, and screws toward a crowd of protesters while shouting Allahu Akbar.

Utterly astonishing what is happening to once one of the greatest cities in the world

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To his supporters, Donald J. Trump is the 47th president of the United States. For our enemies, he is something far more intolerable: the de facto leader of Western civilization. He is nothing less than the obstacle to a civilizational transformation they have already advanced in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Ottawa.

This enemy has a name: the Red-Green alliance. It is the political covenant between the left and Islam. Its strength is precisely that it is not external. It votes. It holds our passports. It sits in our legislatures and city halls. It shouts down, as in the example of Democrat Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, our president’s State of the Union. This is the enemy within: a left who mobilizes blocs of Islamic voters whose only shared objective is the destruction of the West.

Trump is alone among Western leaders in saying this plainly. When pressed as to whether British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s refusal to assist U.S action against Iran was due to his “pandering to Muslim voters,” Trump refused to recite the ritual lie.

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The University of Oregon’s Health Services will reportedly begin dispensing dangerous abortion pills to students this year following persistent pro-abortion activism. Oregon Right to Life has condemned the efforts to get university providers to prescribe the drugs as “deeply irresponsible.”

The University of Oregon (UO) student news site The Daily Emerald reported Monday that the institution’s University Health Services (UHS) would begin prescribing the drugs to students in the fall semester after a coalition of student groups, including the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), reportedly gathered over 2,300 petition signatures and 200 survey responses.

Activists have lobbied for abortion pills on campus for years, with a 2024 effort failing to move forward.

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A Michigan Democrat state representative has announced she won’t run for reelection because her Christian faith is incompatible with remaining in her party, particularly considering its stances on social issues.

“For me, it is impossible to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ while remaining a member of the Democratic Party as it exists today. I cannot reconcile that platform with Scripture,” Rep. Karen Whitsett told a local news outlet on Monday.

“I will not be seeking reelection for this office, and I will not be running for any office ever again,” she added. “This is not a political calculation—it’s a spiritual decision.”

Whitsett told WDIV-TV Local 4 that she will remain civically engaged and support leaders across party lines who are committed to improving lives and strengthening families based on the Bible.

She mentioned specific social issues where she said the Democrat Party platform irreconcilably conflicts with the Bible’s teaching.

“That conviction includes the issues I cannot reconcile with Scripture: abortion, the normalization of the gay lifestyle, and the push to redefine gender,” Whitsett explained.

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“I’ve dealt with a lot when it comes to the LGBTQIA+ two-spirit, whatever the hell else you want to add in there, community. … But sometimes I watch a clip of this gang, and it shocks even me,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

The clip Sara is referring to allegedly captures an incident from February at the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco. The video went viral on social media earlier this month after journalist Andy Ngo published a detailed report.

In the clip, parental rights activist Beth Bourne questions a woman, who is reportedly the mother of a trans-identifying child, about medical interventions for minors. After a brief exchange where Bourne pressed the woman on topics like profits from gender-affirming surgeries on children and grotesque surgical procedures, the woman allegedly leaned in and whispered a death threat, “I’m gonna hunt you down and f**king kill you,” before walking away.

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Conservatives: Michael Cooper, Todd Doherty, Tamara Jansen and Andrew Lawton.

Liberals: Hon Helena Jaczek, Annie Koutrakis, James Maloney, Marcus Powlowski and Kristina Tesser Derksen.

Bloc Québécois: Luc Thériault (BQ).

Hon. Pierre J. Dalphond, Hon. Yonah Martin, Hon. Rosemary Moodie, Hon. Pamela Wallin, Hon Kristopher David Wells.
The committee should not derail Private Members Bill C-218, which like it’s predecessor in the last parliament (Bill C-314) would prevent euthanasia (MAiD) for mental illness alone. Bill C-218 has gained significant traction within the governing Liberal Party. This committee may move the debate into the committee rather than parliament.Get the latest pro-life news and information on X (Twitter).

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For the second time in less than a month, Oregon Democrats have blocked consideration of a bill that would have guaranteed basic medical care to infants delivered alive after botched abortions.

“Pro-abortion lawmakers in the Oregon Senate voted against bringing a bill to the Senate floor Thursday that would require Oregon medical professionals to provide the same standards of care to babies born alive during failed abortions as newborns delivered under usual circumstances,” noted Oregon Right to Life’s Communication Director Ashley Sadler. 

All 18 Senate Democrats voted against SB 1554, the “Born Alive Infants Protection Act,” while all 12 Republicans voted in favor. 

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The end times are not announced by earthquakes or wars alone. The greatest sign, Fr. James Altman warns, is the apostasy unfolding inside the Church itself.

Joining John-Henry Westen, Fr. Altman draws on the warnings of Our Lady’s apparitions, Quito, La Salette, Garabandal, and the testimony of exorcists like Fr. Gabriel Amorth, who witnessed Padre Pio’s anguish over the loss of faith spreading through the Church’s own leadership. The crisis is not external. It is internal. And it has now reached the papacy.

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ABUJA, Nigeria — Conservative Anglican leaders have restructured their organization, signaling a break from the traditions of the historic Anglican Communion as they seek to reorder the 400-year-old church group.

The Global Anglican Future Conference, or Gafcon, dissolved its Gafcon Primates Council and replaced it with the Global Anglican Council.

The new council will include primates, advisers and guarantors, made up of bishops, clergy and lay members, each with full voting privileges, Gafcon general secretary The Right Reverend Paul Donison said in a statement.

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James Talarico, a Texas lawmaker, won the Democratic race to run for U.S. Senate. As a Democrat, he strongly supports abortion. What has surprised many Texans is not just his position, but the way he defends it. He says the Bible supports his view.

Talarico grew up in a Christian Presbyterian church and often talks about his faith. But his explanation of Scripture ignores what the Bible teaches about the value of Life, especially the lives of babies in the womb.

Around the time the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing Texas to protect preborn children, Talarico preached a sermon that focused almost entirely on abortion.

The Supreme Court struck down a California policy that essentially allowed schools to secretly transition your children to a different “gender” without your consent. The ruling was 6-3, which means 3 supreme court justices are fundamentally unfit to serve, and probably have suspicious material on their laptops.

The non-child-groomer justices determined, “We conclude that the parents who seek religious exemptions are likely to succeed on the merits of their Free Exercise Clause claim. The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health.”

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HUGE WIN: Supreme Court BLOCKS California’s ‘Secret Gender Transition’ Law for Kids – wltreport.com

In a huge victory in California, the Supreme Court just struck down a policy allowing for secret “gender transitions” of children in schools.

The new state law barred schools from notifying parents if their kid started identifying as a transgender and forced teachers to use students’ “preferred pronouns” even if they do not align with their biological sex.

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For a brief season in Vermont, Christians could not adopt children because of the DNC-controlled state’s presupposition that homosexuality and transgenderism are good and should be celebrated, especially in children. If your belief system falls outside of their pedo-enabling orthodoxy, you cannot adopt a child. After all, if they want to explore sex with a person of their same sex, or explore their non-existent gender choices, your beliefs would prevent them from being terrorized by leftist child groomers.

Now, Vermont has been reeled in after a settlement between the state’s child grooming and terrorizing agency, the Department of Children and Families, and Christian couples who sued for the right to adopt children without bending the knee to the left’s child grooming ideology. Now, the DCF’s new guidelines protect Christians from leftist terrorism. It reads “[a]pplicants’ sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs shall not be considered in the licensing process.”

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Vermont Ends Foster-Care LGBTQ Affirmation Requirement After Lawsuit – standingforfreedom.com

State bans on Christians from the foster care system continue to fall after coming up against legal challenges that claim such policies violate the First Amendment’s protections for religious freedom.

The latest is in Vermont, where a settlement has been reached between the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) and two Christian couples who were kicked out of the state’s foster care system because they refused to say they would affirm a hypothetical child’s gender confusion.

Pastor Bryan Gantt and his wife, Rebecca, and Pastor Brian Wuoti and his wife, Katy, were once favorites of the Vermont foster care system. The Wuotis became foster parents in 2014 and adopted two boys from the foster care system. The Gantts became foster parents in 2016 and specialized in caring for children born with drug dependency or fetal alcohol syndrome.

… DCF demanded the couples agree to affirm a child’s gender identity if they were ever asked to care for an LGBT child. Due to their religious beliefs, the couples both said they would love and care for an LGBT child, but they wouldn’t lie to them and affirm their gender confusion.

As a result, they were removed from the foster care system, leading to a lawsuit filed on their behalf by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

On Monday, February 23, ADF issued a statement saying they had reached a settlement with DCF after Vermont created a new policy that no longer requires parents to agree to philosophical statements in order to participate in the foster care system.

Under the settlement, dated February 18, DCF will issue new guidance stating that an “[a]pplicants’ sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs shall not be considered in the licensing process.” DCF also stated that it does not require “endorsement or affirmation of specific identities” nor the “use of particular vocabulary, prescribed language, or preferred pronouns related to gender identity, sexual orientation, or identity expression.”

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Key Takeaways

  • Former Calvin University professor Joe Kuilema was terminated for officiating a same-sex wedding, prompting him to file a lawsuit alleging associational and retaliatory discrimination.
  • Calvin University, a private Christian institution that opposes same-sex marriage based on its doctrinal beliefs, maintains that its expectations for faculty conduct align with these religious values, asserting its right to make employment decisions consistent with its beliefs.
  • The case raises significant questions about the interpretation of civil rights laws concerning associational discrimination, as Kuilema seeks clarification from the Michigan Supreme Court.

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(LifeSiteNews) — On this same issue of homosexuality as presented in Part 4 of this series, we must also consider what has been taking place publicly with bishops throughout the world, and with Pope Leo XIV, in recent months. Two examples follow.

First, the German bishops. On October 30, 2025, the German Bishops’ Conference released the document “Created, Redeemed and Loved: Visibility and Recognition of the Diversity of Sexual Identities in the School,” which boldly asserts that “the diversity of sexual identities is a fact,” and instructs that in Catholic schools, teachers not only must accept whatever gender with which a student identifies, but also must address students with gender-affirming pronouns. Moreover, teachers are required to present Catholic teaching on human sexuality as “disputed” and open to debate. As Dr. Steven Mosher, President of Population Research Institute, noted:

[W]hile the Vatican has, in the past, repeatedly condemned gender ideology as an attack on the God-given differences between men and women, as well as on the anthropological foundation of the family, it has taken no disciplinary action against the German episcopate for promoting it.[1]