A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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Now here’s some news you won’t get from most media sources: “FBI director estimates 70% of abortion-related, post-Roe violence has targeted pro-life centers, churches.” An excerpt:
“I’m glad you raised this topic, because it gives me an opportunity to speak to it,” [FBI Director Christopher] Wray replied. “You might be interested to know that since the Dobbs Act decision, probably in the neighborhood of 70% of our abortion-related violence cases or threats cases are cases of violence or threats against pro-life, where the victims are pro-life organizations.”
Canada’s reputation as a horrifying regime of euthanasia and suicide is growing. Here’s a story from The Daily Wire:
Recently, the story of a mom trying to stop her 23-year-old diabetic son from killing himself via Canada’s medically assisted suicide program went viral. I had several extended conversations w/ the son for my story on the spread of assisted suicide laws. https://t.co/ZLubv1lqauhttps://t.co/DxbFQgQZ0l
As most of you will know, a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado recently—and the media rushed to blame conservatives who oppose the LGBT agenda in what Rod Dreher called a “blood libel.” Then, it turned out that the shooter identified as non-binary. The story virtually went away over night. Funny how that works, isn’t it.
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And yet:
There is no evidence that the attacker, who identifies as nonbinary and uses “Mx.”, was in any way inspired by Focus on the Family, nor by any conservative or Christian organization. Neither @FocusFamily nor @FRCdc encourage or support violence or shootings against LGBT people https://t.co/kusSEVNeF3
At World Opinions, Bethel McGrew has a powerful piece on what really went wrong with the young gunman: “Violent men were sad boys.”
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The “transgender charity” Mermaids—named for the mythical creature without a human lower half—has gained support from progressive tastemakers such as AOC and Prince Harry. But they are now, once again, rocked by scandal. From Julie Bindel in The Spectator: “Where did it all go wrong for trans charity Mermaids?”
