A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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Remember Lia Thomas, the strapping young man destroying his female competitors in swim meets across America? Well, don’t click if you don’t want to know, but as it turns out (I’m shocked) he’s also an extraordinarily offensive pervert. From The Daily Wire:
The Sexual Revolution has nothing to do with “toleration.” The Sexual Revolution is a mandatory way of life—a new regime replacing the Judeo-Christian foundations of the West. Exhibit A, from Australia: “Six-year-old soccer players told they must wear pride T-shirts to take part in halftime game.” If you don’t want to literally wear your support for the LGBT movement, you cannot participate in society—full stop. Expect more of this.
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From Public Discourse—ChatGPT admits that abortion is…well, it’s complicated: “ChatGPT Admits That Elective Abortion Rests on Moral Contradictions.” Interestingly, one of my friends sent me a series of screenshots shortly after the app launched noting how effectively the AI produced pro-life arguments. I’m sure that’s a bug they’ll work out soon.
Some of you may remember Nate Hochman’s devastating analysis of how the transgender movement hijacked the political scene in South Dakota—a deep red state governed by the GOP: “How Gender Ideology Conquered South Dakota.” That National Review piece could kill Governor Kristi Noem’s ambitions for higher office. I suspect that Hochman’s reporting is also the reason that Noem is scrambling to get her house in order on this issue. From The Blaze: “Noem signs bill to prohibit transgender surgeries and more for minors.”
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In order to make American Christians seem like a scary threat, the mainstream media has defaulted to an old trick—defining “Christian Nationalism” so broadly that pretty much everyone who is a) Christian and b) loves America falls into that category, as this report from NPR so prominently highlights. The point, of course, is to make Christians seem like a fifth column poised to perpetrate another January 6 or whatever.
