A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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Parental protests in Canada continue. In British Columbia: “Hundreds of anti-SOGI protestors disrupt Abbotsford school board meeting.” (SOGI is the comprehensive sex education implemented province-wide.)
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Ukrainian religious leaders are speaking out against a proposal to legalize pornography:
The plan to legalise the porn industry in Ukraine is a “destructive initiative”, religious leaders in Ukraine believe. They strongly reject the political proposal that aims to make the graphic content legal. The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organisations issued a statement in which they condemn the legalisation of producing pornography, SPZH reports.
The bill for legalising pornography is an initiative from MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak, among others. According to the religious leaders, the politicians justify their proposal “by claiming it will allow women to legally sell their bodies for volunteer contributions to support the Ukrainian army.” However, the religious leaders believe that the bill only testifies to the “moral depravity” of its authors, “who are ready to lobby for harmful and immoral initiatives and involve women in the sex industry for the sake of excessive profits from this amoral business.”
Read the whole thing.
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From Fox News: “Tennis legend Martina Navratilova slams Interior secretary’s video with drag queen: ‘Is this a joke?‘” It should be—but unfortunately, it isn’t.
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Remember the investigators who uncovered the abortion industry selling baby body parts? Yeah, they’re still battling lawfare in the courts. From Live Action News: “Supreme Court won’t hear case that targeted pro-life investigators Daleiden and Merritt.”
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From The Daily Caller: “New California Law Would Allow Kids To Be Taken From Their Parents Without Evidence Of Abuse.” An excerpt:
A bill signed into law by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom would make it possible for kids to be removed from their parents and placed in shelter services without evidence of child abuse.
Assembly Bill (AB) 665 also allows children 12 years of age and older to consent to “mental health treatment” and to be put in a “residential shelter” on their own in some cases, without having to consult with their parent or guardian. Newsom announced he was signing the bill in an Oct. 7 letter to the California State Assembly.
What concerns me most about Newsom is I can easily see a scenario in which he is the next president of the United States. Nobody but Biden wants Biden to run—and people want an alternative to Trump. I’d be very surprised if Newsom wasn’t eying a run—and he still has time to register for the primaries.
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Is this Ireland’s Jordan Peterson? From the Irish Times: “Lecturer objects to university’s gender identity policy which describes refusal to use pronouns as ‘unlawful.’”
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Canada’s birthrate continues to plummet: “Canada’s birth rate has dropped off a cliff (and it’s likely because nobody can afford housing).” I’m sure housing is exacerbating it, but our birthrate has been dropping for decades. Children require sacrifice, and we haven’t created a society that emphasizes sacrifice.
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Very good news: the German homeschooling family I wrote about earlier this month facing deportation from America has received a reprieve: “German homeschooling family given 1-year stay on deportation.”
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More soon.