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Man claiming to be female wins women’s world cycling race, accuses critics of ‘transphobia’

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In a development that some have decried as a harbinger of the death of women’s sports, biological male Rachel McKinnon won a gold medal this weekend at the Masters Track Cycling World Championships. The Canadian-born McKinnon, who is also a philosophy professor on the faculty at South Carolina’s College of Charleston, first won the women’s sprint 35-39 age bracket last year, and won a gold medal again this weekend while setting a new best time, Cycling Weekly reported. He also won a silver medal in the 500-meter time trial earlier in the week. “Way too many people to thank,” McKinnon wrote on Instagram. “Thank you especially to the dozens of fans cheering your heads off, and I'm glad to have met a new friend Kirsten (Herup Sovang), who took bronze.” He declared in a follow-up that this year’s jersey, medals, and record “mean a whole lot more to me than my first.” In another pair of posts, McKinnon highlighted photos of the three medalists posing for photos, in which Sovang...

BETO O'ROURKE NEEDS TO THINK BEFORE HE SPEAKS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. IN AMERICA, WE DON'T TAX CHURCHES INTO SUBMISSION

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Former Congressman Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke isn't exactly setting the world on fire with his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. In an Emerson College poll of Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa conducted before and after the debate this week, his support was so low, it didn't even register. The man who was once considered the liberals' best hope for retaking a U.S. Senate seat in overwhelmingly red Texas is running so far in the back of the pack, he's in danger of falling out. Now, he'll have to pander to the single-issue constituencies within the Democratic Party, as well as the 'pundit-crats' who fell in love with him during his Senate bid, for enough support to keep his campaign afloat. That's probably why he answered unhesitatingly and in the affirmative when CNN's Don Lemon asked in a recent forum, "Religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities—should they lose their tax-exempt status i...

Beto's attack on religious liberty not just wrong but disastrous

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Beto calls for the removal of tax-exempt status for churches who don't support same-sex marriage Democratic presidential candidates have spent the last few months introducing a rucksack of new policy proposals, some of which, if implemented, would be incredibly harmful. One of those proposals came from former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who argued that religious institutions must be stripped of their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage. This is, sadly, not the first time that people of faith have been alerted to the punishment that some of the political Left wish to mete out to dissenters. In a statement attached to the document “Peaceful Coexistence,” Martin Castro, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, argued that religious believers use phrases such as religious liberty as “code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia [and] Christian supremacy.” Wa...

Is Cory Booker Misusing the Bible?

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I appreciate that Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is not ashamed to speak of his faith. He is not ashamed to call himself a Christian, and he is not afraid to quote Scripture. The question is: Is he misusing the Bible? Is he misapplying God’s Word? Booker’s Misuse of the Bible Senator Booker was responding to a question asked by a Catholic school student who stated that her school “routinely rejected requests for an LGBTQ+ club.” Booker replied,  “It said in Micah, ‘What do you want from your Lord, but what is it you want from your people?’ Which is to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly — walk humbly — and, so for me, I cannot allow, as a leader, that people are going to use religion as a justification for discrimination.” He added, “I can respect your religious views but also protect people from discrimination.” Did Booker apply this famous verse from the Old Testament accurately? Was the senator correct in explaining his opposition to “discr...

The Cultural Left Bares Its Teeth: An Open Threat to Churches and Christians Who Hold to Biblical Conviction

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A moral, political, and cultural earthquake tremored last Thursday night as CNN’s Equality Town Hall featured the leading contenders for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States. The rhetoric of the candidates finally bared the teeth of a Democratic Party sold out to the most radical proposals of the LGBTQ movement. Indeed, a particular exchange between CNN anchor Don Lemon and former Congressman Beto O’Rourke revealed to what extent contenders for the Democratic Nomination will go to deconstruct religious liberty in the name of the newly declared sexual liberties. Lemon asked O’Rourke,  “This is from your LGBTQ plan, this is what you wrote: “Freedom of religion is a fundamental right, but it should not be used to discriminate.” Lemon then pressed the question: “Do you think religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities, should they lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage?” Without skipping a beat or drawing a breat...

Do Same-Sex Marriage Laws Really Improve Youth Mental Health?

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LGBT ADVOCATES PUSHED THIS LIE TO JUSTIFY HOMOSEXUAL ACCEPTANCE INTO THE COMMUNITY - IT WAS A LIE! A recent study by Raifman et al. (2017) finds that same-sex marriage (SSM) laws  generate substantial mental health benefits for high school students , particularly those that identify as sexual minorities. We re-examine this finding using data drawn from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys from 1993 to 2017. Our results show little evidence that SSM laws reduce suicide attempts, suicide planning, suicide ideation or depressive symptomatology among high school students.  LGBT POTENTIAL YOUTH SUICIDE - WAS USED AS A WEAPONAGAINST THOSE OPPOSING IMMORAL HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE Prior evidence for mental health benefits of SSM laws appears to be driven by underestimated standard errors, lack of sufficient post-treatment data, and use of a theoretically tenuous specification that restricts the mental health effects of all covariates — which include other state LGBT policies — to...

Forcing same-sex ‘marriage’ on USA didn’t reduce teen suicides after all, study finds

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For years, LGBT activists have asserted that society’s refusal to fully recognize homosexuality as indistinguishable from heterosexuality was a key contributor to suicide among young gay Americans, but a new study is challenging the notion that the advent of same-sex “marriage” reduced the suicide rate at all. D. Mark Anderson of Montana State University and the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Kyutaro Matsuzawa and Joseph J. Sabia of San Diego State University’s Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies, released a paper this month analyzing data from State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys to “explore the relationship between marriage equality and suicidal behaviors among LGBQ-identifying youths.” Their conclusion: We find little evidence that SSM laws have reduced suicide attempts among teen sexual minorities, nor have they decreased the likelihood of suicide planning, suicide ideation, or depression.   Instead, we find some evidence that SSM legali...