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April 18, 2015

Republican Ruse? Indiana “Religious Freedom” Law Bait and Switch

By Selwyn Duke

Indiana Republicans possibly were trying to do their best impression of a cheap tent, but there perhaps hasn’t been such a quick folding since the collapse of the Maginot Line.

The state’s Religious Freedom Restoration act, despite Governor Mike Pence’s feints to the contrary, was clearly intended to offer protection to bakers, florists, wedding planners, and anyone else who objects to participating in faux weddings and other events contrary to his conscience. Instead, after a media maelstrom, pugnacious protesting, and big-money maneuvering, an amendment to the legislation has rendered it an exercise in cowardly posturing.

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April 18, 2015

New Research: What Do Americans Really Think About Jesus?

By Selwyn Duke

Christians may be under physical attack in much of the world and under legal attack in America, but Jesus Christ continues to inspire interest. Yet with modern portrayals of Him ranging from the reverent to the irreverent to the risible, what do Americans really think about Jesus? The Barna Group research company aimed to find out, and it has just released data on five key questions on the matter.

Did Jesus exist?

While a few militant secularists will insist Jesus is akin to a mythological figure, the vast majority of Americans — 92 percent — acknowledge He existed. And this belief is high across age groups. The figures are: Among the oldest demographic (“Elders”), 96 percent; Baby Boomers, 95; Generation X-ers, 91; and Millennials, 87.

Is Jesus Divine?

It’s not surprising in our secular age that, while 83 percent of Americans describe themselves as “Christian,” many of them don’t accept their faith’s central tenet: Jesus’ divinity.

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April 18, 2015

Seeing Racism Everywhere: Even in Toddlers

By Selwyn Duke

Representative Vanessa Summers apparently sees “racism” everywhere.

Even in 18-month-old babies.

During a debate in the Indiana House of Representatives last Monday on the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, it became apparent that Summers (D-Indianapolis) believes that white toddlers who fear her are bigoted. And, as PJ Media put it, “Rather than follow the well-trod path of her progressive brethren by writing a Masters [sic] thesis — say, “Changes in Postmodern White Toddler Microaggression in Middle America, Pre- and Post-LBJ” — she took her revelation to an open mic on the statehouse floor.” The Indy Star has the rest of the story:

[The] Democratic lawmaker said that a Republican lawmaker's child was "scared" of her because she is black.

The comment by Rep. Vanessa Summers drew audible gasps, in no small part because the child — the son of Rep. Jud McMillin — is 18 months old.

“I told Jud McMillin I love his son, but he’s scared of me because of my color,” Summers told McMillin, who is white, during debate over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in the House.

“It’s hard,” said Summers, D-Indianapolis. Then, as other lawmakers groaned at the comments, she followed up with, “It’s true.”

“He looked at me like I was a monster and turned around and cried. And I told him you need to introduce your child to some people that are dark-skinned so he will not be scared,” she said.

This placed the Republican in the position of explaining the obvious.

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March 28, 2015

Report: Scott Walker Supported Amnesty Just Two Weeks Ago

By Selwyn Duke

There’s evolution in politics. There’s revolution in politics. Then there’s shape-shifting like that whachamacallit creature in the movie The Thing. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has spent a lot of time walking back his longtime support for amnesty, explaining his recently stated opposition to it by telling Fox News’ Chris Wallace on March 1, “My view has changed. I'm flat out saying it. Candidates can say that. Sometimes they don't.” It smacked of refreshing candor. The problem is that his view apparently changed again.

Just two weeks later.

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March 26, 2015

Greenpeace Founding Member: Climate Alarmism “Preposterous,” CO2 Emissions Saving Lives

By Selwyn Duke

While Al Gore is suggesting that climate-change realists be punished and schoolchildren braved a snowstorm to hear a rapper give a “happy” climate-alarmism message, an environmentalist presented a truly happy message on the subject:

Climate change isn’t caused by man, there’s been no significant warming for nearly two decades, and, even if there had been, it would probably be a good thing.

Furthermore, he suggests that human CO₂ emissions might have prevented disaster.

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March 25, 2015

The U.K. Government Pedophiles Who Got Away With Spiritual Murder

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve heard much recently about the Muslim-run child sex-trafficking rings that have plagued Britain and that, for most of the last 15 years, had been covered up by the nation’s authorities. But it appears U.K. officials are old hands at protecting pedophiles, as a shocking story about powerful child molesters embedded deep within the British government reveals.

The story dates back to the 1980s and involves politicians, judges, intelligence officers, staff at royal palaces, and figures from private schools, big business, and the Church of England — and more than 100 government files on the pedophile network that have mysteriously gone missing.

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March 25, 2015

Woman: I Was Raised by Two Lesbians, and I’m Against “Gay Marriage”

By Selwyn Duke

Heather Barwick’s testimonial against faux marriage is particularly powerful. While having been raised by two lesbians, she’s no bitter child rebelling against a parent. In fact, she expresses deep love for the women who nurtured her, and she used to support faux marriage herself. But after tying the knot and witnessing the love her husband lavishes on their four children, she came to a realization: There is no substitute for having a mother and a father raise a child.

In a heartfelt piece at the Federalist March 17, she relates her experiences and thoughts:

Do you remember that book, “Heather Has Two Mommies”? That was my life. My mom, her partner, and I lived in a cozy little house in the ‘burbs of a very liberal and open-minded area. Her partner treated me as if I was her own daughter. Along with my mom’s partner, I also inherited her tight-knit community of gay and lesbian friends. Or maybe they inherited me?

… I’m writing to you [the homosexual community] because I’m letting myself out of the closet: I don’t support gay marriage. But it might not be for the reasons that you think.

It’s not because you’re gay. I love you, so much. It’s because of the nature of the same-sex relationship itself.

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March 24, 2015

NYC: Liberals Open Fake Gun Store to Push Gun Control

By Selwyn Duke

“A gun store opened in Manhattan….” It sounds like the beginning of a story — or a tale. And the effort essentially was fiction.

Critics would say its message was fiction, too.

As the salesman behind the counter showed one couple a firearm, he said to the husband, “It’s the easiest gun we have to use…. It’s a .22 caliber, six-inch revolver. It's also a gun that a 5-year-old found in his parents’ bedroom [and] went and shot his 9-month-old baby brother with."

What was being sold, you see, wasn’t guns but gun control. The store, set up on Manhattan’s liberal Lower East Side, equipped with hidden cameras, and given the imaginative name “Gun Shop,” was open just two days last week. The video footage shot was then used in an ad.

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March 24, 2015

Will Supreme Court Squelch Free Speech Because “Mob” Might be Offended?

By Selwyn Duke

The five American students were not allowed to display their American-flag T-shirts because Mexican students might be offended and become violent. This certainly might be expected in Chihuahua, or Veracruz, or Tijuana. But it happened in Morgan Hill — California — in the USA.

The American schoolboys were given a choice: turn their shirts inside-out, get suspended, or go home. And you probably thought that anywhere in America was our flag’s home.

That was May 5, 2010, “Cinco de Mayo,” at Live Oak High School, and the students have since sued. And now their case may be heard by the Supreme Court. This is because a lower court issued a late January ruling on the incident that critics say establishes a “heckler’s veto” allowing speech to be prohibited simply because someone else is offended by it.

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March 24, 2015

Black Minister: Obama Lying, Black Americans “Acting Like Ku Klux Klan”

By Selwyn Duke

The latest shootings of policemen in Ferguson and the town’s riots last year were incited by race-baiting black leaders — such as Barack Obama and Eric Holder. So says black minister Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. Moreover, says the reverend, blacks are fertile ground for racialist propaganda because bigotry is rife in their community and, as a consequence, they “are acting like the Ku Klux Klan.”

Writing at WND.com, Peterson cites the self-defense shooting of Michael Brown by ex-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson as a case study in the above phenomena. Despite three autopsies and an official Department of Justice report exonerating Officer Wilson, a surprising number of black Americans still believe he’s guilty — and Obama still feeds that delusion.

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