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Majority of Americans Deceived About “Gay” Gene

It has been a steady mantra from the radical homosexual activists for decades – people are born gay and had no choice in the matter.

This is the justification for most of the “civil rights” agenda that is being forced on the American people.

Now, it seems, this onslaught of propaganda is paying off for the activists.  A new poll now finds Americans are believing the myth in larger numbers than ever.  Life Site News reports:

For the first time, a majority of Americans say that homosexuals are “born that way.”

According to the latest Gallup poll, 51 percent of Americans say that people are born gay or lesbian, while only 30 percent say outside factors such as upbringing and environment determine sexual orientation.

But, what are those beliefs based on?  Certainly it is not scientific evidence as Life Site News explains:

However, science would not bear that out. No fewer than eight major studies from around the world have found homosexuality is not a genetic condition.

Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council says that these numerous, rigorous studies of identical twins have now made it impossible to argue that there is a “gay gene.” If homosexuality were inborn and predetermined, then when one identical twin is homosexual, the other should be, as well.

Yet one study from Yale and Columbia Universities found homosexuality common to only 6.7 percent of male identical twins and 5.3 percent of female identical twins.

The low rate of common homosexuality in identical twins – around six percent – is easily explained by nurture, not nature.

Researchers Peter Bearman and Hannah Brueckner concluded that environment was the determining factor. They rejected outright that “genetic influence independent of social context” as the reason for homosexuality. “(O)ur results support the hypothesis that less gendered socialization in early childhood and preadolescence shapes subsequent same-sex romantic preferences.”

“Less gendered socialization” means, a boy was without a positive father figure, or a girl was without a positive mother figure.

In light of the evidence, Sprigg said simply, “No one is born gay.”

Psychiatrists William Byne and Bruce Parsons summarize the science: “Critical review shows the evidence favoring a biologic theory to be lacking. … In fact, the current trend may be to underrate the explanatory power of extant psychosocial models.” In other words, homosexuality is a psychological malady, not something people are born with.

Now, these findings certainly aren’t “politically correct.”  They will never be reported honestly in the media.  But, the truth is the truth even if homosexual activists want to keep the truth hidden from the public.

Interestingly though, now even some homosexual activists are breaking ranks with the “gay gene” mythology as Life Site News reveals:

Some homosexuals openly admit that their lifestyle is a choice. Lindsay Miller, who describes herself as a “queer woman,” complained in The Atlantic monthly, “I get frustrated with the veiled condescension of straight people who believe that queers ‘can’t help it,’ and thus should be treated with tolerance and pity.”

“I was not born this way,” she wrote. “The life I have now is not something I ended up with because I had no other options. Make no mistake – it’s a life I chose.”

“It’s time to send the ‘born that way’ myth to the graveyard of misbegotten ideas, buried in the plot next to the myth that the sun revolves around the earth,” Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association has written.

But, we still see growing numbers believing this grand lie of the homosexual movement.  Life Site News shares the numbers:

And yet, the myth continues to gain believers, even among conservatives. According to the new Gallup poll, Republicans are divided on whether Americans are born homosexual (40 percent) or whether same-sex orientation is determined by environmental factors (36 percent).

In previous polls, a majority of Republicans have said homosexuality is not innate. Now, according to this poll, they are equally likely to view sexual orientation as inherent, rather than a choice or a consequence of how people were raised. In all, 62 percent of Democrats believe homosexuals were born that way.

The issue affects Republican politicians who, like all politicians, base their public statements on the polls. Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson recently apologized for merely suggesting people choose to be gay or lesbian. Sen. Marco Rubio has said that, while he does not support same-sex “marriage,” he believes that people are born gay or lesbian.

Fischer says our society and particularly our presidential candidates should make policy based on medical and scientific reality, not polls. “If homosexual behavior is a choice, then our public policy can freely be shaped by an honest look at whether this behavioral choice is healthy and should be encouraged, or unhealthy and dangerous and consequently discouraged,” he wrote.

The bottom line is one of responsibility.  If the homosexual lifestyle is a choice – a matter of personal behavior, then those practicing LGBT behaviors are ultimately responsible for it themselves; including diseases, child molestation, and broken families.

But, if there is a “gay gene”, then LGBT people can’t help it and can cry intolerance about anyone who refuses to accept their behavior.  They can then insist that laws be changed to accommodate them.  And, they can get into the schools to teach young minds to accept their behavior as normal and equal to that of heterosexuals.

Guess which choice Hollywood, the national media, and the gay activists have made?  And, guess which position is being pounded into the minds of Americans daily?

And pounded in it currently is; science be damned.

About Russ Hepler

Russ Hepler is a pastor, teacher, political activist, author and conference speaker with over 30 years’ experience. He holds a B.A. from Messiah College and an M.A.R. from Evangelical School of Theology. He has been an issues’ advocate, a campaign volunteer for local, state, and federal candidates, Regional Field Director for PA Christian Coalition and president of a county chapter of Pennsylvanians for Human Life. His first book – Yes! We Can Turn This Nation Around! A Practical Guide for Christian Political Involvement – was published in 2012. He and his wife, Sherry, have founded Transformation 1202 Ministries to educate, encourage, and challenge people of faith to get involved in the political and cultural issues of our day.

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Another Dead NASA Scientist, ‘SEVENTY FOUR’ Scientists dead in 2 years!

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Friday January 12th 2015, renowned scientist Alberto Behar crashed his small plane in the streets of L.A. shortly after he had taken off. Alberto worked at NASA’s ‘Jet Propulsion Laboratory’ and Arizona State University; he was one of the leading scientists responsible for discovering that there was once water on Planet Mars. Behar was an expert pilot; he was a flight instructor for both planes and helicopters – the weather conditions were very clear and for some unknown reason his plane just started to lose altitude. The Van Nuys Airport pilot Kashif Khursheed stated  “I can’t see what would be the cause of something like this. He was very knowledgeable, competent and thorough.”

NASA engineer and expert pilot Alberto Behar crashed his small plane in the streets of L.A. on a clear day, the plane just lost altitude.

This tragic event is just one of the most recent cases of a prominent key scientists suspicious death, over the last two years 74 leading medical and NASA scientists have died, almost ‘ALL’ are officially labelled suicide or an accident. (all 74!?) Glenn Thomas was a World Health Organisation spokesperson; he was reportedly an expert on Ebola and AIDS, he was aboard MH17 when it was shot down with approximately 100 other researchers.

Glenn Thomas was expert on Ebola and AIDS, he was aboard MH17 when it was shot down with approximately 100 other researchers.

Other strange deaths of leading scientists are:

Joep Lange, a leading AIDS researcher and former president of the International AIDS Society (IAS) was also aboard MH17. They were all on their way to an international AIDS conference. With one fell swoop a large portion of the leading AIDS experts were killed before they could attend a global conference.

Joep Lange, a leading AIDS researcher and former president of the International AIDS Society (IAS) was also aboard the doomed MH17!

Melissa Ketunuti, 35, was a paediatrician who specialised in cancer; she also worked on an AIDS fellowship in Botswana. She was hogtied and set on fire in the basement of her home in Philadelphia. Dr Anne Szarewski, 53, was a cervical cancer expert; she pioneered the cervical cancer vaccine.

Murdered: Dr Melissa Ketunuti had been a paediatrician for five years before her gruesome murder in Philadelphia.

Perhaps one of the most controversial scientist deaths in the last so many years was that of Shane Truman Todd, 31. In June 2012 he was found dead, his body was in a morgue in Singapore, he was a rather important electrical engineer.

He was working on an EXTREMELY  top-secret “one of a kind” machine for the Chinese that was believed to be some kind of a defence weapon. Before his death Shane had told his family that he was not happy with what he was doing and he feared for his life, he was allegedly being asked to compromise U.S security!!

Shane Truman Toddwas an electrical engineer. He was working on a top-secret “one of a kind” machine for the Chinese when he turned up dead.

Shane had quit his job and was due to leave China and fly home but sadly died a week before his flight after his last day at work building this ‘unknown machine’. Foul play was most definitely suspected and his family began campaigning straight away for the truth, Chinese official said they would look into the matter and try and determine if it was murder or suicide but guess what!? Yes, as of yet there are no answers….Hmmm!?!?!?!?

These people who are sadly no longer with us are just a very tiny fraction of the many scientists that have died under very suspicious circumstances, you can read more about mysterious scientist deaths by clicking right HERE  A lot of these people are either Space Specialists, leading medical experts or leading engineers, you have to ask what could they have known that would have led to their horrible deaths? Or could it all simply be ‘coincidence’?!

At a time when conspiracy is a very common word, it is increasingly difficult to differentiate between what could be a conspiracy and what is simply an unfortunate event. It is incredibly suspect why so many of these deaths are so odd, the people who were killed would have access to extremely sensitive information that government officials may not want to EVER be disclosed…We all know how little life means to the ‘Elite’ of this world!!

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First and foremost we at U.I.P mean NO disrespect by posting this article and our DEEPEST thoughts and RESPECT goes out to these very clever people who brought a lot of knowledge and wisdom to this world….Our concern is that their knowledge and wisdom was once used and the towards the end totally abused and they all paid the ultimate horrific sacrifice!

We can not state that these deaths were planned by crooked Government officials as we do not know this to be a fact, but what we can tell you is this….coincidences happen all the time, but 74 times (and sadly counting) appears to be a bit too much of a ‘coincidence’

If and we mean IF (it’s a big if) these people did pay the ultimate sacrifice for what they knew and had knowledge of, then we WILL find out the truth, no matter HOW LONG IT TAKES!!

R.I.P to all of these important Scientists who gave their all in life.

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Lost 'Hope': Poster artist says Obama let him down

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Obama 'Hope' poster artist not happy with president

The street artist behind the iconic "Hope" poster of then-candidate Barack Obama says the president has let him down. 

In an interview with Esquire, Shepard Fairey said President Obama has not lived up to the expectations of the image that captured the verve behind Obama's 2008 run. In fact, Fairey said, he's "not even close." 

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"Obama has had a really tough time, but there have been a lot of things that he's compromised on that I never would have expected. I mean, drones and domestic spying are the last things I would have thought [he'd support]," he told Esquire. 

Fairey, who has met Obama several times, said he thinks he is a "quality person," whose presidency and legislative record also have been dictated by things out of his direct control. 

"I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous," Fairey said in his interview with Esquire. "But I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step." 

He also chided those "who want to blame Obama or blame anything that is something that if they were actually doing anything as simple as voting, it might not be as bad as it is." 

As for 2016, Fairey agrees with Hillary Clinton on most major issues, but the "campaign finance structure" makes him "very angry" because it has "narrowed the field dramatically."

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20 Questions You’re Not Supposed To Ask In America Today

 

My latest Townhall column is called, 20 Questions You’re Not Supposed To Ask In America Today. Here’s an excerpt from the column. 

1) If Islam is really a religion of peace, as opposed to a particularly violent religion, then why do so many people and organizations across the world refuse to show Muhammad cartoons out of fear that they’ll be murdered by devout Muslims for doing it? 

2) If illegal immigrants are supposed to help our economy, then why weren’t they helping the economies of the poor nations they fled? 

3) Given that Hillary Clinton’s nearly accomplishment-free political career has been based on riding the coattails of a serial adulterer who has humiliated and cheated on her over and over, isn’t Hillary Clinton a terrible role model for young women?

4) If Barack Obama can directly contradict the laws on the books by refusing to deport millions of illegal aliens because of “prosecutorial discretion,” couldn’t a Republican President use the same precedent and refuse to prosecute people who don’t pay a capital gains tax or who violate EPA rules? 

5) Wouldn’t it be just as stupid to send teenage Boy Scouts into the woods alone with gay men as it would to send teenage Girl Scouts into the woods alone with heterosexual men?

Once again, you can read it all here.

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Teachers Told to Reflect on White Privilege

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Teachers across the country are being forced to sit through liberal indoctrination briefings that examine the “presence and role of whiteness” and how it is having a detrimental impact on young minority students. White teachers, through no fault of their own, are basically being told they are racists.

One photo surfaced from the St. Paul, Minnesota school district, showing a slide that was used as part of a white privilege training session. On the slide was a Klansman. The question on the slide reads: “When do you wear the hood?” According to those who attended the meeting, the teachers were asked to sit in silence for a few minutes and consider when they give in to their inner Klansman.

These sessions are put on with the help of a California company called Pacific Educational Group. This company is raking in a fortune with its consultations, all of which are aimed at exposing white privilege among educators. PEG’s program says that some of the discriminatory aspects of “white culture” include an emphasis on strict schedules, individualism, and the benefits of hard work. These “white traits” are hurting black children in school. PEG insists that teachers check their privilege and realize that minority cultures do not emphasize the same values.

Of course, the problem is that these traits – hardly unique to white people – really are the keys to American success. By taking them out of schools, PEG is doing minority students a huge disservice. You don’t solve educational disparities by lowering the bar! The real world is more competitive today than ever before. Preaching white privilege might lead to higher minority graduation rates, but what happens to those students when they realize that “white traits” are an immutable part of gainful employment?

Not only does this expose how out of control the public school system has gotten, it sheds light on a big problem in many minority communities. Kids are taught that there is nothing worse than “acting white.” And “acting white” comes to encompass all manner of positive traits, leading young minorities to shun reading, mock those who do well in school, and eschew any vocabulary that didn’t originate in the ghetto.

Democrats are on a big push to reduce black incarceration rates. But the key to doing that is not to change the definition of crime. It is to get over this cultural divide. It is to stop acting like it’s racist to ask black children to do well in school. We have to get rid of these idiotic concepts like white privilege. We have to stop pretending as though cops are out to get black people. We have to start dealing with the realities of the world, and stop entertaining these liberal fantasies.

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This is Georgia’s first pro-gay marriage TV ad

On Monday, Georgia Equality will launch what appears to be the state’s first ever television ad campaign promoting same-sex marriage.

A pro-gay marriage rally in Atlanta in 2013 (AJC/Kent D. Johnson)

The spot, which you can watch above, is timed for an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling this month that could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

Notice the imagery is heavy on African-American gay families and includes photos of Atlanta civil rights leaders Joseph Lowery and U.S. Rep. John Lewis.

The ads will not air in Atlanta initially and the buy is a relatively small $25,000, with the possibility of adding more if Georgia Equality can raise more money, said Jeff Graham, the group’s executive director. Said Graham:

“We’ve chosen to run the ads initially in the Augusta and Savannah markets because there are large LGBT communities in both of those areas, yet this is an issue that has not had the same level of public interest and discourse as we’ve experienced in the metro Atlanta area. …

“[N]ot only is this the first commercial that I’m aware of to air in Georgia on the topic of marriage equality. It’s also the first time our organization has bought commercial time in any television market and is probably the first time any LGBT organization has done anything more than an in-kind PSA here in Georgia.”

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STRUCTURING: After $115,000 Seized, NC Man Continues Fight for ‘Justice’

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After $115,000 Seized, NC Man Continues Fight for ‘Justice’

On the morning of Sept. 25, 2014, Tom Bednar was sitting in the bedroom of the Raleigh, N.C., home he shared with his wife, Marla, and two sons when Marla entered the room crying.

She had just looked at the bank account for their three-decade old business, Marla Enterprises, to find it empty. Now, Capital Bank was requesting close to $18,000 to cover the outstanding checks the couple had written.

After transferring money to straighten out their finances with the bank, the Bednars learned just what had happened with the $115,018.01 they had in their bank account: The United States Secret Service seized the money.

“We got no warning,” Tom Bednar said in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Nothing.”

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After months of litigation against the United States government, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen West moved to dismiss the case earlier this month, meaning the Bednars will get their money back.

However, the government refused to cover the Bednars’ $25,000 in legal fees, which the couple is entitled to under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act. Though the fight to get their $115,000 back is now over, the family is continuing to push to have their expenses covered.

‘Running Afoul’ of the Law

Tom and Marla Bednar opened Marla Enterprises when they were living in Albany, N.Y. The business buys and sells precious metals, gold, coins and antiques, and operates on a mostly cash basis, Bednar told The Daily Signal.

According to a warrant filed by Special Agent Terry Tate of the U.S. Secret Service, who worked in the agency’s Raleigh, N.C., office, the Bednars had committed structuring violations by withdrawing just under $10,000 in cash from their account on 28 different occasions between Jan. 6, 2014 and May 29, 2014.

Secret Service Affidavit for Seizure of Bednar Funds by The Heritage Foundation

In the affidavit, Tate alleged that several other banks had warned Bednar that such withdrawals were in violation of structuring laws and went on to terminate services with the couple. But, Bednar counters that he never received those warnings.

“No one ever warned that it could be suspicious to withdraw under $10,000,” he said.

Bednar contended that he had always been told not to deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 because insurance policies rarely cover more than that amount. Additionally, because many of Marla Enterprises’ customers deal in cash, it was normal for the couple to deposit and withdraw cash frequently.

Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks must report deposits or withdrawals of more than $10,000 to the Treasury Department. Depositing or withdrawing money under $10,000 to avoid those reporting requirements, though, is known as structuring—a felony.

>>> The IRS Seized $107,000 From This North Carolina Man’s Bank Account

Structuring violations are covered under a subset of civil asset forfeiture laws that regulate cash deposits. Under this section, government agencies have the power to seize money if it’s suspected of being related to a crime.

In many cases where money is seized by the government for structuring violations, it’s the Internal Revenue Service overseeing the seizure. However, other agencies within the government, such as the Secret Service, enforce structuring laws, Robert Johnson, a lawyer at the Institute for Justice, told The Daily Signal.

Thomas Bednar (Photo: Marla Bednar)

In addition to the Secret Service, the Postal Inspection Service has pursued structuring cases, he said. But in the Bednars’ case, it’s likely the Secret Service was involved because of the agency’s authority over coins and currency. Marla Enterprises, the Bednars’ business, likely fell under their jurisdiction, Johnson said.

A spokesman for the Secret Service told The Daily Signal the agency couldn’t comment on the case because it’s still an open investigation.

In addition to filing reports with the Department of the Treasury for transactions of more than $10,000, banks are also required to file “suspicious activity reports” for out-of-the-ordinary transactions below that threshold. Customers, though, cannot be informed such reports are filed to the government.

“If I don’t know that I might be running afoul of the law, the only way to know is to be aware of it,” Bednar said.

Both structuring laws and civil asset forfeiture were implemented to curb money laundering and drug trafficking. However, law enforcement agencies have been abusing the tool through what has become known as “policing for profit.”

In many civil asset forfeiture cases, victims are never charged with a crime. Instead, property owners can go to court if they want to get their items back. Experts argue the practice flips the presumption of innocence on its head, as property owners often undergo months of litigation to prove the property isn’t related to a crime—and that’s if they fight back at all.

Marla Bednar (Photo: Marla Bednar)

In other cases, the government offers settlements—oftentimes 50 percent of their money back—to victims. Victims often choose to settle so they can avoid years of litigation and lawyers fees.

The Bednars decided to fight the government to get their money back in court after Stephen West, assistant United States attorney, filed a complaint for forfeiture with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

“I’ve been brought up in the old school,” Bednar said. “I’m very religious—very Catholic. I know right from wrong. I know that this is as wrong as things can get in this part of the world.”

West, who oversaw the forfeiture case of another North Carolina man, Lyndon McLellan, offered the Bednars 50 percent of their money back in March, but they declined the settlement.

In April, he offered the couple all of their money back except for $10,000, which they declined, too.

“My wife and I have run a business our whole lives,” Bednar said. “It’s hard-earned, legitimate money. Why should I give it up and let it be stolen from us, whether it’s $1 or $100?”

>>> After Having His Motel Seized by the Government, Victim of Civil Asset Forfeiture Reflects on His Fight

Never Charged With a Crime

Months before the Secret Service seized the Bednars’ money, the Raleigh Police Department arrested the couple for operating their business without a permit. The charges were ultimately dropped in November—two months after the law enforcement officials took the $115,000 from Marla Enterprises’ bank account.

In documents filed with the District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, West and U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker admitted that neither Marla nor Tom Bednar were charged with crimes related to the money the Secret Service seized.

Additionally, West and Walker also admitted that in the course of their investigation, they found no proof that the property “included proceeds from illegal activity.”

Requests for Admission from Kirkland and Ellis by The Heritage Foundation

“On the face of the government’s complaint, the only criminal activity that was suspected was structuring,” Danielle Sassoon, a lawyer for Kirkland and Ellis who represented the Bednars, told The Daily Signal. “But the Bednars were never charged with that crime and the government admitted in response to requests for admission that the money seized was not the proceeds of any illegal activity, as far as they knew.”

The ‘Truth of the Court’

Not long after the Secret Service seized the Bednars’ money, the Internal Revenue Service changed its policy surrounding structuring cases—as a number of cases involving Americans who unknowingly committed structuring violations came to light. The agency stated it would only pursue such cases if the money was tied to a crime.

In March, the Department of Justice followed suit.

Though the change occurred after the Bednars’ money was seized, West filed a motion to dismiss their case—returning all $115,018 seized.

Motion to Dismiss in Bednar Forfeiture Case by The Heritage Foundation

West cited the Justice Department’s change regarding the pursuit of structuring cases as reason for dismissing the case, and further stated that “there is no probable cause that the funds structured were generated from unlawful activity.”

Though the government said it would no longer pursue the case, Sassoon is now fighting to dismiss it “with prejudice,” which will make it easier for the Bednars to recover fees and more difficult for the government to pursue the case again in the future.

“They should reimburse the Bednars for the thousands spent defending against this meritless case that was ultimately dropped,” she said.

For his part, Tom Bednar is happy he’ll get his money back. But Bednar does wish he and his wife had the opportunity to fight for justice.

“I was disappointed when they dismissed the case,” he said, “because I was looking for my day of justice in the truth of the court. They denied me that.”

>>> How California Cities Are Making Millions Seizing Property and Money From Law-Abiding Citizens

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Obama Announces What He’ll Force Christians Across America to Do

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ALERT: Obama Announces What He’ll Force Christians Across America to Do

President Barack Obama has shown time and again that he cares not for the cultural or religious traditions of a majority of Americans, what with his “fundamental transformation” and all, and isn’t above using the force of government to change those traditions.

Take for example an executive order he issued last year that amended an order from former President Lyndon Johnson dealing with non-discrimination practices by federal contractors to include protections for “sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Obama has been preparing to broaden that order to cover not just those who receive federal contracts, but all who receive federal grants as well, even if the grant recipient is a faith-based organization.

There are approximately 50 grant recipients for every one federal contractor, so this order has a broad sweep.

Essentially, Obama intends to force faith-based organizations that receive federal grant money to accept applications from members of the LGBT community, despite their possible moral and religious objections.

As was noted by Breitbart, former President George W. Bush added his own amendment to the order originally passed by Johnson, providing a religious exemption so faith-based groups would not be forced to hire individuals opposed to their teachings, beliefs and practices.

Sources inside the administration are saying that the Obama White House is putting immense pressure on all governmental agencies to change their policies regarding grant recipients to reflect Obama’s changes, without an additional executive order and in spite of any hesitancy or objections.

This move by Obama has caught most of the faith-based community off guard and unprepared to counter it.  It should be noted that the Catholic church and numerous Catholic institutions could be hit hard by this policy change and could soon be forced to hire individuals with whom they stand diametrically opposed on some issues, or risk losing federal grant money.

This is little more than a carrot and stick provided by the Obama administration as Obama tries yet again to force religious institutions to disregard their faith and teachings and accept and condone behavior they consider wrong.

Please share this on Facebook and Twitter if you feel what Obama is doing to faith-based religious organizations that receive federal grants is wrong.

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Emails show Blumenthal helped shape Benghazi narrative

                         

A batch of State Department emails between Hillary Clinton and her aides on their handling of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack reveals that Sidney Blumenthal wielded significant influence over Clinton when she led the department. (AP Photo)

A batch of State Department emails between Hillary Clinton and her aides on their handling of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack reveals that Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton Foundation official, wielded significant influence over Clinton when she led the department, and over how the department would react to the Benghazi attack.

The New York Times published more than 300 pages of emails Thursday, ahead of the State Department's planned release of hundreds of additional pages in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

According to those emails, Blumenthal peppered the secretary with dozens of Libyan intelligence memos in the months before terrorists raided the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.

Stevens was among the regular recipients of reports from Blumenthal, who was described as Clinton's "contact."

Blumenthal sent a barrage of intelligence to Clinton the day after the Benghazi attack in September that appeared to have been compiled with the help of Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA official.

Hours later, Clinton passed the report to Jake Sullivan, a top Clinton aide, with the instructions to "get this around asap."

One Sept. 12, 2012, memo mentioned the now-infamous YouTube clip that the administration first cited as the catalyst for the attack.

"[T]he attacks...were inspired by what many devout Libyan viewed as a sacrilegious Internet video on the prophet Mohammed originating in America," Blumenthal wrote.

Blumenthal later wrote that "the attackers, having prepared to launch their assault, took advantage of the cover provided by the demonstrations in Benghazi protesting an Internet production seen as disrespectful to the prophet Mohammed."

In a subsequent email, Blumenthal noted "the attacks on the U.S. missions were as much a result of the atmosphere" in Libya at the time "as the controversial internet video."

The longtime Clinton loyalist sent Clinton an article from Salon Magazine on Oct. 1, 2012, that suggested Republicans might attempt to use the Benghazi attack as campaign fodder against President Obama.

"Be sure Ben knows they need to be ready for this line of attack," Clinton told Sullivan in response to the article.

Clinton was likely referring to Ben Rhodes, the White House's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, who wrote Susan Rice's widely criticized response to the attacks in television interviews days after the attack.

Rhodes stressed the importance of Rice's need to "underscore that these protests are rooted in the Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy," according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch last year.

State Department officials are expected to release additional emails in the coming days, though they have not specified when.

Clinton had attempted to include Blumenthal on her State Department staff in 2009 before the Obama administration blocked him from the agency. That didn't stop him from lending his expertise to the secretary, the emails indicate.

The Democratic operative's ties to the Clintons date back to 1997, when President Bill Clinton first hired Blumenthal as an assistant.

Sullivan, a top Clinton aide, often circulated Blumenthal's memos to top State Department officials after information that could have identified Blumenthal as their author was stripped from the reports.

In a memo to Clinton sent Aug. 23, 2012, Blumenthal stressed the importance of "Libya providing the funding for new projects," and suggested newly-elected leaders in the country "will welcome investment and cooperation" from American companies and banks.

Clinton called that information "very interesting."

The exchange raises new questions about the motives behind Blumenthal's reporting given his ties to a group of businessmen who were attempting to secure State Department permits so they could invest in the transitional economy.

Gene Cretz, Stevens' immediate predecessor as ambassador to Libya, called an April 2012 report from Blumenthal "a bit odd." He noted that Clinton's "source" had confused two Libyan figures with similar names.

"Let me try to untangle this and see if any of it jibes with the reality we are seeing," Cretz wrote to Sullivan.

Sullivan referred to Blumenthal as a "friend" of the secretary's in July 2012.

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National Review Goes Liberal, Bows To The Left

A"...great and small are now forced to genuflect at the altar of homosexual hubris and pagan courts gone wild." 

"...paganism’s propensity to seek and destroy."

"...perhaps the greatest cultural farce in this country’s history..."

@NRO 

http://m.townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2015/05/23/the-selfimmolation-of-national-review-n2002910/page/full

The Self-Immolation of National Review

National Review was the prototype for conservative commentary when it was founded by the great William F. Buckley back in 1955, and 60 years later it has managed to stay near the top of an ever-expanding digital pack of bloggers and pundits.

Obviously such a run could only happen if the first principles of such an institution were zealously guarded, and winsomely communicated by writers and thinkers uniquely unafraid to follow in Buckley's giant footsteps and tell it like it is. 

Unfortunately, it appears those first principles aren't going to be as zealously guarded, let alone defended, as they once were. In a column written by managing editor Jason Lee Steorts, National Review apparently decided they didn't want social conservatives -- the third and largest leg of Reagan's famed three-legged stool -- to read their stuff anymore when they full-throated embraced the Rainbow Jihad. 

And just like that a legacy marked by staring down Marxists both foreign and domestic is no more. National Review has been surrendered to America's Cultural Marxists. So much for the legacy founded by the man who gave us God and Man at Yale. 

That takes some serious selling out.

This isn’t totally out of left field, though. Steorts began showing his true colors back in 2013 when he ran Mark Steyn – arguably one of the most courageous and entertaining conservatives of the last decade – out of National Review for daring to call the agenda of the Rainbow Jihad into question.

That agenda was still in its ‘How is my gay marriage going to affect your life?’ stage, but Steyn saw through the scam and said as much in his typically biting yet congenial way. Less than two years later we know Steyn to be a prophet, as businesses great and small are now forced to genuflect at the altar of homosexual hubris and pagan courts gone wild.

But that is of no matter to a wolf-in-sheep's clothing like Steorts. He even uses the Rainbow Jihad's propaganda by calling his treacherous screed "an equal chance at love." National Review was founded by a man who thought the tree of life should be guarded by an angel with a flaming sword. But now it's managing editor, Steorts, has decided to take an axe to the base of that tree instead. 

There is no limit to the sweet nothings that will be conjured as justification once such a betrayal is made. Ruining the legacy of man who got his start by rejecting the soft-headed decadence of the American Left is small potatoes, when compared to what we learned this week about paganism’s propensity to seek and destroy.

A much celebrated 2014 study claiming voters’ minds can be changed about gay marriage by way of interaction with homosexual activists was determined to be entirely made up. As in a fake. A total sham. As real as unicorns and a pro-life Democrat. 

The study’s co-author apologized and described the lengths his guilty colleague went to in order achieve his desired result.

“There was an incredible mountain of fabrications with the most baroque and ornate ornamentation,” said Donald Green of Michael LaCour. “There were stories, there were anecdotes, my drop box is filled with graphs and charts, you’d think no one would do this except to explore a very real data set.”

No one except a diehard member of the world’s premier flat-earth society: the Rainbow Jihad. Come hell or high water, you will be made to care.

Whether he wants to admit it or not, that’s the sort of vortex of licentiousness that a very smart guy like Steorts has gotten himself caught up in. How else does one convince himself that the spirit of William F. Buckley, whose traditionalism could be measured out by his undying support for the Catholic Church’s Latin Mass, would somehow come down on the side of perhaps the greatest cultural farce in this country’s history? 

Buckley once said he would rather be governed by the first 400 people listed in the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University, but Steorts begs to differ. He'd rather side with those running the First Amendment through a meat grinder than the common sense that made Buckley, well, Buckley. 

I guess he thinks Buckley would have evolved like dear leader Obama. Well, whatever Steorts believes the chances of that happening are, I’ll take those odds.

I have every confidence that if Buckley were with us today he would remind Steorts that you didn't create marriage. You were blessed by it. No, defining marriage wasn’t overbroad for its purpose of bringing life into the world and nurturing that life into adulthood. Marriage is proportionately reflective of the heavens in its qualities. 

Buckley might even point-blank ask Steorts "how did you get to be managing editor of my publication again?" 

Now add to this hot mess the fact Steorts wrote his ode to decadence during National Review’s spring fundraising period. Good grief. You mean you want more of my money and you are going to lecture me about how Rachel Maddow is really on to something? I don’t know if I can get my check in the mail fast enough.

But it won’t be for National Review. It will be to buy flowers of condolence for the dying light of its founder, William F. Buckley.

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