A California mother whose sixth-grade daughter was allegedly recruited by teachers and encouraged to change her name to a boy’s name while being told not to tell her mother is taking legal action against the school district.
Jessica Konen filed a legal claim against Spreckels Union School District, claiming Buena Vista Middle School teachers Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki “planted the seed” to convince Konen’s daughter to believe she was bisexual, then urged the girl to believe she was a transgender boy.
The Center for American Liberty, which is representing Jessica Konen, <a href="https://libertycenter.org/cases/konen/">stated</a>, “Teachers encouraged Jessica Konen’s daughter to change her name to a boy’s name as an expression of her new identity and specifically instructed her not to tell her mother about her new identity because her mother couldn’t be ‘trusted.’ Then, they gave her articles—and required her to read them—on how to hide her transgenderism from her mother. Still without Jessica’s knowledge, teachers and administrators created a ‘Gender Support Plan instructing faculty to refer to her daughter by a new name, male pronouns, and to let her use the unisex teachers’ restroom.”
A statement of <a href="https://libertycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/FINAL-Statement-of-Facts-and-Claims.pdf">facts and claims</a> from the Center for American Liberty notes:
<blockquote>Ms. Caldiera and Ms. Baraki operated the Buena Vista Equality Club, a club for students comprised primarily of students that they had identified as potential LGBT+ students. &#8230; Ms. Caldiera and Ms. Baraki took measures to keep students’ participation in the Equality Club and new LGBT+ identities—including new gender identities and expression— secret from students’ parents. Specifically, Ms. Caldiera and Ms. Baraki: (1) instructed students that they should not tell their parents about their new LGBT+ identities and expression; (2) failed to keep Equality Club rosters or records so that parents could not discover their children’s participation in the club or new LGBT+ identities through a review of school records; and (3) held Equality Club meetings during lunch—as opposed to after school—so that students, who were too young to drive, could better hide their participation in the club and their new LGBT+ identities and expression from their parents.
Katelyn Pagaran was the Principal of Buena Vista. &#8230; Ms. Pagaran was aware of the Equality Club and Ms. Caldiera’s and Ms. Baraki’s tactics as set forth above and approved of them. In fact, Ms. Pagaran often attended Equality Club meetings.</blockquote>
Referring to Konen’s daughter as “A.G.” the statement continued:
<blockquote>For the 2020-2021 school year, A.G.’s eighth grade year, Buena Vista continued remote operations, and if students chose, they could stay remote for the duration of that school year. A.G. chose to be remote for the entire school year. Although distance learning was difficult on A.G. (like many students), there was a silver lining—because A.G. was at home throughout the school day, she was no longer in the clutches of Ms. Caldiera and Ms. Baraki. Freed from their influence, A.G. began to return to her old self. A.G. started high school in the fall of 2021 in a new school district. At her new school, she goes by A.G. and she uses female pronouns.</blockquote>
Jessica Konen, who said that the two teachers gave information to her daughter on how to bind her breasts to keep them from developing, <a href="https://libertycenter.org/cases/konen/">told</a> Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “You wouldn’t expect a teacher to be predatorial toward a child. They’re supposed to be trusted. &#8230; Their tactics are disgusting.”
In a <a href="https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids">shocking report</a>, Abigail Shrier, the author of the best-selling book “Irreversible Damage,” revealed that at a late October meeting at a conference of California’s largest teacher’s union, California Teachers Association (CTA), Caldeira reportedly stated:
<blockquote>I’m the teacher who runs our morning announcements&#8230;.That’s another type of strategy I can give you. I’m the one who controls the messaging. Everybody says, “Oh, Ms. Caldeira, you’re so sweet, you volunteered to do that.” Of course I’m so sweet that I volunteered to do that. Because then I control the information that goes home.</blockquote>
Baraki allegedly informed the teachers how she hoped to “mitigate” parents’ objections, saying, “Next year, we’re going to do just a little mind-trick on our sixth graders. They were last to go through this presentation and the gender stuff was the last thing we talked about. So next year, they’ll be going first with this presentation and the gender stuff will be the first thing they are about. Hopefully to mitigate, you know, these kind of responses, right?” Baraki could be heard on tape telling the teacher audience, “Parents who oppose this material being taught to their sixth graders will find that their objections arrive too late.”
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CA Mom Takes Legal Action Against Teachers Who Allegedly Persuaded 11-Year-Old Daughter She Was A Boy

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On Monday, a staunchly Christian member of Finland’s parliament who is a mother of five children and a grandmother of six went on trial, facing criminal charges for her Biblical views as demonstrated in a <a href="https://twitter.com/PaiviRasanen/status/1140693636176384011">2019 Bible tweet</a>, a radio show in 2019, and a church pamphlet from 2004.
Dr. Päivi Räsänen, whose husband is a pastor in the Lutheran Church, is a veteran member of parliament and former minister of the interior. The Finnish Prosecutor General has brought three criminal charges against her with possibly two years of imprisonment.
As <a href="https://adfinternational.org/when-a-tweet-can-land-you-in-jail-criminal-charges-brought-against-finnish-mp/">ADF International</a>, which is supporting Räsänen, reported, “Police investigations against Räsänen started in June 2019. As an active member of the Finnish Lutheran church, she addressed the leadership of her church and questioned its official sponsorship of the LGBT event ‘Pride 2019,’ accompanied by an image of a bible text.”
ADF International noted that Räsänen is being “prosecuted for the crime of ‘ethnic agitation,’ under the section of ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ in the Finnish criminal code.” The prosecution argues that Räsänen’s views are discriminatory towards minorities.
Räsänen stated last week, “I will continue to stand for what I believe and what I have written. And I will speak and write about these things, because they are a matter of conviction, not only an opinion. I trust that we still live in a democracy, and we have our constitution and international agreements that guarantee our freedom of speech and religion.”
She has also stated:
<blockquote>I cannot accept that voicing my religious beliefs could mean imprisonment. I do not consider myself guilty of threatening, slandering or insulting anyone. My statements were all based on the Bible’s teachings on marriage and sexuality. </blockquote>
She continued:
<blockquote>I will defend my right to confess my faith, so that no one else would be deprived of their right to freedom of religion and speech. I hold on to the view that my expressions are legal and they should not be censored. I will not back down from my views. I will not be intimidated into hiding my faith. The more Christians keep silent on controversial themes, the narrower the space for freedom of speech gets.</blockquote>
“Freedom of speech is one of the cornerstones of democracy,” Paul Coleman, Executive Director of ADF International, pointed out. “The Finnish Prosecutor General’s decision to bring these charges against Dr. Räsänen creates a culture of fear and censorship. It is sobering that such cases are becoming all too common throughout Europe. If committed civil servants like Päivi Räsänen are criminally charged for voicing their deeply held beliefs, it creates a chilling effect for everyone’s right to speak freely.”
Elyssa Koren wrote in <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/freedom-of-religion-and-speech-is-on-trial-in-finland/?taid=61ee9c7f1673170001ca061d&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">National Review</a>:
<blockquote>Let this be a warning for us all. Europe may be leading the charge on the proliferation of silencing <a href="https://adfinternational.org/resource/censored/">“hate speech” laws</a>, but the United States is far from immune to this insidious trend. The idea that the government has the prerogative to silence speech with criminal sanctions is gaining traction across the world, with severe ramifications for all fundamental freedoms. &#8230; Could what’s happening to Räsänen happen here? The ease with which social-media giants censor and ban accounts with “wrong” opinions should give us pause.</blockquote>
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Christian Politician In Finland, Grandmother Of Six, On Trial After Posting Bible Tweet

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Leftists are incensed this week at Dr. Phil for daring to have a conservative, Daily Wire host and author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-phil-aftermath-lgbt-activists-complain-matt-walsh-gave-them-nightmares-walsh-responds">Matt Walsh</a>, on his show to offer a differing opinion on pervasive radical left-wing gender theory.
The general outrage was aimed at Walsh, who was smeared as a bigot for stating biological realities and defending women-only spaces, but also at Dr. Phil for &#8220;platforming&#8221; Walsh, who holds an opinion <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/most-us-adults-believe-there-are-only-2-genders-survey-shows-1664107">shared by most Americans</a>.
&#8220;Truly f*** Dr. Phil for this,&#8221; one tweet said. &#8220;Why would you invite a nonbinary person onto national television just to be humiliated by an outspoken transphobe? Who is this for? Who does this help? Man f*** you.&#8221;
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truly fuck dr. phil for this. why would you invite a nonbinary person onto national television just to be humiliated by an outspoken transphobe? who is this for? who does this help? man fuck you <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPhil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@drphil</a> <a href="https://t.co/6mEq5pthos">https://t.co/6mEq5pthos</a>
&mdash; matt (@mattxiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1484249841685483523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Dr. Phil is always stirring the pot. This is so disrespectful. Why does this man still have a show? Instead of letting the actual queer voices speak, he&#8217;s doing mental arithmetic to get through his sentence. I am fuming,&#8221; read another post.
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Dr. Phil is always stirring the pot. This is so disrespectful. Why does this man still have a show? Instead of letting the actual queer voices speak, he&#39;s doing mental arithmetic to get through his sentence. I am fuming
&mdash; Hunter Lacey (@hunterlately) <a href="https://twitter.com/hunterlately/status/1484255391366230021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Dear [Dr. Phil],&#8221; one Twitter user fumed. &#8220;Please don&#8217;t ever live tweet during RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race &amp; act like an ally again if you are going to have people like Matt Walsh on your show spreading transphobia to the masses. Sincerely, The LGBTQ community and their real ally&#8217;s [sic].&#8221;
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPhil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrPhil</a>
Please don&#39;t ever live tweet during RuPaul&#39;s Drag Race &amp; act like an ally again if you are going to have people like Matt Walsh on your show spreading transphobia to the masses. 
Sincerely, The LGBTQ community and their real ally&#39;s.
&mdash; Nicolette NuVogue (@NikkiNuVogue) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiNuVogue/status/1484220909741346823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Dr. Phil you&#8217;re a scumbag for even giving this guy a platform to spread his bigotry,&#8221; another person scolded. &#8220;Your show needs to end if y&#8217;all are so desperate for ratings that you&#8217;ll stir the pot for drama while knowing it&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil you&#39;re a scumbag for even giving this guy a platform to spread his bigotry. Your show needs to end if y&#39;all are so desperate for ratings that you&#39;ll stir the pot for drama while knowing its wrong.
&mdash; Ashley (@AA_GeminiMoon) <a href="https://twitter.com/AA_GeminiMoon/status/1484228905573797892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Of course Dr. Phil would invite Matt Walsh onto his show…they are both white males who think they know entirely more than they really do,&#8221; theorized one Twitter user.
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Of course Dr. Phil would invite Matt Walsh onto his show…they are both white males who think they know entirely more than they really do. <a href="https://t.co/eM478g5gHu">pic.twitter.com/eM478g5gHu</a>
&mdash; Musical Loving Liz (@Elizabe25405947) <a href="https://twitter.com/Elizabe25405947/status/1484233134598205447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Eric 4 Trans Rights&#8221; posted, &#8220;Say what you want about Ellen. At least she didn&#8217;t invite a bigot to speak on her show like Dr. Phil did. Matt Walsh shouldn&#8217;t be given a platform to spread his transphobic rhetoric.&#8221;
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Say what you want about Ellen. 
At least she didn&#39;t invite a bigot to speak on her show like Dr. Phil did. 
Matt Walsh shouldn&#39;t be given a platform to spread his transphobic rhetoric.
&mdash; Eric 4 Trans Rights✝️🏳️‍🌈 (@KarnRulez) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarnRulez/status/1484099881610403842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The platform-scolding continued: &#8220;Shame on Dr. Phil for giving a platform to bigots like Matt Walsh with little to no pushback. Trans people have dealt with enough BS (bulls***).&#8221;
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Shame on Dr. Phil for giving a platform to bigots like Matt Walsh with little to no pushback. Trans people have dealt with enough BS.
&mdash; Ember McLain (@EmberOnMain) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmberOnMain/status/1484232516341047296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another user complained that Walsh&#8217;s questioning of the radical gender theory, which is being pushed in some schools, was unfairly eclipsing activists&#8217; &#8220;lived experience.&#8221;
&#8220;Dr. Phil uses his platform time and again to allow the worst kinds of people, Matt Walsh onto his show to speak over people with actual lived experience on the topic he&#8217;s presenting,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Oprah f***ed us on this one.&#8221;
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Dr. Phil uses his platform time and again to allow the worst kinds of people, Matt Walsh onto his show to speak over people with actual lived experience on the topic he&#39;s presenting. Oprah fucked us on this one.
&mdash; Thomas York (@Tom_AngloPlace) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tom_AngloPlace/status/1484228363044728835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Your periodic reminder that [Matt Walsh] is just a terrible human being who&#8217;s narcissistically proud of his bigotry &amp; hatred,&#8221; one tweet claimed. &#8220;He is a fascist troll, &amp; screw Dr. Phil for giving him even more of a platform.&#8221;
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Your periodic reminder that <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> is just a terrible human being who&#39;s narcissistically proud of his bigotry &amp; hatred. He is a fascist troll, &amp; screw Dr. Phil for giving him even more of a platform.
&mdash; Chris Boeskool (@TheBoeskool) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBoeskool/status/1484224725714935808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another commenter said Walsh was a &#8220;self-proclaimed fascist,&#8221; and again shamed Dr. Phil.
&#8220;Dr. Phil bringing Matt Walsh (a literal self proclaimed fascist) on his show and giving him a platform on national television to spew bullshit about non-binary and trans people is one of the worst things Dr. Phil has done in a while,&#8221; the tweet read.
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Dr. Phil bringing Matt Walsh (a literal self proclaimed fascist) on his show and giving him a platform on national television to spew bullshit about non-binary and trans people is one of the worst things Dr. Phil has done in a while
&mdash; 🏳️‍⚧️ MF POP 🏳️‍⚧️ (@Pop_Dox) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pop_Dox/status/1484219121759932424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I’ve been correcting your professional history from haters. Then I see you gave a bigoted idiot like Matt Walsh a platform to devalue &amp; hurt non-binary &amp; transgenders,&#8221; a Twitter user accused. &#8220;Now I regret using my time on you. No excuse on this one.&#8221;
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Argh😤 I’ve been correcting your professional history from haters. Then I see you gave a bigoted idiot like Matt Walsh a platform to devalue &amp; hurt non-binary &amp; transgenders. Now I regret using my time on you. No excuse on this one.
&mdash; Cheryl Prevor Psy.D🐝 (@DrCherylllP) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrCherylllP/status/1484162698791120897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;And f*** [Dr. Phil] for having Matt Walsh on his show and giving him a platform to attack the trans community under the guise of a &#8216;equal debate,’” one man wrote, falsely adding that Walsh was arguing that some people do not have the &#8220;right to exist.&#8221;
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And fuck <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPhil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrPhil</a> for having Matt Walsh on his show and giving him a platform to attack the trans community under the guise of a “equal debate”. 
There is no debating someone’s right to exist.
&mdash; Brandt Brickell (@BrandtBrickell) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandtBrickell/status/1484160193629933569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The issue of &#8220;platform scolding&#8221; has become commonplace in the media. About once a week, for example, highly popular podcast host Joe Rogan is <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-misinformation-joe-rogan-spotify-petition-1282240/">attacked</a> for having people of differing viewpoints on his show &#8212; or &#8220;platforming&#8221; them.
In another example, Ana Kasparian, a co-host of the popular progressive online news show “The Young Turks,” slammed the Left in October for engaging in &#8220;platform scolding&#8221; after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ben-shapiro-debated-ana-kasparian-here-are-the-highlights">debated</a> Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/his-audience-isnt-crying-about-it-young-turks-ana-kasparian-defends-debate-with-ben-shapiro">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>Following the debate, Kasparian seemed to address the backlash she received from the Left for engaging in the conversation, emphasizing that it was Shapiro who was “platforming” her, since he has a bigger audience than her, and his “audience isn’t crying about it.”
“Going to be insufferable for a second to make an important point to those who want to accuse me of being some sort of demon for allegedly ‘platforming’ another demon just by debating Shapiro,” “The Young Turks” cohost started a four-tweet thread.
“I went before a room full of (literally) a thousand people who disagree with me. Health industry lobbyists, health care companies, oil businessmen, Republican politicians were all there in the audience,” she continued. “No one (except one worker at the venue and my husband) was on my side, and I went in to debate a guy who is admittedly known as a good debater.”
“That took f***ing balls and I’m sick of being underestimated and attacked as some sort of bimbo,” Kasparian wrote. “I went in because I know I can defend my views assertively.”
“Ben has a bigger following than me. I can assure you he’s platforming me and his audience isn’t crying about it,” the politico said.
“I wish the left was more confident,” Kasparian closed the thread. “We look weak with the platform scolding. I think we’re right on the issues, and I think we can change more minds if we speak to more people.”</blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-phil-aftermath-lgbt-activists-complain-matt-walsh-gave-them-nightmares-walsh-responds">‘Dr. Phil’ Aftermath: LGBT Activists Complain Matt Walsh Gave Them ‘Nightmares.’ Walsh Responds.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reduced-to-babbling-nonsense-social-media-erupts-after-matt-walsh-schools-lgbt-activists-on-dr-phil">‘Reduced To Babbling Nonsense’: Social Media Erupts After Matt Walsh Schools LGBT Activists On ‘Dr. Phil’</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-on-dr-phil-asked-why-he-cares-so-much-about-radical-gender-theory-his-answer-quiets-audience">Matt Walsh On Dr. Phil Asked Why He ‘Cares So Much’ About Radical Gender Theory; His Answer Quiets Audience</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/his-audience-isnt-crying-about-it-young-turks-ana-kasparian-defends-debate-with-ben-shapiro">‘His Audience Isn’t Crying About It’: Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian Defends Debate With Ben Shapiro</a>
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‘F*** Dr. Phil’: Leftists Freak Out About Matt Walsh Appearing On ‘Dr. Phil’ To Discuss Radical Gender Theory

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Daily Wire podcast host and author Matt Walsh made waves Wednesday when he appeared on an episode of &#8220;Dr. Phil&#8221; to challenge left-wing gender advocates about the push for transgenderism on children, gender pronouns, and the definition of womanhood.
As highlighted by The Daily Wire, Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matt-walsh-stumps-lgbt-activist-on-dr-phil-show-what-is-a-woman">stumped</a> two gender activists who were unable to define the term woman, though they declared, &#8220;transgender woman are women.&#8221;
In another segment, Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-on-dr-phil-asked-why-he-cares-so-much-about-radical-gender-theory-his-answer-quiets-audience">quieted</a> the left-wing audience after he was mocked for apparently caring &#8220;so much&#8221; about the Left&#8217;s radical gender agenda.
“Part of me wants to ask why you care so much, because it’s really not that big of a deal,&#8221; a guest mocked Walsh.
“I’d love to answer that question,” the author interjected.
“I care about the truth,” the author said. “So, basic truth matters. I wanna live in a society where people care about the truth and we’re grounded in truth. &#8230; I care about children, and these insane ideas about gender are being [foisted] on kids, and that bothers me quite a bit. I care about the women who are having their opportunities stolen from them.”
“I care quite a bit, yeah,&#8221; he added.
Social media quickly erupted with commentary about the appearance and praise for Walsh&#8217;s questioning of the guests.
&#8220;This is priceless,&#8221; posted author Andrew Klavan. &#8220;[Matt Walsh] reducing a supercilious poseur to babbling nonsense.&#8221;
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This is priceless. <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattwalshblog</a> reducing a supercilious poseur to babbling nonsense. <a href="https://t.co/CPKNJrnyzD">https://t.co/CPKNJrnyzD</a>
&mdash; Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1483930096331378688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/IND05bkZmT">https://t.co/IND05bkZmT</a>
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Outkick&#8217;s Bobby Burak highlighted the same: &#8220;Good segment here from [Matt Walsh] on Dr. Phil’s show. &#8216;What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.’”
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Good segment here from <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> on Dr. Phil’s show.
“What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.” <a href="https://t.co/sA9vyLjuVO">pic.twitter.com/sA9vyLjuVO</a>
&mdash; Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) <a href="https://twitter.com/burackbobby_/status/1483960130748223493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Matt Walsh investigates: What is a woman?&#8221; posted writer Samuel Bravo, captioning an edited comical clip of the segment.
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Matt Walsh investigates: What is a woman? <a href="https://t.co/ksdycT5dh9">pic.twitter.com/ksdycT5dh9</a>
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Noting that the guests could not define what a woman is, Inez Stepman commented, &#8220;I’m very into this standard that you cannot define a word you’re using unless you, yourself, identify as that word. It’s like the narcissism singularity.&#8221;
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I’m very into this standard that you cannot define a word you’re using unless you, yourself, identify as that word. It’s like the narcissism singularity. <a href="https://t.co/eLwZ2rtXnv">https://t.co/eLwZ2rtXnv</a>
&mdash; Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) <a href="https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1483935402754990080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The trans movement seems to hold that the word &#8216;woman&#8217; is extremely meaningful — so it’s very wrong to deny someone is a woman — while at the same time saying the word is meaningless such that anyone can say he or she is a woman,&#8221; wrote conservative Frank J. Fleming.
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The trans movement seems to hold that the word “woman” is extremely meaningful — so it’s very wrong to deny someone is a woman — while at the same time saying the word is meaningless such that anyone can say he or she is a woman. <a href="https://t.co/2o4yZUm3fN">https://t.co/2o4yZUm3fN</a>
&mdash; Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) <a href="https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1483986752402604035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Matt absolutely killed this,&#8221; posted conservative writer Sohrab Ahmari.
“‘Transwomen are women.&#8217; But also: &#8216;We can&#8217;t define what a woman is,’” he mocked. &#8220;This is what happens to Western civilization at the far end of abandoning metaphysical realism.&#8221;
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&quot;Transwomen are women.&quot; But also: &quot;We can&#39;t define what a woman is.&quot;
This is what happens to Western civilization at the far end of abandoning metaphysical realism.
Cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a>
&mdash; Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) <a href="https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1483938814318063618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Deeply grateful to [Matt Walsh],&#8221; Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham said, &#8220;for so ably defending the dignity, safety, and opportunity of women today. Would that more men in the church would speak so boldly for our sake.&#8221;
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Deeply grateful to <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> for so ably defending the dignity, safety, and opportunity of women today. 
Would that more men in the church would speak so boldly for our sake. <a href="https://t.co/2FDzz4KA20">https://t.co/2FDzz4KA20</a>
&mdash; Megan Basham (@megbasham) <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1483937758825623553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/my-adjectives-are-handsome-and-brilliant-matt-walsh-challenges-preferred-pronouns-radical-gender-theory-on-dr-phil">‘My Adjectives Are Handsome And Brilliant’: Matt Walsh Challenges ‘Preferred Pronouns,’ Radical Gender Theory On ‘Dr. Phil’</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-on-dr-phil-asked-why-he-cares-so-much-about-radical-gender-theory-his-answer-quiets-audience">Matt Walsh On Dr. Phil Asked Why He ‘Cares So Much’ About Radical Gender Theory; His Answer Quiets Audience</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matt-walsh-stumps-lgbt-activist-on-dr-phil-show-what-is-a-woman">WATCH: Matt Walsh Stumps LGBT Activist On ‘Dr. Phil’ Show: ‘What Is A Woman?’</a>
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1) Pastors Call Out ‘Conversion Therapy’ Laws 

The Topline: Canadian pastors are warning that a new “conversion therapy” law in their country could be used to prosecute Christians for teaching biblical sexual ethics as Indiana legislators introduce a similar bill.
Quote Of The Day: “&#8230;the case is being made that this is talking about psychologists and counselors. In some ways, that&#8217;s the cover. That&#8217;s the cloak, the disguise…They&#8217;re not after the psychologists, they&#8217;re after the church.”
– Pastor John MacArthur
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Conversion Therapy
Conversion therapy has been called “reparative” or “ex-gay” therapy. In the past, it typically referred to any abusive or coercive treatment intended to train same-sex attracted people to prefer the opposite sex. It’s also been used on individuals who believed they were transgender to embrace their biological sex.
This has involved electro-shock and brain-altering drugs, but almost no doctors offer this kind of treatment today, and nearly every major health care organization has discredited such practices.
The New Bills
Churches and religious freedom groups say these laws effectively ban preaching and teaching that draws on biblical standards for sexuality and gender.
The new Canadian law, C-4, bans any counseling that advocates for the Christian standard that sex is reserved for one man and one woman within marriage. It also potentially criminalizes any instruction confirming that human beings are created as wholly male or female from birth. The Bible doesn’t have a category for transgender, but it does have passages teaching that men aren’t to dress like women and vice versa.
The legislation bans counseling or advice to help someone turn from homosexuality or transgenderism, even if the person wants that help.
In Indiana, a new bill only applies to minors. However, the language of these laws is so broad, it could potentially apply to almost any context.
If a pastor preaches a message from the pulpit about sexuality, and authorities interpret it as trying to potentially convince someone in the audience not to be gay or transgender, they could arrest him. The same could happen to a teacher at a Christian school.
One prominent Canadian pastor, James Coates, said the legislation essentially “criminalize[s] evangelism.”
USA
While the United States has religious protections in place, LGBT groups have increased efforts to pass conversion therapy bills.
California, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Nevada, and a number of other states have some version on the books, and activists have been working to broaden their application. The Democratic Party made banning conversion therapy practices an official part of its platform last August.
Religious freedom groups have pointed out that there are no laws or bills doing the opposite – preventing teachers or therapists from counseling people to become transgender or homosexual.
Pastors Respond: Pastors are responding by filing legal challenges and issuing statements, and MacArthur issued a call to U.S. pastors to preach about biblical sexuality on January 16th in defiance of laws and bills like this. According to people at his church, thousands of pastors across the country have signed up.
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2) Real Estate Websites Wipe Crime Data 

The Topline: At least two of the largest real estate websites, Realtor.com and Redfin, are now saying that they won’t provide neighborhood crime data due to concerns of racial bias.
Companies
Realtor.com and Redfin said they’re concerned that the crime data is racially biased against minorities. On the same day in December, both companies announced that they won’t include crime data on their websites to help guide home buyers.
Realtor.com scrapped a crime map that some users said was the site’s most useful feature.
CEO David Doctorow said the company has been working to “break down those hurdles” relating to discrimination in home ownership. Realtor.com initially said it would “reimagine” how to provide safety data for buyers, but the company told The Daily Wire last week that they don’t have any updates regarding that move.
Redfin never had a crime map, but they were considering adding one until they decided it could reinforce racial bias against minorities. Redfin went further and declared that the available crime data should not be on “any other real estate site” either.
Reasoning
Redfin said that it considered using data from both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report and the National Crime Victimization Survey, but both of those data sources had problems, such as missing, unreported crimes.
In a recent blog post, Redfin’s chief growth officer, Christian Taubman, said that in the 2019 survey, people reporting crimes were more likely to describe their offender as young, male, and black than would be expected given the representation of those groups in the population.
Taubman also said Redfin is aware that people want to know whether they’ll feel safe in their home or neighborhood, but the data available doesn’t allow them to speak accurately on that, and he cited the “long history of redlining and racist housing covenants in the United States.” He said there’s “too great a risk of this inaccuracy reinforcing racial bias.”
Big Picture
Both Realtor.com and Redfin <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/381468/most-popular-real-estate-websites-by-monthly-visits-usa/">rank</a> in the five most trafficked real estate websites in the U.S. as of October.
A lot of major cities have seen crime spike over the last two years. Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and D.C. have all experienced high crime rates. Last year, Chicago had more than 800 murders, making 2021 the city’s deadliest year in 25 years.
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3) Grocery Stores Experience Empty Shelves 

The Topline: Americans around the country are noticing their grocery store shelves are looking more empty than usual.
<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?517209-1/jen-psaki-brian-deese-reporters-white-house">Quote Of The Day:</a> “&#8230;over the course of this fall, we&#8217;ve seen concerns about product shortages in particular categories and otherwise. What we see overall, if you look at retail inventories, including grocery store inventories, they&#8217;re actually higher now than they were pre-pandemic – so, in a pretty healthy place. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that there&#8217;s logistical challenges at bottlenecks that may be localized. And to the degree that we can work with private sector companies and help, you know, ease the challenges in their private sector supply chains certainly we will – we&#8217;ll remain open to doing that.”
– White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese
Empty Shelves
Grocery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grocery-stores-continue-to-experience-low-supply-of-goods">stores</a> are beginning to look sparse again.
While grocery stores in the U.S. ordinarily have 5% to 10% of their products out of stock at any given moment, the rate right now is around 15%.
The shortages aren’t limited to certain areas of the country or to specific items – the problems are widespread. The items especially hard hit are many of the essentials, such as meat, fruit, vegetables, and packaged items including cereal.
Not only are these essential goods more difficult to obtain, but they are costing more.
Factors
There are several factors contributing to the situation. Winter storms, supply chain delays, and labor shortages are all causing problems, as well as the Omicron variant.
A lack of workers is also playing into the problem. There have also been many workers absent from their jobs recently. 
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/11/grocery-store-empty-shelves-again/">reported</a>, &#8220;In a Monday call with 27 food industry chief executives, Geoff Freeman, CEO of the industry organization Consumer Brands Association, said more employee absences were reported in the past two weeks than in all of 2020.&#8221;
The National Grocers Association reported that grocery stores have fewer than their typical number of workers, noting that lots of its members are operating with fewer than 50% of their typical workforce.
Inflation is also an ongoing issue. The consumer price index went up 7% last year, which is the quickest pace since 1982. The producer price index went up 9.7% in December, which is the highest calendar-year rise ever recorded.
Many are placing the blame directly on President Joe Biden for the lack of goods. Last week, the hashtag “#BareShelvesBiden” trended on Twitter.
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On Wednesday, NASCAR announced a partnership with Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce, “one of the largest LGBT Chambers within the region pushing for equitable change within the workplace and marketplace.” NASCAR will be the Chamber&#8217;s Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion partner.
“NASCAR is excited to partner with the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce,” <a href="https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2022/01/05/carolinas-lgbt-chamber-of-commerce-announces-partnership-with-nascar/">said</a> Brandon Thompson, NASCAR’s vice president of diversity and inclusion. “With NASCAR offices and much of our industry based in the Carolinas, we look forward to working with CLGBTCC in support of its mission to foster equity, inclusion and economic prosperity for the LGBTQ community.”
Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce’s mission is to “foster equity, inclusion and economic prosperity for the LGBTQ community through strategic policy, professional enrichment, ally partnerships and economic development.”
“NASCAR has a rich history in our region and continues to be one of the most popular sports in the nation,” said Tiffany Keaton, the vice chair of the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce. “The intentionality of their partnership will allow the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber to leverage relationships and increase our work in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. The distinct brand that NASCAR brings to the chamber validates their commitment to equality and non-discrimination both on and off the track. It is an honor to name the league our ‘DE&amp;I Partner’ for 2022, and I look forward to developing this amazing relationship.”
The announcement comes one day after NASCAR announced that the sponsorship between driver Brandon Brown and the cryptocurrency coin LGBcoin had been rejected.
LGBcoin — named after the now-famous chant of “Let’s Go Brandon” — first announced their deal with Brown on December 30, with Brown announcing the partnership on Twitter.
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I’m excited to welcome <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBcoin_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LGBcoin_io</a> aboard my No. 68 Chevrolet Camaro as our 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series full season primary partner!
Press release: <a href="https://t.co/yWfkonk8vO">https://t.co/yWfkonk8vO</a> <a href="https://t.co/s8PkfCtnVD">pic.twitter.com/s8PkfCtnVD</a>
&mdash; Brandon Brown (@brandonbrown_68) <a href="https://twitter.com/brandonbrown_68/status/1476574258801348611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Following the official announcement, NASCAR told Brandonbilt Motorsports that they needed to review the sponsorship at “at a higher level.”
“After the announcement went live on Thursday morning, NASCAR acknowledged to us late that afternoon that we had received approval but that they now needed to discuss this at a higher level,” Brown’s spokesman Maxwell Marcucci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shifting-gears-nascar-gives-conflicting-statements-on-brandon-brown-lets-go-brandon-sponsorship">said</a>.
Marcucci expressed disappointment with NASCAR for deciding against allowing the partnership.
&#8220;NASCAR did not speak with Brandonbilt Motorsports prior to making their decision to rescind the approval and multiple attempts to set up a conversation to address this matter went unacknowledged,&#8221; Marcucci <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/sport/nascar-brandon-brown-lgbcoin/index.html">said</a>.
&#8220;The bottom line is that Brandonbilt Motorsports followed the standard process for sponsor and paint scheme approval and received approval from a NASCAR official empowered to make those decisions, and who makes those decisions on a regular basis. This official then confirmed and reiterated that we had received approval in a phone conversation after the announcement was made.”
&#8220;We are disappointed that NASCAR leadership has chosen to rescind approval of this sponsorship and feel they should have the confidence to own their decision to backtrack and not gaslight a team or a driver,” he continued.
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In a recent <a href="https://youtu.be/I0B2-nz99BA">interview</a> with Geeks of Color, Marisa Tomei revealed that she wanted Aunt May, her character in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” to be in a gay relationship.
“There was a moment, where I felt that May – maybe she should just be with a woman because Ben is gone,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And who should she be with?” The Oscar winner went on to share that she thought producer Amy Pascal could play May’s romantic interest. “And we were kind of talking about it. And so I actually really wanted Amy Pascal from Sony to be my girlfriend.&#8221;
Tomei claimed the massive transformation in the nature of the character could be understated, saying, “I was like, ‘No one even has to know, Amy. I’ll just be in a scene and you’ll be over there. And I’ll just be like ‘Hey!’ It’ll just be a subtle thing.” But she concluded by admitting that no one at Sony or Marvel “went for it at the time.”
While a few people on social media cheered the idea of Peter Parker’s aunt becoming a lesbian, Tomei’s suggestion received plenty of negative pushback from fans.
Conservative rapper and pundit Eric July <a href="https://twitter.com/EricDJuly/status/1475596291866611722?s=20">commented</a> on Twitter, &#8220;Hollywood brainlet, Marisa Tomei wanted MCU &#8216;Aunt May&#8217; to be lesbian, because &#8216;Ben was gone anyways.&#8217; These people have no idea who these characters are. Stop giving Marvel the benefit of the doubt just because they nostalgia-baited you.”
And as <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/12/27/marisa-tomei-reveals-she-wanted-to-make-aunt-may-a-homosexual-in-spider-man-franchise/">Bounding Into Comics</a> first reported, novelist, comic book creator, and YouTuber Jon Del Arroz had a particularly scathing reaction. “Well, everybody was just cheering that the &#8216;Spider-Man: No Way Home&#8217; movie was safe. They weren’t going to put any [social justice warrior] stuff in it and that makes it great. Let’s applaud,” he said in a <a href="https://youtu.be/0WEu6ooa-no">video response</a>.
He went on:
<blockquote>Of all characters to do that, to have a traditional character like Aunt May being pushed in that direction is really just a slap in the face to everybody. A trying to rewrite Spider-Man history just to stick a middle finger at you, the fan.
That’s what these people do every single time. They have no respect for any of the creations before. They have no respect for the way any of these characters were. And they just want to subvert and destroy everything they touch. Every single time.</blockquote>
To Del Arroz’s point, recent years have seen both Marvel the studio and the comic book publisher alter characters as they were originally created to transform them into LGBT representatives. Last year, for instance, the comic company <a href="https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/marvel-confirms-guardians-of-the-galaxys-star-lord-is-bisexual/">announced</a> that Guardians of the Galaxy’s Peter Quill (aka Star-Lord) is bisexual. Both the studio and the publisher made the same <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/film/taika-waititi-wants-to-explore-valkyries-queerness-in-thor-love-and-thunder-2608863">transformation</a> with Thor’s Valkyrie. And in October, the studio unveiled its first gay superhero with “Eternals” Phastos. The movie went on to become the second box office bomb in Marvel’s history.
The latest Spider-Man, in contrast, made no changes to appeal to wokeness. The movie went on to break box office records, scoring the second highest-grossing debut in U.S. history.
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A new ad for the postal service in Norway portrays the story of a man falling in love with Santa over the years and ends with them kissing to celebrate the decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway. 
The nearly <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/santa-finds-gay-love-in-heartwarming-new-holiday-ad-in-norway-204356039.html">four-</a>minute long ad, entitled “When Harry Met Santa,” begins with a shirtless man wandering downstairs and discovering Santa dropping off gifts before vanishing up the chimney. 
Throughout the ad it is apparent that the two become friends as they are seen sharing cups of tea, talking, and even feeding each other chocolate. At one point the man writes a letter to Santa saying, “All I want for Christmas is you.” 
At another junction, Harry falls asleep on his couch and wakes up to Santa looking fondly at him telling him “You’re snoring,” before saying “I’ll be back next year.” The two also fashion Christmas tree ornaments for each other.
Apparently, the two are only able to meet up briefly once a year as Santa makes his annual toy run leading Harry to become increasingly sad and lonely. 
At the end, a postal worker knocks on Harry’s door to drop off mail and wishes him a Merry Christmas. He walks back inside and finds Santa who tells him, “Well, I arranged some help this year, so I can be with you.”
Then taking a new twist on the song “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” Harry and Santa proceed to kiss multiple times before zooming out to the words “In 2022, Norway marks 50 years of being able to love whoever we want.” 
The ad, for Norway’s postal service “Posten” was celebrated by LGBT activists and the media. 
&#8220;Posten is an inclusive workplace with great diversity, and we would like to celebrate the 50th anniversary with this fine love story,&#8221; Monica Solberg, Posten’s marketing director told <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/11/norwegian-postal-services-gay-themed-christmas-ad-going-viral/">LGBTQ Nation</a>, “In addition to showing the flexibility of our services, we want to put it in a socially relevant setting, with themes that are important for the society around us and for us at Norway Post.”
She also claimed that the “right to love whoever you want” was a “fundamental human right” that shouldn’t be political, especially in democracies.
“Norway Post has connected people for 375 years, and will continue to do so regardless of orientation or gender identity,&#8221; Solberg continued. 
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2021/nov/24/norwegian-christmas-advert-goes-viral-as-santa-claus-gets-a-boyfriend-video">reported</a>, “Heartwarming Christmas advert featuring Santa getting a boyfriend goes viral.” Adweek <a href="https://www.adweek.com/creativity/santa-is-gay-in-this-heartfelt-christmas-ad-from-the-norwegian-postal-service/">proclaimed</a>, “Santa Is Gay in This Heartfelt Christmas Ad From the Norwegian Postal Service,” with subheading “Posten continues tradition of subverting classic festive tales.”
Controversial ads are not <a href="https://www.adweek.com/creativity/santa-is-gay-in-this-heartfelt-christmas-ad-from-the-norwegian-postal-service/">new</a> for Posten, which in previous years has in one made Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, a mailman, and in another entitled “Make Christmas Great Again,” had an angry Santa supposed to be like former President Trump. 
Ads have become increasingly more political with everything from candy bars to life insurance ads making not-so-subtle political messages. 
Last month an ad for the U.K. based John Lewis Company, featured a young boy wearing makeup, jewelry, women’s shoes, and a dress he took from his mother’s closet causing mayhem in his house. 
“These latest attempts by woke companies to normalize gender confusion and the destruction of innocence in young children is perversely wrong; indeed, it’s nothing short of child abuse,” Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project told The Daily Wire at the time.
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In a <a href="https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids">shocking report</a>, Abigail Shrier, the author of the best-selling book “Irreversible Damage,” revealed that at a late October meeting at a conference of California’s largest teacher’s union, the California Teachers Association (CTA), documents show teachers were encouraged to recruit students into LGBT clubs, urging them to “have the courage to create a safe environment that fosters bravery to explore sexual orientation.” One teacher reportedly chortled, “We’re going to do just a little mind-trick on our sixth graders.”
Additionally, Shier wrote, “Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.”
A Buena Vista Middle School teacher and LGBTQ club leader, Lori Caldeira, was heard on tape saying, “Because we are not official—we have no club rosters, we keep no records. In fact, sometimes we don’t really want to keep records because if parents get upset that their kids are coming? We’re like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe they came?’ You know, we would never want a kid to get in trouble for attending if their parents are upset.”
Another middle school teacher, Kelly Baraki, joined with Caldeira to lead a workshop titled: “How we run a ‘GSA’ in Conservative Communities.” GSAs are “Genders &amp; Sexualities Alliance” clubs run by high school students. Baraki admitted naming a club “the Equity Club,” later, “You be You,” rather than the more obvious “GSA.”
Caldeira was recorded saying, “We have LGBTQ kids who come to us, and they come and spend a year with us and they get all the love and the affirmation that they need. And we give them tools to be powerful and brave and bold …” She added that the kids “go hang with their friends at lunch. And they do their things. And we love them for that, but we miss them when they don’t join us. So we saw our membership numbers start to decline.”
Baraki added, “So we started to brainstorm at the end of the 2020 school year, what are we going to do? We got to see some kids in-person at the end of last year, not many but a few. So we started to try and identify kids. When we were doing our virtual learning – we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing school work. One of them was googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ And we’re like, ‘Check.’ We’re going to invite that kid when we get back on campus. Whenever they follow the Google Doodle links or whatever, right, we make note of those kids and the things that they bring up with each other in chats or email or whatever … we use our observations of kids in the classroom—conversations that we hear—to personally invite students. Because that’s really the way we kinda get the bodies in the door. Right? They need sort of a little bit of an invitation.”
Caldeira reportedly stated:
<blockquote>I’m the teacher who runs our morning announcements. That’s another type of strategy I can give you. I’m the one who controls the messaging. Everybody says, “Oh, Ms. Caldeira, you’re so sweet, you volunteered to do that.” Of course I’m so sweet that I volunteered to do that. Because then I control the information that goes home.</blockquote>
“For those paying attention, the educators who guide California teachers in the creation of middle school LGBTQ clubs asserted the following: they struggle to maintain student participation in the clubs; many parents oppose the clubs; teachers surveil students electronically to ferret out students who might be interested, after which the identified student is recruited to the club via a personal invitation,” Shrier notes.
Baraki informed the teachers how she hoped to “mitigate” parents’ objections, “Next year, we’re going to do just a little mind-trick on our sixth graders. They were last to go through this presentation and the gender stuff was the last thing we talked about. So next year, they’ll be going first with this presentation and the gender stuff will be the first thing they are about. Hopefully to mitigate, you know, these kind of responses, right?” Baraki can be heard telling the teacher audience. Parents who oppose this material being taught to their sixth graders will find that their objections arrive too late.”
Shrier spoke to one conference attendee who said Baraki mocked a parent who had claimed the school’s presentation had forced her to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity with her middle-school child. Baraki reportedly sneered, “I know, so sad, right? Sorry for you, you had to do something hard! Honestly, your twelve-year-old probably knew all that, right?”
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Would-be pundits and political commentators occasionally think they have devastated their Democratic opponents by pointing out contradictory or “hypocritical” aspects of their policies. “How can Democrats say they favor gay rights but <a href="http://therightswriter.com/2011/04/reagan-would-not-support-obama-on-libya/">back</a> the Arab Spring, which brought <a href="https://therightswriter.com/2011/09/obamas-analysts-oops-we-put-muslim-radicals-in-charge-of-libya/">Islamic fundamentalists to power</a>? How can the liberals say they’re fighting for the American worker when they advocate open borders policies that would <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216/">lower wages</a>?” they often ask.
But there is no hypocrisy in the Democratic Party’s policies, even when they seem to contradict. A simple key can explain how every liberal policy fits into place, even — and especially — when none of them seem to. One fact can allow American citizens to pierce through the political fig leaves and see the naked, partisan truth motivating every Democratic politician, pundit, and spokesperson. One simple reality lets voters look at liberal gaslighting like an optical illusion which, once someone exposes you the trick, is never again a mystery.
The fact is the Democrats organize every single position, plank, and talking point around one unifying principle: Every policy Democrats pursue expands their power. Every position benefits the constituent groups they have identified as their core supporters, increases Democrats’ share of the vote, and tightens the Left’s grasp on power.
Here are just a few examples:
Increasing welfare dependency
President Joe Biden’s top legislative priority is the $1.75 trillion “Build Back Better” act, a “transformative” expansion of government health care, taxpayer-funded daycare, and public housing, among other social welfare programs. Studies for decades have shown these programs harm the very people they’re purportedly intended to help … or do they? What if the point is not to help people get out of poverty but to create a stable voting army for the Democratic Party?
That is precisely what social welfare spending does. In a 2019 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449023/">study</a> published in PLoS One, researchers from Indiana University found that increasing government health care coverage correlated with an increase in the Democrats’ share of the vote in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections — even in states that did not participate in Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion:
<blockquote>We find that a one-percentage-point increase in county health insurance coverage was associated with a 0.25-percentage-point increase in the vote share for the Democratic presidential candidate. We further find that these gains on the part of the Democratic candidate came almost fully at the expense of the Republican (as opposed to third-party) presidential candidates. We also estimate models separately for states that did and did not expand Medicaid and find no differential effect of insurance gains on Democratic vote share for states that expanded Medicaid compared to those that did not.</blockquote>
That aligns with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/61-of-americans-paid-no-income-tax-in-2020-report">numerous studies</a> tying social welfare to voting for the Democratic Party. The Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/">found</a> that Democrats are more than twice as likely as Republicans to have received food stamps. Curiously, the 2012 poll did not indicate which came first: if Democrats were more likely to sign up for social welfare programs or if people who receive federal benefits were more likely to vote for the party that promises to expand those benefits.
Promoting labor unions, especially teachers unions. Even when it became clear that Democrat Terry McAuliffe was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-virginia-governors-race-was-won">about to lose the Virginia governor’s race</a> because he sided with teachers unions over outraged parents, he couldn’t stop himself: For his campaign finale, he brought in Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Why would he engage in such a clearly suicidal mission? For the same reason Joe Biden regularly promises to create “union jobs”: Because labor unions are a key part of the Democratic Party’s constituency.
Biden won <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results">56%</a> of their vote in 2020. Although rank-and-file union voters has been trending more Republican for years, unions offer so much more than just votes. Labor unions spent an estimated <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/report-big-labor-hides-millions-in-2020-election-spending/">$1.8 billion</a> to benefit Democrats during the <a href="https://nilrr.org/big-labor-reported-spending-1-8-billion-on-politics-in-the-2020-election-cycle/">2020 election cycle</a>. That doesn’t include “volunteers” in the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote efforts. In exchange, Democrats create more public-sector jobs, where workers are <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm">more than five times as likely</a> to be unionized as in the private sector.
Amnesty for illegal aliens. While Joe Biden may be fixated on his social spending bill, the Democratic Party has been pushed to grant illegal aliens in the United States amnesty and “<a href="https://therightswriter.com/2006/05/amnesty-intranational/">a path to citizenship</a>” for <a href="https://therightswriter.com/2006/04/decoding-immigration-doublespeak/">more than a decade</a> (with an assist from Beltway Republicans). Polls have consistently shown that two out of three Hispanics vote for Democrats; for instance, CNN’s most recent exit poll found that 65% of Latinos voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
What would it mean if two-thirds of the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants voted Democrat (especially if there are actually <a href="https://thehill.com/latino/407848-yale-mit-study-22-million-not-11-million-undocumented-immigrants-in-us">22 million</a> undocumented migrants in the U.S., as researchers at Yale and MIT believe)? A former labor leader and amnesty activist raised just that question.
A man named Eliseo Medina <a href="https://therightswriter.com/2010/10/illegal-immigrants-for-obama/">let the cat out of the bag</a> in 2009. At the time, he was International Secretary-Treasurer of the Obama administration’s favorite labor union, the SEIU, as well as the <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/eliseo_medina_on_immigration_reform_and_activism/">honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America</a>. Medina<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7K0itgQt0"> told</a> a far-Left conference:
<blockquote>If we reform the immigration laws – it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if you had even the same ratio, two out of three [Hispanics voting for Democrats], if we get 8 million new voters that care about our issue and will be voting, we will create a governing coalition for the long-term, not just for an election cycle?</blockquote>
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Letting criminals vote (possibly from prison). The policy of <a href="http://therightswriter.com/2009/06/sotomayor%E2%80%99s-racialist-judicial-activism/">barring convicted felons from voting</a> dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. Yet, as The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti reported, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Democratic primary voters that currently incarcerated felons should “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-felons-should-be-able-vote-behind-emily-zanotti">absolutely</a>” be able to cast a ballot from their prison cells. Sanders knew the topic well: The socialist’s home state of Vermont, as well as Maine and the deep-blue <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx">District of Columbia</a>, allows felons to vote from prison.
As it turns out, leftists have studied the issue of letting ex-convicts vote for years, finding it would benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans. A <a href="http://users.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/Uggen_Manza_ASR_02.pdf">2002 study</a>, “supported by grants” from George Soros’ Open Society Institute, found that 70% of convicted felons would vote for Democrats in presidential and Senate races, if they could vote. In fact, they would have strongly supported even fringe Democratic candidates who lost <a href="https://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/c.php?g=992251&amp;p=7179351">49-state landslides</a>:
<blockquote>[O]ur hypothetical felon voters showed strong Democratic preferences in both presidential and senatorial elections. In recent presidential elections, even comparatively unpopular Democratic candidates, such as George McGovern in 1972, would have garnered almost 70 percent of the felon vote. These Democratic preferences are less pronounced and somewhat less stable in senatorial elections. Nevertheless, the survey data suggest that Democratic candidates would have received about 7 of every 10 votes cast by the felons and ex-felons in 14 of the last 15 U.S. Senate election years. </blockquote>
Multiple studies have come to the same partisan conclusions. “We conclude that in close Florida presidential races, ex-felon re-enfranchisement can change election outcomes in favor of the Democratic candidate, especially when ex-felons are properly informed of their voting rights,” <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344362006_The_Impact_of_Ex-Felon_Disenfranchisement_on_Voting_Behavior?channel=doi&amp;linkId=5f6c59b0299bf1b53eedd4ab&amp;showFulltext=true">wrote</a> two researchers at California State University-Chico last September.
LGBTQIA+ issues: The Democratic Party has consistently staked out the most extreme positions on transgender issues, particularly granting males access to female showers, restrooms, and intimate facilities, as well as the right to compete against women in sports. That support has not wavered, despite the fact that Americans of all political persuasions — Republican, independent, and Democrat — are <a href="https://www.prri.org/research/most-americans-support-pro-lgbtq-policies-but-are-more-divided-over-transgender-sports-and-bathroom-policies/">less supportive</a> of those policies than they were in 2016.
How have Democrats needlessly arrived at the narrow end of this divisive wedge issue? It benefits a Democratic constituency.
Exit polls show that between 64% (according to the National Exit Poll) and 73% (according to AP VoteCast) of people who identify as LGBT voted for Joe Biden in 2020. (For comparison’s sake, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=USP00p3">70%</a> of gay, lesbian, and bisexual voters supported Barack Obama in 2008.) Given Biden’s razor-thin margin in several states, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/01/had-lgbt-voters-stayed-home-trump-might-have-won-2020-presidential-election/">reported</a>, “Had LGBT voters stayed home, Trump might well have won the 2020 presidential election.”
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Ironically, these facts are not in dispute; in fact, when leftists talk amongst themselves, they often don’t bother to hide their base motivation. For instance, at the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/confidential-memo-secretive-liberal-donor-club-plots-275-million-for-2020/">spring 2019 meeting</a> of the Democracy Alliance, a group of left-wing megadonors openly discussed ways to “change the rules of our democracy,” <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/405643994/Democracy-Alliance-Spring-2019-Investment-Strategy-and-Recommendations#from_embed">including</a> the ability “to control redistricting [and] ballot access.”
These are a handful of the policies that Democratic politicians promote, which further their hold on power; there are many others. This article confines itself to raw electoral power. The Democrats’ policies also concentrate the massive power of redistributing wealth in the hands of government. Their economic policies concentrate economic power in the hands of political decision-makers. And they support deep, structural changes to the political landscape that would cancel the voice and votes of American citizens.
But that is another story for another time.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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[UPDATE]: Broward County Public Schools responded to the criticism Thursday evening in an emailed news release, confirming that the field trip occurred, but saying that the bar was not open to the general public during the trip and that students were given a &#8220;student-friendly&#8221; menu.
Original Story:
A public school in Florida took young students to a gay bar for a field trip this week, according to photos of the trip posted on social media by a school board member.
Wilton Manors Elementary School in Broward County took elementary school students to Rosie’s Bar and Grill, a local gay bar, a school board member said Wednesday.
&#8220;I was SO honored to be invited to chaperone @WiltonManorsES’s field trip to the incredible Rosie’s!&#8221; Broward County School Board Member Sarah Leonardi <a href="https://twitter.com/bcpsleonardi/status/1453495044065959936">wrote</a> in a tweet along with pictures of the class outing.
&#8220;The students and I had a fun walk over and learned a lot about our community!&#8221; she added.
Photos showed a group of 18 young children posing for a picture in matching shirts next to the bar&#8217;s sign. Another photo showed the children sitting at tables inside the rainbow-bedecked bar wearing face masks and apparently listening to a presentation.
Leonardi also suggested the field trip to the gay bar may have happened more than once, offering &#8220;a huge thank you&#8221; to Rosie&#8217;s &#8220;for hosting this special field trip every year!&#8221;
The post sparked outrage on social media after the Twitter account Libs of Tik Tok posted about the field trip.
&#8220;Get your kids out of public schools,&#8221; one Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/kellykreads/status/1453668529039986688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1453668529039986688%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fflorida-school-board-chaperones-elementary-school-students-gay-bar">wrote</a>.
&#8220;The kind of bar is not even the point… it’s a BAR…&#8221; wrote another.
&#8220;I remember when school field trips were to Butterfly World, Bonnet House, or the museum,&#8221; wrote a private Facebook group called Moms for Liberty &#8211; Broward County, FL, according to a screenshot of the group&#8217;s post.
Rosie&#8217;s menu on its <a href="https://www.rosiesbarandgrill.com/menus/#starters">website</a> features dishes with names like Rhoda Cowboy, Ivana Hooker, Hellena Bun (with “Smack My Cheeks and Make ‘em Rosy” sauce), Georgia Bleu, Young Ranch Hand, and Willy Cheesesteak.
&#8220;Rosie&#8217;s Bar and Grill has been a tropical oasis in the middle of the Island City, Wilton Manors, since 2006, offering amazing food and refreshing drinks and sassy fun,&#8221; the bar&#8217;s website states. &#8220;Whether you come for lunch or dinner, for Sunday Funday Brunch or for just a few drinks&#8230; whether you are LBGTQ+ or an ally&#8230;whether you are local or visiting&#8230; whether you come with a group or venture out solo&#8230; you will have a memorable experience with the most talented crew in South Florida.&#8221;
Wilton Manors Elementary School offers a &#8220;Unit of Inquiry&#8221; called, &#8220;How we organize ourselves,&#8221; the statement said, in which &#8220;students learn about neighborhood safety, community helpers, the importance of being a community member, what it takes for a community to be successful, different jobs in a community, and social skills when interacting with others.&#8221;
&#8220;They also visit a local restaurant, Rosie’s Bar and Grill, which is within walking distance from the school and 
opens early for the students. The bar and restaurant was not open to the general public while students were 
present inside. When the business opened, students transitioned to a separate, outside location to order and eat 
their meals. The students order their meals from a student-friendly paper menu that has three child-friendly 
choices,&#8221; the school district said. &#8220;They learn about the types of jobs involved in operating a restaurant, how 
to pay for their meal, and how to leave a tip for the service they receive. In addition, as part of the field trip, the 
Wilton Manors Police Department provides traffic assistance for the students so they can see and learn about the 
different ways police officers support the community.&#8221;
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The only openly gay player in the National Football League, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib, asked for a personal day off after emails from his former coach, Jon Gruden, were published with emails denigrating homosexuals.
The Raiders granted the request; Raiders general manager Mike Mayock told reporters, “He just said he&#8217;s got a lot to process. There&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s been going on the last few days. And, of course, we support that request.”
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RAIDERS GM Mike Mayock: DL Carl Nassib, who is gay, requested a personal day. Said he has met with Nassib 3 times. Said Nassib is processing a lot of things and the team supports him. Mayock didn&#39;t mention ex-coach Gruden&#39;s homophobic emails, but that seemed to be behind this.
&mdash; Steve Wyche (@wyche89) <a href="https://twitter.com/wyche89/status/1448357897549729794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Nassib came out during Pride Month on June 21, announcing on Instagram that he planned on donating $10,000 The Trevor Project, which seeks to prevent suicides among LGBTQ youth,” the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10089529/Carl-Nassib-NFLs-openly-gay-player-given-day-following-Jon-Grudens-resignation.html">Daily Mail</a> noted.
Gruden resigned Monday over emails he had written between 2011 and 2018 when he worked as an ESPN analyst. He issued a statement on Monday saying, “I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone.”
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Statement from former Raiders coach Jon Gruden: <a href="https://t.co/RVyxgT09F4">pic.twitter.com/RVyxgT09F4</a>
&mdash; Tyler Dragon (@TheTylerDragon) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTylerDragon/status/1447742352601202693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Raiders tight end Darren Waller supported Nassib taking the day off. “I support that 100 percent. He’s pretty much a lone wolf when it comes to that,” he stated, according to <a href="https://theathletic.com/news/raiders-carl-nassib-takes-personal-day-away-from-team-after-jon-gruden-fallout/lt5laB2V9Uas/">The Athletic</a>. “Nobody should be able to tell him how to feel. Nobody should be able to tell him how to grieve. He deserves to take time for himself because that’s a lot to process. Somebody that you’ve been invested in, battled with and you come out and there’s a quote that says something like what was said, I can’t imagine what he must be feeling and I respect him wanting to take his space and be able to come back clear-headed.”
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jon-gruden-resigns-as-raiders-head-coach-after-additional-emails-emerge/">reported</a> on Tuesday after emails from Gruden deemed as racist were revealed and Gruden had resigned:
<blockquote>… the NFL was reportedly reviewing additional emails sent by Gruden over the past decade, and a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/sports/football/what-did-jon-gruden-say.html">New York Times</a> report said that the league found homophobic and misogynistic emails. … According to the report, Gruden called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “fa****&#8221; and a “clueless anti football p****.” Goodell appears to be the subject of many emails, with Gruden using homophobic language when referring to the commissioner. 
The emails were sent between 2011-2018 and included criticism of Goodell for his attempt to reduce concussions in the game of football, which Gruden reportedly felt was discouraging parents from allowing their children to play the game of football. According to the Times, Gruden also felt that Goodell and the NFL should not have pressured the Rams to draft &#8220;queers,” a reference to Michael Sam.</blockquote>
Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL, <a href="https://autos.yahoo.com/autos/michael-sam-jon-grudens-homophobic-014455769.html">commented</a> on Gruden’s emails, “It’s unfortunate, especially that the first active gay player who’s playing is on the same team.’’
<a href="https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/michael-sam-carl-nassib-gay-nfl-players/sjfd2ijhgl7g1k4m8832bb3ys">The Sporting News</a> noted:
<blockquote>Michael Sam was the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL. He was selected in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft and competed for a spot on the Rams&#8217; 53-man roster. Ultimately though, he didn&#8217;t make the Rams&#8217; team and never played during the regular season. He spent time on the Cowboys&#8217; practice squad in 2014 and in the CFL with the Montreal Alouettes in 2015. He retired from professional football midway through the 2015 CFL season and hasn&#8217;t played football since.</blockquote>
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