We all know some individuals who are so obviously good and kind that we are certain if anyone were to dislike them, that&#8217;s all we would need to know about the person. We would immediately assume he or she is a bad person. To hate the manifestly good is a sure sign of being bad.
Such is the case regarding the left&#8217;s hatred of The Salvation Army. You don&#8217;t have to be a Christian — I am not — to appreciate the goodness of the people who run and work for The Salvation Army. They devote their lives to helping the poorest, the saddest, the loneliest and the most troubled among us — completely irrespective of race, gender, transgender identity, faith or no faith. And they do it for almost no money. They do it because of their Christian faith.
They provide these downtrodden people with not only food and shelter but also human warmth and love. And they offer the people they care for the one thing most likely to get them out of their predicament: meaning. They offer it; they do not coerce it. And while the vehicle for this meaning — Christian faith — may not be your faith or mine, so what? It takes a truly narrow-minded bigot to want to deprive people of meaning just because that meaning is rooted in faith or in a faith other than their own.
Yet, leftists — most especially LGBTQ groups, which spread a remarkable amount of hate in the name of &#8220;love&#8221; — seek to crush The Salvation Army. They threaten and pressure whoever supports The Salvation Army. &#8220;British pop singer Ellie Goulding,&#8221; the Wall Street Journal recently reported, &#8220;threatened to cancel an appearance at the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; Thanksgiving halftime show, which will celebrate the army&#8217;s red-kettle campaign, unless it made a &#8216;pledge or donation to the LGBTQ community.&#8217; She backed down after the Salvation Army assured her it serves needy members of that community.&#8221;
Most depressing of all, Chick-fil-A, a business owned by a Christian and heretofore run according to Christian principles, caved in to LGBTQ organizations&#8217; pressure and stopped funding The Salvation Army, while it has also donated to a left-wing group that hates the good, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I never thought I&#8217;d see the day when The Salvation Army would be hated by a substantial number of Americans or lose the support of a Christian-run business.
But given the left&#8217;s loathing of virtually all things good — such as America, Israel, traditional Christianity and Judaism, the Boy Scouts, the nuclear family ideal, Thanksgiving and America&#8217;s founders — it is not surprising.
As I have said for years, the left destroys everything it touches: music, art, Christianity, Judaism, economies, universities, high schools, late-night comedy, pro football, women&#8217;s likelihood of finding happiness, men&#8217;s likelihood of maturing, the Boy Scouts and the innocence of children (think &#8220;Drag Queen Story Hour&#8221; for 5-year-olds at libraries), to cite some of the more obvious examples.
And while it destroys good institutions, the left never builds a viable replacement. Is there a left-wing equivalent to the Boy Scouts, a left-wing institution that helps mold boys into responsible men? Of course not. The left destroys, but it builds nothing — except state power. Or, to take the present example, is there a left-wing equivalent to The Salvation Army? No, there isn&#8217;t.
&#8220;We believe we are the largest provider of poverty relief to the LGBTQ+ population,&#8221; The Salvation Army said in a statement after Chick-fil-A announced its decision. As the Wall Street Journal concluded, &#8220;Considering it serves nearly 25 million people every year, that&#8217;s likely true.&#8221;
But all the good The Salvation Army does means nothing to the left. The left judges people or institutions not by their behavior but by their beliefs. And The Salvation Army believes — as has every civilization in recorded history, and as former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton did until a few years ago — that marriage should be defined as the union of a man and a woman. To the left, that belief outweighs helping 25 million people including married gays.
One of the great puzzles in contemporary American life is whether there is anything the left could do to make Americans understand how destructive it is. If suppressing free speech at colleges and on the internet, fomenting interracial anger, supporting those who wish to annihilate Israel, allowing (and even encouraging) teenage girls to have their healthy breasts surgically removed if they think they are a boy and trying to crush The Salvation Army don&#8217;t do it, probably nothing will.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; comes to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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At least one LGBTQ advocate has expressed dismay over the fact that failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton denied rumors of ever having a lesbian affair.
Earlier this week, shock jock Howard Stern pushed more than a few of Hillary&#8217;s buttons when he asked rather forthrightly on his radio show if the former first lady secretly swings for the other team.
“Well, contrary to what you might hear, I actually like men,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/howard-stern-asks-hillary-to-go-on-the-record-youve-never-had-lesbian-affair">Hillary told Stern</a>.
“Raise your right hand,” responded Stern. “You’ve never had a lesbian affair.”
“Never, never, never!” Clinton said as she began laughing. “Never even been tempted. I dated a lot of different people, and I liked a lot of them. I was pretty popular. I was OK popular … boys were not my problem.”
Speaking with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hillary-clinton-puts-lesbian-rumors-bed-never-even-been-tempted-n1096021" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News</a>, reporter Trish Bendix, a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and winner of the 2015 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for excellence in LGBT media, said she did not appreciate how lesbianism came across as salacious. She took particular issue with Hillary&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;tempted.&#8221;
“It&#8217;s so frustrating when public figures like Hillary feel the need to dispel lesbian rumors in a way that equates lesbianism or queerness with salaciousness, and that&#8217;s ultimately what I dislike about the way she phrased it,” Bendix said.
“I think there&#8217;s a way to refute untrue ideas about one&#8217;s own identity without saying something damaging to others,” Bendix said.
As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-lesbian-denial-howard-stern-lgbtq">Fox News</a>, Gabriel Hays of Media Research Center mocked the idea of Hillary getting scolded for not being &#8220;woke enough&#8221; when talking about her sexuality.
“Tsk tsk, Hillary. The former presidential candidate is taking heat for her response to old rumors about her being a lesbian,&#8221; Hays wrote. “And while we’re not bashing her for her sexuality, it’s a hilarious predicament for the woman who fancies herself a de facto leader of the Left.”
Hillary Clinton&#8217;s interview with Howard Stern <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hillary-is-still-thinking-about-running-in-2020/">has indeed sparked rumors</a> over whether or not she plans to jump into the 2020 presidential race while the water is still warm and the supposedly top-tier candidates flounder. In fact, earlier this year, Howard Stern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-howard-stern-says-hillary-clinton-would-be-paul-bois">openly stated</a> that Hillary made a mistake by not joining his show during the 2016 election, arguing it would have made her more relatable.
“I thought that if I did an interview with Hillary, … she would reach a new audience,” Stern told Stephen Colbert this past May.
Stern noted his potential listenership of 66 million people and how the election had hinged <a href="https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-2016-election-votes-supreme-court-liberal-justice-1b4bc4fc-9fad-44b4-ab54-9ef86aa9c1f1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0">on less than 80,000 votes</a> across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states where his show is popular.
“What if Hillary had come on and, forget politics for a second, but what if we could have talked about her humanity, why she got into public service?” Stern wondered aloud.
“Here is a woman who dedicated her whole life to public service,” Stern continued. “What was her life like as a little girl growing up? What was her romance with Bill Clinton? What was she thinking when she was secretary of state? What was she thinking when she was the first lady? Was she saying to herself, ‘I wish I could be president,’ or was she satisfied with that? There were a million questions I could have asked her that I think would have humanized her.”

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City council members in liberal Olympia, Washington, were <a href="http://olympia.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&amp;clip_id=2108">scolded</a> last month by transgender activists for allowing police officers to work as security in a government building that was paying tribute to transgender people on &#8220;Trans Remembrance Day.&#8221;
One activist, Amy Heart, claimed police officers &#8220;kill&#8221; trans &#8220;families&#8221; and &#8220;make it unsafe to live,&#8221; while others used profanity to call out city council members for allegedly only pretending to care about their existence and pain.
&#8220;I am profoundly ashamed that city hall is willing to sponsor a &#8216;Trans Day of Remembrance&#8217; lighting in a building that has police, that has humans who are not on the side of the liberation of my sisters and my children,&#8221; said Heart, who is male-to-female transgender.
&#8220;You are telling me, you&#8217;re gonna light up city hall to honor black and brown trans women? You&#8217;re gonna light-up a city hall that has police, and police are part of the problem,&#8221; Heart continued. &#8220;They kill my families, they make it unsafe to live.&#8221;
&#8220;I urge you, next year, to not involve the police, to not light up your building and put your money where your mouth is and save my sisters,&#8221; the activist concluded.
Next, transgender activist Lawrence Walker took to the podium to speak to city council members.
&#8220;I am a person that values hearing out people&#8217;s pain and talking to their hearts, and I feel like the people here at city hall, you don&#8217;t do that,&#8221; claimed Walker. &#8220;You f*** with people&#8217;s hearts.&#8221;
Walker was asked to refrain from cursing since the meeting was being live-streamed to local families&#8217; homes. This only further agitated Walker.
&#8220;My point is, like, like, you didn&#8217;t care what I just said,&#8221; Walker told the city council, &#8220;which proves my point. You&#8217;re not listening to my frustration and pain having to deal with people like you who are worrying about what I&#8217;m saying, instead of like, or how I&#8217;m saying it, instead of what I&#8217;m saying.&#8221;
&#8220;Just like, the illusions of this meeting. Like, this s***&#8217;s nice, right? You get people in a room, they come to you with their problems, you say you care but you don&#8217;t really do anything about it,&#8221; the activist accused. &#8220;We go home, we come back again, there&#8217;s no solutions.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope, but I&#8217;m very hopeless, in change, especially when it&#8217;s in the hands of people like you on this board,&#8221; Walker said. &#8220;I hope that you will be able to hear our pain and we can have a meeting point in getting the peace we wanna see in the world.&#8221;
&#8220;And I would like, also, to like not have the police involved with any sort of lighting involving like any trans women &#8230; really, anyone,&#8221; Walker added.
Another transgender activist, going by the name &#8220;The Royal Majesty,&#8221; shamed city council for &#8220;co-opting the symbols of my trans and gay siblings while also having those very same symbols protected by people (police) who are meant to eliminate us.&#8221;
&#8220;I am beyond angry, I&#8217;m furious,&#8221; said The Royal Majesty. &#8220;I&#8217;m furious that this town even has the nerve to claim progressivism, even though we all know progressivism is proto-fascism, anyway.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope when you go home at night, to your comfortable house, to your middle class lives, where you have to worry about nothing, that you think of me and that it hurts you terribly,&#8221; concluded The Royal Majesty. &#8220;That is all that I can hope for, since I don&#8217;t have hope for much else.&#8221;
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&quot;I hope that when you go home tonight&#8230;you think of me &amp; that it hurts you terribly,&quot; declared The Royal Majesty to the Olympia, Wash. city council last month. A group of trans activists chastised the city for allowing police inside government buildings. <a href="https://t.co/YnKMGqh0xH">https://t.co/YnKMGqh0xH</a> <a href="https://t.co/sAJ2rEAjET">pic.twitter.com/sAJ2rEAjET</a>
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Never one to back away from the wokescolds, comedian Ricky Gervais has once again fired off a joke that will surely be deemed by some as &#8220;transphobic.&#8221;
In response to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-who-sued-over-bikini-wax-access-now-targeting-gynecologists">recent Twitter tirade</a> from transgender activist Jessica Yaniv being upset about gynecologists refusing to service his genitals, Gervais showed no mercy.
&#8220;It&#8217;s disgusting that a qualified gynaecologist can refuse to check a lady&#8217;s c*** for ovarian cancer,&#8221; Gervais tweeted. &#8220;What if her bollocks are pregnant? She could lose the baby. I&#8217;m outraged.&#8221;
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It&#39;s disgusting that a qualified gynaecologist can refuse to check a lady&#39;s cock for ovarian cancer. What if her bollocks are pregnant? She could lose the baby. I&#39;m outraged. <a href="https://t.co/iNNcUS8Uak">https://t.co/iNNcUS8Uak</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1201952293014376450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-who-sued-over-bikini-wax-access-now-targeting-gynecologists">reported</a>, Yaniv has now moved on from demanding that beauty salons wax his genitalia into demanding that gynecologists inspect his genitals despite his not having any female sexual organs.
“Ok so [Fraser Health] needs to stop hiring employees who are discriminatory towards the #LGBTQ and use their bulls*** excuses on why they can’t see you even though you have a referral from the emergency department and live in the Fraser Health area!!” Yaniv posted on Twitter this week. “I want help and can’t get it!!”
“So a gynecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that ‘we don’t serve transgender patients.’ And me, being me, I’m shocked.. and confused… and hurt,&#8221; Yaniv later added. “Are they allowed to do that, legally? Isn’t that against the college practices?”
Gervais previously scolded Yaniv when he sued a Canadian beauty parlor for refusing to perform a Brazilian wax on his genitals, claiming it was discriminatory. The lawsuit was eventually quashed.
“How did we get to the point where women are having to fight for the right to choose whether they wax some big old hairy c*** &amp; balls or not?” Gervais <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-accused-being-transphobe-saying-paul-bois">tweeted at the time</a>. “It is not a human right to have your meat &amp; 2 veg polished.”
Due to his refusal to bow to the politically correct establishment, SJWs have been on a concerted quest to cancel Ricky Gervais. Most recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiewire-calls-for-canceling-transphobic-gervais-from-globes-gets-crushed-by-readers">IndieWire published</a> an op-ed arguing that the Golden Globes should fire him from hosting the upcoming awards show due to his outspoken &#8220;transphobia.&#8221;
<blockquote>During Gervais’ 2016 stint hosting the ceremony, he dead-named Olympic Gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner from the stage, and transphobic commentary has been a through line of his work since.
The star of Netflix’s “After Life” opened his 2018 stand-up comedy special “Humanity” — also on Netflix — with not one but three different derogatory remarks about Jenner, discussing her former name, referring to her as a man, as well as discussing surgery and her genitals. …
In an age where comedians are rightfully being held accountable[emphasis added] for bigoted words and actions from years prior … Gervais continues to tweet vitriol toward the LGBTQ+ community only to face no repercussions.</blockquote>
Though a self-described “champagne socialist” and an avowed atheist, Ricky Gervais has taken the politically incorrect stance on a number of free speech issues recently, such as when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49038/ricky-gervais-blasts-radical-leftists-attacking-paul-bois">he condemned activists</a> for throwing milkshakes at right-wingers.
“It’s interesting that the people who believe that throwing a milkshake in someone’s face shouldn’t be considered assault are often the same people who believe that ‘saying things’ should be,” the comedian tweeted in July.

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Director J.J. Abrams has allegedly delivered on his promise to feature more LGBTQ representation in the Star Wars universe via the upcoming film &#8220;Rise of Skywalker.&#8221; Though the characters Finn and Poe will not be lovers, Abrams said the representation will still be apparent.
Speaking with <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/star-wars-finn-poe-not-boyfriends-lgbtq-representation-1203423286/">Variety</a>, Abrams said he specifically wanted the LGBTQ community to feel represented without revealing any details as to how he had pulled it off.
&#8220;In the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film,” Abrams said. “I will say I’m giving away nothing about what happens in the movie. But I did just say what I just said.”
J.J. Abrams has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jj-abrams-promise-add-gay-characters-star-wars-joseph-curl">long promised</a> that the Star Wars universe will be introducing gay characters in the coming future.
“When I talk about inclusivity, it’s not excluding gay characters,” Abrams previously told The Daily Beast. “It’s about inclusivity. So of course. I would love it. To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility. So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”
Following the release of &#8220;The Force Awakens,&#8221; social media immediately lit up with hopeful calls for the characters Finn and Poe (played by John Boyega and Oscar Isaac, respectively) to embark on a romantic love affair; fans hoping to see that materialize will be left disappointed this time around. Both Boyega and Oscar Isaac expressed dismay over that fact.
&#8220;Personally, I kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would’ve been taken further in the other films, but I don’t have control,” Oscar Isaac told Variety. “It seemed like a natural progression, but sadly enough, it’s a time when people are too afraid, I think, of … I don’t know what.”
“But if they would’ve been boyfriends, that would have been fun,&#8221; added Isaac.
John Boyega simultaneously told Variety that the relationship between Poe and Finn &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be too weird&#8221; if it suddenly advanced beyond the platonic.
“They’ve always had a quite loving and open relationship in which it wouldn’t be too weird if it went beyond it,” Boyega said. “But at the same time, they are just platonic at the moment.”
As to why he ruled against Finn and Poe being romantic lovers, J.J. Abrams said he believed the relationship was a deeper one.
“That relationship to me is a far deeper one than a romantic one,” Abrams said. “It is a deep bond that these two have, not just because of the trial by fire in which they met, but also because of their willingness to be as intimate as they are, as afraid as they, as unsure as they are, and still be bold, and still be daring and brave.”
Most recently, executive producer Justin Ridge of the show “Star Wars: Resistance” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/producer-confirms-these-two-star-wars-resistance-characters-are-gay">revealed that two cartoon characters</a>, Flix and Orka, were in fact gay lovers.
“They’re absolutely a gay couple, and we’re proud of that,” Ridge said, confirming what fans have already suspected. “I think it’s safe to say they’re an item, absolutely.”

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Moving on from suing female estheticians for refusing to wax male genitals, the world of gynecology is the next brave frontier for transgender woman and self-styled &#8220;LGBTQIA+ advocate&#8221; Jessica Yaniv.
According to Yaniv, transgender &#8220;rights&#8221; not only include female salon workers being forced to wax male genitals, even when they don&#8217;t offer the service, but also gynecologists being forced to take on transgender patients who do not have female reproductive organs.
On Monday night, the activist ranted via Twitter about allegedly being discriminated against and turned away from a gynecology office because Yaniv is transgender. 
&#8220;Ok so [Fraser Health] needs to stop hiring employees who are discriminatory towards the #LGBTQ and use their bulls*** excuses on why they can’t see you even though you have a referral from the emergency department and live in the Fraser Health area!!&#8221; Yaniv posted to Twitter. &#8220;I want help and can’t get it!!&#8221;
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Ok so <a href="https://twitter.com/Fraserhealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fraserhealth</a> needs to stop hiring employees who are discriminatory towards the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBTQ</a> and use their bullshit excuses on why they can’t see you even though you have a referral from the emergency department and live in the Fraser Health area!! I want help and can’t get it!!
&mdash; Jessica Yaniv (@trustednerd) <a href="https://twitter.com/trustednerd/status/1201581842245341184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In follow-up tweets, Yaniv elaborated: &#8220;So a gynaecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that &#8216;we don&#8217;t serve transgender patients.&#8217; And me, being me, I&#8217;m shocked.. and confused&#8230; and hurt.&#8221; 
&#8220;Are they allowed to do that, legally?&#8221; Yaniv asked, signaling prospective legal action, particularly since the activist has shown to be extremely litigious in the past. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that against the college practices?&#8221;
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So a gynaecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that &quot;we don&#39;t serve transgender patients.&quot;
And me, being me, I&#39;m shocked.. and confused&#8230; and hurt.
Are they allowed to do that, legally? Isn&#39;t that against the college practices? <a href="https://twitter.com/cpsbc_ca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cpsbc_ca</a>
&mdash; Jessica Yaniv (@trustednerd) <a href="https://twitter.com/trustednerd/status/1201665480504668162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yaniv, a biological male, does not have a uterus or ovaries and it&#8217;s unclear if the activist has had what is often dubbed in the trans world as &#8220;bottom surgery.&#8221; In other words, it&#8217;s unclear how a standard gynecologist could provide care to the activist. Also, it remains unclear if Yaniv actually was turned away and for what reason.
&#8220;Gynaecologists form a part of the multidisciplinary team who engage with transgender and non‐binary patients, either as part of the transition stage performing surgery or managing pre‐ or post‐transition gynaecological problems,&#8221; the activist added.
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Gynaecologists form a part of the multidisciplinary team who engage with transgender and non‐binary patients, either as part of the transition stage performing surgery or managing pre‐ or post‐transition gynaecological problems.
&mdash; Jessica Yaniv (@trustednerd) <a href="https://twitter.com/trustednerd/status/1201673642213433345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Yaniv made headlines earlier this year when the activist filed at least 15 human rights complaints against female estheticians in Canada for refusing to wax his male genitals, as noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-woman-suing-female-estheticians-refusing-wax-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a>.
However, in October, the <a href="https://www.jccf.ca/aestheticians-justified-in-refusing-to-handle-male-genitals-against-their-will-bc-human-rights-tribunal/">Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms</a>, a group that represented five of the women being targeted by Yaniv, announced that the activist’s cases against their clients had been tossed by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Moreover, Yaniv was instructed to pay $2,000 each to at least three of the women.
“The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is pleased to announce that the BC Human Rights Tribunal has ruled in favour of home estheticians’ right to refuse to handle male genitalia against their will,” a press release from JCCF said, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jessica-yaniv-loses-cases-against-women-who-wouldnt-wax-her-balls/">The Post Millennial</a>.
&#8220;According to the group, the tribunal’s decision said that &#8216;human rights legislation does not require a service provider to wax a type of genitals they are not trained for and have not consented to wax,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-activist-loses-cases-against-female-estheticians-who-refused-to-wax-male-genitals">The Daily Wire</a> noted. &#8220;Moreover, it was noted that Yaniv &#8216;engaged in improper conduct&#8217; and &#8216;filed complaints for improper purposes.&#8217; The activist’s testimony, according to the ruling, was &#8216;disingenuous and self-serving,&#8217; and Yaniv was &#8216;evasive and argumentative and contradicted herself.'&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-activist-loses-cases-against-female-estheticians-who-refused-to-wax-male-genitals">Transgender Activist Loses Cases Against Female Estheticians Who Refused To Wax Male Genitals</a>

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On November 23, a priest at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reportedly told 63rd District Court Chief Judge Sara Smolenski that he could not serve her communion.
“It was good to see you in church on Sunday. Because you and Linda are married in the state of Michigan, I&#8217;d like you to respect the church and not come to communion,” Smolenski <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/30/us/gay-michigan-judge-communion/index.html">claims</a> Father Scott Nolan said to her over the phone.
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/30/us/gay-michigan-judge-communion/index.html">CNN</a>, Smolenski grew up attending St. Stephen, was baptized there as a child, and even went to the church’s school for multiple years.
“This feels like selective discrimination. Why choose gay people, and why now?” Smolenski told CNN.
Speaking with a <a href="https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/priest-stands-by-denying-communion-to-gay-judge/">CNN affiliate</a>, Father Nolan defended his decision: “I’ve taught what all of the popes who have ever said something about the emergent family have said up to and including Pope Francis.”
Though Smolenski has made the claim that “all these other priests” who are “good and decent” have given her communion, Nolan says he is “not responsible” for the actions of other church leaders.
The Diocese of Grand Rapids issued a <a href="https://grdiocese.org/statement-woodtv8-story-regarding-st-stephen-parish/?fbclid=IwAR37npPbiEtI9MUAjJ9iDaSQ55epw6EBUpRkEs7el3LTR_w4jR0UuVdmEDw">statement</a> supporting Nolan:
<blockquote>We appreciate Judge Sara Smolenski’s service to the community. We are grateful for her past generosity. These facts are not at issue in this matter.
As Pope Francis explains in Amoris Laetitia, “The Eucharist demands that we be members of the one body of the Church. Those who approach the Body and Blood of Christ may not wound that same Body by creating scandalous distinctions and divisions among its members.” (186) Lifelong Catholics would surely be aware of this.
Inclusion and acceptance have been a hallmark of Catholic Churches in the Diocese of Grand Rapids throughout the diocese’s history. They remain so. They presume, however, a respect on the part of individuals for the teachings and practice of the wider Catholic community. No community of faith can sustain the public contradiction of its beliefs by its own members. This is especially so on matters as central to Catholic life as marriage, which the Church has always held, and continues to hold, as a sacred covenant between one man and one woman.
Father Scott Nolan, pastor of St. Stephen Parish, has dedicated his priesthood to bringing people closer to Jesus Christ. Part of his duty in pursuing that end is to teach the truth as taught by the Catholic Church, and to help it take root and grow in his parish. Mercy is essential to that process, but so are humility and conversion on the part of anyone seeking to live an authentically Catholic Christian life.
Father Nolan approached Judge Smolenski privately. Subsequent media reports do not change the appropriateness of his action, which the diocese supports.</blockquote>
As the culture evolves, the pressure against various Christian denominations and the Catholic Church to submit to the modern social fabric – even if doing so would be in direct defiance of scripture – continues to intensify.
According to scripture, homosexual conduct is considered a sin.
Romans 1:26-27 reads: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
1 Corinthians 6: 9-10 reads: “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
The New Testament features other passages pertaining to homosexual conduct.

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Lesbian Judge Denied Communion In Michigan; Local Diocese Supports Priest

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The Hallmark Channel has now been scrutinized for having a lack of religious and racial diversity during its &#8220;Countdown to Christmas&#8221; programming.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hallmark-channel-struggles-give-diversity-a-home-holidays-1257946">The Hollywood Reporter </a>(THR), the Hallmark Channel featured just four movies this year with black leads and virtually no other religious representation outside of Judaism and Christianity.
&#8220;Of the network&#8217;s record 24 original holiday movies this season, four of them have black leads,&#8221; reported THR. &#8220;And that&#8217;s down from last year, when five of its 21 original holiday movies had black leads.&#8221;
&#8220;Missing from Hallmark&#8217;s festive roster? Any other religion in the title,&#8221; the report later noted. &#8220;That&#8217;s especially interesting given that Hallmark last year announced that it would be producing two Hanukkah movies in 2019 — &#8216;Holiday Date&#8217; (Dec. 14) and a &#8216;Double Holiday&#8217; (Dec. 22). &#8216;Double Holiday&#8216; is a romance between a woman who is Jewish, while &#8216;Holiday Date&#8217; features a Jewish guy pretending to be &#8216;Mr. Christmas.'&#8221;
Speaking on THR&#8217;s TV podcast, Bill Abbott, CEO of Crown Media Family Networks (Hallmark&#8217;s parent company), said that the allegation that Hallmark has no diversity is unfair.
&#8220;I think that generalization isn&#8217;t fair either, that we just have Christmas with white leads,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;In terms of broadening out the demographic, it’s something we’re always thinking about, always considering and we’ll continue to make the movies where the best scripts are delivered to us and what we think have the most potential.&#8221;
As to why the two movies featuring Jewish characters did not use the word &#8220;Hanukkah&#8221; in the title, Abbott said the programming has never been overtly religious, arguing that Christmas is more of a &#8220;seasonal celebration.&#8221;
&#8220;We are very proud of those movies and we think those movies really reflect an across-the-board approach to celebrating the holiday season,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;It’s hard if we start to slice up the pie, so to speak, and make movies based off of specific holidays. So, if we were to look at Kwanzaa, for example, or other religions and how they celebrate the holidays it’s a little bit more difficult because we don’t look at Christmas from a religious point of view, it’s more a seasonal celebration. [O]nce you start to slice it more finely within individual religions it’s a little bit tougher to necessarily tell that story in a way that doesn’t involve religion and we always want to stay clear of religion or controversy.&#8221;
&#8220;I think Christmas has become almost a secular type of holiday more than Hanukkah, which really does have more of a religious feel,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think Hanukkah, from a religious point of view, is not necessarily as commercial and not necessarily as much about gift-giving and it’s really about what those eight nights signify from the religious point of view. So I’m not ruling it out as something we would not do but this is kind of our first foray into this type of double holiday mix with a lot of Hanukkah in both movies [and] a lot of the celebration of how those nights are celebrated and experienced by those who practice the religion.&#8221;
Abbott did, however, say that the Hallmark Channel has an interest in featuring other diverse leads, including LGBT.

Hallmark Channel&#8217;s Countdown To Christmas Celebration And VIP Screening Of &#8220;Christmas At Holly Lodge&#8221;

Hallmark Channel Blasted For Lack Of Inclusion, Diversity

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A record number of biological males who self-identify as female may be competing in the 2020 Olympic Summer Games, forcing a public debate over the fairness of transgender women competing against biological women in sporting events.
As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) looks to prepare for the upcoming games in Tokyo, Japan, the world is poised to confront the seemingly divisive issue on what constitutes a female athlete, according to an article published on Tuesday by <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/transgenderism_and_the_olympics.html">The American Thinker</a>.
The IOC sought to introduce stricter guidelines for transgender competitors, as more biological males have been smashing women&#8217;s records and sweeping titles at the high school and collegiate levels. However, the IOC&#8217;s panel of scientists have failed to reach a consensus due to the &#8220;politically charged and sensitive&#8221; nature of the debate, reported <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/24/ioc-delays-new-transgender-guidelines-2020-olympics">The Guardian</a> in September.
Guidelines established by the IOC in 2015 allow some biologically male athletes to compete in female events, depending on testosterone levels. Accordingly, those athletes are required to maintain testosterone levels below 10 nanomoles per liter (nm/l) for no less than 12 months. The American Thinker notes that biological males generally have between 7.7 and 29.4 nm/l of testosterone, while women have between 0.12 and 1.77 nm/l. This means that biological male athletes can conceivably have a 500% hormonal advantage over their biological women counterparts.
Regardless, crafting guidelines based on testosterone levels alone may be irrelevant as to whether or not transgender women have a significant advantage over the competition. A study compiled by the Karolinska Institutet, a leading Swedish medical and research university, determined that transgender women benefit primarily from their masculine bone structure and upper body strength. Current testosterone levels might actually be relatively insignificant.
&#8220;Not every male advantage dissipates when testosterone drops,&#8221; said Alison Heather, a New Zealand researcher and physiologist at the University of Otago. &#8220;Some advantages, such as their bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size remain. Testosterone also promotes muscle memory. Transgender women have a heightened ability to build strength even after they transition.&#8221;
The debate of where transgender individuals fit into competitive athletics, however, is likely to be pushed onto the front lines as more than one billion people watch the Olympic Games in 2020 — many of whom have never been fully exposed to the issue.
The news media has notably promoted the politically correct narrative benefitting transgender athletes over their biologically female counterparts and has been suppressing further dissent, according to The American Thinker. However, as more than 25 million Americans are tuned into the international games at any one point in time, many people will be confronted with the striking disadvantage that biological women would face.
The feminist movement, which has sought to highlight and resolve the seemingly unfair treatment of women in a society that allegedly prioritizes males, has, at times, been shut out of the transgender athletics debate in its entirety. But traditional progressive feminists who seek to advance women&#8217;s equality will be pitted against other progressives who feel that the rights of roughly 0.3% of the population should be held at a higher value than the rights of more than half of the population.

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Transgenderism Brought To The Forefront As Biological Males Look To Compete In Women&#8217;s Olympic Events

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We&#8217;ve reached a point where even statistics can be bigoted and hateful. That&#8217;s why journalist Andy Ngo was recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-andy-ngo-confronts-chelsea-clinton-with-facts-about-transgender-violence-twitter-suspends-him">suspended</a> from Twitter — he reported verifiable, statistically based facts.
Ngo received the punishment from the social media site after he attempted to correct misinformation from Chelsea Clinton. The former First Daughter decided to ring in this year&#8217;s &#8220;Transgender Day of Remembrance&#8221; by spreading the outrageous and dangerous, yet exceedingly common, lie that trans people are falling victim to a hate crime epidemic.
&#8220;Since 2013, more than 150 trans people have been murdered in the U.S., the majority Black transgender women,&#8221; Clinton posted. &#8220;On <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TDoR2019?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#</a>TDoR2019, we remember and honor the lives lost, hold their loved ones in our hearts and must commit to doing all we can to end this epidemic of violence and hate.&#8221;
An &#8220;epidemic,&#8221; she calls it. One of &#8220;violence and hate,&#8221; clearly implying that these trans people are all, or mostly, being murdered by anti-trans militants. Racist, anti-trans militants, she seems to suggest by making special mention of the race of the victims. Ngo responded by objectively and dispassionately relaying the actual facts of the mater.
&#8220;The U.S. is one of the safest countries for trans people,” Ngo said in his banned tweet. “The murder rate of trans victims is actually lower than that for cis population. Also, who is behind the murders? Mostly black men.”
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Not a word of this is untrue. And not a word of it constitutes &#8220;hateful conduct,&#8221; as Twitter alleged. If 150 trans people have been murdered in six years, and there are about <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf">one and a half million</a> trans people in the country, that puts the murder rate at 1 in 60,000. By comparison, the overall murder rate in this country is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/upshot/us-murder-rate-for-2018-is-on-track-for-a-big-drop.html">more than double</a> that figure. This already conclusively puts to rest any talk of an &#8220;epidemic.&#8221; If there&#8217;s an epidemic of trans murders, there must be a double epidemic of murder in general. Which means there can&#8217;t be an epidemic of trans murders because trans people are less likely to be murdered than non-trans people.
As for race, the leftist organizations behind this &#8220;epidemic&#8221; myth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-andy-ngo-confronts-chelsea-clinton-with-facts-about-transgender-violence-twitter-suspends-him">admit themselves</a> that most of the black &#8220;trans women&#8221; murdered are falling victim to other black men. This makes the murders very sad, as all murders are, but it completely destroys any attempt to turn this into a manifestation of racial bigotry, as Chelsea Clinton and her friends in the media try to do. This is the point Andy Ngo was making, though he made it far less passionately than I have here. All he did, literally, was state statistical facts. But statistical facts are forbidden when they contradict the established narrative.
In fact, the &#8220;trans murder epidemic&#8221; is even more baseless that it already seems. Chad Felix Greene over at The Federalist has <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/the-left-is-lying-about-a-hatred-and-violence-epidemic-against-transgender-people/">looked into</a> nearly ever trans murder reported over the last few years. He demonstrated convincingly that only four of the 118 cases he investigated could be called anti-trans hate crimes. His search goes back to 2015, which means the real &#8220;epidemic&#8221; consists of one anti-trans murder per year. If one a year can be called an epidemic, then almost every crime — indeed, almost every bad thing that can happen to a person — is also an epidemic. The word &#8220;epidemic,&#8221; in that case, loses all meaning.
The vast majority of the murders are related to domestic violence, prostitution, or random tragedy. For example, as Greene explains, one of the murders lumped into the &#8220;epidemic&#8221; label was the accidental shooting of a trans person by a friend on New Year&#8217;s Eve. Another was a trans person killed along with 19 other people in a mass shooting. The media take these cases, and the cases of prostitution and domestic violence-related murders, and pile them on top of the tiny handful of actual hate crimes to pad the stats and create an epidemic out of whole cloth. It&#8217;s dishonest. It&#8217;s disgraceful. And I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s far more &#8220;hateful&#8221; than anything Andy Ngo tweeted.

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WALSH: The Left Claims There’s An ‘Epidemic’ Of Anti-Trans Hate Crimes. They’re Lying. Here Are The Facts.

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Earlier this week, erstwhile culinary icon of Southern-inspired cultural conservatism Chick-fil-A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-chick-fil-a-just-caved-to-the-rage-mob-theyre-about-to-learn-the-hard-way-that-surrendering-never-pays-off">kowtowed</a> to the <a href="https://americanmind.org/post/brand-warfare-is-a-fight-to-the-death/">hectoring bullies</a> of radical LGBT activism and announced that it would henceforth refrain from donating to such deeply polarizing and horrifyingly conservative Christian organizations as &#8230; the <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/11/19/chick-fil-a-is-made-to-care-caves-to-progressives-abandons-salvation-army/">Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes</a>. Apparently, a mere organizational affiliation with Christianity in the year 2019 suffices to incite &#8220;homophobic&#8221; or &#8220;transphobic&#8221; smears from the secularist outrage mob.
Far be it from me to tell a private company that it has made a poor business decision, but the reality is that Chick-fil-A has all but assuredly made a poor business decision. As many in the commentariat class have pointed out, Chick-fil-A&#8217;s business model has only increasingly flourished as the Left&#8217;s attacks against it have contemporaneously amplified. The predictable result of Chick-fil-A&#8217;s corporate cowardice will only be the alienation of the company&#8217;s core supporters and the failure to appease its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backlash-chick-fil-a-faces-heat-for-caving-to-leftists-cutting-ties-with-christian-orgs">insatiable foes</a> on the Left.
As Spencer Klavan aptly put it at <a href="https://americanmind.org/post/brand-warfare-is-a-fight-to-the-death/">The American Mind</a>, &#8220;The attack on Chick-fil-A makes plain that radical leftists are not in this for a compromise, or an equitable live-and-let-live solution. &#8230; Destruction, not détente, is the goal.&#8221; Indeed. And against this backdrop of leftist/secularist cultural hegemony, overly defensive calls for pluralism and procedural &#8220;tolerance&#8221; are woefully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-social-conservatives-must-defend-the-intrinsic-good-of-religion">inadequate</a> <a href="https://americanmind.org/discourse/our-constitutional-order-prioritizes-justice-not-procedure/">responses</a> for those of us on the political Right.
The latest Chick-fil-A imbroglio is, of course, a downstream symptom of an upstream cause: The utterly toxic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-stop-politicization-what-should-not-be-josh-hammer">politicization of all facets</a> of our day-to-day lives. As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-how-to-disunite-america">argued</a> in his syndicated column this week, this is a deeply pernicious trend. The fraying of the American social fabric, already a years- or decades-long phenomenon, continues to worsen unabated. A nation where warring political tribes not only consume different media, but eat different chicken sandwiches and wear differing clothing lines, is a country destined for bitter strife, at best — or internecine violence, at worst.
Americans of good faith all ought to agree that we should not want to live in a country where such an anodyne institution as a chicken sandwich chain elicits this level of hostility, and engenders this level of politicized passion, due to its Christian-inspired donative proclivities.
The question for conservatives, amidst this debilitating backdrop of politicized bifurcation, a widening economic and cultural chasm <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/josh-hawleys-striking-critique-of-american-life/">between the classes</a>, and metastasizing crises of hyper-individualistic atomism and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html">despondency</a>, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-path-forward-conservative-movement-josh-hammer">how best to proceed</a> as a political movement. The republic often seems to be falling apart at the seams, and it is incumbent upon all of us in the political and commentariat classes to think very hard about what it is we can do to plot a salutary path forward. Above all else, that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-path-forward-conservative-movement-josh-hammer">path forward</a> must focus on how best to heal our polity&#8217;s fractious wounds and concomitantly re-inculcate a sense of proud Americanism.
It ought to be obvious that &#8220;live-and-let-live&#8221;-style classical liberalism — a political movement centered around the conservation of certain Enlightenment-era procedural norms, and not around the conservation of substantive moral or cultural norms — is both <a href="https://www.voterstudygroup.org/assets/i/uploads/reports/Graphs-Charts/1101/figure2_drutman_e4aabc39aab12644609701bbacdff252.png">politically wanting</a> and woefully inadequate to confront the crises of our times. Rather, a resurgent, forward-looking conservatism simply must better account for a human nature that, contra Ayn Rand, is inherently inimical to radical individualism. Human nature yearns for communitarianism — for inclusion in what Edmund Burke famously called the &#8220;<a href="https://www.bartleby.com/24/3/4.html">little platoon[s]</a>&#8221; of society. Yet the sclerotic and morally bankrupt reality of contemporary American political life presents us, as New York Post Op-Ed Editor Sohrab Ahmari <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/11/joker-and-our-crisis-of-solidarity">put it this week</a> at First Things, with a &#8220;bipartisan abolition of solidarity.&#8221;
Conservatives simply must become more willing to rethink outmoded Reagan-era orthodoxies and to discard the anachronistic bromides of what some now dub &#8220;<a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/2009/07/23/conservative-inc/">Conservatism, Inc.</a>&#8221; As Ahmari framed it, the human nature reality for both leftists and libertarians/procedure-centric classical liberals is that &#8220;the longing for solidarity can never be permanently repressed.&#8221;
It is past time to make this pursuit of solidarity a core underlying basis of our conservative political agenda. To be sure, filling out the substantive details of this solidaristic, assimilationist, nationally cohesive conservative agenda — what many of us might call <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-national-conservatism-conference-josh-hammer">&#8220;national conservatism&#8221;</a> — remains a work in progress. Here is how I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-national-conservatism-conference-josh-hammer">briefly outlined</a> parts of the agenda, back in July:
<blockquote>
National conservatism means a politics concretely focused on the mutually interdependent bonds of human loyalty upon which a society ultimately depends — as opposed to the atomization espoused by hyper-individualistic doctrinaire libertarianism. National conservatism means a politics focused on national solidarity and reinforcing the shared customs, traits, norms, and mores that establish America not merely as an idea but also as a tangible people — as opposed to the <a href="https://americanmind.org/essays/defend-america-defeat-multiculturalism/" data-reader-unique-id="185">existential scourge of divisive multiculturalism</a>. National conservatism means viewing America as a nation-state with an economy — as opposed to viewing America as but one border-less abstraction within a globalized economy. National conservatism means the articulation and advancement of all domestic and foreign policy alike through the lens of national self-interest — as opposed to policy advancement based on transnational considerations or the needs of foreigners. National conservatism means a hardened immigration system that <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/was-amy-wax-speech-racist-immigration/" data-reader-unique-id="186">prioritizes cultural assimilation above all else</a> — as opposed to a laxer immigration system that prioritizes the cheap labor needs of the Fortune 500. National conservatism means a foreign affairs approach premised on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45699/hammer-america-needs-re-think-its-global-alliances-josh-hammer" data-reader-unique-id="187">narrow alliances with like-minded, self-sufficient nations</a> who share America’s core national security concerns — as opposed to a foreign affairs approach premised on a tendentiously moralistic, sovereignty-undermining transnational agenda. National conservatism means a world order of sovereign nation-states — as opposed to the soft tyranny of the unelectable transnational bureaucrats in Turtle Bay and Brussels. National conservatism means a domestic affairs approach that, while undoubtedly market-oriented, resists the vestigial temptation to shirk the levers of political power as a means to advance the conservative cause in the realms of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49361/hammer-josh-hawleys-bill-taking-big-tech-josh-hammer" data-reader-unique-id="188">Big Tech</a>, higher education, and other private spheres that increasingly pose just as dire a threat to our way of life as does over-zealous Big Government itself. National conservatism means a conservatism that works for the American heartland and for all rungs of the economic ladder — as opposed to a purist anti-regulation agenda that merely speaks for the economic interests of the bi-coastal elite.
</blockquote>
There are many <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1197611846217416710">erudite conservative critics</a> of this prospective political model. I share some of their concerns. And it is true that policy wonks must dedicate substantial time to fleshing out more of the intricate details. But I also do not see a viable alternative path forward. America will regain its sense of national solidarity — its sense of patriotism and of communitarian belongingness in the greatest nation-state in the history of the world — or it will eventually wither and die. I, for one, am hoping for the former.

Chick-fil-A

HAMMER: On Chick-Fil-A, Political Tribalism, And The Need For National Solidarity

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) criticized Democratic presidential rival and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Thursday for comparing the discrimination that he felt as a gay man to the historic civil rights abuses of black Americans.
&#8220;Those of us who&#8217;ve been involved in civil rights for a long time, we know that it is important that we not compare our struggles,&#8221; Harris said during a Black Women Power Breakfast hosted by Higher Heights, a national political organization for black women. &#8220;It is not productive, it is not smart and strategically, [and] it works against what we need to do which is build coalition.&#8221;
&#8220;We know that in our ongoing fight for civil rights if any one of us starts to differentiate ourselves in a certain way and, in particular, what he did on the stage,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s just not productive and I think it&#8217;s a bit naïve.&#8221;
Harris added that &#8220;there&#8217;s no equating those two experiences.&#8221;
The California lawmaker&#8217;s remarks were in reference to an answer Buttigieg provided during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s fifth presidential primary debate on Wednesday. While on the debate state, Harris lamented the treatment of black Americans, whom she contended are the backbone of the Democratic Party despite their needs often being overlooked or otherwise taken for granted.
Buttigieg, who has been struggling to gain traction with African-American voters, responded to the criticism in agreement and put forth that he &#8220;welcome[s] the challenge of connecting with black voters in American who don&#8217;t yet know me.&#8221; He further noted that he can relate to how black voters feel because of the discrimination he has felt for his sexuality.
&#8220;I care about this because while I do not have the experience of ever having been discriminated against because of the color of my skin, I do have the experience of sometimes feeling like a stranger in my own country,&#8221; Buttigieg said at the time. &#8220;Turning on the news and seeing my own rights come up for debate, and seeing my rights expanded by a coalition of people like me and people not at all like me, working side by side, shoulder to shoulder, making it possible for me to be standing here wearing this wedding ring in a way that couldn&#8217;t have happened two elections ago, lets me know just how deep my obligation is to help those whose rights are on the line every day — even if they are nothing like me in their experience.&#8221;
However, this is not the first time that Harris has referred to Buttigieg as &#8220;naïve.&#8221; Earlier in November, she went after him for stating that the primary race is beginning to winnow down to only two candidates, himself and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
&#8220;Well, I think that&#8217;s just, that it&#8217;s naïve for him to think that at this point that the fate of this election has been determined,&#8221; Harris responded to his comment. &#8220;Just look at history. He might need to review to know that what&#8217;s happening right now is not necessarily determinative of the outcome.&#8221;

Democratic Presidential Candidates Participate In Debate In Atlanta, Georgia

Harris Criticizes Buttigieg For Comparing Black &#8216;Struggles&#8217; To The LGBTQ Community

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I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-female-student-breaks-down-in-tears-as-school-board-grants-boys-access-to-girls-locker-room-this-is-simply-evil">wrote yesterday</a> about the morally abominable decision by <a href="https://adc.d211.org/domain/44">the school board of District 211 in Illinois</a> to allow gender-confused boys into the girls locker room and bathroom.
I linked to a striking video showing the disparate reactions of a biological boy who identifies as transgender and a biological girl after the board&#8217;s decision was announced. The boy, Nova Maday, gloats over his victory while showing no regard or concern for the girls whose privacy has just been obliterated. The girl, Julia Burca, tearfully worries that she will now have to get naked every day around boys as she gets changed for swim practice.
As I argued in my piece, only the most deranged sorts of people could possibly watch that footage and feel sympathy for the boy over the girl. All sane and decent people understand that girls deserve privacy and protection when they are getting changed and using the bathroom. Am I implying that everyone on the opposite side from me on this issue lacks sanity and decency? Yes, I certainly am. I will go even further and say that what they support is abject evil, and they are without excuse. There is no good argument for allowing boys into the girls locker room. There is no compelling reason for such a policy. All of the good arguments and compelling reasons belong to the side that seeks to protect young girls from this kind of abuse.
As my piece on this case has gotten a big reaction and been widely circulated, I&#8217;ve heard from a number of students at the school. They tell me that the environment has been tense and awkward, and many of the girls are now fearful about their lack of privacy and security. These messages raise an important question: Why the hell are the students even attending class at all? Nearly <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fear-and-anger-brewing-as-school-board-votes-to-force-trans-locker-rooms-on-girls">500 people</a> showed up at the school board meeting last week, many of them in opposition to the board&#8217;s decision. There&#8217;s obviously a lot of outrage among the parents of the children at the school. So, again, why are those parents still sending their kids? Why are parents who are (rightly) concerned about their daughters&#8217; safety still choosing to send their daughters into that environment?
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This is what I find so endlessly frustrating. The parents in these situations have an immense amount of power. They could put an end to the madness immediately — literally overnight — if they simply got together and agreed to withhold their children from class until the policy is reversed. This would force the school&#8217;s hand. They can&#8217;t operate without children to teach. They would need to come back to the table and make concessions. This is exactly the strategy that teachers use when they want some kind of institutional change to be made, and generally the tactic works for them. Why don&#8217;t parents do the same? If you&#8217;re angry and worried that the school is putting your child in jeopardy, the only reasonable, not to mention effective, response is to keep your child home. If every parent who felt the same way did the same, changes would be made in a hurry.
The same applies when boys intrude into girls sports teams. Rather than participating in the farce of a &#8220;girls&#8221; track meet where boys take home all the medals, why not pull your daughters out, collectively, and refuse to participate until those boys are sent back where they belong? Again, if every parent did this, the school would have no choice but to surrender. Or at least there&#8217;s a pretty good chance they surrender. Whereas there is no chance if you obediently go along with the program.
Would it be inconvenient to keep your kid home from school? Yes, sure, you probably have a job to worry about. Are there maybe some risks involved? Yes, I guess the school could send the cops after you if they wanted to play hardball. But if we aren&#8217;t willing to take on a little risk and inconvenience for the sake of protecting our children from this lunacy, then what&#8217;s the point? Why complain? Why object? Just shut up and do as your told. If you don&#8217;t like that plan, then stand up for yourself and your family. Fight back. Do something. Do something, for God&#8217;s sake.

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WALSH: A School Allows Boys Into The Girls Room. Parents Object But Still Send Their Kids To Class. This Is The Problem.

Education

Sexuality

Speaking on Tuesday night with Fox News Host Shannon Bream on FoxNews@Night, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro slammed Chick-fil-A for capitulating to the LGBT activists by saying they would no longer donate to Christian charities such as The Salvation Army and The Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
<a href="https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/retail/exclusive-amid-global-expansion-and-lgbt-pushback-chick-fil-a-changes-charitable-giving-structure-101818">Bisnow</a> reported earlier this week that Chick-fil-A&#8217;s charitable actions &#8220;will no longer include donating to organizations like the Salvation Army, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-chick-fil-a-to-stop-donating-to-christian-charities-branded-anti-lgbt">The Daily Wire</a> reported, &#8220;Instead of those Christian organizations, Chick-fil-A told Bisnow, it will give $9M to &#8216;organizations like Junior Achievement USA to support education, Covenant House International to fight homelessness and community food banks for its hunger initiative in each city where the chain operates,&#8217; the outlet reports.&#8221;
Shapiro commented:
<blockquote>It’s completely idiotic, completely idiotic. Chick-fil-A’s, their gross revenue went from $1 billion in 2001 to $10.5 billion this year, and did so despite the fact that the Left has been targeting them since 2013, when they found out that Dan Cathy, who is the CEO of Chick-fil-A, was in favor of traditional marriage. That has not slowed Chick-fil-A’s growth one iota; in fact, that Chick-fil-A decided to bow down before the lords of political correctness and then cut Christian charities out because those Christian charities happen not to support same-sex marriage militantly, is pretty astonishing, and it‘s a horrible sign for our culture if we are really now only going to eat at restaurants where the activities of the restaurants don’t matter, right?
Chick-fil-A will serve anybody, gay, straight, doesn’t matter, everybody is happy to eat a chicken sandwich Chick-fil-A will serve; the real question is if you are going to start boycotting businesses based on the personal views of the owners of the business, well, then we’re going to end up with basically a two-tiered political system in every aspect of American life. And the country can’t last that way. If I literally have to check out the political donation record of the restaurant owner where I go to patronize the burger, I don’t know how we’re going to last as a country this way.</blockquote>
Bream quoted Drew Anderson, GLAAD’s Director of campaigns, stating, &#8220;In addition to refraining from financially supporting anti-LGBTQ organizations, Chick-fil-A still lacks policies to ensure safe workplaces for LGBTQ employees and should unequivocally speak out against the anti-LGBTQ reputation that their brand represents.” Bream commented, “So, the Left doesn’t sound satisfied by this move Chick-fil-A’s made.”
Shapiro responded:
<blockquote>Because the Left will never be satisfied. The Boy Scouts did the same thing and the Left went after the Boy Scouts. Once you give an inch to the Left with regard to your fundamental principles, the Left will never stop. If Chick-fil-A believes that they bought off the Left through all of this and that the Left is suddenly going to start switching their dollars over from whatever vegan restaurants they are patronizing to Chick-fil-A, they&#8217;ve got another thing coming. Chick-fil-A is not going to win any supporters on the Left and they&#8217;re going to lose a lot of supporters on the Right who feel like they surrendered to nasty, censorious cancel culture.</blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro

The school board of District 211 in Illinois <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fear-and-anger-brewing-as-school-board-votes-to-force-trans-locker-rooms-on-girls">voted last week</a>, in a 5 – 2 decision, to allow biological males into the female locker room at Palatine High School. The board said that all students should be &#8220;treated and supported in a manner consistent with their gender identity.&#8221; This &#8220;support&#8221; apparently necessitates obliterating the privacy and safety of every girl at the school.
A student named Nova Maday, a biological male who identifies as transgender, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/19/illinois-school-district-gives-transgender-students-unrestricted-access-to-bathrooms/">filed a lawsuit</a> in 2017. The lawsuit came after a Department of Education mandate in 2015 forced Palatine High to allow boys like himself into bathrooms and locker rooms with girls. The school tried to strike a compromise, inviting the gender-confused males into girl-designated areas but setting aside a separate, private area for them to use. Maday was not happy with this compromise. He demanded access not just to the girls locker room, but to the exact same area where the girls change. His basic human rights are apparently violated in horrific fashion if he is not able to actually see girls get naked and himself get naked in front of them.
The school board found his deranged arguments convincing, and now every girl in the school must shut up and cooperate as biological males invade their private spaces. If you need any help in understanding why this situation is egregiously immoral and insane, a <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1197152442510647296?s=20">video</a> from the Daily Herald may help. A Herald reporter interviewed Maday before and after the school board vote. They also interviewed a female student, Julia Burca. The contrast between their two reactions is stark. In fact, even if you don&#8217;t need help understanding why this is crazy, I&#8217;d still recommend following the link and watching the <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1197152442510647296?s=20">rather striking footage</a>.
Maday, sporting a &#8220;Queen&#8221; shirt and long pink hair, celebrates the decision. He says he is &#8220;ecstatic,&#8221; calling the new policy a &#8220;great step forward.&#8221; Naturally, however, he still complains that it doesn&#8217;t go quite far enough. &#8220;It&#8217;s not everything we wanted,&#8221; he says, but it&#8217;s a &#8220;first step&#8221; towards &#8220;many more steps.&#8221;
The tenor changes dramatically with Julia&#8217;s reaction. Her voice shaking and tears in her eyes, she says that she is &#8220;uncomfortable that my privacy is being invaded.&#8221; She explains that she is a swimmer and therefore has to get changed &#8220;multiple times, naked, in front of the other students in the locker room.&#8221; Yet even in the face of this outrageous trampling of her basic privacy rights, she still attempts to be as generous as possible to the other side, acknowledging the school&#8217;s &#8220;obligation to all students&#8221; but arguing that she should also be accommodated.
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Now, I don&#8217;t think the school board or Maday or the trans activists pushing this deserve even the slight concession she offers them. But I want to highlight the contrast between the two sides. Maday has no evident concern whatsoever for the feelings and rights of the girls at his school. He makes no mention of them and expresses absolutely no sympathy for them. Julia, on the other hand, even though she is completely and totally in the right and would be justified in screaming profanities into the camera, still exhibits more dignity and class than the other side.
This is not a complicated issue. This is a black-and-white, right versus wrong, good versus bad, issue. We have two competing claims to weigh. On one side, the claims and concerns of a small handful of gender-confused males who would prefer to change with girls because it would make them feel more like girls, even though they are not girls. On the other side, the claims and concerns of the girls in the school, who just want a private place to get changed and use the toilet.
One side is demanding that the whole system be reworked for their sake, and that the privacy of every girl in the school be abolished in the process. The other side is not trying to impose anything on anyone, is not asking for any special accommodation of any kind, is not asking for anything unreasonable, is not even demanding that gender-confused boys get changed with other boys. They could use private stalls. They could work out any other arrangement they want. All this side asks is that their private areas — the areas where they are in the most vulnerable and exposed state — remain private. There is no contest here. The scales are tipped 100% in favor of the girls.
At the very least, if you support forcing scared and humiliated young girls to change in front of boys, please do not pretend to care about women&#8217;s rights, especially women&#8217;s privacy rights. And please do not ever sermonize about the dangers of &#8220;rape culture&#8221; or &#8220;patriarchy.&#8221; You are willing to put a girl&#8217;s safety at risk and expose her to the shame and embarrassment of changing in front of boys all for the sake of the LGBT agenda. You are an enemy of women, not a supporter. At least be honest about it.

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WALSH: Female Student Breaks Down In Tears As School Board Grants Boys Access To Girls Locker Room. This Is Simply Evil.

Gender

This week, Chick-fil-A, the immensely popular Christian-owned chicken sandwich giant, caved to the cultural left. For years, the left targeted Chick-fil-A, dating back to the 2012 revelation that Chairman and CEO Dan Cathy supports traditional marriage — and, horror of horrors, that charities given donations by Chick-fil-A support traditional marriage. This prompted paroxysms of outrage in the media, who quickly demanded that Chick-fil-A tow the Democratic Party line, despite the fact that then-President Barack Obama did not officially endorse same-sex marriage until May 2012.
The rage of the cultural left led to unsuccessful boycotts — Chick-fil-A&#8217;s business expanded from $1 billion in 2001 to $5 billion in 2013 to $10.5 billion today — but successful hijackings of local government. When the cultural left can&#8217;t achieve what it wants through public mobilization, it simply uses the power of government to blackmail those it dislikes.
So, despite the fact that Chick-fil-A had never discriminated against gay customers — it would sell a chicken sandwich to anyone — then-Boston Mayor Thomas Menino promised to ban the franchise from the city. Then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel quickly followed suit, pledging to support an alderman&#8217;s plan to block Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant at Chicago O&#8217;Hare Airport. San Antonio recently blocked Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant at its airport, and the airport in Buffalo, New York, followed suit. San Jose, California, pledged not to renew Chick-fil-A&#8217;s lease when it ran out.
Chick-fil-A has continued to receive blowback — and the blowback has widened, helped along by a hostile media. So Chick-fil-A decided to back down and announced publicly that it will no longer donate to traditional Christian charities such as The Salvation Army, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Paul Anderson Youth Home. Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos explained, &#8220;as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are.&#8221;
Well, now they&#8217;re clear. They&#8217;re chickens.
Our First Amendment culture is endangered when local governments are given the capacity to block businesses from operating, not on the basis of business discrimination but on the viewpoint of the company&#8217;s founders alone. That&#8217;s precisely what&#8217;s happening here. If giving to Christian charities now bars you from opening a restaurant at the airport, our culture is beyond the point of no return.
But there&#8217;s something even more troubling going on here. In a free country, of course we get to choose which businesses to patronize. But is it good for the culture for us to segregate our business based on examining the politics of those who own our companies? Do we really want a country where we shop based on political affiliation? Where every decision, every day, is rooted in partisanship?
America&#8217;s social fabric is already fraying. Politics has invaded everything from education to sports, from movies to fashion. Should politics now determine where we buy a chicken sandwich? A country that punishes restaurants because its founders don&#8217;t openly celebrate same-sex marriage is a country destined to bifurcate. And that&#8217;s pretty fowl.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-chick-fil-a-just-caved-to-the-rage-mob-theyre-about-to-learn-the-hard-way-that-surrendering-never-pays-off">WALSH: Chick-Fil-A Just Caved To The Rage Mob. They’re About To Learn The Hard Way That Surrendering Never Pays Off.</a>

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According to <a href="https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/QoXkxP/styckade-sin-exflickvan--flyttas-till-kvinnofangelse">Aftonbladet</a>, one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries, a biological male who was convicted of killing and butchering his ex-girlfriend has been approved to move to a woman&#8217;s jail facility after claiming to be transgender.
In 2013, Kristoffer Johansson, who now goes by Kim Marie, was convicted of killing and cutting up his ex-girlfriend, <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=sv&amp;u=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/gjorde-konskorrigering-i-fangelset-nu-flyttas-hon-till-kvinnoanstalt/&amp;prev=search">Expressen</a> reported last week. Johansson recently started a &#8220;gender correction&#8221; in prison, the outlet noted, citing Aftonbladet. He alerted authorities about alleged harassment following the &#8220;correction&#8221; and submitted a request to be transferred to an all-female jail. After initially receiving a rejection of the application, Johansson has now been approved to serve out the rest of his time in a woman-only facility. 
According to Expressen, Johansson&#8217;s murdered ex-girlfriend, Vatchareeya Bangsuan, 20, had her butchered body parts scattered in the forest. In the wake of her disappearance, a military-backed search for her body was launched and Johansson assisted in the search, additional <a href="https://www.womenarehuman.com/transgender-identified-man-who-killed-dismembered-his-ex-girlfriend-wins-transfer-to-womens-prison-kim-marie-ne-kristoffer-johansson/">reports</a> mentioned. 
But in the end, it was blood traces that led police to Johansson, who was 22 years old at the time, Expressen said. He was sentenced to 14 years in county court, but the sentence &#8220;was subsequently reduced in the High Court to ten years in prison for murder.&#8221;
In a letter sent to the Expressen, Johansson claims he knew he was transgender since kindergarten. 
“When I went to kindergarten, I was always forced by the kindergarten teachers to stand with the boys when we were going out on trips to the forest, which I thought was strange because I myself felt that I should stand with the girls,&#8221; Johansson said. &#8220;It took me several years before I realized why I was who I was, and felt as I felt.&#8221;
The convicted murderer made the request to move to an all-female facility, Hinseberg, in August, since Johansson was &#8220;tired of being sexually harassed by male inmates.&#8221;
“Based on an overall assessment of what has emerged in the case, it is judged not to have sufficient reasons for relocation to another institution,&#8221; the initial rejection to the request said. &#8220;The Västervik Norra facility is deemed to be the most suitable location where order and security can be maintained and where Kim Johansson&#8217;s need for appropriate enforcement content can be provided.&#8221;
However, reporting on Johansson from last week indicates that the winds have shifted. The convict&#8217;s new October application for prison transfer has been granted: &#8220;According to information to the Aftonbladet, the application was granted last week and Kim Marie Johansson will thus serve the rest of his sentence in the Hinsebergsanstalen where, among others, Johanna Möller previously served.&#8221;
As covered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/number-british-prisoners-claiming-they-are-hank-berrien">The Daily Wire</a> this summer, there has become a growing trend in male inmates claiming to be transgender:
<blockquote>As <a href="https://www.christian.org.uk/news/male-prisoners-self-identifying-as-trans-for-perks/">christian.org.uk</a> reports, “One in 50 male offenders in prisons say they are transgender, according to a survey by the Inspectorate of Prisons.” The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said there could be as many as 1,500 prisoners claiming they are transgender in England and Wales, at least ten times the previous estimate. He commented, “Sometimes we find the numbers of people identifying as transgender are higher in our survey than the prison will think.” Chair of the Prison Officers Association Mark Fairhurst speculated there “would always be some trying to abuse the system.” </blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/number-british-prisoners-claiming-they-are-hank-berrien">Number Of British Prisoners Claiming They Are Transgender Explodes</a>

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Transgender Convicted Killer To Be Transferred To Female Prison

Prison

On Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-chick-fil-a-to-stop-donating-to-christian-charities-branded-anti-lgbt">The Daily Wire</a> reported on beloved fast-food chain Chick-fil-A putting a stop to their donations to Christian-based charities deemed &#8220;anti-LGBT&#8221; by the Left:
<blockquote>In an interview with <a href="https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/retail/exclusive-amid-global-expansion-and-lgbt-pushback-chick-fil-a-changes-charitable-giving-structure-101818">Bisnow</a>, Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos announced that the famous fried chicken chain plans to make significant changes in which charities it donates to, in part because “as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are.” Amid continued boycotts of the highly popular and successful chain over its donations to supposed “anti-LGBT” groups and causes, Tassopoulos revealed that the company’s foundation will no longer donate to some high-profile Christian organizations.</blockquote>
As one might have predicted, the move was not enough to quell the backlash from activist groups on the Left the company was apparently attempting to appease. Powerful LGBT agenda lobby GLAAD quickly posted a statement condemning Chick-fil-A for allegedly still being anti-LGBT.
&#8220;If Chick-Fil-A is serious about their pledge to stop holding hands with divisive anti-LGBTQ activists, then further transparency is needed regarding their deep ties to organizations like Focus on the Family, which exist purely to harm LGBTQ people and families,&#8221; a statement from the organization reads.
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“If Chick-Fil-A is serious about their pledge to stop holding hands with divisive anti-LGBTQ activists, then further transparency is needed regarding their deep ties to organizations like Focus on the Family, which exist purely to harm LGBTQ people and families&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/AndersonDrew?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndersonDrew</a> <a href="https://t.co/0OXfScv1z6">https://t.co/0OXfScv1z6</a>
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&#8220;Chick-Fil-A investors, employees, and customers can greet today’s announcement with cautious optimism,&#8221; the statement continues, &#8220;but should remember that similar press statements were previously proven to be empty.&#8221;
&#8220;In addition to refraining from financially supporting anti-LGBTQ organizations, Chick-Fil-A still lacks policies to ensure safe workplaces for LGBTQ employees and should unequivocally speak out against the anti-LGBTQ reputation that their brand represents,&#8221; GLAAD concludes.
Speaking to Bisnow, Tassopoulos said the chicken chain would forgo donations to some Christian charities and give $9M to “organizations like Junior Achievement USA to support education, Covenant House International to fight homelessness and community food banks for its hunger initiative in each city where the chain operates,” the outlet reported. In addition, Chick-fil-A will donate $25,000 to a local food bank whenever they open a new location.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/salvation-army-releases-statement-on-chick-fil-a-cutting-ties-chick-fil-a-issues-new-statement">The Daily Wire</a> on Monday, in addition to falling short of satisfying groups like GLAAD on the Left, folks on the Right voiced their disappointment over Chick-fil-A &#8220;caving&#8221; to anti-Christian pressures.
Following the backlash, the organization released a statement clarifying their charity-shift, which emphasized that they have no plans to open on Sundays:
<blockquote>Beginning in 2020 the Chick-fil-A Foundation will introduce a more focused giving approach, donating to a smaller number of organizations working exclusively in the areas of hunger, homelessness and education. We have also proactively disclosed our 2018 tax filing and a preview of 2019 gifts to date on chick-fil-afoundation.org. The intent of charitable giving from the Chick-fil-A Foundation is to nourish the potential in every child.
Our goal is to donate to the most effective organizations in the areas of education, homelessness and hunger. No organization will be excluded from future consideration – faith-based or non-faith based. I also wanted to add that Chick-fil-A will not be opening on Sundays.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/salvation-army-releases-statement-on-chick-fil-a-cutting-ties-chick-fil-a-issues-new-statement">Salvation Army Releases Statement On Chick-fil-A Cutting Ties. Chick-fil-A Issues New Statement.</a>

GLAAD’s Response To Chick-Fil-A Cave Is Exactly What You’d Expect

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BACKLASH: Chick-Fil-A Faces Heat For Caving To Leftists, Cutting Ties With Christian Orgs

Political Correctness

As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-chick-fil-a-to-stop-donating-to-christian-charities-branded-anti-lgbt">reports</a> today, Chick-fil-A, one of the last remaining large companies to stand in defiance of the P.C. police and the LGBT rage mob, has suddenly and inexplicably caved. Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos announced in an <a href="https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/retail/exclusive-amid-global-expansion-and-lgbt-pushback-chick-fil-a-changes-charitable-giving-structure-101818">interview</a> that the company will no longer donate to certain Christian charities that the aforementioned rage mob has deemed &#8220;anti-LGBT.&#8221; Tassopoulos says that as the company goes into &#8220;new markets,&#8221; he wants &#8220;to be clear about who we are.&#8221; And &#8220;who [they] are&#8221; appears to confirm the old maxim about becoming what you eat — or, in this case, what you serve.
As Bisnow <a href="https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/retail/exclusive-amid-global-expansion-and-lgbt-pushback-chick-fil-a-changes-charitable-giving-structure-101818">explains</a>:
<blockquote>“Beginning next year, Chick-fil-A will move away from its current philanthropic structure, Bisnow has learned. After donating to more than 300 charitable organizations this year, the Atlanta-based fast-food chain will instead focus on three initiatives with one accompanying charity each: education, homelessness and hunger.&#8221;</blockquote>
And which charities will lose out, now that Chick-fil-A has shifted focus to education, homelessness, and hunger? The company confirms that it will be breaking ties with Salvation Army, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the Paul Anderson Youth Home. In other words, it will stop donating to charities that help with education, homelessness, and hunger, in order to focus more on education, homelessness, and hunger.
Of course, the real sin of these unfortunate organizations is not that they fail to help exactly the people Chick-fil-A says it wants to help, but that they are all Christian. And, as LGBT protestors have been screaming ever since Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy defended biblical marriage in an interview seven years ago, the fact that they are Christian automatically makes them anti-LGBT. Just last week, pop singer Ellie Goulding <a href="https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/ellie-goulding-will-perform-halftime-show-after-debate-over-salvation-armys-lgbt-stance/">threatened</a> to pull out of her halftime performance during the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; Thanksgiving game because of the NFL&#8217;s association with the Salvation Army. Goulding relented on her threat (though every football fan would prefer if she&#8217;d stuck to her guns), only for Chick-fil-A to jump on the dog pile a few days later.
The change of heart is somewhat confounding. Yes, they&#8217;ve been boycotted on and off for the past seven years. Yes, LGBT activists were prone to lashing out at the restaurant&#8217;s &#8220;hate chicken.&#8221; But none of this appeared to be negatively affecting the company&#8217;s bottom line. Indeed, the opposite was the case. The initial boycott in 2012 gave rise to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/us/chick-fil-a-appreciation/index.html">Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day</a>, where fans of the restaurant waited in lines wrapped around the block to show their support in the form of eating their delicious chicken. The enthusiasm never died. Chick-fil-A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-backfire-new-rankings-show-chick-fil-amanda-prestigiacomo">rose in popularity</a> during the intervening years, tripling its sales and becoming one of the top three restaurant chains in the country.
This capitulation will not stop the bleeding, because there was no bleeding. Now that might change. This move is much more likely to alienate Chick-fil-A&#8217;s supporters than to appease its critics. Surrendering to political correctness almost never pays off, and Chick-fil-A isn&#8217;t likely to be an exception. Personally, I don&#8217;t care what charities a chicken restaurant does or does not support. That is their affair and their decision to make. I am not going to boycott. Their chicken sandwiches are still delicious, which is my primary concern when I&#8217;m in the drive-thru. But it is disappointing and somewhat bewildering to see them cave like this. Their refusal, until now, was important for reasons that have nothing to do with gay marriage or homosexuality. It was good to have at least one major company with the stones to defy the Rage Mob. Regardless of the reason for the defiance, or the issue at the center of the controversy, the defiance itself was the point. Their surrender, on the other hand, has no point.
This is what Chick-fil-A will now learn the hard way, as have so many before them: You cannot appease the mob. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you give them what they want. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you fall to your feet, confess your sins, and beg forgiveness. All your self-abdication will do is empower and encourage your critics. They will not forgive you (not that Chick-fil-A needed forgiveness). This is an age of scalp-claiming, not mercy. Now they will happily take yours, celebrate the victory, and move on to the next target. You aren&#8217;t their friend now, or their ally. You&#8217;re just a trophy on their shelf. Congratulations, Chick-fil-A.
Oh well. Popeyes is better anyway.

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