Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen once said, &#8220;To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood.&#8221;  Using that metric, if America has even a handful of women even remotely close to the caliber of Minnesota mother Kofi Montzka, then we&#8217;re doing just all right.
Earlier this week, Monztka took a sledgehammer to Critical Race Theory-inspired education a la &#8220;Ethnic Studies&#8221; courses that Democrats in The Gopher State want to mandate <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2022/02/23/minnesota-house-panel-approves-adding-ethnic-studies-climate-change-to-k-12-curricula/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">starting in kindergarten</a>.
Montzka is a volunteer with <a href="https://takechargemn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Take Charge Minnesota</a>, an &#8220;organization committed to supporting the notion that the idea of America works for everyone regardless of race and station in life.&#8221; She is also an excellent communicator of why the Democrats&#8217; so-called anti-racism crusade is bad for all students — regardless of their skin color — and the country as a whole.
&#8220;This bill requires that schools teach ethnic studies starting in kindergarten, and I am against this,&#8221; she said on Tuesday. &#8220;You might ask, &#8216;Why in the world would a black person speak against ethnic studies?’ Because not everything that sounds good is good.&#8221;
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Black mother denounces ethnic studies curriculum in Minnesota: &quot;I see why you white proponents of this bill might support it. It&#39;s not your kids being told they can&#39;t succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/Ktkc7RFMes">pic.twitter.com/Ktkc7RFMes</a>
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Monztka then drilled down exactly how the bill is racially discriminatory while wrongfully indoctrinating a sense of inferiority amongst minorities while telling them they are &#8220;stuck in a caste system.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of everyone denying the enormous progress we&#8217;ve made in this country, acting like it&#8217;s 1930,&#8221; she continued.
Monztka also compared the class to Jim Crow.
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&#8220;This curriculum will not help kids of color succeed. All it does is remove any reason to try,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;This is not some theoretical crap,&#8221; she continued before giving a real-world example where her children&#8217;s high school band teacher “took 20 minutes at the beginning of class to talk about anti-racism. He told the kids to look around and then he said the black boys in the school would likely not live to retirement because of racism and the police.&#8221;
Montzka wasn&#8217;t done. She directly called out the white leftist adults pushing this &#8220;hopelessness&#8221; onto children.
&#8220;I can see why you white proponents of this bill might support it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not your kids being told that they can&#8217;t succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process, but you legislators of color — how can you?&#8221;
Montzka argued that they all succeeded &#8220;despite the invisible Boogeyman of systematic racism&#8221; and were voted in by &#8220;a majority of white people&#8221; to hold &#8220;some of the most powerful positions in this state.&#8221;
The woman was praised endlessly on social media for her comments.
In response, DailyWire+ host Dr. Jordan B. Peterson tweeted, &#8220;The reason the curriculum &#8216;removes any reason to try&#8217; is because the point of the curriculum is to deny the utility of trying.”
&#8220;This is precisely how unconscientious people rationalize their parasitism,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And cloak that rationalization in the guise of moral virtue.&#8221;
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Black mother denounces ethnic studies curriculum in Minnesota: &quot;I see why you white proponents of this bill might support it. It&#39;s not your kids being told they can&#39;t succeed and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/Ktkc7RFMes">pic.twitter.com/Ktkc7RFMes</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1639733617453678592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s rare that something is must-watch, but Montzka&#8217;s statements fit that description.
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TOPSHOT – A community leader speaks as protesters rally outside the Brooklyn Center police station to protest the death of Daunte Wright who was shot and killed by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 13, 2021. – Tensions have soared over the death on April 11 of African American Daunte Wright near the Midwestern US city, a community already on edge over the ongoing trial of a policeman accused of killing another Black man, George Floyd.

‘Invisible Boogeyman Of Systematic Racism’: Black Mom Shreds Minnesota ‘Ethnic Studies’ Bill, Slams Woke Nonsense

'Invisible Boogeyman of systematic racism': Black Mom Shreds Minnesota 'Ethnic Studies' Bill, Slams Woke Nonsense

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota</a> House of Representatives passed a bill late this week that would make the state a “refuge” for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">child sex changes</a> in response to several red states banning such procedures in recent months. 
The legislation, <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF146&amp;type=bill&amp;version=1&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House File 146</a>, passed the state House after hours of debate by a vote of 68-62 in the Democrat-controlled body. The bill is expected to pass in the state Senate, also controlled by Democrats, and be signed into law by Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a> (D-MN).
“The bill makes Minnesota a sanctuary state for so-called gender-affirming care while simultaneously infringing on the fundamental right of parenting. It allows children, regardless of age, to seek and receive radical medical treatments that can cause sterilization, bone loss, loss of sexual function, and interference with brain development,” said State Rep. Peggy Scott (R-Andover). 
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Rep. Peggy Scott explains the issues with Minnesota&#39;s &quot;trans refuge&quot; bill. 
&quot;This means if a parent believes this treatment is not best for their child, a court can have an emergency hearing to remove the child.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uexX9fFsIN">pic.twitter.com/uexX9fFsIN</a>
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The bill was introduced by State Rep. Leigh Finke, a man who identifies as a woman. Finke was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/transgender-lawmaker-named-on-women-of-the-year-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently named</a> one of the “Women of the Year” by USA Today. Finke is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. 
If it becomes law, the legislation would ensure that parents who wanted to give their children sex change procedures, including cross-sex hormones and surgeries like double mastectomies, would be able to, even if their home state has banned such practices. 
&#8220;In the staggering rise of anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQIA2S+ legislation by extremist Republicans, Minnesota is a beacon of hope for trans and gender-expansive children and their families,&#8221; Finke <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-house-passes-trans-refuge-legislation-after-late-night-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The passing of the Trans Refuge bill will send a strong message to the trans community that they are loved, supported, and protected here in our state.&#8221;
In the bill, the procedures protected include the suppression of secondary sex characteristics and “interventions to align the patient&#8217;s appearance or physical body with the patient&#8217;s gender identity.”
Earlier this month, Walz issued an executive order declaring that the state would “protect” those seeking “gender-affirming care.”
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“All state agencies must, to the fullest extent of their lawful authority, pursue opportunities and coordinate with each other to protect people or entities providing, assisting, seeking, or obtaining gender affirming health care services in Minnesota,” the executive order <a href="https://mn.gov/governor/assets/EO%2023-03%20Signed%20and%20filed_tcm1055-568332.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
The legislation comes as states like Tennessee and Mississippi have banned sex change procedures on minors, citing the long-term impacts of such treatments.

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed the Democrat lieutenant governor of Minnesota this week over remarks that she made at an event where Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order forcing state agencies to protect “gender-affirming” health care, including surgery.
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan addressed the crowd as she wore a shirt that read “Protect Trans Kids” with a picture of a dagger on it.
“Let’s be clear: this is life-affirming and life-saving health care,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protect-my-kids-from-ghouls-minnesota-lt-gov-slammed-after-telling-parents-to-support-gender-affirming-care">declared</a>. “When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent.”
Flanagan faced intense backlash online for her extremist remarks, including from Musk.
&#8220;Not when they’re fed propaganda by adults,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;Moreover, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes. Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.&#8221;
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Not when they’re fed propaganda by adults.
Moreover, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes.
Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.
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The trans issue is something that Musk views as important since one of his children <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-trans-son-files-to-change-name-disses-dad">identified</a> as transgender and publicly attacked him.
In a subsequent interview with the Financial Times last fall, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-blames-marxists-for-turning-his-transgender-child-against-him">blamed</a> the far-Left for turning his biological son against him, the newspaper said.
“It’s full-on communism &#8230; and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” says Musk. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children]. Can’t win them all.”
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Flanagan&#8217;s remarks this week come as Walz called the efforts by states around the nation to restrict “gender-affirming” care “persecution,” saying, “We’ll make sure that Minnesota’s place as a welcoming, loving, neighborly state where you are welcome and will be free of persecution or anything else that we’re trying to see in some other states.”
He singled out Minnesota’s next-door neighbor, South Dakota, where Gov. Kristi Noem signed a bill banning the prescription of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex-change surgeries for minors in February.
“I don’t know what a group of people in Pierre who decide to make life miserable and more dangerous for people are thinking, but it’s not going to happen in Minnesota,” Walz boasted.
Minnesota’s state house will consider a bill from a transgender representative that would make Minnesota a “trans refuge state” and would bar the state from obeying court orders or child protection laws from other states that would block them from “gender-affirming” health care in Minnesota.
In another state adjoining Minnesota, the Iowa senate passed a bill barring doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or sex-change surgeries to children under the age of 18.
Arkansas was the first state to ban sex-change procedures for minors in 2021; Utah followed in January 2021. Florida’s Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, with the encouragement of Gov. Ron DeSantis, banned sex-change procedures for children under 18; GOP Governors Tate Reeves of Mississippi and Bill Lee of Tennessee have signed bills banning sex-change procedures for minors.
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

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It is unclear who, exactly, goes to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic</a> officials for parenting advice, considering their first inclination when hearing you are pregnant tends to be recommending abortion.
But for some reason, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota recently offered advice on what to do when your child is out of the womb.
On Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protect-my-kids-from-ghouls-minnesota-lt-gov-slammed-after-telling-parents-to-support-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan recently spouted radical gender ideology to a crowd, stating, &#8220;When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent.&#8221;
Her comments came in defense of an executive order signed by Democratic Governor Tim Walz that legally protected things such as puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and more for minors.
To illustrate how dumb that is, let&#8217;s use a comparison rather than address radical gender ideology directly.
If your toddler came to you saying he or she is are a bird, you might play along with it and encourage them to use their imagination. If that 2-year-old were about to jump from the roof because he thought he could fly, you wouldn&#8217;t play along with it anymore. If you actually believed your child was a bird, then your son would get seriously hurt or worse — not unlike the sex-change surgeries Flanagan touts.
Of course, this is also horrendous advice for other aspects of life not related to gender dysmorphia.
If your son came to you saying, “Mom, I’m a failure,&#8221; you wouldn’t say, “That’s right, son!”
&#8220;Good parents&#8221; would not affirm their son&#8217;s statement that he is a failure. They would likely encourage that child to try, try, and try again until he or she succeeds. Mistakes don&#8217;t define people, their tenacity to overcome their failures does.
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Or, if a daughter said, &#8220;I&#8217;m never going to get an A on this test,&#8221; a good parent wouldn&#8217;t let their daughter wallow in self-pity. A mom or dad would likely tell that daughter, &#8220;Not with that attitude you won&#8217;t,&#8221; and help their child study.
So, if your son comes to you saying he is a girl because he likes to play with dolls, or your daughter says she is a boy because she likes to play sports, how is it good parenting to &#8220;believe&#8221; them?
Isn&#8217;t it more prudent to say, &#8220;Well, son, some boys like to play with dolls, and that&#8217;s okay; It doesn&#8217;t make you a girl. And some girls like to play sports, but that doesn&#8217;t make you a boy.&#8221;
Yet leftists like Flanagan encourage parents to abdicate their duty of guiding their children through life.
As Daily Wire host Matt Walsh put it, &#8220;No it is not our job as grownups to simply believe whatever our children say. In fact, our job very often is to do exactly the opposite.&#8221;
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No it is not our job as grownups to simply believe whatever our children say. In fact our job very often is to do exactly the opposite. <a href="https://t.co/7OsJGjY4ih">https://t.co/7OsJGjY4ih</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1636207242805497856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 21: Lt. Governor of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan speaks during IllumiNative Presents Inaugural Indigenous House At Sundance Film Festival 2023 – Day One on January 21, 2023 in Park City, Utah.

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The lieutenant governor of Minnesota, speaking at an event where Democrat Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order forcing state agencies to protect “gender-affirming” health care, including surgery, admonished parents not to dissuade their children from such health care, eliciting mockery from conservatives.
Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan addressed the crowd as she wore a shirt that read “Protect Trans Kids” with a picture of a dagger on it.
“Let’s be clear: this is life-affirming and life-saving health care,” she declared. &#8220;When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That&#8217;s what it means to be a good parent.&#8221;
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Flanagan’s insistence that parents abandon their roles at guiding their young children in such delicate matters angered conservatives.
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When your 6 year old says they are Frankenstein, you must super glue bolts to their neck and hook up the jump cables. <a href="https://t.co/AZgSTtpfKp">https://t.co/AZgSTtpfKp</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1636201871626113024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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My job as a parent is to protect my kids from ghouls who would let them mutilate themselves before they are old enough to make life-changing decisions for themselves
If 9 year olds can decide to chop off their parts, why not allow them to drink, drive 18 wheelers, or pole dance?
&mdash; Philip Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1636354328335200259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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No. Our job as grown-ups is to protect our children from harm… which often comes from their lack of understanding and experience in the world. Good parents will keep their children safe from people like this.
&mdash; Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) <a href="https://twitter.com/douglaskarr/status/1636328202426540033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“People who struggle with their gender identity deserve compassionate care that will help them become comfortable in their bodies, not mutilate them,” John Helmberger, CEO of the Minnesota Family Council, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-transgender-health-tim-walz-2a702340ec5facdb2bb6496e711facf1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reacted</a> to the executive order.
Walz called the efforts by states around the nation to restrict “gender-affirming” care “persecution,” ventilating, “We’ll make sure that Minnesota’s place as a welcoming, loving, neighborly state where you are welcome and will be free of persecution or anything else that we’re trying to see in some other states.”
He singled out Minnesota’s next-door neighbor, South Dakota, where Gov. Kristi Noem <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sd-state-wire-kristi-noem-health-south-dakota-gender-2b6ba634acc1f17f6ab9ade36fc1ae96">signed a bill</a> banning the prescription of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex-change surgeries for minors in February.
“I don’t know what a group of people in Pierre who decide to make life miserable and more dangerous for people are thinking, but it’s not going to happen in Minnesota,” Walz boasted.
Minnesota’s state house will consider a bill from a transgender representative that would make Minnesota a “trans refuge state” and would bar the state from obeying court orders or child protection laws from other states that would block them from “gender-affirming” health care in Minnesota.
In another state adjoining Minnesota, the Iowa senate passed a bill barring doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or sex-change surgeries to children under the age of 18.
Arkansas was the first state to ban sex-change procedures in 2021; Utah followed in January 2021. Florida’s Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, with the encouragement of Governor Ron DeSantis, banned sex-change procedures for children under 18; GOP Governors Tate Reeves of Mississippi and Bill Lee of Tennessee have signed bills banning sex-change procedures for minors.

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‘Protect My Kids From Ghouls’: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Slammed After Telling Parents To Support ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care

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Last week, a state court in Minnesota ruled that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/usa-powerlifting-must-allow-men-to-compete-in-womens-division-after-losing-transgender-discrimination-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Powerlifting</a> must allow Jaycee Cooper, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, to compete in the female division in USAPL competitions. Readers of this site can probably guess my general opinions on this ruling – transgenderism and trans-identifying athletes are just one of the issues that I and my talented colleagues at The Daily Wire report on every day. But this case is deeply personal to me because I’m a competitive powerlifter myself. 
The story behind Jaycee Cooper’s case is familiar. According to <a href="https://www.openpowerlifting.org/m/uspa/1513/by-division" target="_blank" rel="noopener">openpowerlifting.com</a>, Cooper competed as a female in the 2019 USPA National Championships. USPA is a different federation with different <a href="https://uspa.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/USPA_Rulebook.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a>, which allow trans-identifying lifters. Cooper competed in the 198+ weight class, essentially the women’s super heavyweight, weighing 289 pounds; he placed 4th, with a squat/bench/deadlift total of 936.9 pounds. If Cooper had competed as a man, he would have been in the men’s 308 weight class, and would have placed 6th; but he would have lifted 600 pounds less than the 5th place lifter. He likely wouldn’t have even qualified: to qualify for USPA National competition, you need a <a href="https://mail.uspa.net/classification-standards.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Class II</a> total; a Class II total for the men’s 308 is 1322.8, 400 pounds above Cooper’s recorded best. It’s the same old song and dance: an athlete who can’t hack it with biological men identifies as a trans woman, then dominates the competition.
The legal outcome was to be expected too. Cooper lives in Minnesota, which has a comprehensive “Human Rights” law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation. The judge, <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/About-The-Courts/Overview/JudicialDirectory/Bio.aspx?jid=1483" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrick C. Diamond</a>, is liberal. Predictably, he <a href="https://www.genderjustice.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/62-cv-21-211.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined</a> that “[p]erformance advantage is not a reason recognized under the [Minnesota Human Rights Act] to discriminate because of sexual orientation or sex.” 
But he went further. While he stated that the court would rule on it later, he seemed inclined to throw out evidence from USAPL that trans-identifying competitors have a performance advantage, because it might mean excluding them. “[T]he USAPL’s evidence of competitive advantage does not take into account any competitive disadvantage a transgender athlete might face from, for example, increased risk of depression and suicide, lack of access to coaching and practice facilities, or other performance suppression common to transgender persons,” Diamond opined. 
“The USAPL also did not consider any unique advantages their sport might convey to transgender athletes including increased fitness, combating the side effects of medication and treatment, and increasing feelings of acceptance and well-being.” The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-women-retain-athletic-edge-after-year-hormone-therapy-study-n1252764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">competitive advantages</a> that male-to-female trans-identifying athletes have is indisputable fact, but biology gets thrown out the window to mitigate depression and increase “feelings of acceptance and well-being,” two things which have absolutely no bearing on physical athletic performance. In the eyes of the Minnesota courts, everything must be subservient to trans acceptance.
What’s worse than the circumstances of this case are the consequences. Allow me to illustrate my point with an anecdote. I was in a competition my senior year of high school. The guy I was competing against had already smoked me in the bench press, and I needed to pull a 575 deadlift to win overall – 50 pounds more than my personal best. I stepped onto the platform for my final attempt. I heaved with all my might. I pulled the bar to my knees, and dropped it. No lift. I put everything I had into that final attempt, but I came up short. It was absolutely heartbreaking, and what made it worse was the fact that my opponent made his final lift look easy. But still, I lost fair and square.
That pain and heartbreak that I felt that day will be felt by countless other female lifters if this ruling is allowed to stand. Forced to compete against men, a woman would have to push herself far and above her known limits to win or be competitive, putting her at greater risk of injury or failure – only for a biological male to step up to the platform and beat her without a struggle. I lost fair and square. But these women will lose effectively by default. A 1,000-pound S/B/D total is an elite feat among heavyweight female lifters; an average middleweight male lifter would make it look easy. It takes years of intense training for women to total 1,000 pounds; I joined the 1,000-pound club as a sophomore in high school, two years after I started lifting. 
If biological men are allowed to compete with women, they will break records and capture championships in the women’s division, while women will be disincentivized from competing at a high level. It’s already happened in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marked-by-simmering-resentment-over-biologically-male-trans-swimmer-ncaa-womens-swimming-championships-conclude" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swimming</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-dont-want-women-to-feel-the-way-that-i-did-female-track-athlete-forced-to-compete-against-biological-male-speaks-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">track and field</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufc-fighter-sean-omalley-on-transgender-mma-fighters-debut-i-dont-think-thats-okay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MMA</a>, among other sports. Powerlifting is no exception, but it would also lose something unique. 
Powerlifting is one of the least hostile sports. The sense of admiration and respect is infectious. You root for the guy who’s beating you; you scream “UP! UP!” at the top of your lungs for him, even if he’s going to beat you for first place, because he’s also pushing himself to his absolute maximum. But no one wants to root for someone who’s going to win by default. There’s no sense of accomplishment for someone putting in the bare minimum. Allowing subpar biological men like Jaycee Cooper to push out elite women wouldn’t just destroy the integrity of women’s powerlifting, it would suck the soul out of it.
The Minnesota court’s ruling is an injustice. If upheld, it could very well cripple women’s powerlifting, but this doesn’t seem to matter, because powerlifting, like all things, must be subservient to the all-consuming demands of radical gender theory. USAPL is of course considering an appeal, and they should take whatever steps are necessary to protect the integrity of their federation and sport. And conservatives should take a stand alongside USAPL. 
Women’s sports belong to women. We must be assertive and uncompromising in claiming and maintaining spaces like these. We must be bold in halting transgenderism when it encroaches on reality, and pushing back. This case is an opportunity for conservatives to be strong. For the sake of women in my sport and all others, we should seize it.

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Forcing Acceptance Of Trans-Identifying Powerlifters Could Destroy The Integrity And Soul Of My Sport

Court Forcing USAPL To Accept Trans-Identifying Powerlifters Is An Attack On The Soul Of My Sport

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sports">USA Powerlifting</a> is being forced to include biological <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender-athletes">men who identify as women</a> in the women’s divisions of their competitions after losing an anti-discrimination lawsuit last week.
A Minnesota state court ruled the organization must revise its policy within two weeks and allow trans-identifying men to compete in the women’s categories, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/usa-powerlifting-must-allow-transgenders-compete-womens-categories-losing-discrimination-case">Fox News</a>. They are being called to &#8220;cease and desist from all unfair discriminatory practices,” which in this case means limiting inclusion based on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">gender identity</a>.
&#8220;The harm is in making a person pretend to be something different, the implicit message being that who they are is less than,&#8221; the ruling says in part. &#8220;That is the very essence of separation and segregation, and it is what the [Minnesota Human Rights Act] prohibits.&#8221;
The original complaint was filed in 2019 by JayCee Cooper, a trans-identifying man who accused the organization of violating the state&#8217;s Human Rights Act by barring men from female competitions. Cooper filed a lawsuit against USA Powerlifting in state court in 2021, the publication noted.
&#8220;I was fed up with the way that I was being treated; I was fed up with the way that my community was being treated, and enough was enough,&#8221; Cooper told KARE-TV.
The athlete responded to the verdict, saying, &#8220;I feel mostly relief. I think we needed a win here, and it feels good to get that.&#8221;
USA Powerlifting may appeal this decision. &#8220;Our position has been aimed at balancing the needs of cis- and transgender women whose capacities differ significantly in purely strength sports,&#8221; the organization’s president, Larry Maile, said in a statement.
“We have received a summary judgment decision from the Court finding us liable for discrimination. We respectfully disagree with the Court’s conclusions. We are considering all of our options, including appeal,” Maile continued.
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This transgender sports issue has been a hot topic for years. One of the most headline-making cases involved University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a trans-identifying man who smashed records while competing in the women’s division. 
Swimming and powerlifting are not the only sports to experience controversy. How and when to include trans-identifying athletes has been discussed in relation to surfing, cycling, basketball, running, track and field, ice skating, and a whole host of other sports.
While most organizations seem reluctant to create new leagues for trans-identifying individuals, it is happening in the world of boxing. World Boxing Council officials said in December that the international professional prizefighting organization would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-boxing-category-to-be-introduced-in-2023">create a new category</a> for transgender fighters in 2023.

USA Powerlifting Must Allow Men To Compete In Women’s Division After Losing Transgender Discrimination Case

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The mother who brutally murdered her 6-year-old son with a series of shotgun blasts while he was trapped in her car cursed at the court after she was sentenced to life in prison.
Julissa Thaler, 29, who was convicted of murdering her son Eli Hart in May 2022, was sentenced to life without parole by Minneapolis Judge Jay Quam. Hart&#8217;s remains were horribly mutilated after the shooting, with police calling it one of the worst things they had ever seen.
“It&#8217;s worse, though, when you don&#8217;t lose your child to something like cancer or an accident. It&#8217;s when someone takes that child from the world. What I can&#8217;t imagine — nobody can imagine — is when the person that takes a child from the world is the one that brought that child in,” Quam said
“I’m innocent, f*** you all, you’re garbage,” said Thaler when she was given an opportunity to respond to her sentence. She also gave the court the middle finger.
Thaler’s sister, Nikita Kronberg, who served as Hart’s foster mother starting in January 2021 before Thaler was granted full custody in May 2022, called Thaler a “monster” in a victim impact statement.
Thaler purchased the shotgun soon after Eli&#8217;s father, Tory, filed papers asking the court for full custody. She <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/julissa-thaler-convicted-killing-6-year-old-son-eli-hart-minnesota/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a store clerk for ammunition that would “blow the biggest hole” before the murder, and also was found to have conducted an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11761453/Im-innocent-f-k-Killer-moms-warped-words-shes-jailed-brutal-murder-son-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online search</a> with questions such as &#8220;how much blood can a 6-year-old lose?” as well as &#8220;payment for life insurance if child dies,” “how to commit crime and blame child,” and “what length am I allowed to saw off a shotgun barrel?”&#8217;
“During that time, Eli and Tory were able to start a relationship, and their bond was powerful from the start,” Kronberg wrote of her time as Eli’s foster on a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/nkgn4c-funeral-and-headstone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe page</a> dedicated to paying for the funeral costs. “Eli fell in love with his father and loved spending time with him. Tory was excited to make up for all the lost years and was thrilled to start teaching his son how to fish and ride a bike with no training wheels.”
“At the end of December 2021, Eli returned to his mother&#8217;s house for a home trial,” Kronberg continued. “Due to many red flags, Eli&#8217;s mother was showing, Tory tried extremely hard to get custody of Eli. Unfortunately, more false Orders of Protection were filed, which postponed custody hearings. Numerous parties made many statements to CPS, fearing that mom would harm Eli if full custody were returned. Sadly full custody was returned on May 10, 2022.”
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Eli Hart was 6. His mother is on trial for his murder. Eli’s father told the jury in Hennepin County “..he was everything to me..he completed my life.” Eli’s dad add that he liked bubbles, playing with toy cars, and fishing. <a href="https://twitter.com/KSTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kstp</a> <a href="https://t.co/GrSekOUSZ0">pic.twitter.com/GrSekOUSZ0</a>
&mdash; Eric Chaloux (@EricChalouxKSTP) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricChalouxKSTP/status/1621544837244764160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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An exhausting day of testimony is over in the Julissa Thaler trial. This image may stick with me forever. Little 6-year-old Eli Hart&#39;s backpack was thrown in the trash, his homework still inside. His dad testified that Eli loved going to school. Loved being social. Senseless. <a href="https://t.co/O0DQs4JOxh">pic.twitter.com/O0DQs4JOxh</a>
&mdash; Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouRaguse/status/1621643047422332929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The trial was so disturbing that jurors were offered crisis counseling. Prosecutor Dan Allard <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/prosecutors-to-self-edit-in-julissa-thaler-trial-for-murder-of-6-year-old-eli-hart/89-16e58f00-8d69-477b-a776-1a2a48cdbb44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told jurors</a> they would not see the graphic photos of Eli, who was strapped into his seat in the car when he was repeatedly shot. Allard told the judge, “We are self-editing because I don&#8217;t want to see them again. They are horrid. The jury doesn&#8217;t want to see them. They are as bad as I&#8217;ve seen in any case.”
Tory Hart’s fiancée, Josie Josephson, told <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/eli-hart-mother-arrested-in-case-of-boys-body-found-in-trunk-mound-orono" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 9</a>, “Not only did we express concerns to multiple people, multiple times … every time the response was, ‘This is something for family courts.’ [CPS] said laws do not allow us to address this, unless [they] see physical abuse, [they] have no grounds to remove him from her home.”
Eli Hart’s father Tory Hart <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/eli-hart-lawsuit-father-dakota-county-murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a wrongful death lawsuit against Dakota County in August 2022.
“How could someone do such an evil thing to an amazing, loving kid?” Kronberg stated. “No one will ever know why she did what she did to Eli. We can only assume that it was to keep Tory and Eli away from each other. But this only separated them temporarily. They will be together once again in heaven one day. But we all know she will never be with Eli ever again. &#8230; She is going to hell where she belongs.”

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‘I’m Innocent, F*** You All, You’re Garbage’: Mother Who Murdered Son With 9 Shotgun Blasts Claims Innocence

'I’m Innocent, F*** You All, You’re Garbage': Mother Who Murdered Son With 9 Shotgun Blasts Claims Innocence 

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A Minnesota mother whose 6-year-old son was returned to her after a year in foster care despite protestations from the boy’s father was convicted of murdering the boy with a shotgun.
Julissa Thaler, 29, who reportedly had a history of mental illness, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/julissa-thaler-convicted-killing-6-year-old-son-eli-hart-minnesota/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a store clerk for ammunition that would “blow the biggest hole” before murdering her son Eli Hart in May 2022, shooting nine shots into him before putting his body in the trunk of her vehicle. According to authorities, Thaler bought the shotgun soon after Eli&#8217;s father Tory filed papers asking the court for full custody. Eli had been placed in foster care in January 2021 with his foster mother Nikita Kronberg.
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Eli Hart was 6. His mother is on trial for his murder. Eli’s father told the jury in Hennepin County “..he was everything to me..he completed my life.” Eli’s dad add that he liked bubbles, playing with toy cars, and fishing. <a href="https://twitter.com/KSTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kstp</a> <a href="https://t.co/GrSekOUSZ0">pic.twitter.com/GrSekOUSZ0</a>
&mdash; Eric Chaloux (@EricChalouxKSTP) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricChalouxKSTP/status/1621544837244764160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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An exhausting day of testimony is over in the Julissa Thaler trial. This image may stick with me forever. Little 6-year-old Eli Hart&#39;s backpack was thrown in the trash, his homework still inside. His dad testified that Eli loved going to school. Loved being social. Senseless. <a href="https://t.co/O0DQs4JOxh">pic.twitter.com/O0DQs4JOxh</a>
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“During that time, Eli and Tory were able to start a relationship, and their bond was powerful from the start,” Kronberg wrote on a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/nkgn4c-funeral-and-headstone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe page</a> dedicated to paying for the funeral costs. “Eli fell in love with his father and loved spending time with him. Tory was excited to make up for all the lost years and was thrilled to start teaching his son how to fish and ride a bike with no training wheels.”
“At the end of December 2021, Eli returned to his mother&#8217;s house for a home trial,” Kronberg continued. “Due to many red flags, Eli&#8217;s mother was showing, Tory tried extremely hard to get custody of Eli. Unfortunately, more false Orders of Protection were filed, which postponed custody hearings. Numerous parties made many statements to CPS, fearing that mom would harm Eli if full custody were returned. Sadly full custody was returned on May 10, 2022.”
“Eli&#8217;s brutal murder is one of the most horrific cases I have encountered in 30 years working in the criminal legal system,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty stated. “Nothing will ever fill the emptiness Eli&#8217;s father and other loved ones now live with every day, but I&#8217;m hopeful this verdict will make it just a bit easier to remember Eli as the toothless, happy, smiling little boy we have seen in photos.”
The trial was so disturbing that jurors were offered crisis counseling. Prosecutor Dan Allard <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/prosecutors-to-self-edit-in-julissa-thaler-trial-for-murder-of-6-year-old-eli-hart/89-16e58f00-8d69-477b-a776-1a2a48cdbb44" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told jurors</a> they would not see the graphic photos of Eli, who was strapped into his seat in the car when he was repeatedly shot. Allard told the judge, “We are self-editing because I don&#8217;t want to see them again. They are horrid. The jury doesn&#8217;t want to see them. They are as bad as I&#8217;ve seen in any case.”
Thaler&#8217;s former boyfriend, Robert Pikkarainen, said that the night before the murder, Eli didn&#8217;t want to go to bed. He told the court, “We started playing with the kitties and Eli was getting rowdy and Mom didn&#8217;t like it. She was hitting him. Then Eli was hitting her — they were fighting. So she put the shotgun in the car and she came back up. I was lying in her bed. She grabbed Eli and went downstairs.”
Insurance broker Mathias Martin testified that Thaler wanted a $400,000 policy for her son. He recalled that when he informed her policies for children only go up to roughly $50,000, “she was very adamant about $400,000, no less.”
Tory Hart’s fiancée Josie Josephson, told <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/eli-hart-mother-arrested-in-case-of-boys-body-found-in-trunk-mound-orono" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 9</a>, “Not only did we express concerns to multiple people, multiple times…every time the response was, ‘This is something for family courts.’ (CPS) said laws do not allow us to address this, unless (they) see physical abuse, (they) have no grounds to remove him from her home.”
Eli Hart’s father Tory Hart <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/eli-hart-lawsuit-father-dakota-county-murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a wrongful death lawsuit against Dakota County in August 2022.

Child Welfare Workers Returned 6-Year-Old To His Mom. She’s Convicted Of Murdering Him With 9 Shots From A Shotgun.

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If, as expected, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota">Minnesota</a> Democratic governor signs a bill just passed by the Minnesota Senate, the state will permit a right to abortion at any time of a woman’s pregnancy.
“Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth, or obtain an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise this fundamental right,” the bill, known as the Protect Reproductive Options Act, <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1&amp;type=bill&amp;version=0&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. Every Democrat voted for the bill; every Republican opposed it. Walz has stated he will sign the bill into law.
Late term-abortions are often performed by using gruesome procedures that can include crushing or dismembering the baby before it is removed from the mother’s body, or in some cases, injecting a lethal drug in to the baby’s heart.
“Minnesotans don’t support elective third-trimester abortion. They just don’t. But that’s what this extreme bill entrenches in our state law: the right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth,” Cathy Blaeser, the executive director for Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) <a href="https://www.mccl.org/post/senate-votes-for-abortion-up-to-birth-in-minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Under this bill, even babies who are old enough to live outside the womb and to feel excruciating pain have no protection from lethal violence. The extremism of H.F. 1 puts Minnesota in the same category as just a handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China.”
“The lack of parental involvement allows the most heinous of criminals—human and sex traffickers—to hide behind the doors of the unlicensed, uninspected abortion facility,” she continued. “These traffickers are happily watching this legislature advance extreme, unfettered abortion bills that enable them to continue to traffic their victims.”
“We have a duty to answer the call of Minnesotans to truly protect those reproductive freedoms, to enshrine them not simply in case law, but in our statutory law,” stated the bill’s author, state senator Sen. Jennifer McEwen, as MPR <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/01/28/minnesota-senate-votes-to-guarantee-abortion-rights-sends-bill-to-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “These are our values, this is the practice in Minnesota. This is what we believe.”
But GOP Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson countered, “Today we are not just codifying Roe v. Wade or Doe v. Gomez as the author has indicated. We are enacting the most extreme bill in the country regarding youth sterilization, late term abortions and public viability for a vast array of new reproductive rights.”
Republicans tried to amend the bill 35 times and failed each time, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-senate-passes-abortion-bill-opponents-call-most-extreme-nation">Fox News</a> noted.

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Minnesota Compared To North Korea, China For Extreme Abortion Bill About To Pass

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VATICAN CITY — A week intended to promote international Christian unity took a hard Left turn into American politics when a group of Minnesota clergy with ties to Black Lives Matter called on the gathering to “confront oppression,” invoking the January 6 Capitol riot and the death of George Floyd.
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The annual <a href="http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/settimana-di-preghiera-per-l-unita/week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity-20230/fr.html">Week of Prayer for Christian Unity</a>, a decades-old tradition, kicked off January 18 with a prayer from Pope Francis that God “faithfully and patiently guides His people towards [uniting] in full communion.” The event is led by the Vatican but coordinated with Christian denominations throughout the world, including a contingent from Minnesota this year.
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“The Week of Prayer is the perfect time for Christians to recognize that the divisions between our churches and confessions cannot be separated from the divisions within the wider human family,” stated an introductory document prepared in part by members of the Minnesota Council of Churches who described themselves as “leaders, activists and/or pastors.” The document called on attendees to “confront oppression and division amongst humanity.”
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The Minnesota group, which included former Minneapolis NAACP President <a href="https://www.instagram.com/leslieeredmond/?hl=en">Leslie Redmond</a>, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis-linked pastor <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterMinneapolis/posts/for-immediate-releasemarch-2-2015over-100-faith-leaders-sign-open-letter-to-bloo/885991118111349/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeWayne Davis</a>, and activist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/25/chauvin-minneapolis-activists-fight-continues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jia Starr Brown</a>, said sessions spent crafting the document “moved through the attack on the United States Capitol, the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin and the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.”
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“When Covid-19 shut down the world in March 2020,” they wrote, “the murder of a young African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin drew people from all over the world out onto the streets in unity and righteous anger, to protest the injustice they witnessed on their television screens.”
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James Lindsay, founder and president of <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Discourses</a> and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Marxism-Critical-Theory-Praxis/dp/B09SJ1NHG7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis</a>,” said the Minnesota group appeared to be using the ideal of Christian unity to push a Marxist political agenda.
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“This builds the narrative and makes way for the demand: Unity, so long as it&#8217;s unity in agreement under their cultic interpretation of history,” said Lindsay, who studied the document. “Unity, so long as it&#8217;s under their cultic interpretation of society. Unity, within the church—not under God, but according to consenting to this narrow, damaging, and ultimately cultic misinterpretation of the world.”
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Lindsay noted the Minnesota-based group cited the World Council of Churches (WCC), which he called “one of the main centers of religious manipulation and destruction.”
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The WCC “is a huge Marxist front operating under the banner of ecumenicism but is, in fact, designed to water down different faiths and blend them in the fashion we&#8217;re discussing,” Lindsay said. “The overall objective is to break down the specific faiths so they&#8217;re essentially too weak to be distinguishable and then bind them back together under initiatives like equity, inclusion, and sustainability (that is, make them Woke).”
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The Daily Wire reached out to Cardinal Kurt Koch, <a href="http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/cardinal-koch/biografia-cardinale-kurt-koch.html">prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity</a>, for comment on the oversight and vetting of contributors to initiatives such as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, but did not receive a response by publishing time. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity concludes on January 25.

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Minnesota Group Steers Vatican-Led ‘Christian Unity’ Week Into U.S. Politics

Minnesota Group Steers Vatican-Led 'Christian Unity' Week Into U.S. Politics

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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asked a Minnesota appeals court on Wednesday to throw out his conviction over the death of George Floyd.
Chauvin is currently serving a 22.5-year prison sentence that he received in June 2021 after a jury found him guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin&#8217;s attorney, William Mohrman, told the court that his client&#8217;s trial should not have been held in Minneapolis.
&#8220;Our primary argument here is that this case could not be tried in Minneapolis because of the pretrial publicity which was pervasive &#8230; and also just the physical pressure on the courthouse,&#8221; Mohrman said, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149726017/derek-chauvin-appeal-murder-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
The attorney wrote in a brief filed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the trial&#8217;s intense publicity, the public unrest and riots surrounding Floyd&#8217;s death, a $27 million settlement paid by the city of Minneapolis to Floyd&#8217;s family, and other factors justified moving the trial. Mohrman also accused prosecutors of misconduct, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/derek-chauvin-appeals-conviction-in-george-floyd-murder-arguing-trial-wasnt-fair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Attorney for Minnesota Neal Katyal said Chauvin&#8217;s trial was &#8220;one of the most transparent and thorough &#8230; in our nation&#8217;s history.&#8221; He said that Mohrman’s arguments &#8220;do not come close&#8221; to justifying tossing Chauvin’s convictions. &#8220;The evidence of Chauvin&#8217;s guilt was captured on video for the world to see,&#8221; he said, according to NPR.
Chauvin has also been sentenced to 21 years in prison for violating Floyd&#8217;s civil rights. If he were to appeal his convictions over Floyd&#8217;s death successfully, the former officer would remain in prison under the civil rights charge. Chauvin is serving each sentence concurrently at a federal prison in Arizona.
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The former officer is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-prisons-minnesota-minneapolis-d067afde1589c5175a7b553b68f7eef0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barred</a> from appealing the federal conviction under a plea agreement he struck with prosecutors. The agreement allowed him to avoid the life sentence he was facing if convicted. It also allowed him to move out of a Minnesota state prison where he may have been at increased risk and transfer to a federal lockup.
Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd as Chauvin and several other officers attempted to arrest Floyd in May 2020. Video of the arrest showed Floyd resisting officers&#8217; commands until they subdued him on the ground. Chauvin then kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s shoulders and neck for roughly nine minutes. Video of the arrest sparked unrest and riots across major American cities.

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