<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/target" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Target</a> has appeared to double down on its acceptance of radical gender theory despite a second straight negative sales report following backlash to its Pride-themed products earlier this year.
Target reportedly selected a man named Erik Thompson as its Senior LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist and Pride Lead, according to a post he shared on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CznNQjcM0pD/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> that was <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1724588769356161166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1724588769356161166%7Ctwgr%5E121df7209263f33166c11cf427b86f3f47e7612a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.outkick.com%2Ftarget-hires-pride-strategist-who-vows-to-make-trouble-debuts-rainbow-nutcrackers-for-christmas%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flagged</a> by popular X account Libs of TikTok. Thompson, who goes by “gaycruella” on the social media platform, shared with followers that he was “honored” to accept the role.
“Time to whip out the Glitter &amp; Hellfire flamethrowers and rip that old world to shreds darlings,” the self-described Target corporate employee shared. “Let’s flip that script and rewrite that narrative. This time for ~ALL Guests, ALL Humans &amp; ALL Hearts.”
A post featuring Thompson’s announcement was shared on X, which prompted many to react to the news on the original post. One commenter asked, “lol you gonna make Targets sales tank too?” to which Thompson responded, “Yes. Yes I will make sales tank,” with heart and kissing emojis.
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Remember when <a href="https://twitter.com/Target?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Target</a> sold tucking swimwear for kids and their sales dropped, stock plunged, and they were sued by shareholders?
Apparently they didn’t learn their lesson cuz they just hired an LGBTQ activist to lead their “LGBTQIA+ multicultural merchandising strategy and pride… <a href="https://t.co/wDZW7hshKi">pic.twitter.com/wDZW7hshKi</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1724588769356161166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Thompson’s <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-thompson-ab9a1046/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn profile</a> shows him as working for Target since June of 2014. During his tenure, he served the company as a business analyst and buyer in years past. He was also an executive intern at Target in 2013. Thompson listed his new role as becoming active in November 2023.
His LinkedIn bio says, “On a mission to lead in the effort of working to flip the script and rewrite the narrative of CPG retail industries to better serve all consumer segments and thoughtfully &amp; authentically cater to *ALL guests, ALL humans, &amp; ALL hearts* who enter our stores and across the nation.”
Target did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.
In Target’s third quarter — a three-month period that ended October 28 — the company’s sales tumbled 4.9% following a 5.4% <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-sales-sink-after-pride-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline</a> in the second quarter, which was Target&#8217;s first quarterly sales drop in six years, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/investing/target-stock-earnings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Both of the most recent bleak earnings reports came after Target faced backlash over its Pride Month products geared toward children.
Target Chief Executive Brian Cornell said the sales trends “have clearly been tougher than we expected this year, and we are firmly focused on getting back to growth,” while discussing the third quarter earnings report on a call with reporters, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/target-tgt-q3-earnings-report-2023-42e94186" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Among Target’s Pride-themed products featured on store shelves over the summer were a children’s swimsuit with a tag reading “thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions” and LGBTQ-themed books such as “The Pronoun Book” and “Bye Bye Binary.” The retail giant also featured an adult “Pride” collection, which included “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for men who identify as women to tuck their genitals, a t-shirt with the words “Queer Queer Queer Queer,” and a hoodie reading “Not A Phase.”
Target came under fire again this week for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-mocked-for-selling-disabled-black-santa-ornament-pride-nutcrackers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selling</a> Pride-themed nutcrackers and disabled Santa ornaments. The account End Wokeness shared images of an ornament of a black Santa Claus in a wheelchair displayed on a Target shelf. The account also highlighted a Pride nutcracker figurine wearing a Pride-striped hat and holding a Progress Pride flag. The product description encourages buyers to “show your love and support for the LGBTQIA+ community” by displaying this decoration. Both items are available for sale on Target’s website as of Wednesday.
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Target outdid itself this year for Christmas <a href="https://t.co/F0YpLmOrkt">pic.twitter.com/F0YpLmOrkt</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1724590949899092243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Target isn’t the only company to report drops in sales this year following backlash to marketing campaigns that pushed radical gender theory. Earlier this month, Anheuser-Busch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-revenue-declines-in-third-quarter-as-bud-light-sales-continue-to-fall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that its revenue in the U.S. was down 13.5% for the third quarter, continuing a trend in declining sales after Bud Light partnered earlier this year with transgender-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
As Black Friday approaches, Target hopes to turn its fledgling year around on the backs of holiday shoppers who will be looking everywhere for the best deals, but whether shoppers are willing to return to the retail giant after the Pride Month backlash earlier this year is yet to be seen.
The Daily Wire is also making its presence felt on the market this Black Friday as an alternative to the companies pushing leftist ideologies on consumers. Shoppers can find a slew of products from The Daily Wire, including deals on Jeremy&#8217;s Razors and the Daily Wire Shop to membership deals on The Daily Wire&#8217;s new kids entertainment company Bentkey.
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Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Target Promotes ‘GayCruella’ To ‘LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist’ Amid Abysmal Sales From Pride Backlash

Target Promotes 'GayCruella' To 'LGBTQIA+ Segmentation Strategist' Amid Abysmal Sales From Pride Backlash

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boycotts

Economy

LGBTQ

Pride Month

Target

U.S.

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/target" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Target</a> CEO Brian Cornell deflected when he was pressed Thursday about specific Target products that generated a boycott starting in May, while suggesting blowback over transgender merch came from violent customers who threatened his employees&#8217; safety more than the George Floyd riots.
Target, as admitted by Cornell, is still suffering from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/investor-sues-target-over-disastrous-2023-pride-campaign-after-company-loses-billions-in-market-value" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abysmal sales</a>. Outraged shoppers took to social media back in May after discovering LGBT Pride clothing for children and a transgender &#8220;tuck-friendly&#8221; bathing suit at the popular retail chain. It was also later pieced together that a designer tied to merchandise featuring <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/satanic">occult images</a> and phrases such as “Satan Respects Pronouns” and “Trans Witches For Abortion,&#8221; designed some of Target&#8217;s PRIDE items.
Cornell told CNBC&#8217;s Squawk Box that the violence and looting witnessed during the George Floyd riots did not compare to the trans blowback.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen natural disasters, the impact of COVID, some of the violence that took place after George Floyd&#8217;s murder, but I would tell you, what I saw back in May, is the first time since I&#8217;ve been in this job where I had store members saying, ‘It’s not safe to come to work,'&#8221; the CEO claimed, adding that angry customers were engaged in &#8220;very aggressive behavior at store-level, lots of threats,&#8221; and &#8220;destroyed products.&#8221;
&#8220;They were very aggressive with our team members, personally threatening them, yelling at them,&#8221; Cornell said. &#8220;You know, they threatened to light product on fire in the store. &#8230; We&#8217;ve been celebrating heritage months, like PRIDE, for over a decade now, we&#8217;ve never seen this kind of response.&#8221;
Seemingly running in contrast with Cornell&#8217;s assertion, stores in at least five states received bomb threats via email from an individual/individuals angry the retail chain &#8220;betrayed the LGBTQ+ community&#8221; by removing the merchandise, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4046688-target-stores-in-at-least-five-states-receive-bomb-threats-over-pride-items/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Cornell suggested he had to pull the controversial merch from stores, not because of the devastating financial repercussions from the massive boycott, but for employee safety. &#8220;We had to prioritize the safety of the team,&#8221; he said.
The CEO further seemed to deny some of the transgender items and association with the controversial PRIDE designer when pressed by CNBC.
&#8220;People said, &#8216;Look, there are bathing suits that are transgender bathing suits that are being targeted and marketed to kids,'&#8221; host Rebecca Quick told Cornell. &#8220;&#8216;There is a guy who you’re working with, a designer, who, I don&#8217;t know, is a devil worshipper or something.&#8217; What would you say back to some of those criticisms?”
&#8220;I think, you and I both know, those weren&#8217;t true,&#8221; the CEO claimed. &#8220;But, in the moment, we said, the best thing for us to do is address the issue &#8212; we can&#8217;t combat each and every statement that&#8217;s made. And do the right thing for our team, take the learning as we move forward.&#8221;
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&quot;We&#39;ve been celebrating heritage moments like Pride for over a decade now. We&#39;ve never seen that kind of response,&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24TGT&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$TGT</a> CEO Brian Cornell. &quot;I knew personally this was not going to be well received. But we had to prioritize the safety of the team.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/m1nP44kBzo">pic.twitter.com/m1nP44kBzo</a>
&mdash; Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1720044828291911710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Target CEO: Conservatives Upset Over Trans Merch More Dangerous To Employees Than George Floyd Riots

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Well, we may have missed it by a few days but it’s never too late to celebrate &#8220;National Coming Out Day.&#8221; This is a fake holiday that officially took place a couple of days ago, on Wednesday October 11th. And if I&#8217;m being honest, it was everything I hoped it would be, and more. It&#8217;s almost like the holiday was invented as a form of performance art by someone who wants to expose the gender cult and demonstrate how absurd the whole thing is. In fact, that&#8217;s not a completely inaccurate way to describe the origins of National Coming Out Day. I&#8217;ll get to that in a second.
But first, it&#8217;s important to make clear that this holiday was not some fringe event that no one observed. The White House held a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/12/readout-of-white-house-meeting-with-latino-lgbtqi-leaders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> with &#8220;Latino LGBTQI+ leaders&#8221; to mark National Coming Out Day. Various media outlets and social media personalities promoted it. The largest school system in the city of Los Angeles <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/but-johnny-cant-spell-g-a-y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> to hold an entire week of events to celebrate National Coming Out Day, which doesn&#8217;t even really make sense, since it&#8217;s supposed to last just one day.
In any event, the idea behind this day (or week) of celebration is, of course, to encourage young people to tell everyone that they&#8217;re gay, or trans, or non-binary or one of the other infinite sexual identities. Apparently, there was no way that people could do that during Pride month, or International Pronouns Day, or the Trans Day of Remembrance, or International Lesbian Day which was also this week, or any of the other dozens of days on the calendar set aside for LGBT people. They need a separate day, just for &#8220;coming out,&#8221; in mid-October. And this past Wednesday, we&#8217;re led to believe, a bunch of people did just that, for the first time in their lives. They announced, to the whole world, that they&#8217;re an L, or a G, or a B, or a T, or maybe a +.
So what happened next? What grand consequences resulted from this momentous event? Well, that&#8217;s the good part. As far as I can tell from reviewing all the available data on this, literally nothing happened. There was no discernible response whatsoever. There were no reports that anyone was beaten in the aftermath of National Coming Out Day. No one was fired from their job for proudly declaring on social media that they&#8217;re a non-binary or a pansexual. No homosexuals were suspiciously crushed by pianos. The world just kept on turning, and no one cared.
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That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m finally getting around to celebrating National Coming Out day, a couple days late. In one fell swoop, this holiday has completely debunked every Left-wing narrative of &#8220;LGBTQ oppression&#8221; that we&#8217;ve been force-fed for the past several years. Consider that it was just a few months ago that we were told by the so-called &#8220;Human Rights Campaign&#8221; that there&#8217;s a &#8220;nationwide state of emergency&#8221; because, as they say, &#8220;LGBTQ+ people&#8221; are endangered. Watch:
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So, there&#8217;s a nationwide state of emergency because there are real, tangible and dangerous threats to the &#8220;LGBT community.&#8221; That was just four months ago. And then, despite those threats, this week these same activist organizations told everyone to publicly announce that they&#8217;re part of this victimized club. 
And a lot of people did heed that call. In fact, NBC News just <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/national-coming-day-10-celebrities-came-2023-far-rcna119788" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> an entire list of celebrities who came out of the closet — not just on National Coming Out Day, but throughout the year 2023. This happens every year, and every year there are more and more. Some of them are coming out for the second and third time. Some are coming out as sexualities that don&#8217;t mean anything, like Wayne Brady declaring he&#8217;s &#8220;pansexual.&#8221; And yet none of these people — the celebrities, the random kids on social media — none of them have faced any consequences whatsoever. No one responded to them with bigotry or violence or any of that.
Does anyone in the corporate media or at the Human Rights Campaign think that&#8217;s a bit odd? You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d actually be thrilled by this news. Despite a supposed nationwide terror campaign against LGBTQ+ folks, a bunch of people just publicly declared their sexual orientation or gender identity or whatever. And they somehow survived the week, totally unscathed. How could this be?
If you listen to what these activists are saying this week, you won&#8217;t get an answer to that question. They won&#8217;t grapple with any of this. But you will get a very clear window into how they think, and how effortlessly they will lie to you. 
Here, for example, is one representative of the so-called Human Rights Campaign, doing the rounds on local news stations to promote National Coming Out Day. And as part of his schtick, he explains that the murder of Matthew Sheppard in 1998 is one of the reasons that the organization is so adamant about promoting National Coming Out Day. Here’s the clip:
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If you parse what the anchor lady and the H.R.C. spokesman are saying, it becomes very clear what&#8217;s going on. Neither one of them explicitly states that Matthew Sheppard was murdered because he was gay. They imply it, but they don&#8217;t come out and say it.
What that tells you is that they know they&#8217;re lying. I&#8217;ve talked about this case before. But the basic facts of this case are completely different from what the leftists at H.R.C. and the corporate media will tell you. Many years ago, an investigative journalist named Stephen Jimenez <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked into</a> the Matthew Sheppard case. He found that Sheppard was a high-value meth dealer and prostitute who was killed by one of his gay lovers. So the whole narrative lionizing Matthew Sheppard — which Bill Clinton and the entire news media pushed at the time — was false. And yet, decades later, activists are *still* citing his case, and implying he was murdered because he was gay.
All of corporate media is doing the same thing. The other day, the Associated Press ran an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/matthew-shepard-lgbtq-rights-db6142ccc885a86dde5e4eeb9f42b539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> — which was picked up by NBC News and other outlets — stating that the death of Matthew Shepard &#8220;has been memorialized as an egregious hate crime.&#8221; Again, they&#8217;re playing with language. They know Matthew Shepard&#8217;s death wasn&#8217;t a hate crime. But they &#8216;re telling you it was &#8220;memorialized&#8221; as one, and then they&#8217;re refusing to give you the context. It’s actually a clever trick. Even I would have to admit that the statement is true. It was indeed memorialized as a hate crime. It’s just that it wasn’t actually a hate crime.
So what is the point of all these lies? They&#8217;re lying about the dangers face by &#8220;LGBTQ youth.&#8221; They &#8216;re lying about Matthew Sheppard. What&#8217;s the goal? Where is this all leading to? A year ago, the president and CEO of GLAAD, in her attempt to promote National Coming Out Day, spilled the beans. Here&#8217;s her explanation of what this whole charade is all about.
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Don&#8217;t just come out, says the CEO of one of the largest gay activist groups on the planet. Come out to vote, too! It&#8217;s so unbelievably transparent. They can&#8217;t hide it. This isn&#8217;t about anyone&#8217;s sexuality or oppression or whatever. It&#8217;s about marshaling more votes for the Democratic Party. It’s about reinforcing the Left’s ideological stranglehold on the culture. It’s as simple and cynical as that.
To be fair, later in that interview, this same woman — the CEO of GLAAD — does attempt to offer another reason as to why National Coming Out Day is so important. And she manages to dig an even deeper hole for herself in the process. Really, she completely blows up the whole premise of &#8220;National Coming Out Day&#8221; without even realizing it. Watch:
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Well, the two of you don’t have two children. One of you has children. But let’s not get technical. 
What this GLAAD woman is otherwise describing is normal human interaction. It’s not &#8220;coming out.&#8221; So, the entire idea of &#8220;National Coming Out Day,&#8221; according to the CEO of GLAAD, is really complete nonsense. It&#8217;s designed to solve a problem that doesn&#8217;t even exist. These people aren&#8217;t even pretending to be persecuted; they&#8217;re just complaining about having to introduce themselves. So it&#8217;s reasonable to ask, how did this fake holiday even come about in the first place? Who came up with this idea?
Elsewhere in that interview, the GLAAD CEO briefly goes into some detail about the history of National Coming Out Day. She lies about it, so there&#8217;s no point in showing it to you. But if you dig into National Coming Out Day, you&#8217;ll find that it was founded by a woman named Jean O&#8217;Leary. Who is Jean O&#8217;Leary? She was a feminist who really didn&#8217;t like transvestites or drag queens. We don&#8217;t have to guess about that. She said it on film at a rally in 1973. Watch:
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A few seconds later, Jean O&#8217;Leary was forced off the stage by a couple of guys in drag. There&#8217;s a lot of feminist gibberish in there, but the substance of what she said is worth repeating: 
<blockquote>We are opposed to the exploitation of women by men for entertainment or profit. &#8230; Men have been telling us who we are for all our lives. &#8230; Men have never been able to show us ourselves.</blockquote>
This is what the founder of National Coming Out Day stood for, just a few decades ago. Men with fetishes are not, in fact, women. That&#8217;s what she&#8217;s saying and she could not have been clearer.
Of course, later in life, she recanted, and bent the knee. But this is what she stood for. Now the gender cult is papering over that little inconsistency. They&#8217;re lying about the history of this fake holiday, just like they lie about what happened at Stonewall, just like they lie about Matthew Sheppard, just like they lie about the &#8220;national state of emergency&#8221; facing their supposedly marginalized fanbase, just like they lie about literally everything all the time.
They&#8217;re lying so much, and so desperately, because the truth could not be clearer. The LGBT club is not oppressed. A country does not have 50 fake holidays to celebrate a group of people it is oppressing. Celebrities do not go out of their way to be a part of a truly marginalized and bullied community. A club does not grow in membership so rapidly if being in the club is a ticket to persecution. No, it goes the opposite way. For the individual, identifying as LGBT means social capital and cultural influence. For the Powers That Be, the more people who identify as LGBT, the more votes they get, the more power they wield.
This is what it’s all about, and has always been about. And now, that couldn’t be more clear.
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The Left Accidentally Destroys Its Own Narrative With ‘National Coming Out Day’

The Left Accidentally Destroys Its Own Narrative With 'National Coming Out Day'

Drag Queens

GLAAD

Opinion

Readers Pass

Target revealed this week that it has reaped the rewards of its Pride Month collection with a dismal quarterly report that showed the company&#8217;s sales falling for the first time in six years.
Target’s quarterly sales sank 5.4% in the second quarter, which ended July 29, compared to the same period last year, the company said in its second quarter earnings <a href="https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2023/08/Target-Corporation-Reports-Second-Quarter-Earnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, released on Wednesday.
The depressing result is that Target has now lowered both its overall sales and profit expectations for the whole year, admitting the cause is “recent sales trends,” which were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/investing/target-stock-earnings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impacted</a> by the “strong reaction to this year’s Pride assortment.”
The rest of the data doesn&#8217;t look great either. Online sales fell 10.5%. The number of transactions and the average dollar amount of a transaction also dropped. Meanwhile, Target’s total revenue of $24.8 billion was 4.9% lower than last year.
The Minneapolis-based retail behemoth&#8217;s travails are a sobering reminder to other major companies that not everyone is on board with an LGBT agenda being shoved down their throats when they are trying to pick up milk or buy their kids new shoes.
Back in May, Target faced backlash over its “Pride” collection, which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-target-lgbtq-1203e875adcc7c86f62252d4ace1a738" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> a kids swimsuit with a tag reading “thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions.”
Also featured were LGBT-themed books aimed at young <a href="https://www.target.com/p/the-pronoun-book-by-chris-ayala-kronos-board-book/-/A-83978505" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children,</a> <a href="https://www.target.com/p/bye-bye-binary-by-eric-geron-board-book/-/A-84212143" target="_blank" rel="noopener">such as</a> “The Pronoun Book” and “Bye Bye Binary,” a story about a “joyful baby” who “refuses to conform to the gender binary and instead chooses toys, colors, and clothes that make them happy.”
Target offered an adult “Pride” collection as well, which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-target-lgbtq-1203e875adcc7c86f62252d4ace1a738" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for men who identify as women to tuck their genitals, a t-shirt with the words “Queer Queer Queer Queer,” and a hoodie reading “Not A Phase.”
The discovery that the designer of some of Target&#8217;s “Pride” collection items has also apparently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-faces-backlash-over-pride-collection-designer-behind-satan-respects-pronouns-shirts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> products with Satanic imagery sent customers over the edge.
Customers quickly demanded a boycott, causing Target&#8217;s stock price to fall <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/14/target-shareholder-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 20%</a>. It has not recovered.
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Eventually, Target <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/24/target-lgbtq-clothing-controversy-boycott/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled</a> some of its “Pride” merchandise threats to employees’ safety and moved “Pride” displays to the back of some of its stores.
On Wednesday, Target came right out and admitted that the &#8220;Pride&#8221; collection was a significant negative for the company.
“Traffic and top line trends were affected by the reaction to our Pride assortment,” Target’s CFO Michael Fiddelke <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/walmart-profits-soar-as-target-takes-hit-over-woke-items/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an earnings call after the second quarter report was released.
The Pride collection prompted a “negative guest reaction,” CEO Brian Cornell admitted.
However, &#8220;Pride&#8221; is also not Target&#8217;s sole trouble, Cornell said.
Target is also battling an “unacceptable amount” of retail theft, including organized retail crime, that has become increasingly violent and dangerous for workers, according to the company&#8217;s CEO.
Store theft that included “violence or threats of violence” surged 120% during the first five months of the year, Target&#8217;s CEO said.
Organized retail theft has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-stores-are-taking-extreme-security-measures-to-fight-petty-theft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spiked</a> in cities around the country, with videos from some of the incidents showing hooded figures in dark clothes darting in and out of stores with merchandise, often expensive luxury items.
Critics <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/zero-cash-bail-blame-brazen-smash-grab-robberies-la-police-union-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blame</a> progressive prosecutors who they say allow criminals to get off without serious consequences, if they face consequences at all.
Inflation is also contributing to Target&#8217;s woes, the company <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/target-tgt-earnings-q2-2023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, with shoppers buying fewer nonessentials like clothing and home decor, opting instead to save their money for food and bills.
Target saw a huge bounce in sales during the pandemic with stock prices <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TGT/target/stock-price-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peaking</a> in November 2021, but the company has struggled to maintain that momentum, and the &#8220;Pride&#8221; collection certainly did not help.
Of course, Target is not the only company suffering from &#8220;Pride&#8221; backlash this year.
The brand with the most LGBT woes is probably Bud Light, which faced a massive boycott this year over the company’s partnership with trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch has lost about $395 million in U.S. sales since the boycott. Bud Light has also been bumped out of its spot as the nation’s top-selling beer by Modelo.
Meanwhile, however, other retailers soared in their second quarter sales.
Walmart&#8217;s store sales jumped 6.4% in the second quarter, well above the 4% experts expected, the company <a href="https://corporate.walmart.com/media-library/document/q2-fy24-earnings-release/_proxyDocument?id=0000018a-0045-d2a1-a1ab-ddc7cb770000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday. E-commerce spiked a whopping 24%, mostly thanks to pickup and delivery orders.
Walmart has now raised its annual profit forecast for the second straight quarter after the positive second quarter report this week.
This week, Target concluded that the &#8220;Pride&#8221; backlash is a &#8220;signal for us to pause, adapt and learn.&#8221;
So far, the company appears to be taking that signal seriously. Target <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/investing/target-stock-earnings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plans</a> to make some changes to its “Pride” collection, which could include changing the timing of the products, the placement in stores, and which brands are for sale.
Next year, Target and other companies could potentially opt for more muted &#8220;Pride&#8221; celebration to protect their bottom lines, given the fed up message many of their customers sent them this year.
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Target&#8217;s sales have declined after backlash to its Pride Month collection earlier this year, the company announced Wednesday.
Target&#8217;s quarterly sales sank for the first time in six years, falling 5.4% in the second quarter, which ended July 29, compared to the same period last year, the company said in its second quarter earnings <a href="https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2023/08/Target-Corporation-Reports-Second-Quarter-Earnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
Online sales fell nearly twice as much, 10.5%, Target said. The company also said that the number of transactions and the average dollar amount of a transaction fell this past quarter. Target&#8217;s total revenue of $24.8 billion was 4.9 percent lower than last year, Target said.
The Minneapolis-based retail behemoth said that because of &#8220;recent sales trends&#8221; it has lowered its overall sales and profit expectations for the whole year.
Back in May, Target faced backlash over its &#8220;Pride&#8221; collection, which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-target-lgbtq-1203e875adcc7c86f62252d4ace1a738" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> a kids swimsuit with a tag reading “thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions.”
Target also featured LGBT-themed books aimed at young <a href="https://www.target.com/p/the-pronoun-book-by-chris-ayala-kronos-board-book/-/A-83978505" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children,</a> <a href="https://www.target.com/p/bye-bye-binary-by-eric-geron-board-book/-/A-84212143" target="_blank" rel="noopener">such as</a> “The Pronoun Book” and “Bye Bye Binary,” a story about a “joyful baby” who “refuses to conform to the gender binary and instead chooses toys, colors, and clothes that make them happy.”
Target also featured an adult &#8220;Pride&#8221; collection, which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-target-lgbtq-1203e875adcc7c86f62252d4ace1a738" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> &#8220;tuck-friendly&#8221; swimsuits for men who identify as women to tuck their genitals, a t-shirt with the words “Queer Queer Queer Queer,” and a hoodie reading “Not A Phase.”
The &#8220;Pride&#8221; merchandise quickly sparked calls for a boycott of Target on social media.
Eventually, Target said it would <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/24/target-lgbtq-clothing-controversy-boycott/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pull</a> some of its &#8220;Pride&#8221; merchandise over backlash that was threatening employees&#8217; safety. The company also moved the &#8220;Pride&#8221; displays to the back of some of its stores.
“Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior,” Target spokeswoman Kayla Castañeda said in late May.
Adding to the company&#8217;s troubles was the discovery that the designer of some of its &#8220;Pride&#8221; collection items has also apparently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-faces-backlash-over-pride-collection-designer-behind-satan-respects-pronouns-shirts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created</a> products with Satanic imagery.
The company&#8217;s stock price fell <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/14/target-shareholder-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 20%</a> after the calls for a boycott and has not recovered.
Sales were impacted by the &#8220;strong reaction to this year’s Pride assortment,&#8221; Target’s chief growth officer Christina Hennington said Wednesday.
“The reaction is a signal for us to pause, adapt and learn,” Hennington said.
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Next year, Target <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/investing/target-stock-earnings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plans</a> to make some changes to its &#8220;Pride&#8221; collection, which could include changing the timing of the products, the placement in stores, and which brands are for sale.
Despite the dismal sales numbers, Target&#8217;s latest earnings report showed the company saw higher profit margins than expected since it offered fewer discounts and reduced inventory costs.
Other companies also experienced backlash to their &#8220;Pride&#8221; merchandise this summer.
Bud Light&#8217;s parent company Anheuser-Busch has lost about $395 million in U.S. sales after a boycott over the company&#8217;s partnership with trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light was also bumped out of its spot as the nation&#8217;s top-selling beer by Modelo.

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A pair of drag performers debated the definition of woman and whether <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-colorado-elementary-schools-dei-groups-teamed-up-to-promote-drag-queen-story-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drag queen story hours</a> at public libraries are appropriate for kids Friday in the latest episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-pool-praises-matt-walsh-for-the-attention-hes-brought-to-the-transgender-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Pool&#8217;s</a> &#8220;Culture War&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKoeMuuz5f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>.
Maebe A. Girl, a transgender-identifying male who in 2019 became the nation&#8217;s first drag queen elected to a public office, defended drag for kids against Kitty &#8220;Hogatha&#8221; DeMure, who has been one of the sole voices in the drag community talking about the dangers of drag to kids after going viral when he asked in a video, &#8220;Why do drag queens need to read to kids?&#8221;
Things got heated on the show when Pool posed the eponymous question popularized in The Daily Wire&#8217;s groundbreaking 2022 documentary, &#8220;<a href="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=CqB6JuKSxZNb4Koe5mgTJ9InwDI2q3YFxlpTe04sR0tLezrIyCAAQASC5VGDJpt6M4KTQFKABkvTujgPIAQHIA9ggqgRfT9ApBeK6Vb-qwrKcyeFuq7WuOG4SdXTyjcUwls4P8qNGkTMd32fTbnloJWpO5zCNNupMZoHwPRW16uShkP6dFvstcz-Eo6pljh0npng7gnrujpp2ISM9W_KsLCbH1o7ABL3er8maBIAFkE6IBY2SvrJJoAZmgAfWi5FxiAcBkAcBqAemvhuoB7ytsQKoB7mrsQKoB7masQKoB_PRG6gH7tIbqAf_nLECqAfK3BuoB5KvsQKoB7uksQKoB9imsQKoB9uqsQKoB9CqsQKoB9ywsQKgCMCPpgSwCAHSCB0QAiCEAzIEg-CADjoIwsCAgICABAJCAQRI0ezzKpoJKGh0dHBzOi8vZ2V0LmRhaWx5d2lyZS5jb20vd2lhdy9zdWJzY3JpYmWxCY-hEu1QFLI2uQmPoRLtUBSyNvgJAZgLAaoMAggBuAwB2gwICgMggAESAQLoDAaqDQJVU4IUHggCEhpkYWlseSB3aXJlIHdoYXQgaXMgYSB3b21hbogUA8gUk5G8t6zFk7Yq0BUBmBYB-BYBgBcBkhcJEgcIARADGIMC4BcC&amp;ae=2&amp;ved=2ahUKEwij3cX9-Y6AAxWkSzABHc-xCDIQ0Qx6BAgNEAE&amp;nis=2&amp;dct=1&amp;cid=CAASFORorymOXPtAJ2eRolR2pXkEq_JT&amp;dblrd=1&amp;sival=AF15MEBygqmSS-peyERjEAoaFayWY6MHl5EzGq8Jl5Hq_IIJu-wHS6tKYWkOr483GSJ96P1pq49EczGEFCMVFJD3J-thHHGlW9Crvfqd8ItHCZNjECorKtT1Ao7AUGD_3xrcSH2tohVeSzms6OftNtnTJK-v8vMOkQJLF_c-7rapIxHSr1Wk5R_d3n5k_UbE3RzuWKxntG8d&amp;sig=AOD64_1YGLNSHa2WHIAw1oAVvcIc-ly_8Q&amp;adurl=https://get.dailywire.com/wiaw/subscribe%3Futm_campaign%3Dwiaw%26utm_medium%3Dpaid%26utm_source%3Dgooglesearch%26utm_content%3Dna_subscriptions%26mid%3Dg%26cid%3Dwiaw%26xid%3D0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>&#8221; Girl, who was elected to the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles four years ago, equivocated while Demure dropped the mic.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m qualified to answer that because I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a singular answer,&#8221; Girl replied. &#8220;And I think it goes back into this idea that I was talking about earlier that so many people view the world through this binary lens of you are either this or that.&#8221;
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&#8220;You&#8217;re a man or a woman,&#8221; Girl added. &#8220;But the idea of a man and a woman is actually so expansive, and there is so much opportunity and nuance in between. And I think it&#8217;s up to the individual to decide &#8230; I think this idea that we have to have this definition of what is a woman I think it&#8217;s counterproductive &#8230; and meant to be transphobic.&#8221;
When Pool pressed Girl to define &#8220;female,&#8221; the drag queen official said &#8220;female would be the end of this binary that society has created.&#8221;
DeMure replied that every &#8220;drag queen can tell you what a woman is if they are being honest.&#8221;
&#8220;A woman does not have a penis, because drag queens tuck their penises,&#8221; DeMure said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen one drag queen in all of my years of pageants have a bulge.&#8221;
&#8220;A woman is a human that is born with a vagina and has the capability of reproducing and giving birth, whether they can do it or not,&#8221; DeMure continued. &#8220;They have the anatomy for it. To me, that&#8217;s what a woman is. And we all know it.&#8221;
The pair also disagreed about drag queen story hour at libraries, with DeMure calling them inappropriate and suggesting that kids would rather have their parents read to them.
But Girl said it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for children, and defended drag community as not a &#8220;monolith.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe that there are appropriate interactions for particular situations,&#8221; Girl said. &#8220;And I agree we shouldn&#8217;t have kids at drag shows that are taking place at night clubs, which is not happening.&#8221;
Girl disputed claims that drag performers read sexually explicit books at the events, saying &#8220;99 percent of the time&#8221; the books drag queens read to kids are age-appropriate.
But Girl acknowledged that some performers have gone too far at drag queen story hours.
&#8220;And unfortunately, that reflects on the whole community,&#8221; Girl said.
DeMure said he&#8217;s part of a tiny minority of drag performers speaking out against exposing children to drag.
&#8220;If we were going to expose children to this, why is it going to be a drag queen with their legs spread open reading to kids about hey maybe you’re a girl, maybe you’re a boy?&#8221; he wondered. &#8220;It’s like there&#8217;s no PR or head of the LGBTQ ink that is managing these things.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-pool-dives-into-hot-button-issues-with-his-new-podcast-the-culture-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Pool Dives Into Hot Button Issues With His New Podcast, &#8216;The Culture War&#8217;</a>

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Seven attorneys general, led by Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita, signed a letter to Target&#8217;s top boss blasting the company for pushing &#8220;LGBTQIA+ promotional products&#8221; and gender identity on children. 
The <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/INAG/2023/07/06/file_attachments/2546257/Target%20Letter%20Final.pdf">letter</a>, dated yesterday, focuses on Target’s Pride Month display and its support of a pro-transgender organization. It was addressed to Brian Cornell, the Chairman and CEO of Target Corporation, and co-signed by Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, Arkansas AG Tim Griffin, Idaho AG Raul Labrador, Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron, and South Carolina AG Alan Wilson. 
“As Attorneys General committed to enforcing our States’ child-protection and parental-rights laws and our States’ economic interests as Target shareholders, we are concerned by recent events involving the company’s ‘Pride’ campaign,” the letter begins.
The letter goes on to say the officials are specifically concerned about the “promotion and sale of potentially harmful products to minors,” as well as “potential interference with parental authority in matters of sex and gender identity” and a “possible violation of fiduciary duties by the company’s directors and officers.”
It specifically highlights several products sold by Target during Pride Month. The AGs claim the company “wittingly marketed and sold LGBTQIA+ promotional products to families and young children as part of a comprehensive effort to promote gender and sexual identity among children.”
The letter describes items that the attorneys general found particularly concerning, including a shirt that read “homophobe headrest” next to a picture of a guillotine, as well as one that read “transphobe collector” alongside a picture of a skull. 
Yet another shirt read “we bash back” next to a mace that bore the colors of the transgender pride flag. The letter also says that these products were part of a “Satanist-inspired” brand called “Abprallen,” referencing another product that “included the phrase ‘Satan Respects Pronouns’ with a horned ram representing Baphomet.”
The letter also highlights swimsuits with “tuck-friendly construction” and “extra crotch coverage.”  
The AGs also addressed Target&#8217;s support of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN). 
“GLSEN furnishes resources to activists for the purpose of undermining parents’ constitutional and statutory rights by supporting ‘secret gender transitions for kids,&#8217;” the letter charges. 
The attorney generals note that Target’s Pride campaign and support of GLSEN raises concerns “under our States’ child-protection and parental-rights laws.” But they also contend that the corporation’s actions may have gone “against our States’ economic interests as Target shareholders.”
“​​Target’s directors and officers may be negligent in undertaking the ‘Pride’ campaign, which negatively affected Target’s stock price,” the letter states before going on to note, “it may have improperly directed company resources for collateral political or social goals unrelated to the company’s and its shareholders’ best interests.”
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“Directors and officers must act solely in the best interest of the company. But you have reportedly defended the campaign as “the right thing for society,” the letter to Target Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell charges.
The company received severe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-loses-10-billion-in-just-ten-days-report">backlash</a> from would-be customers after dropping its Pride Month product lineup, resulting in its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/targets-share-prices-plunge-for-longest-streak-in-almost-5-years">share prices dropping</a> for longest streak in nearly five years.
“Transanity doesn’t sell,” Attorney General Rokita <a href="https://events.in.gov/event/attorney_general_todd_rokita_leads_7_states_concerned_about_targets_anti-child_anti-parent_campaign_for_lgbtqia_pride?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=State+of+Indiana">said</a>. “Let’s all unite around pride in America instead of falling into the trap of dividing along lines of identity politics.”

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The infernal provocation that is Pride Month might be over, but the marches continue through the legislature in California. They are here, they are queer, and they are coming for your children — legally.
Multiple bills at various stages in the California legislative process proclaim who ultimately has authority of your kids, and it’s not you. Some have understandably garnered much media attention, but SB 407 is working its way through the Assembly without much fanfare or discussion.
<a href="https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB407/id/2750569" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 407</a> would require all potential foster families to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to facilitate pharmaceutical and surgical interventions for “gender-expansive” children. Even if the child seems to give no indication of such inclinations at the time, the resource family must be assessed with the understanding that need for such care could arise at any stage of development.
Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) in introducing the bill, <a href="https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20230417-senator-wiener%E2%80%99s-bill-protect-lgbtq-foster-youth-passes-senate-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> it would protect children from being placed in “hostile foster homes.” Hostile homes are the homes of any foster families who are unwilling to commit to actively supporting gender transition interventions for minors. SB 407 effectively institutionalizes a prohibition against orthodox Christians as well as other religious believers.
It also effectively prohibits secular foster parents who think it unwise to allow the mutilation of perfectly healthy body parts on minors. Religious revelation is not required to recognize the reality at hand. Minors in the foster system are, by definition, in crisis. Times of crisis are inopportune times to make permanent, grave decisions especially when the decision-maker has not yet developed his full-frontal cortex. According to SB407, this entirely reasonable perspective should be redefined as a hostile one.
Current and historic data give us insight into the demographics of those most prone to foster non-related babies and minors. Barna Group’s <a href="https://cafo.org/2014/02/12/new-barna-research-highlights-christian-adoption-foster-care-among-3-most-notable-vocational-trends/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> shows that Christians engage in adoption, foster care, and other ways of aiding vulnerable children more than the average. “Practicing Christians (5%) are more than twice as likely to adopt than the general population (2%). Catholics are three times as likely. And evangelicals are five times as likely to adopt as the average adult.” Practicing Christians are also nearly three times more likely to have seriously considered foster care, and <a href="https://cafo.org/2018/06/23/heritage-foundation-forum-how-faith-foster-care-and-adoption-go-together/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">65%</a> of non-kin foster parents attend religious services weekly — compared to 39%for the general population.
This is unsurprising given the Christian mandate to care for the widow and the orphan. My experience with friends who foster supports the data; devoutly religious people who foster largely do so out of a sense of calling and compassion, animated by a heroic willingness to act. I spoke with a mother of seven, and sometime foster mom, Amina Bancroft, who commented “The primary role of a foster family is to provide a temporary safe place for a child whose previous environment was unfit, dangerous, and consequently at-risk for a poor outcome.” This bill inevitably affects her possibilities at fostering again. “In what should be interim care, ideally focused on love and nurturing, we are now up against a state focused on forcing decisions that would cause irreversible damage to youth who are already up against so much.”
In any just world such families willing to stretch themselves to help kids would be sought after, not precluded from the foster system. However, the only families fit to foster, according to the supporters of this bill, are those who give full assent to the most radical tenets of gender theory. What is obvious to most everyone (except the bill’s authors) is that such ideological assent signals a willingness to reject sexual boundaries. It is that rejection that makes sexual chaos far more likely in the home, not less. Is that the goal? If minors can consent to invasive transitioning interventions, what can they not consent to?
There is also the reality that SB407 is hardly the only bill in California attacking parental rights.
<a href="https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/ca/20212022/bills/CAB00021206/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 107</a>, passed and was signed into law in September of last year, allowing minors to be brought to the Golden State against the will of a parent if it is for the sake of seeking gender transitioning.
In-state parents are not really calling any shots either, according to <a href="https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB957/id/2823779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB 957</a>  which puts parental custody in jeopardy absent the guardian’s support of their child’s “gender identity.” Absent full support, which is not defined in the bill, a parent can be charged by a court with child abuse. The age at which the child’s desires to begin transitioning must be accommodated is not mentioned, but the bill’s author, Assemblywoman Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) used an example of a seven-year old in <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/under-new-california-bill-parents-would-be-charged-with-child-abuse-for-not-affirming-transgenderism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arguing</a> the merits of this bill.
<h3>Whose Kids Anyway?</h3>
At a recent speaking event I attended for the <a href="http://awakeamericans.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Awake Americans</a> launch, some protestors carried a sign that read, “We don’t co-parent with hate groups.” Bemused, a few of us commented that obviously we don’t want them to co-parent with us either, so…no problem. But their meaning was more sinister. It was not that they would not co-parent our kids with us, it was that we are unfit to co-parent our own kids with them. They see our kids as theirs to parent and ours to lose.
Biden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/parents-agree-biden-alarms-assertion-no-thing-someone-elses-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> as much out loud recently, “There’s no such things as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children.” There’s no such thing as someone else’s child. In no situation do normal people act as though that were true. I do not decide when to speak to other people’s children about sex, nor take them home with me at will. I don’t even know their food allergies much less make pivotal decisions for them. Someone could dismiss Biden’s words as an empty platitude or incoherent ramblings except that they reflect a real <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/want-to-dismantle-capitalism-abolish-the-family/#:~:text=Arguably%20the%20most%20infamous,men%20who%20lorded%20over%20them." target="_blank" rel="noopener">perspective</a> that is incrementally creeping into policy.
Another <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NXNKnT28Kc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> widely circulated recently of Pride marchers in New York City chanting, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” Amidst the fallout, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/re-coming-children-chant-nyc-drag-march-elicits-outrage-activists-say-rcna91341" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rushed</a> to reassure their audience that activists have been chanting as much for years and that it is one of many provocative expressions used to “regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people.”
In other words, it’s not that we’re not coming for your children; we’re just making fun of how you think we are coming for them.
This is a classic example of what Michael Anton <a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coined</a> the “celebration parallax. “It’s not happening and it’s good that it is.” A thing is happening or not happening based on whether the person acknowledging it is an ally or not. In other words: listen, paranoid parents, we are not coming after your children! But hey allies, <a href="https://www.orangeobserver.com/news/2021/oct/27/watch-speaker-removed-from-orange-county-school-board-meeting-for-reading-from-a-book-found-at-school-library/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1673091985018609666?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/29/pride-month-kink-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are</a> doing just that. Genital surgery on minors is a far-right conspiracy! But obviously, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/its-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we are doing</a> them and isn’t it brave?
Targeting children furthers the cultural revolution in two ways: it undermines the authority of parents in favor of the state, and it creates a generation of wounded and enraged foot soldiers who will support progressive power and the pharmaceutical industry.
What happens in California won’t stay in California. If left unchallenged its long march will twerk its way well past this state’s borders, and we will all look back fondly to when the marches were limited to the month of June.
<a href="https://www.ncregister.com/author/noelle-mering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noelle Mering</a> is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is the author of <a href="https://www.ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com/awake-not-woke/p/BKCTM02910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology</a> and co-author of the Theology of Home series. She is an editor at <a href="https://www.theologyofhome.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TheologyofHome.com</a> and a wife and mother of six children.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A famous Princeton University professor has launched an effort to replace calling June “Pride Month” with the moniker “Fidelity Month.”
Celebrated philosopher professor Robert P. George, the author of “Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality,” “In Defense of Natural Law,” and “The Clash of Orthodoxies,” served as chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. He also was one of the drafters of 2009’s Manhattan Declaration — signed by religious leaders of various faiths — that &#8220;promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same-sex marriage,” as the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
“If polls are to be believed, there has been a precipitous decline in Americans’ belief in the importance of patriotism, religion, marriage and family, and community—values that, broadly speaking, have throughout our history united Americans despite our many differences,” George tweeted in May. “By the authority vested in me by absolutely no one, I’ve declared June to be ‘Fidelity Month’—a month dedicated to renewing fidelity to God, spouses and families, our country, and our communities.”
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2/ By the authority vested in me by absolutely no one, I&#39;ve declared June to be “Fidelity Month”—a month dedicated to renewing fidelity to God, spouses and families, our country, and our communities. If you share these values, please join us, use our logo, and spread the word. <a href="https://t.co/4BnJ8N0hvo">pic.twitter.com/4BnJ8N0hvo</a>
&mdash; Robert P. George🇻🇦🇺🇸🪕 (@McCormickProf) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1662457468935438339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“If you are a public official and your office recognizes special days, months, etc., please officially recognize Fidelity Month,” George wrote. “If you are a legislator, please do whatever you can according to the customs and traditions of your legislative assembly to raise the profile of Fidelity Month. If you are a pastor, please make sure your church or parish or synagogue or other congregation does something for Fidelity Month.”
The Fidelity Month website “earned a perfect score of one hundred from the domain host GoDaddy,” National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/princeton-professors-initiative-to-rebrand-june-fidelity-month-gains-steam-on-religious-right/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, adding that members of various faiths are backing the effort.
The Fidelity Month website <a href="https://fidelitymonth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> people of different faiths to observe a day of fasting on the last day of June, writing:
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Fasting is a spiritual discipline common to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. It can be a form of penance for our sins, an offering of sacrifice to God, and a way in which we purify ourselves from worldly attachments – allowing us to focus on what is most important from an eternal perspective and to pray and act more effectively. 
As a people, we’re in deep need of each of these aspects of fasting. We need to repair our relationship with God – who alone is the source and summit of all fidelity – through repentance, so that He can heal and restore us as a people. &#8230; we invite you to also fast and pray in accordance with your own religious traditions for an increase in fidelity to God, family, and country. 
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NBC News was roasted after it published an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/re-coming-children-chant-nyc-drag-march-elicits-outrage-activists-say-rcna91341?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=649b7b94f8ccd40001c2880a&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> that seemingly attempted to explain away a chant at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> Pride event <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-drag-march-chants-were-coming-for-your-children-during-weekend-pride-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">where participants recited</a>, “We’re here! We’re queer! We’re coming for your children!”
The article cited &#8220;longtime march attendees and gay rights activists&#8221; who claimed the chant had been used at Pride events for several years.
According to organizers interviewed by NBC, the  chant was “meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.” NYC Drag March organizer Brian Griffin told the outlet that it was relatively mild compared to previous ones, saying he joked about sex toys and pubic hair at previous Pride events. 
“It’s all just words,” Griffin said. “It’s all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.” 
Activists told NBC the chant is “one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people. And in this case, they said, right-wing activists are jumping on a single video to weaponize an out-of-context remark to further stigmatize the queer community.”
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The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists, who said it’s one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people. <a href="https://t.co/vrcbuxCEkf">https://t.co/vrcbuxCEkf</a>
&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1673847515114815494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Previous chants at Pride events in New York have included other allusions to targeting children, including “Ten percent is not enough: Groom! Groom! Groom!” and violent chants, &#8220;Kill, kill, kill, we’re coming to kill the mayor.&#8221;
The NYC Drag March, launched in 1994 as a protest when Pride March officials exiled drag queens from their event out of fear it would deter corporate sponsorship, has been known for its problematic politics and flashy costuming.
The controversial chanting came as Pride festivities across the U.S. and Canada this past week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/naked-men-in-front-of-children-pride-parades-in-u-s-canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured rampant nudity</a>, including a parade in Seattle where naked men rode bikes in front of children (<a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1673057359911075840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video here</a>; warning full frontal nudity).
NBC was widely roasted online by conservative commentators who mocked the article and claimed that the &#8220;coming for your children&#8221; chant was commonplace at Pride events. A community note was added below the article on Twitter that claimed the chant actually originated from the San Francisco Gay Men&#8217;s choir in 2021.
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“Guys it’s totally fine that they chanted ‘we’re coming for your children’ because they do it every year and they also chant about sex toys and pubic hair and killing people,” Libs of TikTok tweeted. “‘It’s all just words’ say the people who force preferred pronouns on us and constantly change our language.” 
“&#8217;These guys haven&#8217;t suddenly become groomers — they&#8217;ve been groomers for years!&#8217;” Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said. 
“‘We’ve been saying this for years’  makes it worse, not better. But, uh, interesting propaganda spin here, NBC,” Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemmingway said.

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Editor&#8217;s Note: The original version of this article did not indicate that the Twitter account in question is a parody account. The article has been updated to clarify this development and how it came to be misreported.
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A parody Twitter account claiming to be actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-appalling-jim-caviezel-slams-christian-bigotry-happening-around-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Caviezel</a>&#8216;s posted a viral thread that said Pride Month events are &#8220;robbing children of their innocence&#8221; and slammed &#8220;woke ideology.&#8221;
The account on Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/IamJimCaviezel/status/1673346467199692800?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> &#8220;certain sectors of society&#8221; who the account said &#8220;gleefully&#8221; attempt to harm kids. The Twitter account, which was <a href="https://archive.is/6wN38">labeled</a> &#8220;@IAm Jim Caviezel&#8221; and carried a blue checkmark to indicate it had been verified according to a screenshot taken Monday, was not marked &#8220;parody&#8221; initially, prompting several outlets, including The Daily Wire, to report it as an account belonging to Caviezel. On Wednesday, the account was renamed &#8220;@JimCFANACCOUNT&#8221; and marked as parody.
&#8220;It seems that so many people have become not only obsessed with sexuality but with foisting it on young children by having them attend events with people who dress as the opposite sex,&#8221; the tweet read.&#8221; How long are we going to allow woke ideology to trample over our rights and the rights of our children to not only live in a society that doesn&#8217;t sexualize everything, but that turns school into a form of manipulation?&#8221;
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Today, it appears that certain sectors of society have absolutely no concern about robbing children of their innocence, and at times gleefully attempt to do so. It seems that so many people have become not only obsessed with sexuality but with
&mdash; Jim Caviezel (@IamJimCaviezel) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamJimCaviezel/status/1673346467199692800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The account parodying the 54-year-old &#8220;Passion of the Christ&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-caviezel-promises-passion-christ-sequel-will-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> said schools aren&#8217;t for the &#8220;propagation of woke philosophies&#8221; and instead should be emphasizing the &#8220;fundamentals of English, math, history, science, and so on.&#8221;
Society is trying to tell people &#8220;sexuality is fluid&#8221; and then said, &#8220;research shows something quite different,&#8221; the thread claimed.
&#8220;Gender differences, boys being different from girls, is a highly researched and supported topic in the field of psychology,&#8221; read the thread. &#8220;Indeed. Research has shown that human brains are not fully developed until the age of 25 or older. Thus, the brains of small children are simply too undeveloped to deal with issues related to sexuality.&#8221;
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When we force sexuality upon young children, we harm their development. When we harm children, we also harm families. And when this happens, society suffers.
&mdash; Jim Caviezel (@IamJimCaviezel) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamJimCaviezel/status/1673347654330228737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When we force sexuality upon young children, we harm their development,&#8221; it added. &#8220;When we harm children, we also harm families. And when this happens, society suffers.&#8221;
Another post retweeted a video clip from a drag march in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-drag-march-chants-were-coming-for-your-children-during-weekend-pride-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City Pride</a> that showed attendees chanting, &#8220;We&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re queer, we&#8217;re coming for your children.&#8221;
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“When did you start to believe your conspiracy theory was correct?&quot;
&quot;Well, they just started saying it out loud in front of the cameras.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/r0fZe1rYi0">https://t.co/r0fZe1rYi0</a>
&mdash; Jim Caviezel (@IamJimCaviezel) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamJimCaviezel/status/1673135057102589952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When did you start to believe your conspiracy theory was correct?&#8221; read the tweet. &#8220;Well, they just started saying it out loud in front of the cameras.&#8221;
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There is no justification for bringing children to these places. May God protect these innocent children. <a href="https://t.co/o8l2ZdByOk">https://t.co/o8l2ZdByOk</a>
&mdash; Jim Caviezel (@IamJimCaviezel) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamJimCaviezel/status/1673018678512857088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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An earlier post retweeted one from End Wokeness which included an image of Balenciaga&#8217;s controversial BDSM-themed ad campaign featuring children, along with pictures of kids at Pride events in contentious settings.
&#8220;There is no justification for bringing children to these places. May God protect these innocent children,&#8221; that tweet read.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-appalling-jim-caviezel-slams-christian-bigotry-happening-around-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Absolutely Appalling&#8217;: Jim Caviezel Slams &#8216;Christian Bigotry&#8217; Happening Around The World</a>

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LGBT Pride festivities across the U.S. and Canada over the weekend featured rampant nudity, including a Pride parade in Seattle in which men on bikes rode naked in front of children (<a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1673057359911075840">video here</a>; warning full frontal nudity).
The Seattle Pride parade, which declared on its website, “Parade is all about inclusiveness – so all ages gather along the route to watch the festivities,” also featured Boy Scouts marching in the event:
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Happening now: Seattle Pride kicks off being led Boys &amp; Girls Scouts of America.
Video by TPM’s: <a href="https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KatieDaviscourt</a> <a href="https://t.co/dw693yP37N">pic.twitter.com/dw693yP37N</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1673034216366555136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell tweeted, “It was great to feel the love, energy, and sunshine at today’s #Pride parade with @CityofSeattle employees! Our diversity makes us stronger, which is why we must send a clear message to our LGBTQIA+ community today and every day: we see you, we support you, and you belong here.”
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It was great to feel the love, energy, and sunshine at today’s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pride</a> parade with <a href="https://twitter.com/CityofSeattle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CityofSeattle</a> employees! Our diversity makes us stronger, which is why we must send a clear message to our LGBTQIA+ community today and every day: we see you, we support you, and you belong here. <a href="https://t.co/O1Ab3RHi2A">pic.twitter.com/O1Ab3RHi2A</a>
&mdash; Mayor Bruce Harrell (@MayorofSeattle) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofSeattle/status/1673098119867932672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Producer Dennis Michael Lynch snapped, “If you&#8217;re going to paint yourself, walk around naked, and play in a public fountain, I question your level of sanity. But when you do it in front of kids, without pause, I think you should be placed on a watch list.”
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If you&#39;re going to paint yourself, walk around naked, and play in a public fountain, I question your level of sanity. But when you do it in front of kids, without pause, I think you should be placed on a watch list.
&mdash; Dennis Michael Lynch (@realDennisLynch) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDennisLynch/status/1673107212124971012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The nudity in front of children was not confined to the U.S.; in Toronto, naked men stood nonchalantly on the street as children passed them.
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Nudists at Toronto Pride in areas where children are present. <a href="https://t.co/wP6VfrHBCT">pic.twitter.com/wP6VfrHBCT</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1672799980849905664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Toronto Pride festivities, which were partially sponsored by Bud Light, also offered attendees the chance to vote on whether sex education should be taught to kindergartners:
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Spotted at Toronto’s Pride festivities <a href="https://t.co/zmMccc8l2Z">pic.twitter.com/zmMccc8l2Z</a>
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“Bud Light Canada has been a proud partner of Pride Toronto for the last 10 years. This year, we&#8217;re commemorating this milestone with Pride Toronto by featuring them on our can design, as well as continuing as the official beer sponsor of the festival,” Bud Light states on its website, adding, “In 2023, Bud Light Canada is also providing a total of $100,000 to various organizations supporting the LGBTQIA2S+ community across Canada.”
Bud Light has been battling a public relations nightmare prompted by its endorsement deal with Dylan Mulvaney, a flamboyant trans influencer who claims to be a woman. Customers have abandoned Bud Light in droves; Bud Light&#8217;s sales plummeted 17% and 21% in volume in the week ending April 15 after Mulvaney, a male who identifies as a woman, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqgTftujqZc/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=be47ac0a-7017-4d6d-a424-8dcf6d27a837" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGDPlG42bU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> to his 1.8 million followers on Instagram promoting his partnership with Bud Light on April 1.
“This month I celebrated my day 365 of womanhood, and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever, a can with my face on it,” Mulvaney said.

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