FIRST! Idaho State House Passes MassResistance Resolution Against Obergefell!

 

First ever: Idaho House of Representatives passes MassResistance resolution urging SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell “gay marriage” ruling.

During floor debate: Arguments from opponents fall flat, debunked and deflated by proponents.

A few RINOs defect, but resolution passes easily by 46-24.

Unhinged LGBT activists lose their minds. But coverage by mainstream Idaho press is surprisingly objective.

January 31, 2025

 A first in the nation: The Idaho House of Representatives passed the resolution to reject Obergefell by 46-24.

This is the first time that a state legislative body has gone on record rejecting Obergefell and demanding its reversal.

On Monday, January 27 – after some interesting floor debate – the Idaho House of Representatives easily approved its resolution opposing the Obergefell “gay marriage” ruling. Fifteen RINO Republicans voted with the Democrats (which happens frequently). But it still breezed through by 46-24. Last week, the resolution sailed through the introductory House committee by 13-2.

Legislators in ten states are in the process of filing similar MassResistance resolutions. Over the next few weeks, we expect them to be formally introduced in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Michigan.

Pushing back on the Supreme Court

MassResistance’s push for state legislatures across the country to pass resolutions urging the US Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell “gay marriage” ruling is moving forward. The ruling was a move by the activist SCOTUS Justices at the time to take away the rights of the states on that contentious issue.

The 5-4 Obergefell ruling stated that the 14th Amendment required that same-sex “marriage” be allowed by the states. The ruling was deeply flawed on constitutional grounds, and Justice Thomas has stated that – similar to Roe v Wade – it should be revisited. Moreover, two of the Justices (Ginsburg and Kagan) legally should have recused themselves because they had previously officiated at “gay weddings.”  

Such resolutions are not legally binding. They simply urge the Supreme Court to revisit the Obergefell ruling. But it’s a powerful message coming from a state legislature.

The Idaho House floor debate

The Idaho House floor debate was a glimpse of what we’ll probably see when other legislatures take this on. The Left doesn’t have any legitimate arguments, so they fall back on emotion and misinformation.

 The House Speaker calls on Rep. Scott to introduce the resolution.

The debate began with the resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Heather Scott, explaining the issues involved, emphasizing federalism and 10th Amendment guarantee of states’ rights. The ruling unconstitutionally took away power that the states had always had on the issue of marriage.

 Rep. Scott began the debate session by describing what the resolution says and explaining the many reasons why it should be passed.

The opponents of the resolution ignored the stated reasons for it. Instead, they recycled various LGBT talking points: that the Legislature is wasting its time when more important issues are pressing; that this is deeply hurting the feelings of “married” gays; that it is unfairly taking away “LGBTQ rights; and that it will lead to a ban on interracial marriage.

The proponents jumped right in and responded to those points. They described the result of the heavy-handed approach the Supreme Court took: People’s lives have been destroyed because they disagreed with “gay marriage,” were aggressively prosecuted, fired from their jobs, or otherwise attacked. Other proponents spoke of the religious freedoms lost. One Rep listed the health, moral, and spiritual problems associated with homosexuality and the radical redefinition of marriage. They also brought up the fact that two of the SCOTUS justices should legally have recused themselves, which would have resulted in the case failing.

One opponent said that 99% of the messages that the Legislature has received were against it. (That’s not surprising, given the national outcry that the LGBT movement has raised.)

 This proponent reiterated that Obergefell is "bad jurisprudence" that overruns the 10th Amendment and usurps the right of the states to regulate marriage.

 LGBT talking points: This opponent of the resulution compared the resolution to banning interracial marriage and bringing back segregated lunch counters. She said that states must abide by "uniform rights" and that gays are "afraid that they are unwanted." She then talked about her gay son who fears he won't be able to marry his boyfriend.

At the end, Rep. Scott spoke again and summed up everything, pro and con. At that point, all the opponents’ arguments seemed weak and simply emotional.

Mainstream press is surprisingly objective

The reports in the Idaho mainstream media were surprisingly objective and not sensational or angry. We’re not sure why, but it was interesting.

Idaho Statesman: Idaho effort against same-sex marriage heads to Senate after Republican divide emerges

CBS Ch.2 News: Idaho House passes memorial asking Supreme Court to revisit same-sex marriage ruling

Idaho Capital Sun: Idaho House calls on U.S. Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage ruling

Boise State Public Radio – NPR: Idaho House tells SCOTUS to reverse same-sex marriage ruling

KMVT-Ch.11: Idaho House approves memorial calling on Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage decision
Idaho Press: Idaho House approves memorial to ask Supreme Court to overturn gay marriage decision

Also: Canadian Chinese-language site: Idaho lawmakers push for Supreme Court bill to overturn same-sex marriage

LGBT activists more livid and unhinged than ever

It’s academic to say that the issue of “gay marriage” is properly in the purview of the states, not the federal government, and is not in any way dictated by the 14th Amendment. That’s certainly how it’s always been universally understood.

But the reaction by LGBT activists was so bizarre and unhinged that we plan to do a separate post on it. It was infantile. The torrents of hatred and profanity that we saw were a stark reminder that we are dealing with very troubled and emotionally dysfunctional people. But anyone who’s witnessed a “gay pride” parade or argued for removing LGBT sex books from a school library already knew that.

Here's a sample email that was sent to MassResistance. We can just imagine what the Idaho legislators have been receiving!

I wanted to let you know that you should buy a gun and stick it in your mouth and ensure the safety is off and it’s loaded, then pull the trigger.

You know the world would be a better place if you weren’t in it.

You don’t contribute anything to society and you don’t have any friends.

Fucking kill yourself you pathetic incel.

The LGBT websites were much more subdued. They basically wrapped their talking points around the various aspects of the Idaho situation.

The Advocate: Idaho Republicans' resolution to repeal marriage equality is 'foreshadowing' for the U.S.

It was even reported on a German LGBT news site. The article title is translated as: US state of Idaho calls for abolition of marriage for all - and it apparently also attacks MassResistance.

Final thoughts

An interesting question: Why are these resolutions in state legislatures – which have no power of law – causing such a firestorm from the pro-LGBT Left? It’s because they know that the Obergefell ruling is a house of cards. It was raw judicial activism with no constitutional leg to stand on.  The idea of having to fight the “gay marriage” battle legally scares and angers them.

An ordered society cannot run this way. That’s why it’s important for more states to do it! Eventually, the Supreme Court will take notice.

   

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Idaho Moves MassResistance Resolution Forward

 

LGBT activists are unhinged at public hearing as Idaho Legislature committee votes to move “gay marriage” resolution forward to House floor

Hysterical LGBT protesters fill committee room, but legislators not intimidated.

Resolution passes committee by 13-2 vote. Will likely be voted on by full Idaho House this week.

Media (including New York Times) warns of apocalypse!

January 26, 2025

 The committee members (including Rep. Heather Scott) faced the horde of angry LGBT activists without flinching at all.

MassResistance’s push for state legislatures across the country to pass resolutions urging the US Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell “gay marriage” ruling is moving forward in the Idaho Legislature. 

Last Wednesday, January 22, was the first step. The House State Affairs Committee held a public hearing on the resolution and then voted 13-2 (along party lines) to send it on to the full House.

Not surprisingly, the LGBT activists and leftist media are losing their minds over it. LGBT protesters disrupted the hearing, walking out en masse during sponsor’s speech in an attempt to intimidate the legislators.

Background

The Idaho Resolution was filed earlier this month by State Rep. Heather Scott, who is also the vice-chairman of the House State Affairs Committee.

The 2015 SCOTUS 5-4 Obergefell ruling was deeply flawed on constitutional grounds. In fact, the US Constitution does not address marriage. And two of the Justices (Ginsburg and Kagan) legally should have recused themselves because they had previously officiated at “gay weddings.”

Such resolutions are not legally binding; they simply urge the Supreme Court to revisit the Obergefell ruling, as it recently did with Roe v. Wade – culminating in overturning it. But it’s a powerful message coming from a state legislature. There are now eight states where legislators will be filing similar resolutions this session.

Hysterical pro-LGBT activists pack the public hearing

Most of the testimony before last Wednesday’s committee hearing came from people who personally attended, but some testimony via Zoom was also allowed during the time period.

As expected, the vast majority of witnesses were LGBT activists or connected with other radical interests in the state. Idaho is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican. Hard leftists and LGBT activists make up a very small portion of the population. But they were well organized and came to the State Capitol that day to vent their emotions against the resolution.

Their behavior was childish and embarrassing. The LGBT crowd arrived early and filled up most of the seats in the room. The hearing began with Rep. Heather Scott formally introducing the resolution and explaining the legal basis for filing it and the constitutional issues involved. Immediately as she began speaking, the entire pro-LGBT crowd stood up in unison and walked out of the room as a rude protest. They stood outside in the hallway as she spoke. When she finished, they marched back in and took their seats. But that was just the beginning of their clown show.

 As Rep. Scott takes the podium to formally introduce the resolution, the LGBT activists stand up and walk out of the room in "protest."

The LGBT activists’ testimony did not address the issues of federalism or constitutionality that are the basis of the resolution. They whined about their “marriages” and “equal rights.” They trotted out hackneyed LGBT talking points and logical fallacies. They claimed that they were victims being persecuted by this resolution. Many blamed religion for not recognizing homosexuality as “equal” and insisted that there are “bigger problems” that need to be addressed instead.

 Transgender activist (who appeared to be mentally ill) testifies with an AR rifle strapped to his back. In Idaho you can legally carry a firearm into the State Capitol, but the ammunition must be removed.

Much of the opposing testimony came from far-left clergy claiming to be Christians. But they presented a stunning inversion of commonly understood biblical principles concerning marriage and homosexuality.

 This openly homosexual Church of Christ minister said that he loves Jesus and also loves other men. He explained that all the passages in the Old and New Testaments that appear to ban homosexual behavior have been misinterpreted, and they actually mean something completely different.

During the testimony, Republican committee members posed excellent questions to the leftist speakers. They exposed the weak arguments and the lack of thought or clarity on these issues. Many of the so-called religious speakers were unprepared and uninformed about their scriptures. For example, one left-wing pastor was asked to show where the Bible supports homosexual “marriage.” She could not provide a verse.

 A committee member probes one of the LGBT clergy about his radical interpretation of Scripture.

Also at the hearing: Some strong testimony from our side

Not as many supporters of the resolution testified, but their words were more pertinent and addressed the legal and constitutional issues behind it. Their testimony also directly debunked the emotional and logically flawed LGBT talking points. Some highlights include:

Former Idaho State Representative Julianne Young gave an impassioned defense of the resolution. She directly rebuffed one of the most outrageous lines of attack from the leftist opponents: the “rights” argument. While homosexual activists love to talk about their rights, what about the rights of everyone else? What about our freedom of speech and freedom of conscience? What about our right to live our lives according to common-sense norms that recognize the importance of natural marriage?

 Former Idaho State Rep. Julianne Young gave a clinic on the moral and religious problems with the Obergefell ruling!

The Pacific Justice Institute, a pro-bono conservative law firm based in California, weighed in on the resolution via Zoom. An attorney from that group discussed the “sheer judicial hubris” of the Supreme Court’s activist Obergefell Justices who ignored the clear wording of the Constitution.

The Idaho Family Policy Center also testified in favor of the resolution. Its representative discussed the constitutional overreach of Obergefell, and the “doctrine of lesser magistrates” that counters that. Clearly, marriage is a state issue, not a federal issue.

 The Idaho Family Policy Center representative

Arthur Schaper, our MassResistance field director, was the last person to testify in favor of this resolution. Speaking via Zoom, Arthur enumerated the legal and constitutional reasons this resolution is necessary. The Obergefell decision improperly removed the discussion entirely from all the states and the people. He also responded to several of the Left’s talking points. He pointed out that since people are not born homosexual, the comparisons to race and other “discriminations” have no merit.

Committee votes 13-2 to move the resolution forward

At the end of the testimony, the two Democrat members of the committee attempted to table the motion and keep it in committee. That failed. The committee then voted to move it to the House floor for a full vote. That will likely take place sometime this week.

Committee vote reported by leftist media far and wide!

Here are the breathless reports from corporate/legacy media regarding the public hearing and committee vote. As expected, they portray the resolution as leading to the apocalypse.

National:

New York Times: Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision Article mentions MassResistance.

MSN: Proposal asking supreme court to revisit same sex marriage advances to Idaho House floor

Idaho media:

Idaho Statesman: Protesters walked out of an Idaho committee hearing on same-sex marriage. Here’s why

Idaho Statesman: OPINION: Idaho Republican legislators hear testimony on same-sex marriage but don’t listen

Idaho Press: 'We are asking for equal rights': Committee sends resolution to overturn gay marriage to floor

Coeur D’Alene Press: After emotional hearing, Idaho committee advances resolution to overturn gay marriage

Idaho Capital Sun: Memorial targeting same-sex marriage in Idaho heads to House floor after passing committee

Boise Public Radio: Committee sends resolution to repeal same sex marriage to House floor

KTVB TV Ch. 7: Community holds walkout during committee hearing regarding same-sex marriage message

Local 8 ABC News: Controversial proposal to challenge same-sex marriage moves to Idaho House floor

Far-left / Pro LGBT:

Mebere: Idaho’s Radical GOP Launches Brazen Attack on Marriage Equality—Dares Supreme Court to Erase LGBTQ+ Rights

Daily Kos: Idaho begins the March to SCOTUS and against Marriage Equality.

Slapenas: Is Your Marriage About to Change? Major Move in Idaho Could Shift Rights

Truth Out: Idaho Republicans Demand Supreme Court Overturn 2015 Marriage Equality Decision

Them: Idaho Republicans Want the Supreme Court to Reverse Its Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Final thoughts

It was interesting that the proponents of the resolution discussed the serious legal and constitutional issues surrounding the Obergefell ruling.

But the LGBT activists were unable to defend Obergefell on that basis. Instead, they mostly wanted to talk about homosexuality – normalizing it, institutionalizing it, the emotions they feel about being “threatened” when it's not welcomed, its Biblical context, etc. They are fanatical about defending their “right” to force every state to recognize their marriages.

The organized LGBT swarm was clearly out to intimidate the Republicans with their “protest” and tried to smother the committee with nonsensical arguments. But in the end, it was difficult to take them seriously. These are obviously disturbed people.

Coming this week: The full House votes on the resolution.

The ACLU Meltdown is Real

Now this is just entertaining!

Arthur, are you feeling overwhelmed by the news lately? If so, you're not alone. It's not easy – especially when the news is filled with story after story of unconstitutional attacks on our most fundamental rights. But the overwhelm is the point. Would-be rights suppressors are trying to keep up the chaos to prevent us from putting up a real resistance. We won't let them. With supporters like you, the ACLU community is putting up a fight – and we're winning. A month into President Trump's second term, here are just a few of the fights for our rights we're achieving together: In the courts… We're filing dozens of court cases to challenge the most egregious of Trump's executive orders. We're suing to protect birthright citizenship and to stop Trump from using Guantánamo Bay to hold immigrants incommunicado with no legal resources. At the same time, we've won in court over Trump's attacks on medical care for trans youth – and while that case proceeds, we're also suing to protect trans people's right to access accurate passports. And just last week, we filed over 40 FOIA requests to federal agencies demanding more information about DOGE's reckless, unauthorized access to our personal data (not to mention the over 180,000 of you who contacted Congress directly to demand oversight and check this abuse of power). In the states… We're putting up a nationwide resistance that we call the firewall for freedom – urging state and local governments to hold firm against federal attempts to intimidate and coerce them into using local resources to carry out the worst of their anti-immigrant plans. We're fighting legislation like H.R. 32, the Defund Our Communities Act, which would cut off funding to cities and states that resist mass deportation efforts. And our affiliates are working every day in state legislatures to stop bad laws in their tracks. In the streets… Our supporters have been with us every step of the way – and we've shown up in force over the past month. Hundreds of supporters joined us in New York to design panels for our trans justice quilt. On Presidents' Day, we held events in four different states to oppose the abuses of power we've seen from this administration and mobilize to protect our rights and liberties. We'll keep exercising our First Amendment right to protest and continue to prove that the people are on the side of civil liberties. Arthur, while the last month may have felt overwhelming, the power of the ACLU community has never been clearer. We're taking real action to protect our rights – and it's working. We'll continue to show up wherever our rights are threatened and keep bringing you clarity through the chaos at every turn. Thank you for all you do to keep up the fight, The ACLU Team

Someone needs to defund the ACLU, for good!

Statement of Field Director of MassResistance on Idaho HJM1, Resolution Against Obergefell

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Field Director for MassResistance, the international pro0family group that makes the difference.

On behalf of our activists throughout the beautiful State of Idaho, I want to express my gratitude to State Rep. Heather Scott and her colleagues for hearing this common-sense, straightforward Resolution Against Obergefell v. Hodges.

For too long, the United States Supreme Court has made decisions and imposed rulings that it did not have the right, authority, or even the power to implement.

First of all, two of the justices who weighed in on this decision had officiated so-called same-sex “weddings.” They were not impartial triers of fact or law, and they should have recused themselves.

Second, United States v. Windsor, a previous Supreme Court ruling, clearly established that legislation regarding marriage is not one of the enumerated powers in Article One, Section Eight of the United States Constitution. Obergefell never addressed that issue properly.

Third, The Tenth Amendment is germane to this discussion, and the Supreme Court should have respected the Constitution and respected the power to define and enforce marriage contracts to the several states and the people.

Fourth, our constitutional republic is based on common law, and for centuries, marriage has been recognized as the union of one man and one woman. The Supreme Court had neither the right nor the reason to undermine the fundamental tenets of Anglo-American jurisprudence when they issued their poor decision.

Other problems with Obergefell include its disturbing precedent that liberty and human dignity are gifts only bestowed by the state. Nothing could be further in conflict with our Constitutional norms or our Founding principles. The rights of men come from God, not the government, as declared in the Declaration of Independence. They are not gifts that must depend on the government or the state to be distributed. Such a flawed legal theory will only invite more government tyranny at the expense of the rights of the states and the American people.

Some will argue that revisiting and overturning Obergefell v Hodges would also mean preventing interracial couples from marrying. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are born of diverse ethnic or racial backgrounds. However, there is no evidence that individuals are born homosexual, and therefore such acts are behaviors, not identities. They are not civil rights.

Furthermore, in the ten years since Obergefell was imposed on the United States, an abundance of research has come forward indicating that children do indeed need their mother and their father. One of the poor reasons one of the justices gave to support redefining marriage was that he didn’t want children not to have their parents. But Marriage as an institution is not just about the husband and the wife, but about the rearing of children and the basic cultural underpinnings which make civilization possible. Children need mothering and fathering, not just mere parenting.

The State of Idaho should be commended for taking this bold stance, and I urge the House State Affairs Committee to support this Resolution.

Refreshing: Head of State Denounces Feminism

I have waited all my life for a HEAD OF STATE to denounce feminism and call out all the lies of that horrible ideology. 

 And Javier Milei has delivered once again!

Javier Milei | "Radical feminism raises the flag of the 'gender pay gap' (...) yet they don't complain that most prisoners are men (...) nor that most plumbers are men, nor that most robbery and murder victims are men. Not to mention the most people who died in wars are man."… pic.twitter.com/tFeRiMNej6

— DutchLibertarian (@LibertarianDuty) January 23, 2025

Kenya MassResistance Anti-LGBT Trainings ON THE MOVE!

 

Kenya MassResistance anti-LGBT training sessions taking off in high schools across Nairobi.

School administrators and parents are very supportive!

January 22, 2025

 Teaching the "resistance" course at a high school in Nairobi on Jan. 14, 2025.

MassResistance is helping the youth of Kenya – and their parents!

The LGBT agenda fully infiltrated the schools in America decades ago, as it swept through the whole of Western society.

But other parts of the world – particularly countries in Central Africa – stuck to their moral beliefs and refused to allow the harmful agenda to take hold. Pressure from the UN, United States, Britain, and others had minimal effect for a long period.

But in recent years, several Central African countries have been targeted by extremely wealthy foreign LGBT groups, United Nations money, and foreign government money. This funding goes to NGOs (non-governmental organizations) set up inside those countries to implement the LGBT agenda and change the country’s culture – and particularly to proselytize school children.

MassResistance has been contacted by pro-family people in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal for help. Homosexual behavior is technically illegal in all these countries. But the NGOs are making alarming inroads. Politicians have been caving in, and courts have been corrupted.

The foreign LGBT invasion of Kenya targeting students

In Kenya, a huge amount of foreign money is being used to target schoolchildren.

Across the country, LGBT groups are helping poor families pay for costs associated with educating their children. In return, the children must attend so-called “life skills” classes held off-site by the LGBT groups. The classes are basically fronts for normalizing homosexuality – and as a result, the number of students involved with homosexuality has shockingly increased, according to people involved with the schools.

Designing training for students to resist and push back

Since December, our new Kenya MassResistance chapter has been working hard to implement an organized pushback. As we reported, we worked with local teachers, pastors, and other professionals there to design training for students to help them to understand the dangers of what is being pushed on them by the LGBT organizations and to actively resist it.

MassResistance is uniquely qualified to design these sessions. We have dealt first-hand with the LGBT propaganda in our schools and helped parents and students across America oppose it for over 25 years.

In late December, our Kenya MassResistance chapter held its initial training sessions – a three-day course at a church and a one-day course at a local high school. That experience helped MassResistance to create a powerful, more compact course to take on the road.

Informing parents and community members

Parents in Kenya have been largely kept in the dark about the true nature of the “life skills” classes. So the Kenya MassResistance team has also begun a campaign to inform parents and community members about the LGBT insurgence into the schools, how it endangers youth, and Kenya MassResistance’s organized efforts to help stop it.

Parents have been very receptive – and they have encouraged their children to actively take part in anything offered by Kenya MassResistance.

 Pastor Benard, the leader of Kenya MassResistance, gives a speech to a group of parents about what's happening in their schools - and how to protect their children.

Taking the course to high schools across Nairobi

Most high schools in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, already have a regular course on Christian issues, with classes taught by local Christian groups. But those courses have not addressed the LGBT ideology confronting the students.

The pastors in Kenya MassResistance are affiliated with the groups teaching the Christian courses in many of those high schools across Nairobi. They have now secured permission to come in and teach the Kenya MassResistance course in high schools across Nairobi.

This effort is supported by school administrators, who generally do not support the LGBT agenda. They have seen the destruction it has brought to students and welcome training for students to resist it.

So starting this month, instructors from Kenya MassResistance began holding training sessions in Nairobi high schools. The students’ eyes are being opened as they hear this new information!

The required LGBT “life skills” courses are very slick, sophisticated, and seductive. But the students are now understanding the deception and dangers that those classes present to them. They are gaining skills to repel and debunk that. Moreover, they can effectively steer their friends away from believing any of it.

This is very exciting, and it’s just the beginning. After covering high schools in Nairobi, the MassResistance team plans to expand its reach across the country – as far as their resources and funds will allow.

Final thoughts

This is critical for children in Kenya. We’re thrilled to be able to help.

And we’re using this course as the basis for developing anti-LGBT propaganda tools for youth in America and other Western countries.

Students in the West go through a more intense experience, including propaganda on transgenderism and other perversions. It’s pushed at them in a way that’s very hostile to any disagreement. So any training must be geared to that. The Kenya effort provides an excellent starting point.

   

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Donate to MassResistance

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Seven Reasons Why Trump Won in 2024

 It is a new day in Washington as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans have control of the Senate and House. As prep for your upcoming inaugural events, these discussion points recap seven must-know facts from the 2024 election:

1. For the first time since the Watergate era, independents surpassed one of the major political parties to rank second in terms of party identification. Independents went from 27% in 2020 to 34% in 2024 — a 7-point increase.

2. Coming in behind independents as a percentage of the electorate, Democrats were de facto the third party in the election. Democrats went from 37% of the presidential electorate in 2020 to 31% in 2024, a 6-point drop.

3. Republicans had a historic party ID advantage. While the overall percentage of the electorate that was Republican decreased by 1%, going from 36% in 2020 to 35% in 2024, Republicans had a +4 party ID advantage after not having any advantage in the ten prior presidential elections.

4. The view of the economy was very negative. Exit polls showed that an overwhelming 75% of the electorate said inflation had posed some level of hardship for them and their families. From our post-election survey, economy/inflation was the top issue at 40%, with Republicans leading on economy issues handling +11 and inflation +12. In contrast, Democrats chose to focus their campaign messages on abortion and democracy.

5. Trump was the change candidate. Exit polls showed that the top two most important candidate qualities (out of a choice of four) were his ability to lead and to bring needed change. Trump won decisively on both attributes, leading 2:1 on the ability to lead (+33 Trump), and 3:1 on can bring needed change (+50 Trump).

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6. Republicans made significant inroads with Hispanic voters with Trump winning 46% of this voter group. This is an improvement from the performances in 2016 (28%) and 2020 (32%).

7. Despite Democrats’ campaign emphasis on abortion and having a female nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris won women only by 8 points. Harris’ margin among women was significantly smaller than President Joe Biden’s 2020 margin among women (+15) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 margin among women (+13).

David Winston and Myra Miller are co-founders of the Winston Group. This was republished with permission from the Winston Group.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

TLPVRA Speech Update on MassResistance

 

This year is a very exciting year for MassResistance 

We have the special distinction because we have started a major discussion in state legislatures across the country. We are taking a firm stance against the corrupt same-sex marriage decision that was imposed by the United States Supreme Court in 2015. We have submitted our Resolution Against Obergefell v. Hodges.

Where many pro-family groups are tinkering around the edges, we are determined to get to the heart of the matter. The entire push of sexual perversion in the schools, the grooming of the kids in the libraries, and all of the abuses that are happening in our prisons and public spaces and even in women's sports, all of this goes back to the normalization of same-sex “marriage.” 

A year and a half ago we drafted a resolution against the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision. We submitted this to some legislators then, and we got a draft done in Idaho, but there was no time to submit it at the time.

Last year, an Idaho legislator contacted me and said that she would file it this year. So now we are off and running! 

As of today, legislators in eight states are filing our resolution. This is a bigger move because in the past other pro-family groups wanted to promote Traditional Family Month or Christian Heritage Month. But MassResistance has always stood out in contacts because we are going to the core of the issue and not being afraid to say the hard truths about this entire agenda. 

The fact is that homosexuality itself is harmful, and yet now we even see conservatives caving on this. We should not be giving ground on this. It is embarrassing that Barack Obama when he ran for president in 2008 was more conservative on the fight against the LGBT agenda than Republicans are today. That is not something we should be tolerating 

So, as I said, we have our resolution in eight states, and Idaho was the first one. We have envisioned that the Gem State, the potato state is going to be a strong conservative bastion for the fight for the family. That state was the first state to keep men out of women's sports. MassResistance helped the legislators get that bill passed in 2020. And now we see a growing interest to push back on all the LGBT perversion. And that fight has been particularly strong in Idaho. 

To date, the total states where we have filed our resolution are:

Idaho 

North Dakota 

Montana 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Michigan 

Mississippi 

Arizona 

I’ve contacted legislators in California, and they told me that their Republican caucus would take a look at the bill next week. We’ll see what happens, but the legislator I spoke to was very supportive of the measure notwithstanding. 

We have been in ongoing discussions with legislators in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Maine. We tried to get it in Virginia, but they have a very short window. And Virginia has one of the shortest legislative sessions in the country. 

Folks, this is the fight that matters. We have to defends not only the cultural territory we still have, but we need to take back territory that has been lost. And this has been the problem with the conservative movement, the right movement, the common sense or constitutional movement. We keep hearing about making America great again.

But you can't make America great again if you don't

make male and female great again

make marriage great again,

 make mom and dad great again. 

 

Where we have made progress in comparison to a lot of pro-family groups is that we have not backed away from pointing out the fundamental problems associated with allowing two men to abuse each other and call that a marriage. There have been manifold problems across society as a result of undermining marriage and family. And I have hope that more people are starting to wake up to this problem. All the things that mass resistance warned the public about with our documentary what gay marriage did the Massachusetts well people are now seeing it around the world. People are seeing the political persecution of people of faith who refuse to celebrate this perversion people. 

 

We have seen people losing their jobs in in the medical profession, and the legal profession, in the teaching profession because they refuse to celebrate this perversity. We have seen an unprecedented rate of children being abused in our public schools, and all of this is because these sexually explicit and disgusting topics are now pushed to the forefront. Since when would any of us have tolerated a club at a middle school allowing kids to openly affiliate as homosexual or transgender? This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, even 20 years ago. But it's happening now even here in the city of Torrance. 

And we need to push back on our political leadership. There are a lot of people in the Republican Party right now who think that we should just give up the fight, I mean look what happened in California! Proposition 3 passed, undermining proposition 8 from 2008. However, I don't think that we should back away just because society is still backwards on this issue. And that's part of the point. Fighting to restore the family is not going backward. This is a true progressive movement real progress is defending mom and dad and ensuring that children have the best institution for their education and their development. And that's a mom and a dad The research is out after 10 years of this failed experiment that was imposed on us by the Supreme Court.

I could even tell you that I had an extensive discussion with a student from UC Berkeley who is from Palos Verdes. We had a truly thoughtful discussion was about 2 hours I recorded the discussion as well. And the constant refrain of a lot of these LGBT advocates is that two dads is just as good as a mom and a dad. Well, I had all the research at that point and I was able to demolish the guy. I said no children need a mom and a dad they're a whole host of health problems and emotional problems and development problems when you deprive children of a mom and a dad. In fact it is actively harmful to push children into a same-sex household. There's nothing but abuse there's nothing but neglect there's nothing but trauma. 

We must hold Donald Trump accountable and not back down on fight for pro-family values. He has installed out homosexuals in his government, including the Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessent, who openly is in a false marriage with a man, who trafficked children away from their natural parents, and guess what? He worked for George Soros! 

What's going on here? We should not tolerate this. I don't begrudge anybody for voting for Donald Trump. I voted for him too. But we shouldn't sit on our laurels and think that the work is done. We must demand that we take this country back. I'm not interested in moving further to the left and allowing our society to dilapidate. 

MassResistance has taken a stand on this issue, and I am so grateful that there are people in this audience especially You've reached out to us directly and have thanked us and supported us. 

 

And that's not all that mass resistance is doing. We're now reaching out to people in Africa we are helping to train pro-family activists in Kenya and I just had a meeting with a guy in Senegal a couple of days ago. The language barrier is a little difficult, but Ispeak French and study it so I still speak as a person say minor Francine. 

And we are still helping parents fight the crappy indoctrination in the schools. Our only concern right now is that a lot of people seem to be very complacent because Donald Trump is back in office. And that is the wrong lesson to be learning. We cannot back down an hour role as citizens. And mass resistance is taking up the fight we are actively defying the Trump administration on this. We're not okay with same-sex marriage. We're not okay with gay adoption. We're not okay with depriving children of a mom and a dad. We are not okay with our natural rights being undermined in the name of sexual degeneracy. 

We are not okay with people calling LGBT-based child abuse allyship, because  that's what's happening. Whenever somebody comes up and says I support my LGBT daughter. What that person is really saying is I have no problem abusing my daughter. Or I have no problem abusing my son. We have to have the courage of saying this. 

I know this is a political club specifically, we have to talk about political angles. I cannot think of anything more foolish than to alienate a growing burgeoning voting block for the Republican Party, and that is the large Hispanic communities that are voting in larger numbers for Republican candidates. They do not support same-sex marriage, they do not support abortion, they do not support drag queens around kids. Mass resistance was able to stop drag queen story hour from coming back to Chula Vista California. And Chula Vista is 80% Democratic. They also have a Republican mayor, a Republican mayor who did not support the drag queen story hour program. Just want to point that out, just as the Mayor of Torrance, George Chen, refused to recognize so-called “Pride” month.

MassResistance is really making the difference, but we need your continued support as well. Thank you so much Scott for your ongoing support.

Texas Scorecard: NUTS to the Establishment

 Friday Reflection

NUTS!

by Michael Quinn Sullivan

You have a choice: surrender or keep fighting. Your opponents want your advances to look like losses and your setbacks to be magnified. What will you do?

The name of Anthony McAuliffe isn’t as well-known in the 21st century as it perhaps should be. He was acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He and his soldiers were defending Bastogne in December 1944. They had been cut off, were cold, and running out of everything. The situation was more than unpleasant; it was war.

The German commander sent a message, offering the Americans a chance to surrender. McAuliffe was known to be a man of great restraint, but even he lost his cool at the suggestion. He tossed the message to the ground and used what was, apparently for him, the strongest possible reaction. It was a simple, one-word answer: “Nuts!”

McAuliffe didn’t have an unrealistic view of the situation, but he had an overriding sense of obligation to his mission. His soldiers had created a solid perimeter, and they were committed to the cause.

The result, of course, was that the Allies emerged victorious in the battle and the war.

Texas conservatives are being told to surrender. The uniparty forces of establishmentarians have once again given the speakership of the Texas House to someone selected by the Democrats. All hope is gone, we’re told. You’ve lost. Give up. Go home. Stop fighting.

That’s definitely the message being pushed. And some doom-and-gloomers will want to buy into it. It is, after all, easier to lose. Waving a white flag ahead of your own victory does save you time and trouble. Someone has to win, so why not let it be the other guys, right? It absolves one of governing responsibility.

On the other hand, you’re winning. The conservative movement in Texas has made it further than it ever has before. Why waste that effort? Why waste that momentum?

For 30 years, I’ve been watching the Texas Legislature as a journalist, a political observer, a policy nerd, an activist, and now again as a citizen-journalist. What happened in the Texas House on January 14, 2025, was nothing short of historic.

Not in my memory has there been an actual contested vote with such clear sides. When they could have given up, a majority of the Texas House GOP said, “Nuts!” They voted with their constituents. They voted for Texas.

Many newbies—to Texas or just to Texas politics— probably don’t realize how rare that is. In context, the highwater “opposition” to the uniparty crony candidate for speaker was previously 19. 

In 2024, Texas voters forced two dozen crony Republicans from office and, in doing so, expanded the majority in the state’s House and Senate.

What happened on January 14 was the death rattle of a dying way of life, in which vested interests in Austin profiting off their “service” in the legislature work in opposition to their constituents without accountability or notice. They are losing, and they know it.

Giving up now would be foolish. Victory is in sight. Press forward and tell the opposition that they are nuts. The fight for Texas goes on.

Quote-Unquote

"Never give up the fight for freedom—a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man."

– Ronald Reagan

Liberty Counsel Talks about MassResistance Resolution in Idaho

 

Arthur,

The Idaho legislature is taking a giant step in protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In doing so, the legislature is stating the obvious about marriage and asserting its right as a state. And that step is directly connected to not one, but TWO of our cases here at Liberty Counsel. This development comes just in time for my upcoming oral argument. Help Liberty Counsel defeat the ID National Guard’s “No Christian Commanders” policy and overturn Obergefell with your gift today.

In 2006, Idahoans voted overwhelmingly to affirm marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The amendment to the state Constitution held until an activist U.S. Supreme Court’s wrongful decision nine years later in Obergefell made up the fiction that marriage is something it isn’t. Shortly after the Obergefell opinion came out on June 26, 2025, our client Kim Davis went to jail for six days as she awaited religious accommodation so that her name would not appear on marriage certificates. Kim’s case wound up winning religious freedom for ALL Kentucky officials. Yet, Kim faces bankruptcy because two men SUED her civilly for exercising the religious freedom rights she fought so hard to win. I will argue Kim’s case on January 30. And just this last year, our client, a commander in the Idaho Army National Guard, was relieved of his command because of his Christian beliefs, which uphold the biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. Now the Idaho Legislature introduced a resolution demanding the U.S. Supreme Court restore to the states the right to once again affirm that marriage is between one man and one woman and to overturn the Obergefell decision that created this mess. Idaho State Legislator Heather Scott introduced the measure January 7, saying the High Court had exercised “illegitimate overreach” when it decided the Obergefell case. The legislation demands the Court reinstate the “natural definition of marriage” as between one man and one woman. If passed, the Resolution would be largely symbolic, but it will be sent to the Supreme Court as reflecting the will of the people of Idaho. In addition to Kim Davis in Kentucky, the loss of command and abuse our Idaho National Guard client suffered as a result of the Obergefell decision reveals exactly what we have warned about for the last 10 years — that Obergefell would be used to eliminate the religious freedom of Christians. Kim Davis faces bankruptcy for exercising her religious freedom rights. The Idaho Army National Guard officer has lost his command. Liberty Counsel continues to fight in both of these cases. And, we intend to take Kim’s case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure the LGBTQ lobby can never again erase religious freedom rights. And while we are at it, we are going to ask the Court to overturn the Obergefell decision that created these awful messes. If we win, these two obedient followers of God will have their lives and livelihoods restored. And states like Idaho may once again have their right to define marriage restored. But that can only happen with YOUR help. Liberty Counsel NEVER charges our clients because we know that few people could afford to defend themselves and their rights against government gone mad. Instead, they rely on YOU, the faithful Liberty Counsel supporter. Praise God, a generous supporter has extended a special Challenge Grant to support our work. Every donation made today — including recurring monthly donations — will be DOUBLED in impact by the grant. Please, make your best gift today so that not one more Christian can be sued, fired, or punished for following the will of God.

Pray for Kim Davis, the Idaho commander, and their families. These good people have been punished for their faithfulness to the Lord. Mat Staver Founder and Chairman Liberty Counsel

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