LGBT Hate: Man Convicted of "Gender Violence" for Calling a Man, a Man

 

Salma Luévano is a man. Sue me. August 15, 2023 Dear Arthur, A man named Salma Luévano is a man. He is a national legislator in Mexico. He is a man. He has always been male. He is male now. He thinks he is a woman. He is deluded. And now his delusion is leading to the punishment of another man, a good man named Rodrigo Iván Cortés who was a Congressman in Mexico and whose picture you see above. Rodrigo is a faithful Catholic and a family man. The crime Rodrigo has been convicted of is referring to Luévano as a man. You read that right. Rodrigo, who is a friend of C-Fam’s, has been convicted of telling the truth about the sex of another man. His conviction was just upheld by the Mexican high court. He has been convicted of “gender-based violence” for calling a man a man. This is outrageous. Consider this. Rodrigo’s Tweets referring to Luévano as a man came as a response to the anti-Catholic bigotry of Luévano who mocked Catholic teaching on human sexuality as “hate speech.” This is the world we live in now. This is the world the sexual left wants to impose on all of us, including on you and me. They would love to convict me of hate crimes for calling Luévano a man. Luévano is a man. He is not a woman. He is psychologically confused. I dare them to come after me for saying this. Here’s the thing. C-Fam fights this kind of thing every working day. We have fought the sexual left every working day for 26 years. We will never allow such a thing in the UN context. We would fight this to the very end. In fact, we helped to negotiate a hard law treaty that states “gender” is “men and women in the context of society.” Again, this is a hard law that established the International Criminal Court. The Biden administration and the European Union are working hard to change this definition. There is a new treaty about to be negotiated on Crimes Against Humanity where they want to say “gender” is a social construct and therefore is completely elastic. And they want to punish those of us who say Luévano is a man, just as they are punishing Rodrigo. Help us fight the sexual left at the UN. Often, we are all alone. There are only six of us at C-Fam. Donate Can you help us right now so we can continue our fight against this wicked agenda? Can you afford $100? $50. Help us right now and make sure there are no more persecutions of faithful Catholics who stand against the gender agenda. Yours in Christ, Austin Ruse President/C-Fam Publisher/Friday Fax Image Credit: ADF International

Deace Endorses DeSantis

Steve Deace makes the case for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for President. He did not hold back his preference for the Florida governor for the last few months. But this time, he went all out and endorsed his candidacy. He gives a compelling set of explanations below.

Thank you, @SteveDeaceShow. @RonDeSantis is honored to have your endorsement!

“I have never seen anyone that — when it comes to the issues that are going to decide the future for our children and grandchildren — has more knowledge, more willingness, more resume in understanding… pic.twitter.com/mHyT7Xzctt — Casey DeSantis (@CaseyDeSantis) August 11, 2023

What I find really helpful is that Deace calls out Trump for going after Christie, yet also pointing out that it was Trump who revived Christie's political career by reaching out to him for advice on whom to appoint to head the FBI. You can't bash the guy on one hand, then hide the fact that you had reached out to him for help staffing the executive departments in Washington DC. That is all wrong. 

 And fundamentally, that is one of the biggest problems with Trump. He is easy to flatter, and enemies of his agenda get into the wings of power and undermine his agenda just by flattering him. And Trump has not learned from these mistakes. I have had enough of this. I also liked that Deace pointed out how we need someone to DO the MAGA, not just market or message the MAGA. That's a big deal. That's a huge problem on the Trump side. It has been all talk, no walk, no accomplishment, and he did not lead the GOP into restored victory in 2022. He has sided with the Swamp more, not less, since he left the White House, and most of the candidates he endorsed in 2022 were going to win anyway, since it was a conservative field, or they lost. DeSantis has accomplished immense policy victories over and over. 

When Deace shared that DeSantis should go after Disney's government perks and set-asides in the state, then DeSantis actually did it, I felt that Deace was reading my mind, too. DeSantis is creative and effective with government power. We need that kind of thinking in Washington DC, and we need that kind of bold resolve, as well.

Muratsuchi Doesn't Know the South Bay, Confuses Manhattan Beach and Palos Verdes

 

Asm. Al Muratsuchi is inviting Manhattan Beach residents to a Community Town Hall in Rolling Hills Estates.

Really.

Who is in charge of his website? Does this guy have any shame?

Does anyone working in Sacramento have any competence at all?

Check out the post below for yourself! (here's the link)

LGBT Activists Fear DeSantis, Not Trump

LGBT Activists are targeting DeSantis. They are not going after Trump, because they are not afraid of Trump. They know that he has caved on the important cultural issues. They also know that he is easier to defeat in 2024. Check out this LGBT protester in South Carolina, and see how Gov. DeSantis handled him:

Left-wing protesters for gender insanity in schools get wrecked by Ron DeSantis, and the crowd leaps to their feet.

“We don’t want you indoctrinating our children. Leave our kids alone!” pic.twitter.com/ZlvMl7CoL9

— Never Back Down (@NvrBackDown24) July 17, 2023

This is the leadership we need in Washington DC!

Gary Bauer: Fight for Normalcy

 The Left’s War On Normalcy

 
A Fox News analyst noted last night that several current and potential candidates for the 2024 GOP nomination are running on the idea that they will “restore normalcy to our public discourse,” something many Americans desperately want. 
 
I want that, too.  But I know that there will be no normalcy unless we surrender.  That’s when the yelling will stop – when we stop resisting the left’s insanity.
 
The left is not going to abandon its demands that we subsidize abortion up to the moment of birth.  And I’m not going to give in to that.
 
The left is not going to abandon its demands that radical Marxists indoctrinate our children with our tax dollars in our public schools.  And I’m not going to give in to that.
 
The left is not going to abandon its demands that it gets to control what we can say and think.  And I’m not going to give in to that!
 
Are you?
 
But until you kneel, normalcy will not happen. 
 
Normalcy returned to war-torn Europe only after the Nazis were defeated.  Normalcy will only return to America when the anti-life, anti-family, anti-religious liberty, anti-freedom of speech neo-Marxists are defeated.
 
Anyone who wants to get back to normal must be willing to fight for it.  If they’re not up to the fight, then they’re halfway to surrendering, whether they realize it or not.

Stop Transgenderism in Family Courts: Call CA State Senate to Stop AB 957

 

Hi Arthur, The very immoral, anti-parent bill, AB 957, on the floor of the California State Senate, CAN be defeated with your help today, Friday night, and this weekend. Because when the Senate returns the afternoon of Monday, August 14, you don't want them voting on it! As written, AB 957 is a very bad bill instructing family court judges to disfavor parents who have moral objections to their child "transitioning," and don't "affirm." Bottom line, support the biological truth and get your children taken from you! Grasp that even the Democrat-run Legislative Counsel's Office has described AB 957 as: "This bill, for purposes of this provision, would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child." So, as amended July 3, this radically-bad bill continues to require "a parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity or gender expression." Don't "affirm" your own child's transsexual delusion -- don't get custody! This is about as anti-parent as it gets.

The Democrat author of AB 957, Lori Wilson (shown above; see her Solano County district) claims her anti-parent, anti-free-speech, anti-religious-freedom, bill is "essential" because all "trans" children need to be "affirmed." And despite Wilson publicly claiming to be a "Christian," she ignores what the Bible says about transsexuality being being a sin. What's the best strategy to stop AB 957 on the floor of the California Senate? STEP 1: Call your own state senator -- at both the district and Capitol offices -- and identify yourself, on Friday, August 11, from 9am to 5pm. Leave your message with a staffer or via voicemail. Say something like, "I’m calling to urge Senator ________ to oppose AB 957. The amended bill fails to protect religious parents and violates Senate Judiciary Committee members' demand for religious accommodation. Don't punish otherwise good parents by taking away their kids. Oppose the amended AB 957!" STEP 2: Call the 4 Democrat state senators who demanded religious accommodation in AB 957 in the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 13. When you call anonymously and after-hours (Friday after 7pm and all weekend), quote their own words back to them and call them a liar if they don't stand up and oppose this anti-parent bill. Tell them, "In committee, you passed AB 957 on the condition that it be amended to accommodate religious parents. Well, the July 3rd amendment doesn't protect them at all. You need to stand up to oppose this bad bill. If you don't, you lied about it in committee!" Senator Ben Allen 916-651-4024 | 310-318-6994: "I certainly want to make sure that just because someone is religious, for example, and there’s nothing that they do as a parent that would impact the health and welfare and mental well-being of the child — they accept the child’s decisions but they struggle with it themselves – I would certainly want to make sure that person wasn’t dinged under a custody dispute in the context of this bill…I would like the author and the chair to spend some time working together on tightening up some of the language so that we can make sure that a parent — for whom we have no concern about impacting the mental health of the child, but who may have a personal, perhaps a religious, conflict with gender fluidity — wouldn’t be dinged if we don’t have a concern about their ability to be a good parent to that child." Senator Anna Caballero 916-651-4014 | 559-264-3070: “I want to encourage you to continue the discussion, and I reserve the right not to support it on the floor if it doesn’t change — ’cause I think there’s challenges with exactly what does it mean. And I don’t think we want to send something to the court that causes confusion or wrong decisions.” Senator Angelique Ashby 916-651-4008 | 916-651-1529: “I’m going to support you today, Assemblywoman Wilson, but I’m going to join my colleagues in asking you to work with Senator Umberg as Judiciary Chair on adding some clarifying language.” Senator Tom Umberg (Judiciary Committee Chair) 916-651-4034 | 714-558-3785: “We will continue to work to make sure that the bill, as interpreted by the court, will be done in a way that is consistent with your view and our view of public policy…We will continue to work to make sure that — Senator Allen’s point — that if you have a parent who — perhaps he has a religious belief that is not consistent with someone wishing to transition but is unconditionally loving and tolerant, that that doesn’t preclude that parent having custodial rights. Is that your understanding also?” STEP 3: Call anonymously 7pm to 8am and all weekend to the deciding-vote Democrats. In your afterhours voicemails, tell them, "I’m calling to urge you to oppose AB 957. The amended bill fails to protect religious parents and violates Senate Judiciary Committee members' demand for religious accommodation. Don't punish otherwise good parents by taking away their kids. Oppose the amended AB 957!" Leave strategic, anonymous, afterhours voicemails for up to 21 of them: Ben Allen 916-651-4024 | 310-318-6994 Marie Alvarado-Gil 916-651-4004 | 916-933-8680 Bob Archuleta 916-651-4030 | 562-406-1001 Angelique Ashby 916-651-4008 | 916-651-1529 Catherine Blakespear 916-651-4038 | 760-642-0809 Anna Caballero 916-651-4014 | 559-264-3070 Bill Dodd 916-651-4003 | 707-224-1990 María Elena Durazo 916-651-4026 | 213-483-9300 Steve Glazer 916-651-4007 | 925-754-1461 Lena Gonzalez 916-651-4033 | 323-277-4560 Melissa Hurtado 916-651-4016 | 661-395-2620 Monique Limón 916-651-4019 | 805-988-1940 Dave Min 916-651-4037 | 949-223-5472 Steve Padilla 916-651-4018 | 760-335-3442 Anthony Portantino 916-651-4025 | 818-409-0400 Richard Roth 916-651-4031 | 951-680-6750 Susan Rubio 916-651-4022 | 909-469-1110 Lola Smallwood-Cuevas 916-651-4028 | 213-745-6656 Henry Stern 916-651-4027 | 818-876-3352 Tom Umberg 916-651-4034 | 714-558-3785 Aisha Wahab 916-651-4410 | 510-794-3900

DeSantis Stands up to the LGBT Agenda

 

I love Gov. DeSantis!

He knows how to fight. He knows how to win.

And most importantly, he is not afraid to stand up to LGBT agednda on the Right as well as on the Left!

Check out his latest ad, right at end of "Pride" month:

To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…

https://t.co/FT7LdW4vls

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 30, 2023

I am so glad that DeSantis took on the Orange Man and his obsession with making nice with LGBT perversion.

I am so glad to have a Presidential contender who will call out LGBT everything.

I am so glad to have a Presidential candidate who wants to fight the culture wars, and knows how to WIN the culture wars, too.

President Trump reshaped the political landscape, but it's a huge mistake to think that this country is going to get better if we do not take a firm stance for natural marriage, life, and family. President Trump has showed all too often a willingness to cave and "get along to go along." That is the last thing that we need now in this country.

For all of President Trump's tough talk about "Make America Great Again," you cannot make America great again if you do not:

1. Make Male and Female Great Again
2. Make Marriage Great Again
3. Make Mom and Dad Great Again.

There is no debate on these issues.

There is no point to "Build the Wall!" if you do not build the family.

There is no point to stopping illegal immigration or mass immigration if a country's native population is plummetting, and there is no effort to ensure a course correction.

There is no point to economic growth and development if public health and public morals collapse in the street.

We need to stand against the LGBT juggernaut. We need to reject sexual perversion and profligacy. What happens in private has public consequences, and right and wrong remain right and wrong, whether people are watching or not.

Governor DeSantis understands the larger need to fight for what is right, and to stand against the LGBT agenda. He is my first choice in the 2024 Presidential primaries.

"Norwalk Patriot" Reporter Defames Mothers and Fathers in Norwalk-La Mirada Unified as a "Hate Group"

 

Vincent Medina of the Norwalk Patriot wrote a defamatory article labeling mothers and fathers in Norwalk-La Mirada Unifed School District “a hate group.”

The @nlmusd board of education listened as California Mass Resistance expressed unfounded claims about the @JohnGlennASB Wellbeing Center.

✍️/📸 Vincent Medina#norwalkpatriot #nlmusd #johnglenn @VincentNMedina @nlmusd_supt https://t.co/duYL4t9r11 pic.twitter.com/PG4cgiimr4

— The Norwalk Patriot (@NorwalkPatriot) July 6, 2023

These parents reached out to MassResistance to help them fight to remove the student well-being center at John Glenn High School, and to keep it out of Waite Middle School. The student well-being center has staff from Los Angeles County Office of Education, an institution with a long-established relationship with Planned Parenthood.

Instead of representing the views of the parents or considering their side of the matter, Medina just defamed them as “a hate group.”

These are the mothers and fathers whom Vincent Medina labeled “a hate group” for wanting to protect children from Planned Parenthood’s abortion and sex mutilation agenda via the student “well-being” centers:

One has to wonder:

Does Vincent have a problem with them because they speak English and Spanish?

Why does he have a problem with mothers and fathers who want to protect their children from indoctrination and sex mutilation?

Here’s the disturbing content that Medina wrote in defense of these “well-being centers”:

The Wellbeing Center provides health education, information about substance abuse, mental health and stress reduction groups. Masters Level Health Educators from the LACDPH are present to support students, teach sexual health and provide sexually active young people with counseling, according to the FAQ.

A registered nurse is also available for on-site testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, condoms, over-the-counter emergency contraception, pregnancy tests and sexual health information for students.

Anyone who thinks that a stranger should be providing kids with condoms and contraception is a predator and a groomer, as well. There is absolutely no excuse, no reason for staff trained by Planned Parenthood to be pushing anything on children, and to do so without the parents’ knowledge or permission.

Why does the Norwalk Patriot think it’s acceptable to shame and defame parents in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District? Why does Vincent Medina think it’s OK to push sexual deviance and perversion on children? Very creepy, and very disturbing.

Contact the reporter and demand a full retraction for his hateful libel in against Norwalk-La Mirada parents:

Reporter Vincent Medina
(562) 991-4133
Email: medinarsv@gmail.com

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Movie Review: No Country for Old Men

 

The Coen Brothers have established a pretty strong repertoire of films. They look at strange, quirky outcomes, or the savage behavior of otherwise normal people. They depict some of the gritty realities of the human condition. Their movies convey a captivating suspense which engages audiences from beginning to end.

Most people celebrate Fargo as their best movie, but I disagree.

No County for Old Men is their best film. While Fargo becomes more underwhelming as the movie progressed to its climax, No Country for Old Men captivates you. The Big Lebowski is a big disappointment–and yes, that is my opinion, dude, a hollow comedy filled with self-aware slackers or caricatured wealth with little bearing on reality.

But No Country for Old Men is fuflfilling, a movie that just gives you chills. It was a stirring, warm, powerful drama, one with gradual and compelling suspense throughout. Even though I have seen this movie a few times, some of the most terrorizing moments in the movie still scare me, still shock when I watch them.

The stunning evil of the main character, Anton Chigurh, played by Havier Bardem, is unmistakable for its grandeur. He’s evil, yet there is a principled mesmerizing aspect to his evil that causes you to admire its portrayal. The methodical efforts of greedy Llewellyn Moss (played by Josh Brolin), who takes the cash from a drug deal turned Mexican stand-off, the old sheriff tracking the case (Ed Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones), and Chigurh are fascinating and entertaining throughout the film. Who would have thought that a man washing his hands after choking someone could get your attention, or the steps that another man takes to move a briefcase full of cash from one motel room to the next via an airduct would be so … entertaining?

I saw this film twice in the movie theaters when it came out in 2007. I rarely ever did that, but that’s how good this film was.

One of the most moving scenes in this movie was the final scene, with now-retired sheriff Ed Bell sharing with his patient, strong, honest wife two dreams that he had the night before. The first one he could not recall, but the second one he remembered pretty vividly.

Here is that second dream:

[I]t was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin’ through the mountains of a night…goin’ through this pass in the mountains.

It was cold and snowin’,  hard ridin’. Hard country. He rode past me and kept on goin’. Never said nothin’ goin’ by. He just rode on past and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down… 

And when he rode past I seen he was carryin’ fire in a horn the way used to do and I could see   the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin’ on ahead and that he was fixin’ to a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there.

And then I woke up.

This is a powerful dream, one of strong, subtle, even somber comfort, hope in the face of a dark, fearful future. Ed Bell reminisced that all would be well for him, even if the world is filled with evil people determined to do evil things to one another.

This final scene still stirs me. It’s powerful, moving, a strong, unwavering ray of bright hope against a bleak, common canvas of drugs, greed, and murder.

Unlike Fargo, which was subpar for its inconsequential contents, No Country for Old Men touches on universal themes. There are motifs and symbols, repeated interactions which reveal the good and bad in each character. There are timeless elements, eternal subjects brought to the forefront in this otherwise parochial police thriller.

No Country for Old Men is a good movie, and not just for its final scene, but it’s that final scene with Tommy Lee Jones which provides lasting hope for those who witness a world so corrupted, so fallen, and with no seeming chance of turning back.

Revelations from The School of Life

Selection from The School of Life

What happens to a child who is not loved properly? The answer one might expect is that they start to hate the person who doesn’t give them the love they need.

Lots of people do hate their parents, do not forgive them. That is a double-tragedy.

Far from it. The reality is that the child becomes filled with shame. What is shame? A sense that one is profoundly unworthy, dirty, soiled, sinful, ugly, embarrassing - and also, in danger; a fit subject of attack and ridicule by strangers. The child is unable to redirect the blame outward: it does not ask: ‘What is wrong with my parents for not loving me adequately?’ It simply wonders in a forlorn way: ‘What have I done wrong in order to have ended up on the receiving end of my parent’s disapproval?’

This is a profound revelation, if there ever was one! Yes, children do not turn around and start blaming their parents for being terrible parents. They will instinctively, automatically start blaming themselves. It's really striking.

A primitive fear of abandonment kicks in. The child prefers to attack itself for being bad than to confront a yet more awful possibility: that it is entirely dependent for its well-being on inadequate and unkind parental figures.

This shock occured to me when I was a child. It's tough to write about, but I can share generally that I understand the sentiment.

The child searches assiduously for explanations for the lack of love it has to endure - and comes to all the wrong answers. It might conclude: ‘I have not been impressive enough.’ And therefore it may undertake enormous efforts to prove to itself and harsh outsiders that it does - nevertheless - deserve to exist. At school, it might try seven times as hard as any other child to show that it is clever and ‘good’. Later on, the shamed child might turn into the over-achieving adult who works relentlessly for money and status in order to escape appalling feelings of being invisible.

As a rule, children blame themselves for not being good children. In their minds, there is no way that "mom and dad are wrong." That is too painful, too traumatic for children, since they are so dependent on them in the first plcae.

This conflict describes what I went through when I was younger. The trauma was considerable, and quite painful. I tried my best to be a "good boy," and I hoped that that would be enough. Of course, in the real world, being a "good boy" is really not all that good in the first place. There are so many bad people doing bad things, and you have to stand against this evil in every way possible. Being "nice" never works, and we have had decades of nice around the world allow utmost evil to take precedence.

Or else, the child may go down an anti-social route and graffiti the nearby underpass, as a desperate way of giving outward form to a feeling of badness it is tortured by inside.

I did not go into this route. I did not rebel against society in such a bold fashion, that's for sure. Sometimes, I think it might have been better for me if I had rebelled more against bad teachers in high school. Some of other kids did that, AND that got better grades than I did and went to better (?) colleges than I, too.

At the very least, they were having more fun, because they were not living under law.

There is so sadly no way out from the burden of shame available either by trying to be extremely good - or extremely bad. The only solution is to work against the grain of forgetting in order to perceive, for the first time, an awful possibility that one could never perceive as a child: that one has done nothing wrong at all, that wrong was done to one.

This revelation was not at all painful for me when I realized that I have a Loving Heavenly Father who is watching out for me all the time. When I realized that I was cared for all the time, no matter what; when I learned to rightly divide the word of Truth and receive the grace of God in greater measure, it was easier for me to stand away from past experiences and look at them objectively.

And I could see, at last, that it was my parents who were wrong.

I can forgive them all their failures, and I can confront the fact that for all their holy talk and nice-nice going to church once a week, and then going to men's prayer groups or men's breakfasts on Saturdays, my dad did not know the Gospel, and my mother was in bondage to a cult.

I am so glad that I am free of their lies, and I will never have to live in bondage to them again. Thank you, Jesus!